The research problem addressed concerns the interplay between households as consumers, and local governments as policy makers and service providers. Mainly based on interviews with selected households, the paper explores the activities, results and potential long-term gains of a climate dialogue...

What geographical and institutional conditions are important for initiating and sustaining climate-change mitigation at the local level? Taking this question as a point of departure, we analyze local climate mitigation as a case of multilevel network governance. This is illustrated by the case...

In this text, we examine Donna Haraway’s idea of a liberating potential of cyborgization first in the subsequent versions of Stepford Wives (the novel, the 1975 movie, and the 2004 movie), and second in the evolution of the character of a cyberwoman, from the book, Do androids dream electric...

Bezugnehmend auf Donna Haraways "cyborgization" beleuchtet die Studie das Konstrukt Frauen als Technologie und Technologie als Frauen. Dabei werden folgende Science-fiction Werke auf die Präsentation weiblicher Cyborgs untersucht: Machine Dreams (Film 1988); Stepford Wives (Buch und...