Johan Nordensvärd
Biographic Data
| ID | 376635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johan Nordensvärd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johan |
| FAMILY NAME | Nordensvärd |
| SIGNATURE | NORDENSVÄRD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8508-4212 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Towards a typology of residential energy consumers: Social context and awareness as predictors of energy-efficient household behaviors in the United States
Residential or household energy use in heating, cooling, and lighting must become more efficient to advance residential decarbonization and meet 2050 global climate targets. This study presents a typology of social impacts and behaviors, emphasizing normative community roles in decarbonization of residential buildings. We examine efficiency-related behaviors in the private sphere including lighting, air-conditioning use, and building upgrades usi…
Political Ghosts in the Swedish Welfare Machine: De-Politicisation, Neoliberal Technocracy and Quasi-Markets in Swedish University Property Management
This article examines how the discursive logic of quasi-markets in Swedish university real-estate management enables depoliticisation while consolidating state control. Sweden is a distinctive case where universities are public agencies, yet most campus property is owned by Akademiska Hus AB, a profit-seeking corporation wholly owned by the state. Using interpretive policy and frame analysis of legislation, government decisions, and public debate…
The discursive silos of transport discourse in Sweden: Using future storylines to understand the polarization and politicization of sustainable aviation transitions
Within the multi-level perspective (MLP) on sustainability transitions, there has been a rise in research on storylines and discursive framing that have become more central in understanding how competing narratives shape the trajectories of innovation. This paper examines how policy actors and stakeholders construct and frame competing scenario narratives of sustainable aviation futures. Using a scenario narrative framing approach, we analyze emp…
Analyzing discursive policy leadership using regime narratives in Sweden’s emerging drone transport for sustainability transition
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish Covid-19 restriction policy
Sweden became an outlier among the Nordic countries in handling the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Nordic countries have historically shared a social democratic welfare state regime, with strong cooperation and harmonization of social policies, their responses to the pandemic showcased fundamental differences to that of Sweden. In particular, Sweden’s prioritization of individual civil liberties over social rights diverged from the more coercive ap…
A theory of informal and formal social citizenship and welfare
Formal social citizenship is limited in how it enables us to think about informal social citizenship and informal welfare. This informal perspective is important in all contexts where access to social rights is negotiated through local and transnational spaces, and where the state is a relatively minor player. By drawing on work on moral economy (Scott, 1976) and informal welfare (Gough and Wood, 2006) the article aims to propose a new theoretica…
State and communities in urban food governance: Lessons from Covid and insights for the future
Food for Urban Lives and Localit
Framing the benefits of European Union policy expansion on energy efficiency of buildings: A Swiss knife or a Trojan horse
This paper analyzes through qualitative and quantitative analysis of European Union (EU) policy documents the framing of EU policy on energy‐efficient buildings from the 1970s to 2022. We find that it has been framed in different ways over the decades and the framing has expanded to include more and more benefits. Through this expansion, energy efficiency has been linked to other policy areas, such as security, environmental, economic, and social…
Interpreting the state–citizen nexus in contemporary Nordic legal and social citizenship: The case of divergence in restriction on freedom of movement as a mitigation policy in the Covid-19 pandemic
The aim of this article was to use an interpretivist approach to analyse the state–citizen nexus in general and the conflict between civil and social rights imposing restrictions on people’s freedom of movement during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Nordic countries: Sweden (restrictions were voluntary and relied on nudging and individual implementation), Norway (restrictions of movement were for everyone and was enforced by authorities), and Finlan…
Urban food security during Covid-19: The limits of statutory welfare and the role of community action in Sweden and Korea
During COVID-19, the demand for food relief exploded as vulnerable people were suddenly more numerous and visible than ever, for which statutory welfare was not ready to cope with. We examine the role of voluntary and community organizations (VCOs) in food relief in Stockholm, Sweden and Seoul, Korea. Interpretive analysis of interview materials reveals how VCOs perceive their role vis-à-vis the state and take actions against urban food insecurit…
Populism as an act of storytelling: Analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers
We propose that populism is a storytelling performance that involves a charismatic ‘truth-teller’ and a populist narrative frame. Populist narratives are sensemaking devices that guide people in areas of contestation, uncertainty and complexity where decisions cannot solely rely on rational and formal processes. Populist ‘truth-tellers’ apply a particular narrative frame that pits ‘people’ against the ‘elite’ when interpreting complex problems su…
Framing social policy and populism in a changing European context’
This themed section focuses on the political and social policy discourses of resurgent welfare chauvinism and identity politics in contemporary Europe. The populist radical right, in particular, has utilised these discourses to great effect, reframing social policy and social citizenship through a heady mix of arguments evoking the nation state and ethnicity, often contemporaneously. Although the explanations for the outcome of the referendum on …
Rethinking the Consumer Metaphor versus the Citizen Metaphor: Frame Merging and Higher Education Reform in Sweden
Neoliberal metaphors of students often describe students as consumers, managers and even as commodities, but this analysis often disregards the discursive complexity of education. We argue that frame merging is essential to understand the hybrid modalities of neoliberal images of students in the Swedish context, where the image of the student is suspended between a social democratic welfare service model, academic capitalism, new public managemen…
The Limits of Social Protection: The Case of Hydropower Dams and Indigenous Peoples' Land
Hydropower dams have been criticised for their social and environmental implications. There have been attempts to create international social standards for hydropower dam projects, but these standards have had limited impact. This article uses an extended environmental justice framework to make sense of the resettlement and compensation schemes for Indigenous peoples who were resettled for the construction of the Bakun dam in Borneo, East Malaysi…
China's dam-builders: Their role in transboundary river management in South-East Asia
This article investigates China's role as the world's largest builder of and investor in large dams, focussing on the Greater Mekong Sub-Region in South-East Asia. It addresses the role Chinese actors play in dam-building as well as the environmental, social, economic and political implications by drawing on case studies from Cambodia and Vietnam. The article finds that China's dam-building is perceived very differently in different countries of …
C hinese Overseas Hydropower Dams and Social Sustainability: The B ui D am in G hana and the K amchay D am in C ambodia
There is a shortage of empirical studies on the relationship between C hinese hydropower dams and social sustainability. Comparative research on C hinese‐funded and C hinese‐built hydropower projects is rare. This article aims to fill parts of this gap by discussing these issues in relation to C hinese overseas hydropower dams in G hana ( B ui D am) and Cambodia ( K amchay D am). Both projects are built by S inohydro and financed by E xIm B ank. …
Social Innovation and Chinese Overseas Hydropower Dams: The Nexus of National Social Policy and Corporate Social Responsibility
The nexus between hydropower dams, social policy and corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a currently understudied topic. This paper aims to fill parts of this gap by discussing these issues in relation to the world's largest builder of hydropower dams, Chinese state‐owned enterprise Sinohydro. This paper draws on the analysis of firm strategy documents and CSR documents and gains additional insights from key informant interviews. The researc…
Nationalist Reframing of the F innish and S wedish Welfare States – The Nexus of Nationalism and Social Policy in Far‐right Populist Parties
The rise of right‐wing populist parties in the N ordic countries is slowly redefining the N ordic social democratic discourse of the universal and egalitarian welfare state. The nexus of nationalism and social policy has been explored in regions and countries such as Q uebec, S cotland, B elgium and the UK , but the change of discourse in the N ordic countries has received less attention. Taking the case of S weden and F inland, this article argu…
Gender and education policy in Ghana: The impact of informal citizenship and informal labour markets on the formal education of girls
An analysis of China’s investment in the hydropower sector in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
The weak human and the saving grace of the welfare state: German pupils’ perception of future social change and drivers of change
The mass-production of quality ‘human material’: Economic metaphors and compulsory sterilisation in Sweden
Compulsory sterilisation was one of the most provocative aspects of the history of Swedish Social Policy. Much has been written about the topic from a social discourse perspective, while the economic discourse of compulsory sterilisation has not been fully recognised. This paper suggests that one needs to use an economic discourse to fully understand some aspects of compulsory sterilisation in the Swedish welfare state discourse between the 1910s…
Key actors and their motives for wind energy innovation in China
Today China is the world's largest wind energy manufacturer and has the world's largest installed wind capacity. To create an improved understanding of the Chinese wind energy sector, this paper assesses the role of the key actors including key government authorities, energy firms, research institutions and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The paper also assesses the motives of these key actors for driving wind energy innovation at industri…
Social Innovation and Chinese Overseas Hydropower Dams: The Nexus of National Social Policy and Corporate Social Responsibility
The nexus between hydropower dams, social policy and corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a currently understudied topic. This paper aims to fill parts of this gap by discussing these issues in relation to the world's largest builder of hydropower dams, Chinese state‐owned enterprise Sinohydro. This paper draws on the analysis of firm strategy documents and CSR documents and gains additional insights from key informant interviews. The researc…
Nationalist Reframing of the F innish and S wedish Welfare States – The Nexus of Nationalism and Social Policy in Far‐right Populist Parties
The rise of right‐wing populist parties in the N ordic countries is slowly redefining the N ordic social democratic discourse of the universal and egalitarian welfare state. The nexus of nationalism and social policy has been explored in regions and countries such as Q uebec, S cotland, B elgium and the UK , but the change of discourse in the N ordic countries has received less attention. Taking the case of S weden and F inland, this article argu…
China's dam-builders: Their role in transboundary river management in South-East Asia
This article investigates China's role as the world's largest builder of and investor in large dams, focussing on the Greater Mekong Sub-Region in South-East Asia. It addresses the role Chinese actors play in dam-building as well as the environmental, social, economic and political implications by drawing on case studies from Cambodia and Vietnam. The article finds that China's dam-building is perceived very differently in different countries of …
Key actors and their motives for wind energy innovation in China
Today China is the world's largest wind energy manufacturer and has the world's largest installed wind capacity. To create an improved understanding of the Chinese wind energy sector, this paper assesses the role of the key actors including key government authorities, energy firms, research institutions and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The paper also assesses the motives of these key actors for driving wind energy innovation at industri…
Populism as an act of storytelling: Analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers
We propose that populism is a storytelling performance that involves a charismatic ‘truth-teller’ and a populist narrative frame. Populist narratives are sensemaking devices that guide people in areas of contestation, uncertainty and complexity where decisions cannot solely rely on rational and formal processes. Populist ‘truth-tellers’ apply a particular narrative frame that pits ‘people’ against the ‘elite’ when interpreting complex problems su…
C hinese Overseas Hydropower Dams and Social Sustainability: The B ui D am in G hana and the K amchay D am in C ambodia
There is a shortage of empirical studies on the relationship between C hinese hydropower dams and social sustainability. Comparative research on C hinese‐funded and C hinese‐built hydropower projects is rare. This article aims to fill parts of this gap by discussing these issues in relation to C hinese overseas hydropower dams in G hana ( B ui D am) and Cambodia ( K amchay D am). Both projects are built by S inohydro and financed by E xIm B ank. …
The Limits of Social Protection: The Case of Hydropower Dams and Indigenous Peoples' Land
Hydropower dams have been criticised for their social and environmental implications. There have been attempts to create international social standards for hydropower dam projects, but these standards have had limited impact. This article uses an extended environmental justice framework to make sense of the resettlement and compensation schemes for Indigenous peoples who were resettled for the construction of the Bakun dam in Borneo, East Malaysi…
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish Covid-19 restriction policy
Sweden became an outlier among the Nordic countries in handling the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Nordic countries have historically shared a social democratic welfare state regime, with strong cooperation and harmonization of social policies, their responses to the pandemic showcased fundamental differences to that of Sweden. In particular, Sweden’s prioritization of individual civil liberties over social rights diverged from the more coercive ap…
A theory of informal and formal social citizenship and welfare
Formal social citizenship is limited in how it enables us to think about informal social citizenship and informal welfare. This informal perspective is important in all contexts where access to social rights is negotiated through local and transnational spaces, and where the state is a relatively minor player. By drawing on work on moral economy (Scott, 1976) and informal welfare (Gough and Wood, 2006) the article aims to propose a new theoretica…
Framing the benefits of European Union policy expansion on energy efficiency of buildings: A Swiss knife or a Trojan horse
This paper analyzes through qualitative and quantitative analysis of European Union (EU) policy documents the framing of EU policy on energy‐efficient buildings from the 1970s to 2022. We find that it has been framed in different ways over the decades and the framing has expanded to include more and more benefits. Through this expansion, energy efficiency has been linked to other policy areas, such as security, environmental, economic, and social…
Gender and education policy in Ghana: The impact of informal citizenship and informal labour markets on the formal education of girls
Interpreting the state–citizen nexus in contemporary Nordic legal and social citizenship: The case of divergence in restriction on freedom of movement as a mitigation policy in the Covid-19 pandemic
The aim of this article was to use an interpretivist approach to analyse the state–citizen nexus in general and the conflict between civil and social rights imposing restrictions on people’s freedom of movement during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Nordic countries: Sweden (restrictions were voluntary and relied on nudging and individual implementation), Norway (restrictions of movement were for everyone and was enforced by authorities), and Finlan…
Urban food security during Covid-19: The limits of statutory welfare and the role of community action in Sweden and Korea
During COVID-19, the demand for food relief exploded as vulnerable people were suddenly more numerous and visible than ever, for which statutory welfare was not ready to cope with. We examine the role of voluntary and community organizations (VCOs) in food relief in Stockholm, Sweden and Seoul, Korea. Interpretive analysis of interview materials reveals how VCOs perceive their role vis-à-vis the state and take actions against urban food insecurit…
Rethinking the Consumer Metaphor versus the Citizen Metaphor: Frame Merging and Higher Education Reform in Sweden
Neoliberal metaphors of students often describe students as consumers, managers and even as commodities, but this analysis often disregards the discursive complexity of education. We argue that frame merging is essential to understand the hybrid modalities of neoliberal images of students in the Swedish context, where the image of the student is suspended between a social democratic welfare service model, academic capitalism, new public managemen…
The weak human and the saving grace of the welfare state: German pupils’ perception of future social change and drivers of change
The mass-production of quality ‘human material’: Economic metaphors and compulsory sterilisation in Sweden
Compulsory sterilisation was one of the most provocative aspects of the history of Swedish Social Policy. Much has been written about the topic from a social discourse perspective, while the economic discourse of compulsory sterilisation has not been fully recognised. This paper suggests that one needs to use an economic discourse to fully understand some aspects of compulsory sterilisation in the Swedish welfare state discourse between the 1910s…
Key actors and their motives for wind energy innovation in China
Today China is the world's largest wind energy manufacturer and has the world's largest installed wind capacity. To create an improved understanding of the Chinese wind energy sector, this paper assesses the role of the key actors including key government authorities, energy firms, research institutions and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The paper also assesses the motives of these key actors for driving wind energy innovation at industri…
An analysis of China’s investment in the hydropower sector in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
The weak human and the saving grace of the welfare state: German pupils’ perception of future social change and drivers of change
Gender and education policy in Ghana: The impact of informal citizenship and informal labour markets on the formal education of girls
C hinese Overseas Hydropower Dams and Social Sustainability: The B ui D am in G hana and the K amchay D am in C ambodia
There is a shortage of empirical studies on the relationship between C hinese hydropower dams and social sustainability. Comparative research on C hinese‐funded and C hinese‐built hydropower projects is rare. This article aims to fill parts of this gap by discussing these issues in relation to C hinese overseas hydropower dams in G hana ( B ui D am) and Cambodia ( K amchay D am). Both projects are built by S inohydro and financed by E xIm B ank. …
Social Innovation and Chinese Overseas Hydropower Dams: The Nexus of National Social Policy and Corporate Social Responsibility
The nexus between hydropower dams, social policy and corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a currently understudied topic. This paper aims to fill parts of this gap by discussing these issues in relation to the world's largest builder of hydropower dams, Chinese state‐owned enterprise Sinohydro. This paper draws on the analysis of firm strategy documents and CSR documents and gains additional insights from key informant interviews. The researc…
Nationalist Reframing of the F innish and S wedish Welfare States – The Nexus of Nationalism and Social Policy in Far‐right Populist Parties
The rise of right‐wing populist parties in the N ordic countries is slowly redefining the N ordic social democratic discourse of the universal and egalitarian welfare state. The nexus of nationalism and social policy has been explored in regions and countries such as Q uebec, S cotland, B elgium and the UK , but the change of discourse in the N ordic countries has received less attention. Taking the case of S weden and F inland, this article argu…
The Limits of Social Protection: The Case of Hydropower Dams and Indigenous Peoples' Land
Hydropower dams have been criticised for their social and environmental implications. There have been attempts to create international social standards for hydropower dam projects, but these standards have had limited impact. This article uses an extended environmental justice framework to make sense of the resettlement and compensation schemes for Indigenous peoples who were resettled for the construction of the Bakun dam in Borneo, East Malaysi…
China's dam-builders: Their role in transboundary river management in South-East Asia
This article investigates China's role as the world's largest builder of and investor in large dams, focussing on the Greater Mekong Sub-Region in South-East Asia. It addresses the role Chinese actors play in dam-building as well as the environmental, social, economic and political implications by drawing on case studies from Cambodia and Vietnam. The article finds that China's dam-building is perceived very differently in different countries of …
Framing social policy and populism in a changing European context’
This themed section focuses on the political and social policy discourses of resurgent welfare chauvinism and identity politics in contemporary Europe. The populist radical right, in particular, has utilised these discourses to great effect, reframing social policy and social citizenship through a heady mix of arguments evoking the nation state and ethnicity, often contemporaneously. Although the explanations for the outcome of the referendum on …
Rethinking the Consumer Metaphor versus the Citizen Metaphor: Frame Merging and Higher Education Reform in Sweden
Neoliberal metaphors of students often describe students as consumers, managers and even as commodities, but this analysis often disregards the discursive complexity of education. We argue that frame merging is essential to understand the hybrid modalities of neoliberal images of students in the Swedish context, where the image of the student is suspended between a social democratic welfare service model, academic capitalism, new public managemen…
Urban food security during Covid-19: The limits of statutory welfare and the role of community action in Sweden and Korea
During COVID-19, the demand for food relief exploded as vulnerable people were suddenly more numerous and visible than ever, for which statutory welfare was not ready to cope with. We examine the role of voluntary and community organizations (VCOs) in food relief in Stockholm, Sweden and Seoul, Korea. Interpretive analysis of interview materials reveals how VCOs perceive their role vis-à-vis the state and take actions against urban food insecurit…
Populism as an act of storytelling: Analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers
We propose that populism is a storytelling performance that involves a charismatic ‘truth-teller’ and a populist narrative frame. Populist narratives are sensemaking devices that guide people in areas of contestation, uncertainty and complexity where decisions cannot solely rely on rational and formal processes. Populist ‘truth-tellers’ apply a particular narrative frame that pits ‘people’ against the ‘elite’ when interpreting complex problems su…
State and communities in urban food governance: Lessons from Covid and insights for the future
Food for Urban Lives and Localit
Framing the benefits of European Union policy expansion on energy efficiency of buildings: A Swiss knife or a Trojan horse
This paper analyzes through qualitative and quantitative analysis of European Union (EU) policy documents the framing of EU policy on energy‐efficient buildings from the 1970s to 2022. We find that it has been framed in different ways over the decades and the framing has expanded to include more and more benefits. Through this expansion, energy efficiency has been linked to other policy areas, such as security, environmental, economic, and social…
Interpreting the state–citizen nexus in contemporary Nordic legal and social citizenship: The case of divergence in restriction on freedom of movement as a mitigation policy in the Covid-19 pandemic
The aim of this article was to use an interpretivist approach to analyse the state–citizen nexus in general and the conflict between civil and social rights imposing restrictions on people’s freedom of movement during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Nordic countries: Sweden (restrictions were voluntary and relied on nudging and individual implementation), Norway (restrictions of movement were for everyone and was enforced by authorities), and Finlan…
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish Covid-19 restriction policy
Sweden became an outlier among the Nordic countries in handling the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Nordic countries have historically shared a social democratic welfare state regime, with strong cooperation and harmonization of social policies, their responses to the pandemic showcased fundamental differences to that of Sweden. In particular, Sweden’s prioritization of individual civil liberties over social rights diverged from the more coercive ap…
A theory of informal and formal social citizenship and welfare
Formal social citizenship is limited in how it enables us to think about informal social citizenship and informal welfare. This informal perspective is important in all contexts where access to social rights is negotiated through local and transnational spaces, and where the state is a relatively minor player. By drawing on work on moral economy (Scott, 1976) and informal welfare (Gough and Wood, 2006) the article aims to propose a new theoretica…
Analyzing discursive policy leadership using regime narratives in Sweden’s emerging drone transport for sustainability transition
Towards a typology of residential energy consumers: Social context and awareness as predictors of energy-efficient household behaviors in the United States
Residential or household energy use in heating, cooling, and lighting must become more efficient to advance residential decarbonization and meet 2050 global climate targets. This study presents a typology of social impacts and behaviors, emphasizing normative community roles in decarbonization of residential buildings. We examine efficiency-related behaviors in the private sphere including lighting, air-conditioning use, and building upgrades usi…
Political Ghosts in the Swedish Welfare Machine: De-Politicisation, Neoliberal Technocracy and Quasi-Markets in Swedish University Property Management
This article examines how the discursive logic of quasi-markets in Swedish university real-estate management enables depoliticisation while consolidating state control. Sweden is a distinctive case where universities are public agencies, yet most campus property is owned by Akademiska Hus AB, a profit-seeking corporation wholly owned by the state. Using interpretive policy and frame analysis of legislation, government decisions, and public debate…
The discursive silos of transport discourse in Sweden: Using future storylines to understand the polarization and politicization of sustainable aviation transitions
Within the multi-level perspective (MLP) on sustainability transitions, there has been a rise in research on storylines and discursive framing that have become more central in understanding how competing narratives shape the trajectories of innovation. This paper examines how policy actors and stakeholders construct and frame competing scenario narratives of sustainable aviation futures. Using a scenario narrative framing approach, we analyze emp…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Welfare state (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Geography (5 works)