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- Edberg, Karin, et al.
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Island and the Pipeline : Gotland Facing the Geopolitical Power of Nord Stream
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 2005, the Nord Stream Consortium launched a pipeline project with the intention to bring Russian natural gas to Germany across the Baltic Sea. Although this raised crucial issues of Russia-EU-Sweden relations on security, energy and the environment the focus of this report is on the Gotland local government response to the Nord Stream approach, thus illustrating the need for a transversal human geography-political studies perspective. Situated in the heart of the Baltic Sea, and in line with the established Swedish governmental "remiss" procedure of commission and referral for consideration the Gotland authority was requested by the Swedish Government to make a statement about the pipeline. How-ever, before the government was even asked for permission the Nord Stream Consortium with Russian Gazprom as the major shareholder turned to the Gotland authority with an offer they after some conflict-ridden twists and turns, manifested in three policy lines as described in the report, decided not to refuse. A narrative inspired analytical ap-proach is applied to dissect the more or less contradictory standpoints and legitimating arguments posed by the actors in the political process preceding the local authority decision to accept the Nord Stream offer, i.e. the local scale actors were provoked to take a stand on a big issue raised by a huge multinational company. By in detail examining the local political repercussions of the energy project the case study contributes to a trans-disciplinary understanding of multi-scalar/multi-level govern-ance. In an epilogue the report also highlights the sudden turnaround of the local narrative in autumn 2016 when Gotland Regional Authority was on the brink of making a deal with Nord Stream II. The turnaround flashlights the geopolitical position of the island in the crossfire of inter-ests concerning the Baltic Sea Region.
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- Elander, Ingemar, 1942-, et al.
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From policy community to issue networks : Implementing social sustainability in a Swedish urban development programme
- 2019
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Ingår i: Environment and Planning C. - : Sage Publications. - 2399-6544 .- 2399-6552. ; 37:6, s. 1082-1101
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article a “sustainable urban development” programme in Sweden (Delegation for Sustainable Cities, 2008–2012) is analysed, with a particular focus on the social dimension, and in the light of a commonly held assumption of a general shift in politics over time “from government to governance”. However, on closer examination the programme comes out as something quite different. Taking “policy community” as our conceptual point of departure the article first portrays how post-war housing policy in Sweden was implemented jointly by a potent central government, strong local governments, public housing companies and major interest organisations. The Delegation for Sustainable Cities, on the other hand, was launched as “a national arena for sustainable urban development” with a multifaceted mission, including the production and dissemination of knowledge through best practice; the promotion of multi-actor dialogue and coordination; and the use and export of green technology. Implementation of the programme was delegated to a small number of projects in selected housing districts. In relation to the narrative “from government to governance”, the Delegation for Sustainable Cities rather indicates the opposite, i.e. government steering by a combination of structural non-intervention, rhetorical flair and selective fragmentation into project-bound issue networks. The sustainability discourse thus turned out to be a perfect umbrella for the fragmented implementation structure of the Delegation for Sustainable Cities programme. Instead of a tight, multi-level, national governance structure (policy community) we thus have a case of governing at some distance by a combination of what in recent literature have been labelled the Regulatory State and the Networked Polity.
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- Elander, Ingemar, 1942-, et al.
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Partnerships and democracy : A happy couple in urban governance?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Governing European Cities. - : Taylor & Francis. - 9781351737180 - 9781138735590 ; , s. 93-124
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter examines ‘partnership’ as one common manifestation of urban governance. Partnership in the Habitat II context has a very wide scope, encompassing international support programmes as well as capacity-building programmes at the national and sub-national levels. The partnership concept has a stronger ideological load than other members of the network family. In view of the fact that the label of the common policy target, ‘urban regeneration’, is very ambiguous, caution is warranted when trying to explain the policy effects of regeneration partnerships. After the 1973 economic crisis, urban policies changed dramatically towards regeneration, though the dual focus on the inner city and the suburbs remained. Traditional mechanisms of accountability in representative democracy were never designed to cope with multi-organizational, fragmented policy systems. With the introduction of citizen participation in urban governance, planners can contribute to the democratic debate. The partnership approach in urban politics has a rhetorical strength and a mythical appeal.
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- Elander, Ingemar, 1942-, et al.
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Swedish muslims and secular society : faith-based engagement and place
- 2015
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Ingår i: Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0959-6410 .- 1469-9311. ; 26:2, s. 145-163
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article sets out to explore how Muslims in Sweden identify with and create social life in the place where they live, that is, in their neighbourhood, in their town/city and in Swedish society at large. In a paradoxical religious landscape that includes a strong Lutheran state church heritage and a Christian free-church tradition, in what is, nevertheless, a very secular society, Muslims may choose different strategies to express their faith, here roughly described as “retreatist,” “engaged” or “essentialist/antagonistic.” Focusing on a non-antagonistic, engaged stance, and drawing upon a combination of authors' interviews, and materials published in newspapers and on the Internet, we first bring to the fore arguments by Muslim leaders in favour of creating a Muslim identity with a Swedish brand, and second give some examples of local Muslim individuals, acting as everyday makers in their neighbourhood, town or city. Third, we also give attention to an aggressively negative Islamophobic stance expressed both in words and in physical violence in parts of Swedish society. In conclusion, we reflect upon the challenges and potentialities of an emotionally engaged, dialogue-orientated Muslim position facing antagonistic interpretations of Islam, and an ignorant, sometimes Islamophobic, environment.
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- Fell, Terence, 1965-, et al.
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Klass, rumslig segregation och livskvalitet i två svenska städer : [Class, Spatial Segregation and Residents’ Life Chances in Two Swedish Cities]
- 2019
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Ingår i: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. - Lund : Fahlbeckska stiftelsen. - 0039-0747. ; 121:1, s. 65-93
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Against a background of decades of spatial class segregation in Sweden and else-where, and with the Swedish city as our empirical base, we demonst rate how class position effects residents’ life chances defined here as health, security, participation, and education. By comparing the circumstances of affluent neighbourhoods in both cities with those of disadvantaged neighbourhoods we elucidate impor-tant changes in a modern city’s class hierarchy like increased social polarization. We conclude, firstly, that those neighbourhoods that change class position do so slowly and are becoming predominantly middle class. Secondly, we show that the situation in both cities’ low income neighbourhood category varies dramatically. Finally, and in contradiction with mainstream urban theory, we infer that growing social inequality is not always detrimental to the lives of residents in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
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- Fröding, Karin, 1974-, et al.
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A community-based participatory research process in a poor Swedish neighbourhood
- 2015
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Ingår i: Systemic Practice and Action Research. - New York, USA : Springer. - 1094-429X .- 1573-9295. ; 28:1, s. 19-36
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Health is not equally distributed and various neighbourhoods differ from each other in terms of people’s health and other social and economic variables. Numerous efforts are undertaken to develop healthier and more sustainable neighbourhoods, and a key concern in the process is citizen participation. Due to the challenge of conducting research in poor neighbourhood’s complementary research approaches with a more practice-based and democratic knowledge development are needed. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a partnership pproach that aims to conduct collaborative knowledge production and to use the research indings for public health interventions. This paper sets out to describe and analyse a community-academic partnership and a CBPR process within a poor neighbourhood in Sweden. Two years of fieldwork were conducted at 26 meetings comprising 84 h in a CBPR group including a researcher, and lay and professional stakeholders. Participatory observation and detailed meeting process-notes were used when doing a qualitative thematic analysis. Eight different developmental phases was identified in the implementation of a CBPR process and four key lessons were found to be important. These were that a community-academic partnership should (1) accept different levels of participation in different phases; (2) openly discuss mutual expectations and individual prerequisites; (3) unmask power and authority; and (4) allow the work to take the time it needs. The design, process, and result of the CBPR project are relevant for local community-academic partnerships using a CBPR approach with the goal of increasing participation as a means of improving people’s health and well-being in poor neighbourhoods.
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- Gustavsson, Eva, 1956-, et al.
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Behaving Clean without Having to Think Green? : Local Eco-Technological and Dialouge-Based, Low-Carbon Projects in Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: The Journal of urban technology. - : Routledge. - 1063-0732 .- 1466-1853. ; 24:1, s. 93-116
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Two kinds of local low-carbon initiatives are the focus in this paper: those initiated under the umbrella of a central government program, and those initiated from below by individuals and municipalities in Sweden. The project studied in the first category was focused on eco-technological innovations undertaken by a municipal housing company. The case in the second category was a dialogue-based program with selected citizens willing to test a climate-friendly lifestyle. The latter approach faced strong barriers when going from words to deeds, lacking the large-scale favors of massive eco-technological investments. Highlighting one particular project in each category, we illustrate the potentials and barriers of each approach. it is concluded that policymakers have to find ways to combine the two, otherwise there is a risk that low-carbon committed individuals will become disillusioned or that eco-technological gains will be spoiled by "rebound consumption".
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