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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-, et al.
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Miljöforskningens döda vinkel
- 1998
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Ingår i: Hållbart samhälle - en antologi om mål, möjligheter, medel och makt. - Stockholm : Forskningsrådsnämnden (FRN). ; , s. 251-269
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Fälton, Emelie, 1992-
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Shapeshifting Nature : Ambivalent Ways of Seeing the Non-Human World within Swedish National Park Tourism and its Visual Culture
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- National parks are often assigned a self-identical role as protectors of valuable pieces of the non-human world, generally depicted as nature. Besides, many parks are also popular tourism destinations that attract millions of tourists each year. National park tourism and its visual culture impact how people relate to and see the non-human world. Up until now, research paying interest in such ways of seeing has mainly focused on national parks in North America, implying that their empirical scope is geographically narrow and needs to be broadened. In this dissertation, I contribute to such broadening by focusing on the Swedish national park tourism, which is facing intensifying times transforming it from a shadow interest into the center of attention. By unraveling, making visible, and problematizing ways of seeing the non-human world enabled by the Swedish national park tourism and its visual culture, I extend the insights in human ways of seeing the world we call nature. I direct the focus to how the non-human world has been represented, what characteristics it has been assigned, and what ontological and epistemological stances that can be identified therein. I also reflect upon what productive effects and implications all of this can have for how humans see and relate to the non-human world. Through a discourse analysis, I have identified four ways of seeing that together construct the non-human world as a sublime wilderness of nationalistic character that functions as an edutainment arena for environmentally conscious tourists. Within and among those ways of seeing, there exist not only coherences but also contradictions. Those are grounded in a tension between the two opposing interests of saving and using nature, which is said to be united by the third interest of knowing it. Through this, the ways of seeing become ambivalent, as they frame the non-human world as a shapeshifting nature that assumes different and even contradictory forms.
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- Fälton, Emelie, 1992-, et al.
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Welcome to your Finest Nature: : Touristic Discourse on Nature in information Materials about Swedish National Parks
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this article, we problematize the concept of nature by focusing on how subjects related to nature are constituted through the touristic discourse in the context of national park tourism in Sweden. We are interested in how nature is produced and reproduced, but also what implications those representations can carry with them. Thereby, we seek to distinguish and make visible how nature in Swedish national parks is portrayed, represented, and assigned values in a touristic context. The material consists of pictures and texts from websites and books with a touristic orientation towards national parks. One part is produced by three tourism actors who market or sell travels to the Swedish national parks, while the other part is produced by actors who state themselves as experts in conservation questions. These actors produce and communicate information about the national parks and the nature within them, but they are also carriers of discourses, which makes them potential influencers on the touristic discourse on nature in Swedish national parks. By visual discourse analysis, aspects of power, subjectification, objectification, normalization, naturalization, marginalization as well as internalization and externalization, are put into focus. The analysis was done stepwise to discern analytical themes, guided by the material. The result shows that the touristic discourse on nature contains utopian imaginaries and portrayals of nature in national parks, where nature is understood to be ideal and of a sublime character, where humans are temporary guests. Simultaneously, nature is portrayed as a pedagogical exhibition for tourists to learn from.
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Green utopianism : perspectives, politics and micro-practices
- 2014
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Utopian thought and experimental approaches to societal organization have been rare in the last decades of planning and politics. Instead, there is a widespread belief in ecological modernization, that sustainable societies can be created within the frame of the current global capitalist world order by taking small steps such as eco-labeling, urban densification, and recycling. However, in the context of the current crisis in which resource depletion, climate change, uneven development, and economic instability are seen as interlinked, this belief is increasingly being questioned and alternative developmental paths sought. This collection demonstrates how utopian thought can be used in a contemporary context, as critique and in exploring desired futures. The book includes theoretical perspectives on changing global socio-environmental relationships and political struggles for alternative development paths, and analyzes micro-level practices in co-housing, alternative energy provision, use of green space, transportation, co-production of urban space, peer-to-peer production and consumption, and alternative economies. It contributes research perspectives on contemporary green utopian practices and strategies, combining theoretical and empirical analyses to spark discussions of possible futures.
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- Hedrén, Johan, 1958-
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Att gestalta hållbar utveckling : om det utopiska tänkandets potential
- 2005. - 1
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Ingår i: Frigörare? Moderna svenska samhällsdrömmar. - Stockholm : Carlssons. - 9172037172 ; , s. 299-314
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Författarna skriver om svenska samhällsdrömmar efter andra världskriget. Vilka visioner finns om det goda samhället och vad står de för? Vilka personer engagerar sig i nuet för framtidens skull? Frigörare är personer, saker och ting som gjort anspråk på att befria oss och hjälpa oss att skapa ett bättre samhälle.
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- Hedrén, Johan, 1958-
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Bilder av den svenska naturen : exemplet Göta kanal
- 2001
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Genom åren har en ansenlig mängd bilder av den natur och kultur som förbinds med Göta kanal producerats. Detta material är till stor del tämligen stereotypt, genom att samma slags motiv återkommer ofta och under lång tid. Men en viss historisk utveckling av hur naturen skildras kan man konstatera redan vid en flyktig blick, och därmed aktualiseras frågan: ser vi på naturen på samma sätt idag som för hundra år sedan? Denna fråga väcker i sin tur en rad frågetecken kring kategorin ”vi”: finns det en ”svensk” natur som på något sätt är förbunden med ”svenskarna”, och vad innebär i så fall denna svenskhet?
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- Hedrén, Johan, 1958-
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Critical notes on sustainability and democracy
- 2002
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Ingår i: Sustainability, local democracy and the future : the Swedish model. - Dordrecht/Boston/London : Kluwer Academic Publishers. - 1402009054 - 9781402009051 ; , s. 17-48
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- "This book deals with the challenges posed by the transformation of society towards much-needed sustainability. Especially, it deals with the local features of this change, but seen in a global context. The two cases - the municipalities of Linkoping and Atvidaberg - are Swedish, but the problems of how to relate locally to a globalized world are common in the world of today. They have been deliberately chosen to expose alternative types of choices for the local communities involved. Large Linkoping is, historically, a nodal city of importance in the national grid of regional centres, one that relates to the nation state and represents officialdom. Small Atvidaberg developed in the context of its forest region setting and metallurgy, and today operates directly to wider markets, while still emphasising its very local identity. As these municipalities are bordering each other, it provides a similar regional context and differences between them may not be entirely confused by a debate on drastically different geographical settings."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Hedrén, Johan, 1958-
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Klimatförändringens orsaker : vad säger samhällsvetenskapen?
- 2009. - 1
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Ingår i: Osäkrat klimat - laddad utmaning. - Stockholm : Formas. - 9789154060368 ; , s. 439-452
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Att jorden blir varmare beror mycket sannolikt på människans utsläpp av växthusgaser. Det säger FN:s klimatpanel IPCC - och kopplar uppvärmningen till stigande havsnivå, krympande isar och risken för snabbare förändringar som inte går att förutse. Men när blir människans klimatpåverkan farlig och vad är det som står på spel? Är EUS:s energi- och klimatpolitik en tandlös tiger? Är lagring av koldioxid en lösning eller dimridå? Är hotet mot klimatet en chans för företagen? Hur ser olika forskare på saken? Läs boken så får du veta?
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- Hedrén, Johan, 1958-
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Miljöforskningens organisering och finansieringsvillkor : Några miljöforskares perspektiv
- 2003
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Ingår i: Vägar till kunskap: Några aspekter på humanvetenskaplig och annan miljöforskning. - Stockholm, Stehag : Symposion. - 9171395946 - 9789171395948 ; , s. 263-292
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- En antologi som behandlar frågor som: Vad är natur? Vad är miljö? Vad är miljöproblem? Vad är tvärvetenskap? Vad är nyttig miljöforskning?
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- Hedrén, Johan, 1958-
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Miljöfrågorna i skymundan
- 2002
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Ingår i: Praktik och teori. - 1104-6570. ; :2, s. 50-55
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Hedrén, Johan, 1958-
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Miljöpolitikens natur
- 1994
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During the 1960s we get a new way of speaking of and writing about nature, an environmental discourse, whose special characteristics have not ufltil now been the object of systematic analyses. In this study the discourse is regarded, with structuralistic inspiration, as a generative force. The aim is to give an overall description of the environmental discourse and in particular to establish features in the discourse which are of great importance for the order which is valid for actions in the area. With this aim in mind, interest is especially directed towards the statements which expressively concern knowledge, values, the natural and the normal. The focus is on statements on nature and man's relationship to nature. Swedish environmental politics are the centre of interest in the study and thus are regarded as an expression of the environmental discourse. Also an investigation into citizens' conceptions has been carried out, with the help of a questionnaire. In the discourse nature is described, with some exceptions, as a machine being in itself without value. The values which it is linked with are spoken of as something which is ascribed to nature. Objects in nature can, just as parts in a machine, be transformed, replaced and many times price-tagged. The justification of existence coincides with usefulness and with the functions that nature offers. Each object, regardless of how it· is delimited and systemized, has its own value, or lack of value, determined by the importance it has for the maintenance of these functions. Furthermore, it becomes apparent that the ancient natura/law has returned and now exists side by side with the scientific practices which, once upon a time, were the cause of both it and its philosophical presumptions being banned. A fiercecontradiction exists between, on the one hand, the half hidden but still genuine natural law aspect of the discourse and, on the other hand, the strong dissociation from ethical naturalistic arguments of a natural law kind which characterize both contempory scientific and philosophical practices, as well asliberal political discourse. Thilt the natural law foundations are not formulated, in combination with the de-ideologizing and scientific manner in which the discourse presents its subject, means partlythat it remains unclear what constitutes the uttermost values and partly what constitutes questions dependent on interests and values, in spite oft he fact that such a field of questions obviously exists.
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- Hedrén, Johan, 1958-
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Naturen som hot mot det moderna : några ideologikritiska reflektioner
- 2002
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Ingår i: Naturen som brytpunkt : om miljöfrågans mystifieringar, konflikter och motsägelser. - Stockholm, Stehag : Symposion. - 9171395938 - 9789171395931 ; , s. 298-333
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Här analyserar forskare från olika ämnen en rad frågor som på olika sätt har att göra med naturen som angelägenhet för det moderna projektet
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- Hedrén, Johan, 1958-
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Naturen som spegel
- 2006
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Ingår i: Motiv. - 1652-3636. ; :7, s. 42-43
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Hedrén, Johan, 1958-
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Vetenskap - en källa till säkerhet eller osäkerhet?
- 2006
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Ingår i: Giftfri miljö - utopi eller verklig chans?. - Stockholm : Formas. - 9154059763 - 9789154059768 ; , s. 267-280
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kadmium i mat och kvicksilver i fisk. Nya metaller i tänder och bilar. Klorerat, bromerat, fluorerat. Nanopartiklar invaderar kroppen. Akrylamid bildas när vi tillagar maten. Läkemedelsrester dyker upp i dricksvatten. Mannens spermier skadas. Hur mycket ska vi stå ut med av gamla problem och nya hot? Varför slår vi ofta dövörat till när larmet går? Kan vi få en giftfri miljö som riksdagens miljömål talar om? Eller är det bara en önskedröm? Varför reagerar vi så sent och bygger fast oss så lätt med olika kemikalier? Läs boken så får du veta! 29 forskare ger sin syn på frågan.
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- Storbjörk, Sofie, 1974-, et al.
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Building institutional capacity for climate adaptation? : The case of beach erosion in Sweden
- 2009
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the GECHS synthesis conference "Human Security in the Era of Global Change", session "Sustainable adatation: from theory to practice", Oslo 22-24th of June 2009.. ; , s. 1-20
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Managing the effects of climate change calls for increased knowledge of how, when, why and under what conditions climate adaptation occurs as well as what influence the success or failure of different adaptation strategies. Working with climate adaptation at the local level raise questions of how to increase adaptive capacity for integrating climate considerations in policy-making, planning and decision-making. The aim of this paper is to analyse critical factors that from an institutional perspective condition the capacity to adapt to both current and future risks of erosion in a Swedish municipality with the assumed name of Coastby. The institutional framework of the paper focus on formal and informal "rules in use" that structure interaction and working practices. Following previous studies, we look at to what extent individual and organisational performance, the broader institutional context in the form of networking capacity, the regulatory framework as well as social norms, values and practices enable institutional capacity-building. Conclusions drawn from the analysis point to certain additions and adjustments of the enabling factors previously identified in research. The municipality of Coastby has taken a proactive approach to erosion-management where the a selective few key actors have played a critical role building a strong networking capacity in connection with other exposed municipalities and within the framework of EU-projects. While key actors undoubtedly are important for driving change too much emphasis on strong singular actors in the local administration also has a flip-side in terms of a weak coordinating capacity between different sectoral units where mutual ownership and the needed dialogue between risk-management, planning and environment is missing today. To what extent the recent shift in rules of integrated coastal zone management "on paper" also have a bearing on internal working practices and rules in use remains to be seen. We also identify a weak vertical administrative interplay and lack of formal coherent policy, procedures and regulations for managing our eroding land between local, regional and national administrations. Further tensions and trade-offs between policy-agendas, vales and political priorities today pose a barrier for capacity-building and calls for processes to mediate conflicting priorities in policy-making, planning and decision-making. That such tensions and trade-offs may severely restrict institutional capacity-building needs to be more clearly acknowledged in analytical frameworks for institutional capacity.
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