期刊名称：Barents Studies: Peoples, Economies and Politics
电子版ISSN：2324-0652
出版年度：2014
卷号：1
期号：1
出版社：University of Lapland
摘要：My research focuses on energy development in the Barents region. Alongside my dis- sertation research, I have also been teaching at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Lapland, giving visiting lectures at other universities, and occasion- ally publishing non-scientific articles on themes related to my ongoing work with the dissertation. Whereas energy in general tends to be seen as something clinical, uninteresting and distant, I find it fascinating. There are a wide variety of concerns related to energy, and they are intertwined with all domains of societal life. While energy is a universal concern to human societies, it is also an issue which manifests itself in different ways in different geographical, temporal and social settings. I see energy as relentlessly cultural: the ways of producing, consuming and talking about energy are inextricably interwo- ven with societal values as well as with conceptions of a 'good life' and a 'desirable society'
