Øyvind Stokke
Job description
I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. I research and teach at the intersection of environmental philosophy, environmental history, critical theory, and political philosophy. My expertise spans two main areas: 1) democratic theory, critical theory, and political philosophy; and 2) environmental philosophy, climate ethics, the assessment of technological sustainability, and theories of degrowth. Extensive experience in interdisciplinary research, having led two projects within the Arctic Centre for Sustainable Energy (ARC) at UiT (2017–2024). In addition I possess interdisciplinary experience from the project Political Philosophy looks to Antarctica (funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2017–2020) and from my doctoral project exploring democratic deficits and moral conflicts in the justification of European Community law regulating social security for migrant workers (funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2002–2006).
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Research interests
My research interests encompass environmental philosophy, environmental history, critical theory, and political philosophy. My expertise spans two main areas: 1) democratic theory, critical theory, and political philosophy, and 2) environmental philosophy, climate ethics, the assessment of technological sustainability, and theories of degrowth. I have extensive experience in interdisciplinary research across a range of projects. Within the Arctic Center for Sustainable Energy (ARC) at UiT, I led two projects: Transforming CO2 to capital by interdisciplinary CCU optimisation strategies (iCCU)—which aimed to optimize industrially relevant technologies for carbon capture and utilization (CCU) by leveraging synergies between research in environmental philosophy, ethics, information technology, and economics—and a preliminary project titled The ARC Methodology: A synergetic approach to sustainability, which investigated whether a method based on synergies between various implementation contexts (such as ecosystems, other technologies, economic systems, or social systems) could serve as a parameter for assessing technological sustainability. I also have interdisciplinary experience from the project Political Philosophy looks to Antarctica (funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2017–2020) and from my doctoral project on EU law, migration, and the welfare state (funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2002–2006). I published the article "Environmental Democracy and Climate Protest in the Age of Marketization" in 2021 and the book Making CO₂ a Resource. The Interplay Between Research, Innovation, and Industry in 2024.
In my latest project, I researched the transformation of intangible cultural heritage into societal resilience - grounded in post-growth principles - within the eiderdown tradition of the Northern coastal landscapes of Norway (Sea-related Values and Identities in the Vega Archipelago (VIVA), RCN 2024–2025).
