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Henric Barkman

Phd Candidate

E-mail: henric.barkman@statsvet.su.se

Research profile

My main research concern is citizenship as a force for sustainable development especially in the form of sustainable consumption. I am also interested in emerging forms of participation in general, such as lifestyle politics and culture jamming. Method and methodology is another interest of mine.

Networks

• Miljöstatsvetare i Sverige (Swedish network, no website, if you are interested to join the network or receive more information, send me an e-mail.)

• ECPR Standing Group on Forms of Participation (and social movements)

• Karlstad Seminar on Studying Political Action

• LinkedIn profile

Projects

My dissertation project is a part of the Sustainable Citizenship-project which studies the barriers to and opportunities for sustainable action on the part of individual consumers in Sweden. This choice of subject matter is motivated by research showing the importance of consumer behavior as a key factor behind climate change, the role of private consumption in perpetrating environmental and social injustices, and the general problems that governments and civil society have had in convincing individuals to exercise constraint in their consumer practices. “Barriers to action” have been found to inhibit the incorporation of the tenets of sustainable development in important common practices like shopping for oneself and one’s family in high-income countries.

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The survey questionnaire translated into English: "Consumption and societal issues
A survey of the habits and opinions of the Swedish population" (pdf)

The survey questionnaire in Swedish: "Konsumtion & samhällsfrågor. En undersökning om svenska folkets vanor & åsikter" (pdf)

I was the assistant coordinator of the international conference Dynamics of Citizenship in a Post-Political World.

Education

2008 Fil mag. Political Science, Karlstad University
2006 Transforming Communities, American University (read more here)

University employments

2009 Phd Candidate, Stockholm University
2008 Phd Candidate, Karlstad University
2006 Student tutor, Karlstad University
2006 Project assistant, Stockholm University (performed empirical analyzes within the Welfare Quality-project (read more here)

Conference papers

"Motivation and capacity to be sustainable consumers: types of participant and non-participant citizens". Presented at the UACES conference in Bruges, September 6-8 2010.

"Politisk konsumtion för hållbar utveckling - Barriärer och möjligheter för utövandet av hållbart medborgarskap" (avhandlingsplan). Presented at Stockholm University (Higher research seminar), December 2009.

"Measuring Sustainable Citizenship" (co-authored, Henric Barkman & Daniel Berlin). Presented at the Cross‐National Participation Research-conference in the Hague, 16 – 17 January 2009.

”Hållbara och ekologiska medborgare: Utkast till en enkätundersökning om hållbart och ekologiskt medborgarskap”, (co-authored, Daniel Berlin, Michele Micheletti och Henric Barkman. Presented at the 4th Karlstad Seminar on Studying Political Action, Karlstad, 2008.

"Individualiserat ansvarstagande för djurs rättigheter och välfärd - En studie av politiska konsumenter i Europa". Presented at the Swedish Political Science Association's annual conference (SWEPSA), Uppsala, September 2008.

"Buying Welfare Friendly Food – a Case of Political Consumerism?", (co-authored, Unni Kjærnes, Randi Lavik, Henric Barkman and Michele Micheletti. Presented at Nordic Consumer Policy Research Conference, Helsinki, May 2007.   

"Supporting Animal Welfare by Making Shopping Political – A Portrait of Political Consumers of Food in Europe" (co-authored, Henric Barkman and Randi Lavik). Presented at the 2nd Karlstad Seminar on Studying Political Action, Karlstad, October 2006.

Teaching

• Methods

• Sustainable consumption (guest lecturer)