Marianne Ryghaug
Biographic Data
| ID | 3080060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marianne Ryghaug |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marianne |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryghaug |
| SIGNATURE | RYGHAUG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3942-6810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 350 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Tales of being a public transport user: Urban commuters’ experiences of minibuses in Kampala
Public transport plays a vital role in urban sustainability and social and economic development. In Kampala, Uganda, 14-seater minibuses are the dominant mode of public transport and serve as an essential means of accessing urban mobility. This study examines the lived experiences of minibus commuters in Kampala. Drawing on interviews with 25 participants across the city’s five divisions. Through an analytical framework that combines user studies…
Towards multi-scalar transition management? Insights from four transition arenas in Norway’s port sector
Transition management has been applied at organisational, local, regional, and national scales. However, transition management methodology only treats scale in passing. Drawing upon experiences from four transition arenas in Norway’s port sector – three local, one national – the article describes how arena outputs differed between local and national arenas. Outputs from the national arena were significantly less specific than in the local arenas.…
Sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations: Reviewing research, market and societal trends
Research into the impact of innovative sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations is crucial to diversifying, scaling up, and accelerating the sustainable energy transition. Although there is vast research into sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations, research literature offers a fragmented collection of findings. A coherent overview of themes and insights regarding the transformative impact of innovative sustainable energy exper…
Impact in the energy social sciences and humanities: How we matter matters
Recent developments in energy social science and humanities (SSH) research raise two questions that this Dialogue jointly addresses. How do these fields of enquiry matter? And relatedly, how can we engage across our scholarly praxes and differences to complement and bolster the strengths of each field? These fields include energy anthropology, energy geography, energy science and technology studies, and energy humanities more broadly. We argue th…
How does co-creation facilitate transdisciplinarity? The case of an EU energy demand research programme
Has activation run out of steam? Three imagined flexible publics in the Norwegian smart grid transition
Steered or Guided by Numbers: How Climate and Energy Policymakers Domesticate Quantitative Information
Concepts like 'the metric society' and 'the tyranny of metrics' suggest that quantitative information increasingly shapes and steers policy and governance. This paper engages critically with such assumptions by using domestication theory to analyse how Norwegian climate and energy policy actors make sense of, assemble, and employ numeric information. Through analysis of interviews with politicians and public employees working with climate and ene…
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems
Planners as middle actors in facilitating for city cycling
The paper explores the knowledge-making and efforts of planners in facilitating cycling in two Norwegian cities with high ambitions for developing more sustainable mobility modes through cycling. Building on empirical data from shadowing local planning agencies in the two cities, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis, we argue that studying planners and their mediation work is crucial to understand how to transition to more sustainabl…
Back to the Present of Automated Mobility: A Typology of Everyday Use of Driving Assistance Systems
This article focuses on how car drivers domesticate technologies of automation and the way this might inform our understanding of potential shifts to a more automated mobility system. The current literature on automated mobility has mainly addressed drivers’ roles in terms of their attitudes towards—and acceptance of—an anticipated shift to high-level driving automation. In this article, however, we take a step back from expectations around autom…
Fostering justice through engagement: A literature review of public engagement in energy transitions
Social science and humanities scholars have highlighted that energy transitions have unequal and unjust consequences on societies. This has strengthened the importance of energy justice in both policy and research on energy transitions. Public engagement in energy transition is an important cornerstone to mitigate such outcomes; however, it does not univocally equal nor lead to energy justice. Public engagement can also be used to maintain the st…
Framing Intelligent Transport Systems in the Arctic: Reindeer, Fish and the Engineered Road
The article explores the relationship between humans and other animals, technology, and engineering practices in a project testing Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in the arctic. Generally, roads are engineered to promote efficiency and predictability for transport. However, in the arctic northern region of Norway, animals sometimes challenge these virtues. Using Goffman’s notion of frames and Callon’s concept of overflow as theoretical starti…
Digitalization and Sustainability: A Call for a Digital Green Deal
The relation between digitalization and environmental sustainability is ambiguous. There is potential of various digital technologies to slow down the transgression of planetary boundaries. Yet resource and energy demand for digital hardware production and use of data-intensive applications is of substantial size. The world over, there is no comprehensive regulation that addresses opportunities and risks of digital technology for sustainability. …
Testing Emergent Technologies in the Arctic: How Attention to Place Contributes to Visions of Autonomous Vehicles
There are great expectations around the future of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Such visions often picture vehicles that work everywhere without human interference. In this article we use empirical data from a pilot project taking place in the Norwegian Arctic to explore the place-specificity of such technologies. The case study is used to demonstrate how new configurations of emergent technologies are shaped by the places where the trial unfolds; a…
Beyond the car: How electric vehicles may enable new forms of material politics at the intersection of the smart grid and smart city
When large shares of electric vehicles are adopted, local electricity grids face new challenges associated with managing peak loads emerging from charging. Smart charging has been proposed as a way of addressing this challenge. To date, experiences of such combinations of technology mainly stem from pilot and demonstration projects, often organized as part of the research, innovation, and development initiatives. The paper explores local efforts …
Electric vehicle charging and end-user motivation for flexibility: A case study from Norway
Diverging pathways to port sustainability: How social processes shape and direct transition work
To counter climate change, societies are under pressure to transform energy and transport sectors. Considering the crucial node position of ports in the intersection between energy and transport systems and their connecting of numerous sectors, markets, and values chains, they have hitherto received surprisingly little attention as potential sites for whole system thinking and deep transition. Their heterogeneity suggests that ports are likely to…
Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management
Actors in energy transitions: Transformative potentials at the intersection between Norwegian port and transport systems
Although actors are of central importance in the progress of energy transitions, their roles and contributions have received limited attention by transition scholars. This article aims to fill this gap by taking a ́role-centrić approach to actors and by expanding existing user role typologies to include the variety of actors involved in such transitions. This allows for a more comprehensive grasp of the potential role of actors in accelerating en…
European island imaginaries: Examining the actors, innovations, and renewable energy transitions of 8 islands
Islands have become important elements in socio-technical imaginaries of European energy transitions. Here, large, centralized energy production facilities are gradually being replaced with distributed, heterogeneous, multidirectional and smart energy systems. Islands often serve as test beds for such technologies, where new configurations are tested in pilot and demonstration projects. Actors such as the European Commission, research and innovat…
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS are useful at better understanding energy-related social science, to reflect on prominent themes and topics within those approaches, and to identify current re…
Temporal echoes and cross-geography policy effects: Multiple levels of transition governance and the electric vehicle breakthrough
This article analyses the Norwegian electric vehicle transition from a socio-technical perspective, shedding light on the emergence of one of the most important EV markets globally. The Norwegian strategy to promote this transition is often understood as a set of targeted policies to create EV demand. Here, we illustrate how visions and incentives for a Norwegian EV transition have emerged over a period of 40 years, highlighting how many of the i…
Expanding the scope and implications of energy research: A guide to key themes and concepts from the Social Sciences and Humanities
This paper provides an overview of key themes and concepts within energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (energy-SSH) research in Europe. It aims to use this overview as an introduction for those producing strategies and interventions to advance energy and sustainability transitions in practice as well as for newcomers to the field of energy-SSH research, such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) researchers. This pap…
Diversifying diversity: Inclusive engagement, intersectionality, and gender identity in a European Social Sciences and Humanities Energy research project
Orchestrating households as collectives of participation in the distributed energy transition: New empirical and conceptual insights
Building on recent dialogue between sustainability transition theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS), this article conceptually and empirically studies and analyses the orchestration of households as collectives of participation in the process of distributed energy transition. Synthesising across past studies, we explore three types of what we call ‘collectives of orchestration’, relatively durable collectives that work to orchestrate …
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS are useful at better understanding energy-related social science, to reflect on prominent themes and topics within those approaches, and to identify current re…
Creating energy citizenship through material participation
Transitions towards low-carbon energy systems will be comprehensive and demanding, requiring substantial public support. One important contribution from STS is to highlight the roles of citizens and public engagement. Until recently, energy users have often been treated as customers and passive market actors, or as recipients of technology at the margins of centralized systems. With respect to the latter role, critical or hesitant public action h…
Material participation and the smart grid: Exploring different modes of articulation
Orchestrating households as collectives of participation in the distributed energy transition: New empirical and conceptual insights
Building on recent dialogue between sustainability transition theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS), this article conceptually and empirically studies and analyses the orchestration of households as collectives of participation in the process of distributed energy transition. Synthesising across past studies, we explore three types of what we call ‘collectives of orchestration’, relatively durable collectives that work to orchestrate …
Temporal echoes and cross-geography policy effects: Multiple levels of transition governance and the electric vehicle breakthrough
This article analyses the Norwegian electric vehicle transition from a socio-technical perspective, shedding light on the emergence of one of the most important EV markets globally. The Norwegian strategy to promote this transition is often understood as a set of targeted policies to create EV demand. Here, we illustrate how visions and incentives for a Norwegian EV transition have emerged over a period of 40 years, highlighting how many of the i…
A traveler’s guide to smart grids and the social sciences
Expanding the scope and implications of energy research: A guide to key themes and concepts from the Social Sciences and Humanities
This paper provides an overview of key themes and concepts within energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (energy-SSH) research in Europe. It aims to use this overview as an introduction for those producing strategies and interventions to advance energy and sustainability transitions in practice as well as for newcomers to the field of energy-SSH research, such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) researchers. This pap…
Obstacles to sustainable development: The destabilization of climate change knowledge
The appropriation of climate change knowledge may be a very important factor for promoting radical changes towards sustainable development. By studying three sets of actors, the science community, the media and the political community, the author reveals how climate change knowledge and politics is stabilized and destabilized in Norway. The article provides an analysis of the opposing forces that appear to mould climate change policy in Norway. T…
Creating transitions to electric road transport in Norway: The role of user imaginaries
European island imaginaries: Examining the actors, innovations, and renewable energy transitions of 8 islands
Islands have become important elements in socio-technical imaginaries of European energy transitions. Here, large, centralized energy production facilities are gradually being replaced with distributed, heterogeneous, multidirectional and smart energy systems. Islands often serve as test beds for such technologies, where new configurations are tested in pilot and demonstration projects. Actors such as the European Commission, research and innovat…
Planners as middle actors in facilitating for city cycling
The paper explores the knowledge-making and efforts of planners in facilitating cycling in two Norwegian cities with high ambitions for developing more sustainable mobility modes through cycling. Building on empirical data from shadowing local planning agencies in the two cities, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis, we argue that studying planners and their mediation work is crucial to understand how to transition to more sustainabl…
Users, design and the role of feedback technologies in the Norwegian energy transition: An empirical study and some radical challenges
Digitalization and Sustainability: A Call for a Digital Green Deal
The relation between digitalization and environmental sustainability is ambiguous. There is potential of various digital technologies to slow down the transgression of planetary boundaries. Yet resource and energy demand for digital hardware production and use of data-intensive applications is of substantial size. The world over, there is no comprehensive regulation that addresses opportunities and risks of digital technology for sustainability. …
Diversifying diversity: Inclusive engagement, intersectionality, and gender identity in a European Social Sciences and Humanities Energy research project
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems
Actors in energy transitions: Transformative potentials at the intersection between Norwegian port and transport systems
Although actors are of central importance in the progress of energy transitions, their roles and contributions have received limited attention by transition scholars. This article aims to fill this gap by taking a ́role-centrić approach to actors and by expanding existing user role typologies to include the variety of actors involved in such transitions. This allows for a more comprehensive grasp of the potential role of actors in accelerating en…
Sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations: Reviewing research, market and societal trends
Research into the impact of innovative sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations is crucial to diversifying, scaling up, and accelerating the sustainable energy transition. Although there is vast research into sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations, research literature offers a fragmented collection of findings. A coherent overview of themes and insights regarding the transformative impact of innovative sustainable energy exper…
Beyond the car: How electric vehicles may enable new forms of material politics at the intersection of the smart grid and smart city
When large shares of electric vehicles are adopted, local electricity grids face new challenges associated with managing peak loads emerging from charging. Smart charging has been proposed as a way of addressing this challenge. To date, experiences of such combinations of technology mainly stem from pilot and demonstration projects, often organized as part of the research, innovation, and development initiatives. The paper explores local efforts …
Obstacles to sustainable development: The destabilization of climate change knowledge
The appropriation of climate change knowledge may be a very important factor for promoting radical changes towards sustainable development. By studying three sets of actors, the science community, the media and the political community, the author reveals how climate change knowledge and politics is stabilized and destabilized in Norway. The article provides an analysis of the opposing forces that appear to mould climate change policy in Norway. T…
Making sense of global warming: Norwegians appropriating knowledge of anthropogenic climate change
This paper studies how people reason about and make sense of human-made global warming, based on ten focus group interviews with Norwegian citizens. It shows that the domestication of climate science knowledge was shaped through five sense-making devices: news media coverage of changes in nature, particularly the weather, the coverage of presumed experts’ disagreement about global warming, critical attitudes towards media, observations of politic…
Ottar Brox: Klimakrisen. Hva kan vi gjøre
A Transformative Practice? Meaning, Competence, and Material Aspects of Driving Electric Cars in Norway
This article focuses on the introduction of electric vehicles in Norway and how electrical cars are understood culturally in relation to conventional car use. Theoretically, elements of social practice theory and the analysis of processes of domestication are combined to frame practical, cognitive, and symbolic dimensions of electric car use. The empirical data consists of individual and focus group interviews with electric car users. The analysi…
A traveler’s guide to smart grids and the social sciences
Material participation and the smart grid: Exploring different modes of articulation
Democracy or war? The communication and deliberation of the climate issue online
For years, technology optimists have hoped that the internet might serve as a vehicle for democratization. Meanwhile, many STS-scholars have called for a democratization of scientific practices through increased transparency and inclusion of lay-persons in scientific knowledge production. Many expect this to result in increased scientific quality and more legitimate knowledge claims. In this article, we explore what happens when science related c…
Assembling climate knowledge. The role of local expertise
The difference between indigenous knowledge and western science continues to be a central theme in the social studies of science. This paper investigates the use of climate knowledge in climate adaptation activities. The analysis is based on a case study of indigenous experts involved in practical operations dealing with risk of avalanches in an area particularly vulnerable to avalanches in northern Norway. We find that indigenous knowledge held …
Users, design and the role of feedback technologies in the Norwegian energy transition: An empirical study and some radical challenges
Creating transitions to electric road transport in Norway: The role of user imaginaries
Orchestrating households as collectives of participation in the distributed energy transition: New empirical and conceptual insights
Building on recent dialogue between sustainability transition theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS), this article conceptually and empirically studies and analyses the orchestration of households as collectives of participation in the process of distributed energy transition. Synthesising across past studies, we explore three types of what we call ‘collectives of orchestration’, relatively durable collectives that work to orchestrate …
Creating energy citizenship through material participation
Transitions towards low-carbon energy systems will be comprehensive and demanding, requiring substantial public support. One important contribution from STS is to highlight the roles of citizens and public engagement. Until recently, energy users have often been treated as customers and passive market actors, or as recipients of technology at the margins of centralized systems. With respect to the latter role, critical or hesitant public action h…
Expanding the scope and implications of energy research: A guide to key themes and concepts from the Social Sciences and Humanities
This paper provides an overview of key themes and concepts within energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (energy-SSH) research in Europe. It aims to use this overview as an introduction for those producing strategies and interventions to advance energy and sustainability transitions in practice as well as for newcomers to the field of energy-SSH research, such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) researchers. This pap…
Diversifying diversity: Inclusive engagement, intersectionality, and gender identity in a European Social Sciences and Humanities Energy research project
Actors in energy transitions: Transformative potentials at the intersection between Norwegian port and transport systems
Although actors are of central importance in the progress of energy transitions, their roles and contributions have received limited attention by transition scholars. This article aims to fill this gap by taking a ́role-centrić approach to actors and by expanding existing user role typologies to include the variety of actors involved in such transitions. This allows for a more comprehensive grasp of the potential role of actors in accelerating en…
European island imaginaries: Examining the actors, innovations, and renewable energy transitions of 8 islands
Islands have become important elements in socio-technical imaginaries of European energy transitions. Here, large, centralized energy production facilities are gradually being replaced with distributed, heterogeneous, multidirectional and smart energy systems. Islands often serve as test beds for such technologies, where new configurations are tested in pilot and demonstration projects. Actors such as the European Commission, research and innovat…
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS are useful at better understanding energy-related social science, to reflect on prominent themes and topics within those approaches, and to identify current re…
Temporal echoes and cross-geography policy effects: Multiple levels of transition governance and the electric vehicle breakthrough
This article analyses the Norwegian electric vehicle transition from a socio-technical perspective, shedding light on the emergence of one of the most important EV markets globally. The Norwegian strategy to promote this transition is often understood as a set of targeted policies to create EV demand. Here, we illustrate how visions and incentives for a Norwegian EV transition have emerged over a period of 40 years, highlighting how many of the i…
Electric vehicle charging and end-user motivation for flexibility: A case study from Norway
Diverging pathways to port sustainability: How social processes shape and direct transition work
To counter climate change, societies are under pressure to transform energy and transport sectors. Considering the crucial node position of ports in the intersection between energy and transport systems and their connecting of numerous sectors, markets, and values chains, they have hitherto received surprisingly little attention as potential sites for whole system thinking and deep transition. Their heterogeneity suggests that ports are likely to…
Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management
Testing Emergent Technologies in the Arctic: How Attention to Place Contributes to Visions of Autonomous Vehicles
There are great expectations around the future of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Such visions often picture vehicles that work everywhere without human interference. In this article we use empirical data from a pilot project taking place in the Norwegian Arctic to explore the place-specificity of such technologies. The case study is used to demonstrate how new configurations of emergent technologies are shaped by the places where the trial unfolds; a…
Beyond the car: How electric vehicles may enable new forms of material politics at the intersection of the smart grid and smart city
When large shares of electric vehicles are adopted, local electricity grids face new challenges associated with managing peak loads emerging from charging. Smart charging has been proposed as a way of addressing this challenge. To date, experiences of such combinations of technology mainly stem from pilot and demonstration projects, often organized as part of the research, innovation, and development initiatives. The paper explores local efforts …
Back to the Present of Automated Mobility: A Typology of Everyday Use of Driving Assistance Systems
This article focuses on how car drivers domesticate technologies of automation and the way this might inform our understanding of potential shifts to a more automated mobility system. The current literature on automated mobility has mainly addressed drivers’ roles in terms of their attitudes towards—and acceptance of—an anticipated shift to high-level driving automation. In this article, however, we take a step back from expectations around autom…
Fostering justice through engagement: A literature review of public engagement in energy transitions
Social science and humanities scholars have highlighted that energy transitions have unequal and unjust consequences on societies. This has strengthened the importance of energy justice in both policy and research on energy transitions. Public engagement in energy transition is an important cornerstone to mitigate such outcomes; however, it does not univocally equal nor lead to energy justice. Public engagement can also be used to maintain the st…
Sociology (23 works) · Computer Science (21 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (21 works) · Political science (19 works) · Engineering (18 works) · Business (14 works) · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Public relations (9 works)