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Lövbrand, Eva
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Bohman, A., Evers, C. & Lövbrand, E. (2024). More than one story: remaking community and place in Sweden’s transition to a fossil free society. Local Environment: the International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
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2024 (English)In: Local Environment: the International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, ISSN 1354-9839, E-ISSN 1469-6711Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

In this article, we study how Sweden’s transition to a fossil free society is interpreted and experienced by communities whose livelihoods and cultural identities are entangled with carbon-intensive industries. The study draws upon interviews with citizen groups in the coastal city of Lysekil, located next to Scandinavia’s largest oil refinery. Our analysis speaks to a growing scholarly literature on just transitions where we argue that a better understanding of place attachment as an active and operating force in local transition processes, can provide important information for just transition policy design. Based on our research on place attachment in Lysekil, we suggest that inclusivity in just transitions, implies acknowledging and addressing more than material aspects of loss, involving loss of direction, loss of identities and loss of imagined futures. Moreover, we argue that the vision of an inclusive transition requires a more nuanced approach to the concept of “community” which recognises different stories, voices, and perspectives and challenges taken for granted assumptions about local people's priorities in debates on just transitions. Finally, based on our experiences from Lysekil we contend that inclusivity requires communicative spaces where citizens can meet to listen, speak, and discuss future pathways towards a fossil free society. The visions of just and inclusive transitions, we argue, can only be realised if driven by a place-based dialogue on future pathways and if agendas for a fossil free transformation are locally anchored.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2024
Keywords
fossil free society;just transitions;place attachment;community
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-200189 (URN)10.1080/13549839.2023.2300959 (DOI)001141909700001 ()
Note

Funding agencies: This work was supported by Stiftelsen för Miljöstrategisk Forskning and Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas.

Available from: 2024-01-15 Created: 2024-01-15 Last updated: 2024-01-24
Lövbrand, E., Bohman, A., Brodén Gyberg, V. & Evers, C. (2023). Att leva i omställningens tid: varför klimatpolitik är mer än industripolitik.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Att leva i omställningens tid: varför klimatpolitik är mer än industripolitik
2023 (Swedish)Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Publisher
p. 4
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-198166 (URN)
Available from: 2023-09-27 Created: 2023-09-27 Last updated: 2023-09-27
Lövbrand, E. & Brodén Gyberg, V. (2023). In the Shadow of an Oil Refinery: Narrating Just Transitions in the City of Lysekil (1ed.). In: Bäckstrand, K., Marquardt, J., Nasiritousi, N., and Widerberg, O. (eds) (Ed.), The politics and governance of decarbonization: The interplay between state and non-state actors in Sweden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>In the Shadow of an Oil Refinery: Narrating Just Transitions in the City of Lysekil
2023 (English)In: The politics and governance of decarbonization: The interplay between state and non-state actors in Sweden / [ed] Bäckstrand, K., Marquardt, J., Nasiritousi, N., and Widerberg, O. (eds), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 1Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023 Edition: 1
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-197760 (URN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2017-01889 & 2019-02012
Available from: 2023-09-13 Created: 2023-09-13 Last updated: 2023-10-24
Potter, E., Miller, F., Lövbrand, E., Houston, D., McLean, J., O’Gorman, E., . . . Ziervogel, G. (2022). A manifesto for shadowplaces: Re-imagining andco-producing connectionsfor justice in an era of climate change. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(1), 272-292
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A manifesto for shadowplaces: Re-imagining andco-producing connectionsfor justice in an era of climate change
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2022 (English)In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, ISSN 2514-8486, E-ISSN 2514-8494 , Vol. 5, no 1, p. 272-292Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this article, on behalf of The Shadow Places Network, we outline a working manifesto of politics and practice. We mobilise the format of the manifesto to speak to an uncertain and damaged future, to begin to imagine other possible worlds. For feminist philosopher Val Plumwood, whose thinking inspires this network, shadow places are the underside of the capitalist fantasy, ‘the multiple disregarded places of economic and ecological support’. In turning towards shadow places, and the unjust and unsustainable processes that produce them, we call for an environmental humanities that reaches beyond abstraction, fosters new responsibilities, considers the uncomfortable, and generates reparative possibilities and alternative futures. We aim to continue to trace out a world of shadow places. We acknowledge that these shadow places cannot be known in full, but through a willingness to engage in careful conversation with the beings and places harmed by (or strategically shielded from) processes of the Anthropocene, we can learn how to relate to each other and these places in more just ways. Recognising that shadow places are impermanent and contingent, this working manifesto does not look to predetermine or prescribe but rather invites conversation, encounter and exchange. In so doing we choose to contribute to making different worlds possible by pursuing new collaborations, new methods and new politics. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2022
Keywords
Climate change, environmental humanities, co-production, collaboration, manifesto
National Category
Social Sciences Humanities and the Arts
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-171771 (URN)10.1177/2514848620977022 (DOI)000756015500014 ()
Note

Funding: Seed Box -A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory (Sweden)

Available from: 2020-12-03 Created: 2020-12-03 Last updated: 2023-01-09Bibliographically approved
Jernnäs, M. & Lövbrand, E. (2022). Accelerating Climate Action: The Politics of Nonstate Actor Engagement in the Paris Regime. Global Environmental Politics, 22(3), 38-58
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Accelerating Climate Action: The Politics of Nonstate Actor Engagement in the Paris Regime
2022 (English)In: Global Environmental Politics, ISSN 1526-3800, E-ISSN 1536-0091, Vol. 22, no 3, p. 38-58Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The 2015 Paris Agreement is often depicted as a turning point for global climate governance. Following years of diplomatic gridlock, it laid the foundations for a new global climate regime that invites states to partner with nonstate actors in the transition to the low-carbon society. This article critically examines the political rationalities that inform the pluralization of climate politics after Paris and the turn toward cooperative modes of governing. Drawing on an analysis of initiatives led by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that were launched to engage nonstate actors in the evolving Paris regime, we identify a global governmentality that mobilizes nonstate actors as active and responsible partners in the quest for rapid and deep decarbonization. In its search for cooperative and efficient forms of problem management, we argue, this form of rule nurtures a global space free from friction and opposition where businesses, investors, and industry are elevated as the real partners of government.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MIT Press, 2022
Keywords
climate change, global governance, nonstate climate action, governmentality
National Category
Political Science Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-185759 (URN)10.1162/glep_a_00660 (DOI)000830113400004 ()
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2017-01889
Note

Funding: Swedish Research Council Formas [2017-01889]; Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research-Mistra

Available from: 2022-06-10 Created: 2022-06-10 Last updated: 2022-08-18
Brodén Gyberg, V. & Lövbrand, E. (2022). Catalyzing industrial decarbonization: the promissorylegitimacy of fossil-free Sweden. Oxford Open Climate Change, 2(1)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Catalyzing industrial decarbonization: the promissorylegitimacy of fossil-free Sweden
2022 (English)In: Oxford Open Climate Change, E-ISSN 2634-4068, Vol. 2, no 1Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In 2017, the Swedish parliament adopted a new climate policy framework that lays the foundations for an ambitious decarbonization of all sectors in Swedish society. To live up to the Paris Agreement’s temperature targets, the parliament decided that Sweden should arrive at net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by year 2045 and thereafter aim for net negative emissions. This progressive climate policy agenda is embedded in a strong collaborative discourse. To begin the transition to a fossil-free society, the Swedish government has invited a wide array of actors to join forces in the formulation and implementation of low carbon initiatives. In this paper we examine the fossil-free society as a powerful socio-technical imaginary that underpins this collaborative effort. We trace the promise attached to this future dreamscape and how it is mobilized by the government initiative Fossil-Free Sweden (FFS) to gain support for industrial decarbonization in the present. Our study draws upon roadmaps produced by FFS together with the Swedish steel, cement, and petroleum industry, as well as semi-structured interviews with selected industry actors. We find that the FFS roadmaps work as powerful “techniques of futuring” that invite industry actors to anticipate the risks and opportunities attached to the fossil-free society and at the same time contribute to shaping that society. While effectively involving incumbent actors in the political project of decarbonization, our study suggests that the roadmaps consolidate around an imagined future that is a techno-optimistic extension of the fossil-intensive present 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2022
Keywords
promissory legitimacy, future making, fossil free, climate politics
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-186719 (URN)10.1093/oxfclm/kgac004 (DOI)
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2019-02012Swedish Research Council Formas, 2017-01889
Available from: 2022-06-30 Created: 2022-06-30 Last updated: 2022-08-05
Lövbrand, E. & Mobjörk, M. (Eds.). (2021). Anthropocene (In)Securities: Reflections on Collective Survival 50 Years after the Stockholm Conference. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Anthropocene (In)Securities: Reflections on Collective Survival 50 Years after the Stockholm Conference
2021 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. p. 148
Series
SIPRI Research Report ; 26
National Category
Social Sciences Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-182467 (URN)9780198787303 (ISBN)
Projects
Mistra Geopolitics
Available from: 2022-01-21 Created: 2022-01-21 Last updated: 2023-01-09Bibliographically approved
Ostwald, M., Uddling, J., Lövbrand, E., Köhlin, G., Linnér, B.-O. & Akselsson, C. (2021). Klimatkompensation i svensk skog en dålig idé.
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2021 (Swedish)Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [sv]

Företag som ser sig om efter åtgärder för att minska sin klimat­påverkan och samtidigt stärka sitt varumärke bör undvika klimat­kompensation i svenska skogar. Det skriver sex forskare.

Series
Svenska Dagbladet Debatt
National Category
Environmental Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-199888 (URN)
Available from: 2024-01-02 Created: 2024-01-02 Last updated: 2024-01-08Bibliographically approved
Lövbrand, E., Mobjörk, M. & Söder, R. (2021). One earth, multiple worlds: One earth, multiple worlds. In: Eva Lövbrand and Malin Mobjörk (Ed.), Anthropocene (In) Securities: Anthropocene (In) Securities (pp. 1-16). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>One earth, multiple worlds: One earth, multiple worlds
2021 (English)In: Anthropocene (In) Securities: Anthropocene (In) Securities / [ed] Eva Lövbrand and Malin Mobjörk, Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2021, p. 1-16Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2021
Series
SIPRI Research Report ; 26
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-182536 (URN)9780198787303 (ISBN)
Projects
Mistra Geopolitics
Available from: 2022-01-25 Created: 2022-01-25 Last updated: 2022-09-01Bibliographically approved
Lövbrand, E., Mobjörk, M. & Söder, R. (2020). The Anthropocene and the Geo-political Imagination: Re-writing Earth as Political Space. Earth System Governance, 4, Article ID 100051.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Anthropocene and the Geo-political Imagination: Re-writing Earth as Political Space
2020 (English)In: Earth System Governance, ISSN 2589-8116, Vol. 4, article id 100051Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The Anthropocene is described as a dangerous and unpredictable era in which fossil-fueled ways of life undermine the planetary systems on which human societies depend. It speaks of a new world of globalized and manufactured risks where neither security nor environment can be interpreted or acted upon in traditional ways. In this paper we examine how debates on the Anthropocene unfold in global politics and how they challenge core assumptions in International Relations. Through a structured analysis of 52 peer-reviewed journal articles, we identify three Anthropocene discourses that speak of new environmental realities for global politics. These are referred to as the endangered world, the entangled world, and the extractivist world. While each discourse describes an increasingly interconnected and fragile world in which conventional binaries such as inside/outside, North/South and us/them can no longer be taken for granted, disagreement prevails over what needs to be secured and by whom.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2020
Keywords
Anthropocene, geopolitics, security, global politics, international relations
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-168074 (URN)10.1016/j.esg.2020.100051 (DOI)000694534400002 ()
Available from: 2020-08-14 Created: 2020-08-14 Last updated: 2022-05-16
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