Gisle Solbu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3080085 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gisle Solbu |
| PRENOMES | Gisle |
| SOBRENOME | Solbu |
| ASSINATURA | SOLBU G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3432-1382 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The affective politics of transitions
Amid growing political polarisation and populist backlash against climate policies, sustainability transitions research is increasingly focusing on how such political dynamics influence transition processes. However, transition studies have tended to treat questions about political feasibility and public opinion formation with a certain empirical and conceptual distance. Seeking to bridge transitions research with insights gained through politica…
‘We’re the real shit!’ Low-income groups’ unequal access to green mobility transitions in Norway
This paper investigates the intersection of mobility justice and sustainability transitions, focusing on how low-income groups experience and navigate mobility challenges. Data was gathered through storytelling workshops (14) and individual interviews (22), involving a total of 73 participants from low-income groups in three Norwegian cities: Bergen, Stavanger, and Trondheim. Using the concept of motility to reframe mobility as a form of social c…
The unsung heroes of Norway's sustainability transitions? Making visible the “invisible” energy citizenship of low-income households
This paper explores the concept of energy citizenship through the lived experiences of low-income households in Norway, showing a significant disconnect between participatory ideals embedded in national climate and energy policies and the everyday realities of economically marginalised groups. While energy transitions are often framed as collective efforts requiring active citizen engagement, systemic barriers frequently prevent low-income groups…
Transforming local governance
Despite the global call for sustainability transformations, researchers and practitioners struggle to achieve this goal. One promising avenue is to use concepts from systems theory, particularly system leverage points, to understand and accelerate transformation processes. This paper addresses how public decision-makers and politicians at different levels of local government understand sustainability transformations and the implications of this u…
Can sufficiency become the new normal? Exploring consumption patterns of low-income groups in Norway
Sufficiency has gained increased attention within sustainable consumption research in recent years. Often presented in opposition to guiding principles like efficiency, which discuss sustainability issues alongside ideas of economic growth, sufficiency offers alternative sustainability pathways that highlight the need to reduce consumption. This paper discusses the interrelation between sufficiency principles and consumption patterns of low-incom…
Energy-efficiency policies reinforce energy injustices
The high energy prices in Europe have caused an increase in energy poverty, even in Norway, where electricity has traditionally been affordable due to cheap hydropower. In this paper, we analyse the impact of energy-efficiency policies on low-income households to discover whether they reduce or reinforce existing injustices. To address this, our approach combines energy justice with a theory of care. Little attention has been paid to care within …
Relational visioning and the emerging future
The Earth is currently facing unprecedented anthropogenic impacts. In this context of widespread environmental degradation and climate anxiety, there is an urgent need to reimagine our approaches to sustainability. This paper explores how a relational framing of sustainability can be applied to visioning exercises to foster transformative actions in local governance. While relational approaches are increasingly recognized as important to spark tr…
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems
Sensory and emotional dimensions of domesticating new technology
Cities face major challenges when it comes to sustainability and mobility. Transport’s contribution to climate change is well-established, and people need to move in the most sustainable way to reach the 2030 emissions targets set by the Paris Agreement. One possible pathway towards more sustainable mobility practices is electromobility. The electrification of micro-mobility is happening rapidly, and one of the most popular is the e-bike. For yea…
Back to the Present of Automated Mobility
This article focuses on how car drivers domesticate technologies of automation and the way this might inform our understanding of potential shifts to a more automated mobility system. The current literature on automated mobility has mainly addressed drivers’ roles in terms of their attitudes towards—and acceptance of—an anticipated shift to high-level driving automation. In this article, however, we take a step back from expectations around autom…
Incorporation work
In this paper, we analyse how the socialisation of new science and technology (technoscience) is performed through newspapers. Newspapers remain an important source of information about emerging technosciences, such as bio- and nanotechnology, even in the age of new social media. This includes communication about scientific and technological developments but also about sense-making and imaginaries related to expectations about future effects. We …
The imagined scientist of science governance
In this article, we introduce the concept of ‘the imagined scientist’. It inverts previous discussions of the public as an imagined community with a knowledge deficit, to examine imagined scientists representing an actor (or group of actors) with deficits in knowledge or concern about social issues. We study how Norwegian science policymakers, on the one hand, and biotechnologists and nanotechnologists, on the other, articulate and engage with so…
The Physiology of Imagined Publics
This paper draws on the concept of imagined lay persons (ILP) to investigate how scientists working in the fields of bio- and nanotechnology perceive the public and how these imaginaries facilitate or hinder engagement activities. Scientists construct imaginaries of publics that shape the ways in which they address the public, perceive the benefits of public engagement activities, and form communication strategies. Moreover, the paper argues that…
Communities of peer practitioners. Experiences from an Academic Writing Group
Learning academic writing is important for communicating research and participating in scholarly debates. This learning is traditionally conceptualized through a hierarchical teacher-student relation or individual accomplishment. However, in this paper we ask how we might understand the development of academic writing skills as a collective practice within a writing community. We draw on experiences from our own departmental writing group of PhD …
Energy-efficiency policies reinforce energy injustices
The high energy prices in Europe have caused an increase in energy poverty, even in Norway, where electricity has traditionally been affordable due to cheap hydropower. In this paper, we analyse the impact of energy-efficiency policies on low-income households to discover whether they reduce or reinforce existing injustices. To address this, our approach combines energy justice with a theory of care. Little attention has been paid to care within …
Can sufficiency become the new normal? Exploring consumption patterns of low-income groups in Norway
Sufficiency has gained increased attention within sustainable consumption research in recent years. Often presented in opposition to guiding principles like efficiency, which discuss sustainability issues alongside ideas of economic growth, sufficiency offers alternative sustainability pathways that highlight the need to reduce consumption. This paper discusses the interrelation between sufficiency principles and consumption patterns of low-incom…
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems
Sensory and emotional dimensions of domesticating new technology
Cities face major challenges when it comes to sustainability and mobility. Transport’s contribution to climate change is well-established, and people need to move in the most sustainable way to reach the 2030 emissions targets set by the Paris Agreement. One possible pathway towards more sustainable mobility practices is electromobility. The electrification of micro-mobility is happening rapidly, and one of the most popular is the e-bike. For yea…
Communities of peer practitioners. Experiences from an Academic Writing Group
Learning academic writing is important for communicating research and participating in scholarly debates. This learning is traditionally conceptualized through a hierarchical teacher-student relation or individual accomplishment. However, in this paper we ask how we might understand the development of academic writing skills as a collective practice within a writing community. We draw on experiences from our own departmental writing group of PhD …
The Physiology of Imagined Publics
This paper draws on the concept of imagined lay persons (ILP) to investigate how scientists working in the fields of bio- and nanotechnology perceive the public and how these imaginaries facilitate or hinder engagement activities. Scientists construct imaginaries of publics that shape the ways in which they address the public, perceive the benefits of public engagement activities, and form communication strategies. Moreover, the paper argues that…
The imagined scientist of science governance
In this article, we introduce the concept of ‘the imagined scientist’. It inverts previous discussions of the public as an imagined community with a knowledge deficit, to examine imagined scientists representing an actor (or group of actors) with deficits in knowledge or concern about social issues. We study how Norwegian science policymakers, on the one hand, and biotechnologists and nanotechnologists, on the other, articulate and engage with so…
Back to the Present of Automated Mobility
This article focuses on how car drivers domesticate technologies of automation and the way this might inform our understanding of potential shifts to a more automated mobility system. The current literature on automated mobility has mainly addressed drivers’ roles in terms of their attitudes towards—and acceptance of—an anticipated shift to high-level driving automation. In this article, however, we take a step back from expectations around autom…
Incorporation work
In this paper, we analyse how the socialisation of new science and technology (technoscience) is performed through newspapers. Newspapers remain an important source of information about emerging technosciences, such as bio- and nanotechnology, even in the age of new social media. This includes communication about scientific and technological developments but also about sense-making and imaginaries related to expectations about future effects. We …
Can sufficiency become the new normal? Exploring consumption patterns of low-income groups in Norway
Sufficiency has gained increased attention within sustainable consumption research in recent years. Often presented in opposition to guiding principles like efficiency, which discuss sustainability issues alongside ideas of economic growth, sufficiency offers alternative sustainability pathways that highlight the need to reduce consumption. This paper discusses the interrelation between sufficiency principles and consumption patterns of low-incom…
Energy-efficiency policies reinforce energy injustices
The high energy prices in Europe have caused an increase in energy poverty, even in Norway, where electricity has traditionally been affordable due to cheap hydropower. In this paper, we analyse the impact of energy-efficiency policies on low-income households to discover whether they reduce or reinforce existing injustices. To address this, our approach combines energy justice with a theory of care. Little attention has been paid to care within …
Relational visioning and the emerging future
The Earth is currently facing unprecedented anthropogenic impacts. In this context of widespread environmental degradation and climate anxiety, there is an urgent need to reimagine our approaches to sustainability. This paper explores how a relational framing of sustainability can be applied to visioning exercises to foster transformative actions in local governance. While relational approaches are increasingly recognized as important to spark tr…
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems
Sensory and emotional dimensions of domesticating new technology
Cities face major challenges when it comes to sustainability and mobility. Transport’s contribution to climate change is well-established, and people need to move in the most sustainable way to reach the 2030 emissions targets set by the Paris Agreement. One possible pathway towards more sustainable mobility practices is electromobility. The electrification of micro-mobility is happening rapidly, and one of the most popular is the e-bike. For yea…
The unsung heroes of Norway's sustainability transitions? Making visible the “invisible” energy citizenship of low-income households
This paper explores the concept of energy citizenship through the lived experiences of low-income households in Norway, showing a significant disconnect between participatory ideals embedded in national climate and energy policies and the everyday realities of economically marginalised groups. While energy transitions are often framed as collective efforts requiring active citizen engagement, systemic barriers frequently prevent low-income groups…
Transforming local governance
Despite the global call for sustainability transformations, researchers and practitioners struggle to achieve this goal. One promising avenue is to use concepts from systems theory, particularly system leverage points, to understand and accelerate transformation processes. This paper addresses how public decision-makers and politicians at different levels of local government understand sustainability transformations and the implications of this u…
The affective politics of transitions
Amid growing political polarisation and populist backlash against climate policies, sustainability transitions research is increasingly focusing on how such political dynamics influence transition processes. However, transition studies have tended to treat questions about political feasibility and public opinion formation with a certain empirical and conceptual distance. Seeking to bridge transitions research with insights gained through politica…
‘We’re the real shit!’ Low-income groups’ unequal access to green mobility transitions in Norway
This paper investigates the intersection of mobility justice and sustainability transitions, focusing on how low-income groups experience and navigate mobility challenges. Data was gathered through storytelling workshops (14) and individual interviews (22), involving a total of 73 participants from low-income groups in three Norwegian cities: Bergen, Stavanger, and Trondheim. Using the concept of motility to reframe mobility as a form of social c…
Sociology (9 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (6 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Engineering (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras)