Göran Sundqvist
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 380794 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Göran Sundqvist |
| NOMBRES | Göran |
| APELLIDO | Sundqvist |
| FIRMA | SUNDQVIST G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8120-1629 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 163 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Konstruktivistisk miljösociologi i tider av klimatnödläge
This article is a reply to Johan Söderberg’s critique of constructivist environmental sociology. Lidskog and Sundqvist challenge his claim that the climate emergency requires social scientists to refrain from conducting sociological analyses of climate science, on the grounds that such analyses could be exploited by climate denialists. They argue that Söderberg bases his reasoning on simplified dichotomies—such as the choice between taking scient…
Science advice and policy influence
Today, many nations have established climate councils to support the national implementation of the Paris Agreement. Previous research has shown that a successful council should be science-based and politically independent, but it should also be in close contact with the government it is reviewing and advising. This ambiguous position of being both politically-independent and politically-dependent forms the basis of this article. We present resul…
Making Science Relevant
This article compares two science advisory organizations: the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES), with a special focus on how their respective policy systems absorb the knowledge delivered for use in decision processes. The science-policy processes of these two organizations differ in important respects; ICES delivers highly specified knowledge to a specified upta…
Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC
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Striving for technical consensus by agreeing to disagree
Socio-technical arrangements seeking to produce consensus are understood differently by theories in science and technology studies. Some scholars argue that consensus ambitions are coercive in that they oppress the (inevitable) alternatives to the dominant values and interests that are enforced under a guise of consensual unity. Others argue that consensus is inherently characterized by value and interest heterogeneity, i.e. downplaying processes…
Democratic Situations
Sustainability) Research Group.She is a science and technology studies scholar and geographer interested in the relationships between science, democracy and the environment, and particularly
Technical Problematisation
A strong social and technical divide is particularly visible in the predominant understanding of technological innovation in modern societies. The field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) aims to overcome this divide, by focusing on the continuously entwined relationships between the social and the technical, that is, sociotechnical combinations. In this article, we argue that while it is reasonable to state that the social and the technical…
Speaking Truth to Power
The notion “speaking truth to power” concerns how to mobilize the best available knowledge for political decision‐making. This implies a call to action with the help of knowledge, or, in the words of political scientist Charles Lindblom: how to make democracy intelligent. Today, in a time of globalization and climate change, and decreasing trust in both scientific and democratic institutions, the intelligence of democracy is not to be taken for g…
Technological Fix or Divisible Object of Collective Concern? Histories of Conflict over the Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste in Sweden and France
Science and technology studies (STS) has cultivated a positive vision of technological controversies. By raising new issues to address, controversies are seen as generating more thorough and exhaustive processes of technology assessment. However, the ability to view controversies in this light remains dependent upon how technology is collectively imagined and understood. If it is envisioned as a classic technological fix then broader controversy …
Environmental Expertise as Group Belonging
What is environmental expertise? The background to this question is that many scholars consider environmental expertise crucial for discovering, diagnosing, and solving environmental problems but do not discuss in any depth what constitutes expertise. By investigating the meaning and use of the concept of expertise in three general theories within environmental sociology—the treadmill of production, risk society, and ecological modernization— and…
How to Make Local Context Matter in National Advice
Drawing on case studies in 12 Norwegian municipalities, this paper investigates how local context matters for developing national climate adaptation policies that are applicable at the municipal level. Moreover, it explicates which factors constitute this context and how these factors vary across the case municipalities. National climate adaptation policy in Norway can currently be characterized as top down, providing standardized requirements an…
One world or two? Science–policy interactions in the climate field
This article assesses how science–policy interactions are conceptualized in the social sciences with special reference to climate change and the IPCC. In terms of the dimension of distance (or proximity) between science and policy, we discern two ideal-type cases: a ‘two-worlds’ and a ‘one-world’ perspective. The first understands science and policy as independent spheres separated by a clear gap, while the second perceives science and policy as …
Science as a “fixed point”? Quantification and boundary objects in international climate politics
Formalization and separation
In studies of environmental issues, the question of how to establish a productive interplay between science and policy is widely debated, especially in relation to climate change. The aim of this article is to advance this discussion and contribute to a better understanding of how science is summarized for policy purposes by bringing together two academic discussions that usually take place in parallel: the question of how to deal with formalizat…
When Does Science Matter? International Relations Meets Science and Technology Studies
Despite widespread agreement on the importance of science for policy-making, there are still diverging understandings of how, when, and under what conditions science influences policy, and accordingly, on how the interplay between science and policy should be best organized. Some researchers claim that science can effectively influence policy only if it is autonomous from the political process. Others claim the opposite: that science can influenc…
The participatory turn in radioactive waste management
National policies for long-term management of radioactive waste have for decades been driven by technical experts. The pursuit of these technocratic policies led in many countries to conflict with affected communities. Since the late 1990s, however, there has been a turn to more participatory approaches. This appears to be an important move towards democratisation of this particular field of technological decision-making but, despite these develo…
Heating up' or 'Cooling Down'? Analysing and Performing Broadened Participation in Technoscientific Conflicts
Stakeholders and citizens today are often invited to deliberate in controversial processes of scientific and technological decision making. Scholars in the field of science and technology studies (STS) have long supported these initiatives to transcend strong expert-lay divides. However, despite many such contributions, there is no agreement on how such broadened participation should be performed, either in theory or in practice. The theoretical …
Steering through the Neighbourhood
How to govern risk through freedom? The aim of this paper is to contribute to the theoretical discussion on, and the empirical understanding of, liberal authority and its governmental rationality of risk. The analytical question is that of how to govern risk through freedom and the empirical focus is a programme of mobility management in the Swedish city of Gothenburg-New Road Habits-grouping local initiatives concerning traffic control, air qual…
Meddling in Swedish success in nuclear waste management
Actor–network theory and the notion of fluid technology are employed to account for the continuing and growing success of Swedish nuclear waste management (the so-called KBS Programme). Rather than offering a single, constant geological solution, Swedish success is based upon three forms of fluidity: the attachment of shifting meanings and significance to the geological disposal of nuclear waste; the introduction of variations in the working orde…
The Swedish KBS project
This paper addresses the long-standing association between the management of spent nuclear fuel in Sweden and the industry-led KBS (Kärnbränslesäkerhet/Nuclear Fuel Safety) research, development and demonstration project. This project was born under extraordinary circumstances during the 1970s when the future of nuclear power generation in Sweden was made conditional upon the nuclear industry's ability to publicly demonstrate the possibility of a…
Sociologin, hybriderna och den sociala verkligheten
Sociology, hybrids and social reality: the case of nuclear waste The continuing technological transformation of nature means that sociology’s traditional vision of a sharp divide between nature and society is becoming ever harder to defend. Starting from Bruno Latour’s critique of modernity, and Nikolas Rose’s explorations of political power beyond the state, this article presents a framework for analysing the expanding wealth of hybrids of natur…
Configuring the Urban Traveler
Today, two trends in European societies are often referred to as being strong and growing. The first is about centralization, i.e. governmental use of scientific recommendations as a universal tool guiding policy and advising citizens on how to behave. The second is about increasing self-reliance among ordinary citizens who claim personal-autonomy while contesting central state power decisions and universally framed scientific advice. Both these …
On the right track? Technology, geology and society in Swedish nuclear waste management
Although many countries with nuclear power have opted for geological disposal as the ultimate solution to the problem of nuclear waste, many of them face great problems in implementing their policies. However, at the same time as the responsible agencies in many countries ponder on how to find siting strategies that are politically and publicly acceptable, Sweden has to a large degree succeeded in implementing its policy for nuclear waste managem…
When Does Science Matter? International Relations Meets Science and Technology Studies
Despite widespread agreement on the importance of science for policy-making, there are still diverging understandings of how, when, and under what conditions science influences policy, and accordingly, on how the interplay between science and policy should be best organized. Some researchers claim that science can effectively influence policy only if it is autonomous from the political process. Others claim the opposite: that science can influenc…
The participatory turn in radioactive waste management
National policies for long-term management of radioactive waste have for decades been driven by technical experts. The pursuit of these technocratic policies led in many countries to conflict with affected communities. Since the late 1990s, however, there has been a turn to more participatory approaches. This appears to be an important move towards democratisation of this particular field of technological decision-making but, despite these develo…
Formalization and separation
In studies of environmental issues, the question of how to establish a productive interplay between science and policy is widely debated, especially in relation to climate change. The aim of this article is to advance this discussion and contribute to a better understanding of how science is summarized for policy purposes by bringing together two academic discussions that usually take place in parallel: the question of how to deal with formalizat…
On the right track? Technology, geology and society in Swedish nuclear waste management
Although many countries with nuclear power have opted for geological disposal as the ultimate solution to the problem of nuclear waste, many of them face great problems in implementing their policies. However, at the same time as the responsible agencies in many countries ponder on how to find siting strategies that are politically and publicly acceptable, Sweden has to a large degree succeeded in implementing its policy for nuclear waste managem…
Science and policy in air pollution abatement strategies
The Role of Science in Environmental Regimes
The aim of this article is to analyse the role of science in environmental regimes. The focus is on through which conceptual lenses social scientists should judge the role of science in this area. In answering this question, the article takes as its point of departure the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK). Three key findings of SSK are central to understanding the role of science in environmental regimes, namely that knowledge never moves f…
One world or two? Science–policy interactions in the climate field
This article assesses how science–policy interactions are conceptualized in the social sciences with special reference to climate change and the IPCC. In terms of the dimension of distance (or proximity) between science and policy, we discern two ideal-type cases: a ‘two-worlds’ and a ‘one-world’ perspective. The first understands science and policy as independent spheres separated by a clear gap, while the second perceives science and policy as …
The Swedish KBS project
This paper addresses the long-standing association between the management of spent nuclear fuel in Sweden and the industry-led KBS (Kärnbränslesäkerhet/Nuclear Fuel Safety) research, development and demonstration project. This project was born under extraordinary circumstances during the 1970s when the future of nuclear power generation in Sweden was made conditional upon the nuclear industry's ability to publicly demonstrate the possibility of a…
Science as a “fixed point”? Quantification and boundary objects in international climate politics
Technological Fix or Divisible Object of Collective Concern? Histories of Conflict over the Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste in Sweden and France
Science and technology studies (STS) has cultivated a positive vision of technological controversies. By raising new issues to address, controversies are seen as generating more thorough and exhaustive processes of technology assessment. However, the ability to view controversies in this light remains dependent upon how technology is collectively imagined and understood. If it is envisioned as a classic technological fix then broader controversy …
Meddling in Swedish success in nuclear waste management
Actor–network theory and the notion of fluid technology are employed to account for the continuing and growing success of Swedish nuclear waste management (the so-called KBS Programme). Rather than offering a single, constant geological solution, Swedish success is based upon three forms of fluidity: the attachment of shifting meanings and significance to the geological disposal of nuclear waste; the introduction of variations in the working orde…
From consensus to credibility
The development of consensual science has greatly influenced the international environmental negotiation processes. This is not least the case for the Convention on Long‐range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). Negotiators as well as regime analysts regard CLRTAP as a successful example of how scientists have succeeded in influencing international policy making through consensus‐building strategies. Drawing on Ulrich Beck's work on reflexive s…
Making Science Relevant
This article compares two science advisory organizations: the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES), with a special focus on how their respective policy systems absorb the knowledge delivered for use in decision processes. The science-policy processes of these two organizations differ in important respects; ICES delivers highly specified knowledge to a specified upta…
Heating up' or 'Cooling Down'? Analysing and Performing Broadened Participation in Technoscientific Conflicts
Stakeholders and citizens today are often invited to deliberate in controversial processes of scientific and technological decision making. Scholars in the field of science and technology studies (STS) have long supported these initiatives to transcend strong expert-lay divides. However, despite many such contributions, there is no agreement on how such broadened participation should be performed, either in theory or in practice. The theoretical …
Democratic Situations
Sustainability) Research Group.She is a science and technology studies scholar and geographer interested in the relationships between science, democracy and the environment, and particularly
Steering through the Neighbourhood
How to govern risk through freedom? The aim of this paper is to contribute to the theoretical discussion on, and the empirical understanding of, liberal authority and its governmental rationality of risk. The analytical question is that of how to govern risk through freedom and the empirical focus is a programme of mobility management in the Swedish city of Gothenburg-New Road Habits-grouping local initiatives concerning traffic control, air qual…
Sociologin, hybriderna och den sociala verkligheten
Sociology, hybrids and social reality: the case of nuclear waste The continuing technological transformation of nature means that sociology’s traditional vision of a sharp divide between nature and society is becoming ever harder to defend. Starting from Bruno Latour’s critique of modernity, and Nikolas Rose’s explorations of political power beyond the state, this article presents a framework for analysing the expanding wealth of hybrids of natur…
Striving for technical consensus by agreeing to disagree
Socio-technical arrangements seeking to produce consensus are understood differently by theories in science and technology studies. Some scholars argue that consensus ambitions are coercive in that they oppress the (inevitable) alternatives to the dominant values and interests that are enforced under a guise of consensual unity. Others argue that consensus is inherently characterized by value and interest heterogeneity, i.e. downplaying processes…
Configuring the Urban Traveler
Today, two trends in European societies are often referred to as being strong and growing. The first is about centralization, i.e. governmental use of scientific recommendations as a universal tool guiding policy and advising citizens on how to behave. The second is about increasing self-reliance among ordinary citizens who claim personal-autonomy while contesting central state power decisions and universally framed scientific advice. Both these …
Science and policy in air pollution abatement strategies
The Role of Science in Environmental Regimes
The aim of this article is to analyse the role of science in environmental regimes. The focus is on through which conceptual lenses social scientists should judge the role of science in this area. In answering this question, the article takes as its point of departure the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK). Three key findings of SSK are central to understanding the role of science in environmental regimes, namely that knowledge never moves f…
On the right track? Technology, geology and society in Swedish nuclear waste management
Although many countries with nuclear power have opted for geological disposal as the ultimate solution to the problem of nuclear waste, many of them face great problems in implementing their policies. However, at the same time as the responsible agencies in many countries ponder on how to find siting strategies that are politically and publicly acceptable, Sweden has to a large degree succeeded in implementing its policy for nuclear waste managem…
From consensus to credibility
The development of consensual science has greatly influenced the international environmental negotiation processes. This is not least the case for the Convention on Long‐range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). Negotiators as well as regime analysts regard CLRTAP as a successful example of how scientists have succeeded in influencing international policy making through consensus‐building strategies. Drawing on Ulrich Beck's work on reflexive s…
Configuring the Urban Traveler
Today, two trends in European societies are often referred to as being strong and growing. The first is about centralization, i.e. governmental use of scientific recommendations as a universal tool guiding policy and advising citizens on how to behave. The second is about increasing self-reliance among ordinary citizens who claim personal-autonomy while contesting central state power decisions and universally framed scientific advice. Both these …
The Swedish KBS project
This paper addresses the long-standing association between the management of spent nuclear fuel in Sweden and the industry-led KBS (Kärnbränslesäkerhet/Nuclear Fuel Safety) research, development and demonstration project. This project was born under extraordinary circumstances during the 1970s when the future of nuclear power generation in Sweden was made conditional upon the nuclear industry's ability to publicly demonstrate the possibility of a…
Sociologin, hybriderna och den sociala verkligheten
Sociology, hybrids and social reality: the case of nuclear waste The continuing technological transformation of nature means that sociology’s traditional vision of a sharp divide between nature and society is becoming ever harder to defend. Starting from Bruno Latour’s critique of modernity, and Nikolas Rose’s explorations of political power beyond the state, this article presents a framework for analysing the expanding wealth of hybrids of natur…
Steering through the Neighbourhood
How to govern risk through freedom? The aim of this paper is to contribute to the theoretical discussion on, and the empirical understanding of, liberal authority and its governmental rationality of risk. The analytical question is that of how to govern risk through freedom and the empirical focus is a programme of mobility management in the Swedish city of Gothenburg-New Road Habits-grouping local initiatives concerning traffic control, air qual…
Meddling in Swedish success in nuclear waste management
Actor–network theory and the notion of fluid technology are employed to account for the continuing and growing success of Swedish nuclear waste management (the so-called KBS Programme). Rather than offering a single, constant geological solution, Swedish success is based upon three forms of fluidity: the attachment of shifting meanings and significance to the geological disposal of nuclear waste; the introduction of variations in the working orde…
When Does Science Matter? International Relations Meets Science and Technology Studies
Despite widespread agreement on the importance of science for policy-making, there are still diverging understandings of how, when, and under what conditions science influences policy, and accordingly, on how the interplay between science and policy should be best organized. Some researchers claim that science can effectively influence policy only if it is autonomous from the political process. Others claim the opposite: that science can influenc…
The participatory turn in radioactive waste management
National policies for long-term management of radioactive waste have for decades been driven by technical experts. The pursuit of these technocratic policies led in many countries to conflict with affected communities. Since the late 1990s, however, there has been a turn to more participatory approaches. This appears to be an important move towards democratisation of this particular field of technological decision-making but, despite these develo…
Heating up' or 'Cooling Down'? Analysing and Performing Broadened Participation in Technoscientific Conflicts
Stakeholders and citizens today are often invited to deliberate in controversial processes of scientific and technological decision making. Scholars in the field of science and technology studies (STS) have long supported these initiatives to transcend strong expert-lay divides. However, despite many such contributions, there is no agreement on how such broadened participation should be performed, either in theory or in practice. The theoretical …
Formalization and separation
In studies of environmental issues, the question of how to establish a productive interplay between science and policy is widely debated, especially in relation to climate change. The aim of this article is to advance this discussion and contribute to a better understanding of how science is summarized for policy purposes by bringing together two academic discussions that usually take place in parallel: the question of how to deal with formalizat…
Science as a “fixed point”? Quantification and boundary objects in international climate politics
How to Make Local Context Matter in National Advice
Drawing on case studies in 12 Norwegian municipalities, this paper investigates how local context matters for developing national climate adaptation policies that are applicable at the municipal level. Moreover, it explicates which factors constitute this context and how these factors vary across the case municipalities. National climate adaptation policy in Norway can currently be characterized as top down, providing standardized requirements an…
One world or two? Science–policy interactions in the climate field
This article assesses how science–policy interactions are conceptualized in the social sciences with special reference to climate change and the IPCC. In terms of the dimension of distance (or proximity) between science and policy, we discern two ideal-type cases: a ‘two-worlds’ and a ‘one-world’ perspective. The first understands science and policy as independent spheres separated by a clear gap, while the second perceives science and policy as …
Environmental Expertise as Group Belonging
What is environmental expertise? The background to this question is that many scholars consider environmental expertise crucial for discovering, diagnosing, and solving environmental problems but do not discuss in any depth what constitutes expertise. By investigating the meaning and use of the concept of expertise in three general theories within environmental sociology—the treadmill of production, risk society, and ecological modernization— and…
Speaking Truth to Power
The notion “speaking truth to power” concerns how to mobilize the best available knowledge for political decision‐making. This implies a call to action with the help of knowledge, or, in the words of political scientist Charles Lindblom: how to make democracy intelligent. Today, in a time of globalization and climate change, and decreasing trust in both scientific and democratic institutions, the intelligence of democracy is not to be taken for g…
Technological Fix or Divisible Object of Collective Concern? Histories of Conflict over the Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste in Sweden and France
Science and technology studies (STS) has cultivated a positive vision of technological controversies. By raising new issues to address, controversies are seen as generating more thorough and exhaustive processes of technology assessment. However, the ability to view controversies in this light remains dependent upon how technology is collectively imagined and understood. If it is envisioned as a classic technological fix then broader controversy …
Technical Problematisation
A strong social and technical divide is particularly visible in the predominant understanding of technological innovation in modern societies. The field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) aims to overcome this divide, by focusing on the continuously entwined relationships between the social and the technical, that is, sociotechnical combinations. In this article, we argue that while it is reasonable to state that the social and the technical…
Striving for technical consensus by agreeing to disagree
Socio-technical arrangements seeking to produce consensus are understood differently by theories in science and technology studies. Some scholars argue that consensus ambitions are coercive in that they oppress the (inevitable) alternatives to the dominant values and interests that are enforced under a guise of consensual unity. Others argue that consensus is inherently characterized by value and interest heterogeneity, i.e. downplaying processes…
Democratic Situations
Sustainability) Research Group.She is a science and technology studies scholar and geographer interested in the relationships between science, democracy and the environment, and particularly
Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC
Vem bryr sig om klimatsociologen
Livsstilsförändring eller teknologisk fix
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