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- Åberg, Anna, 1978-, et al.
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Rising Seas : Facts, Fictions and Aquaria
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Rising Seas: Facts, fictions and aquaria While exhibiting ocean environments presents particular practical difficulties to most museums, rising sea levels and other drastic changes in the sea make the ocean an essential part of any exhibit on climate change. This paper will examine how aquaria and other museums interpret and showcase ocean science in their attempts to imagine a warmer future world.To do this, we will look at a few specific cases of representations of the ocean in climate change exhibits. How is the sea represented or showcased? What kinds of artefacts are used? What narratives accompany the representation? Is the ocean presented as an alien environment, or is it shown to be permeated by pollution and other signs of human presence? Is it meaningful to talk about 'the ocean' as one place, or do we need to refer to specific places or habitats, differentiating between shallow seas with coral reefs and familiar species and the less well-known deep oceans, for instance? Based on these case studies, we will attempt a more general discussion and analysis of the role of future visions for imagining what a marine Anthropocene might look like and how they can be exhibited in the context of local and global climate change.
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- Åberg, Anna, 1978, et al.
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Rising Seas: Facts, Fictions and Aquaria
- 2017
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Ingår i: Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected by change. Museums work through exhibitions, events, and specific collection projects to reach different communities in different ways. The book emphasises the moral responsibilities of museums to address climate change, not just by communicating science but also by enabling people already affected by changes to find their own ways of living with global warming. There are museums of natural history, of art and of social history. The focus of this book is the museum communities, like those in the Pacific, who have to find new ways to express their culture in a new place. The book considers how collections in museums might help future generations stay in touch with their culture, even where they have left their place. It asks what should the people of the present be collecting for museums in a climate-changed future? The book is rich with practical museum experience and detailed projects, as well as critical and philosophical analyses about where a museum can intervene to speak to this great conundrum of our times. Curating the Future is essential reading for all those working in museums and grappling with how to talk about climate change. It also has academic applications in courses of museology and museum studies, cultural studies, heritage studies, digital humanities, design, anthropology, and environmental humanities.
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- Heymann, Matthias, et al.
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Challenging Europe: Technology, Environment, and the Quest for Resource Security
- 2020
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Ingår i: Technology and Culture. - : Project Muse. - 0040-165X .- 1097-3729. ; 61:1, s. 282-294
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the nineteenth century, access to and the development of natural resources became an important element of national and international politics. Resource security emerged as an issue vital to national security; and resource competition and crises gave rise to international tensions as well as to technological innovation and new modes of transnational cooperation.
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- Millkrantz, Jens, 1989, et al.
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Petrokultur och energihistoria
- 2022
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Ingår i: Scandia. - : Scandia: Tidskrift for historisk forskning, Lund University. - 2002-4339 .- 0036-5483. ; 88:1, s. 127-140
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Trots dess helt avgörande roll för det moderna samhällets uppkomst och utveckling har oljan varit förvånansvärt frånvarande i historisk forskning, med vissa undantag för specifikt energihistorisk forskning. Samtidigt har oljan och oljerelaterade idéer och praktiker tagit allt större plats inom andra humanistiska discipliner, såsom miljö- och energihumaniora. I denna översiktsartikel introducerar vi den forskning från dessa fält som samlats under begreppet petrokulturer (petrocultures).
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- Svensson, Daniel, 1983, et al.
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An even colder war? Specialization and scientization in the training methods of cross-country skiing from the 1940s in Sweden and the Soviet Union.
- 2017
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Ingår i: Beyond Boycotts. Sport During the Cold War in Europe. Eds. Phillippe Vonnard, Nicola Sbetti and Grégory Quin. - : De Gruyter. - 9783110529098 ; , s. 33-54
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This work analyzes the official training advice given to prospective elite skiers in Sweden and the Soviet Union from the late 1940s until the 1970s. How was training scientized in relation to the Cold War context? In what ways did neutral Sweden differ from the Soviet Union? What type of organizations took an interest in the rationalization of training and why? The sportification process accelerated during the Cold War period in both the Soviet Union and Sweden, despite their many differences in political system, international relations, tradition and economy. It is also clear that the scientific contribution to sport, not least skiing, was vital in both countries. As the knowledge about Soviet sport science and training development increases, this also sheds new light on the Cold War era and its impact on sport. For the developments in cross-country skiing as well as sport science, the conscious effort by the Soviet Union to be the avant-garde of scientized training directly affected other countries such as Sweden into accelerating their own efforts. The Cold War was therefore not only fought in space or by military means, but also in labs and skiing tracks. What is particularly interesting is that similar research on athletes was motivated in radically different ways. In Soviet, sports and thus also sport science was highly political. In Sweden, it was framed as neutral, relating more to rationality and scientific ideals than to sport performance.
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- Åberg, Anna, 1978, et al.
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Chasing uranium: Securing nuclear fuel on a transnational arena in Sweden 1971–1984
- 2020
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Ingår i: Extractive Industries and Society. - : Elsevier BV. - 2214-790X .- 2214-790X .- 2214-7918. ; 7:1, s. 29-38
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Access to nuclear fuel is a key point for modern nuclear nations. Despite this, the complex processes of the nuclear fuel cycle are seldom discussed in nuclear history. In order to shed light on how actors in the nuclear business have worked to secure access to fuel, this article describes the historical case of uranium import in Sweden, handled by the public-private company SKBF. The risks and challenges brought on by the expansion of the nuclear program in Sweden can be clearly seen in the work of SKBF, and the article gives insight into the complex transnational processes of the nuclear fuel cycle. The article outlines the creation of SKBF as well as its mission and activities during the 1970s, when Sweden tried to navigate the evolving uranium market while dealing with heightening tensions regarding nuclear politics at home. We show how SKBF acted in a constantly shifting national and international arena to secure a rapidly expanding nuclear system and legitimize its actions to the Swedish government. In this process, uranium was perceived in different ways: as national or international, scarce or plentiful, and to varying degrees an economic or political tool.
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- Åberg, Anna, 1978, et al.
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Capitalist eschatology: Immediacy, investment, ideology
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents some preliminary ideas on how to study the place of eschatology in the contemporary economy, focusing specifically on space-colonizing ambitions of US entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk. Such a study may focus on three problematics, relating to immediacy, investment, and ideology. The study of what one may call “capitalist eschatology” involves interrogating the making of alternative futures, by situating imaginaries of humanity becoming a multiplanetary species in the present realities of political economy. The authors combine STS and ethnographic method with a history of technology perspective, in order to study both the present and the long roots of the sociotechnical and economic practices and imaginaries that make up such a “eschatology”.
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- Kalmbach, Karena, et al.
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Crises and Technological Futures: Experiences, Emotion, and Action
- 2020
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Ingår i: Technology and Culture. - : Project Muse. - 0040-165X .- 1097-3729. ; 61:1, s. 272-281
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We have grown accustomed to the near-constant invocation of "crisis" as part of our everyday media consumption. During periods of insecurity, historically contingent crisis imaginaries tend to evolve, linking developments in the historical present to cultural memories of a fearful past and visions of an unwanted future. A historical understanding of these imaginaries, along with their societal and material aftermath-including their impact in relation to political choice and decision-making-is imperative for the history of technology. This article aims to problematize the complex relationship between crisis imaginaries and technological futures acknowledging the triple temporality of crises. In order to shed light on the rich potential of historical research into the entanglements of past- and future-oriented crisis narratives, we exemplify this approach in three empirical research themes: security and the experience of past and future; fears as drivers of technological development; political decision-making and the future of space mining.
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