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- Danielsson, Marianne, 1968-, et al.
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En vänbok till en vän av det goda samtalet
- 2024
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In: Samtal om idéer, utvärdering och samhällsförändring. - Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. - 9789151320083 ; , s. 9-15
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- Hertting, Nils, 1970-
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Participatory Bias and Participatory Neighborhood Governance : Reanalyzing the Most-Likely Case of the Stockholm Neighborhood Renewal Program
- 2024
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In: Urban Affairs Review. - : Sage Publications. - 1078-0874 .- 1552-8332. ; 60:2, s. 674-705
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Strategies for revitalizing marginalized neighborhoods often include participatory innovations. According to the participatory bias argument, however, participatory governance arrangements benefit the privileged rather than the poor. In the present article, the validity of this argument is examined by analyzing how individual resources and social positions relates to recruitment to, participation within, and outcomes derived from participation in a most-likely case of bias in participatory neighborhood governance. Although the privileged were overrepresented in recruitment, the pattern was less clear regarding influence within the processes, and quite the opposite regarding certain outcomes of participation. Also in a most-likely case for bias, participatory neighborhood governance may induce empowerment among poor. Based on the observation that participants that differ with regard to available resources and social positions also have different motives for participation, a mechanism-based account regarding why and how bias in early phases under certain conditions may produce empowering outcomes is proposed.
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- Hertting, Nils, 1970-
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Implementering : Perspektiv och mekanismer
- 2023. - 7
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In: Politik som organisation. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144158143 - 9789144177366 ; , s. 233-264
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- Nilsson, Johanna, 1986-
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Between Political Party and Armed Group : Understanding Renamo as a Hybrid Party
- 2023
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Licentiate thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis explores the concept of hybridity within the context of rebel-to-party transformation, with a particular focus on Renamo during the period of 2015-2017 in Mozambique. This timeframe was marked by a resurgence of organised systematic violence, disrupting the relative peace that had prevailed in Mozambique since 1992. The central conflict revolved around the issue of local self-governance, with Renamo asserting its claim to govern in six out of Mozambique's ten provinces. During this period, Renamo operated both as a political party with a significant presence in parliament and as an armed group engaged in systematic violence.The rebel-to-party literature has sparked discussions about groups that seem to retain elements of their violent past while transitioning into political parties, leading to the emergence of the concept of hybrid parties. However, this concept remains relatively undefined and underexplored. This thesis seeks to contribute to this discussion through an in-depth qualitative study of Renamo's elite-level politicians, aiming to enhance our understanding of hybrid parties.The study, conducted during the conflict years, closely examines how elite politicians in Renamo navigate their dual roles. It encompasses 14 months of fieldwork from February 2015 to January 2017, drawing on elite interviews, elite-level public statements, and elite observations of parliament, enriched by ethnographic sensibility. The analysis is grounded in a theoretical framework that allows for an exploration of Renamo's behaviour and perceptions as both an armed group and a political party, particularly concerning the issue of local self-governance. Through this analysis, the study aims to elucidate the intersections, thereby advancing our comprehension of how hybridity manifests.The main findings suggest that Renamo's hybridity predominantly manifests through processes related to contemporaneity in behaviour, elite-level legitimisation, and one key political issue. Furthermore, I argue that the hybridity is maintained through narratives of democracy and a charismatic leader. The thesis advocates for a deeper exploration of these processes to enhance both empirical understanding and the theoretical discussion surrounding hybrid parties.
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- Hertting, Nils, 1970-, et al.
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Normalizing urban entrepreneurialism through sly de-politization: city centre development in Gothenburg and Stockholm
- 2022
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In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. - : Wiley. - 0309-1317 .- 1468-2427. ; 46:2, s. 253-268
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Among a number of proposals regarding ‘late’ forms of urban neoliberalism, it has recently been argued that urban entreprenurialism has become ‘common sense’ or even ‘dull compulsion’. In this article, we contribute to this discussion by exploring the structural conditions and local strategies for normalizing city-centre-oriented urban entrepreneurialism in a Swedish context. In doing so, we return to an important but sometimes overlooked aspect of David Harvey's original concept: the delicate act of organizing urban entrepreneurialism across public and private spheres of the local polity. From this perspective, the act of making urban entrepreneurialism normal is far from ‘dull compulsion’. Drawing on longitudinal case studies of two different public-private partnerships related to city centre development in the two largest Swedish cities, we highlight the active use of sly, or cunning, de-politicization strategies among local elite actors. Our analysis leads to the more general claim that we should expect similar sly de-politicization strategies to be necessary for normalizing urban entrepreneurialism in political contexts characterized by relatively strong local authorities, and in relation to spaces and topics of interest to many and diverse actors.
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- Åberg, Magnus, 1980-, et al.
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Is ‘the social’ forgotten? : Aspirations and understandings of Energy Communities
- 2022
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In: eceee 2022 Summer Study proceedings. - Stockholm : European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE). - 9789198827002 - 9789198827019 ; , s. 613-622
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Energy communities (ECs) is a concept which has been around for decades in various forms, but which has not been explicitly defined or regulated by policymakers until the introduction of the Clean Energy for all Europeans package in 2019. Since then, the EU provides a legal framework for ECs which will guide the creation and management of ECs within member states. From a policy perspective, an EC is regarded as a way to organize collective energy actions in an open and participatory way to provide benefits for members of local communities and opportunities for citizens to get engaged with the transformation of the energy system. In a broad sense, the aim is formulated in terms of enabling a transition towards a "clean and fair” energy system. The policy aspirations for ECs seem to be many and diverse, including technical, economic, social and organizational, referring to a set of different values such as effective use of resources, social equity, and ecological sustainability. In technical and economic terms, EC's are supposed to enable clusters of actors to collectively invest in technology for renewable energy systems and share coordination benefits of more diverse energy use patterns, energy storage solutions and production units. Socially, ECs are expected to increase the acceptance of and support for the transition towards a renewable energy system by involving and empowering citizens, thereby helping to address issues such as poverty, social equity and “energy segregation”. Moreover, within the EU policy discourse, ECs are conceived as policy instruments for implementing EU’s energy goals, as actors on energy markets and as a part of civil society and local communities at the same time.Evidently, ECs are expected to produce a multitude of societal benefits, but the extent to which these policy aspirations are heard and translated into practice remains unclear. In this paper, we present a mapping of how the concept of ECs is understood and reported in the research literature, published from 2015 until 2021. The aim is to categorize and assess existing understandings of ECs, and to show which aspects have been considered when ECs have been discussed and practiced. More specifically, we pose the question of whether the policymakers’ social aspirations of ECs have been forgotten.
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