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Chinese Renewable Struggles: Innovation, the Arts of the State and Offshore Wind Technology
(Doctoral thesis at NTNU;2015:322, Doctoral thesis, 2015)Summary of the thesis: This dissertation studies innovation and technological learning in the making of China’s offshore wind industry, and is based on 55 semi-structured interviews and a two-month participant observation ... -
Citizen participation in Steinkjer: Stories about the "old NRK building at Lø"
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper follows the process of developing a pilot project at Lø in Steinkjer, where a zero emission neighbourhood was planned and which included the upgrading of the old offices of the Norwegian Broadcasting Company ... -
“The Citizen” as a Ghost Subject in Co-Producing Smart Sustainable Cities: An Intersectional Approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The importance and benefits of engaging citizens as co-producers of urban transformation have been increasingly recognised. However, the mere implementation of citizen co-production does not guarantee more legitimate or ... -
Climate Change Communication in Norway
(Chapter, 2016)Climate change research, activities, and initiatives in Norway started relatively late, by international comparison. From the beginnings in the early 2000s, research has mainly followed two paths: First, media studies, ... -
A co-creative method for mapping and improving energy use and management in non-residential buildings
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The built environment has a significant role to play to support a transition towards sustainability. A critical point is the energy use and management of non-residential buildings, where the operational phase has been ... -
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Despite increasing interest in energy transitions in the European Union, little attention has been paid conceptually to regional energy transitions in terms of development nor to the potential regional impacts of cumulative ... -
Communities of Peer Practitioners: Experiences from an Academic Writing Group
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Learning academic writing is important for communicating research and participating in scholarly debates. This learning is traditionally conceptualized through a hierarchical teacher-student relation or individual ... -
Competitive, secure, low-carbon energy supply – a social sciences and humanities annotated bibliography
(Research report, 2017)The challenge: European Union (EU) energy policies have three main aims: competitiveness, secure supply and sustainability. EU countries have agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% compared ... -
Compressed growth – The transforming power of the round bale technology
(Journal article, 2021)Silage bailer technology preserving harvested grass and turning it into silage by a baling machine attached to a tractor is common in most rural regions in Norway. In this paper, we argue that not only have silage bales ... -
Concern and confidence. Architects making sense of climate adaption
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Drawing on the analytical concept of ‘sensemaking’ as defined by Weick [1995, Sensemaking in Organizations (Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA)], and on scholarship concerning discourses on architect identity and the regulatory context ... -
Concern, creativity and compliance - The phenomenon of digital game-based learning in Norwegian education
(Doctoral thesis at NTNU;2016:197, Doctoral thesis, 2016)Summary of the thesis: The thesis is an empirical study of the use of digital games in Norwegian schools, from a science and technology (STS) point of view. The topic is examined at three different arenas: news media, ... -
Concerned consumption. Global warming changing household domestication of energy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This paper addresses possible effects of the growing focus on global warming on households’ domestication of energy and the dynamics of energy consumption by comparing data pertaining to the domestication of energy within ... -
Conditions for just offshore wind energy: Addressing the societal challenges of the North Sea wind industry
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Configuring Dementia: How Nursing Students are Taught to Mediate the Socio-political Role of Gerontechnologies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper contributes to the discussion on the materiality of age and ageing in this special issue by presenting a case that illustrates how nursing students are trained to shape gerontechnologies in ways that have ... -
Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure
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Consensus or contestation: reflections on governance of innovation in a context of heterogeneous knowledges
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Governance of innovation needs to cater in a democratic way for heterogeneity of knowledges. Many initiatives in the democratisation of innovation aspire to some sort of consensus among relevant actors. However, consensus ... -
Conserving Wolves by Transforming Them? The Transformative Effects of Technologies of Government in Biodiversity Conservation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article investigates the construction of instruments and techniques employed in the management of Norwegian wolves since the early 1980s by construing the tools as technologies of government. The proliferation of such ... -
Conserving Wolves by Transforming Them? The Transformative Effects of Technologies of Government in Biodiversity Conservation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article investigates the construction of instruments and techniques employed in the management of Norwegian wolves since the early 1980s by construing the tools as technologies of government. The proliferation of such ... -
The Constitutive Practices of Public Smartphone Use
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The smartphone has become the most ubiquitous piece of personal technology, giving it significant social importance and sociological relevance. In this article, we explore how the smartphone interacts with and impacts ...