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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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Economic crisis, (creative) destruction and the current urban condition
- 2015
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In: Antipode. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0066-4812 .- 1467-8330. ; 47:3, s. 689-707
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper investigates the contemporary economic crisis, and explores crisis theories developed by Marx and Marxists alongside discourses surrounding human geography and the urban condition. Two positions currently dominate Marxist crisis theory: realization/overproduction and Law of the Tendential Fall in the Rate of Profit. Within human geography, however, scholars rarely discuss crisis theory in and of itself, and when they do, they tend to rely solely on the realization/overproduction approach popularized by David Harvey. This paper argues that both approaches aid a conceptualization of the current crisis while deepening our understanding of changing urban policies and landscapes. This paper also claims—in contrast to Keynesians’ calls—that crises are “solved” by destruction and devaluation of capital, not an increase in effective demand. These debates, as of yet not thoroughly discussed in human geography, can provide us with new knowledge concerning the current crisis and contemporary urban policies.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-, et al.
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“Green fix” as crisis management. or, in which world is malmö the world's greenest city?
- 2015
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In: Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0435-3684 .- 1468-0467. ; 97:4, s. 275-290
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As economic and ecological crises evolve in combination, some policy strategies might aim at killing the two birds with one stone. One recent example can be found in Malmo, Sweden, where crisis management has operated, we propose, as a green fix. The district of Vastra hamnen (Western Harbour) is at the centre of the reinvention of the city: once the home of a world-leading shipyard, it is now a no less prominent neighbourhood of ecological virtues. Through outlining the history of Malmo in general and the Western Harbour in particular, we identify how the municipality and local capital in concert increasingly used "green" strategies in the urban policies that started as crisis management in the 1990s. Today Malmo is reckoned to be among the world's greenest cities, and we reflect on the importance of this international recognition for the city. Finally, we develop a critique of the green fix as concealing crucial factors of scale, and hence running the risk of myopia.
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- Jönsson, Erik, 1983-, et al.
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Spectacular, realisable and ‘everyday’ : Exploring the particularities of sustainable planning in Malmö
- 2017
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In: City. - : Routledge. - 1360-4813 .- 1470-3629. ; 21:3-4, s. 253-270
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- ‘Sustainability’, often presented through an ecological–economic–social triad, is today one of spatial planning’s absolute key concepts (and key priorities). But it is also a highly contested concept, whose meaning is often considered evasive or vague. In this paper, we try to counterweigh such evasiveness by putting emphasis on the material landscape produced within a project that is frequently depicted as a pinnacle of sustainable planning: the Western Harbour in Malmö, Sweden. Regardless of how vague discursive definitions of sustainability are, we argue that there is a sense in which planning projects such as this one help stabilise the meaning of the concept. They become material manifestations of particular takes on sustainability. Through examining what has emerged as former shipyards and factory grounds have since 2001 been transformed within the Western Harbour, we develop a heuristic triad that highlights what is presented as sustainability therein. We argue that through the Western Harbour’s development, sustainable planning becomes ‘spectacular’ through a focus on building sustainably in a way that also attracts public attention. It becomes regarded as ‘realisable’ in that it should be achievable within current political and political–economic structures. And sustainable planning becomes about the ‘everyday’ in that technological solutions for greening inhabitants’ everyday lives are developed in a way that emphasises the local scale.
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- Malmi, Teemu, et al.
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Culture and management control interdependence : An analysis of control choices that complement the delegation of authority in Western cultural regions
- 2020
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In: Accounting, Organizations and Society. - : Elsevier Ltd. - 0361-3682 .- 1873-6289.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study examines the influence of cultural regions on the interdependence between delegation of authority and other management control (MC) practices. In particular, we assess whether one of the central contentions of agency theory, that incentive contracting and delegation are jointly determined, holds in different cultural regions. Drawing on prior literature, we hypothesise that the MC practices that operate as a complement to delegation vary depending on societal values and preferences, and that MC practices other than incentive contracting will complement delegation in firms in non-Anglo cultural regions. Using data collected from 584 strategic business units across three Western cultural regions (Anglo, Germanic, Nordic), our results show that the interdependence between delegation and incentive contracting is confined to Anglo firms. In the Nordic and Germanic regions, we find that strategic and action planning participation operate as a complement to delegation, while delegation is also complemented by manager selection in Nordic firms. Overall, our study demonstrates that cultural values and preferences significantly influence MC interdependence, and suggests that caution needs to be taken in making cross-cultural generalisations about the complementarity of MC practices.
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- Warlenius, Rikard, et al.
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Destroy what destroys the planet : Steering creative destruction in the dual crisis
- 2016
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In: Capital & Class. - : SAGE Publications. - 0309-8168 .- 2041-0980. ; 40:3, s. 511-532
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the contemporary dual crisis, economic crisis policies cannot be dealt with in isolation from the rampant and acute ecological crisis – and vice versa. In this article, we challenge the hegemonic positions in purported attempts to solve the crises so far: in the economic realm, the Keynesian episode of 2008–2009 as well as austerity policies, and with regard to the ecological crisis, ecological modernization and green economy. Instead, we will propose that both the economic and the climate crises can be ‘solved’ through the destruction of a particular kind of capital, that is, fossil capital. Given that capital destruction in general seems to be an essential part of overcoming capitalist crises historically and given the urgent need to demolish large parts of the fossil infrastructure in order to avert climate change, we discuss in this article the possibilities to politically steer the processes of creative destruction so that crises policies benefit the economy and the environment to highest possible extent.
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- Boström, Magnus, 1972-, et al.
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Social sustainability requires social sustainability procedural prerequisites for reaching substantive goals
- 2015
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In: Nature and Culture. - : Berghahn Books. - 1558-6073 .- 1558-5468. ; 10:2, s. 131-156
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The synergies and trade-offs between the various dimensions of sustainable development are attracting a rising scholarly attention. Departing from the scholarly debate, this article focuses on internal relationships within social sustainability. Our key claim is that it is diffi cult to strengthen substantive social sustainability goals unless there are key elements of social sustainability contained in the very procedures intended to work toward sustainability. Our analysis, informed by an organizing perspective, is based on a set of case studies on multi-stakeholder transnational sustainability projects (sustainability standards). This article explores six challenges related to the achievement of such procedures that can facilitate substantive social sustainability. Three of these concern the formulation of standards and policies, and three the implementation of standards and policies. To achieve substantive social sustainability procedures must be set in motion with abilities to take hold of people's concerns, frames, resources, as well as existing relevant institutions and infrastructures.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-, et al.
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13 myter om bostadsfrågan
- 2016
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- I tretton kapitel utmanas rådande problemformuleringar om vad som utgör hindren för att skapa en mer tillgänglig bostadsmarknad och rimligare boendesituation åt alla. Är ökad marknadsekonomi lösningen på bostadsbristen? Måste vi sänka kvalitetskraven för att alla ska få tak över huvudet? Hur hänger bostadsfrågan och frågan om integration och segregation ihop? Är gentrifiering en naturlig förändring av staden? Rådande "sanningar" om fler avregleringar, lägre skatter och ökad marknadsfrihet har kommit att stå i vägen för nytänkande. Det behövs fler röster i debatten. 13 myter om bostadsfrågan ger alternativa tolkningar som kan föra in nya perspektiv på bostadskrisen. Boken ges ut av Förlag Dokument Press, med illustrationer av Sara Granér.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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Crisis and the Post-Industrial City : Or is Malmö Building Yesterday's City Tomorrow, Again?
- 2015
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In: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0040-747X .- 1467-9663. ; 106:3, s. 231-245
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper investigates the dialectics between urban planning, economic crisis and the build environment by looking at how the city of Malmö (Sweden) has responded to two different crises. First, the so-called industrial crisis was met with more industrial policies that exacerbated the problems and led the city into a severe crisis in the early 1990s. Then Malmö inverted its strategy and embraced the ‘post-industrial city’. Nowadays, as the 2008 crisis has not seemed to have disappeared and the current economic situation is ‘uncertain’, the official rhetoric in Malmö is seemingly as optimistic as ever, as a new congress/concert hall, new shopping centres and new hotels are being built: the production of the post-industrial city continues with full force. By investigating the city-crisis dialectics and discussing theories on crisis and crisis management, inspired by Marx, Schumpeter and Keynes, this paper asks the question as to whether Malmö today is making a similar mistake as in the 1980s, that is, reproducing yesterday's city.
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- Holgersen, Ståle
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Spatial planning as condensation of social relations: A dialectical approach
- 2015
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In: Planning Theory. - : SAGE Publications. - 1473-0952 .- 1741-3052. ; 14:1, s. 5-22
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Inspired by state theory and in particular Nicos Poulantzas, this article claims that spatial planning should be seen neither as autonomous (subject) nor merely an expression of something else (thing), but rather grasped as a place for condensation of social relations. The notion of dialectics is used in order to grasp relations between planning and other aspects and social relations. From this, we can outline five theses, claiming that planning (1) is constituted by conflicts which are grounded in social relations, (2) is never a neutral place, (3) contains neither a dark' nor a bright' side, (4) and is changing and being changed by the world and also that (5) political alliances should be made between planners and non-planners who want the world to change in similar directions.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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Urban responses to the economic crisis : Confirmation of urban policies as crisis management in Malmö
- 2014
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In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0309-1317 .- 1468-2427. ; 38:1, s. 285-301
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- It is common knowledge that crisis also signifies opportunity and opens spaces for change. When responding to the current economic crisis, is urban planning seizing this opportunity? This article investigates the case of the Swedish city of Malmö and explores its responses to the crisis by looking dialectically at the crisis, municipal planning policy and real-estate capital. In this article, the local state and urban planning are regarded as social relations, with the aim of going beyond traditional formulations that oppose market (neoliberal) and state intervention (Keynesianism) as the main focus for crisis management. Against this background, the article shows that the 2008 crisis was met in Malmö by an active municipality that confirmed the existing visions and tendencies, rather than exploiting the crisis as a moment for changes and transformation. The article seeks to explain this by looking at the social relations that have constituted the urban policies in Malmö for the past two decades.
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