Andreas Roos
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Roos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Roos |
| SIGNATURE | ROOS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9592-3657 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
What goes in, must come out
Technological ambivalence and degrowth
This article analyses technological ambivalence and its implications for degrowth scholarship and practice. We critically examine and reject the assumption of ontological ambivalence, in which technologies are understood as indeterminate with respect to their socio-ecological conditions and consequences. We distinguish this from epistemological ambivalence, in which ambivalence refers to indecisiveness in human interpretations, experiences and va…
Green petroculture
Petroculture as cultural assumptions encouraged by access to fossil fuels. • Causal thematic analysis of oil corporation Preem’s sustainability reports. • Preem’s “sustainable” tall oil strategy as shaped by petroculture. • Articulates green petroculture as an emergent unsustainable phase. • Green petroculture obfuscates global social-ecological impacts. The petroculture literature shows how fossil fuels have profoundly shaped modern cultures. Th…
Greenwashing
Greenwashing is on the rise as a strategy for maintaining business-as-usual through false ecological claims. This paper articulates an approach to the study of greenwashing guided by the philosophy of critical realism. In its first move, it identifies greenwashing as depending on the possibility of socially conflating the relation between transitive and intransitive objects of knowledge. The paper discusses theories of truth suitable for detectin…
Challenging the Green Machine
We respond to David Schwartzman’s critique of our paper. We argue that his“solar communism,” his approach to the question of energy return on energyinvestment (EROI), and his critique of Georgescu-Roegen’s fourth law ofthermodynamics situate him as a left ecomodernist, albeit with sympathy fordegrowth. Schwartzman’s take on these issues illustrates how the ontologicalseparation of human ingenuity and global social metabolism obscures thequestion …
Renewing the Subterranean Energy Regime? How Petroculture Obscures the Materiality of Deep Geothermal Energy Technology in Sweden
Social visions to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources have motivated unprecedented growth in global renewable energy manufacturing. Previous literature shows that people committed to realizing such visions have difficulties reconciling with the negative social-ecological impacts of this mass production even if it presents a formidable challenge to a socially just and ecologically sustainable energy transition. This study contribute…
Technology as Capital
Debates on technologies for harnessing renewable energies tend to generate a polarized arena in which critical voices are automatically denounced as defenders of fossil energy. This has created a difficult situation for activists and scholars voicing concerns about the comparatively low power density, low net energy, and environmental justice concerns of such technologies. In this paper, we highlight the contradictions and ambivalences underlying…
Solar Technology and Global Environmental Justice
Out of steam? A social science and humanities research agenda for geothermal energy
The potential of geothermal energy for energy transition is increasingly recognized by governments around the world. Whether geothermal energy is a sustainable source of heat and/or electricity depends on how it is deployed in specific contexts. Therefore, it is striking that there is only limited attention to geothermal energy from a social science and humanities (SSH) perspective. Geothermal energy is largely conceptualized as a technological a…
Global asymmetries in the rise of solar power
Clinical Course, Myopathology and Challenge of Therapeutic Intervention in Pediatric Patients with Autoimmune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy
(1) Background: Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) is a rare form of inflammatory muscle disease which is even more rare in pediatric patients. To increase the knowledge of juvenile IMNM, we here present the clinical findings on long-term follow-up, myopathological changes, and therapeutic strategies in two juvenile patients. (2) Methods: Investigations included phenotyping, determination of antibody status, microscopy on muscle biopsies…
Energy governance as a commons
Transitioning into a sustainable energy system is becoming ever more pressing as the reality of an anthropogenic ecological crisis becomes difficult to ignore. Due to the complexity of the matter, proposed solutions often address the symptoms of the current socioeconomic configuration rather than its core. To conceptualise possible future energy systems, this Perspective focuses on the disconnect between science and technology and engineering stu…
Has Cuba exposed the myth of “free” solar power? Energy, space, and justice
Given the many problems with fossil energy, the fact that solar energy still only constitutes an insignificant fraction of global energy use requires explanation. The most common explanation is that multinational corporations with vested interests in fossil fuels have been actively preventing the development of solar energy technologies. But this explanation is difficult to apply to the case of Cuba. This article takes Cuban energy policy since t…
Introduction
Today, two great signs of change are occurring. On the one hand, the capitalist world economy is putting tremendous pressure on the earth’s biosphere and bringing an onslaught of destruction to immediate environments and vulnerable people worldwide. On the other hand, the rise of new and progressive social-economic foundations is the result of an unprecedented increase of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Therefore it is arguably…
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The Materiality of the Immaterial: ICTs and the Digital Commons, edited by Andreas Roos, Vasilis Kostakis, Christos Giotitsas Today, two great signs of change are occurring. On the one hand, the capitalist world economy is putting tremendous pressure on the earth’s biosphere and bringing an onslaught of destruction to immediate environments and vulnerable people worldwide. On the other hand, the rise of new and progressive social-economic foundat…
Towards a political ecology of the digital economy
Towards a political ecology of the digital economy
Has Cuba exposed the myth of “free” solar power? Energy, space, and justice
Given the many problems with fossil energy, the fact that solar energy still only constitutes an insignificant fraction of global energy use requires explanation. The most common explanation is that multinational corporations with vested interests in fossil fuels have been actively preventing the development of solar energy technologies. But this explanation is difficult to apply to the case of Cuba. This article takes Cuban energy policy since t…
Technology as Capital
Debates on technologies for harnessing renewable energies tend to generate a polarized arena in which critical voices are automatically denounced as defenders of fossil energy. This has created a difficult situation for activists and scholars voicing concerns about the comparatively low power density, low net energy, and environmental justice concerns of such technologies. In this paper, we highlight the contradictions and ambivalences underlying…
Global asymmetries in the rise of solar power
Out of steam? A social science and humanities research agenda for geothermal energy
The potential of geothermal energy for energy transition is increasingly recognized by governments around the world. Whether geothermal energy is a sustainable source of heat and/or electricity depends on how it is deployed in specific contexts. Therefore, it is striking that there is only limited attention to geothermal energy from a social science and humanities (SSH) perspective. Geothermal energy is largely conceptualized as a technological a…
Energy governance as a commons
Transitioning into a sustainable energy system is becoming ever more pressing as the reality of an anthropogenic ecological crisis becomes difficult to ignore. Due to the complexity of the matter, proposed solutions often address the symptoms of the current socioeconomic configuration rather than its core. To conceptualise possible future energy systems, this Perspective focuses on the disconnect between science and technology and engineering stu…
Renewing the Subterranean Energy Regime? How Petroculture Obscures the Materiality of Deep Geothermal Energy Technology in Sweden
Social visions to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources have motivated unprecedented growth in global renewable energy manufacturing. Previous literature shows that people committed to realizing such visions have difficulties reconciling with the negative social-ecological impacts of this mass production even if it presents a formidable challenge to a socially just and ecologically sustainable energy transition. This study contribute…
Challenging the Green Machine
We respond to David Schwartzman’s critique of our paper. We argue that his“solar communism,” his approach to the question of energy return on energyinvestment (EROI), and his critique of Georgescu-Roegen’s fourth law ofthermodynamics situate him as a left ecomodernist, albeit with sympathy fordegrowth. Schwartzman’s take on these issues illustrates how the ontologicalseparation of human ingenuity and global social metabolism obscures thequestion …
Introduction
Today, two great signs of change are occurring. On the one hand, the capitalist world economy is putting tremendous pressure on the earth’s biosphere and bringing an onslaught of destruction to immediate environments and vulnerable people worldwide. On the other hand, the rise of new and progressive social-economic foundations is the result of an unprecedented increase of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Therefore it is arguably…
Download the Entire Special Section Here
The Materiality of the Immaterial: ICTs and the Digital Commons, edited by Andreas Roos, Vasilis Kostakis, Christos Giotitsas Today, two great signs of change are occurring. On the one hand, the capitalist world economy is putting tremendous pressure on the earth’s biosphere and bringing an onslaught of destruction to immediate environments and vulnerable people worldwide. On the other hand, the rise of new and progressive social-economic foundat…
Towards a political ecology of the digital economy
Has Cuba exposed the myth of “free” solar power? Energy, space, and justice
Given the many problems with fossil energy, the fact that solar energy still only constitutes an insignificant fraction of global energy use requires explanation. The most common explanation is that multinational corporations with vested interests in fossil fuels have been actively preventing the development of solar energy technologies. But this explanation is difficult to apply to the case of Cuba. This article takes Cuban energy policy since t…
Clinical Course, Myopathology and Challenge of Therapeutic Intervention in Pediatric Patients with Autoimmune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy
(1) Background: Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) is a rare form of inflammatory muscle disease which is even more rare in pediatric patients. To increase the knowledge of juvenile IMNM, we here present the clinical findings on long-term follow-up, myopathological changes, and therapeutic strategies in two juvenile patients. (2) Methods: Investigations included phenotyping, determination of antibody status, microscopy on muscle biopsies…
Energy governance as a commons
Transitioning into a sustainable energy system is becoming ever more pressing as the reality of an anthropogenic ecological crisis becomes difficult to ignore. Due to the complexity of the matter, proposed solutions often address the symptoms of the current socioeconomic configuration rather than its core. To conceptualise possible future energy systems, this Perspective focuses on the disconnect between science and technology and engineering stu…
Out of steam? A social science and humanities research agenda for geothermal energy
The potential of geothermal energy for energy transition is increasingly recognized by governments around the world. Whether geothermal energy is a sustainable source of heat and/or electricity depends on how it is deployed in specific contexts. Therefore, it is striking that there is only limited attention to geothermal energy from a social science and humanities (SSH) perspective. Geothermal energy is largely conceptualized as a technological a…
Global asymmetries in the rise of solar power
Solar Technology and Global Environmental Justice
Renewing the Subterranean Energy Regime? How Petroculture Obscures the Materiality of Deep Geothermal Energy Technology in Sweden
Social visions to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources have motivated unprecedented growth in global renewable energy manufacturing. Previous literature shows that people committed to realizing such visions have difficulties reconciling with the negative social-ecological impacts of this mass production even if it presents a formidable challenge to a socially just and ecologically sustainable energy transition. This study contribute…
Technology as Capital
Debates on technologies for harnessing renewable energies tend to generate a polarized arena in which critical voices are automatically denounced as defenders of fossil energy. This has created a difficult situation for activists and scholars voicing concerns about the comparatively low power density, low net energy, and environmental justice concerns of such technologies. In this paper, we highlight the contradictions and ambivalences underlying…
Greenwashing
Greenwashing is on the rise as a strategy for maintaining business-as-usual through false ecological claims. This paper articulates an approach to the study of greenwashing guided by the philosophy of critical realism. In its first move, it identifies greenwashing as depending on the possibility of socially conflating the relation between transitive and intransitive objects of knowledge. The paper discusses theories of truth suitable for detectin…
Challenging the Green Machine
We respond to David Schwartzman’s critique of our paper. We argue that his“solar communism,” his approach to the question of energy return on energyinvestment (EROI), and his critique of Georgescu-Roegen’s fourth law ofthermodynamics situate him as a left ecomodernist, albeit with sympathy fordegrowth. Schwartzman’s take on these issues illustrates how the ontologicalseparation of human ingenuity and global social metabolism obscures thequestion …
What goes in, must come out
Technological ambivalence and degrowth
This article analyses technological ambivalence and its implications for degrowth scholarship and practice. We critically examine and reject the assumption of ontological ambivalence, in which technologies are understood as indeterminate with respect to their socio-ecological conditions and consequences. We distinguish this from epistemological ambivalence, in which ambivalence refers to indecisiveness in human interpretations, experiences and va…
Green petroculture
Petroculture as cultural assumptions encouraged by access to fossil fuels. • Causal thematic analysis of oil corporation Preem’s sustainability reports. • Preem’s “sustainable” tall oil strategy as shaped by petroculture. • Articulates green petroculture as an emergent unsustainable phase. • Green petroculture obfuscates global social-ecological impacts. The petroculture literature shows how fossil fuels have profoundly shaped modern cultures. Th…
Economics (6 works) · Global Energy and Sustainability Research (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Commons (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Sustainability (4 works)