Karin Skill

Biographic Data

ID3661317
NAMEKarin Skill
GIVEN NAMESKarin
FAMILY NAMESkill
SIGNATURESKILL K
AFFILIATIONSLinköping University
ORCID0000-0002-5097-6621
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Size matters

    Open AccessKarin Skill, Mosen Farhangi et al.ARTICLEUrban Research & Practice2024

    We analyse the action space for strategic planning and sustainability transition among planners in Swedish municipalities. We use qualitative and quantitative materials from 103 survey responses obtained from Swedish municipal planners. Our analysis shows that the size and type (e.g. population and density) of the municipality where the planners work are connected to their perceived action space, where policies for densely populated cities are le…

  • Planning Education and Transformative Capacity for Climate-Neutral Cities

    Open AccessMosen Farhangi, Harald Rohracher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Planning Education and…2023References: 6

    To achieve their goal to become climate neutral, Swedish municipalities must significantly improve their transformative capacities. Adapting the roles and practices of urban planners is an important element in this process. This paper critically reflects on the way in which improved planning education may help to enable a new generation of planners to face the challenges of rapid urban transformation and provides them with the knowledge and tools…

  • Assembling Amazon Fires through English Hashtags. Materializing Environmental Activism within Twitter Networks

    Open AccessKarin Skill, Sergio Passero et al.ARTICLEComputer Supported Cooperative…2021

    This paper is about the networks around the fires in the Brazilian Amazon forest during 2019 in tweets with the English hashtags #PrayForAmazonas, #ActForTheAmazon and #AmazonFire. We have studied 2517 tweets. Both the languages and the content of the tweets were taken into consideration to see who is assembled and what discursive elements are used in the framing. Our results indicate that the fires are framed as a global concern, beyond the Braz…

  • Andy Scerri, Postpolitics and the Limits of Nature

    Karin SkillARTICLENew Political Science2020

    Andy Scerri’s motive to write Postpolitics and the Limits of Nature: Critical Theory, Moral Authority, and Radicalism in the Anthropocene takes off, as he argues, from the way radicals failed to ca

  • Reclaiming the Discarded

    Open AccessKarin SkillARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2019

  • Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ron Eyerman, Bernhard Giesen, Neil J. Smelser, and Piotr Sztompka

    Open AccessKarin SkillARTICLETransforming Anthropology2009

  • Individualized environmental responsibility and complexity in Sweden

    Open AccessKarin SkillARTICLERevista Eletrônica de Comunicação,…2009

    This article discusses the individualization of environmental responsibility and the requirements to reflect on the environmental consequences of everyday activities. This is done in relation to the idea that awareness of environmental risks and problems will influence environmental activities. 64 Swedish householders' everyday life and sustainable activities has been investigated in a multidisciplinary, qualitative study. By interacting with int…

  • Responsabilidade ambiental individualizada e complexidade na Suécia

    Open AccessKarin SkillARTICLERevista Eletrônica de Comunicação,…2009

    O presente artigo debate a individualizao da responsabilidade ambiental, assim como os requisitos, visando refletir sobre as consequncias ambientais das atividades do dia a dia, o que feito com relao ideia de que a conscincia dos riscos e problemas ambientais influenciaro as atividades ambientais. Foram investigadas as atividades sustentveis na vida do dia a dia de 64 domiclios suecos, em uma pesquisa multidisciplinar e qualitativa. Ao interagir …

  • Globalisation

    Open AccessKarin SkillARTICLETransforming Anthropology2008