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- Boström, Magnus, 1972-, et al.
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Conditions for Transformative Learning for Sustainable Development : A Theoretical Review and Approach
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI. - 2071-1050. ; 10:12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Continued unsustainability and surpassed planetary boundaries require not only scientific and technological advances, but deep and enduring social and cultural changes. The purpose of this article is to contribute a theoretical approach to understand conditions and constraints for societal change towards sustainable development. In order to break with unsustainable norms, habits, practices, and structures, there is a need for learning for transformation, not only adaption. Based on a critical literature review within the field of learning for sustainable development, our approach is a development of the concept of transformative learning, by integrating three additional dimensions—Institutional Structures, Social Practices, and Conflict Perspectives. This approach acknowledges conflicts on macro, meso, and micro levels, as well as structural and cultural constraints. It contends that transformative learning is processual, interactional, long-term, and cumbersome. It takes place within existing institutions and social practices, while also transcending them. The article adopts an interdisciplinary social science perspective that acknowledges the importance of transformative learning in order for communities, organizations, and individuals to be able to deal with global sustainability problems, acknowledging the societal and personal conflicts involved in such transformation.
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- Gustavsson, Eva, 1960, et al.
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Visioner och praktik - om examensarbetet i professionslärosätet
- 2010
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Ingår i: Peter Sigrén (red.) PUH - Pedagogiska utvecklingsprojekt i högskolan 2010, Rapport från Västra Götalands högskolor. - Borås : Högskolan i Borås. ; , s. 15-25
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Czarniawska, Barbara, 1948, et al.
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A (d)evolution of the cyberwoman?
- 2008
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Ingår i: Organization. - 1350-5084. ; 15:5, s. 665-683
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we examine Donna Haraway's idea of a liberating potential of cyborgization in the light of popular culture products related to organized work. We consider two different takes on this issue: women as technology and technology as women, and we start with the successive versions of Stepford Wives (the novel, the 1975 movie and the 2004 movie), and continue by tracing the evolution of the character of a cyberwoman, from William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) and Idoru (1996), to Trinity from the Matrix trilogy. We show that cyborgization does not automatically denote liberalization, and suggest that the much greater popularity of the Matrix films compared to the intellectual projects of William Gibson means that stereotypes and strong plots survive, finding ever new forms of expression. We end the paper by pointing out the relevance of popular culture models for work in contemporary homes and other workplaces.
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- Czarniawska, Barbara, 1948, et al.
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Kvinnor som teknik eller Stepford wives då och nu
- 2005
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Ingår i: I: Mellström, Ulf (ed.) Kunskapens vägar och forskningens praktik. - Lund : Arkiv Förlag. - 9179241964 ; , s. 55-70
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Czarniawska, Barbara, 1948, et al.
(författare)
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Organisering kring hot och risk
- 2007
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hur hanteras blödarfeberviruset Marburg, hur förbereder man sig för ett eventuellt utbrott av fågelinfluensan, hur kalkylerar man hälsorisker i Europa och Sverige och hur hanterar man risk i samband med äventyrsturism? Vad har stormen Gudrun lärt oss om att hantera akuta situationer och hur skapar katastrofer som Tjörnbron handlingsföreträde i form av särskilda förutsättningar för organisering? Detta är några exempel på studier inkluderade i Organisering kring hot och risk. Boken tittar även närmare på hur man hanterar effekter av datorkriser, hur konst och vad betraktaren bedömer som hot kan bidra till skapande av handlingsnät samt hur tv-serien Kommissionen belyser det svenska beredningsarbetet. Författarna visar att karaktären av organisering kring hot och risk är beroende av tidpunkten: innan, under eller efter en katastrof eller en hotfull händelse. Beredningsarbetet består av resursmobilisering, att skissa planer, att bygga upp strukturer samt bygga eller mobilisera nätverk. När katastrofen väl inträffar visar det sig dock att även de bästa planer inte alltid fungerar som man vill och responsen på de faktiska händelserna består av improvisation samt av att bygga handlingskedjor och handlingsnät. Det finns inget recept på hur man skall organisera kring hot och risk men boken har identifierat ett återkommande problem: varje misslyckande verkar leda till slutsatsen att det behövs mer av planer och strukturer. Författarna hävdar motsatsen. Bokens budskap är att istället för att skapa oändliga planer och strukturer skall man öva lämpliga skickligheter och improvisationsförmåga. Boken vänder sig till studerande inom organisationsteori respektive riskhantering på universitet och högskola samt yrkesverksamma inom krisberedskap och riskhantering.
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- Czarniawska, Barbara, 1948, et al.
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The (d)evolution of the cyberwoman?
- 2006
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this text, we examine Donna Haraway's idea of a liberating potential of cyborgization first in the subsequent versions of Stepford Wives (the novel, the 1975 movie, and the 2004 movie), and second in the evolution of the character of a cyberwoman, from the book, Do androids dream electric sheep? (1977), through its film version, Blade Runner (1983), to William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) and Idoru (1996), ending with Trinity from Matrix trilogy. We show that cyborgization does not automatically denote liberalization; and suggest that the much greater popularity of Matrix films compared to the intellectual projects of William Gibson show that stereotypes and strong plots survive, finding ever new forms of expression. We end the paper pointing out the relevance of popular culture models for work in contemporary homes and other workplaces.
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- Czarniawska, Barbara, 1948, et al.
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The Web Woman: Female Personal Assistats and Business on the Web
- 2001
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the conference of Göteborg Network for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science and Technology (GNISST), May 30, 2001..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of many interesting applications of information technology is "business on the net" and, within this trend, the appearance of females who are to assist customers in their operations, giving advice and delivering information. These creatures raise a host of interesting questions about identity, alterity, humanity and femininity. Who/what do they represent: companies that produced them? Their designers? Society's dreams, open and forbidden ones? While we cannot aspire to provide final answers to these questions, we try to formulate the questions in this paper and frame them in contexts that seem promising.
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- Ekström, Henrik, et al.
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Nanometer-thick films of titanium oxide acting as electrolyte in the polymer electrolyte fuel cell
- 2007
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Ingår i: Electrochimica Acta. - : Elsevier BV. - 0013-4686 .- 1873-3859. ; 52:12, s. 4239-4245
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 0–18 nm-thick titanium, zirconium and tantalum oxide films are thermally evaporated on Nafion 117 membranes, and used as thin spacer electrolyte layers between the Nafion and a 3 nm Pt catalyst film. Electrochemical characterisation of the films in terms of oxygen reduction activity, high frequency impedance and cyclic voltammetry in nitrogen is performed in a fuel cell at 80 ◦C and full humidification. Titanium oxide films with thicknesses up to 18 nm are shown to conduct protons, whereas zirconium oxide and tantalum oxide block proton transport already at a thickness of 1.5 nm. The performance for oxygen reduction is higher for a bi-layered film of 3 nm platinum on 1.5 or 18 nm titanium oxide, than for a pure 3 nm platinum film with no spacer layer. The improvement in oxygen reduction performance is ascribed to a higher active surface area of platinum, i.e. no beneficial effect of combining platinum with zirconium, tantalum or titanium oxides on the intrinsic oxygen reduction activityis seen. The results suggest that TiO2 may be used as electrolyte in fuel cell electrodes, and that low-temperature proton exchange fuel cells could be possible using TiO2 as electrolyte.
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- Gustavsson, Eva, 1960
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From a hotel guest to the "3.4 satisfied" customer
- 2000
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Ingår i: Facts and figures. Economic representations and practises. - Marburg : Metropolis Verlag. - 3895189960 ; , s. 175-203
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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