UTOPISM. *** In the long run, nothing else is realistic. *** Welcome to the English language blog of Morten Tønnessen, Professor of philosophy at University of Stavanger's Department of Social Studies.
I have been notified that the article "Friluftsliv in therapeutic residential care: Taking adolescents out to find a way in", which I have co-authored with Joakim Jiri Haaland, has been accepted for publication.
Preliminary reference:
Joakim Jiri Haaland and Morten Tønnessen, forthcoming. Friluftsliv in therapeutic residential care: Taking adolescents out to find a way in. Residential Treatment for Children & Youth.
Today I have had half an article writing day devoted to the article "Friluftsliv in therapeutic residential care: When staff take youth out to find a way in", which I co-write with Joakim Jiri Haaland in relation to his ph.d. thesis. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 43,5, including 26 article writing days.
All together I logged 4.835 words written in May, the most in a month so far this Spring. For now in 2026 I have logged 14.078 words written.
Over the last couple of days I have had half an article writing day, with work done on an article on refugees in Europe, and a little thinking concerning my planned climate ethics article and an article on friluftsliv in child protection services.
Today I have had half an article writing day, with work done on the revision of the article "Friluftsliv in therapeutic residential care: When staff take youth out to find a way in", which I co-write with Joakim Jiri Haaland. This was writing day #29,5 this Autumn (starting July 1st).
Today I have had an article writing day, with some 500 words added to the article "Friluftsliv in therapeutic residential care: Taking adolescents out to find a way in" which I co-write with Joakim Jiri Haaland.
So far this Autumn I have had 27,5 writing days including 13 article writing days.
By now, with 42.417 words written logged this year to date, I have written more in 2024 than in any of the five previous years except for 2020, when I wrote 84.739 words. So far this Autumn I have written more than 16.000 words altogether.
Today I have had a writing day, the final one this Spring, consisting of half an article writing day, with some writing plans made for the autumn and minor work on the editorial for the upcoming special issue of Biosemiotics "Umwelt theory and phenomenology" which I co-edit with Carlo Brentari, as well as on the second article on friluftsliv and child protection that I co-write with Joakim Jiri Haaland, and half a book writing day, with some work done related to my book manuscript Captured: CCS and the fight for the sould of the environmental movement.
Altogether this Spring I have had 46,5 writing days, with 2,5 of these being logged as book article days (vs. 7,5 planned initially) and 44 as article writing days (vs. 40 planned initially). Altogether I had one less writing day than initially planned (46,5 vs. 47,5).
With 1.709 words written in June, the least any month this semester, in Spring 2024 I have altogether logged 26.073 words written. This is almost 3.000 words more than in Spring 2023, but significantly below the ca. 36.000 words I wrote in the first half year of 2020 or the ca. 45.000 words I wrote in the Spring semester that year with the first half of July included.
Today I have had half an article day devoted to the article "Friluftsliv in therapeutic residential care: Taking adolescents out to find a way in" which i co-write with Joakim Jiri Haaland, with some 200 words added to the text, and about 100 words removed.
I am (briefly) interviewed in the Khrono news story “Droppar samarbeid med Forandringsfabrikken” which was published today (journalist: Hilde Kristin Strand), along with several others.
On March 6th I had a letter to the editor titled "Tid for selvkritikk i Stavanger kommune og Aftenbladet" published in the regional daily Stavanger Aftenblad.
We have been informed that our article "Recreation in the outdoors – exploring the friluftsliv experience of adolescents at residential care" - first author Joakim Jiri Haaland, second author me - has been accepted for publication in Child & Youth Services.
Today I attended (most of) a meeting with the child protection service in the municipality of Stavanger.
Today I have attended 4 meetings. This included a meeting with the child protection service in Stavanger municipality.
