NNL Pod 10+11: The Nordics and Climate Change
Listen to two podcasts in Swedish and Norwegian about the climate, how we talk about it and our different responses to climate change.
Meet the students!
Kristian has participated in speech contests, in both Norway and Denmark, and he is interested in the power of using and choosing particular words.
Mattias is currently studying music and education, but has a background in linguistics. He has been involved in several New Nordic Lexicon podcasts and films.
NNL POD 10: How is rhetoric relevant to climate change?
In the New Nordic Lexicon podcast series, students get the chance to put questions to researchers. In this episode, students from Lund University and Bergen Private Gymnas, Mattias Carlberg and Kristian Lutro, speak to Maria Wolrath Söderberg, Associate Professor in Rhetoric at Södertörn University about climate change, rhetoric and how we talk about the climate crisis. This episode is mainly in Swedish and Norwegian.
Podcast
The climate crisis is often seen from a scientific perspective, but people’s thoughts and behaviour have a direct effect on their level of emissions. Research into how people reason and think about climate change is crucial to the debate on climate change, as discussed in this podcast. (31 mins, in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish).
Meet the researcher!
Maria is a researcher at Södertörn University and is active in communicating her work. She is a rhetorician and has studied how people reason about climate change and is the host of podcast in Swedish called 'Klimagap'.
NNL Pod 11: Why is there a gap between talking and action when it comes to climate change?
Students from Lund University and Bergen Private Gymnasium, Mattias Carlberg and Kristian Lutro, speak again with Maria Wolrath Söderberg, Associate Professor in Rhetoric at Södertörn University, but this time the focus is the gap between talk and action when it comes to climate change. This episode is mainly in Swedish and Norwegian.
Podcast
Listen to Maria Wolrath Söderberg talk about how we rationalize the gap between our views on climate change and our actions. The participants also discuss Maria's own podcast 'Klimagap' and the importance of research dissemination (21 mins, in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish).
With thanks to SH Medieproduktion (Södertörn University Media Production) and Södertörn University's branch of Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World for their collaboration on these podcasts.
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This podcast was produced in response to readers’ interest in climate change and concern that previous generations' mistakes will fall on the shoulders of people who are young today.
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Further reading:
- Elina Eriksson, Maria Wolrath Söderberg, and Nina Wormbs, Exceptionalism and Evasion: How Scholars Reason About Air Travel, pp. 159-183. In Kristian Bjørkdahl and Adrian Santiago Franco Duharte (eds.), Academic Flying and the Means of Communication (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
- Maria Wolrath Söderberg, Tankestrukturer som hindrar omställning – och hur vi kan överkomma dem: Rapport för Miljömålsberedningen augusti 2021 [Thought structures that hinder change - and how we can overcome them: Report for the Environmental Objectives Committee August 2021] (2021).
- Nina Wormbs and Maria Wolrath Söderberg, 'Knowledge, Fear, and Conscience: Reasons to Stop Flying Because of Climate Change', Urban Planning 6, 2 (2021), pp. 314-324.
Links:
- Maria's podcast 'Klimatgap' [Climate Gap]
- Nordisk Talefest