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Johan Nordensvärd

KTH Royal Institute of Technology


Johan Nordensvärd

Dr. Johan Nordensvärd is an associate professor of Political Science at Linköping University and associate professor in Management and Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, He has an research interest in social policy, social sustainability and welfare reforms. He has published in journal such as Critical Policy Studies, Social Policy and Society, Social Policy and Administration, Journal of Social Policy, Critical Discourse Studies and Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries Sweden;
Topics Artificial Intelligence;
Methods Narrative evaluation methods; Policy analysis;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Ageing and Place; Care home markets and regulation; Climate Change and LTC; Community-based approaches to dementia care; Employment Education and Family carers; Technology and Long-Term Care;
Websitehttps://www.kth.se/profile/jnordens?l=en
ORC.ID0000-0001-8508-4212
GOOGLE SCHOLARhttps://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=kkgxfKAAAAAJ&hl=en
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/johan-nordensvard-bb09411b4/
Research interests

Can socially sustainable societies really be fair and environmentally friendly?

There is a need to examine the social dimension of politics and the administration’s understanding of sustainability, which goes beyond a focus on better technology and economic reforms. We need a greater understanding of the social dimension of low carbon technology and development policy in both high-income and low-income countries. There is a great need to combine research on both social and technological innovation on the one hand and social and environmental justice on the other. The big question is whether we can change our market economy to become sustainable or whether society will need to make a radical transition to a more deeply ecological society.

Key publications

Sommar, C. J., Nordensvärd, J., Wihlborg, E., & Garcia, F. (2024). Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish COVID-19 restriction policy. Critical Policy Studies, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2024.2307420

Nordensvärd, J, Li, B., Turcu, C., Qian, J., Byun, Y., Li, Y., Sommar, C-J and Rotolo, M. (2023) State and communities in urban food governance: Lessons from COVID and insights for the future, Urban Governance, Volume 3, Issue 2

Nordensvärd, J., Sefton, T., & Godenhjelm, S. (2023). Interpreting the state–citizen nexus in contemporary Nordic legal and social citizenship: The case of divergence in restriction on freedom of movement as a mitigation policy in the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 39(1), 28-41. doi:10.1017/ics.2023.5

Nordensvärd, J, Ketola, M and Urban, F (2022). The River Runs Through It: Naturalising Social Policy and Welfare. Sustainability 14, no. 16: 10415. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610415

Nordensvärd, J., & Ketola, M. (2022). A theory of informal and formal social citizenship and welfare. Journal of Social Policy, 1-20. doi:10.1017/S0047279422000630 (Published on the 15th July 2022)

Nordensvärd, Byun, Y. and Sommar, C.J. (2022) “Urban Food Security during COVID-19 and the Community Response in Stockholm and Seoul.” Urban Governance, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ugj.2022.06.001 (Published on 3rd june 2022)

Nordensvard, J, Alexandra, J and Ketola, M (2021) Internalizing Animals and Ecosystems in Social Citizenship and Social Policy: From Political Community to Political Country, Sustainability, Volume 13, Issue 12

Nordensvard, J and Ketola, M., 2019. Rethinking the Consumer Metaphor versus the Citizen Metaphor: Frame Merging and Higher Education Reform in Sweden, Social Policy & Society, Vol. 18, Nr. 4, PP. 555-575

Ketola, M. and Nordensvard, J. (2018) Reviewing the relationship between social policy and the contemporary populist radical right: welfare chauvinism, welfare nation state and social citizenship, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, Vol. 34 Nr. 3, PP. 172-187

Ketola, M. and Nordensvard, J. (2018) Framing social policy and populism in a changing European context, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, Vol. 34, Nr. 3, PP. 169-171

Majid Cooke, F, Nordensvärd, J., Bin Saat, G, Siciliano, G and Urban, F., (2017). The Limits of Social Protection: The Case of Hydropower Dams and Indigenous Peoples’ Land, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.187

Nordensvärd, J, 2016. The Social Challenges of Low Carbon Development, Earthscan, Routledge, Oxford. Monograph.

Nordensvärd, J., Urban, F. and Mang, G. 2015. Social innovation and Chinese overseas hydropower dams: The nexus of national social policy and Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development, Vol. 23, Nr 4, PP. 245-256

Urban, F., Nordensvärd, J., Siciliano, G and Li, B., 2015. Chinese overseas hydropower dams and social sustainability: The Bui dam in Ghana and the Kamchay dam in Cambodia, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, Vol. 2, Nr. 3, PP. 573-589

Nordensvard, J and Ketola, M., 2014. Scandinavian populist parties and the welfare nation state: the national, ethnic and cultural reframing of the welfare state. Journal of Social Policy and Administration, Vol 49, Nr 3, PP 356-375

Nordensvard, J., 2014. Gender and education policy in Ghana: The impact of informal citizenship and labour market on formal education for girls, Women Studies International Forum, Vol. 47, PP. 278-286

Nordensvärd, J., 2010. The Consumer Metaphor versus the Citizen Metaphor in Education Policy. In M. Molesworth, E. Nixon and R. Scullions (Eds.). The Marketisation of Higher Education: The Student as Consumer, Routledge.