Oliver Clifford Pedersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 902740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Clifford Pedersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver Clifford |
| FAMILY NAME | Pedersen |
| SIGNATURE | PEDERSEN O C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Neuchâtel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7277-2606 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Resonating Crises: A Longitudinal Study of Ruptures in Times of Crises
Crises have usually been considered temporary states of exception, but research is increasingly exploring slower, less visible, and more chronic crises, acknowledging that they differ in their characteristics and experiences. Echoing these shifts, we explore how crises and ruptures resonate through time. Using natural language processing and conventional qualitative methodologies to analyse diaries written over more than two decades, we noticed t…
Maintaining the future through recurrent crises
Einar, a 94-year-old Faroese man who has always resided on the island of Suðuroy, has lived through several societal crises. In this article, I explore his experiences of living through three of them, highlighting his ability to maintain an imagination of in the future and detailing how crises interact over time. I propose that Einar’s upbringing in the cycles of crisis characterising fishery, combined with other factors, led him to develop a par…
Crisis and Human Development
Crises are everywhere – from environmental collapses, wars, and skyrocketing inequalities to ageing populations and pandemics, yet there is no universal way that individuals respond to these. What can be said about these? This is an invitation for us, loosely defined as social, cultural and developmental psychologists, to stop and think : we emphasise the role crises play in human and cultural development. Our starting point is that, to consider …
In Search of Manifestations and Imaginations of the Climate Crisis: A Longitudinal Analysis of an Online Diary
Crises are not all sudden and spectacular – some are incremental and manifest in unlikely places. We explore how one person’s experience and imagination of the climate crisis developed across 24 years of online diary writing. This longitudinal analysis captures the subtle shifts in people’s experience close to real time, allowing us to theorise when and how the climate crisis is manifested, felt, and imagined. We move beyond the common definition…
Placing futures in regimes of im/mobilities
Concepts related to the future are abundant in research on im/mobilities. However, studies rarely explain the forces that impinge on who can imagine what future, and how these futures are funnelled to govern im/mobilities. Using a sociocultural psychological model of the imagination, I propose that regimes of im/mobilities, detailing how some movements are engendered while others are prohibited, also operate through imaginations of the future. I …
Places and mobilities: Studying Human Movements Using Place as an Entry Point
This interdisciplinary special issue brings mobility scholars and migration scholars together to examine how places and mobilities are entangled. It asks whether using place as an entry point for studying human movements can reveal new insights into our understanding and conceptualisation of mobility. In this introduction we demonstrate, based on the contributions gathered in this special issue, how using place as an entry point for studying mobi…
I Have Been Born, Raised and Lived My Whole Life Here” – Perpetually on the Move While Remaining Still
This article explores the story of Einar, a Faroese man who always lived within a 500-meters radius on the island of Suðuroy, who never felt “stuck” or “immobile” in the literal sense of the word. Studies have shown that staying is a process, as much as mobility; yet while mobility studies mainly show that imagination is an incentive to move, we argue that imagination may also actively support staying. Combining sociocultural psychology with mobi…
Places and mobilities: Studying Human Movements Using Place as an Entry Point
This interdisciplinary special issue brings mobility scholars and migration scholars together to examine how places and mobilities are entangled. It asks whether using place as an entry point for studying human movements can reveal new insights into our understanding and conceptualisation of mobility. In this introduction we demonstrate, based on the contributions gathered in this special issue, how using place as an entry point for studying mobi…
I Have Been Born, Raised and Lived My Whole Life Here” – Perpetually on the Move While Remaining Still
This article explores the story of Einar, a Faroese man who always lived within a 500-meters radius on the island of Suðuroy, who never felt “stuck” or “immobile” in the literal sense of the word. Studies have shown that staying is a process, as much as mobility; yet while mobility studies mainly show that imagination is an incentive to move, we argue that imagination may also actively support staying. Combining sociocultural psychology with mobi…
I Have Been Born, Raised and Lived My Whole Life Here” – Perpetually on the Move While Remaining Still
This article explores the story of Einar, a Faroese man who always lived within a 500-meters radius on the island of Suðuroy, who never felt “stuck” or “immobile” in the literal sense of the word. Studies have shown that staying is a process, as much as mobility; yet while mobility studies mainly show that imagination is an incentive to move, we argue that imagination may also actively support staying. Combining sociocultural psychology with mobi…
Places and mobilities: Studying Human Movements Using Place as an Entry Point
This interdisciplinary special issue brings mobility scholars and migration scholars together to examine how places and mobilities are entangled. It asks whether using place as an entry point for studying human movements can reveal new insights into our understanding and conceptualisation of mobility. In this introduction we demonstrate, based on the contributions gathered in this special issue, how using place as an entry point for studying mobi…
Resonating Crises: A Longitudinal Study of Ruptures in Times of Crises
Crises have usually been considered temporary states of exception, but research is increasingly exploring slower, less visible, and more chronic crises, acknowledging that they differ in their characteristics and experiences. Echoing these shifts, we explore how crises and ruptures resonate through time. Using natural language processing and conventional qualitative methodologies to analyse diaries written over more than two decades, we noticed t…
Maintaining the future through recurrent crises
Einar, a 94-year-old Faroese man who has always resided on the island of Suðuroy, has lived through several societal crises. In this article, I explore his experiences of living through three of them, highlighting his ability to maintain an imagination of in the future and detailing how crises interact over time. I propose that Einar’s upbringing in the cycles of crisis characterising fishery, combined with other factors, led him to develop a par…
Crisis and Human Development
Crises are everywhere – from environmental collapses, wars, and skyrocketing inequalities to ageing populations and pandemics, yet there is no universal way that individuals respond to these. What can be said about these? This is an invitation for us, loosely defined as social, cultural and developmental psychologists, to stop and think : we emphasise the role crises play in human and cultural development. Our starting point is that, to consider …
In Search of Manifestations and Imaginations of the Climate Crisis: A Longitudinal Analysis of an Online Diary
Crises are not all sudden and spectacular – some are incremental and manifest in unlikely places. We explore how one person’s experience and imagination of the climate crisis developed across 24 years of online diary writing. This longitudinal analysis captures the subtle shifts in people’s experience close to real time, allowing us to theorise when and how the climate crisis is manifested, felt, and imagined. We move beyond the common definition…
Placing futures in regimes of im/mobilities
Concepts related to the future are abundant in research on im/mobilities. However, studies rarely explain the forces that impinge on who can imagine what future, and how these futures are funnelled to govern im/mobilities. Using a sociocultural psychological model of the imagination, I propose that regimes of im/mobilities, detailing how some movements are engendered while others are prohibited, also operate through imaginations of the future. I …
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (2 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Mobilities (2 works) · Narrative Theory and Analysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social science (2 works)