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- Blackwell, Timothy, et al.
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Kris i bostadsfrågan : för en solidarisk bostadspolitik
- 2023. - 1
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Under de senaste decennierna har fastighetsägare, byggbolag, banker och riskkapitalister tjänat enorma summor på bostäder, medan andra förlorat sina hem eller sett sina bostadskostnader öka kraftigt. Den sociala bostadspolitiken har övergivits, hemlösheten har ökat och bostadsstandarden har försämrats. Samtidigt har det finansiella systemet blivit centrerat kring en bolånespiral som har gjort hushållen och den svenska ekonomin otroligt sårbara.Sverige behöver ett nytt, socialt och klimatanpassat bostadssystem, men ett sådant kan bara åstadkommas genom radikala förändringar. Utifrån en gedigen genomgång av över hundra års svensk bostadshistoria analyserar "Kris i bostadsfrågan" orsakerna till och konsekvenserna av att bostadens bruksvärde helt har kommit att överskuggas av dess bytesvärde, och föreslår hur den pågående krisen – med radikala förändringar i politik, finans och byggande – skulle kunna demonteras och utgöra grunden för ett nytt bostadssystem, där alla människors behov av ett hem står i centrum.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-, et al.
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13 myter om bostadsfrågan
- 2016
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)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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- Blackwell, Timothy, et al.
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Dreaming of efficient markets? Residential construction, competition & affordability in the Swedish housing sector
- 2023
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Ingår i: Housing Studies. - : Routledge. - 0267-3037 .- 1466-1810.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper problematises the perception that enhanced competition within the Swedish residential construction sector offers a panacea to rising building costs and deteriorating housing affordability. The paper investigates the relationships between housing production, exchange, and consumption from three perspectives: (i) an historical analysis of the residential construction industry; (ii) elite semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, and (iii) an exploration of state crisis management. Instead of viewing competition within the construction sector as an isolated sphere, we argue that the inherent unevenness within this sector needs to be grasped in combination with broader political-economic developments. We claim that rising productions costs (particularly in the tenant-owner sector) have been fuelled by soaring land prices, and that this situation has provided fertile terrain for rent-seeking throughout the housing supply chain. We conclude that calls for more competition, both in Sweden and further afield, tend to oversimplify the complex issue of housing provision and shroud more fundamental housing system imbalances.
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- Foroughanfar, Laleh, et al.
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Introduction
- 2023
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Ingår i: Urban Matters. - Malmö : Institute for Urban Research, Malmö University. - 2004-206X. ; :September
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- Hakimnia, Roya, et al.
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Corona, hälsa och klass : Klassen som skapat krisen är inte den som får betala
- 2020
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Ingår i: Röda Rummet. - Göteborg : Socialistiska partiet. - 1403-3844. ; :2/3, s. 3-6
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Ytligt sett kan det uppfattas som att coronapandemin drabbar såväl fattig som rik. Men i hur stämmer det med den faktiska verkligheten? Och vad är bakgrunden till den rådande situationen? Roya Hakimnia och Ståle Holgersen försöker att med hjälp av marxistiska verktyg ge en förståelse.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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Against the crisis : The crisis is not an opportunity, it's the enemy
- 2020
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Ingår i: International viewpoint. - : The Bureau of the Fourth International. ; :IV543
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Corona Pandemic and the economic crash that is currently shocking and shaking the world poses a massive danger for people around the world. For many capitalists the crisis is an opportunity, and for the capitalist system this is also the solution to underlying problems in the capitalist economy. COVID-19 is the creative destruction that capitalism needed in order to survive. This sounds perverse, and it truly is. Socialists must not only work to mitigate the worst effects of the crisis, but also understand the capitalist crisis as the enemy itself.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-, et al.
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Beyond a liberal critique of 'trickle-down' : urban planning in the city of Malmö
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0309-1317 .- 1468-2427. ; 40:6, s. 1170-1185
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article scrutinizes the much used, but less examined, concept of ‘trickle down' in an urban setting. We make a distinction between the production of and distribution in the city, and argue that trickle down in contemporary urban policy could be regarded as the liberal link between production and distribution. Based on interviews with key figures and document analyses, we look at the transformation of the Swedish city of Malmö from an industrial to a post-industrial city, where, during the last two decades, we have found three concurrent components: the ideology of trickle down; several urban policy programs and governmental policies to ‘make' money and resources trickle down; as well as increased economic polarization and segregation. A liberal critique of trickle down would argue that market mechanisms cannot by themselves solve distribution, and that government policies therefore are needed. We argue for the need to go beyond a liberal critique of trickle down and stress how unequal distribution is built into the unequal production of the city.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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Book Review: The New Urban Question
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0309-1317 .- 1468-2427. ; 39:6, s. 1282-1284
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-, et al.
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Class, Community and Communicative Planning : Urban Redevelopment at King’s Cross, London
- 2009
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Ingår i: Antipode. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0066-4812 .- 1467-8330. ; 41:2, s. 348-370
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents an argument for considering issues of class in analyses of communicative planning projects. In these projects, class interests tend to be obscured by the contemporary preoccupation with the class-ambiguous category of “community”. Through a case study of a project of urban redevelopment at King’s Cross in London, we conceptualize and map class interests in an urban redevelopment project. Three aspects of the planning process that contain clear class effects are looked at: the amount of office space, the flexibility of plans, and the appropriation of the urban environment as exchange or use value. These aspects structure the urban redevelopment but are external to the communicative planning process. The opposition to the redevelopment has in the planning discourse been articulated as “community”-based rather than in class-sensitive terms. We finally present three strategies for reinserting issues of class into planning theory and practice.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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Creative Destruction
- 2023
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Ingår i: Dictionary of Ecological Economics. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781788974912 - 9781788974905 ; , s. 100-100
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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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Ingår i: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0040-747X .- 1467-9663. ; 106:3, s. 231-245
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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, 1980-
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Economic crisis, (creative) destruction and the current urban condition
- 2015
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Ingår i: Antipode. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0066-4812 .- 1467-8330. ; 47:3, s. 689-707
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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Ingår i: Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0435-3684 .- 1468-0467. ; 97:4, s. 275-290
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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How to incorporate theory in (urban) field trips : The built environment as concrete abstraction
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of geography in higher education. - : Routledge. - 0309-8265 .- 1466-1845. ; 45:3, s. 361-379
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Classroom teaching and field trips are both conventional ways of teaching geography in higher education. But where the former can be highly theoretical and abstract, the latter is rather practical, empirical, and concrete. In this paper, I argue there is a need to better incorporate theory into field trips. I seek to explore relations between theory and field trips both theoretically and practically. Theoretically, I draw upon Henri Lefebvre and Bertell Ollman and argue for seeing the built environment as concrete abstractions. Based on interviews with teachers, theoretical reflections, and, not least, personal experiences, I end the paper offering practical steps towards better combining theory and field trips.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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Lift the class - not the place! On class, urban policies in Oslo
- 2020
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Ingår i: Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0435-3684 .- 1468-0467. ; 102:2, s. 135-154
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban studies are still troubled by Friedrich Engels’ argument from 1872: that the bourgeoisie’s only method to solving housing problems is to shift them elsewhere. Through analysing urban policies in Oslo, Norway, this paper demonstrates that the almost 150-year-old argument is still relevant. This cannot be confronted without a better understanding of class as a complex and constituting process in relation to urban policy. In this paper class will be analyzed through three clusters of causal relations: (i) a stratification approach, (ii) an opportunity hoarding approach (related to Weber), and (iii) domination and exploitation (a Marxian approach). Urban polices in Oslo is to a large extent consistent with a stratification approach – i.e. both individuals and places can become ‘richer’ and ‘improve’ without other individuals or places losing anything – and to some degree with a Weberian approach – the municipality wants to include local residents in education and labour markets. In order to confront the ‘bourgeoisie method’, we need to open the door to the third approach and discuss class in relation to the broader political economy. Rather than an area-programme with the aim of ‘lifting the place’, what is needed is class-programmes that aim at ‘lifting the class’.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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Malmö Live och en dödfödd stadspolitik
- 2016
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Ingår i: Sydsvenskan. - : Sydsvenska dagbladets aktiebolag. - 1652-814X.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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Miljø og økonomi : refleksjoner rundt kapitalismens kriser
- 2020
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Ingår i: Gnist. - 2535-3195 .- 2535-3209. ; :3, s. 42-51
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Verden er inne i en dobbel økologisk og og økonomisk krise av enorme proporsjoner. Skal vi bryte ut av den evige syklusen av nye kriser, må vi forstå hvordan disse henger sammen – og hvordan de oppstår.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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On Spatial Planning and Marxism : Looking Back, Going Forward
- 2020
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Ingår i: Antipode. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0066-4812 .- 1467-8330. ; 52:3, s. 800-824
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The renewed interest in Marxism that occurred in social sciences and humanities after the 2008 economic crisis has not yet found its counterpart in spatial planning. This paper examines what Marxist planning theory and practices could mean in the current conjuncture. It does so through scrutinising (1) the vibrant Marxist discourse in planning that existed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, (2) the recent history (since the 1980s) of planning theory and its relation to the political economy, and (3) the current political economic context (not least defined by the diabolic crisis). Where previous Marxist approaches to planning were very strong on analysing the political economy, I argue there is currently a need—with old hegemonies losing ground, communicative approaches losing support, and neoliberalism in the political economy losing legitimacy—to also discuss establishing alternatives.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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Searching for “Solutions” to Crisis : A Critique of Urban Austerity and Keynesianism
- 2018
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Ingår i: Human Geography. - : Sage Publications. - 1942-7786 .- 2633-674X. ; 11:2, s. 38-58
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on reflections on how economic crises under capitalism have been typically “solved”, particularly by examining processes of creative destruction and spatial fixes, this paper argues for the need to rethink the duality between austerity, and Keynesian crisis management, given the nature of the current economic crisis. Austerity is a key policy instrument of neoliberalism. Keynesianism is regarded as neoliberalism’s antithesis. Conventionally understood, continued austerity would mean more post-Fordist and neoliberal geographies, while a Keynesian approach would mean more demand management. This paper argues that such a conclusion is over-simplistic, indeed incorrect. Crisis management inspired by Keynes is less concerned with the destructive parts of crises and seldom challenges the power of capital. Therefore, Keynesian crisis management risks reproducing neoliberal spaces and neoliberal urban and regional policies. This paper questions whether Keynesian crisis management — i.e. boosting aggregate demand during slumps — is a “solution” to the current crisis. The paper questions Keynesianism in its belief, for example, that climate change can be stopped within a framework that still perpetuates, and advocates for, compound economic growth. The paper concludes by arguing for the need to see beyond Keynesianism, and explores what a Marxist approach to spatial fix and creative destruction might mean.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-, et al.
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Spatial myopia : sustainability, urban politics and Malmö city
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1946-3138 .- 1946-3146. ; 13:2, s. 159-173
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- When cities in the global north are considered environmental sustainable, this largely depends on how one measures emissions and understands space. Production-based and consumption-based approaches are two different ways of measuring emissions, but they are not simply measuring techniques: they relate also to different interests, they hide and reveal power relations, and they come with very different spatial implications. In this paper, we examine the Swedish city of Malmö, and the city district of Western Harbour in particular, which is often considered an environmental ‘role model’. We argue that this reputation depends precisely upon how we understand space and measure emissions. We argue that so-called sustainable cities and city districts in the global north can only be considered environmental role models if one chose to ignore the fact that they completely depend upon emissions being emitted elsewhere, and ignore any relation between affluence and emissions.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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Staden och kapitalet : Malmö i krisernas tid
- 2017
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Städer förändras av kriser och vi lever i en krisernas tid. Ekonomisk och social turbulens i stor skala och globala miljö- och klimatproblem kommer att påverka städernas manöverutrymme på både kort och långt sikt. I Malmö fortsätter man emellertid bygga som om också framtiden kommer att handla om shopping, turism, kongresser och oupphörligt stigande bostadspriser. Den nyliberala agendan ligger kort sagt fast. Tanken är att man genom att attrahera entrepenörer och kapital ska få pengar att sippra ner genom inkomstskikten och gynna alla stadens invånare. Men i själva verket har arbetslöshet och fattigdom bara fortsatt växa i skuggan av skrytbyggena Turning Torso och Malmö Live.Ståle Holgersens Staden och kapitalet stiger ned i Malmös sociala och ekonomiska historia sedan mitten på artonhundratalet och närgranskar fenomen som tillväxt, segregation, polarisering och nyliberal politik i ett marxistiskt perspektiv. Vilken verklighet döljer sig under dessa? Och hur ekologiskt hållbar är egentligen staden trots alla vackra ord om hållbarhet? Boken gör ekonomisk teori lättillgänglig och tankeväckande och stadshistoria politiskt relevant. Men den pekar också framåt i det stora och det lilla och ställer den viktiga frågan hur våra städer bäst ska kunna hantera nuvarande och kommande kriser.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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Stoppa projektism! En essä om klass, stad och politik
- 2018
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Segregation, fattigdom, och arbetslöshet är reella problem i svenska städer som inte verkar vilja försvinna av sig självt. Därför kommer politikerna med ständigt nya förslag till hur detta ska förändras; gärna i form av ett innovativt och nytänkande projekt som backas upp av ”ny forskning” eller sista trenden inom offentlig förvaltning. När det ena projektet är slut, börjar nästa. Det finns en tydlig distinktion i dagens stadspolitik: medan rika människor, företag och kapital attraheras genom en kontinuerlig politik, ska fattiga människor och utsatta områden hjälpas genom olika ”projekt”. Denna essä vill diskutera detta i relation till stadspolitikens klasskaraktär.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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Svar om krisernas tid
- 2023
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Ingår i: Röda Rummet. - Göteborg : Socialistiska partiet. - 1403-3844. ; :4, s. 12-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Jag gillar att skriva böcker, och ännu roligare är det att åka runt och prata om böckerna. Recensioner och feedback är kul, men inkluderar ett skräckinslag: det kan ju gå båda vägarna. Det allra roligaste är att diskutera en bok man har skrivit tillsammans med kamrater på ett öppet, kritisk och konstruktivt sätt. För att tillsammans komma vidare.Det var därför fantastisk att bli bjuden till Dyrön i mars 2023 och diskutera Krisernas tid tillsammans med Vanja Carlsson, Carl Cassegård, Lars Henriksson, Håkan Thörn, Evelina Johansson Wilén och Carl Wilén. Baserat på diskussionerna den helgen har Röda Rummet publicerat fyra kritiska kommentarer. Jag känner mig privilegierad. Detta är även väldigt bra timing. Krisernas tid ska publiceras på Verso Books hösten 2024, så kommentarerna har hjälpt mig att spetsa argumenten till den engelska utgåvan. TackDen här texten är alltså en kommentar till kommentarerna. Jag kan inte diskutera varenda detalj, men vill kort dryfta de centrala frågorna. Innan jag börjar vill jag bara kort precisera att Krisernas tid handlar om ekonomiska och ekologiska kriser under kapitalismen; om hur kapitalismen producerar kriser och hur krisernas reproducerar kapitalismen. Sedan diskuteras rätt många teman – som till exempel rasism, staten, geografi, fascism, nationalism — men enbart indirekt och i den mån detta är relevant för frågan om kriserna.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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The 'Middle Class' Does Not Exist : A Critique of Gentrification Research
- 2020
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The middle class is a key word in gentrification research, it is used extensively, and it is often part of the very definition of gentrification. But it is also used highly differently. This Intervention argues that the best way to grasp the middle class in the gentrification literature is synonymous with “anyone moving into a so-called gentrified area”, i.e. “newcomers” or “gentrifiers”. This, however, is not a proper definition of a social class. This Intervention also suggests that the capitalist class should rather be understood as the actual gentrifiers, but such an approach is incompatible with the existing gentrification discourse.
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- Holgersen, Ståle, 1980-
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The Urban
- 2021
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Ingår i: The SAGE Handbook of Marxism. - London : Sage Publications. - 9781473974234 - 9781526436108 ; , s. 1503-1518
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Capital relates to cities in all kinds of ways. Cities can both represent capitalism in its most virtuous state, or be the site of its rapid degeneration. As sites for massive volumes of capital accumulation as well as centres of concentrated poverty and hotspots of resistance, it should come as no surprise that Marxist studie of urban processes have come in various forms. But what unites them is that theyexist within a tension between the ‘urban’ and the political economy at large.
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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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Ingår i: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0309-1317 .- 1468-2427. ; 38:1, s. 285-301
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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- 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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Ingår i: City. - : Routledge. - 1360-4813 .- 1470-3629. ; 21:3-4, s. 253-270
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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- Malm, Andreas, et al.
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White Skin, Black Fuel : On the Danger of Fossil Fascism
- 2021
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What does the rise of the far right mean for the battle against climate change?In the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, revealing its deep historical roots. Fossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces have risen to the surface, some professing to have the solution—closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down.Epic and riveting, White Skin, Black Fuel traces a future of political fronts that can only heat up.
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