In this paper, we explore how cryptocurrencies have been received in Sweden and Japan, and what specific attitudes and discourses may reveal about the ethical implications surrounding this new technology. By way of topic modelling prevalent discourses on social media among users of cryptocurrencies, and teasing out the more culturally situated sign...
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a technology for mitigating emissions from large point-source industries. In addition to the primary role of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, CCS forms the basis for two large-scale negative emissions technologies by coupling geologic CO2 storage with bioenergy (BECCS) and direct air carbon captur...
This paper is based on research with environmentally engaged trade unionists in India. It follows their trajectories into the trade union and explores their environmental engagements. A short presentation of the history of Indian trade unionism, aims to understand its ‘multi-unionism’. Analysing three exemplary life-histories of unionists, their mo...
The markets for aircraft, airlines and airports are in a phase of major reconsideration, transition and change. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this process turbulent and even more acute. Even before the pandemic, travellers questioned fossil-based aviation, a sign of the shift in preferences amongconsumers. Aircraft producers and airlines had not r...
A functioning health care system is important and expected by the society to meet the populations expectations and needs. This requires financial as well as human resources. But what is the bigger issue if the health care spends a lot of money on medical locum. The big expense, or the fact that it is necessary?After 1990 several sectors were re-reg...
This article analyses the energy transition of the Swedish iron and steel industry (1800–1939), a leading actor in the European iron and steel market during the 19th and 20th centuries. This industry is an interesting case to analyse from the perspective of energy transition and the composition and change of capital stock (classified by energy tech...
Within the context of economic history, this case study discusses “separatist cooperation” as an organizational and economic strategy for addressing multiple forms of alienation and inequality. Unique in the European cooperative movement at the time, The Women’s Cooperative Society Swedish Homes (Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem), active in St...
