Facing dilemmas: Sense-making and decision-making in late modernity

Höijer, Birgitta; Lidskog, Rolf; Uggla, Ylva

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2005.07.007

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“…Stakeholder involvement, for instance, may be facilitated by conceptualising the future as open and dilemmatic, and recognizing ambivalence as legitimate (Höijer et al, 2006). Thus the scenario process can be seen as frame for dialogue, not to reach consensus but to recognize other parties' point of view.…”

Section: Empowering Stakeholdersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Future scenarios to inspire innovation

Smedt

Borch

Fuller

2013

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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In recent years and accelerated by the economic and financial crisis, complex global issues have moved to the forefront of policy making. These grand challenges require policy makers to address a variety of interrelated issues, which are built upon yet uncoordinated and dispersed bodies of knowledge. Due to the social dynamics of innovation, new socio-technical subsystems are emerging, however there is lack of exploitation of innovative solutions. In this paper we argue that issues of how knowledge is represented can have a part in this lack of exploitation. For example, when drivers of change are not only multiple but also mutable, it is not sensible to extrapolate the future from data and relationships of the past. This paper investigates ways in which futures thinking can be used as a tool for inspiring actions and structures that address the grand challenges. By analysing several scenario cases, elements of good practice and principles on how to strengthen innovation systems through future scenarios are identified. This is needed because innovation itself needs to be oriented along more sustainable pathways enabling transformations of socio-technical systems. Highlights-Grand challenges bringing the social dimension of innovation in the picture -Investigating the role for futures thinking and scenarios to inspire innovation -Future scenarios as a tool for orienting innovation systems

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Section: Empowering Stakeholdersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Future scenarios to inspire innovation

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Borch

Fuller

2013

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…In line with general processes of privatization and individualization in society (Bauman 2001;Beck & Beck-Gernsheim 2002;Hö ijer et al 2006) health issues are transformed into personal responsibilities. Citizens are reduced to individual consumers, and it is up to each and every one of them to avoid risks.…”

Section: Food Scares and The Mediamentioning

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News media and food scares: the case of contaminated salmon

Höijer

Lidskog

Thornberg

2006

Environmental Sciences

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In 2004, Science published a study on organic contaminants in farmed salmon. The study had a clear normative message and worked strategically and successfully to gain worldwide media attention. In this article, we investigate global media coverage of the study. The varying types of attention and different framings of selected national broadsheets in 14 countries are analysed. (Framing is where a complex and often uncertain reality is simplified in order to support a specific understanding of the issue and/or push an agenda.) The results show that even if the scientists and the sponsor of the study had a clear ambition to publicize and disseminate their results and normative proposals to the wider society, the newspapers did not act as a passive medium for distributing the original message. Instead, diverging understandings and framings were developed.By way of conclusion, it is stated that ambitious strategies for attracting media attention may be successful in terms of media coverage; this does not, however, mean that the message is passively transmitted. The national context and the logic of media cause issues to be framed in specific ways with the aim of telling stories and catching the attention of the reader.

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“…Representative practices can be further understood by paying attention to the concept of dilemma (Billig et al 1988;Höijer, Lidskog, and Uggla 2006). In everyday language, the concept of dilemma means that a person faces a situation with two options, each with some desired or undesired results.…”

Section: Being An Environmental Representative: Multiple Roles Justimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, people do not necessarily need to be involved in a problematic choice situation in order to face dilemmas and experience ambivalence (Höijer, Lidskog, and Uggla 2006). With the concept of the ideological dilemma, Billig et al (1988) point out that ideology involves contrary values, that is, principles that are cherished and understood in relation to conflicting values.…”

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A sociology of environmental representation

Boström

Uggla

2016

Environmental Sociology

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A sociology of environmental representation.Environmental Sociology, 2(4): [355][356][357][358][359][360][361][362][363][364] http://dx.doi.org/10. 1080/23251042.2016.1213611 Access to the published version may require subscription. N.B. When citing this work, cite the original published paper. The environment cannot plead its own case but must be represented. The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the concept of representation and demonstrate its relevance for environmental sociology. Drawing on Pitkin's classic work on representation, we discuss representation as both 'acting for' and 'standing for'. We also make a distinction between actors (representatives) and devices used as representations (e.g. descriptions, graphs and images), while discussing the intertwinement of these two aspects in representative practices. This paper stresses the performativity dimension and social embeddedness of representative practices. It sheds light on different meanings and implications of environmental representation, examining issues of claimmaking and what it means to represent the environment in various instances. Given the complex, durable and transboundary character of many topical environmental problems, the paper argues that it is essential to recognize and understand environmental representation in all its variety. It is moreover argued that a sociological elaboration of the concept of representation provides a basis for understanding the conditions for environmental politics, governance, management and action. Environmental sociology can thus be a crucial platform for intriguing new studies on environmental representation.

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Facing dilemmas: Sense-making and decision-making in late modernity

Cited by 40 publications

References 14 publications

Future scenarios to inspire innovation

Future scenarios to inspire innovation

News media and food scares: the case of contaminated salmon

A sociology of environmental representation

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