Christian Ståhl
@christianstahl.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden. Research on climate change, work, welfare. Editor of Sociologisk Forskning. Also makes sociological music. https://liu.se/en/research/growl
New article where we have reviewed policy analyses of the European Green Deal. The discourse of the EGD is more transformative than other climate policies, but its transformative potential is limited by its ecomodernist and eurocentric assumptions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Tangled Up in Green: A Review of Policy Analyses of the European Green Deal
The European Green Deal (EGD) was introduced as a transformative policy agenda for sustainability aiming to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent in the world. While previous research has s...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
New article where we have reviewed policy analyses of the European Green Deal. The discourse of the EGD is more transformative than other climate policies, but its transformative potential is limited by its ecomodernist and eurocentric assumptions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I participated in this EC project doing case studies in Sweden and Spain on the "twin transition", i.e., green and digital. The report is now published. We found both potential synergies and problems (as expected?). publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...
Work in the green and digital transition: insights from case studies in Spain and Sweden
This report investigates the ‘twin transition’ at the workplace level, drawing on twelve case studies in Spain and Sweden across the energy, transport, and finance sectors. Findings reveal that the di...
publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu
November 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I participated in this EC project doing case studies in Sweden and Spain on the "twin transition", i.e., green and digital. The report is now published. We found both potential synergies and problems (as expected?). publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...
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The Trump Action Tracker has an update!
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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October 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The Trump Action Tracker has an update!
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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Agreed! That is an excellent article in @psychmag.bsky.social. For those that missed it - www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Yawning at the apocalypse | BPS
Cameron Brick and Sander van der Linden on how psychologists can help solve the largest social dilemma in history.
www.bps.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Agreed! That is an excellent article in @psychmag.bsky.social. For those that missed it - www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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Ni som inte redan läser Carl Heaths kommentarer om utvecklingen i USA: Gör det.
Vita husets nya direktiv låter FBI fokusera på inhemska hot utifrån ideologi, som "anti-amerikanska åsikter", snarare än brottsplaner. En tyst, administrativ förändring som riskerar att flytta gränsen mellan åsikt och handling och erodera demokratin.
carlheath.se/demokratin-r...
carlheath.se/demokratin-r...
Demokratin rämnar - så angriper USA sig självt
När demokratier dör sker det sällan som en stor smäll. De förtvinar i det tysta, genom administrativa beslut, som verkar tekniska när de fattas, men som i efterhand visar sig ha varit något annat.
carlheath.se
September 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Ni som inte redan läser Carl Heaths kommentarer om utvecklingen i USA: Gör det.
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“We are facing a planetary emergency. The breach of the Ocean Acidification boundary is a stark scientific warning and a moral call to action. Without healthy oceans, peace, prosperity & stability are at risk everywhere. We must act now...to safeguard this life-support system for future generations"
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone
24.09.2025 - A new report from the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) reveals that 7 of the 9 critical Earth system boundaries have now been b...
www.pik-potsdam.de
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
“We are facing a planetary emergency. The breach of the Ocean Acidification boundary is a stark scientific warning and a moral call to action. Without healthy oceans, peace, prosperity & stability are at risk everywhere. We must act now...to safeguard this life-support system for future generations"
New paper out on how we can have resonant conversations with utopian ideas about the future in times of climate crisis, and how this can spur “imaginaction” and futuring practices. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Meeting utopia halfway: A hauntological approach to resonant conversations with utopian futures in times of climate crisis - Christian Ståhl, 2025
The climate crisis calls for political conversations that go beyond what is currently accepted within capitalist discourse. In this article, I outline theoretic...
journals.sagepub.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New paper out on how we can have resonant conversations with utopian ideas about the future in times of climate crisis, and how this can spur “imaginaction” and futuring practices. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Samuel L. Jackson promotes wind energy - didn't imagine to spread commercials here, but this one's just too good not to! Any combo of Pulp Fiction references and green transition will make me smile. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uEp...
Uncensored version with Samuel L. Jackson - A taste of fossil freedom
YouTube video by Vattenfall
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August 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Samuel L. Jackson promotes wind energy - didn't imagine to spread commercials here, but this one's just too good not to! Any combo of Pulp Fiction references and green transition will make me smile. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uEp...
Since I’m still in vacation mood, I’ll share the result of this summer’s music project: the death metal album “Morphocide” - dealing with the turn toward fascism in the US, climate, Gaza, and more. Give it a spin! thebreachingexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/morpho...
Morphocide, by The Breaching Experiment
13 track album
thebreachingexperiment.bandcamp.com
August 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Since I’m still in vacation mood, I’ll share the result of this summer’s music project: the death metal album “Morphocide” - dealing with the turn toward fascism in the US, climate, Gaza, and more. Give it a spin! thebreachingexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/morpho...
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Love this comic, but the research on resistance actually finds that anger fuels resistance. I would shift the order so it's consistent with the research findings:
Denial-> Depression-> Anger->RESISTANCE!
Denial-> Depression-> Anger->RESISTANCE!
August 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Love this comic, but the research on resistance actually finds that anger fuels resistance. I would shift the order so it's consistent with the research findings:
Denial-> Depression-> Anger->RESISTANCE!
Denial-> Depression-> Anger->RESISTANCE!
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”Om EPA:s förslag går igenom vill myndigheten därefter slopa utsläppsrestriktionerna för den amerikanska fordonsflottan.” Läs @simoncampanello.bsky.social
USA vill sluta kalla växthusgaser farliga: ”Hål i huvudet”
Miljöskyddsmyndigheten EPA vill riva upp beslutet som ligger till grund för utsläppskrav på bilar, industrier och kraftverk.
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August 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
”Om EPA:s förslag går igenom vill myndigheten därefter slopa utsläppsrestriktionerna för den amerikanska fordonsflottan.” Läs @simoncampanello.bsky.social
R.I.P. Ozzy. What an ending of a career and a life. Thanks for everything.
July 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
R.I.P. Ozzy. What an ending of a career and a life. Thanks for everything.
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Some very good news for academics chasing permissions & high res images.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
www.openculture.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Some very good news for academics chasing permissions & high res images.
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Despair? There's no time you have work to do! As for me I'm going to lie down in this puddle and be miserable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I am prone to fatalist climate doomerism. But is it really too late? | First Dog on the Moon
It’s bad (real bad) but it’s NOT over
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Despair? There's no time you have work to do! As for me I'm going to lie down in this puddle and be miserable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States."
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
Concentration Camp Labor
Cannot Become Normal
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July 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States."
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
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Climate researchers face an antagonistic climate of denial, scepticism, and distrust. This impacts their communication and research negatively.
Read further in a new study published in @ambio-journal.bsky.social by Laila Mendy and me.
Our findings are concerning.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Read further in a new study published in @ambio-journal.bsky.social by Laila Mendy and me.
Our findings are concerning.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Coping with an antagonistic climate: Researchers' perspectives - Ambio
Swedish researchers face an antagonistic climate of denial, scepticism, and distrust. Despite Sweden’s reputation as a climate forerunner, our interviews with 30 researchers show problems for conducti...
link.springer.com
July 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Climate researchers face an antagonistic climate of denial, scepticism, and distrust. This impacts their communication and research negatively.
Read further in a new study published in @ambio-journal.bsky.social by Laila Mendy and me.
Our findings are concerning.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Read further in a new study published in @ambio-journal.bsky.social by Laila Mendy and me.
Our findings are concerning.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
Very good read, specifically on the different approaches toward doomerism.
Spot on, as usual, from @doctorvive.bsky.social...
"We need to correct a false narrative that the #climate threat is under control. These enormous risks are potentially catastrophic. They would undo the connections between human & ecological systems that form the basis of all of our civilisation"
"We need to correct a false narrative that the #climate threat is under control. These enormous risks are potentially catastrophic. They would undo the connections between human & ecological systems that form the basis of all of our civilisation"
‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Very good read, specifically on the different approaches toward doomerism.
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In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why
The public discourse is not keeping up.
Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵
The public discourse is not keeping up.
Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵
June 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why
The public discourse is not keeping up.
Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵
The public discourse is not keeping up.
Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵
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Critical data studies meet sociology! We are proud to publish this exciting special issue which has been managed by guest editors Julia Velkova and Ericka Johnson.
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Vol 62 Nr 1-2 (2025): Sociologisk Forskning 62(1-2)
| Sociologisk Forskning
sociologiskforskning.se
June 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Critical data studies meet sociology! We are proud to publish this exciting special issue which has been managed by guest editors Julia Velkova and Ericka Johnson.
sociologiskforskning.se/sf/issue/vie...
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Som enda svenska bank river Nordea upp sitt eget klimatlöfte och öppnar för nya lån till några av världens mest klimatskadliga fossilprojekt. Det visar en granskning av Fair Finance Guide och Naturskyddsföreningen.
Nordea sänker hållbarhetskrav – öppnar upp för olja i Arktis
klimatgranskaren.se
June 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Som enda svenska bank river Nordea upp sitt eget klimatlöfte och öppnar för nya lån till några av världens mest klimatskadliga fossilprojekt. Det visar en granskning av Fair Finance Guide och Naturskyddsföreningen.
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Makthavarna har uppdraget att investera i den teknik och de levnadssätt som krävs för att bevara planeten. Regeringen gör tvärt om. Ifjol ökade därför utsläppen i Sverige med nästan 6%. Det är unikt uselt
www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/8q0...
www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/8q0...
Nytt rekord i utsläpp – unikt usla på klimatpolitik
Under 2024 ökade utsläppen från svensk ekonomi med nästan 6 procent. Det visar färska siffror från SCB.
www.aftonbladet.se
June 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Makthavarna har uppdraget att investera i den teknik och de levnadssätt som krävs för att bevara planeten. Regeringen gör tvärt om. Ifjol ökade därför utsläppen i Sverige med nästan 6%. Det är unikt uselt
www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/8q0...
www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/8q0...
New article out today on how European workplaces apply and interpret regulation on work environment, and how this is influenced by organizational and other conditions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Improving work environments through regulation: A literature review on the influence of regulation, inspection practices and organizational conditions in European workplaces
This article reviews existing European research on how work environment legislation is received and put into practice in workplace contexts, focusing …
www.sciencedirect.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
New article out today on how European workplaces apply and interpret regulation on work environment, and how this is influenced by organizational and other conditions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Andreas Malm, interviewed by Bernardo Jurema and Elias König on his recent book, “Overshoot” (from @versobooks.bsky.social), written with Wim Carton.
Malm spoke to Protean on the “unique” case of Colombia, Freudo-Marxism, his forthcoming "The Long Heat," and more.
proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...
Malm spoke to Protean on the “unique” case of Colombia, Freudo-Marxism, his forthcoming "The Long Heat," and more.
proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...
Uncompromising Resistance: A Conversation With Andreas Malm • Protean Magazine
There are few contemporary intellectuals who can claim to have an official FBI warning to their name; Andreas Malm, associate professor of human ecology at Lund University, is the subject of at least ...
proteanmag.com
June 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Andreas Malm, interviewed by Bernardo Jurema and Elias König on his recent book, “Overshoot” (from @versobooks.bsky.social), written with Wim Carton.
Malm spoke to Protean on the “unique” case of Colombia, Freudo-Marxism, his forthcoming "The Long Heat," and more.
proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...
Malm spoke to Protean on the “unique” case of Colombia, Freudo-Marxism, his forthcoming "The Long Heat," and more.
proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...
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Good news: EU capitals are planning to reach the #climate target of 55% by 2030.
The aggregate of the 27 national plans get us to 54% according to the Commission.
These findings cut through the political noise of a 'backlash' and reveal a more consistent reality of progress.
My full take here ⬇️
The aggregate of the 27 national plans get us to 54% according to the Commission.
These findings cut through the political noise of a 'backlash' and reveal a more consistent reality of progress.
My full take here ⬇️
May 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Good news: EU capitals are planning to reach the #climate target of 55% by 2030.
The aggregate of the 27 national plans get us to 54% according to the Commission.
These findings cut through the political noise of a 'backlash' and reveal a more consistent reality of progress.
My full take here ⬇️
The aggregate of the 27 national plans get us to 54% according to the Commission.
These findings cut through the political noise of a 'backlash' and reveal a more consistent reality of progress.
My full take here ⬇️