Göran Duus-Otterström
About Göran Duus-Otterström
Göran received his PhD in political science from the University of Gothenburg in 2008 on a thesis on justice in punishment. After a postdoc at the University of Warwick (2008-2009), he returned to the department to work as a research fellow in a project on climate justice. In 2012, he took up a permanent position in the department as Lecturer. Later the same year he was declared Docent by the University of Gothenburg (roughly, Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor). In 2013 he held a visiting position at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.
As of 2017, Göran is on partial leave from the department to take up a position as Associate Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University. He is also an affiliated reseacher in the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, and an associate editor at Res Publica. His book Klimatetik: Rättvisa, Politik, och Individens Ansvar, co-authored with Bengt Brülde, was recently published by Thales. For more on the book, click here.
Göran is currently finishing up a project called “Fair Play Retributivism and the Problem of Punishment”, funded by the Swedish Research Council. He recently won another grant from the Swedish Research Council entitled "Pollution-Based Climate Justice: Sources, Thresholds, Patterns", and he is co-pi of the research programme "Climate Ethics and Future Generations", which is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. In the past, he been awarded several research grants from funders such as the Swedish Research Council and Formas. In 2008 he won the Nils-Eric Svensson travel grant from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.
Research
Göran works in the field of normative political theory, more specifically the theory of justice. His research interests are wide-ranging, and he has published on topics such as punishment, climate change, and political obligation. Recurrent themes of his work have been to investigate the relationship between personal responsibility and justice, and to analyse the consequences of incomplete information and human fallibility for the justification of exercises of public power. His papers have been published in journals such as Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Change, Law and Philosophy, and Social Theory and Practice.
Teaching
Göran mostly teaches contemporary political thought and normative analysis. For the academic year 2017/2018 he is teaching:
SK2111: Perspectives on Politics SK1123: Politisk teori och internationell politik (course director) SK2121: Political Science Analysis
Göran has extensive experience supervising bachelor, master and doctoral students writing on political theory broadly construed. Inquiries regarding supervision are welcome.
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Liability for Emissions without Laws of Political
Institutions
Göran Duus-Otterström
Studies in Climate Ethics vol II - 2020-01-01 -
Sovereign States in the Greenhouse: Does Jurisdiction Speak Against Consumption-Based Emissions
Accounting?
Göran Duus-Otterström
Ethics, Policy & Environment - 2020-01-01 -
Weighing Relative and Absolute Proportionality in
Punishment
Göran Duus-Otterström
Of One-Eyed and Toothless Miscreants - 2020-01-01 -
Consumption-based emissions accounting: the normative
debate
Göran Duus-Otterström, Fredrik D. Hjorthen
Environmental Politics - 2019-01-01 -
Injustice and the right to
punish
Göran Duus-Otterström, Erin I. Kelly
Philosophy Compass - 2019-01-01 -
Fair-play obligation and distributive
injustice
Göran Duus-Otterström
European Journal of Political Theory - 2018-01-01 -
Retributivism and Public Opinion: On the Context Sensitivity of
Desert
Göran Duus-Otterström
Criminal Law and Philosophy - 2018-01-01 -
Benefiting from injustice and the common-source
problem
Göran Duus-Otterström
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - 2017-01-01 -
Fairness-Based Retributivism
Reconsidered
Göran Duus-Otterström
Criminal Law and Philosophy - 2017-01-01 -
Allocating adaptation finance: examining three ethical arguments for recipient
control
Göran Duus-Otterström
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics - 2016-01-01 -
Politiska
förpliktelser
Göran Duus-Otterström
Beckman, L. & Mörkenstam, U. (red.). Politisk Teori - 2016-01-01 -
Dual climate change responsibility: on moral divergences between mitigation and
adaptation
Sverker C. Jagers, Göran Duus-Otterström
Harris, P. G. (Ed.) Ethics, Environmental Justice and Climate Change - 2016-01-01 -
Humanitarian intervention and historical
responsibility
Fredrik D. Hjorthen, Göran Duus-Otterström
Journal of Global Ethics - 2016-01-01 -
Klimatetik: Rättvisa, Politik och Individens
Ansvar.
Göran Duus-Otterström, Bengt Brülde
- 2015-01-01 -
Individual climate obligations and non-subsistence
emissions
Göran Duus-Otterström
Ethics, Policy & Environment - 2014-01-01 -
The problem of past emissions and intergenerational
debts
Göran Duus-Otterström
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy - 2014-01-01 -
Why retributivists should endorse leniency in
punishment
Göran Duus-Otterström
Law and philosophy - 2013-01-01 -
Identifying burdens of coping with climate change: A typology of the duties of climate
justice
Göran Duus-Otterström, Sverker C. Jagers
Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions - 2012-01-01 -
Saknar vänstern respekt för individens rättigheter? En experimentell
studie
Göran Duus-Otterström, Mikael J Persson
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi - 2012-01-01 -
Fair Play retributivism and the Problem of
Punishment
Göran Duus-Otterström
Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift - 2012-01-01 -
Weak and Strong Luck
Egalitarianism
Göran Duus-Otterström
Contemporary Political Theory - 2012-01-01 -
Det individuella brottet? Offer och förövare i svenska medieberättelser
1965-2005
Marie Demker, Göran Duus-Otterström
Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift - 2011-01-01 -
Why (Most) Climate Insurance Schemes are a Bad
Idea
Göran Duus-Otterström, Sverker C. Jagers
Environmental Politics - 2011-01-01 -
Freedom of Will and the Value of
Choice
Göran Duus-Otterström
Social Theory and Practice - 2011-01-01 -
Betting against
compatibilism
Göran Duus-Otterström
Res Publica - 2010-01-01 -
Pre-bestraffning och
förkunskap
Göran Duus-Otterström
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi - 2010-01-01 -
Fallibility and
Retribution
Göran Duus-Otterström
Law & Philosophy - 2010-01-01 -
Straff som
retribusjon
Göran Duus-Otterström
Minerva - 2009-01-01 -
Fair and Feasible Climate Change
Adaptation
Göran Duus-Otterström, Sverker C. Jagers, Johannes Stripple
Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift - 2009-01-01 -
Fair Adaptation? Insurance as Adaptation
Strategy
Göran Duus-Otterström, Sverker C. Jagers
paper presented at the 9th Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Amsterdam 2-4 December - 2009-01-01 -
Realigning Criminal Policy. Offender and Victim in the Swedish Party System Over
Time
Marie Demker, Göran Duus-Otterström
International Review of Sociology - 2009-01-01 -
Satsningsargumentet och förtjänstbaserade
straff
Göran Duus-Otterström
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi - 2009-01-01 -
Almost Pregnant. On Probabilism and Its Moral Uses in the Social
Sciences
Göran Duus-Otterström
Philosophy of the Social Sciences - 2009-01-01 -
Fear and Punishment in Sweden: Exploring Penal
Attitudes
Marie Demker, Ann Towns, Göran Duus-Otterström, Joakim Sebring
Punishment & Society, - 2008-01-01 -
Replik
Göran Duus-Otterström
Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift - 2008-01-01 -
"Replik". Replik till Raino
Malnes
Göran Duus-Otterström
Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 2008-01-01 -
Betting against hard
determinism
Göran Duus-Otterström
Res Publica, 2008 (14) - 2008-01-01 -
'Dual climate change responsibility: on moral divergences between mitigation and
adaptation'
Sverker C. Jagers, Göran Duus-Otterström
Environmental Politics, - 2008-01-01 -
Realigning Criminal Policy. Offender and Victim in the Swedish Party System over
Time
Marie Demker, Göran Duus-Otterström
Uppsats presenterad vid Nordiska Statsvetarförbundets XV:e konfreens, Tromsö, 6-9 augusti 2008 - 2008-01-01 -
On
Bullshit
Göran Duus-Otterström
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi - 2007-01-01 -
Punishment and Personal
Responsibility
Göran Duus-Otterström
- 2007-01-01 -
Scheffler om förtjänst i distributiv och retributiv
rättvisa
Göran Duus-Otterström
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi - 2007-01-01 -
Intergenerational Responsibility. Historical Emissions And Climate
Change”Adaptation
Sverker C. Jagers, Göran Duus-Otterström
Balberg, Inger & Hege Hofstad (eds) Authority, Responsibility and Justice in Environmental Politics. Papers from the 8th Nordic Environmental Social Research Conference June 18-20 2007. Workshop 1. - 2007-01-01 -
Kriminalpolitik – inte så hett som man kan
tro
Marie Demker, Göran Duus-Otterström
Holmberg, S och L. Weibull (red) Det nya Sverige SOM-rapport 41, SOM-institutet, Göteborgs Universitet, Göteborg - 2007-01-01 -
The Fall and Rise of Desert in Political
Philosophy
Göran Duus-Otterström
9th Graduate Conference in Political Theory, 17 feb, Warwick - 2006-01-01 -
The Borders of
Responsibility
Göran Duus-Otterström
Normative Implications of the Conceptual Turn, 1-2 mars, Roskilde - 2005-01-01