Andy’s Corner is a second-hand bookstore in Malmö, Sweden that sells both scholarly and popular books in English and Swedish (and Danish, German, French, Spanish and a few other languages), as well as films, records, posters, maps, cards and magazines. We have also hosted a variety of cultural events through the years and welcome proposals from anyone who might be interested in arranging something.
Andy’s Corner is owned and operated by Andrew Jamison. I am a retired university professor who was born in the USA and came to Sweden in 1970.
On the site, you will find information about my writings, in particular, the books and articles that I have published, as well as information about the store’s events.
For more details about my previous life, please go to my old university website – https://homes.plan.aau.dk/andy – where you can download many of my articles and lectures and even some songs I recorded back in 2007.
I do not use antisocial media but post regularly on a blog page on this website with various tidbits of information about the store and my state of mind, often with visual and/or musical accompaniment. So do check it out and subscribe to receive email notifications of new posts; just click on the three dots at the bottom of the page. The blog can be reached by clicking AndrewJamison at the top or bottom of this page.
I look forward to hearing from you and seeing you in the shop.
email: andyscornerse@gmail.com
telephone: +46(0)730676457
address: Helmfeltsgatan 5b, Malmö
business hours: Thursday and Friday, 1.30-5.30 and Saturday, 12-4
A brief bio
I was born in Santa Monica, California in 1948, moved to Summit, New Jersey in 1955, and emigrated to Sweden in 1970, where I have lived ever since. I have an undergraduate degree in history and science from Harvard University (1970), where I served as science editor of the Harvard Crimson and took active part in the general mayhem of the times. In the summers of 1967 and 1969 I discovered Europe in all its delightful diversity and in the summer of 1968, as a news intern at Science magazine in Washington I discovered environmentalism – in the guise of steam-powered automobiles, which, in the spring of 1970, just before graduation, I wrote about in my first book, The Steam-Powered Automobile. An Answer to Air Pollution.
In the 1970s, after coming to Sweden, “in search of an ecological society,” as I once put it, I worked primarily as a free-lance journalist and university teacher, writing articles for, among others, New Scientist, Science, Technology Review, and Environment, and teaching courses on science, technology and culture in Copenhagen, Lund, Gothenburg, Roskilde, and even Baghdad. I served as editor of the Lund Letter on Science, Technology and Basic Human Needs in 1978-9, which we put out at the Research Policy Institute in Lund as a debate forum on the preparations for the United Nations Conference on Science, Technology and Development (UNCSTD), which took place in Vienna in 1979, and where I worked as a reporter for the conference daily newpaper, RETORT. I also took active part in the emerging environmental movement, and helped edit the Swedish journal, Natur och Samhälle (Nature and Society).
After receiving a PhD from the University of Gothenburg in theory of science in 1983, I was a visiting associate professor in the history department at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1985-1986. I created and served as director of the graduate program in science and technology policy at the Research Policy Institute at the University of Lund from 1986 to 1995, and, from 1996 to 2013, was professor of technology, environment and society at the Department of Development and Planning at Aalborg University.
From 1996 to 1999, I served as coordinator of the EU-funded project, Public Participation and Environmental Science and Technology Policy Options (PESTO), with partners in seven countries, which served as the basis for my book, The Making of Green Knowledge: Environmental Politics and Cultural Transformation.
From 2002 to 2008 I was a guest professor in environmental science at Malmö University College and from 2010 to 2014, I coordinated the Program of Research on Opportunities and Challenges in Engineering Education in Denmark (PROCEED), funded by the Danish Strategic Research Council, which served as the basis for my book, The Making of Green Engineers: Sustainable Development and the Hybrid Imagination.
I retired in 2013, and in October 2015, I opened Andy’s Corner.
And, not to forget, my wife and I have been together since 1973 when we met in a collective in Lund, and we have two grown daughters and four fabulous grandchildren, the oldest of whom sells some of our books on Bokbörsen (bokborsen.se), a Swedish site for second-hand books as “Aron Andy’s Corner”. Have a look and if you would like something that isn’t on his list, just ask. We might just have it in the shop.
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