Johan Cederqvist presents his project.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vattenfall/3585733762/)
In this Greenhouse Lecture, Johan Cederqvist presents the dissertation project he is working on during his guest visit in Stavanger.
Johan Cederqvist is a PhD student in history at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and has previously worked as a research engineer at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. The main interest of his research has been the environmental history of rivers and seas in the industrial age. His dissertation project is an environmental history of salmon extinction during the great epoch of hydropower expansion in the Swedish north, 1945–1972:
In the wake of the 20th century hydropower expansion in the Swedish north, wild salmon went extinct river by river, along with age-old salmon fisheries. The most accelerating phase of this process took place between 1945 and 1972. Against this background, the aim of this project is to understand and explain how power relations between humans – and between humans and salmon – shaped roads towards extinction during this period. With that as starting point, the examination is primarily directed towards four types of actors: hydropower industrialists, fisheries biologists, salmon fishers and salmon. The broader intention of this dissertation project is to shed light on the global problem of why humans of our time are impoverishing life on Earth at an accelerating rate.
The talk will also be streamed online: https://stavanger.zoom.us/j/63227939288...
Image: Vattenfall, Boden hydropower plant at night. CC license/Flickr