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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

About 

Professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg.

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. Recently, he has also focused on the relationship between political legitimacy and the 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. He is the author (with Bengt Brülde) of the popular science book Klimatetik: Rättvisa, Politik och Individens Ansvar (Thales, 2015). Göran won the 2023 Brian Barry Prize in political science.

Current externally funded research projects:

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

Teaching

Göran is course director of the master course SK2223 Environmental Problems within Social Science: From Tragedy of the Commons to Planetary Boundaries. He is also teaching on SK1124 Politisk teori, which is a first semester undergraduate course on the history of political thought. Göran is currently the second supervisor of Micheline Egge Grung (Oslo University).