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- Mitander, Tomas, 1979-, et al.
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Det urbana rummets in- och utsidor : Teoretiska utmaningar för forskning om urban politik
- 2017
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Ingår i: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. - Lund. - 0039-0747. ; 119:3, s. 389-412
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this article is to contribute to new thinking regarding research on urban politics in, and beyond, Sweden. We do this by arguing for a multi-disciplinary conversation on space, politics and governance, building on theoretical developments in disciplines such as geography, sociology and political theory. By developing a conceptual understanding of space as relational, the political in terms of contingency, and governance as governmentality we suggest that the concept of ‘the urban’ could be theorized and analyzed as a governmental assemblage. This approach opens up for new questions regarding where urban politics takes place, how it govern us and with what efects. One important implication of this proposed approach is that the urban produce both insides and outsides relationally and hence that the urban also can be studied out side cities and city regions.
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- Mitander, Tomas, 1979-, et al.
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Peace and Quiet : Domestic Science and the Rise of New Precarious Subjects
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- While peace remains a concept that is primarily invoked and utilized in relation to armed conflict this paper explores how contemporary regimes of government also calls for a specific form of domestic peace. Throughout Europe and beyond the last decades of market oriented reforms and austerity measures have called for nations and regions to rally behind processes and policies of innovation in order to be competitive. This race for competitiveness is often described in war-like metaphors which emphasizes the need to ‘develop spearheads’, ‘mobilize forces’, ‘foster commanders’, ‘build alliances’ and create ‘united frontiers’. As in moments of armed conflict, success in this war of competitiveness requires a kind of conformity or ‘peace and quiet’ within the own ranks. In short, the room for politics is severely constrained. Therefore, in this paper we explore what we identify as a global policy discourse concerning innovation as competitiveness as it unfolds in specific localized contexts. When doing so we investigate the modes of domestic silence that functions as a necessary requirement for regions and nations and theorize how this form of depoliticization becomes complicit in the production and stratification of precariousness for the subjects of rule (Lorey, 2015).
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- Scott, David, 1986-, et al.
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Assemblage thinking and Political Science : An exploration of the contribution of assemblage thinking to political analysis
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Under det senaste decenniet har ”arrangemangstänkande” (assemblage thinking) vunnit mark i antropologiska och kulturgeografiska studier av hur politikområden och policyer blir till genom processer av sammansättning (Larner & Higgins, 2017; Clarke et al. 2015). Med ursprung i filosofen Gilles Deleuzes och psykoanalytikern Félix Guattaris (1985) arbeten, har begreppet assemblage, i betydelsen sammansättning eller arrangemang, tagits upp av policyforskare för att studera hur policyer i en mängd olika politikområden kan sägas vara resultat av komplexa processer av att föra samman fysiska artefakter, praktiker, diskurser och mänskliga aktiviteter till instabila helheter. Ett bidrag som arrangemangstänkande gör till studiet av policyers uppkomst är att undersöka processen att sätta ihop och föra samman, vilket i många fall innefattar tolkning och översättning, mäkleri mellan olika intressen, inkorporering av globala ”best practices”, och utnyttjandet av konsultexpertis (McCann, 2011). Arrangemangstänkandet såsom det har använts för att analysera så disparata områden som utbildning (Savage & Lewis, 2018), hemlöshet (Baker & McGuirk, 2017) och gemensam användning av naturresurser (Murray Li, 2007), har uppstått som en reaktion mot den mer vanliga traditionen ”policy transfer” som utvecklats inom statsvetenskapen och inom vilken policyskapandets dynamiska och komplexa process åsidosätts (Peck & Theodore, 2015). I detta paper diskuteras hur arrangemangstänkande kan användas inom ramen för policyanalys och i kombination med statsvetenskapens intresse för analys av maktrelationer i policy-skapandet. Vi menar att arrangemangstänkande bidrar till att berika policyanalysen teoretiskt och metodologiskt och att även den statsvetenskapliga maktanalysen kan utvecklas med hjälp av detta tänkande. Vårt resonemang illustreras genom två olika sätt att mobilisera arrangemangstänkande empiriskt, dels genom en pågående studie om hur biståndsprojekt kan ses som produkter av sammansättning samt en tidigare studie av hur regionalpolitik kan förstås som ett arrangemang i betydelsen objekt för styrning.
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- Säll, Line, 1983-, et al.
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Competitive Desires : The Creative Class and Regional Governance in Sweden
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Throughout Europe and beyond the powerful discourse of the creative class seems to be firmly nested in the governance of cities and regions as well as entire nations. Indeed, googling terms such as “creative city” or “creative region” yields millions of hits indicating the spread of the theories put forward by Richard Florida in a series of influential books and articles during the first decade of the twenty first century. Moreover, the discursive notion of creativity is not only disseminated widely around the globe, it is also introduced in a variety of different spaces making it just as likely to find metropolis regions such as London, Paris or Berlin to claim the title of being a “creative region” as it is finding peripheral territories and provincial towns articulating their creative, innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. In this paper we investigate empirically how the creative class discourse is expressed in the governance of Swedish regions by focusing on so called Regional Development Strategies (RDS) for all Swedish regions. Territorial governance in Sweden has been the object of ongoing debates, political proposals, government reports and expert opinions since at least the 1960’s, however the last two decades have been marked by more intensive discussions and indeed also a series of territorial transformations. In the midst of these reconfigurations new political spaces arise and new political rationalities emerge. In short, what used to be a guiding rationality of redistribution between rich and poor regions can now better be described as a rationality of (global) competition. Correspondingly, notions of (global) competitiveness are articulated as more or less the inevitable goal for the practice of governing Swedish regions and we show how one of the primary responses to such a competition is the quest for creativity. By critically examining the RDS documents we show how in this process of territorial transformation in Sweden certain subjects and practices are deemed more important than others. Thus, we underline the political aspects of the ongoing transformations and the empirical analysis facilitates the grounds for a critical discussions concerning the onlological claims, the theoretical claims and the policy recommendations of the creative class theory that we find inherently linked to processes of exclusion and hierarchy.
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- Öjehag-Pettersson, Andreas, 1979-, et al.
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Local Government and Public Procurement: Organizational Trends and the Rise of New Bureaucrats in Sweden
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Swedish local government play a central role in welfare production and in handling environmental issues at large. In addition, they also plan the physical use of land and water areas within its territory. Accordingly, Swedish local government are crucial actors in driving sustainable development. During the last decades reform of local government has been taking place under the umbrella of New Public Management (NPM) following a pattern seen in most parts of the world entailing market inspired logics and values that subsumes political and democratic ambitions and tasks. The political rationalities underpinning NPM continues to exist and are well researched. There are, however, significant gaps. In particular, of studies concerning the politics of public procurement. In this paper we present an analysis where public procurement is understood more broadly, as a governmental technology, an instrument of governing associated with the rationalities of marketization and competition that continues to be more or less unquestioned as virtues in contemporary society. We assume that as such a technology it is not a neutral tool, but rather designed to realize particular understandings of how to govern and with what effects. The case we present is based on interviews with civil servants, consultants and politicians working with public procurement in Swedish local government. With the perceptions of our respondents as a base, we construct a narrative where three themes emerge as important: public procurement expansion; organizational change and centralization, and: the procurer as bureaucrat. We conclude that the importance and scope of public procurement within the larger local government organization has rapidly expanded, public procurement has been centralized and, perhaps most importantly, we witness the emergence of a new bureaucrat representing values not compatible with traditional Weberian understandings.
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