Anna Åberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Åberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Åberg |
| SIGNATURE | ÅBERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chalmers University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6547-3982 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Repoliticising users in energy transitions
Energy studies as a field is, due to its strong grounding in engineering and economics, overall dominated by reductive ideas around the role of people in energy systems. In particular, the diversity and agency of local level energy users is commonly overlooked and poorly understood, with consequences for energy transition policy and practice. This conceptual review brings together critiques of simplistic and idealised portrayals of energy users, …
Insiders, outsiders and allies
This article traces the pivotal role of Swedish skier Inga Löwdin and her colleagues in institutionalising women’s XC skiing in the mid-twentieth century, in particular the strategic work within the male-dominated International Ski Federation (FIS) to advance women’s inclusion in World Championships and Olympic Games. The article highlights Löwdin’s use of ‘proximal authority’ and collective female networks to navigate gendered barriers, contrast…
Scandia introducerar
[...] Trots dess helt avgörande roll för det moderna samhällets uppkomst och utveckling har oljan varit förvånansvärt frånvarande i historisk forskning, med vissa undantag för specifikt energihistorisk forskning. Samtidigt har oljan och oljerelaterade idéer och praktiker tagit allt större plats inom andra humanistiska discipliner, såsom miljö- och energihumaniora. I denna översiktsartikel introducerar vi den forskning från dessa fält som samlats …
Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology
This short communication presents preliminary notes about how to study the role of eschatology in the contemporary economy, focusing specifically on space-colonizing ambitions of US entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk. It is suggested that the proposed research agenda focuses on three problematics, relating to immediacy, investment, and ideology. As such, the text proposes to study the making of alternative futures by situating imaginaries of humanit…
The ways and means of Iter
ITER (short for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, and the Latin word for ‘the way’, as in ‘the way to new energy’), a controlled thermonuclear fusion experiment currently being built in Cadarache, France, is one of the world’s largest technoscientific collaborations. ITER’s complex organisation is rooted in decisions taken during the early negotiation phase in the 1990s. This article focuses on this initial period of the ITER nego…
Challenging Europe
Since the nineteenth century, access to and the development of natural resources became an important element of national and international politics. Resource security emerged as an issue vital to national security; and resource competition and crises gave rise to international tensions as well as to technological innovation and new modes of transnational cooperation
Crises and Technological Futures
We have grown accustomed to the near-constant invocation of "crisis" as part of our everyday media consumption. During periods of insecurity, historically contingent crisis imaginaries tend to evolve, linking developments in the historical present to cultural memories of a fearful past and visions of an unwanted future. A historical understanding of these imaginaries, along with their societal and material aftermath-including their impact in rela…
Chasing uranium
Creating, capturing, and circulating commodities
Environmental Themes in Popular Narratives
Over the past decade, environmental themes, such as climate change and loss of biodiversity, have occupied significant space in narratives that circulate through legacy media as well as other popul
A Study Protocol for Applying User Participation and Co-Learning—Lessons Learned from the eBalance Project
The eBalance project is based on the idea that serious exergames-i.e., computer gaming systems with an interface that requires physical exertion to play-that are well adapted to users, can become a substantial part of a solution to recognized problems of insufficient engagement in fall-prevention exercise and the high levels of fall-related injuries among older people. This project is carried out as a collaboration between eight older people who …
Around the World in 143 Days
Around the World in 143 DaysTimes at the Scale of the Anthropocene Anna Åberg (bio), Hugo Almeida (bio), Josh Wodak (bio), and Jens Kirstein (bio) Introduction Where does the time-honored form of a handwritten, postbox posted, fossil fuel-transported chain mail letter sit in today’s world? This question succinctly frames an experimental art project conducted by the four authors of this article, which took the form of a handwritten chain mail lett…
Knowledge and Evidence
Reviewed by: Knowledge and Evidence: Investigating Technologies in Practice ed. by Boel Berner, Corinna Kruse Anna Åberg (bio) Knowledge and Evidence: Investigating Technologies in Practice. Edited by Boel Berner and Corinna Kruse. Linköping Studies in Technology and Social Change. Linköping: Linköping University, 2013. Pp. x+262. SEK150. Bringing coherence to an edited volume is a difficult task, one that could seem almost impossible when, as is…
Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology
This short communication presents preliminary notes about how to study the role of eschatology in the contemporary economy, focusing specifically on space-colonizing ambitions of US entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk. It is suggested that the proposed research agenda focuses on three problematics, relating to immediacy, investment, and ideology. As such, the text proposes to study the making of alternative futures by situating imaginaries of humanit…
Crises and Technological Futures
We have grown accustomed to the near-constant invocation of "crisis" as part of our everyday media consumption. During periods of insecurity, historically contingent crisis imaginaries tend to evolve, linking developments in the historical present to cultural memories of a fearful past and visions of an unwanted future. A historical understanding of these imaginaries, along with their societal and material aftermath-including their impact in rela…
Creating, capturing, and circulating commodities
Knowledge and Evidence
Reviewed by: Knowledge and Evidence: Investigating Technologies in Practice ed. by Boel Berner, Corinna Kruse Anna Åberg (bio) Knowledge and Evidence: Investigating Technologies in Practice. Edited by Boel Berner and Corinna Kruse. Linköping Studies in Technology and Social Change. Linköping: Linköping University, 2013. Pp. x+262. SEK150. Bringing coherence to an edited volume is a difficult task, one that could seem almost impossible when, as is…
A Study Protocol for Applying User Participation and Co-Learning—Lessons Learned from the eBalance Project
The eBalance project is based on the idea that serious exergames-i.e., computer gaming systems with an interface that requires physical exertion to play-that are well adapted to users, can become a substantial part of a solution to recognized problems of insufficient engagement in fall-prevention exercise and the high levels of fall-related injuries among older people. This project is carried out as a collaboration between eight older people who …
Around the World in 143 Days
Around the World in 143 DaysTimes at the Scale of the Anthropocene Anna Åberg (bio), Hugo Almeida (bio), Josh Wodak (bio), and Jens Kirstein (bio) Introduction Where does the time-honored form of a handwritten, postbox posted, fossil fuel-transported chain mail letter sit in today’s world? This question succinctly frames an experimental art project conducted by the four authors of this article, which took the form of a handwritten chain mail lett…
Environmental Themes in Popular Narratives
Over the past decade, environmental themes, such as climate change and loss of biodiversity, have occupied significant space in narratives that circulate through legacy media as well as other popul
Chasing uranium
Creating, capturing, and circulating commodities
Challenging Europe
Since the nineteenth century, access to and the development of natural resources became an important element of national and international politics. Resource security emerged as an issue vital to national security; and resource competition and crises gave rise to international tensions as well as to technological innovation and new modes of transnational cooperation
Crises and Technological Futures
We have grown accustomed to the near-constant invocation of "crisis" as part of our everyday media consumption. During periods of insecurity, historically contingent crisis imaginaries tend to evolve, linking developments in the historical present to cultural memories of a fearful past and visions of an unwanted future. A historical understanding of these imaginaries, along with their societal and material aftermath-including their impact in rela…
The ways and means of Iter
ITER (short for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, and the Latin word for ‘the way’, as in ‘the way to new energy’), a controlled thermonuclear fusion experiment currently being built in Cadarache, France, is one of the world’s largest technoscientific collaborations. ITER’s complex organisation is rooted in decisions taken during the early negotiation phase in the 1990s. This article focuses on this initial period of the ITER nego…
Scandia introducerar
[...] Trots dess helt avgörande roll för det moderna samhällets uppkomst och utveckling har oljan varit förvånansvärt frånvarande i historisk forskning, med vissa undantag för specifikt energihistorisk forskning. Samtidigt har oljan och oljerelaterade idéer och praktiker tagit allt större plats inom andra humanistiska discipliner, såsom miljö- och energihumaniora. I denna översiktsartikel introducerar vi den forskning från dessa fält som samlats …
Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology
This short communication presents preliminary notes about how to study the role of eschatology in the contemporary economy, focusing specifically on space-colonizing ambitions of US entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk. It is suggested that the proposed research agenda focuses on three problematics, relating to immediacy, investment, and ideology. As such, the text proposes to study the making of alternative futures by situating imaginaries of humanit…
Repoliticising users in energy transitions
Energy studies as a field is, due to its strong grounding in engineering and economics, overall dominated by reductive ideas around the role of people in energy systems. In particular, the diversity and agency of local level energy users is commonly overlooked and poorly understood, with consequences for energy transition policy and practice. This conceptual review brings together critiques of simplistic and idealised portrayals of energy users, …
Insiders, outsiders and allies
This article traces the pivotal role of Swedish skier Inga Löwdin and her colleagues in institutionalising women’s XC skiing in the mid-twentieth century, in particular the strategic work within the male-dominated International Ski Federation (FIS) to advance women’s inclusion in World Championships and Olympic Games. The article highlights Löwdin’s use of ‘proximal authority’ and collective female networks to navigate gendered barriers, contrast…
Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works)