Anders Blok
Biographic Data
| ID | 129014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anders Blok |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anders |
| FAMILY NAME | Blok |
| SIGNATURE | BLOK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3403-698X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 102 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 586 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 101 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Environmental social coordination
Da det var weird at mene noget om klimaet
I et studie af grønne civilsamfundsgruppers arbejde og overvejelser sætter vi urene tilbage til foråret 2020: Et folkeligt og politisk klimamomentum er kommet til Danmark, men i marts ankommer covid-19, en ny pandemi. Enor- me samfundsmæssige foranstaltninger bliver truffet for at forhindre smitte, og grønne civilsamfundsgrupper er hensat til hjemmekontorsovervejelser over, hvordan de kan tillade sig at fortsætte deres hidtidige aktivisme med fok…
Undoing Cambodia’s Cosmopolitical Fix
The Cambodian regime depends on large-scale extraction of natural resources. However, the regime also acknowledges that Cambodian territories are potent landscapes protected by extra-human beings. Hence, it must accomplish seemingly contradictory objectives: pleasing the land-protectors while ruining the lands they protect. We characterise this effort as Cambodia’s cosmopolitical fix. To elucidate the cosmopolitical fix and speculate about ways o…
From participation to doing society via new social pragmatism
Building on pragmatic, pragmatist, and cultural sociological literature, this article presents a case for refocusing and broadening the research on participation by shifting the focus from specific ways of participating to how actors are doing society. We argue for focusing on action in participation and on how this action draws, connects, and feeds into broader cultural tools and repertoires (derived from cultural sociology). Paying attention to…
What Next for Actor Network Theory? Inventing around Latour on a planet in distress
This is a reflection piece on the theme ‘what will happen to actor-network theory (ANT) after Latour?’ We distinguish three scenarios but focus on the one we see as the least probable but most interesting for sociology and related disciplines. With inspiration from the anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, we think of this third scenario as a way of “inventing around” Latour. In this scenario, classical ANT tenets are prolonged and refracted through …
In the mode of metamorphosis
This short piece responds to five commentaries to our own suggestions on ‘What Next for Actor Network Theory?’ after Latour's passing. Charting a path through very heterogenous ideas, we attempt to re-scenarise what we consider the wheat of fruitful theoretical questioning and extensions from the chaff of worn-out adversarial gestures around actor-network theory (ANT) in sociology and beyond. Inventing around Latour on a planet in distress, we af…
Professionssociologi
Hos de klassiske europæiske sociologer som Max Weber og Emile Durkheim spillede professionerne en stor rolle som vigtige sociale og politiske organisationer; og i den amerikanske sociologi har særligt Chicago-skolen teoretiseret og analyseret professionerne på original vis
Finding one's way in urban greenspaces
Urban greenspaces connect issues ranging from personal place attachments to abstract problems like climate change, making them interesting research objects for cultural and political sociology. Existing qualitative studies of urban greenspaces have successfully drawn on Laurent Thévenot's sociology of engagements. Developing an exploratory survey methodology for the Danish context (n = 1,130), we seek to complement this literature through a compr…
Contesting eco-modernist hegemony in Denmark? Green reform nexus and transformative climate advocacy in an established environmental state
Across green political theory, social movement studies, and environmental sociology, debates on how to theorize the dynamics of contention involved in societal shifts towards more transformative and just sustainability remain underdeveloped. This paper presents a conceptual encounter between neo-Marxist and pragmatic-sociology contributions, further developing Eve Chiapello’s concept of ‘green reform nexus’ in the latter tradition. This aims to c…
Professionssociologi
Hos de klassiske europæiske sociologer som Max Weber og Emile Durkheim spillede professionerne en stor rolle som vigtige sociale og politiske organisationer; og i den amerikanske sociologi har særligt Chicago-skolen teoretiseret og analyseret professionerne på original vis. Gennem tiden har flere forskellige, konkurrerende perspektiver på professioner gjort sig gældende, fra det funktionalistiske til det neo-weberianske. I nutidens sociologi spil…
Abductive Cross-Case Comparison in Qualitative Research
The authors argue that hitherto separate methodological conversations about abduction and comparison can be fruitfully brought together to generate novel, well-founded insights and retheorize an object of study in multiple-case qualitative inquiry. The authors call this abductive cross-case comparison and illustrate it by way of a collective study of how professional boundary work is changing under transnational conditions. In this study, the aut…
New methodologies for the digital age? How methods (re-)organize research using social media data
As “big and broad” social media data continues to expand and become a more prevalent source for research, much remains to be understood about its epistemological and methodological implications. Drawing on an original data set of 12,732 research articles using social media data, we employ a novel dictionary-based approach to map the use of methods. Specifically, our approach draws on a combination of manual coding and embedding-enhanced query exp…
Politics and Expertise
Samtidsdiagnostisk centrale problemstillinger omkring klimaforandringer, sundhedspandemier, bioteknologi og kunstig intelligens har det til fælles, at de forskyder og forstærker modernitetens dilemmafyldte forhold mellem videnskabelig ekspertise og demokratisk beslutningstagning
New Human-landscape Relations in the Face of Global Environmental Crises
The current global crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, waterway pollution, and land-system change need far-reaching collective action, with major implications for future human-landscape relations. However, whereas there has been a radical acceleration in green solutions brought forward within science and technology, less attention has been paid to their social integration and long-term sustainability. Based on experiences with a large-sc…
Inheriting Rorty
This contribution to the second installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?" argues that the field of science studies should be understood as a way of inheriting, rather than fundamentally breaking with, Rorty's antifoundationalism and postepistemology. Taken together, the work of Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, and Donna Haraway has been less about rebalancing the relative and the objective, and more about…
Inter-Risk Framing Contests
In this article, we study the framing activities of Scandinavian climate-active non-governmental organizations (NGOs) during the early phases of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Building on theories of focusing events, crisis exploitation and Ulrich Beck's global risks, we develop and apply the concept of inter-risk framing contests to the case. Empirically, we analyse all climate- and corona-related tweeting activity of a broad selection of green …
How app companies use GitHub
This paper contributes to political economic debates on the digital economy and software production by attending to the ‘hybridity’ of economic forms in digital markets. It adds to a nascent literature on hybridity by going close to the processes of code-production. Methodologically, we ambitiously combine in-situ ethnography with netnographic observation and qualitative interviews in a thickly multi-situated analysis of Danish proprietary app de…
How to Conduct Quali-Quantitative Digital Methods Research
In this guide, we describe a digital research approach that combines three methods otherwise often used separately: netnography, visual network analysis, and computer-assisted content analysis. In particular, we show how these three methods can be used to good effect in parallel and complementary ways, constituting quali-quantitative digital methods research. The guide presents three key phases of any digital research project: data collection, da…
Anmeldelser
Anmeldelser af følgende: Migranters mobilitet - mellem kriminalisering, menneskehandel og udnyttelse på det danske arbejdsmarked af Marlene Spanger og Sophia Dörffer Hvalkof. Den organiserede formåen - magtperspektiver på organisatorisk læring af Kurt Dauer Keller (red.) Enrichment: a Critique of Commodities af Luc Boltanski & Arnaud Esquerre Usikker modernitet. Danskernes værdier fra 1981 til 2017 af Morten Frederiksen Sociologiens problemer - e…
Anmeldelser
Anmeldelser af følgende: Pierre Charbonnier: Affluence and freedom: An environmental history of political ideas. Anmeldt af Anders Blok. Frank van Tubergen: Introduction to Sociology. Anmeldt af Hans-Peter Y. Qvist
Mellem engagement og asymmetri
Denne undersøgelse beror på et casestudie af udviklingen og koordineringen i et omfattende civilt-kommunalt partnerskab kaldet »Tippen Syder«, der udgør en formel samarbejdsorganisering mellem en række centrale civilsamfunds- og kommunale aktører i København. Partnerskabet har siden dets etablering i 2008 stået for at koordinere og udføre naturpleje, formidling og aktiviteter på Sydhavnstippen, et større naturområde i byen ejet af Københavns Komm…
Anmeldelser
Anmeldelser af følgende: Klaus Rasborg: ULRICH BECK – en kritisk indføring i teorien om verdensrisikosamfundet. Anmeldt af Bo Elling. Sanjay Seth: Beyond reason: postcolonial theory and the social sciences. Anmeldt af Anders Blok
Redaktørens forord
Dette åbne nummer af Dansk Sociologi består af to originale forskningsartikler, et mindeessay til ære for den afdøde professor i sociologi Henning Bech samt to boganmeldelser. Om end temaer og tilgange varierer betydeligt mellem teksterne, kan man hævde, at spørgsmål om vilkårene for livsudfoldelse i et senmoderne, værdipluralistisk og globaliseret samfund løber som rød tråd gennem nummeret
Contested Greenspace Solidarities
Urban allotment gardens constitute urban natures with a rich history as well as potential public redevelopment land. While many cities in Europe struggle to protect allotment gardens from competing land-use forces, in Copenhagen, allotments are classified as valuable urban nature and enjoy special protection. We analyze the social and political conditions and consequences of this unique situation. Taking a closer look at the governance arrangemen…
The Place of Greening
As elsewhere in Europe, cities in Denmark have witnessed a surge in civic urban nature engagement, such as place- and practice-based initiatives (e.g., public-access community gardens, organic food collectives, and grazing associations that enhance biodiversity). While this expansion of urban green communities, as we call them, is widely noted in the literature, less attention has been paid to the comparative variability of their local civic expr…
Infrastructuring Environments
New Environments, New Challenges
Techno-animism in Japan
In a wide range of contemporary debates on Japanese cultures of technological practice, brief reference is often made to distinct Shinto legacies, as forming an animist substratum of indigenous spiritual beliefs and cosmological imaginations. Japan has been described as a land of Shinto-infused 'techno-animism': exhibiting a 'polymorphous perversity' that resolutely ignores boundaries between human, animal, spiritual and mechanical beings. In thi…
Topologies of Climate Change
Climate change is quickly becoming a ubiquitous socionatural reality, mediating extremes of sociospatial scale from the bodily to the planetary. Although environmentalism invites us to 'think globally and act locally', the meaning of these scalar designations remains ambiguous. This paper explores the topological presuppositions of social theory in the context of global climate change, asking how carbon emissions 'translate' into various sociomat…
Unfolding the Social
An important philosopher and anthropologist of science, Bruno Latour has recently outlined an ambitious programme for a new sociological empiricism, in continuation of his actor-network-theory (ANT). Interrogating issues of description, explanation and theoretical interpretation in this 'sociology of associations', we argue that certain internal tensions are manifest. While Latour's philosophy of social science demands an absolute abandonment of …
Clash of the eco-sciences
The performativity of economics programme, pioneered by actor-network theorist Michel Callon, has emerged as an important theoretical intervention at the intersections of science studies, economic sociology and the anthropology of valuation. Exploring the case of contested carbon market designs in global climate governance, however, this article argues that performativity analysts have so far failed to pay sufficient attention to the political di…
Picturing Urban Green Attachments
In this article, we explore the cultural-political tensions and ambiguities of urban ecology, by way of following how activists move and translate between 'familiar' and 'public' engagements in the green city. Empirically, we locate our exploration in and around Nordhavnen (The North Harbor), a large-scale sustainable urban development project in Copenhagen. Invoking Laurent Thévenot's pragmatic sociology of 'regimes of engagement', we sketch a c…
War of the Whales
This article examines some of the difficulties of universalistic science in situations of deep conflict over global nature, using empirical material pertaining to ongoing controversies in the context of Japanese whaling practices. Within global-scale whaling assemblages since the 1970s, science has become a ''post-sovereign'' authority, unable to impose any stable definition of nature on all actors. Instead, across spaces of deep antagonistic dif…
Complementary social science? Quali-quantitative experiments in a Big Data world
The rise of Big Data in the social realm poses significant questions at the intersection of science, technology, and society, including in terms of how new large-scale social databases are currently changing the methods, epistemologies, and politics of social science. In this commentary, we address such epochal ("large-scale") questions by way of a (situated) experiment: at the Danish Technical University in Copenhagen, an interdisciplinary group…
The Anthropocene event in social theory
Signalling that 'humanity' has radically changed the Earth's environmental parameters, the Anthropocene currently generates debate across the socio-cultural sciences. In this context, neo-Marxist and new materialist approaches stand out for the way they oblige social theory to catch up with new material realities. We share the conviction that the Anthropocene might constitute a genuine event for social theory and practice. However, we argue that …
Urban Green Assemblages
In this article, I sketch an STS-theoretical approach to world-wide growing concerns with urban climate risks and sustainable urbanism more generally in terms of what I call ‘urban green assemblages’. This approach draws inspiration from recent attempts to bring actor-network theory (ANT) closer to urban studies, infusing urban political economies with STS sensibility towards the contingencies of eco-socio-technical design and transformation proc…
Contesting Global Norms
Why are anti- and pro-whaling coalitions still engaged in morally heated confrontations over whales tracing back to the 1970s? Revisiting the global whaling controversy, this article applies insights from the political sociology of social movements to highlight the importance of the politics of identity embedded in an elite-driven pro-whaling countermovement in Japan. As is well documented, Japan has proven a most difficult context for the emergi…
Mapping the Super-Whale
In empirical discussion on global connections, frequent allusions are made to Michael Burawoy's 'global' and George Marcus' 'multi-sited' ethnographies. While both have inspired transnational fieldwork, neither methodological approach has sufficiently analysed the local-global dichotomy embedded at their core. Drawing on actor-network theory (ANT), this article suggests an alternative framework for mobile ethnography, better suited to a social wo…
Cosmopolitan communities of climate risk
Mitigating human-induced climate change calls for a globalized change of consciousness and practice. These global challenges also demand a double transformation of the social sciences - first, from 'methodological nationalism' to 'methodological cosmopolitanism' and, second, an empirical reorientation towards 'cosmopolitization' as the social force of emerging cosmopolitan realities. One of these realities is the possible emergence, locally and g…
Pragmatic sociology as political ecology
This article engages the French pragmatism of Laurent Thévenot, Luc Boltanski and Bruno Latour in debates on how to forge a moral-political sociology of ecological valuation, justification and critique. Picking up the debate initiated by Thévenot on the possible emergence of a novel 'green' order of worth, the article juxtaposes the sociology of critical capacity of Boltanski and Thévenot with the actor-network theory of Bruno Latour. In doing so…
Greening Cosmopolitan Urbanism? On the Transnational Mobility of Low-Carbon Formats in Northern European and East Asian Cities
This paper engages key social theories of transnational mobilities in order to forge the concept of urban ‘green’ cosmopolitization, posited as a social scientific contribution to epochal conversations on climate change. Bringing Ulrich Beck's notion of ‘cosmopolitization’ to bear on recent work around ‘urban policy mobilities’, I analyze professional planning practices in large-scale world cities as privileged sites for contemporary imaginings a…
Worlding cities through their climate projects
In recent years, the built environment has emerged as a critical target of climate change intervention for urban governments around the world, engaging developers, professionals, activists and communities in a range of new eco-urbanism projects. While important contributions have been made, this paper suggests that critical academic and policy debates on urban climate politics have so far paid insufficient attention to the sheer divergence in urb…
Urban green gentrification in an unequal world of climate change
Over the past few decades, notions of environmental, ecological or green gentrification in cities have entered the lexicon of critical urban scholars and activists alike, not least in North American and European settings. This happens amidst growing concerns that the current policy and planning emphasis on making cities more sustainable serves in some cases to exacerbate socio-material inequalities in the city via forms of residential displacemen…
Assembling urban riskscapes
The global risks of climate change have become tangible and urgent in cities—and in response, climate adaptation has recently emerged on urban political agendas worldwide, including in vulnerable coastal cities of East and South Asia. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Indian city of Surat, this article seeks to re-conceptualize climate adaptation efforts via the related but distinct analytical vocabularies of worlding and assemblage urbani…
Actor-networking ceta-sociality, or, what is sociological about contemporary whales
In contemporary urban Euro-American societies, whales have become hugely popular and iconic creatures, arousing controversies more intense than most other instances of animal politics. How to account sociologically, however, for the dramatic social transformation of whales, from natural resource to near-sacrosanct agent, is far from self-evident. This article advocates a change of theoretical perspective, inspired by the work of actor-network the…
Stitching together the heterogeneous party
The era of ‘big data’ studies and computational social science has recently given rise to a number of realignments within and beyond the social sciences, where otherwise distinct data formats – digital, numerical, ethnographic, visual, etc. – rub off and emerge from one another in new ways. This article chronicles the collaboration between a team of anthropologists and sociologists, who worked together for one week in an experimental attempt to c…
Methods of engagement
This article evaluates and develops the contribution of pragmatic sociology to the study of urban life and politics, by way of analysing recent shifts in the cultural-political forms of civic participation in formal urban planning. In doing so, it seeks to stage a critical test of the diagnosis of a ‘certified’, (neo-)liberal city that has recently emerged from work with Laurent Thévenot’s sociology of engagements and commonalities. Drawing on ex…
Ecologies of Boundaries
Ecological approaches to professional work, authority, and regulation have seen a resurgence in the sociology of professions, as epitomized in the linked ecologies framework of Andrew Abbott. Alongside this resurgence comes a renewed attention to the way symbolic and material boundaries within and between professions, as well as between professional, university, and political institutions, come to be defined, negotiated, and changed as part of on…
Technical democracy as a challenge to urban studies
What is technical democracy? And why does it matter for urban studies? As an introduction to this special feature, we address these questions by reflecting on To Our Friends, the 2014 manifesto of the Invisible Committee. We engage in particular its provocative diagnosis of the current situation: power no longer resides in the modern institutions of representative democracy and the market economy; instead, power has become a matter of logistics, …
Framing professional climate risk knowledge
Doing methodological cosmopolitanism in a mobile world
A decade of mobilities research has responded to the key question of how a ‘world on the move’ can and should be studied, including in terms of futures thereby brought into view and possibly shaped into being. What happens, however, if we shift our focus from the ‘world on the move’ to the ‘world on the move’, with all the cosmopolitical diversity this highlights? This paper explores this question regarding the parallel research programme of meth…
Sociologiens performativitet - afvikling af det dårlige samfund
Anders Blok: The Performativity of Sociology – Dismantling the Poor Society? This essay raises questions about the contribution of sociology to bettering or dismantling its always less-than-satisfactory society. What happens if we stop viewing sociological theory and analysis as explanations of society, and start seeing them as additions to society, as narrative equipment for societal ac¬-tors? And what consequences does such a performative persp…
Tingenes politik - med Bruno Latour til tekno-kunstudstilling
Experts on public trial
Citizen deliberation on technoscientific developments is regularly regarded as a hallmark of Danish democracy, embodied in particular by the Danish Board of Technology. Few empirically guided questions have been raised, however, as to how the Board’s democratic projects actually work. Through a case study of the May 2003 Danish consensus conference on environmental economics as a policy tool, the article reflects on the politics of expert authori…
Actor-networking ceta-sociality, or, what is sociological about contemporary whales
In contemporary urban Euro-American societies, whales have become hugely popular and iconic creatures, arousing controversies more intense than most other instances of animal politics. How to account sociologically, however, for the dramatic social transformation of whales, from natural resource to near-sacrosanct agent, is far from self-evident. This article advocates a change of theoretical perspective, inspired by the work of actor-network the…
Social identities and risk
Expert-based environmental and health risk regulation is widely believed to suffer from a lack of public understanding and legitimacy. On controversial issues such as genetically modified organisms and food-related chemicals, a “lay—expert discrepancy” in the assessment of risks is clearly visible. In this article, we analyze the relationship between scientific experts and ordinary lay citizens in the context of risks from pesticide usage in Denm…
Contesting Global Norms
Why are anti- and pro-whaling coalitions still engaged in morally heated confrontations over whales tracing back to the 1970s? Revisiting the global whaling controversy, this article applies insights from the political sociology of social movements to highlight the importance of the politics of identity embedded in an elite-driven pro-whaling countermovement in Japan. As is well documented, Japan has proven a most difficult context for the emergi…
Pesticides in the Risk Society
Ulrich Beck's diagnosis in his already classic book Risk Society addressed, when it was first published in 1986, a number of new and important issues concerning environment and society. In spite of the weight of the theoretical contributions of the book, it appears, however, somewhat unsubstantiated in empirical terms. Similarly, the 'macroscopic' level of Beck's analysis often seems insensitive to variations in risk concerns within and between d…
"Fra nationale til globale sociologier - og tilbage igen? - refleksioner fra ISA-konferencen "Facing an unequal world
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt:Vandana Shiva: Soil not Oil. Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity. Zed Books, London, 2008.Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman (eds.): Material Feminisms. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2008.Ariel Salleh (Ed.): Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice. Women write political ecology. Pluto Press and Pinifex Press, 2009
Hiroyuki Watanabe, Japan's Whaling
Few East Asian science-infused topics have been as globally controversial over the past decades as the Japanese whaling issue. In what has become a predicable political ritual, Anglo-Saxon environm
Mapping the Super-Whale
In empirical discussion on global connections, frequent allusions are made to Michael Burawoy's 'global' and George Marcus' 'multi-sited' ethnographies. While both have inspired transnational fieldwork, neither methodological approach has sufficiently analysed the local-global dichotomy embedded at their core. Drawing on actor-network theory (ANT), this article suggests an alternative framework for mobile ethnography, better suited to a social wo…
Topologies of Climate Change
Climate change is quickly becoming a ubiquitous socionatural reality, mediating extremes of sociospatial scale from the bodily to the planetary. Although environmentalism invites us to 'think globally and act locally', the meaning of these scalar designations remains ambiguous. This paper explores the topological presuppositions of social theory in the context of global climate change, asking how carbon emissions 'translate' into various sociomat…
Bruno Latour
French sociologist and philosopher, Bruno Latour, is one of the most significant and creative thinkers of the last decades. Bruno Latour: Hybrid thoughts in a hybrid world is the first comprehensive and accessible English-language introduction to this multi-faceted work. The book focuses on core Latourian themes: • contribution to science studies (STS – Science, Technology & Society) • philosophical approach to the rise and fall of modernity • in…
Bruno Latour
French sociologist and philosopher, Bruno Latour, is one of the most significant and creative thinkers of the last decades. Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World is the first comprehensive and accessible English-language introduction to this multi-faceted work. The book focuses on core Latourian themes: • contribution to science studies (STS – Science, Technology & Society) • philosophical approach to the rise and fall of modernity • in…
Kosmopolitane katastrofer? Sociologiske (selv-)refleksioner i nærheden af Fukushima
Mode-2 social science knowledge production? The case of Danish sociology between institutional crisis and new welfare stabilizations
The notion of mode-2 knowledge production points to far-reaching transformations in science-society relations, but few attempts have been made to investigate what growing economic and political demands on research may entail for the social sciences. This case study of new patterns of social science knowledge production outlines some major institutional and cognitive changes in Danish academic sociology during ‘mode-2’ times, from the 1980s onward…
War of the Whales
This article examines some of the difficulties of universalistic science in situations of deep conflict over global nature, using empirical material pertaining to ongoing controversies in the context of Japanese whaling practices. Within global-scale whaling assemblages since the 1970s, science has become a ''post-sovereign'' authority, unable to impose any stable definition of nature on all actors. Instead, across spaces of deep antagonistic dif…
Unfolding the Social
An important philosopher and anthropologist of science, Bruno Latour has recently outlined an ambitious programme for a new sociological empiricism, in continuation of his actor-network-theory (ANT). Interrogating issues of description, explanation and theoretical interpretation in this 'sociology of associations', we argue that certain internal tensions are manifest. While Latour's philosophy of social science demands an absolute abandonment of …
Clash of the eco-sciences
The performativity of economics programme, pioneered by actor-network theorist Michel Callon, has emerged as an important theoretical intervention at the intersections of science studies, economic sociology and the anthropology of valuation. Exploring the case of contested carbon market designs in global climate governance, however, this article argues that performativity analysts have so far failed to pay sufficient attention to the political di…
Redaktørernes forord
Til diamantjubilæum med indiske sociologer – annoterede indtryk fra den 37. All India Sociological Conference
Et nyt klima for sociologien? Om socialteoretiske nybrud i økologiseringens tidsalder
De globale klimaforandringers nye epokale bekymringer udfordrer sociologisk vanetænkning og inviterer til forstærket socialteoretisk engagement. Denne artikel søger at give et selektivt overblik over de måder, hvorpå den sociologiske fagdisciplin gør klimaproblematikken til genstand for teoretisk og empirisk forskning; samt at give et programmatisk og fremadrettet bud på dette arbejdes væsentligste socialteoretiske nybrud. Historisk lokaliseres d…
Wandering around Cities with ANTs
Greening Cosmopolitan Urbanism? On the Transnational Mobility of Low-Carbon Formats in Northern European and East Asian Cities
This paper engages key social theories of transnational mobilities in order to forge the concept of urban ‘green’ cosmopolitization, posited as a social scientific contribution to epochal conversations on climate change. Bringing Ulrich Beck's notion of ‘cosmopolitization’ to bear on recent work around ‘urban policy mobilities’, I analyze professional planning practices in large-scale world cities as privileged sites for contemporary imaginings a…
Comparative Globalities
This article draws on ethnographic studies (conducted in Japan) into ongoing controversies over Japanese “research” whaling, in order to theorize what it might mean, in STS and elsewhere, to think comparatively about global connections, networks, and flows. Since the 1970s, Japanese whaling has been constituted as a high-profile global controversy, mired in a sensitive cultural politics of so-called whaling cultures (alongside Norway, Iceland, an…
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