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- Borén, Thomas, 1967-
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Meeting-places of Transformation : Urban Identity, Spatial Representations and Local Politics in St Petersburg, Russia
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study develops a model for understanding spatial change and the construction of space as a meeting-place, and then employs it in order to show an otherwise little-known picture of (sub-)urban Russia and its transformation from Soviet times to today. The model is based on time-geographic ideas of time-space as a limited resource in which forces of various kinds struggle for access and form space in interaction with each other. Drawing on cultural semiotics and the concepts of lifeworld and system, the study highlights the social side of these space-forming forces. Based on a long-term fieldwork (participant observation) in Ligovo/Uritsk, a high-rise residential district developed around 1970 and situated on the outskirts of Sankt-Peterburg (St Petersburg), the empirical material concerns processes of urban identity, spatial representations and local politics. The study explicates three codes used to form the image of the city that all relate to its pre-Revolutionary history, two textual strategies of juxtaposition in creating the genius loci of a place, and a discussion of what I call Soviet "stiff landscape" in relation to Soviet mental and ordinary maps of the urban landscape. Moreover, the study shows that the newly implemented self-governing municipalities have not realised their potential as political actors in forming local space, which raises questions on the democratisation of urban space. Finally, the study argues that the model that guides the research is a tool that facilitates the application of the world-view of time-geography and the epistemology of the landscape of courses in concrete research. The study ends with an attempt to generalise spatial change in four types.
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- Lundén, Thomas, et al.
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A hundred years later. Streetcars are still rattling in Baltic cities
- 2012
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Ingår i: Baltic Worlds. - 2000-2955 .- 2001-7308. ; 5:3-4, s. 37-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A young geographer by the name of Sten DeGeer mapped the cities around the Baltic Sea in an article published in 1912. As an attempt to capture the urban structure of Baltic region cities, his paper is unique. In this article, we comment on his meticulous descriptions of these cities, with a century long perspective.
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- Wichmann, Anita, et al.
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Microbial modulation of energy availability in the colon regulates intestinal transit.
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Ingår i: Cell host & microbe. - : Elsevier BV. - 1934-6069 .- 1931-3128. ; 14:5, s. 582-90
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Gut microbiota contribute to host metabolic efficiency by increasing energy availability through thefermentation of dietary fiber and production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in the colon. SCFAs are proposed to stimulate secretion of the proglucagon (Gcg)-derived incretin hormone GLP-1, whichstimulates insulin secretion (incretin response) andinhibits gastric emptying. We find that germ-free(GF) and antibiotic-treated mice, which have severely reduced SCFA levels, have increased basal GLP-1 levels in the plasma and increased Gcg expression in the colon. Increasing energy supply, either through colonization with polysaccharide-fermenting bacteria or through diet, suppressed colonic Gcg expression in GF mice. Increased GLP-1 levels in GF mice did not improve the incretin response but instead slowed intestinal transit. Thus, microbiota regulate the basal levels of GLP-1, and increasing these levels may be an adaptive response to insufficient energy availability in the colon that slows intestinal transit and allows for greater nutrient absorption.
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1989 med svenska ögon : Vittnesseminarium 22 oktober 2009
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Året 1989 innebar en vändpunkt i den europeiska historien, och även i världsmåttstock. Berlinmuren raserades och de kommunistiska diktaturerna i Östeuropa föll samman, bara för att inom ett par år även följas av det sovjetiska imperiet. Demokratiska regimer uppstod, om än under vånda och med senare bakslag.Tjugo år efter händelserna anordnades ett vittnesseminarium vid Södertörns högskola på temat 1989 med svenska ögon. Seminariet med dess kommentarer från diplomatin, underrättelsetjänsten och massmedia återges i skriften. Förstod vi vad som hände i öst?
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- Balogh, Péter, 1982-
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Perpetual borders : German-Polish cross-border contacts in the Szczecin area
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Borderlands are often peripheral geographically, administratively, and economically. A particularly illustrative case is the Szczecin area at the border between Poland and Germany, where a large city on one side neighbours to a sparsely populated hinterland on the other. There is a number of similar cases throughout Europe, but studies on them point to a mixed level of linkages following the opening and removal of the physical border.At the project’s start there were few if any studies on the Szczecin area per se, which was here studied through various methods. On the one hand, different pre-EU enlargement plans and visions for the area’s development were compared with practices and realities of recent years. This shows that earlier imaginations on the development potentials have not quite materialised, although some of them were probably too optimistic and ambitious from the beginning. Some of the area’s potentials following EU-enlargement have been more successfully exploited than others, and disproportionately by actors coming from outside. On the other hand, cross-border contacts were studied in the discourses on and attitudes towards the other side among local and regional elites, and among local residents more generally. This revealed a polarised attitudinal landscape, not least when compared to country-wide opinion surveys in both Germany and Poland. This is in line with other studies showing that identities are particularly accentuated in border situations, where the Other is more frequently encountered.These results support recent investigations pointing to a continued relevance of the border even after the physical barriers are removed. At the same time, another contribution of this work to border studies is that the time and contingency of the importance of identities and of the border needs more attention. In the Szczecin area, awareness of national identities and of the boundary appeared to be particularly high just after changes in the border’s status occurred – i.e. in 1989–1991, and then around the years 2007–2010. But while its importance may be fluctuating over time, given the opportunities and resources the boundary provides it will always be maintained in some forms.
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- Beconyte, G., et al.
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Atlas of the Baltic Sea Region (ABSR)
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Ingår i: 7th International Conference on Environmental Engineering, ICEE 2008. - : Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Publishing House Technika. - 9789955282563 ; , s. 1261-1268
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Baltic Sea Region (BSR) has long been important in many aspects. The BSR is the first region in the world that has adopted common regional goals fos sutainable development. It is estimated that there will be a considerable increase in the number of regional geographic information strategies being implemented through the world in the next ten years. It will naturally raise interest in synthetic geographic information on the BSR, as on one of the most developed regions in the world. Atlas of the Baltic Sea Region (ABSR) has been planned as a complex and consistent cartographic edition with a purpose to represent the region as a whole in the best way possible. The goal of the paper is to introduce with a different user's groups and their specific needs. General difficulties and strengths (high level SWOT analysis) are described. The contents of the Atlas are designed as a modular structure that allows combining units of the Atlas in the most convenient way. It has been sought for most comprehensive territorial generalization of the accumulated scientific knowledge. The structure and particular maps are planned in a way to integrate natural and socio-cultural aspects as well as history and geography of the region, to demonstrate internal territorial links and provide a macro-regional context. Description of implementation focuses on the breakdown of project activities and tasks that illustrates the entire framework of ABSR including time schedule. Resources (hardware, software, information, knowledge) and responsibilities of team members are assigned to each task. Modern approach to design and management of the informational system for the Atlas and modern cartographic technologies were chosen to assure efficiency of works.
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