Mikael Klintman
Biographic Data
| ID | 353081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikael Klintman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikael |
| FAMILY NAME | Klintman |
| SIGNATURE | KLINTMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1168-1908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A lot to chew on
How do expert committees sustain credibility while radically expanding their institutional scope? This question animates contemporary food governance, as dietary guidelines, historically focused on nutritional adequacy, increasingly incorporate environmental sustainability and demands for democratic participation. Yet scholarship has largely neglected the ongoing legitimacy work, the strategic framing, methodological commitments, and communicatio…
Journey or destination? Framing change in Swedish sustainable tourism initiatives
Addressing sustainability challenges requires profound changes and transformations across all sectors, including tourism. Bound up in the operationalisation of transformation is the discursive aspects of change: the claims around how change can and should happen. This is a hitherto under-researched area, especially in sustainable tourism governance. This paper responds to this gap by investigating how two Swedish tourism organisations and their s…
A speculative conversation on climate change and sociology
This article provides a diverse range of insights into the question of how sociology can and should contribute to research on climate change. It takes an unconventional and unique approach to doing so, through a stylized conversation between the authors, which is based on an open-ended focus group discussion. The conversation illuminates different perspectives on if and how to research climate change and the climate crisis from a sociological per…
Hannes Lagerlöf. Conditional progress - Technical rationality & wicked problems in nuclear waste management
Doktorsavhandling
Communicating access-based business models
Although access-based business models such as product rental hold promise for contributing to sustainable production and consumption, their diffusion is hindered by a lack of consumer acceptance. In order for rental models to resonate with consumers, they must be designed and communicated in a way that aligns with consumers’ needs. While many studies have addressed business model design, few have looked at how rental business models are communica…
Academia and society in collaborative knowledge production towards urban sustainability
Arrangements for collaboration in knowledge production across academia, government, non-governmental organisations, and corporations have several names, such as citizen-science, community-based participatory research, engaged research and hybrid forums. The multiplicity of schemes does not lie only in the high number of names for various versions of collaborative knowledge production. Different scholars also use concepts in multiple ways, dependi…
Knowledge resistance
Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society's many problems? In a world of 'alternative facts', 'fake news', and 'fact resistance' that some believe could be remedied by 'factfulness' or 'enlightenment', the question has never been more pressing. Following years of ideologically polarised debates on this topic, the book seeks to further advance our understanding of the phenomenon of knowledge resistance by integrating…
Framing sufficiency
The efficiency approach of moving towards sustainable consumption through mainly technological solutions, which dominates environmental policymaking, has overall failed to reduce the adverse environmental impacts caused by unsustainable consumption patterns. Increasingly, it is recognised that efficiency needs to be coupled with sufficiency, which aims to reduce absolute levels of consumption. While the public policy realm continues to be linked …
Mass Consumption and Political Consumerism
This chapter focuses on the relation between mass consumption and political consumerism. Mass consumption concerns the omnipresent role of consumption in contemporary societies with associated problems of excessive resource use in current practices of consumption. The late modern context and forces of mass consumption can both trigger and prevent political consumerism as well as shape its outcome. The chapter offers a literature review that addre…
Toy Consumption as Political Challenges for Making Dreams Come True
This chapter looks at political consumerism in the toy sector, offering a brief history of consumer concerns and distinguishing among four strands of political consumerist research in this sector. A primary factor facilitating political consumerism of toys is that toy companies are extremely concerned about their reputation. Manufacturers cannot assume that parents and other carers do their usual risk-benefit analysis with the same level of risk …
Retail sector facing the challenge of sustainable consumption
This chapter provides an overview of some key challenges, and opportunities for the retail sector to stimulate as well as adapt to a sustainability-oriented consumption. It focuses on several challenges that have turned out to be crucial to handle to move consumption in the direction towards sustainability based on an extensive review of the literature on the retailing-consumption relationship. The chapter refers particularly the pillars of susta…
Can we rely on ‘climate-friendly’ consumption
In policy and research on sustainable consumption in general, and climate-oriented consumption specifically, key questions centre around whether people are motivated and prompted to support such consumption. A common claim in the scholarly debate is that policy makers, in face of fundamental governance challenges, refrain from taking responsibility and instead invest unrealistic hopes in that consumers will solve pressing environmental problems t…
Dilemmas for standardizers of sustainable consumption
Social Sustainability Requires Social Sustainability
The synergies and trade-offs between the various dimensions of sustainable development are attracting a rising scholarly attention. Departing from the scholarly debate, this article focuses on internal relationships within social sustainability. Our key claim is that it is difficult to strengthen substantive social sustainability goals unless there are key elements of social sustainability contained in the very procedures intended to work toward …
Citizen-Consumers and Evolution
[Based on the publisher's comments:] This book reflects upon and critiques the potential of citizen-consumer's to alter their natural consuming habits and to 'shop ethically, 'care for the environment' and 'think glocally' so as to reduce environmental harm. Developing a substantial challenge to the existing accepted theories, this book sets out a groundbreaking approach to understanding citizen-consumer behavior, by forging a productive alliance…
Challenges to Legitimacy in Food Safety Governance? The Case of the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa)
The ‘old’ forms of governance have been criticized for being neither sufficiently democratic nor effective. The popularity of ‘new’ modes of governance includes the embracing of values — integral to democratic processes — such as legitimacy, public accountability and trust. By relating parts of this ‘old‐vs.‐new’ distinction to March and Olsen’s dichotomy of aggregative vs. integrative political processes, the aim of this paper is to find pattern…
The green political food consumer
This paper reviews the current literature on political and ethical consumers, and relates it to the topic of sustainable food consumption. A first aim is to problematise a somewhat simplistic view of the political and ethical consumer found in the literature. The paper sheds light on some of the dilemmas that confront green political consumers. We indicate that most existing studies say very little about consumers' thoughts, assumptions, and refl…
State-centered versus Nonstate-driven Organic Food Standardization
Framings of Science and Ideology
Organic food labelling debates in Sweden and the USA are examined in order to compare two different policy discourse climates on the basis of interviews, documents, and websites of governmental and non-governmental organisations. Framings in the Swedish debates mainly take place through eco-pragmatic metaframing, aimed at consensus, and based on a mixture of undefined scientific and ideological framings. The American examples indicate more advers…
The Genetically Modified (GM) Food Labelling Controversy
In the debate surrounding genetically modified (GM) food, intense controversies pertain over whether, or how, GM food products ought to be labelled. This paper examines how the GM-supportive and GM-sceptical alliances use arguments regarding labelling so as to strengthen their respective positions. It is an examination of conflicting arguments across social coalitions, corporations and policy-makers, mainly in the USA, but with certain European c…
Miljöhandlingars socialpsykologiska förutsättningar och hinder - ett teoretisk tperspektiv
The social-psychological conditions and obstacles to environmentally responsible agency - a theoretical perspectiveThe aim in this article has been to go beyond the individual level in theoretically analyzing the preconditions for people to adopt a more environmentally responsible behavior within daily activities. In the first part, I have examined some overlapping social characteristics of modernity. The chief concepts here have been risk, time-…
The Genetically Modified (GM) Food Labelling Controversy
In the debate surrounding genetically modified (GM) food, intense controversies pertain over whether, or how, GM food products ought to be labelled. This paper examines how the GM-supportive and GM-sceptical alliances use arguments regarding labelling so as to strengthen their respective positions. It is an examination of conflicting arguments across social coalitions, corporations and policy-makers, mainly in the USA, but with certain European c…
Framings of Science and Ideology
Organic food labelling debates in Sweden and the USA are examined in order to compare two different policy discourse climates on the basis of interviews, documents, and websites of governmental and non-governmental organisations. Framings in the Swedish debates mainly take place through eco-pragmatic metaframing, aimed at consensus, and based on a mixture of undefined scientific and ideological framings. The American examples indicate more advers…
State-centered versus Nonstate-driven Organic Food Standardization
Framing sufficiency
The efficiency approach of moving towards sustainable consumption through mainly technological solutions, which dominates environmental policymaking, has overall failed to reduce the adverse environmental impacts caused by unsustainable consumption patterns. Increasingly, it is recognised that efficiency needs to be coupled with sufficiency, which aims to reduce absolute levels of consumption. While the public policy realm continues to be linked …
Can we rely on ‘climate-friendly’ consumption
In policy and research on sustainable consumption in general, and climate-oriented consumption specifically, key questions centre around whether people are motivated and prompted to support such consumption. A common claim in the scholarly debate is that policy makers, in face of fundamental governance challenges, refrain from taking responsibility and instead invest unrealistic hopes in that consumers will solve pressing environmental problems t…
The green political food consumer
This paper reviews the current literature on political and ethical consumers, and relates it to the topic of sustainable food consumption. A first aim is to problematise a somewhat simplistic view of the political and ethical consumer found in the literature. The paper sheds light on some of the dilemmas that confront green political consumers. We indicate that most existing studies say very little about consumers' thoughts, assumptions, and refl…
Challenges to Legitimacy in Food Safety Governance? The Case of the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa)
The ‘old’ forms of governance have been criticized for being neither sufficiently democratic nor effective. The popularity of ‘new’ modes of governance includes the embracing of values — integral to democratic processes — such as legitimacy, public accountability and trust. By relating parts of this ‘old‐vs.‐new’ distinction to March and Olsen’s dichotomy of aggregative vs. integrative political processes, the aim of this paper is to find pattern…
Miljöhandlingars socialpsykologiska förutsättningar och hinder - ett teoretisk tperspektiv
The social-psychological conditions and obstacles to environmentally responsible agency - a theoretical perspectiveThe aim in this article has been to go beyond the individual level in theoretically analyzing the preconditions for people to adopt a more environmentally responsible behavior within daily activities. In the first part, I have examined some overlapping social characteristics of modernity. The chief concepts here have been risk, time-…
The Genetically Modified (GM) Food Labelling Controversy
In the debate surrounding genetically modified (GM) food, intense controversies pertain over whether, or how, GM food products ought to be labelled. This paper examines how the GM-supportive and GM-sceptical alliances use arguments regarding labelling so as to strengthen their respective positions. It is an examination of conflicting arguments across social coalitions, corporations and policy-makers, mainly in the USA, but with certain European c…
Framings of Science and Ideology
Organic food labelling debates in Sweden and the USA are examined in order to compare two different policy discourse climates on the basis of interviews, documents, and websites of governmental and non-governmental organisations. Framings in the Swedish debates mainly take place through eco-pragmatic metaframing, aimed at consensus, and based on a mixture of undefined scientific and ideological framings. The American examples indicate more advers…
State-centered versus Nonstate-driven Organic Food Standardization
The green political food consumer
This paper reviews the current literature on political and ethical consumers, and relates it to the topic of sustainable food consumption. A first aim is to problematise a somewhat simplistic view of the political and ethical consumer found in the literature. The paper sheds light on some of the dilemmas that confront green political consumers. We indicate that most existing studies say very little about consumers' thoughts, assumptions, and refl…
Challenges to Legitimacy in Food Safety Governance? The Case of the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa)
The ‘old’ forms of governance have been criticized for being neither sufficiently democratic nor effective. The popularity of ‘new’ modes of governance includes the embracing of values — integral to democratic processes — such as legitimacy, public accountability and trust. By relating parts of this ‘old‐vs.‐new’ distinction to March and Olsen’s dichotomy of aggregative vs. integrative political processes, the aim of this paper is to find pattern…
Citizen-Consumers and Evolution
[Based on the publisher's comments:] This book reflects upon and critiques the potential of citizen-consumer's to alter their natural consuming habits and to 'shop ethically, 'care for the environment' and 'think glocally' so as to reduce environmental harm. Developing a substantial challenge to the existing accepted theories, this book sets out a groundbreaking approach to understanding citizen-consumer behavior, by forging a productive alliance…
Dilemmas for standardizers of sustainable consumption
Social Sustainability Requires Social Sustainability
The synergies and trade-offs between the various dimensions of sustainable development are attracting a rising scholarly attention. Departing from the scholarly debate, this article focuses on internal relationships within social sustainability. Our key claim is that it is difficult to strengthen substantive social sustainability goals unless there are key elements of social sustainability contained in the very procedures intended to work toward …
Retail sector facing the challenge of sustainable consumption
This chapter provides an overview of some key challenges, and opportunities for the retail sector to stimulate as well as adapt to a sustainability-oriented consumption. It focuses on several challenges that have turned out to be crucial to handle to move consumption in the direction towards sustainability based on an extensive review of the literature on the retailing-consumption relationship. The chapter refers particularly the pillars of susta…
Can we rely on ‘climate-friendly’ consumption
In policy and research on sustainable consumption in general, and climate-oriented consumption specifically, key questions centre around whether people are motivated and prompted to support such consumption. A common claim in the scholarly debate is that policy makers, in face of fundamental governance challenges, refrain from taking responsibility and instead invest unrealistic hopes in that consumers will solve pressing environmental problems t…
Mass Consumption and Political Consumerism
This chapter focuses on the relation between mass consumption and political consumerism. Mass consumption concerns the omnipresent role of consumption in contemporary societies with associated problems of excessive resource use in current practices of consumption. The late modern context and forces of mass consumption can both trigger and prevent political consumerism as well as shape its outcome. The chapter offers a literature review that addre…
Toy Consumption as Political Challenges for Making Dreams Come True
This chapter looks at political consumerism in the toy sector, offering a brief history of consumer concerns and distinguishing among four strands of political consumerist research in this sector. A primary factor facilitating political consumerism of toys is that toy companies are extremely concerned about their reputation. Manufacturers cannot assume that parents and other carers do their usual risk-benefit analysis with the same level of risk …
Knowledge resistance
Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society's many problems? In a world of 'alternative facts', 'fake news', and 'fact resistance' that some believe could be remedied by 'factfulness' or 'enlightenment', the question has never been more pressing. Following years of ideologically polarised debates on this topic, the book seeks to further advance our understanding of the phenomenon of knowledge resistance by integrating…
Framing sufficiency
The efficiency approach of moving towards sustainable consumption through mainly technological solutions, which dominates environmental policymaking, has overall failed to reduce the adverse environmental impacts caused by unsustainable consumption patterns. Increasingly, it is recognised that efficiency needs to be coupled with sufficiency, which aims to reduce absolute levels of consumption. While the public policy realm continues to be linked …
Communicating access-based business models
Although access-based business models such as product rental hold promise for contributing to sustainable production and consumption, their diffusion is hindered by a lack of consumer acceptance. In order for rental models to resonate with consumers, they must be designed and communicated in a way that aligns with consumers’ needs. While many studies have addressed business model design, few have looked at how rental business models are communica…
Academia and society in collaborative knowledge production towards urban sustainability
Arrangements for collaboration in knowledge production across academia, government, non-governmental organisations, and corporations have several names, such as citizen-science, community-based participatory research, engaged research and hybrid forums. The multiplicity of schemes does not lie only in the high number of names for various versions of collaborative knowledge production. Different scholars also use concepts in multiple ways, dependi…
A speculative conversation on climate change and sociology
This article provides a diverse range of insights into the question of how sociology can and should contribute to research on climate change. It takes an unconventional and unique approach to doing so, through a stylized conversation between the authors, which is based on an open-ended focus group discussion. The conversation illuminates different perspectives on if and how to research climate change and the climate crisis from a sociological per…
Hannes Lagerlöf. Conditional progress - Technical rationality & wicked problems in nuclear waste management
Doktorsavhandling
A lot to chew on
How do expert committees sustain credibility while radically expanding their institutional scope? This question animates contemporary food governance, as dietary guidelines, historically focused on nutritional adequacy, increasingly incorporate environmental sustainability and demands for democratic participation. Yet scholarship has largely neglected the ongoing legitimacy work, the strategic framing, methodological commitments, and communicatio…
Journey or destination? Framing change in Swedish sustainable tourism initiatives
Addressing sustainability challenges requires profound changes and transformations across all sectors, including tourism. Bound up in the operationalisation of transformation is the discursive aspects of change: the claims around how change can and should happen. This is a hitherto under-researched area, especially in sustainable tourism governance. This paper responds to this gap by investigating how two Swedish tourism organisations and their s…
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