Jane Summerton
Biographic Data
| ID | 586746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Summerton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Summerton |
| SIGNATURE | SUMMERTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0002-550X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Changing Large Technical Systems
We are all foreigners in an analogue world
Public spaces are often contested sites involving the political use of socio-material arrangements to check, control and filter the flow of people. In Sweden, the recently established police project (REVA) in is an attempt to strengthen ‘internal border’ controls. This paper discusses the emergence of practices in which activist groups organized and performed resistance through the use of counter technologies in the transport sector. We explain h…
Contested mobilities
Cycling is currently the focus of considerable political and public attention in many urban areas. As more and more cyclists claim space on the roads, new forms of political engagement in cycling issues beyond traditional bicycle advocacy have also emerged. Beyond focusing on cyclists’ perspectives and rights, these expressions of bicycle activism show the ways in which bicycles – as potential vehicles for sociopolitical change – are contested po…
Do Electrons Have Politics? Constructing User Identities in Swedish Electricity
Electricity systems in many parts of Europe and the United States are currently undergoing transformations that have potentially profound implications for managerial practice and the politics of user identities within these systems. After more than a century of "universal service" that provided technical goods and services to all users on essentially equal terms, utility managers are now constructing and exploiting heterogeneity and difference am…
District Heating Comes to Town
This thesis deals with the introduction of district heating in an ordinary Swedish town: Mjolby. The process was initiated in 1974 and the decision to build was taken in 1979. In the following ye
Changing Large Technical Systems
Do Electrons Have Politics? Constructing User Identities in Swedish Electricity
Electricity systems in many parts of Europe and the United States are currently undergoing transformations that have potentially profound implications for managerial practice and the politics of user identities within these systems. After more than a century of "universal service" that provided technical goods and services to all users on essentially equal terms, utility managers are now constructing and exploiting heterogeneity and difference am…
Contested mobilities
Cycling is currently the focus of considerable political and public attention in many urban areas. As more and more cyclists claim space on the roads, new forms of political engagement in cycling issues beyond traditional bicycle advocacy have also emerged. Beyond focusing on cyclists’ perspectives and rights, these expressions of bicycle activism show the ways in which bicycles – as potential vehicles for sociopolitical change – are contested po…
We are all foreigners in an analogue world
Public spaces are often contested sites involving the political use of socio-material arrangements to check, control and filter the flow of people. In Sweden, the recently established police project (REVA) in is an attempt to strengthen ‘internal border’ controls. This paper discusses the emergence of practices in which activist groups organized and performed resistance through the use of counter technologies in the transport sector. We explain h…
District Heating Comes to Town
This thesis deals with the introduction of district heating in an ordinary Swedish town: Mjolby. The process was initiated in 1974 and the decision to build was taken in 1979. In the following ye
Do Electrons Have Politics? Constructing User Identities in Swedish Electricity
Electricity systems in many parts of Europe and the United States are currently undergoing transformations that have potentially profound implications for managerial practice and the politics of user identities within these systems. After more than a century of "universal service" that provided technical goods and services to all users on essentially equal terms, utility managers are now constructing and exploiting heterogeneity and difference am…
Contested mobilities
Cycling is currently the focus of considerable political and public attention in many urban areas. As more and more cyclists claim space on the roads, new forms of political engagement in cycling issues beyond traditional bicycle advocacy have also emerged. Beyond focusing on cyclists’ perspectives and rights, these expressions of bicycle activism show the ways in which bicycles – as potential vehicles for sociopolitical change – are contested po…
We are all foreigners in an analogue world
Public spaces are often contested sites involving the political use of socio-material arrangements to check, control and filter the flow of people. In Sweden, the recently established police project (REVA) in is an attempt to strengthen ‘internal border’ controls. This paper discusses the emergence of practices in which activist groups organized and performed resistance through the use of counter technologies in the transport sector. We explain h…
Changing Large Technical Systems
Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Media and Politics (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Social and Educational Sciences (2 works)