Sofie Joosse
Biographic Data
| ID | 1668398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sofie Joosse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sofie |
| FAMILY NAME | Joosse |
| SIGNATURE | JOOSSE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8724-0183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond Dualisms
Capitalism produces dualisms, and these dualisms create ruin. There is an urgent need for critical communication studies to address such harmful separations as nature versus society, or human versus nonhuman, in order to better understand and respond to contemporary crises. This paper addresses this need by assessing five dynamic principles of critical communication that underlie an eight-year programme on environmental communication research, ba…
Iteration, collaboration and transformation
This essay describes the nature of community and public engagement at the Mistra Environmental Communication program, an eight-year program, based in Sweden, focused on how communication shapes sustainability transformations. The paper describes the critical, engaged, and change-oriented approaches that guide the program’s work, outlining collaborative practices, and formats developed with a range of societal partners. The program chooses to use …
Grappling with post-truth politics - facilitation strategies for policy-making in troubled times
How research on communication can help to understand the management of natural resources and sustainability transformations
Communication is an integral part of natural resource management and sustainability transformations, and questions on how communication helps or hinders the development of more sustainable relationships between people and their environments have become increasingly urgent. This special issue directs our attention to the processes and outcomes of such communication and explores what a focus on communication makes visible and accessible for practic…
The quest for “nature” in selfies
Social media and other platforms have become an essential part of outdoor activities as they influence how nature is experienced and engaged with, but also what good nature is seen as. In this article, we explore how social understandings of nature and digital technologies are mutually performed. Using the empirical case of nature selfies—an archetype of imagery on social media platforms—posted on Instagram, Facebook, and Tripadvisor, and a small…
How justice shapes transition governance – a discourse analysis of Swedish policy debates
In both policy-making and academia, the realisation is growing that transitions striving for sustainability have to be just to be socially accepted. This insight has given rise to institutionalised approaches to a “just transition” – but also beyond these, justice is a key challenge in the governance of sustainability transitions. In this paper, we examine how justice arguments are being used in national-level discourses of transition governance …
Storytelling to save the planet
In the last decade, storytelling has been popularised as a method for societal sustainability transformations.With this growing popularity, there has also been a rapid increase in those identifying as storytellers.Perhaps because storytelling for sustainability has an innocent ring to it, it has not yet been studied from a power perspective.However, as it is fast-spreading and has explicit change purposes, it is important to clarify assumptions a…
Whose Knowledge Counts in the Planning of Urban Sustainability? – Investigating Handbooks for Nudging and Participation
When planning sustainable districts, planners mediate between the knowledge claims of citizens and experts. The planning strategies nudging and participation provide contradictory ideas about how planners can perform this mediation. We analyse handbooks for the two strategies, guided by the question: whose knowledge counts? These handbooks provide citizens, experts and planners with varying degrees of authority. While nudging positions behavioura…
Why are geographical indications unevenly distributed over Europe
Purpose Through geographical indications, the European Union aims to stimulate economies, especially in lagging rural regions, and to help consumers recognise and locate quality products from specific regions. The highly uneven distribution of geographical indications, and with that the unequal benefits of this policy, have been identified and discussed in the scientific literature on food and rural development. Design/methodology/approach Using …
Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think With
While calls for critical, engaged and change-oriented scholarship in environmental communication (EC) abound, few articles discuss what this may practically entail. With this article, we aim to contribute to a discussion in EC about the methodological implications of such scholarship. Based on our combined experience in EC research and drawing from a variety of academic fields, we describe six methodological dilemmas that we encounter in our rese…
Fridge stories and other tales from the kitchen
In this paper we present a methodological toolbox as a useful research approach for investigating domestic food practices. Consumption research often relies strongly on interviews or surveys. While helpful, such methods inevitably create a distance between the verbalization of the studied practice and the practice itself, inviting post hoc rationalization. The toolbox helps the researcher to get closer to the studied practice by combining intervi…
Blogging for Sustainability
The rise of social media radically broadens the sources and platforms used for environmental communication. Especially personal green blogs are worthy of study as they are spaces of everyday cultural politics through which people make sense of sustainability issues, and because they entail a radical break from conventional media in terms of legitimacy, form, and content of environmental communication processes. This paper studies the representati…
The Making and Re-making of a Regional Product
Regional products play an increasingly important role in European economies and policies. The economic value of these products is considerable, and they are frequently regarded as significant generators of rural and regional development. But what processes underlie the formation of a regional product? While scholars have rightly called for attention to be paid to the contextual nature of regional products, this article aims to take a progressive …
Curating the quest for ‘good food’
Balancing family traditions and business
Curating the quest for ‘good food’
Balancing family traditions and business
Fridge stories and other tales from the kitchen
In this paper we present a methodological toolbox as a useful research approach for investigating domestic food practices. Consumption research often relies strongly on interviews or surveys. While helpful, such methods inevitably create a distance between the verbalization of the studied practice and the practice itself, inviting post hoc rationalization. The toolbox helps the researcher to get closer to the studied practice by combining intervi…
Balancing family traditions and business
Curating the quest for ‘good food’
The Making and Re-making of a Regional Product
Regional products play an increasingly important role in European economies and policies. The economic value of these products is considerable, and they are frequently regarded as significant generators of rural and regional development. But what processes underlie the formation of a regional product? While scholars have rightly called for attention to be paid to the contextual nature of regional products, this article aims to take a progressive …
Blogging for Sustainability
The rise of social media radically broadens the sources and platforms used for environmental communication. Especially personal green blogs are worthy of study as they are spaces of everyday cultural politics through which people make sense of sustainability issues, and because they entail a radical break from conventional media in terms of legitimacy, form, and content of environmental communication processes. This paper studies the representati…
Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think With
While calls for critical, engaged and change-oriented scholarship in environmental communication (EC) abound, few articles discuss what this may practically entail. With this article, we aim to contribute to a discussion in EC about the methodological implications of such scholarship. Based on our combined experience in EC research and drawing from a variety of academic fields, we describe six methodological dilemmas that we encounter in our rese…
Fridge stories and other tales from the kitchen
In this paper we present a methodological toolbox as a useful research approach for investigating domestic food practices. Consumption research often relies strongly on interviews or surveys. While helpful, such methods inevitably create a distance between the verbalization of the studied practice and the practice itself, inviting post hoc rationalization. The toolbox helps the researcher to get closer to the studied practice by combining intervi…
Why are geographical indications unevenly distributed over Europe
Purpose Through geographical indications, the European Union aims to stimulate economies, especially in lagging rural regions, and to help consumers recognise and locate quality products from specific regions. The highly uneven distribution of geographical indications, and with that the unequal benefits of this policy, have been identified and discussed in the scientific literature on food and rural development. Design/methodology/approach Using …
Whose Knowledge Counts in the Planning of Urban Sustainability? – Investigating Handbooks for Nudging and Participation
When planning sustainable districts, planners mediate between the knowledge claims of citizens and experts. The planning strategies nudging and participation provide contradictory ideas about how planners can perform this mediation. We analyse handbooks for the two strategies, guided by the question: whose knowledge counts? These handbooks provide citizens, experts and planners with varying degrees of authority. While nudging positions behavioura…
How research on communication can help to understand the management of natural resources and sustainability transformations
Communication is an integral part of natural resource management and sustainability transformations, and questions on how communication helps or hinders the development of more sustainable relationships between people and their environments have become increasingly urgent. This special issue directs our attention to the processes and outcomes of such communication and explores what a focus on communication makes visible and accessible for practic…
The quest for “nature” in selfies
Social media and other platforms have become an essential part of outdoor activities as they influence how nature is experienced and engaged with, but also what good nature is seen as. In this article, we explore how social understandings of nature and digital technologies are mutually performed. Using the empirical case of nature selfies—an archetype of imagery on social media platforms—posted on Instagram, Facebook, and Tripadvisor, and a small…
How justice shapes transition governance – a discourse analysis of Swedish policy debates
In both policy-making and academia, the realisation is growing that transitions striving for sustainability have to be just to be socially accepted. This insight has given rise to institutionalised approaches to a “just transition” – but also beyond these, justice is a key challenge in the governance of sustainability transitions. In this paper, we examine how justice arguments are being used in national-level discourses of transition governance …
Storytelling to save the planet
In the last decade, storytelling has been popularised as a method for societal sustainability transformations.With this growing popularity, there has also been a rapid increase in those identifying as storytellers.Perhaps because storytelling for sustainability has an innocent ring to it, it has not yet been studied from a power perspective.However, as it is fast-spreading and has explicit change purposes, it is important to clarify assumptions a…
Iteration, collaboration and transformation
This essay describes the nature of community and public engagement at the Mistra Environmental Communication program, an eight-year program, based in Sweden, focused on how communication shapes sustainability transformations. The paper describes the critical, engaged, and change-oriented approaches that guide the program’s work, outlining collaborative practices, and formats developed with a range of societal partners. The program chooses to use …
Grappling with post-truth politics - facilitation strategies for policy-making in troubled times
Beyond Dualisms
Capitalism produces dualisms, and these dualisms create ruin. There is an urgent need for critical communication studies to address such harmful separations as nature versus society, or human versus nonhuman, in order to better understand and respond to contemporary crises. This paper addresses this need by assessing five dynamic principles of critical communication that underlie an eight-year programme on environmental communication research, ba…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (5 works) · Sustainability (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (4 works)