Åsa Callmer
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: asa.callmer@oru.se
Phone: +46 19 303000
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About Åsa Callmer
Åsa Callmer is a post-doctoral researcher in environmental sociology, and works within the research project (Un)sustainable lifestyles: social (im)possibilities to consume less, in which she investigates the different ways that social relations may facilitate and/or hinder reduced consumption and sustainable lifestyle choices.
Åsa’s research interests concern sustainable lifestyles and planning and politics for sustainable transitions. She is especially interested in social norms, the interplay of sustainability and justice issues in forming sustainable futures, alternative economies, and the cultural dimensions of humans’ relationship with Nature. Her PhD thesis Making sense of sufficiency: Entries, practices and politics (Royal Institute of Technology, 2019) deals with the idea, practices, and politics of sufficiency in an affluent consumerist society.
Research projects
Active projects
Research teams
Publications
Articles in journals
- Callmer, Å. & Bradley, K. (2021). In search of sufficiency politics: the case of Sweden. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 17 (1), 194-208.
- Chamberlin, L. & Callmer, Å. (2021). Spark Joy and Slow Consumption: An Empirical Study of the Impact of the KonMari Method on Acquisition and Wellbeing. Journal of Sustainability Research, 3 (1).
- Callmer, Å. (2018). Lösningen på ekvationen: Black Friday är onödigt. Fokus (47).
Books
- Callmer, Å. & Gatu, A. (2022). Planeten, klimatet & framtiden: vad kan vi göra?. Stockholm: B. Wahlströms.
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Callmer, Å. (2019). Making sense of sufficiency: Entries, practices and politics. (Doctoral dissertation). Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Other
- Callmer, Å. (2020). Sufficiency. Shadow Places Network.
Reports
- Hagbert, P. , Finnveden, G. , Fuehrer, P. , Svenfelt, Å. , Alfredsson, E. , Aretun, Å. , Bradley, K. , Callmer, Å. & et al. (2018). Framtider bortom BNP-tillväxt: Slutrapport från forskningsprogrammet "Bortom BNP-tillväxt: Scenarier för hållbart samhällsbyggande". Stockholm: Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (TRITA-ABE-RPT 1835).