Peter Nielsen

Biographic Data

ID371024
NAMEPeter Nielsen
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMENielsen
SIGNATURENIELSEN P
AFFILIATIONSRoskilde University
ORCID0000-0002-7752-9514
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR14
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Toward a More Globally Attuned Degrowth

    Lone Riisgaard, John Rasmussen et al.ARTICLENew Global Studies2026

    This article contributes to the ongoing efforts to develop a more globally attuned degrowth perspective by placing it in dialogue with post-development scholarship. Together, these two critical frameworks challenge dominant growth-oriented paradigms in distinct geopolitical and epistemological contexts. While degrowth, rooted in the Global North, critiques capitalist expansion and advocates for democratically led downscaling, post-development eme…

  • Degrowth and (un)sustainable lifestyles in two Danish ecovillages

    Open AccessPeter Nielsen, Per Rotbøll Nielsen et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Values2026

    Based on an extensive qualitative study, this paper explores sustainability in two Danish ecovillages and discusses the findings (meta)theoretically. Linked to the degrowth literature, it takes its point of departure in critical realism by identifying mechanisms related to (un)sustainability in these ecovillages. The most important mechanism generating their sustainable practices is identified as a subsistence political economy, a mechanism roote…

  • Challenges and AI-driven solutions in maritime search and rescue planning

    Open AccessKemal Ihsan Kilic, Samir Maity et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2025

    Maritime Search and Rescue (MSAR) operations face significant challenges due to high uncertainty, dynamic conditions, and resource constraints. Additionally, rigid organizational structures and hierarchical human-centered communication frameworks, fail to adapt to the challenging conditions of maritime environments. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into MSAR operations, highlighting how…

  • Danske arbejdspladsers personalehåndtering under Covid-19 med særligt fokus på seniorarbejdskraften

    Per H Jensen, Lars L Andersen et al.ARTICLEDansk Sociologi2024

    Eksisterende forskning har allerede belyst, hvordan køns-, etniske og socioøkonomiske uligheder på arbejdsmarkedet er blevet forstærket under covid-19-pandemien. Denne artikel adskiller sig fra den eksisterende forskning derved, at fokus er på alder. Nærmere bestemt rettes blikket mod mulige aldersbetingede forskelle i arbejdsgivernes fastholdelses- og afskedigelsesmønstreunder covid-19-krisen. Teoretisk tager artiklen afsæt i de sociologiske seg…

  • Critical realism, the climate crisis and (de)growth

    H Buch-Hansen, Peter Nielsen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Critical Realism2023

    What does it entail to study the climate crisis from – or consistently with – a critical realist perspective? The paper addresses this question in three steps. First, it considers the boundaries of critical realism in relation to climate crisis research. In this context it identifies climate science as a field that in important respects resonates implicitly with critical realism. Conversely, a book by human ecologist Andreas Malm is introduced as…

  • The Political Economy of European Social Democracy

    Peter Nielsen, Per Rotbøll NielsenARTICLEJournal of Critical Realism2012

    (2012). The Political Economy of European Social Democracy. Journal of Critical Realism: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 529-531

  • Underlabouring in Empire

    Peter Nielsen, Per Rotbøll NielsenARTICLEJournal of Critical Realism2007

  • Underlabouring in Empire

    Peter Nielsen, Per Rotbøll NielsenARTICLEJournal of Critical Realism2007

    Is the work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri compatible with critical realism? In this article I argue that their book Empire is not, whereas Multitude is. Critical realists should be interested in this question because the passage from Empire to Multitude can be reconstructed as a case of critical realist underlabouring and, as such, exemplifies an openness to critique and changing political circumstances that critical realists prescribe for t…

  • From mainstream economics to the boundaries of Marxism

    Open AccessPeter Nielsen, Jamie MorganARTICLECapital & Class2006Cited by: 6References: 36

    In this paper, we explore Marxism and critical realism by addressing Ben Fine's Addressing the Critical and the Real in Critical Realism. We outline and address Fine's main arguments-that critical realism is insufficiently critical, and that it is insufficiently realistic-before turning to analyse the relation between critical realism and Marxism. Taking Fine's argument as a starting point gives us the opportunity to clearly define the parameters…

  • Empire Meets No Logo

    Peter Nielsen, Per Rotbøll NielsenARTICLEJournal of Critical Realism2005

    also the website: http://www.nologo.org/ and also Tom Mertes on No Logo in New Left Review 4 2000, online at: http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR23813.shtml. For a critique see Economist 6th September 2001 ‘Who’s wearing the trousers?’ by Samina Ahmad. Available at: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=770992. 2 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA and London, 2000. EMPIRE MEETS NO LOGO

  • Empire meets No Logo

    Peter Nielsen, Per Rotbøll NielsenARTICLEJournal of Critical Realism2005

  • No new revolution in economics? Taking Thompson and fine forward

    Peter Nielsen, Jamie MorganARTICLEEconomy and Society2005Cited by: 4References: 28

    The basic thesis of this paper is that Ben Fine and Grahame Thompson's 1999 exchange on economics imperialism illustrates two positions that talk across each other. Fine's approach to understanding the field of mainstream economics combines methodological analysis of theoretical innovation and a broad critical sociology. Thompson's response to Fine combines methodological analysis of practical and theoretical problems that currently inhibit the m…

  • Reorienting (critical realism in) economics

    Peter Nielsen, Per Rotbøll NielsenARTICLEJournal of Critical Realism2004

  • Reorienting (Critical Realism In) Economics

    Peter Nielsen, Per Rotbøll NielsenARTICLEJournal of Critical Realism2004

    Taken together, Tony Lawson’s Economics & Reality1 and Steve Fleetwood’s edited Critical Realism in Economics: Development and Debate 2 played a large part in defining the project critical realism in economics, which also delineates a particular identity within the project of critical realism in general. The defining features of critical realism in economics are a general ontological critique of mainstream economics for its deductive method, form…