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Carl Cassegård
Professor
Department of Sociology and Work ScienceAbout Carl Cassegård
CARL CASSEGÅRD has taught and researched as a sociologist at the University of Gothenburg since 2009. His research has largely been in the field of cultural sociology and social theory. His research on how literature and popular culture can be used to trace shifting experiences of modernity and shifts in the ideal of the ”good life” led to dissertations in sociology at Kyoto University in Japan in 2002 and at Lund University in Sweden in 2004, and to a book, Shock and Naturalization, which was published in 2007. Carl’s research since 2003 mainly relates to social movements. Much of his interest concerns the experience of modern society – as shocking or natural, unresponsive or as an environment that we have the power to reshape – and how this experience is influenced by marginalization and by engagement in social movements and activism. This led to the book Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan which was published in 2014. In recent years he has been especially interested in the environmental movement and the question of what makes people engage in environmental activism even when they lose hope in the possibility of saving the world. The book Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology, and Dialectics, which was published in 2021, is a theoretical work on the relation between capitalism and nature, and the possibilities of critique in a world characterized by catastrophes. Together with Håkan Thörn he is also the author of Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism: The Green Movement in Times of Catastrophe (2022) and I apokalypsens skugga. Miljörörelser och industrikapitalism 1870-2020 (2023). Theoretically his background is in Marxism and Critical Theory, and several of his texts discuss thinkers in this tradition.
Specialist Fields Social movements, empowerment, urban space and gentrification, the public sphere, collective trauma, and theories of modernity.
Current research Since 2021 he studies the environmental movement in the project "Adapting to Climate Change: Emotions and Narratives in the Environmental Movement".
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The gaze from afar: climate action despite the loss of
hope
Carl Cassegård, Karl Malmqvist, Åsa Wettergren, Ulrika Winter
Environmental Politics - 2025 -
The ruthless critique of everything existing: Nature and revolution in Marcuse’s philosophy of
praxis.
Carl Cassegård
Philosophy & Social Criticism - 2025 -
Postapokalyptische Ökologie: Hoffnung und Gerechtigkeit im Katastrophenzeitalter neu
denken
Carl Cassegård, Håkan Thörn
Politische Bildung und Zukunft. Wie Herausforderungen im Anthropozän denken? - 2024 -
Fredric Jameson
(1934-2024)
Carl Cassegård
Röda Rummet – Socialistisk Politiks teoretiska tidskrift - 2024 -
Beethoven som
miljökamp
Carl Cassegård
Röda Rummet – Socialistisk Politiks teoretiska tidskrift - 2024 -
Activism without hope? Four varieties of postapocalyptic
environmentalism
Carl Cassegård
Environmental Politics - 2024 -
“Homelessness, Art, and Activism in Japan from the Early ’90s until
Today”
Carl Cassegård
David H. Slater & Patricia G. Steinhoff (eds.) Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan: New Directions in Social Movements, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press - 2024 -
Éco-marxisme et théorie critique de la nature : deux perspectives sur l’écologie et la
dialectique
Carl Cassegård
Prismes: Théorie critique - 2024 -
Toward a resonant society An interview with Hartmut
Rosa
Carl Cassegård, Karl Malmqvist, C. Ståhl, H. Rosa
Sociologisk Forskning - 2023 -
The recovery of protest in Japan: from the ‘ice age’ to the post-2011
movements
Carl Cassegård
Social Movement Studies - 2023 -
I apokalypsens skugga. Miljörörelser och industrikapitalism
1870–2020
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Om hopp och kriser, en fråga till Ståle
Holgersen
Carl Cassegård
Röda rummet - 2023 -
“The future of environmental
movements”
Carl Cassegård
Maria Grasso & Mario Giugni (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements - 2022 -
Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism: The Green Movement in Times of
Catastrophe
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The reification of nature and how to resist it: contributions from the critical theory of
nature
Carl Cassegård
Questões Ecológicas em Perspectiva Interdisciplinar, Vol. 2 - 2022 -
Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology, and
Dialectics
Carl Cassegård
2021 -
“Ideologi och utopi i katastrofens sken: Om begreppet
’bärgning’”
Carl Cassegård
Evelina Johansson Wilén & Tomas Wedin & Carl Wilén (eds.) Ideologikritik, Lund: Studentlitteratur. - 2021 -
Is dialectics applicable to nature?
The ‘Lukács problem’ and the critical theory of
nature
Carl Cassegård
Azimuth: Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age» - 2020 -
Corona hotar förvärra svenska bostadskrisen. 108 forskare: Sveriges regering och kommuner måste förhindra en
katastrof.
Abdellah Abarkan, Jimmie Andersén, Björn Andersson, Roger Andersson, Karin Backvall, Guy Baeten, Bo Bengtsson, Bo Borén, Annelie Björkhagen Turesson, Pål Brunnström, Annelie de Cabo, Carl Cassegård, Eric Clark, Carin Cuadra, Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, Magnus Dahlstedt, Tobias Davidsson, Verner Denvall, Magdalena Elmersjö, Ilia Farahani, Mats Franzén, Catharina Gabrielsson, Wiktoria Glad, Karin Grundström, Jennie Gustafsson, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Tigran Haas, Ali Hajighasemi, Christina Hansen, Erik Hansson, Björn Hellström, Maria Hellström Reimer, Greger Henriksson, Mikaela Herbert, Ståle Holgersen, Helena Holgersson, Lill Hultman, Lovisa Häckner Posse, Define Kadioglu, J-H Kain, Lisa Kings, Pia Kjellbom, Marcus Knutagård, Arne Kristiansen, Mattias Kärrholm, Philip Lalander, Ann Legeby, Joshua Levy, Linnea Lindemann, Gunilla Lindholm, Christina Lindkvist, Carina Listerborn, Anders Lund Hansen, Anna Lundberg, Jörgen Lundälv, Jennifer Mack, Jesper Magnusson, Miguel A. Martínez, Helena Mattsson, Jonathan Metzger, Irene Molina, Norma Montesino, Paula Mulinari, Kristina L Nilsson, Marie Nordfeldt, Vanna Nordling, Ola Nylander, Katarina Nylund, Lina Olsson, Alexandru Panican, Peter Parker, Vitor Peiteado Fernández, Maria Persdotter, Dominika V Polanska, Emil Pull, Åse Richard, Max Ritts, Agatino Rizzo, Kim Roelofs, Harald Rohracher, Frida Rosenberg, Tapio Salonen, Ingrid Sahlin, Tove Samzelius, Meike Schalk, Staffan Schmidt, Johanna Sixtensson, Manuela Sjöström, Alicia Smedberg, Erik Stenberg, Jenny Stenberg, Kristina Carlsson Stylianides, Hans Swärd, Catharina Thörn, Håkan Thörn, Hoai Anh Tran, Mekonnen Tesfahuney, Susanne Urban, Chiara Valli, Karina Villacura, Inga Britt Werner, Ulrika Wernesjö, Stig Westerdahl, María José Zapata Campos, Klara Öberg, Andreas Öjehag, Kerstin Annadotter, Monica Larsson
Aftonbladet - 2020 -
Counter-spaces, no-man’s-lands and mainstream public space: Representational spaces in homeless activism in
Japan
Carl Cassegård
The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society - 2019 -
Världssystemet, arbetet och den politiska
makten
Carl Cassegård
Röda rummet - 2019 -
Ràng wǒmen huó! Rìběn lín gōng yùndòng de péi lì hé shēnghuó
xiūcí
Carl Cassegård
The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) - 2018 -
Toward a postapocalyptic environmentalism? Responses to loss and visions of the future in climate
activism
Carl Cassegård, Håkan Thörn
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space - 2018 -
Dissenting Japan: A History of Japanese Radicalism and
Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima by William
Andrews
(review)
Carl Cassegård
Journal of Japanese Studies - 2018 -
Individualized
solidarity
Carl Cassegård
Eurozine - 2018 -
Om den individualiserade solidaritetens
möjligheter
Carl Cassegård
Fronesis - 2018 -
The Post-Fukushima Anti-Nuke Protests and their Impact on Japanese
Environmentalism
Carl Cassegård
Chiavacci D. & Obinger J. (red) Social Movements and Political Activism in Contemporary Japan: Re-emerging from Invisibility - 2018 -
Eco-Marxism and the critical theory of nature: two perspectives on ecology and
dialectics
Carl Cassegård
Distinktion : Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory - 2017 -
COP as a global public sphere: News media frames, movement frames, and the media standing of climate movement
actors
Carl Cassegård, Linda Soneryd
Cassegård C., Soneryd L., Thörn H., Wettergren Å. (eds). Climate Action in a Globalizing World: Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Movements in the Global North, - 2017 -
Between Government and Grassroots: Challenges to Institutionalization in the Japanese Environmental
Movement
Carl Cassegård
Cassegård C., Soneryd L., Thörn H., Wettergren Å. (eds). Climate Action in a Globalizing World: Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Movements in the Global North - 2017 -
Climate justice, equity and movement
mobilization
Carl Cassegård, Håkan Thörn
Cassegård, C. Soneryd, L., Thörn, H. and Wettergren, Å. (eds.) Climate Action in a Globalizing World: Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Movements in the Global North. - 2017 -
Hegemony and Environmentalist Strategy: Global governance, movement mobilization and climate
justice
Håkan Thörn, Carl Cassegård, Linda Soneryd, Åsa Wettergren
Cassegård C., Soneryd L., Thörn H.., Wettergren Å., (eds) Climate Action in a Globalizing World: Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Movements in the Global North - 2017 -
Climate action in a globalizing world: an
introduction
Håkan Thörn, Carl Cassegård, Linda Soneryd, Åsa Wettergren
Cassegård C., Soneryd L., Thörn H., Wettergren Å. (eds.) Climate Action in a Globalizing World: Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Movements in the Global North - 2017 -
Climate action in a globalizing World: Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Movements in the Global
North
Carl Cassegård, Håkan Thörn, Linda Soneryd, Åsa Wettergren
2017 -
Recension av Mats Franzén, Nils Hertting & Catharina Thörn, Stad till salu: En treprenörsurbanismen och det offentliga rummets värde. Göteborg: Daidalos,
2016
Carl Cassegård
Sociologisk forskning - 2017 -
What's alternative about alternative
space?
Carl Cassegård
5 Designing Media Ecology - 2016 -
Naturalized Modernity and the Resistance it Evokes: Sociological Theory Meets Murakami
Haruki
Carl Cassegård
ProtoSociology - 2016 -
Review of Stina Hansson, Sofie Hellberg and Maria Stern (eds), Studying the Agency of Being
Governed
Carl Cassegård
Acta Sociologica - 2016 -
I svallvågorna av Fukushima – Kommer Japan att våga satsa på kärnkraft
igen?
Carl Cassegård, Marie Söderberg
Japan nu - strömningar och perspektiv - 2015 -
Towards a Post-apocalyptic
Environmentalism?
Carl Cassegård
Mobilizing Ideas - 2015 -
Youth Movements, Trauma, and Alternative Space in Contemporary
Japan
Carl Cassegård
2014 -
National consensus culture meets global climate justice: the cases of Japan, Denmark and
Sweden
Carl Cassegård, Håkan Thörn, Åsa Wettergren, Linda Soneryd
XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Joint Session of RC24 & RC47, 13-19 July, Yokohama. - 2014 -
Collective Trauma: The Legacy of New Left and the Recovery of Political Activism in
Japan
Carl Cassegård
Sociologidagarna, 14 March, Göteborg. - 2014 -
Waking up from the dream”: Nagai Park’s theatre of
resistance
Carl Cassegård
XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Research Committee on Social Classes and Social Movements, RC47, 13-19 July, Yokohama - 2014 -
Låt de hungerstrejkande palestinierna
stanna
Hanna Wikström, Tobias Davidsson, Gustav Svensson, André Rodin, Adrián Groglopo, Anders Törnquist, Ann Ighe, Anna Hall, Anna Nelson, Anna R Bengtsson, Anette Skårner, Anton Törnberg, Björn Andersson, Carl Cassegård, Carl Wilén, Catharina Thörn, Charlotte Melander
SVT Opinion - 2014 -
Contestation and Bracketing: The Relation between Public Space and the Public
Sphere
Carl Cassegård
Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space - 2014 -
Lovable Anarchism: Campus Protest in Japan from the 1990s until
Today
Carl Cassegård
Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research - 2014 -
Let us live! Empowerment and the Rhetoric of Life in the Japanese Precarity
Movement
Carl Cassegård
positions: east asia cultures critique - 2014 -
Review of Marisa von Bülow, Building Transnational Networks: Civil Society and the Politics of Trade in the
Americas
Carl Cassegård
American Journal of Sociology - 2013 -
Activism Beyond the Pleasure Principle? Homelessness and Art in the Shinjuku
Underground
Carl Cassegård
Third Text - 2013
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