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Recent Posts
- Slow Science and Work-Life Balance
- Unsustainably clean and smooth
- New research shows that consuming less makes us more happy- some NYE opinions in SydSvenskan
- Don’t let flying for work become normal again
- Why don’t we care that the ultra-rich are fucking up our climate?
- The girl gang that vanished
- Laconia – living alone consumption impact – Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Actions
- Music festivals can show the way to sustainability – debate article in Dagens Nyheter
- En halstvätthistoria av Annika Rullgård
- Hackademia
- Response to my research
- Varför duscha vi så ofta? Jag pratar renlighetsnormer med Lena Nordlund på Vetenskapsradion
- Respons på en artikel i svd
- The disappearing communal laundry room in Sweden: a symptom of individual comforts winning over sustainability?
- Climate smart in the 50s
- Blog Post on Extinction Rebellion for LUCSUS
- Response and Responsibility
- Things I can see through the window
- Do less to save the environment
- Article in Sydsvenskan Newspaper
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Tag Archives: Research
The unbearable pointlessness of research
In Sweden we have just endured a minor uproar over Superstar Surgeon, Paolo Macchiarinis fall from grace. Macchiarini has been recently convicted of falsifying test results and continuing to perform his new operations despite controversy. Six of the eight patients … Continue reading
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Tagged critique, knowledge, Research, Roland Paulsen, science, the academy
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Critical vs. practical
I’ve just been at the inaugural LUCID Young Researchers Conference along with a host of other young guns all interested in sustainability challenges from both the natural and social sciences and just about everything in-between. Beyond being impressed by the variety of ways … Continue reading
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Tagged LUCID, problem solving, problematising, Research, sustainabilty
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Rushing: a waste of time?
One of my favourite parts of immersing in Swedish culture is the sauna. Sweating in hot cedar and then dipping in the cold North Sea with the old dames of malmö has become somewhat of a mid-week ritual. One I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged David Graeber, life, Research, rush, rushing, what's the point if we can't have fun
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Truth and reality
I do solemnly declare that I shall give the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I’ve never really thought much about what the truth is. But Liv told me there is no such thing. At face value … Continue reading
Is objectivity tarnished by participant sensitivity?
Seeing the world how it ‘really is’ is one of the fundamental aims of any research. Physicists study how matter really exists, biologists how organisms really exist, and sociologists how societies really exist. Studying people and societies is uniquely challenging … Continue reading
Pursuit of wisdom
Since starting this academic caper I am constantly surprised at how much I really don’t know. There’s more research after a PhD?!? It takes six months to publish an article?!? The study on Balinese cocktailology got funding?!? The more I … Continue reading
Collective Agency & Institutions, Sustainability, and the Capability Approach
I was in Leipzig for a workshop on Collective Agency, which was very inspiring and thought provoking, and I wanted to share all of the discussions here, but they were so proliferate and sometimes disparate that I am going to … Continue reading
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Tagged agency, Christoph Görg, Collective Agency, Durkheim, ethical individualism, Giddens, global society, individual, Leipzig, natural environment, nature, Research, routine, social theory, societal individuals, structuration, structure, Sustainability, Weber
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Transition Framework: towards future practices of sustainable washing
“Personal washing routines are currently the most water intensive activity in Irish households” Irish researchers recently published a report on sustainable washing practices, right up my alley. This report is particularly interesting as they imagine a sustainable washing future, and … Continue reading
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Tagged backcasting, cleanliness, collective conventions, Laundry, Research, Washing, washing less, water
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Call for Presentations of Papers @ RMIT Commune
RMIT Sustainability commune is currently inviting postgraduate researchers and thinkers in sustainable fashion to present research papers, practice presentations and workshops at the second annual Commune @ RMIT Brunswick on the 18th July 2012. Commune is a Festival, Market and … Continue reading
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Tagged Commune, conference, Holly McQuillan, Kate Fletcher, Linda Jackson, Research, RMIT, RMIT Brunswick, Sustainability, sustainable fashion
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Nobody was Dirty at NGV
Nobody was Dirty has just finished up at The National Gallery of Victoria. I was happy to have such thoughtful engagement from everyday people, and my research is much more complete for attracting this element of community review. Below are … Continue reading