Browsing Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier by Document Types "Journal article"
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A sustainable Chinese catch-up? Product quality and interactive learning in the offshore wind industry
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This paper has two main contributions: first, it provides a first-time overview of actors in China's emerging offshore wind industry and details technology sourcing strategies and ownership status. Second, it points out ... -
A transformative practice? Meaning, competence, and material aspects of driving electric cars in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article focuses on the introduction of electric vehicles in Norway and how electrical cars are understood culturally in relation to conventional car use. Theoretically, elements of social practice theory and the ... -
A traveler’s guide to smart grids and the social sciences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue on smart grids and the social sciences. There is currently a discourse of very high ambitions and anticipation regarding how the implementation of a broad collection ... -
A wager for life: Queer children seeking asylum in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article explores the experiences of queer children who have sought asylum alone in Norway, focussing on hope, fear and despair. The children who are denied asylum relate an experience of standing at the brink of death, ... -
Actors in energy transitions. Transformative potentials at the intersection between Norwegian port and transport systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Although actors are of central importance in the progress of energy transitions, their roles and contributions have received limited attention by transition scholars. This article aims to fill this gap by taking a ́role-centrić ... -
Aesthetic Preference as Starting Point for Citizen Dialogues: Stories from Hammarkullen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article sets out to describe the role of aesthetics in citizen dialogues during the upgrading of a local swimming pool in Hammarkullen, Gothenburg. The swimming pool became an important project because of its role in ... -
Affektivitet og postdiskursiv teori
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Affekt signaliserer en fornyet interesse for det utenomdiskursive, påpeker Stine Helena Bang Svendsen. Men begrepet «affekt-teori» skjuler et mangfold av tilnærminger som er mer samtidige enn egentlig like. Forstår man de ... -
An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 priority research questions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing a society’s relation to energy (efficiency) even ... -
Aiming for Social or Political Robustness? Media Strategies Among Climate Scientists
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This study examines climate scientists’ views on media science communication and their strategies for dealing with journalists and climate deniers. Drawing on scholarly calls for openness and public engagement, particularly ... -
Algorithmic Allocation: Untangling Rival Considerations of Fairness in Research Management
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Marketization and quantification have become ingrained in academia over the past few decades. The trust in numbers and incentives has led to a proliferation of devices that individualize, induce, benchmark, and rank academic ... -
‘All we want, is to get rid of the straw’: How biofuel policies should need to be multiple
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Second-generation (2G) biofuels are promoted worldwide as remedy to sustainable-energy challenges in the transport sector and as response to the criticism of first-generation biofuels. By utilizing agriculture and forest ... -
Ambition and ambiguity: Expectations and imaginaries developing offshore wind in China
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This paper investigates how future-orientation generates action in China's offshore wind industry. We might expect that, with an authoritarian government, China would be able to push through policies with ease. Using the ... -
Ambitions at work: Professional practices and the energy performance of non-residential buildings in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Globally, buildings are considerable energy users. Stricter regulations and instruments such as energy performance standards aim at raising energy performance ambitions and reducing energy use. They rely on the implementation ... -
Ambivalence, designing users, and user imaginaries in the European smart grid: Insights from an interdisciplinary demonstration project
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)The gradual implementation of smart grid solutions is accompanied by an increased concern amongst researchers and policymakers for the role of users in such systems. For smart grids to perform as expected, the role of users ... -
An Assemblage of Framings and Tamings: Multi-Sited Analysis of Infrastructures as a Methodology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The social life of methods–the idea that research methods are an important topic of inquiry in and of themselves – has been receiving increasing interest in scholarship on the organisation of the economy and social life, ... -
An introduction to Crafting Sustainability – exploring the interconnections between sustainability and craft
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Sustainability has become a critical issue, calling for new conceptualizations of both problems and solutions. This special issue of the Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, explore the concept of “Crafting ... -
Approaches to Social Innovation in Positive Energy Districts (PEDs)—A Comparison of Norwegian Projects
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The Positive Energy District (PED) concept is a localized city and district level response to the challenges of greenhouse gas emission reduction and energy transition. With the Strategic Energy Transition (SET) Plan aiming ... -
Arbeidsrettet rehabilitering og hverdagens motstand
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Artikkelen undersøker hvordan ideen bak et arbeidsrettet rehabiliteringstiltak samsvarer med rehabiliteringsdeltakernes utfordringer i hverdagslivet. Den tar utgangspunkt i et tiltak for personer som har vært langtidssykemeldte ... -
Are rapid and inclusive energy and climate transitions oxymorons? Towards principles of responsible acceleration
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Building from two strands of literature within “Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research”, this perspective piece seeks to open a discussion about how to responsibly accelerate ... -
Articulations of sustainability transition agency. Mundane transition work among consulting engineers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper analyses sustainability transition agency among consulting engineers, who exercise considerable influence in a wide spectrum of environmental decision-making through advice, calculations and design. They work ...