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- Gyberg, Per, 1971-, et al.
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Making the Unsustainable Sustainable : How Swedish Secondary School Teachers Deal with Sustainable Development in Their Teaching
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI. - 2071-1050. ; 12:19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to investigate how Swedish teachers manage the uncertainty and complexity associated with sustainable development (SD) as a field of knowledge, in relation to the requirements in the school curriculum. Underlying the whole concept of sustainable development is the vision that there is a possible solution to the ecological, economic and social problems created by humans. However, it is not so clear what this solution actually means in practice. The article builds on an analysis of transcribed individual and group interviews with 40 teachers at Swedish lower and upper secondary schools, related to the topic of sustainable development as a field of knowledge. A thematic analysis was carried out by identifying four broad themes, including dominating discourses. The results indicate that there is a lack of vision among the teachers for a future sustainable society, while at the same time, it seems to be taboo to talk about what an unsustainable society might mean in the long run. Presentations of the problems and knowledge of what causes them must always be combined with instructions on how problems can be solved and how pupils can influence their own future and help create sustainable development. The starting point for such a solution-oriented approach to SD is based on an assumption that individual behaviour is essential to achieving sustainable development and thus that individual responsibility is crucial. This focus leads to individual consumer choices, behaviours and lifestyles at the heart of teaching, while progressive, alternative visions and critical perspectives are downplayed.
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- Achen, Thomas, 1964-
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Den bioetiske udfordring : Et retspolitisk studie om forholdet mellem etik, politik og ret i det lovforberedende arbejde vedrørende bio- og genteknologi i Danmark, Norge og Sverige
- 1997
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Biotechnology and genetic engineering raise a number of new ethical problems. Consequently, over the past 15 years, several European countries, including the Nordic countries, have passed new laws in an attempt to deal with the ethical problems posed by biotechnology. These developments raise the question of how to formulate legislation to regulate both the technical and ethical aspects of biotechnology and genetic engineering. Is it indeed possible to formulate a valid ethical framework in a thoroughly secularised society? How has this been coped with politically? And what is the nature of the relationship between ethics, politics and the law, that emerges from this process? The regulation of biotechnology is very often carried out by legal means in modern society. The thesis shows that the distinction between ethics, politics and the law - inherent in the Scandinavian tradition of legal realism - is not sustained in the law preparatory Process in the fields of biotechnology and genetic engineering in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The analysis reveals that the tendency for ethics, politics and the law to merge is expressed in the new normative reflexivity which characterizes legislation in this area. The thesis defines this process in terms of four elements: a proceduralisation of ethics, a democratisation of ethics; negotiated development of norms, and a moralisation of politics and the law. These new tendencies suggest a need for a new analytical framework. The thesis argues that reflexive law theory and discourse ethics theory can provide a more adequate understanding of the new normative reflexivity inherent in the legislation examined. In a society characterised by moral, social, cultural and political pluralism it is of profound importance to contemplate how legal and political norms are developed. Furthermore, it is highly pertinent to consider how we can conceive these processes in theoretical terms.
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- Andersson, Daniel, 1989-
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Artificial Earth : On the Genealogy of Planetary Technicity
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As technology transforms the conditions by which we come understand and interact with the world around us, it is relevant to ask questions about the historicalontological aspects of these patterns of change. The widespread adoption of the term “Anthropocene” during the last twenty years indicates the wide acceptance of the view that human activities have become such a powerful driving force for global environmental change that our destructive legacy will be recorded in geological history. Man, it is argued, has come to alter his terrestrial environment on such a global scale that the ontological difference between natural and technological patterns of change has lost its salience. Addressing our contemporary environmental problems, then, requires knowledge of how physical processes in the natural world operate. But it also necessitates a critical self-consciousness that pertains to the understanding of “the natural” vis-à-vis “the artificial” that underlies this kind of knowledge production. The latter forms the basis of this thesis, which treats the disclosure of technology as a “global” or “planetary” phenomenon – what, herein, is called “planetary technicity” – in earth system science and within the prevailing Anthropocene discourse, and argues that this disclosure gives rise to a research problem that necessitates the present study: insofar as natural and technological patterns of change are made ontologically equivalent, we are faced with a situation wherein technology is increasingly portrayed as beyond human control – just like the products of nature, artifice is depicted as self-organizing. Proceeding from an intellectual-historical point of departure, and within the framework of modern earth science, the methodological ambition of the thesis is to investigate the so-called “genealogical” provenance behind this particular disclosure of technology, with the intention of exposing its historical conditions. The thesis seeks to accomplish this by answering three main questions: how did the question of the nature of technology intersect with epistemological and methodological concerns in earth science; how were such concerns treated or resolved; and last but not least, what is the intellectualhistorical provenance of planetary technicity? In view of the genealogical examination, the thesis concludes that planetary technicity is a product of a certain intellectual-historical tradition in modern earth science that opposed itself toward mechanistic philosophy by taking up a holistic approach in order to study the earth, which meant that technology ontologically came to be attributed organic rather than mechanical features. In addition, the thesis highlights the historical coincidence – as opposed to the necessity – of this particular understanding of technology.
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- Anshelm, Jonas, 1960-
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1970 : talet
- 2006
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Ingår i: Samhällsforskning 2006.. - Stockholm : Svensk kärnbränslehantering AB. - 9197614130 ; , s. 136-157
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I denna årsbok ges en bild av den forskning som fått stöd inom ramen för SKB:s satsning på samhälls- och beteendevetenskap samt humaniora. Åtta forskargrupper presenterar sina perspektiv och preliminära resultat. Många viktiga frågor behandlas i årsboken: Har attityderna till kärnavfallet förändrats i platsundersökningskommunerna under 2000-talet?Hur ser utvecklingen där ut jämfört med landet i övrigt och vad ligger bakom människors olika ställningstaganden? Vilka resurser kan det lokala näringslivet i platsundersökningskommunerna uppskattas ha inför upphandlingsbehoven när slutförvarsprojektet ska genomföras?Vilka lokala socioekonomiska och befolkningsmässiga effekter kan man förvänta sig? Hur tillvaratas allmänhetens, experternas och myndigheternas argumentation och ståndpunkter i samrådsprocessen? Hur förhåller sig den nationella strategin och lagstiftningen till EUmedlemskapets regelsystem och till andra internationella överenskommelser? Vilken är bakgrunden till de vägval som gjorts – och inte gjorts – när det gäller hanteringen av kärnavfall och använt kärnbränsle i Sverige? Varför hamnade hanteringen av använt kärnbränsle i den nationella politikens centrum på 1970-talet och vilka var debattens centrala argument?Dessa frågeställningar belyses närmare i årsbokens olika kapitel. Bidragen beaktar såväl den dagsaktuella situationen som de processer och överväganden som lett fram till dagens vägval. I boken presenteras först några kapitel som tar upp situationen idag. De båda inledande kapitlen diskuterar attityder till kärnavfallet, i platsundersökningskommunerna och i Sverige i stort, samt ger en bild av hur människor resonerar kring hur hembygd och framti kan komma att påverkas av ett slutförvar under många tusen år. Sedan följer analyser av det lokala näringslivets kapaciteter och den socioekonomiska, respektive befolkningsmässiga betydelsen av att slutförvaret förläggs till Östhammar eller Oskarshamn. Andra aktuella teman som tas upp är hur samrådet har utvecklats lokalt samt hur besluten kring hanteringen av kärnavfallet påverkas av nationell, regional och internationell lagstiftning.Attityder, engagemang och vägval påverkas inte enbart av aktuella förhållanden och processer. Historiska händelser och avgöranden styr ofta direkt eller indirekt tankar och handlingar i specifika banor. Det är därför betydelsefullt att också hålla ett öga i backspegeln för att bättre förstå de komplexa sammanhang och utvecklingsprocesser som påverkat dagens och morgondagens beslut. SKB:s samhällsforskningsprogram har därför stött även tillbakablickande forskning. Här presenteras bidrag från två sådana projekt.Det första handlar om övervägandena bakom Sveriges och andra länders val av strategier för hantering av använt kärnbränsle och det andra om efterkrigstidens politiska debatt där kapitlet i denna årsbok fokuserar på 1970-talet, då en tidigare strategi kring kärnavfallet kom att ifrågasättas och ändras.
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- Anshelm, Jonas, 1960-
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Among demons and wizards : the nuclear energy discourse in Sweden and the re-chantement of the world
- 2010
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Ingår i: Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. - : Sage publication. - 0270-4676 .- 1552-4183. ; 30:1, s. 43-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 1956, the Swedish Parliament decided to invest in a national nuclear energy program. The decision rested on the conviction that it would be in the interest of the nation to use the assets of natural uranium, the advanced reactor technology, and the expertise on nuclear physics that the country had at its disposal. Since the decision concerned the largest investment ever in Swedish industrial politics, the scientists and engineers had to promise that it would lead to a prosperous future. In this article, the utopian discourse and the rhetoric that were developed to support the Swedish nuclear energy program are analyzed. An important conclusion is that the scientific, technological, political, economic, and moral discourse was not sufficient to create political and civil support. Instead, the scientists and engineers had to turn to the world of myths. Thereby, the conflicts between nuclear physics and magic, scientific objectivity and demons, and rationalistic belief in progress and irrational ideas of faith were dissolved. In Sweden, as in many other Western countries during the 1950s, the world was not disenchanted, but re-enchanted.
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- Anshelm, Jonas, 1960-, et al.
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Battling Promethean dreams and Trojan horses : Revealing the critical discourses of geoengineering
- 2014
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Ingår i: Energy Research & Social Science. - : Elsevier. - 2214-6296 .- 2214-6326. ; 2, s. 135-144
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Geoengineering could counteract climate change by either altering the earth's global energy balance by reflecting sunlight or removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Geoengineering evokes various ethical and political challenges that are increasingly reflected in public debate and deliberation. Via a qualitative textual analysis of 1500 articles, we investigate discursive claims critical of geoengineering, considering what subjects are the most controversial, and what worldviews, values, and problematizations are shared by the actors subscribing to this discourse. We argue that the controversy about geoengineering differs, discursively, from other techno-political conflicts. Geoengineering proponents are described as reluctantly favouring research and deployment and displaying an unusual self-reflexivity, as they are well aware of and seriously consider all the technology's risks. Our analysis demonstrates that the discourse critical of geoengineering differs from and questions the dominant pro-geoengineering discourse in several profound ways with lasting implications for energy scholarship and analysis.
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- Anshelm, Jonas, 1960-
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Bergsäkert eller våghalsigt? : Frågan om kärnavfallets hantering i det offentliga samtalet i Sverige 1950-2002.
- 2006
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vilka risker är förenade med hantering av högaktivt kärnavfall? Var skall det förvaras? Hur skall en anläggning för säker slutförvaring utformas? Kan det överhuvudtaget finnas någon lösning som är säker för all framtid? Hur kan vi i så fall veta det?Sådana frågor har ägnats stort utrymme i det offentliga samtalet i Sverige sedan planerna på ett svenskt kärnkraftsprogram vann gehör i riksdagen på 1950-talet. Om frågorna i stort sett varit de samma har svaren varierat desto mer. Såväl kraftindustrins som miljörörelsens företrädare har förändrat sina förhållningssätt och sanningsanspråk i takt med att de tekniska, politiska, ekonomiska, vetenskapliga och kulturella omständigheterna har skiftat. I denna bok skildrar Jonas Anshelm förskjutningarna i värderingsmönstren och försanthållandena i en av det sena 1900-talets mest konfliktfyllda miljöfrågor.Jonas Anshelm är professor vid tema Teknik och social förändring vid Linköpings universitet.
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- Anshelm, Jonas, 1960-
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Bevarandeopinionen som vann gehör
- 1993
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Ingår i: Modernisering och kulturarv. - Stockholm, Stehag : B. Östlings bokförl. Symposion. - 9171391215 ; , s. 299-394
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