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In a new short essay published in Salongen, Kyrre Kverndokk discusses how 16-year old Greta Thunberg has been ascribed and also has taken the symbolic position of “the child” to authorize her message. The essay explores very different aspects of this rhetorical trope. Thunberg talks from the positionof a time-traveler, coming from the future to tell the truth about a climate-changed future to contemporary political leaders. While in media representations, she is not only presented as a representative of future generations, she is also depicted as a modern “Pippi Longstocking” -  the strongest girl in the world and the eternal child. On the other hand, right-wing media emphasize the vulnerability of “the child”, claiming her to be an “innocent” victim of cynical lobbyists. The essay is in Norwegian.

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The book Kollaps: På randen av fremtiden (in Norwegian) is out. This is an interdisciplinary book about notions of of collapse, and the unpredictability of a climate changed world. The book is edited by Peter Bjerregaard and Kyrre Kverndokk. In addition to Kverndokk, are John Ødemark, Henrik H. Svensen and Isak Winkel Holm form the advisory board of the project contributing.

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The project has now been running for a few months and is it time to update the blog. The postdoctoral researcher Marit Ruge Bjærke and the PhD canidate Lone Ree Milkær started in August 2017. Ruge Bjærke has a PhD in biology and a master degree in European culture (history of ideas), while Ree Milkær has a master degree in folklore studies. Their backgrounds fit well into the interdisciplinary profile of the project. Read more about them and the project here (in Norwegian) .