Annika Julia Skoglund

• PhD. Industrial Economics and Management
• Associate Professor at Uppsala University and the University of Bristol

With criticism of human superiority related to the Anthropocene, resilience is no longer recognized as enough. The human should be made more openly aware of its ecologically interconnected and dethroned state to give up on its last sense of ‘human’ autonomy, as critically exposed in the political science book under review: Becoming Indigenous, Gove...

What is activism? The answer is, typically, that it is a form of opposition, often expressed on the streets. Skoglund and Böhm argue differently. They identify forms of 'insider activism' within corporations, state agencies and villages, showing how people seek to transform society by working within the system, rather than outright opposing it. Usi...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a virus, SARS-CoV-2, started to spread around the world from its origin in Wuhan, China to create a pandemic that claimed millions of lives . The editor of The Lancet, a leading medical journal, nevertheless suggested that the outbreak in 2020 would be better described as a syndemic , characterised...

Energy transitions have continuously impacted steel production processes, with shifts from charcoal to coking coal and from oil to natural gas. Concerned about how the steel industry still is dominated by ‘the past’ of such fossil fuels, a ‘Breakthrough Agenda vision’ has been articulated to stimulate ‘a cascade of tipping points’ (Systemiq 2023)....

This chapter discusses climate activism in relation to speed, to explore two emerging polarized forms of “insider activism”, conceptualised as movements pursued in professional contexts. Both movements respond to the expressed “climate emergency”, the first by propagating for a Fast movement and the second for a Slow movement. By first presenting a...

As Povinelli shares with us during the interview, her trajectory was constituted in the middle of the 1980s following her life-changing encounter with the elders in Belyuen inthe Australian Northern Territory. In the wake of that encounter, and with urgent issues raised about indigeneity due to changes in Australian law, Povinelli has been working...

Climate activists across generations and borders demonstrate in the streets, while people also take climate actions via everyday professional efforts at work. In this dispersal of climate actions, the pursuit of personal politics is merging with civic, state and corporate commitment to the point where we are witnessing a rebirth of togetherness and...

Climate activists across generations and borders demonstrate in the streets, while people also take climate actions via everyday professional efforts at work. In this dispersal of climate actions, the pursuit of personal politics is merging with civic, state and corporate commitment to the point where we are witnessing a rebirth of togetherness and...

Climate activists across generations and borders demonstrate in the streets, while people also take climate actions via everyday professional efforts at work. In this dispersal of climate actions, the pursuit of personal politics is merging with civic, state and corporate commitment to the point where we are witnessing a rebirth of togetherness and...

Climate activists across generations and borders demonstrate in the streets, while people also take climate actions via everyday professional efforts at work. In this dispersal of climate actions, the pursuit of personal politics is merging with civic, state and corporate commitment to the point where we are witnessing a rebirth of togetherness and...

Climate activists across generations and borders demonstrate in the streets, while people also take climate actions via everyday professional efforts at work. In this dispersal of climate actions, the pursuit of personal politics is merging with civic, state and corporate commitment to the point where we are witnessing a rebirth of togetherness and...

Climate activists across generations and borders demonstrate in the streets, while people also take climate actions via everyday professional efforts at work. In this dispersal of climate actions, the pursuit of personal politics is merging with civic, state and corporate commitment to the point where we are witnessing a rebirth of togetherness and...

Climate activists across generations and borders demonstrate in the streets, while people also take climate actions via everyday professional efforts at work. In this dispersal of climate actions, the pursuit of personal politics is merging with civic, state and corporate commitment to the point where we are witnessing a rebirth of togetherness and...

Climate activists across generations and borders demonstrate in the streets, while people also take climate actions via everyday professional efforts at work. In this dispersal of climate actions, the pursuit of personal politics is merging with civic, state and corporate commitment to the point where we are witnessing a rebirth of togetherness and...

Climate activists across generations and borders demonstrate in the streets, while people also take climate actions via everyday professional efforts at work. In this dispersal of climate actions, the pursuit of personal politics is merging with civic, state and corporate commitment to the point where we are witnessing a rebirth of togetherness and...

What is activism? The answer is, typically, that it is a form of opposition, often expressed on the streets. Skoglund and Böhm argue differently. They identify forms of 'insider activism' within corporations, state agencies and villages, showing how people seek to transform society by working within the system, rather than outright opposing it. Usi...

Climate activists across generations and borders demonstrate in the streets, while people also take climate actions via everyday professional efforts at work. In this dispersal of climate actions, the pursuit of personal politics is merging with civic, state and corporate commitment to the point where we are witnessing a rebirth of togetherness and...

This article is a companion to “Pride: Alternative Entrepreneurship Enjoyed,” a videography about the company Prezi’s engagement in the Budapest Pride parade. The aim is to advance video ethnographic methods within Organization and Management Studies (OMS) based on Agamben’s profanatory philosophical method, which puts into focus abstract “sacred”...

Toilets, a neglected facility in the study of human relations at work and beyond, have become increasingly important in discussions about future experiences of gender diversity. To further investigate the spatial production of gender and its potential expressions, we transformed a unisex single-occupancy toilet at Uppsala University into an all-gen...

This special issue engages with the unsettling of the humanities to further explore its relevance for management learning and education. It explores how themes traditionally belonging to the humanities have spurred critical inquiry and raised theoretical issues within other disciplines, following the crisis of the classical humanist ideal as ‘the m...

Published video ethnography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyKq513PJNs&feature=youtu.be The purpose of this paper is to develop videographic methods for the study of alternative entrepreneurship, with a theoretical focus on “ethical uncertainties”, exemplified in this paper by the exploration of evolving actions and unpredictable outcomes in a...

The Swedish government has been an ambitious contributor to the sustainability discourse. Especially in its attempts to make citizens aware of human-induced climate change, create compliance, and speed up solutions, notably by the commercialization of renewable energy technology. In this merger of ecological modernization and democratic deliberatio...

Filming employees of a Hungarian company, Prezi, and their counter demonstrators at the Budapest Pride march, becomes an aesthetic attempt at affirming a sense of eventfulness through the methodological approach, whilst situating the ethnographer directly within struggles for openness and inclusion in a particular political context (Renkin, 2015; 2...

The separation between an ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of organizsational politics has become untenable in a rapidly changing political landscape, where people engage in environmental activism in many different domains. To understand contemporary environmental activism, we situate ourselves empirically within an energy utility, Ordalia [pseudonym], a lar...

Juvenocracy—i.e., when children and youth govern adults—has been academically developed and extended as a concept since the early 1970s. Since that time, scholarly thought has moved away from static modernistic attributions of power to focus more on how power relations are negotiated and unfold. Whilst early conceptualizations of juvenocracy rest o...

Giorgio Agamben argues in The Kingdom and the Glory (2011) that a theological remnant has survived since the medieval period that today makes it impossible to think of government and economy, or ethico-political questions and the administration of a society’s resources, separately. This conflation can be recognized in today’s growing trend of alter...

Prezi, a zooming presentation tool, has been spoken and programmed into being according to well-known ideas of transmission, collaboration, and augmentation. This chapter traces the 'productiveness' in the shifts between these three themes, moving from transmission through collaboration towards the mobilization of technologies for the more-than-hum...

This study investigates how the quadruple helix (QH) innovation model functions in a regional renewable energy initiative in Uppsala, Sweden. The focus is on the collaboration between regional office representatives, researchers, consultants and civil society, and their involvement in the attempt to implement and commercialize an innovation within...

Call for Papers - Special Issue of Management Learning: "Management Learning and the Unsettled Humanities" Deadline for submissions: June 01, 2019

How can we study a company's call for "openness" and ambition to create an alternative form of entrepreneurship? This article introduces a videography (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX1QzYCcXdo) of the Hungarian company Prezi, with a focus on their efforts to nurture an internal organisational culture defined by openness, as well as a desire to a...

Entrepreneurship has spread via an abundance of organizations and people that embrace the prosperity its logic currently promises. Apart from the generation of new companies and market places this promise also entails a flexible invention of entrepreneurial subjectivities and self-investment via alternative choices (Bröckling, 2016). We have recent...

Whilst we know quite a bit about organized forms of climate skepticism, very few studies focus on how disorganized climate skeptics seek an underdog position to speak truth to power. Hence, we investigate frank speech as updated ancient forms of truth-telling, ‘parrhesia’, in two Swedish empirical sources that strongly question the climate change c...

Biopolitics, traditionally understood as management of the human population, has been extended to include nonhuman animal life and posthuman life. In this article, we turn to literatures that advance Foucauldian biopolitics to explore the mode of government enabled by the dog of the US presidential family – the First Dog called Bo Obama. With analy...

What form does entrepreneurship take when companies aim for social value creation? This videography (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX1QzYCcXdo) illustrates how the Hungarian company Prezi engages in the Roma community in the village Bag, one hour from Budapest. Based on an ethnographic method, the documentary is produced by entrepreneurship resea...

Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change provides a new perspective on how climate change matters in policy-making, business and everyday life. It argues that the work of low carbon transitions takes place through the creation of devices, the mobilisation of desires, and the articulation of dissent. Using case studies from the US, Australia, a...

http://www.ephemerajournal.org/forthcoming-reviews/Handbook-of-entrepreneurship-and-sustainable-development

With a dissemination of knowledge about the climate, and how it is linked to ecological systems, sustainable development has increasingly tuned into complexity, vulnerability and resilience (Reid, 2013). Furthermore, vulnerability is underpinned by ‘uncertainty’, which is not only visible in descriptions of catastrophic processes in general, but es...

Available for free here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/…/article/pii/S0956522114001262 The environmental humanities call for post-disciplinary approaches to meet the vexing problem of climate change. However, scholars have not scrutinised how management and organisation studies (MOS) could contribute to such an endeavour. This research note explores...

Sustainable development policies foster resilient subjects, specifically by offering insecurity and climate adaptation to the global South. In contrast, this article presents an analysis of how the overdeveloped subject in the North is seduced to join the social-ecological system, to revalue life and actively spread a certain way of living to every...

Northern children have been increasingly referred to as competent, participative and influential, called on to protect and produce certain life at times of climate risks. Child–adult relations and the required transition to adulthood are thus transformed by a re-configured ‘biopolitics’. We trace how various collaborative actors invite children to...

http://video.startupday.se/video/8051559/karin-berglund-annika-skoglund-and-imre

Solutions to climate change have been academically criticized for their continued economic growth, managerialism and lack of real politics. In comparison, the IPCC's socio-economic assessments of climate change have accentuated the ethical implications of their own policy recommendations. Our analysis of ten IPCC reports (1990–2012) shows a turn fr...

Environmental concerns have increasingly led to the installation of Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) despite the fact that they are recognized as expensive. Innovative efforts within the area are beset with difficulties [1], and they are at risk of producing misdirected or insignificant improvements in terms of the cost effectiveness of total e...

Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) are often recognized as less competitive than traditional electric energy conversion systems. Obstacles with renewable electric energy conversion systems are often referred to the intermittency of the energy sources [1] and the relatively high maintenance cost. However, due to an intensified discourse on climate...