Christer Nordlund
Biographic Data
| ID | 3769115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christer Nordlund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christer |
| FAMILY NAME | Nordlund |
| SIGNATURE | NORDLUND C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1412-9185 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Modern Nature for a Modern Nation
In the mid-1990s, the concept 'ecological modernisation' was established to characterise the perception that environmental protection and economic growth are not mutually exclusive but rather comprise a solid foundation for sustainable development. We argue in this essay that believing that modernisation, economic growth and a healthy environment could go hand-in-hand was nothing new as far as Sweden was concerned. Rather, it is a belief that dev…
Four points on Lennart von Post and the invention of “Pollen Statistics”
This essay is a contribution to the historiography of Lennart von Post and the early development of quantitative pollen analysis. Based on von Post’s own publications and source material from the archives of Stockholm University College, where he was appointed professor in 1929, the essay offers four points on von Post’s scientific identity and the collective work through which quantitative pollen analysis, or “pollen statistics”, came into being…
Grön humaniora
Environmental humanities is a dynamic and rapidly growing post-disciplinary field of scholarship that brings together scholars, practices and theoretical perspectives from the humanities, social sciences and the fine arts. It analyses, explores and tackles questions related to the environment and all kinds of environmental problems, and it may thus be understood as a concerted response to the pressing environmental challenges of our time. This ar…
Livets krydda
While smoking has decreased in Sweden since the 1970s, the use of Swedish snus (a domestic moist tobacco product) has simultaneously increased, especially among men. About 20 percent of the men and 3 percent of the women in Sweden are currently using snus every day. Although Swedish snus is used in some other parts of the world, notably in Norway and the US, the development in Sweden is unique, partly due to an EU ban from 1992 on the sale of snu…
En humanistisk fågel Fenix
The consolidation of the USSTE research group in Umeå grew out of two favorable conditions: the Faculty of Arts’ economic crisis which was turned into a window of opportunity and the ability by the existing USSTE researchers at the time to constitute a credible recipient of such support. The future for USSTE depends both on how well its researchers can continue to perform according to established quality criteria, but also if it can manage to con…
Energizing technology
Although fuel cells have been considered promising technology since the nineteenth century, fresh expectations – expressed by engineers, company leaders, politicians and journalists – began to flourish in the 1990s later on associated with the vision of a ‘hydrogen economy.’ Inspired by research in the history and sociology of expectations, the present paper analyzes this recent history of global fuel cells and hydrogen potentials as played out i…
Homo ludens på universitetet
This essay draws on a paper presented at the Young Academy of Sweden’s workshop “Universities as Creative Environments?” held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on October 17, 2011. Starting with a brief overview about creativity as a concept and as an object of academic study, results from a wide range of research on conditions for creative research environments, past and present, are summarized and discussed. Three findings regarding coll…
Hormoner i folkhemmet
In the current historiography of the early Swedish welfare state the so-called sterilisation programme, which was established in the 1930s in accordance with the premises of racial hygiene, plays a prominent role. The aim of the present essay is to highlight and analyse ideas about what may be looked upon as the counterpart of sterilisation: medical practices in order to cure sterility. Furthermore, the essay explores the connection between such …
Hormones for life? Behind the rise and fall of a hormone remedy (Gonadex) against sterility in the Swedish welfare state
Endocrinology and expectations in 1930s America
In the first half of the twentieth century, hormones took pride of place as life's master molecules and the endocrinologist took precedence over the geneticist as the scientist offering the means to control life. But, as with molecular genetics and biotechnology today, the status of endocrinology was not based solely on contemporary scientific and medical practices. To a high degree it was also reliant on expectations or visions of what endocrino…
How the Coast Became High
The purpose of the present article is to investigate the 'career' of the High Coast as landscape. The High Coast in north-eastern Sweden has become a popular tourist site annually attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors from throughout the world. Its environment is not only considered pleasing from a recreational aspect, but also of extraordinary intrinsic value. Citing the fact that the area has evidenced the greatest land elevation anywher…
Varför rappar ingen om Norrland längre
Between 1982 and 1993 the folk music group Euskefeurat released six LPs and gave numerous live performances. As well as being entertaining they also played an important role as subversive cultural critics of the political and environmental circumstances in the north of Sweden, Norrland. This essay highlights three central themes in the lyric production of Euskefeurat: class conflicts, the relationship between centre and periphery and landscape as…
Från "Mohrens sista suck" till "Unionen som sprack
The aim of the article is to present the cultural expression of the typical Swedish student farce (studentspex) as deserving of academic research. After a short definition of the concept "studentspex", several analytical tools are discussed as means of examining the subject. Among these are the Cultural Studies and the History of Ideas approaches as well as gender and genre perspectives. Furthermore special attention is paid to the possibility th…
Organising geology for display. The museum of the Swedish Geological Survey, 1871-1915
On 15 May 1871 the Museum of the Swedish Geological Survey (SGU) opened its doors to the general public. The new museum halls in the centre of Stockholm were cleaned and famished, and minerals, species of rocks, soil types and fossils arranged in systematic orders. A bust of the founder and former director of SGU, Professor Axel Erdmann (1814-1869), was placed in the ante room, and the high status of the museum confirmed by the presence of repres…
Erik Hedqvist, Varats och utvecklingens kedja
Tradition utan evolution i Göteborgs naturhistoriska museumUnder mellankrigstiden lanserade den amerikanske idéhistorikern Arthur Lovejoy tesen att det genom västerlandets intellektuella historia går att spåra vissa specifika ”unit ideas”, som utgör vad man skulle kunna kalla tänkandets grundbegrepp. Uppfattningen om sådana idéer kan förvisso förändras, till exempel genom begreppsutveckling och vetenskaplig forskning, och deras popularitet kan va…
Modernising the cultural landscape
In the end, landscape turned out to be a concept almost entirely devoid of content. At worst a bad painting, at best a settled area, a stretch of native soil, in which the co-operative farmers’ movement could mobilise support, or which it could protect, using arguments drawn from the cultural history of land cultivation. And then, gradually, but also instantaneously, the term passed through a developing tank, and out came a landscape that both un…
Modern Nature for a Modern Nation
In the mid-1990s, the concept 'ecological modernisation' was established to characterise the perception that environmental protection and economic growth are not mutually exclusive but rather comprise a solid foundation for sustainable development. We argue in this essay that believing that modernisation, economic growth and a healthy environment could go hand-in-hand was nothing new as far as Sweden was concerned. Rather, it is a belief that dev…
Four points on Lennart von Post and the invention of “Pollen Statistics”
This essay is a contribution to the historiography of Lennart von Post and the early development of quantitative pollen analysis. Based on von Post’s own publications and source material from the archives of Stockholm University College, where he was appointed professor in 1929, the essay offers four points on von Post’s scientific identity and the collective work through which quantitative pollen analysis, or “pollen statistics”, came into being…
Endocrinology and expectations in 1930s America
In the first half of the twentieth century, hormones took pride of place as life's master molecules and the endocrinologist took precedence over the geneticist as the scientist offering the means to control life. But, as with molecular genetics and biotechnology today, the status of endocrinology was not based solely on contemporary scientific and medical practices. To a high degree it was also reliant on expectations or visions of what endocrino…
Organising geology for display. The museum of the Swedish Geological Survey, 1871-1915
On 15 May 1871 the Museum of the Swedish Geological Survey (SGU) opened its doors to the general public. The new museum halls in the centre of Stockholm were cleaned and famished, and minerals, species of rocks, soil types and fossils arranged in systematic orders. A bust of the founder and former director of SGU, Professor Axel Erdmann (1814-1869), was placed in the ante room, and the high status of the museum confirmed by the presence of repres…
Erik Hedqvist, Varats och utvecklingens kedja
Tradition utan evolution i Göteborgs naturhistoriska museumUnder mellankrigstiden lanserade den amerikanske idéhistorikern Arthur Lovejoy tesen att det genom västerlandets intellektuella historia går att spåra vissa specifika ”unit ideas”, som utgör vad man skulle kunna kalla tänkandets grundbegrepp. Uppfattningen om sådana idéer kan förvisso förändras, till exempel genom begreppsutveckling och vetenskaplig forskning, och deras popularitet kan va…
Modernising the cultural landscape
In the end, landscape turned out to be a concept almost entirely devoid of content. At worst a bad painting, at best a settled area, a stretch of native soil, in which the co-operative farmers’ movement could mobilise support, or which it could protect, using arguments drawn from the cultural history of land cultivation. And then, gradually, but also instantaneously, the term passed through a developing tank, and out came a landscape that both un…
Från "Mohrens sista suck" till "Unionen som sprack
The aim of the article is to present the cultural expression of the typical Swedish student farce (studentspex) as deserving of academic research. After a short definition of the concept "studentspex", several analytical tools are discussed as means of examining the subject. Among these are the Cultural Studies and the History of Ideas approaches as well as gender and genre perspectives. Furthermore special attention is paid to the possibility th…
Varför rappar ingen om Norrland längre
Between 1982 and 1993 the folk music group Euskefeurat released six LPs and gave numerous live performances. As well as being entertaining they also played an important role as subversive cultural critics of the political and environmental circumstances in the north of Sweden, Norrland. This essay highlights three central themes in the lyric production of Euskefeurat: class conflicts, the relationship between centre and periphery and landscape as…
How the Coast Became High
The purpose of the present article is to investigate the 'career' of the High Coast as landscape. The High Coast in north-eastern Sweden has become a popular tourist site annually attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors from throughout the world. Its environment is not only considered pleasing from a recreational aspect, but also of extraordinary intrinsic value. Citing the fact that the area has evidenced the greatest land elevation anywher…
Hormones for life? Behind the rise and fall of a hormone remedy (Gonadex) against sterility in the Swedish welfare state
Endocrinology and expectations in 1930s America
In the first half of the twentieth century, hormones took pride of place as life's master molecules and the endocrinologist took precedence over the geneticist as the scientist offering the means to control life. But, as with molecular genetics and biotechnology today, the status of endocrinology was not based solely on contemporary scientific and medical practices. To a high degree it was also reliant on expectations or visions of what endocrino…
Hormoner i folkhemmet
In the current historiography of the early Swedish welfare state the so-called sterilisation programme, which was established in the 1930s in accordance with the premises of racial hygiene, plays a prominent role. The aim of the present essay is to highlight and analyse ideas about what may be looked upon as the counterpart of sterilisation: medical practices in order to cure sterility. Furthermore, the essay explores the connection between such …
Homo ludens på universitetet
This essay draws on a paper presented at the Young Academy of Sweden’s workshop “Universities as Creative Environments?” held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on October 17, 2011. Starting with a brief overview about creativity as a concept and as an object of academic study, results from a wide range of research on conditions for creative research environments, past and present, are summarized and discussed. Three findings regarding coll…
En humanistisk fågel Fenix
The consolidation of the USSTE research group in Umeå grew out of two favorable conditions: the Faculty of Arts’ economic crisis which was turned into a window of opportunity and the ability by the existing USSTE researchers at the time to constitute a credible recipient of such support. The future for USSTE depends both on how well its researchers can continue to perform according to established quality criteria, but also if it can manage to con…
Energizing technology
Although fuel cells have been considered promising technology since the nineteenth century, fresh expectations – expressed by engineers, company leaders, politicians and journalists – began to flourish in the 1990s later on associated with the vision of a ‘hydrogen economy.’ Inspired by research in the history and sociology of expectations, the present paper analyzes this recent history of global fuel cells and hydrogen potentials as played out i…
Livets krydda
While smoking has decreased in Sweden since the 1970s, the use of Swedish snus (a domestic moist tobacco product) has simultaneously increased, especially among men. About 20 percent of the men and 3 percent of the women in Sweden are currently using snus every day. Although Swedish snus is used in some other parts of the world, notably in Norway and the US, the development in Sweden is unique, partly due to an EU ban from 1992 on the sale of snu…
Grön humaniora
Environmental humanities is a dynamic and rapidly growing post-disciplinary field of scholarship that brings together scholars, practices and theoretical perspectives from the humanities, social sciences and the fine arts. It analyses, explores and tackles questions related to the environment and all kinds of environmental problems, and it may thus be understood as a concerted response to the pressing environmental challenges of our time. This ar…
Four points on Lennart von Post and the invention of “Pollen Statistics”
This essay is a contribution to the historiography of Lennart von Post and the early development of quantitative pollen analysis. Based on von Post’s own publications and source material from the archives of Stockholm University College, where he was appointed professor in 1929, the essay offers four points on von Post’s scientific identity and the collective work through which quantitative pollen analysis, or “pollen statistics”, came into being…
Modern Nature for a Modern Nation
In the mid-1990s, the concept 'ecological modernisation' was established to characterise the perception that environmental protection and economic growth are not mutually exclusive but rather comprise a solid foundation for sustainable development. We argue in this essay that believing that modernisation, economic growth and a healthy environment could go hand-in-hand was nothing new as far as Sweden was concerned. Rather, it is a belief that dev…
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