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Continue reading →: Local and global education in a time of energy transition
By: Ebba Lisberg Jensen About a century ago, Swedish national curriculum required that all primary schools taught students about their immediate surroundings in a school subject called hembygdskunskap. The concept refers to home, then borough, “area where we dwell”, and the last part to “knowledge”. Hembygdskunskap was a localised school…
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Continue reading →: Hårda vindar – reflektioner från en disputation
Av: Therese Bjärstig Bild: Therese Bjärstig Som disputerad forskare får man ibland förfrågningar om att sitta med i betygskommittéer i samband med att doktorander presenterar och försvarar sina avhandlingsarbeten. I början av februari hade jag ynnesten att vara en av ledamöterna i en betygskommitté vid Roskilde universitet. Disputanden för dagen…
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Continue reading →: What is a “pasture”?
By: Tim Horstkotte The circuit of the Earth around the sun creates the annual pulse of solar energy, the heartbeat of the Arctic seasons. They create the patterns of vegetation emergence and senescence, tracked by Arctic herbivores to feed on the earthbound solar energy and convert it into growth, movement,…
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Continue reading →: Blickar från periferin
Av: Erland Mårald Vårt forskningsprojekt heter på engelska ”Peripheral Visions”, alltså periferiseende. Enligt en vanlig definition sägs periferiseendet utgöra 98 procent av vårt totala synfält och betecknar allt som ligger utanför den del av vårt seende där vi ser skarpt – direktseendet. På samma sätt kan vår snabbt föränderliga tid…
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Continue reading →: Time Horizons of Transformation – Hydropower in Greenland
By: Janina Priebe Before any change takes place in the present, the timeline for future change is drawn up. My current research looks at large-scale energy infrastructures in Greenland, and as an environmental historian, I am not so much examining the physical or economic parts as much as the ideas…
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Continue reading →: Arctic Batteries for the world?
By: Hanna Vikström Northern Sweden is becoming a hot spot for industries seeking access to clean energy to manufacture so-called green technologies. One example is the establishment of the large battery factory Northvolt, which is currently being built in Skellefteå. It has been argued that Northvolt will decrease fossil fuel…
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Continue reading →: Apply to the workshop “The Promise and Pitfall of the Green Energy Transition” at the NESS conference!
Two of the project members in the Peripheral Visions project, Therese Bjärstig and Hanna Lempinen, are organizing a workshop at the NESS, Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference, “Workshop 15: The Promise and Pitfall of the Green Energy Transition.” Global agendas, national initiatives and business actors are all increasingly driving a…
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Continue reading →: Researching the “just” in (Arctic) energy transitions
By: Hanna Lempinen The world is faced with an urgent need to decarbonize its energy systems, economies, and societies. Continued reliance on fossil fuels not only causes with serious environmental, economic and sociocultural impacts, but also further heats up the planet and puts all life – human and nonhuman alike…
Welcome to the Research Diaries
This is a blog where researchers in the projects Peripheral Visions shares insights into their research and the research process.
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