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- Lundberg, Susanna, 1974-
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"Vi kan ju sälja det övriga landet till hugade spekulanter" : om tillhörighet, gemenskaper och handlingsmöjligheter i en förändrad ekonomi
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to a deeper understanding of how the national community is reproduced and delineated in relation to class, gender and racialisation. It uses a qualitative methodology and interviews with people chosen to represent an economic margin, and is theoretically informed by Pierre Bourdieu, Beverly Skeggs and others. In interviewees’ accounts about work life and societal change, traces are found regarding how the national community is delineated, and how value for the community is claimed or denied.The main findings are that a national community is connected through the idea of value for the community, and that the dominating ideas concerning this value change over time in accordance with economic, political and discursive processes. Recognition is a condition for access to the labour market and for the right to contribute to the future of the community. The values and the community are not homogenous; there is room for competing values and thus competing ways of recognition.Those with less recognised resources get their value for the community questioned in relation to current hegemonic values. Adaptability to the needs of the labour market in terms of expectations of geographic flexibility and the right attitude are common demands that implicitly presumes economic and social resources.Misrecognition of resources and value also relate to the social process of racialisation. Whiteness can be regarded as the result of recognised national inclusion in a country such as Sweden where the ideal of light skin and blue eyes have gained hegemonic position through history. Class relations as well as male domination over women works through the same mechanisms of misrecognition and excluded experiences.
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- Alvinzi, André, 1984-
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Working for a Wage - What´s the Point? Lived Experiences of Meaningfulness and Meaninglessness in Professional and Manual Occupations
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores experiences of meaningfulness and meaninglessness in wage labor, and how these work experiences relate to social and organizational factors in work situations (situational meaning). It also explores the centrality and value of wage labor in life in a broader sense (existential meaning). In the research field ‘meaning of work’, previous research is primarily leadership-oriented, psychological and quantitative. Sociological studies have remained scarce, and the concept of meaning tends to be used in confused ways. An explicit philosophically informed sociological perspective of lived experience, action and meaning is lacking. The thesis argues that this can be initiated through theorizing and interviews with a social phenomenological focus. Theoretically and empirically, the thesis contributes with a sociological perspective that integrates social phenomenological and structure-oriented perspectives. Based on 20 interviews with presently employed and recently retired individuals from professional and more manually oriented occupations, the findings suggest that (a) the wage is fundamental for employees’ initial conceptions and experiences of the purposive meanings of working. (b) People are not really themselves at work. Such inauthenticity has consequences for work experiences of meaning. (c) Employees perceive that managers do not understand their work situations and what is realistic to achieve in them. This can become a source of meaninglessness at work. (d) Some experience working life as a whole meaningful for its broader life structuring temporal and practical functions in terms of socializing, routines and habits in everyday life. (e) Working life biographies matter. Previous work experiences from past and current occupations are central for understanding employees’ expectations of- and ways of framing their experiences of meaning in the current job. (f) At work, non-work activities may be experienced as more meaningful than work tasks. (g) Habits and routines from work may generate an embodied form of work centrality. They may become internalized and embodied and spill over to life outside of work; (h) Employees across occupations value disconnecting from work, either at or in life outside work. This may be difficult to achieve because of (g).
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- Boström, Magnus, 1972-, et al.
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A reflexive look at reflexivity in environmental sociology
- 2017
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Ingår i: Environmental Sociology. - : Routledge. - 2325-1042. ; 3:1, s. 6-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reflexivity is a central concept in environmental sociology, as in environmental social science in general. The concept is often connected to topics such as modernity, governance, expertise, and consumption. Reflexivity is presented as a means for taking constructive steps towards sustainability as it recognizes complexity, uncertainty, dilemmas, and ambivalence. Critical discussion of the conceptual meaning and usage of reflexivity is therefore needed. Is it a useful theoretical concept for understanding various sustainability issues? Is ‘more reflexivity’ relevant and useful advice that environmental sociologists can give in communicating with other disciplines, policymakers, and practitioners? This article explores the conceptual meaning of reflexivity and assesses its relevance for environmental sociology. In particular, it reviews its usages in three research fields; expertise, governance, and citizen-consumers. The paper furthermore discusses the spatial and temporal boundaries of reflexivity. It concludes by discussing how the concept can be a useful analytical concept in environmental sociology, at the same time as it warns against an exaggerated and unreflexive use of the concept.
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- Boström, Magnus, 1972-, et al.
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A sociology of environmental representation
- 2016
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Ingår i: Environmental Sociology. - Oxon, United Kingdom : Routledge. - 2325-1042. ; 2:4, s. 355-364
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The environment cannot plead its own case but must be represented. The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the concept of representation and demonstrate its relevance for environmental sociology. Drawing on Pitkin’s classic work on representation, we discuss representation as both ‘acting for’ and ‘standing for’. We also make a distinction between actors (representatives) and devices used as representations (e.g. descriptions, graphs and images), while discussing the intertwinement of these two aspects in representative practices. This paper stresses the performativity dimension and social embeddedness of representative practices. It sheds light on different meanings and implications of environmental representation, examining issues of claimmaking and what it means to represent the environment in various instances. Given the complex, durable and transboundary character of many topical environmental problems, the paper argues that it is essential to recognize and understand environmental representation in all its variety. It is moreover argued that a sociological elaboration of the concept of representation provides a basis for understanding the conditions for environmental politics, governance, management and
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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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- Boström, Magnus, 1972-, et al.
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Environmental representatives : whom, what, and how are they representing?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. - : Routledge. - 1523-908X .- 1522-7200. ; 20:1, s. 114-127
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Literature on environment and representation in politics, management, and deliberation has paid little attention on the people involved: environmental representatives. The aim of this paper is to illuminate how environmental representatives in various organizational and professional contexts understand their role as representatives, and how they are shaped by their contexts. The paper argues that it is crucial to learn about the everyday reality of individual representatives to better understand the limitations and possibilities they face. The study is based on 19 interviews with environmental representatives from five organizational and professional contexts: the state, civil society, business, science, and media in Sweden. The paper concludes that some differences in experiences, for example, in freedom and constraint, can be understood in relation to the representatives’organizational and professional affiliation. Other experiences are common: (i) all categories stated the importance of being impartial and well read; (ii) complex layers of affiliation imply that representation requires sensitivity and adjustment between different situations; and (iii) the performative aspects of representation include the representatives’claims-making, others’attributions, and long-term learning of their role. The article contributes an understanding of organizational conditions and the often paradoxical, layered, multifaceted, and cautious representation these individual actors perform.
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- Elander, Ingemar, 1942-, et al.
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Inledning
- 2009. - 1
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Ingår i: Global uppvärmning och lokal politik. - Stockholm : Santérus Förlag. - 9789173350181 ; , s. 7-14
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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Global uppvärmning och lokal politik
- 2009. - 1
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I boken ges ett samhällsvetenskapligt perspektiv på svenska kommuner och deras klimatarbete och visas hur internationell och nationell klimatpolitik definieras och implementeras i kommunerna. Kommunerna påverkas förstås i arbetet av sin omvärld men skapar också klimatpolitik, dels i den lokala politiken, dels genom deltagande i nätverk med andra offentliga eller privata aktörer. Kommuner uppmanas från riksnivå att vara aktiva - både i reduktion av växthusgaser och anpassning till ett förändrat klimat - men det finns utrymme för stora variationer i kommunernas engagemang, vilket boken belyser på flera sätt. Författarna närmar sig frågan om global uppvärmning genom att studera klimatförändring som ett objekt för samhällsstyrning och den gemensamma teoretiska grunden utgörs av styrnings- och regleringslitteratur (governance).
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- Gustafsson, Karin M, 1983-, et al.
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Skrivutveckling i stora studentgrupper : Erfarenheter från ett pedagogiskt utvecklingsprojekt
- 2019
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report presents the results from a pedagogical project focusing students’ writing in higher education. Literature in this field conclude that student writing should be integrated in teaching of the subject with a plan for progression. Teachers’ and students’ experience indicate that students write a lot during their education, but only occasionally get concrete feedback on the writing as such. Focus groups with students showed that students found it difficult to write distinct and to differentiate between text genres. The teachers reported lack of ”tools” to help the students to improve their writing. The report suggest a model for the work with students writing based on goal setting; inventory; identifying problem areas; prioritizing; implementation; and follow-up and revision.
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- Höijer, Birgitta, et al.
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Facing dilemmas : sense-making and decision-making in late modernity
- 2006
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Ingår i: Futures. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-3287 .- 1873-6378. ; 38:3, s. 350-366
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Today the certainties of modernity are dissolving and there is little guidance on how to act. In late modernity, individuals and organisations are forced to take standpoints and make choices on the basis of uncertain knowledge and diverse views. It is argued that we therefore often are confronted with dilemmas. In this article, the concept of dilemma is presented as a way to understand and analyse processes of sense-making and decision-making by contemporary institutions and people. With reference to various current meanings, the concept of dilemma is elaborated and a definition is proposed that encompasses both the cognitive-emotional and the socio-cultural side of dilemma. Emphasising this duality, a research approach is suggested for empirically analysing the multidimensional dilemmas people and institutions are confronted with in late modernity. By way of conclusion, it is stated that the challenge is to not only acknowledge dilemmas, but to use them as means for opening up spaces where stakeholders can deliberate upon desirable futures.
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- Lidskog, Rolf, 1961-, et al.
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Forestry and the environment : Tensions in a transforming modernity
- 2017
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - Sweden : Swedish Sociological Association. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 54:4, s. 283-286
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is often described as an environmental forerunner and one of the most ecologically modernized countries in the world, one where social welfare, economic growth and environmental protection mutually support each other. Examining the case of Swedish forestry, we discuss a number of tensions in this sector that mirror some general tensions in Swedish society and explore how these tensions can be understood as part of a transforming modernity.
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- Lidskog, Rolf, et al.
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Knowledge, power and control : studying environmental regulation in late modernity
- 2005
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1523-908X .- 1522-7200. ; 7:2, s. 89-106
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- At the same time as increased demands for standardization and control occur within the environmental field, regulation is being confronted by tendencies towards contextualization and fragmentation. This paper examines the question of how these seemingly opposing tendencies can be understood. The aim of this paper is to develop an approach for the study of risk regulation in contemporary society. Four elements are stressed as vital to consider when approaching environmental regulation: (i) the varying roles of science and expertise in regulation; (ii) the decisive role of intentional actors and regulatory organizations; (iii) the decisive but not exclusive role of the nation-state; and (iv) regulation as a process in which knowledge, risk and public concerns are constructed. In conclusion, the paper states that even if regulation is currently dispersed, the concepts of knowledge, power and control are still central to the study of environmental regulation.
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- Lidskog, Rolf, 1961-, et al.
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Making transboundary risks governable : reducing complexity, constructing spatial identity, and ascribing capabilities
- 2011
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Ingår i: Ambio. - : Springer. - 0044-7447 .- 1654-7209. ; 40:2, s. 111-120
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Environmental problems that cross national borders are attracting increasing public and political attention; regulating them involves coordinating the goals and activities of various governments, which often presupposes simplifying and standardizing complex knowledge, and finding ways to manage uncertainty. This article explores how transboundary environmental problems are dealt with to render complex issues governable. By discussing oil pollution in the Baltic Sea and the gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, we elucidate how boundaries are negotiated to make issues governable. Three processes are found to be particularly relevant to how involved actors render complex issues governable: complexity reduction, construction of a spatial identity for an issue, and ascription of capabilities to new or old actor constellations. We conclude that such regulation is always provisional, implying that existing regulation is always open for negotiation and criticism.
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- Lidskog, Rolf, et al.
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Mercury waste management in Sweden : historical perspectives and recent trends
- 2000
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0964-0568 .- 1360-0559. ; 43:4, s. 561-572
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses the development of Swedish policy for mercury waste management. Starting with a description of the development of the policy for hazardous waste management in Sweden, the paper examines the process which led to the parliamentary decision that mercury waste should be gathered and safely disposed of. Special emphasis is placed on how the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency deals with questions of uncertainties and risks connected to deep disposal, and to what extent the government considers that people living close to the disposal should have the opportunity to influence the decision process. The paper concludes that this policy may be hard to implement. The proposed solution may create new problems which concern to what extent and in what way the local population will trust authorities when it comes to the assertion that deep disposal will not constitute any risk for themselves or their local environment.
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- Lidskog, Rolf, et al.
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Risk, expertis och demokrati
- 2005
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- På en mängd samhällsområden har riskreglering blivit ett allt vanligare fenomen. Risker ska bedömas, förebyggas, regleras och kommuniceras, allt i syfte att skapa ett säkrare samhälle. Samtidigt finns det en tveksamhet från en mängd aktörer – inte minst från medborgarna – om huruvida samhällets riskhantering verkligen är relevant och effektiv. I detta sammananhang har krav ställts om att medborgaren bör ha större insyn och inflytande över samhällets riskhantering. Vi har således en situation där det ställs höga krav på kunskap om risker och hur vi ska hantera dem samtidigt som det finns fler kunskapsproducenter, en större medvetenhet om kunskapens felbarhet och riskhanteringens tillkortakommanden samt ökade krav på transparens och inflytande i samhällets hantering av risker. Riskhantering aktualiserar frågan om vad en risk är och hur den bedöms, men även frågan om hur den regleras och villkoren för denna reglering. Globaliseringsprocesser och gränsöverskridande risker utmanar den nationella suveräniteten och i diskussionen om allmänhetens inflytande på riskhanteringen blir det av central vikt att diskutera var och hur detta inflytande kan utövas. Frågan om allmänhetens inflytande har också tydlig relevans för centrala demokratiteoretiska diskussioner. Ur demokratiskt perspektiv kan argumenten för allmänhetens inflytande variera och även ifrågasättas, eftersom synen på allmänhetens inflytande är avhängig vilket demokratiideal man förespråkar. I denna forskningsöversikt behandlas tre tematiska områden – riskbedömning och riskkommunikation, expertisens roll i riskbedömningen och formerna för reglering av risker. Genom denna diskussion får läsaren möjlighet att ta del av den pågående diskussionen om riskreglering och möjligheten för allmänheten att påverka den. Vilken syn man ytterst har på allmänhetens inflytande baseras i såväl vilken demokratisyn man förespråkar som hur man ser på relationen mellan demokrati, expertis och risk.
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- Lidskog, Rolf, 1961-, et al.
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Transboundary risk governance
- 2010. - 1
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing problems facing society.This book focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental regulation: How are activities regulated in a fragmented world - a world of nation states, regulators, domestic and international law and political contests - and one in which a range of actors, such as governments, corporations and NGOs act in order to influence regulations in specific policy areas? How are complex and trans-boundary environmental issues managed? What role does expert knowledge play in regulating this kind of issues? What give rules authority? In short, how do actors try to render an issue governable?Drawing on regulation theory, discourse theory and science and technology studies, and employing original research, the authors analyse the regulation of four kinds of complex and trans-boundary environmental issues: oil protection in the Baltic Sea, mobile phones and radiation protection, climate change adaptation and genetically modified crops. The outcomes include insights for policymakers, regulators and researchers into how dominant frames are constructed, legitimate actors are configured and authority is established. This in turn exposes the conditions for, and possibility of, developing regulation, making authoritative rules and shaping relevant knowledge in order to govern complex environmental risks.
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- Löfmarck, Erik, 1974-, et al.
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Freedom with what? : Interpretations of “responsibility” in Swedish forestry practice
- 2017
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Ingår i: Forest Policy and Economics. - Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier. - 1389-9341 .- 1872-7050. ; 75, s. 34-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Responsibility is a key aspect of all regulation, and forest regulation is no exception. Howshould responsibility be understood and used in a time characterized by complexity and uncertainty? This paper develops a typology that distinguishes six notions of responsibility and then employs it in analyzing interpretations of responsibility in Swedish forestry practice. The Swedish forest management system is a deregulated system structured by the governing principle of “freedom with responsibility.” By investigating how responsibility is understood and enacted by forest consultants and forest owners, we demonstrate the practical fluidity of the responsibility concept. We emphasize the need for an understanding of responsibility that fosters sensitivity and adaptiveness to external issues and actors in the face of uncertainty, and identify obstacles in current forestry policy and practice to enacting such an understanding.
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- Olausson, Ulrika, 1964-, et al.
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Celebrities celebrifying nature : the discursive construction of the human-nature relationship in the ‘Nature Is Speaking’ campaign
- 2021
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Ingår i: Celebrity Studies. - : Routledge. - 1939-2397 .- 1939-2400. ; 12:3, s. 353-370
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The nature conservation movement frequently relies on the lustre of celebrity personae to reach out with its message. As role models, celebrities exercise invisible power by representing certain norms and ideas while themselves being subordinate to social structures and discourses. Examining the case of Conservation International’s campaign, Nature Is Speaking, and guided by the methodological framework of multimodal critical discourse analysis, this study examines how celebrities, in alliance with the conservation movement, (re)produce certain ideas about nature and the human-nature relationship when discursively ‘celebrifying’ nature – turning nature into a ‘celebrity by association’ – by lending their celebrity properties to nature as represented in the campaign. The study identifies three ways of representing nature that the celebrification of nature produces in the campaign: nature as (1) eternal and magnificent, (2) caring and providing, and (3) mighty but delicate. Together these representations constitute a discourse that reproduces certain naturalised values and worldviews connected to the human-nature relationship. The paper concludes that the diversification of celebrity into new fields such as the natural is constitutive of the overall celebritisation of society, and it discusses the implications of the celebrification of nature in terms of reproduction of the human-nature dichotomy and obscuration of the structural aspects of environmental degradation.
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- Olausson, Ulrika, 1964-, et al.
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Offentlig kommunikation om klimatförändring
- 2009
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Ingår i: Global uppvärmning och lokal politik. - Stockholm : Santérus Förlag. - 9789173350181 ; , s. 43-62
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Redmalm, David, 1981-
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An animal without an animal within : investigating the identities of pet keeping
- 2013
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- If the human is an animal without an animal within—a creature that has transcended the animal condition—what is a pet? This creature balancing on the border between nature and culture, simultaneously included in and excluded from a human “we”, is the focus of this thesis. The thesis analyzes the discourses and normative frameworks structuring the meaning of pets in people’s lives. By extension, it analyzes how the boundary between “human” and “animal” is produced, negotiated, and challenged in the relationship between pet and owner.Each of this thesis’ four constituent studies focuses on an aspect of personal relationships between humans and pets: pets as figures for philosophical thinking, the dual role of pets as commodities and companions, the grief for lost pets, and the power issues at play in the everyday life of pet and owner. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s genealogical approach, crossbred with Donna Haraway’s material-semiotic perspective, the analysis exposes the powers allowing pets to occupy these various positions.The thesis demonstrates that pets occupy a special position as boundary creatures in the lives of humans, allowing humans to play with and thus reproduce dichotomies inherent to the contemporary Western worldview, such as human/animal, person/nonperson, subject/object, and friend/commodity. However, pets’ conceptual transgressions may also challenge this worldview. On the one hand, pets are bought and sold as commodities, but on the other, they are widely included in the human sphere as friends or family members. This paradoxical position is accentuated in the construction of a more-than-human home, and it is also visible when pets pass away. This thesis argues that pets, these anomalous creatures, may help humans understand that there are no humans or animals within, only relations between them. Based on this argument, this thesis develops a sociological approach for analyzing the production of humanity and animality in relations between humans and other animals.
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- Soneryd, Linda, et al.
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Green governmentality and responsibilization: new forms of governance and responses to 'consumer responsibility'
- 2015
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Ingår i: Environmental Politics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0964-4016 .- 1743-8934. ; 24:6, s. 913-931
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An extensive literature examines political or green consumption, attending to how people make sense of their consumption relative to norms of individual responsibility and pro-environmental behaviour. Similarly, a small but growing literature addresses green governmentality, focusing on new governance forms and responsibilization processes. These two strands seldom meet, resulting in poor understanding of the links between consumption governance and people's sense-making and actions relative to the moral imperative of being responsible consumers'. We address this weakness by juxtaposing these two strands of literature, improving our understanding of the processes of responsibilization and some of their consequences. We argue that, to understand the effects of this form of governance, we must realize that subjects are not inevitably positioned and predetermined by a hegemonic discourse. At the same time, we must acknowledge that responsibilization processes give rise to compliance and to a range of ambivalences and forms of resistance.
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- Soneryd, Linda, et al.
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Green Governmentality, Responsibilization, and Resistance: International ENGOs’ Issue Framings of Future Energy Supply and Climate Change Mitigation : Grüne Gouvernementalität, Responsibilisierung und Widerstand: wie internationale ökologische NRO die Zukunft der Energieversorgung und der Linderung des Klimawandels sehen
- 2017
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Ingår i: Socijalna ekologija : journal for environmental thought and sociological research. - 1849-0360. ; 27:3, s. 87-104
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The starting point for this paper is the increasing shift towards green governmentality as a particular mode of governance in the Western world, implying a shift from state-centered regulation to market-based mechanisms. In this paper, we are particularly interested in the role of environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) in this form of governance. The central question concerns how international ENGOs’ approaches to energy supply and climate mitigation can be understood as aligned with or dissenting from green governmentality. To approach this issue, we analyze the major energy reports of three international ENGOs – i.e. Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and WWF – focusing on their issue framings of future energy supply and climate change mitigation. We conclude that these ENGOs’ issue framings are aligned with green governmentality to varying degrees, involving the economization of environmental issues and the responsibilization and moralization of economic actions. These ENGOs also to varying degrees express opposition or resistance to this mode of governance, for example, by opening up the discussion of various aspects of responsibility, including both remedy and culpability.
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- Soneryd, Linda, et al.
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Livsstilsförändring eller teknologisk fix
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - 0038-0342. ; 60:3–4, s. 391-399
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Engageras individen för mycket eller för lite i dagens klimatpolitik? Idén om individualiserat ansvar har kritiserats för dess fokus på marknadslösningar och miljövänlig konsumtion. Men vad är alternativet till att människor ändrar sina levnadsvanor? Att politiker satsar på storskaliga tekniska lösningar som gör att vi kan fortsätta att leva som vanligt? Redaktörerna för temanumret har bett tre sociologer – Linda Soneryd, professor vid Örebro universitet, Göran Sundqvist, professor vid Göteborgs universitet och Ylva Uggla, professor emerita vid Örebro universitet – att reflektera över dessa frågor.
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- Soneryd, Linda, 1971-, et al.
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(O)möjliga livsstilar : samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv på individualiserat miljöansvar
- 2011
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Det är svårt att undgå budskapet om att miljön är hotad och att vi alla har ansvar för att lösa problemen. I (O)möjliga livsstilar diskuteras olika innebörder av ansvarsförskjutningar, från stat till individ, som skett till följd av pågående individualiserings- och globaliseringsprocesser. Vi uppmanas på olika sätt genom massmedier, informationskampanjer och reklam att ändra våra vardagsliv och inte minst vår konsumtion i miljövänlig riktning. Ofta används i dessa sammanhang begrepp som grön eller miljövänlig livsstil, vilka då huvudsakligen förknippas med individuella val och konsumtion.Boken har en introducerande karaktär och presenterar grundläggande samhällsvetenskapliga begrepp och teorier, men förutsätter inte några förkunskaper om miljöpolitik eller i sociologisk teori. Den lämpar sig för kurser på grundnivå inom olika samhällsvetenskapliga discipliner, samt för studenter på mångvetenskapliga eller naturvetenskapliga utbildningar med intresse för samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv på miljöfrågor. Vår förhoppning är att boken ska bidra till nya insikter och ett vidgat perspektiv på miljö och livsstil som ger inspiration till fortsatt läsning och diskussion.
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- Soneryd, Linda, et al.
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Politics as a struggle over definition : two case studies
- 2000
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Ingår i: Environmental Science and Policy. - 1462-9011 .- 1873-6416. ; 3:5, s. 277-286
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In our modern society the production of material welfare causes new kinds of ecological problems. This paper investigates the decision-making process in two cases which are characterised by complex technology and dependence upon science. These cases have implementation on a local level, but are of wider interest. The consequences of the facilities are defined in different ways by different actors at different levels (the national, regional, and the local level). The question is what kind of problems that are generated in relation to these new kinds of ecological problems and how they are handled within present political structures. The findings raise questions about the problem of limited political accountability and tensions between different policy levels. By way of conclusion there is a need for new forms of political responsibility that can respond to the new types of problems that arise in our time.
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- Storbjörk, Sofie, 1974-, et al.
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The practice of settling and enacting strategic guidelines for climate adaptation in spatial planning : lessons from ten Swedish municipalities
- 2015
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Ingår i: Regional Environmental Change. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1436-3798 .- 1436-378X. ; 15:6, s. 1133-1143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Spatial planning is increasingly expected to address climate change adaptation. In a Swedish context, this has meant a predominant focus on risks of flooding, erosion and sea-level rise. Gradually, regulatory mechanisms and concrete strategies are evolving to support practical mainstreaming. The aim of this paper was to analyze how frontline planners approach climate change adaptation in an urban context, emphasizing the process of settling and enacting strategic guidelines in spatial planning. The study suggests that municipalities are being preactive, i.e., preparing to act by settling guidelines rather than proactively implementing change when planning for new settlements. Further, the process of accommodating climate risks involves problems. Settling strategic guidelines and determining appropriate levels for what to adapt to are but the start of approaching climate change. Guidelines represent more of an endeavor than settling absolute limits and actually applying the guidelines involves challenges of accessibility and esthetics where the new waterfront limits meets older city structures. Further, guidelines are seen as negotiable since an overarching principle is to maintain flexibility in planning to allow for continued waterfront planning. Pursuing this path is motivated by current demand and previous urban settlement patterns. Also, as future protective measures are needed to secure existing urban areas at risk of flooding and erosion, planners see no use in preventing further waterfront development. Although settling guidelines are important in preparing to act, their practical effectiveness all fall back to how they are actually implemented in daily planning. This leads us to problematize the role of strategic guidelines to secure a climate-proof spatial planning.
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- Uggla, Ylva, 1960-, et al.
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Ambivalence in environmental representation : A theoretical contribution
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - Annelöv, Sweden : Sveriges sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 55:4, s. 447-465
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we examine the phenomenon of representation through the theoretical lens of ambivalence, concentrating on the people involved in representation: representatives. We argue that the theoretical concept of ambivalence can be helpful in analysing and understanding the various tensions environmental and other representatives encounter in their practice. Based on the concepts of “sociological ambivalence”, “ideological dilemma”, and “the organizational centaur”, as well as on insights from social studies of science and sustainability studies, the paper develops a typology of three potential sources of ambivalence: role conflicts, value conflicts, and conflicts between goals and means. In addition, the paper identifies various ways of coping with ambivalence, including the construction of meta-norms, organizational and network support, pragmatism, drawing boundaries for reasonable and acceptable actions, rule bending and discursive negotiation. The paper concludes that the concept of ambivalence adds crucial insights to the positions, practices, and challenges of environmental representatives and notes that ambivalence is not only a matter of tensions and conflicts but can be a source of reflexivity, learning, and agency.
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- Uggla, Ylva, 1960-
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Att styra med skuld och skam
- 2009
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Ingår i: ETC Örebro. - 2000-4664. ; :06-24
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Recension (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- När samhälleliga mål ska uppnås genom individuella val inriktas styrningen på att forma medborgarnas fria val i önskad riktning. Skuld och skam fungerar som styrningsmekanismer in i minsta vrå av den privata sfären.
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| 39. |
- Uggla, Ylva, 1960-, et al.
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Climate risks and forest practices : Forest owners' acceptance of advice concerning climate change
- 2016
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0282-7581 .- 1651-1891. ; 31:6, s. 618-625
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on qualitative interviews with Swedish forest owners this study focuses on climate change, risk management and forest governance from the perspective of the forest owners. The Swedish forest governance system has undergone extensive deregulation, with the result that social norms and knowledge dissemination are seen by the state as important means of influencing forest owners' understandings and practices. Drawing on Foucault's concept of governmentality this study contributes knowledge on how forest owners understand and manage climate-related risk and their acceptance of advice. From the interview study, three main conclusions can be drawn: (1) forest owners' considerations largely concern ordinary forestry activities; (2) knowledge about forest management and climate adaptation combines experiences and ideas from various sources; and (3) risk awareness and knowledge of “best practices” are not enough to ensure change in forestry practices. The results of this study show that the forest owners have to be selective and negotiate about what knowledge to consider relevant and meaningful for their own forest practice. Accordingly, local forest management can be understood as situated in a web of multifarious interests, claims, concerns and knowledges, where climate change adaptation is but one of several aspects that forest owners have to consider.
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- Uggla, Ylva, 1960-
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Construction of 'nature' in urban planning : a case study of Stockholm
- 2012
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Ingår i: Town planning review. - : Liverpool University Press. - 0041-0020 .- 1478-341X. ; 83:1, s. 69-85
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In European planning, the reaction to urban sprawl has been a trend towards concentration, which raises questions concerning the role of green space in the city. The aim of this paper is to analyse how the urban and nature are constructed in urban planning. The paper includes analysis of the comprehensive plan for Stockholm. The analysis shows that the concept of urban nature simultaneously represents something desirable and problematic. This tension is concealed in the comprehensive plan, making it function as a catalyst for change of planning direction towards increased urban density.
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- Uggla, Ylva, 1960-, et al.
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Dissimilar framings of forest biodiversity preservation : Uncertainty and legal ambiguity as contributing factors
- 2016
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Ingår i: Forest Policy and Economics. - : Elsevier. - 1389-9341 .- 1872-7050. ; 62, s. 36-42
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Controversies over forestry and environmental issues, including biodiversity, are common. Theory suggests that uncertainty may play a major role in framing biodiversity and its preservation. This paper examines written statements on biodiversity preservation published by two major Swedish organizations, i.e., the Swedish Forest Industries Federation and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, with different interests in forest use. Frame analysis suggests that when the actors pursue a certain policy course, both biodiversity-related uncertainty and lack of regulatory clarity are important factors contributing to dissimilar framings. This case study supports the general understanding that biodiversity-related uncertainty can have important implications for biodiversity preservation, in this case, via forest policy and legislation. Scientific uncertainty may allow actors with dissimilar interests in an issue to justify their standpoints. To successfully manage forest biodiversity in the future, legal frameworks must increasingly find ways to accommodate scientific uncertainty, and models must be developed in which stakeholders’ diverging interests and values address uncertainties via dialogue.
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- Uggla, Ylva, 1960-, et al.
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Ekonomi och miljö
- 2014. - 1
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Ingår i: Ekonomisk sociologi. - Stockholm : Liber. - 9789147111374 ; , s. 214-229
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Uggla, Ylva, 1960-
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Environmental politics and the enchantment of modernity : mercury and radioactive waste disposal in Sweden
- 2002
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Current Swedish environmental policy embraces the notion of sustainable development and the discourse of ecological modernisation, both of which stress the role of modern institutions in environmental protection work. In pursuing ecological sustainability, the Swedish Government assigns importance to the issue of domestic, safe, final disposal of mercury and radioactive waste; responsibility for mercury and radioactive waste management must not be passed to future generations. This political message is not particularly controversial. Yet, siting conflicts tend to arise when the policy is going to be put into practice. The aim of this thesis is to relate the emergence and course of siting conflicts concerning mercury and radioactive waste disposal to discursive aspects of its context. The societal context in which the siting process takes place contains contemporaneous, sometimes incompatible and competing discourses. The questions raised in the thesis are: What does the political message of safe, final waste disposal and sustainable development entail? What are the implications of this particular framing of the issue? The policy proposing final disposal of mercury and radioactive waste in repositories deep in the bedrock requires local implementation. In the local implementation process the parties involved in the siting conflict struggle over definition of the suggested project, with the core of the conflict being the issue of risk versus safety. In this sense, the local conflict echoes contemporaneous and partly incompatible discourses within modernity, as well as the tension between demands for safety and uncertainties in calculations and management connected to proposals for the final disposal of mercury and radioactive waste. The overall handling of environmental threats within the discourse of ecological modernisation can be characterised as a presentation of problems with ultimate, possible win-win solutions and an economic, technological and scientific framing of the problems. This results in a reduction of the complexity of the issue at stake, concealing its political dimensions. In the process of policy implementation, however, there emerge deferred political issues and value questions, as well as unresolved societal issues, all of which tends to result in local siting conflicts.
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- Uggla, Ylva
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Environmental protection and the freedom of the high seas : The Baltic Sea as a PSSA from a Swedish perspective
- 2007
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Ingår i: Marine Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0308-597X .- 1872-9460. ; 31:3, s. 251-257
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2005, the Baltic Sea, except for its Russian waters, was designated as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA) by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The previous designation of the Western European waters as a PSSA – intensely debated within the IMO – had repercussions for this process. Reviewing the case exposes the conflict between the fundamental principles, territorial sovereignty, and freedom of the high seas that international law seeks to balance. Likewise, review indicates that the PSSA concept is under almost constant reconceptualization as it is put to test in practice.
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- Uggla, Ylva, 1960-
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Framing and visualising biodiversity in EU policy
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1943-815X .- 1943-8168. ; 15:1, s. 103-122
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study seeks insights into how biodiversity is framed and visualised in EU policy. The paper presents analysis of both the visual content and written text of two brochures summarising two central EU biodiversity policy documents. The study illustrates how the two modes of communication differ. First, the written text primarily presents an anthropocentric and economic framing of biodiversity values, whereas the visual material generally features the beauty and wonders of nature. Second, the written text strongly emphasises the threats to biodiversity and the detrimental side of human activity, whereas the visual material generally shows close relationships between humans and nature, with humans engaged in small-scale outdoor activities. The analysis illustrates how various representations of biodiversity intersect in the same context, and that the visual representation decontextualises the issue of biodiversity loss from the human exploitation of natural resources and the concrete actions and processes causing it.
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- Uggla, Ylva
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Global concern with local implications : the role of 'urban nature' in biodiversity preservation and the construction of 'nature' in urban planning
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In urban planning there is a new trend with concentration in reaction to urban sprawl. This tendency raises the question of the role & function of green sites in the city. The urban often is depicted as the anti-thesis of nature, implying a firm distinction between nature & culture. Although, such a distinction is anything but given, the modern definition of nature as “the other” of human society & culture is apparent in the relationship between humans & their environment, whether it concerns humans’ mas- tery over nature or humans as its keeper. The notion of “urban nature” is an oxymoron that alludes both to people’s well-being (parks & recreation areas in the city are often pointed out as important places for comfort & good health) and to environmental concerns (e.g. “green corridors” are stressed & promoted as vital in the endeavour to preserve biodiversity in urban areas). The aim of this paper is to analyze the construction of “na- ture” in urban planning. What are the arguments for a certain nature care in urban areas? What function and values are attached to “urban nature”? What negotiations between sometimes contradictory social, cultural & environmental values are taking place in the planning process? The paper includes a case study of Stockholm, where a new general outline plan is under construction. This planning process evinces a redefinition of green sites & their function in the city, implying a shift from an ideal of the “green city” towards an ideal of the “compact city”. Furthermore, this shift in planning ideal indicates an emphasis on the notion of urbanity, referring to values such as density & cultural diversity at the expense of green spaces for recreational purposes & not least at the expense of greenfield sites & “wildlife corridors” for environmental reasons. Keywords: bio- diversity, urban planning, urban nature, nature-culture divide
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- Uggla, Ylva, 1960-, et al.
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Green governmentality, responsibilization and resistance : International ENGOs’ issue framing of future energy supply and climate change mitigation
- 2017
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Ingår i: Socijalna Ekologija. - : Croatian Sociological Society, Institute of Sociology at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. - 1330-0113 .- 1849-0360. ; 26:3, s. 87-104
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The starting point for this paper is the increasing shift towards green governmentality as a particular mode of governance in the Western world, implying a shift from state-centered regulation to market-based mechanisms. In this paper, we are particularly interested in the role of environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) in this form of governance. The central question concerns how international ENGOs’ approaches to energy supply and climate mitigation can be understood as aligned with or dissenting from green governmentality. To approach this issue, we analyze the major energy reports of three international ENGOs –i.e. Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and WWF –focusing on their issue framings of future energy supply and climate change mitigation. We conclude that these ENGOs’ issue framings are aligned with green governmentality to varying degrees, involving the economization of environmental issues and the responsibilization and moralization of economic actions. Th ese ENGOs also to varying degrees express opposition or resistance to this mode of governance, for example, by opening up the discussion of various aspects of responsibility, including both remedy and culpability.
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