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Göran Duus-Otterström

Professor

Department of Political
Science
Mail
goran.duus-otterstrom@pol.gu.se
Fax
+46 31-786 45 99
Visiting address
sprängkullsgatan 21
411 23 Göteborg
Room number
B430
Postal address
Box 711
40530 Göteborg

About Göran Duus-Otterström

Göran is professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg.

Background

Göran was awarded his PhD in political science by the University of Gothenburg in 2008. Following a postdoc at Warwick University, he returned to Gothenburg, where he was appointed as lecturer in 2012. He was promoted to associate professor (docent) in 2012 and full professor in 2018. Between 2017 and 2021, he was associate professor of political science at Aarhus University. Since 2015, he has been employed as a researcher in the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm.

Research

Göran's research is in normative political theory. The bulk of his work can be divided into two categories: on the one hand, the justification of legal punishment, on the other hand, climate ethics and climate justice. Göran's work on punishment explores retributivism, particularly the concept of desert and the idea that punishment can be justified by appeals to "fair play." Recently, he has also focused on the relationship between political legitimacy and the state's right to coerce. Göran's research on climate ethics is primarily on fair burden sharing, that is, how the costs of climate policy ought to be allocated between actors. His work has been published by journals such as Environmental Politics, European Journal of Political Theory, Global Environmental Change och Law & Philosophy. He is also the author (with Bengt Brülde) of the popular science book Klimatetik: Rättvisa, Politik och Individens Ansvar (Thales, 2015).

Göran is co-PI of the research programme “Climate Ethics and Future Generations” (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2018-2023), which explores central ethical questions raised by climate change and climate policies. For more information about this project, click here.

Teaching

Göran is teaching SK1124 Politisk teori and LGK20G/L9K20G: Styrsystem, organisation och bedömning för ämneslärare. As of spring 2022, he is course director of SK2223 Environmental Problems within Social Science: From Tragedy of the Commons to Planetary Boundaries.

Göran has supervised three PhD students to completion. He is currently the second supervisor of two PhD students: Micheline Egge Grung (Oslo University) and Jens Tyssedal (Aarhus University).