Kati Lindström
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kati Lindström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kati |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindström |
| SIGNATURE | LINDSTRÖM K |
| AFFILIATIONS | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5709-0217 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A deep genealogy of Japanese green nationalism from the long 19th century to the present
Employing the term “green nationalism” in the broad sense of nationalist ideologies that concern themselves with the natural environment, we trace a genealogy of green nationalist thought in Japan back to the start of the long 19 th century. The changing contours of this discourse are mapped through five representative writers: Moto'ori Norinaga (1730–1801), Shigetaka Shiga (1863–1927). Testurō Watsuji (1889–1960), Takeshi Umehara (1925–2019) and…
A Fishy Tale of the Nuclear Power Plant Never Built in Estonia: An Envirotechnical History of Energy, Fish, Land and Water Resources Planning at Lake Võrtsjärv
One of the most mysterious stories in Estonian energy history revolves around the planning of a nuclear power plant (NPP) at Lake Võrtsjärv between 1967–1972. Despite the absence of planning documents in the energy archives and the impracticality of an NPP given Estonia’s abundant oil-shale energy production, the story, though sounding fishy, is well established in media and oral sources. In a regime where open confrontation with the central gove…
Decay without mourning: Future-Thinking Heritage Practices
This paper seeks to further heritage theory and practice by considering decay as a transformative process contributing to heritage formation and value. Informed by our expertise in a variety of fields bordering heritage studies, we highlight the interplay of generative and degenerative aspects in different modes of decay and suggest that partnering with decay epistemologically, artistically, academically, practically, and democratically would all…
Global processes of anthropogenesis characterise the early Anthropocene in the Japanese Islands
Although many scholars date the onset of the Anthropocene to the Industrial Revolution or the post-1945 ‘Great Acceleration’, there is growing interest in understanding earlier human impacts on the earth system. Research on the ‘Palaeoanthropocene’ has investigated the role of fire, agriculture, trade, urbanisation and other anthropogenic impacts. While there is increasing consensus that such impacts were more important than previously realised, …
Keskkonnahumanitaaria / Environmental Humanities: Ühe uurimisala väljakujunemisest läbi suurkonverentside prisma / On the Development of a Research Speciality through the Lens of Major Conferences
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Tourism and heritage in Antarctica: Exploring cultural, natural and subliminal experiences
The guidelines on heritage management adopted by the 2018 Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting provide the most recent iteration for an Antarctic tourism sector which had, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, been projected to increase further with various risks and potential impacts requiring careful management. In this paper the role of cultural heritage for tourism prior to the COVID-19 pandemic is examined through three empirical perspectives. Fi…
Eseh Notepad. Singing on the Submarine: Conference Review for Eseh 2019, 'Boundaries In/Of Environmental History', Tallinn
Teaching the Environmental Humanities
This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critic…
Classic and cute: Framing biodiversity in Japan through rural landscapes and mascot characters
Japan is an active player in international biodiversity politics and has ambitious domestic biodiversity targets. The government considers environmental communication crucial for reaching these. This article analyzes two major frames that state institutions employ for communicating biodiversity: traditional agricultural landscapes called satoyama and embodied mascot characters called yurukyara. Both frames attempt to reach the public by transcend…
Universal heritage value, community identities and world heritage: Forms, functions, processes and context at a changing Mt Fuji
Numerous international documents underline the high identity value of cultural heritage for local communities and its potential for sustainable development. Simultaneously, the inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage List depends on the outstanding universal value that presumes a global community and prioritises global heritage value before the local ones. This setup holds potential tension.This paper discusses how to define heritage communities and…
A hundred introductions to semiotics, for a million students: Survey of semiotics textbooks and primers in the world
In order to estimate the current situation of teaching materials available in the field of semiotics, we are providing a comparative overview and a worldwide bibliography of introductions and textbooks on general semiotics published within last 50 years, i.e. since the beginning of institutionalization of semiotics. In this category, we have found over 130 original books in 22 languages. Together with the translations of more than 20 of these tit…
Eseh Notepad
Internal and external perception in conceptualizing home landscapes: Japanese examples
Employing the conceptual pair external–internal, the present article traces how meanings and ideals are generated in landscapes. It analyses the dialectics between the firsthand landscape experiences acquired in the course of everyday life activities and externally created models of value and meaning that have been adopted by the locals, replacing or dominating over the former ones. With rice and reed fields at the banks of Lake Biwa in Central J…
Investigating Neolithization of Cultural Landscapes in East Asia: The Neomap Project
Semiotic study of landscapes: An overview from semiology to ecosemiotics
The article provides an overview of different approaches to the semiotic study of landscapes both in the field of semiotics proper and in landscape studies in general. The article describes different approaches to the semiotic processes in landscapes from the semiological tradition where landscape has been seen as analogous to a text with its language, to more naturalized and phenomenological approaches, as well as ecosemiotic view of landscapes …
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Author, landscape and communication in Estonian haiku
Present article tries to give insight into the ways in which Estonian haiku models its author and communicates with the reader. The author thinks that while Japanese haiku is a predominantly autocommunicative piece of literature, where even a fixed point of view is not recommended, Estonian literary conventions are oriented towards openly communicational texts, which convey a fixed axiology and rely on abundant use of pronouns and rhetorical ques…
Investigating Neolithization of Cultural Landscapes in East Asia: The Neomap Project
Semiotic study of landscapes: An overview from semiology to ecosemiotics
The article provides an overview of different approaches to the semiotic study of landscapes both in the field of semiotics proper and in landscape studies in general. The article describes different approaches to the semiotic processes in landscapes from the semiological tradition where landscape has been seen as analogous to a text with its language, to more naturalized and phenomenological approaches, as well as ecosemiotic view of landscapes …
Classic and cute: Framing biodiversity in Japan through rural landscapes and mascot characters
Japan is an active player in international biodiversity politics and has ambitious domestic biodiversity targets. The government considers environmental communication crucial for reaching these. This article analyzes two major frames that state institutions employ for communicating biodiversity: traditional agricultural landscapes called satoyama and embodied mascot characters called yurukyara. Both frames attempt to reach the public by transcend…
Universal heritage value, community identities and world heritage: Forms, functions, processes and context at a changing Mt Fuji
Numerous international documents underline the high identity value of cultural heritage for local communities and its potential for sustainable development. Simultaneously, the inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage List depends on the outstanding universal value that presumes a global community and prioritises global heritage value before the local ones. This setup holds potential tension.This paper discusses how to define heritage communities and…
A hundred introductions to semiotics, for a million students: Survey of semiotics textbooks and primers in the world
In order to estimate the current situation of teaching materials available in the field of semiotics, we are providing a comparative overview and a worldwide bibliography of introductions and textbooks on general semiotics published within last 50 years, i.e. since the beginning of institutionalization of semiotics. In this category, we have found over 130 original books in 22 languages. Together with the translations of more than 20 of these tit…
Internal and external perception in conceptualizing home landscapes: Japanese examples
Employing the conceptual pair external–internal, the present article traces how meanings and ideals are generated in landscapes. It analyses the dialectics between the firsthand landscape experiences acquired in the course of everyday life activities and externally created models of value and meaning that have been adopted by the locals, replacing or dominating over the former ones. With rice and reed fields at the banks of Lake Biwa in Central J…
Author, landscape and communication in Estonian haiku
Present article tries to give insight into the ways in which Estonian haiku models its author and communicates with the reader. The author thinks that while Japanese haiku is a predominantly autocommunicative piece of literature, where even a fixed point of view is not recommended, Estonian literary conventions are oriented towards openly communicational texts, which convey a fixed axiology and rely on abundant use of pronouns and rhetorical ques…
Semiotic study of landscapes: An overview from semiology to ecosemiotics
The article provides an overview of different approaches to the semiotic study of landscapes both in the field of semiotics proper and in landscape studies in general. The article describes different approaches to the semiotic processes in landscapes from the semiological tradition where landscape has been seen as analogous to a text with its language, to more naturalized and phenomenological approaches, as well as ecosemiotic view of landscapes …
Editors' comment
Internal and external perception in conceptualizing home landscapes: Japanese examples
Employing the conceptual pair external–internal, the present article traces how meanings and ideals are generated in landscapes. It analyses the dialectics between the firsthand landscape experiences acquired in the course of everyday life activities and externally created models of value and meaning that have been adopted by the locals, replacing or dominating over the former ones. With rice and reed fields at the banks of Lake Biwa in Central J…
Investigating Neolithization of Cultural Landscapes in East Asia: The Neomap Project
A hundred introductions to semiotics, for a million students: Survey of semiotics textbooks and primers in the world
In order to estimate the current situation of teaching materials available in the field of semiotics, we are providing a comparative overview and a worldwide bibliography of introductions and textbooks on general semiotics published within last 50 years, i.e. since the beginning of institutionalization of semiotics. In this category, we have found over 130 original books in 22 languages. Together with the translations of more than 20 of these tit…
Eseh Notepad
Teaching the Environmental Humanities
This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critic…
Classic and cute: Framing biodiversity in Japan through rural landscapes and mascot characters
Japan is an active player in international biodiversity politics and has ambitious domestic biodiversity targets. The government considers environmental communication crucial for reaching these. This article analyzes two major frames that state institutions employ for communicating biodiversity: traditional agricultural landscapes called satoyama and embodied mascot characters called yurukyara. Both frames attempt to reach the public by transcend…
Universal heritage value, community identities and world heritage: Forms, functions, processes and context at a changing Mt Fuji
Numerous international documents underline the high identity value of cultural heritage for local communities and its potential for sustainable development. Simultaneously, the inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage List depends on the outstanding universal value that presumes a global community and prioritises global heritage value before the local ones. This setup holds potential tension.This paper discusses how to define heritage communities and…
Eseh Notepad. Singing on the Submarine: Conference Review for Eseh 2019, 'Boundaries In/Of Environmental History', Tallinn
Tourism and heritage in Antarctica: Exploring cultural, natural and subliminal experiences
The guidelines on heritage management adopted by the 2018 Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting provide the most recent iteration for an Antarctic tourism sector which had, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, been projected to increase further with various risks and potential impacts requiring careful management. In this paper the role of cultural heritage for tourism prior to the COVID-19 pandemic is examined through three empirical perspectives. Fi…
Global processes of anthropogenesis characterise the early Anthropocene in the Japanese Islands
Although many scholars date the onset of the Anthropocene to the Industrial Revolution or the post-1945 ‘Great Acceleration’, there is growing interest in understanding earlier human impacts on the earth system. Research on the ‘Palaeoanthropocene’ has investigated the role of fire, agriculture, trade, urbanisation and other anthropogenic impacts. While there is increasing consensus that such impacts were more important than previously realised, …
Keskkonnahumanitaaria / Environmental Humanities: Ühe uurimisala väljakujunemisest läbi suurkonverentside prisma / On the Development of a Research Speciality through the Lens of Major Conferences
ki võib nentida
A deep genealogy of Japanese green nationalism from the long 19th century to the present
Employing the term “green nationalism” in the broad sense of nationalist ideologies that concern themselves with the natural environment, we trace a genealogy of green nationalist thought in Japan back to the start of the long 19 th century. The changing contours of this discourse are mapped through five representative writers: Moto'ori Norinaga (1730–1801), Shigetaka Shiga (1863–1927). Testurō Watsuji (1889–1960), Takeshi Umehara (1925–2019) and…
A Fishy Tale of the Nuclear Power Plant Never Built in Estonia: An Envirotechnical History of Energy, Fish, Land and Water Resources Planning at Lake Võrtsjärv
One of the most mysterious stories in Estonian energy history revolves around the planning of a nuclear power plant (NPP) at Lake Võrtsjärv between 1967–1972. Despite the absence of planning documents in the energy archives and the impracticality of an NPP given Estonia’s abundant oil-shale energy production, the story, though sounding fishy, is well established in media and oral sources. In a regime where open confrontation with the central gove…
Decay without mourning: Future-Thinking Heritage Practices
This paper seeks to further heritage theory and practice by considering decay as a transformative process contributing to heritage formation and value. Informed by our expertise in a variety of fields bordering heritage studies, we highlight the interplay of generative and degenerative aspects in different modes of decay and suggest that partnering with decay epistemologically, artistically, academically, practically, and democratically would all…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)