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- Graham, Marnie
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Everyday human (in)securities in protected urban nature - Collaborative conservation at Macassar/Wolfgat dunes nature reserves, Cape Town, South Africa
- 2015
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7185 .- 1872-9398. ; 64, s. 25-36
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The diverse residents of the urban global South experience insecurities in everyday, immediate and subjective ways. Lemanski argues these insecurities relate not only to physical concerns like fear, crime, and violence but also to stressors like insecure tenure and financial situations, and threatened and contested lifestyles and cultures as cities rapidly change. This paper considers how diverse 'everyday human (in)securities' manifest through urban nature and shape collaborations around nature conservation. The focus is on protected coastal dunes in Cape Town and collaborative conservation participants, including municipal nature conservators and community representatives from the adjacent apartheid-era 'townships'. The diverse 'everyday human (in)securities' perceived and experienced by these participants manifest variously in physical threats to bodies and biodiversity, but also in relation to the insecure tenure and financial situations experienced by residents and conservators alike, alongside differing cultural values of nature. Through attention to diffuse power relations and everyday experiences, divergent perceptions of (in)security are shown to be frictional and sometimes paradoxical in nature. Yet identifying these (in)securities also holds potential for exploring hopeful and productive negotiations around what 'security' might mean, and how it might be realised through the collaborations bringing into dialogue contested spaces of urban nature in cities of the global South and North.
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- Haikola, Simon, 1982-, et al.
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Politicizing environmental governance : A case study of heterogeneous alliances and juridical struggles around the Ojnare Forest, Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7185 .- 1872-9398. ; 91, s. 206-215
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we use a case of resistance towards a proposed limestone quarry in Sweden to raise certain theoretical points regarding environmental politicization. Departing from ideas about depoliticization and neoliberal environmental governance, we first analyze the case in terms of scaling-up of the local conflict through actor alliances, discourse coalitions and through the juridical process. We then discuss how this case may indicate effective ways to politicize areas that have been depoliticized through neoliberal environmental governance. Most particularly, the chosen case highlights how depoliticization may be reversed through the politicization of the very channels through which depoliticized forms of environmental governance occur, here the juridical, formalized and nominally neutral processes of environmental planning.
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- Hellberg, Sofie, 1979
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Water, life and politics: Exploring the contested case of eThekwini municipality through a governmentality lens
- 2014
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7185 .- 1872-9398. ; 56
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores biopolitical effects of water governance. Based on narrative interviews with water users in eThekwini municipality, South Africa the article inquires into how water service delivery matters in terms of people’s lives. What we learn by paying close attention to the water users’ narratives is that the ways in which water service delivery are carried out in eThekwini have differentiating effects on how water users perceive themselves and their lives. Moreover, the narratives show how the municipality’s techniques of targeting certain types of populations as appropriate for particular technological solutions require that the water users exercise different forms of agency in order to safeguard access to water. This reading of people’s water stories suggests that the hydropolitics of eThekwini consolidates the disconnectedness of the different lives that are lived in Durban’s communities. Ultimately, such a biopolitical reading of the water users’ narratives illustrates how water performs a function in constituting both life and lifestyles and that an implementation of the right to basic water can work so as to produce, or further entrench, distinctions between different forms of life.
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- Jacob, Merle, et al.
(författare)
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Public-space planning in four Nordic cities: Symbolic values in tension
- 2010
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 1872-9398 .- 0016-7185. ; 41:4, s. 657-665
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article takes its point of departure in the assumption that values shape planning practices and that alternatively one can reconstruct such values from the way planning interventions are argued and evaluated. We contend that planners' discourses involve implicit value commitments that are observable in their representations of public space and implicated in the results of public-space planning. The paper builds an empirical case from representations of public space elaborated in planning documents developed by planners in four medium-sized Nordic cities. We show how these planning representations form four thematic value clusters concerning urban public space, namely leisure-play, identity-unity, power-organization and unruliness-change. Together these clusters constitute a value framework which reveals a number of central tensions relating to the way that planners seek to balance order and spontaneity in public space. The paper concludes by outlining and discussing these values and the tensions they represent. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Jansson, David, 1967-
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The head vs. the gut : emotions, positionality, and the challenges of fieldwork with a Southern nationalist movement
- 2010
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7185 .- 1872-9398. ; 41:1, s. 19-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay explores the inner process of researching a group that is proudly white, conservative, fundamentalist Christian, and Southern. The recent attention to emotions in scholarship has not extended to the subject of fieldwork with right wing movements. I discuss my experience interviewing members of the League of the South and explore the extent to which my positionality shaped the interactions that I had with League members and informed my emotional response to the fieldwork.
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- Jansson, Johan, 1974-
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The online forum as a digital space of curation
- 2019
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7185 .- 1872-9398. ; 106, s. 115-124
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper focus on the concept of curation that emphasizes intermediary processes sorting and filtering theinformation overload that characterize contemporary digitalized society. The paper has two overall aims. Thefirst aim is theoretical and the ambition is to identify practices and processes distinctive to curation in digitalspaces. From this literature the paper argues that contemporary digital curation is characterized by (a) digitallyproduced and mediated processes, (b) de-professionalization, (c) a combination of productive and consumptivemodes, (d) space as a ‘quality stamp’, and (e) an increasingly underlying and/or everyday practice. The secondaim is empirical and, through a case study of an online forum dedicated to hi-fi and high-end audio equipment,the ambition is to identify curatorial practices and processes taking place at the forum and to understand how theonline forum functions as a curatorial space. More specifically, in the analysis of the empirical material threethemes are highlighted. First, personal consumer experiences are expressed through narrated purchases in whichthe constant pursuit of the ‘perfect audio reproduction system’ is materialized as these narratives involve withthe explanations and motivations behind personal reflections and experiences of purchase decisions. Second, theonline forum has clear power structures. Third, the online forum deals with geographical dimensions in severalways, e.g. by functioning as a space for legitimization where the lack of distance and the use of (partially)anonymous profiles generate both advantageous and disadvantageous dimensions.
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- Jayaweera, Ravi, et al.
(författare)
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Houses of cards and concrete: (In)stability configurations and seeds of destabilisation of Phnom Penh?s building regime
- 2023
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. - 0016-7185 .- 1872-9398. ; 141
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Scholars widely agree that cities and their built environments play a decisive role for a global transformation towards sustainability. This necessitates a shift away from unsustainable practices and constellations in cities towards more sustainable ones - particularly in contexts of the Global South, as they see the strongest current and projected urban growth and related construction activities. Research on urban sustainability transitions has however largely been biased conceptually towards innovation and new technologies, and geographically towards the Global North. While more research recently emerged that addresses the destabilization of dominant orders, it still predominantly considers Northern cases, and those with discernible transition processes. This paper seeks to address these biases and studies factors that contribute to the (in)stability of socio-technical regimes. We argue that (de)stabilizing factors and the particular (in)stability configurations they form, must be scrutinised regardless of transition phase as they are ingrained in regime structures before transition processes become apparent. Identifying and characterizing (in)stability configurations and the seeds of destabilization can then support the development of contextualised transition governance strategies. Employing the building sector of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as an empirical case, this study differentiates sources of (in)stability from economic, socio-cultural and political-institutional dimensions. Our analysis suggests an ambiguous (in)stability configuration with ten-sions primarily within the socio-cultural and economic dimensions, and a dominance of stabilizing effects from the political-institutional dimension. The paper closes with implications for transition governance strategies and general arguments on the heterogeneity of transition contexts and regime constellations, particularly in countries of the Global South.
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- Jolly, Suyash, et al.
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Agency and actors in regional industrial path development. A framework and longitudinal analysis
- 2020
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 1872-9398 .- 0016-7185. ; 111:May 2020, s. 176-188
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite significant interest in regional industrial restructuring in economic geography, surprisingly, scarce attention has been paid to the changing role of agency over time. The current paper develops a framework for understanding the role of multiple types of actors and the agency they exercise for regional industrial path development. The framework is employed in a longitudinal study of industry development in Värmland, Sweden, from forestry towards a bio-economy. The analysis highlights how actors exercise very different types of agency in different periods of regional industrial path development.
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- Joosse, Sofie, et al.
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Curating the quest for 'good food' : The practices, spatial dynamics and influence of food-related curation in Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7185 .- 1872-9398. ; 64, s. 205-216
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What is ‘good food’? Is it fair trade, local, organic or ethically produced? With an ever-expanding array of products and ‘qualities’ to consider, consumers in the global North may find it increasingly difficult and time-consuming to make the ‘right’ choices. As a result, a range of intermediaries, including food apps and collective buying groups, are emerging to support people in their food choices. While intermediation refers to all activities linking producers and consumers, this paper narrows the focus and considers one important, yet poorly understood, intermediary function within the food marketplace: ‘curation.’ Although the concept of curation has long been associated with museums and art worlds, curatorial practices are evolving in the contemporary marketplace and are performed by a growing range of actors operating in physical, temporary and virtual spaces. Rather than acting as brokers or gatekeepers, curators interpret, translate and shape the marketplace by sorting, organizing, evaluating and ascribing value(s) to specific products. They also offer general and personalized recommendations to consumers. Drawing on interviews and participant observation, this paper aims to contribute to the existing literature on curation by examining curatorial practices, the motivations behind them and the values they create for consumers. As geographers we are particularly interested in how specific spatial dynamics shape curation and its outcomes. The findings suggest a need to nuance and extend existing conceptualizations of curation and to consider a wider and more dynamic range of actors (food apps), spaces (blogs) and values such as inspiration, convenience and sense of community.
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- Jönsson, Erik
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Contested expectations: Trump International Golf Links Scotland, polarised visions, and the making of the Menie Estate landscape as resource
- 2014
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 1872-9398 .- 0016-7185. ; 52:1, s. 226-235
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In initiating the development of a large-scale golf resort in Aberdeenshire, Trump International Golf Links Scotland made a relatively unknown site central to Scottish planning debates. A stretch of land along the North Sea coast north of Aberdeen became linked to new possible futures. Part of the site developed consisted of moving sand dunes given environmental protection as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and from the onset a heated debate has concerned the transformability of these dunes. The land was simultaneously seen as perfect for a golf resort of a scale previously unseen in the UK and as sensitive land threatened by the development. Proponents asserted that future economic benefits would outweigh any environmental impact. Opponents in turn contested such expectations through asserting other variables to be counted, or questioning the possibility to control the dunes altogether. Hence, the resort’s eventual relation to sand dunes, migrating pink-footed geese and fog along the coast became political arguments. In this article I utilise this case to illustrate how the ways futures are expressed produces both political subjects and objects in the present. I argue that a process where social struggle is conducted as the production of future scenarios posits important opportunities for public engagement while also leading to new problems. This I shed light on by bringing together Callon’s notion of performative theories with the literature on post-politics, offering a critique of expert-led environmental governance.
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