A number of the division’s researchers use the platform Academia to promote and circulate their research. Currently, some 555 (and counting) documents can be downloaded for free by clicking on this link. https://kth.academia.edu/Departments/Division_of_History_of_Science_Technology_and_Environment/Documents Enjoy!
REXSAC is short for Resource Extraction and Sustainable Arctic Communities and it is a Nordic Centre of Excellence in Arctic research. Funded by Nordforsk and led by our Division together with Stockholm University and Stockholm Environment Institute. Together with 12 additional partners in the Nordic countries, REXSAC studies extractive resource industries in the Arctic … Continue reading “the REXSAC Blog”
Hanne Nielsen, from the University of Tasmania (Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies), is currently visiting our Division on a four-month Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) fellowship. Whilst in Sweden, Hanne is working on a project entitled “Framing Antarctica as Fragile: Tracing the evolution of media narratives about the far south (1945 – 2015).” This project complements her recent PhD work … Continue reading “SCAR visitor at the Division”
(2018). The ‘physiologization’ of skiing: the lab as an obligatory passage point for elite athletes?. Sport in Society. Ahead of Print. Slow on updates in the blog doesn’t mean slow on updates on the rest of the Internet! Doctor Daniel Svensson who defended at the Division in the end of 2016 and our Professor Sverker … Continue reading “The ‘physiologization’ of skiing – new article from Daniel Svensson and Sverker Sörlin”
Engelskans segertåg inom forskning och akademi öppnar upp mot omvärlden men för också med sig problem. Kritiker hävdar att engelskan har blivit för dominant i vetenskapssamhället. En ny statlig utredning om internationalisering av forskning efterfrågar tydlighet och regler för språkanvändning. Full artikel finns här: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond | Forska med vetenskapssvengelska
In other words, the flux of living thoughts is the ongoing signifying ecology that is life. This review is written by Daniele Valisena Do dogs dream? What do those dreams tell about us? Why should it matter to us? And who is “us”? Those are but some of the questions that Eduardo Koch learnt to … Continue reading “How Forests Think: Toward a Beyond-the-Human Anthropology, Eduardo Kohn”
The Swedish Climate Policy Council will start its activities in January 2018. The task of the council is to evaluate how the policy of the Swedish government is compatible with the Swedish climate goals. The secretariat will be placed at the research council Formas. (quote from Formas.se) We are very proud to announce that … Continue reading “Professor Sverker Sörlin – a Member of the Swedish Climate Policy Council “
“No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches or in targeted direct actions, they cannot put their hands on the real flows of power, because they do not help produce it. They only consume.” (p. 60) In the end of last semester, our division’s reading group discussed Learning to Die in … Continue reading “The Interruptor: A (late) review of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene”
Friday November 17 the annual ceremony for the conferment of doctoral degrees was held in Stockholm City Hall. The Division was proud to have two former doctoral students on stage; Dr Daniel Svensson and Dr Isabel Pérez. A few of us, who couldn’t make it to the City Hall due to not having defended during … Continue reading “Conferment of two Doctoral Degrees”
As more and more of our doctoral students finish, more and more new traditions are created. Some traditions seem made to be broken quite fast, but the tradition of getting together for the spiking of a freshly printed doctoral thesis is one we hope to keep. Today was the day for Anna Svensson to grab … Continue reading “Spiking day!”
