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- Berg, Lawrence D., et al.
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Introduction: Placing critical geographies
- 2021
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In: Placing Critical Geography : Historical Geographies of Critical Geography - Historical Geographies of Critical Geography. - London : Routledge. - 9781409431411 - 9781409431428 - 9781315600635 ; , s. 1-8
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- Jakobsen, Peter, et al.
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Territorial structure: An early Marxist theorisation of geography
- 2022
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In: Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography : Intellectual Histories and Critical Interventions - Intellectual Histories and Critical Interventions. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783031042331 - 9783031042362 - 9783031042348 ; , s. 51-68
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Radical geography came only patchily to Nordic geography, and the development of theoretical Marxist geography was even sparser. But in the radical geography environment at Copenhagen University, a group of geographers in the 1970s developed a vocal and self-assured Marxist theory, which became known as the territorial-structure approach and drew its inspiration from the work of the GDR geographer Gerhard Schmidt-Renner. In this chapter we present a critical discussion of the territorial-structure approach as an example of an early theorisation of geography from a Marxist perspective. We discuss the central controversies that came to surround the approach, and we discuss the territorial-structure approach as a conscious effort to resist disciplinary specialisation and fragmentation of (human) geography. Our aim is not to resurrect the territorial-structure approach, but rather to investigate this theory as an important step towards socio-spatial theory in Nordic geography.
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Barcelona: Housing crisis and urban activism
- 2020
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In: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe : Towards Sustainable Cities? - Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. - 9781138325913 - 9780429450174 ; , s. 74-93
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Co-housing is an emerging housing form in Spain, where many pioneering initiatives are found in Catalonia and the Barcelona area. Using the La Borda project as a recurring illustration, but also drawing on other examples and developments, the chapter seeks to contextualize this nascent but noticeable interest in co-housing in and around Barcelona. Starting at the scale of the crisis-ridden Spanish housing system, the chapter gradually zooms in on co-housing at the scale of Catalonia, Barcelona, neighbourhoods and, eventually, the La Borda project. While still embryonic, co-housing activism in the Barcelona area is generally characterized by a high degree of urban-political commitment and organization, and the chapter suggests that emerging experiences in Barcelona can serve as inspiration for those who want co-housing to evolve into a more sustainable housing form.
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Denmark: Anti-urbanism and segregation
- 2020
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In: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe : Towards Sustainable Cities? - Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. - 9780429450174 - 9781138325913 ; , s. 23-37
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Sublimated expansionism? Living space ideas in Nordic small-state geopolitics
- 2022
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In: Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography : Intellectual Histories and Critical Interventions - Intellectual Histories and Critical Interventions. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783031042331 - 9783031042362 - 9783031042348 ; , s. 15-30
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In intellectual histories of geography as well as in international relations, geopolitics is usually the business of great powers, understood as the expansion of hard power through territorial control. However, the existence of a ‘Geopolitik of the weak’ has also been theorised, premised on the ability of smaller states – such as the Nordic countries – to secure their survival through a wider range of policy instruments. In this chapter, we analyse key themes in the work of two Nordic geographical thinkers deeply concerned with the place and status of their home countries in the era of high modernity – Rudolf Kjellén and Gudmund Hatt. Relying upon their scholarly works as well as relevant public debates circa 1905–1945, we trace the ‘small-state geopoliticking’ of Hatt and Kjellén, identifying three key characteristics of their style of small-state geopolitics: (1) determinism is qualified by voluntarism; (2) space is complemented by future; and (3) external expansion is sublimated into internal progress. In its reconceptualisation of living space as primarily concerned with existential survival as premised upon future progress, rather than outward-oriented territorial expansion, small-state geopolitics emerges as a highly situated, somewhat quaint but nonetheless significant element in Nordic theorising of geography.
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- Scheller, David, et al.
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Urban activism and co-housing
- 2020
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In: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe : Towards Sustainable Cities? - Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. - 9781138325913 - 9780429450174 ; , s. 120-139
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter looks at the interrelations and dynamics between urban activism and the politics of co-housing. Drawing on empirical material from Hamburg and Barcelona, it explores the socio-political context of co-housing in the interplay of bottom-up organizing and top-down governance. With particular attention to squatting and related questions of post-autonomous urban activism, this investigation is structured according to three issues: relations to the state; horizontal organizing; and direct actions. This includes questions around the legalization of squatted houses, and intersections with broader movements. On this basis, the chapter discusses what is termed the dialectics of the politics of co-housing. This dynamic relation between grassroots organizing and top-down governance intersects in different political aspirations for co-housing – and eventually in what is understood as sustainable urban development. On the one hand, squatting and urban activism follow a political logic of empowerment, self-management, mutual self-help and solidarity. On the other hand, local city governments impose a political logic of urban governance, often with the aim of regulation, control, marketization and co-optation. This dialectic plays out differently in Hamburg and Barcelona, but the underlying contradictory political logics remain similar.
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- Thörn, Håkan, et al.
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Constraints and possibilities for co-housing to address contemporary urban and ecological crises : A conclusion
- 2020
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In: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe : Towards Sustainable Cities? - Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. - 9781138325913 - 9780429450174 ; , s. 202-213
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this conclusion we argue that, while we have demonstrated in this book that definitions of co-housing as well as co-housing practices in different European countries vary, there are some general lessons to be learned for anyone interested in understanding or practising co-housing in the context of advanced capitalist societies. This conclusion has three parts: First, we address the questions asked in the introduction regarding the relation between contemporary co-housing ideas and practices and the discourse on sustainable urban development. Second, we address the questions asked in the introduction regarding the two key dimensions of co-housing, community and autonomy, as understood in relation to the broader contexts of civil society and urban governance. Third, we will conclude by paying particular attention to the constraints on co-housing produced by contemporary urban development regimes as well as the potentials of co-housing to contribute towards more just and ecologically sustainable cities.
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Retten til byen
- 2012
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In: Byen i bevægelse : Mobilitet - politik - performativitet - Mobilitet - politik - performativitet. - 9788778673862 ; , s. 131-147
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- Berg, Lawrence D., et al.
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Producing anxiety in the neoliberal university
- 2016
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In: The Canadian Geographer. - : Wiley. - 1541-0064. ; 60:2, s. 168-180
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents a theoretical analysis of the neoliberal production of anxiety in academic faculty members in universities in Northern Europe. The paper focuses on neoliberalization as it is instantiated through audit and ranking systems designed to produce academia as a space of economic efficiency and intensifying competition. We suggest that powerful forms of competition and ranking of academic performance have been developed in Northern Europe. These systems are differentiated and differentiating, and they serve to both index and facilitate the neoliberalization of the academy. Moreover, these audit and ranking systems produce an ongoing sense of anxiety among academic workers. We argue that neoliberalism in the academy is part of a wider system of anxiety production arising as part of the so-called “soft governance” of everything, including life itself, in contemporary late liberalism.
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- Carter, Helen, et al.
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A planning palimpsest: neoliberal planning in a welfare state tradition
- 2015
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In: European Journal of Spatial Development. - 1650-9544. ; :58, s. 1-20
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article, we analyse the evolution and transformation of Danish spatial planning from its tentative origins in liberalist politics, through its rise as a central feature of the welfare state project, to its more recent entrepreneurial forms in a context of neoliberalisation. The article demonstrates how transformations of Danish spatial planning discourses and practices must be understood in context of previous discourses and practices sedimented as layers of meaning and materiality through time and over space. These layers do not completely overlay one another, but present a palimpsest saturated with contradictions as well as possibilities. We propose the notion of the ‘planning palimpsest’ as a helpful metaphor for drawing attention to the historical-geographical characteristics of planning discourses and practices.
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- Clark, Eric, et al.
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Financialisation of Built Environments: A Literature Review
- 2015
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper provides a review of research into financialisation of built environments, especially in relation to urban politics, social geographies and sustainability. Focus is limited here to the theoretical and conceptual substance of selected literature. Financialisation is conceptualised as a profoundly spatial process, forging social relations that form conditions for urban governance, social geographic change and urban sustainability. The paper frames financialisation of built environments as a process enmeshed with related processes of commodification, privatisation, neoliberalisation, and accumulation by dispossession, associated with the creation and appropriation of rent gaps. Land rent and rent gaps are highlighted as central to understanding financialisation of built environments. We then review research into relations between financialisation of built environments and urban governance, i.e. how financialisation impacts upon, while being facilitated or deterred by, urban politics. This sets the stage for reviewing research into relations between financialisation of built environments and observed patterns of change in the social geographies of cities, and research into the sustainability implications of financialisation of built environments. Conclusions reconsider the nature of the relationship between financialisation and urbanisation, and the challenges of bringing financial systems into the service of achieving social and natural sustainability.
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- Engelstoft, Sten, et al.
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Territorium, stat og nation: Aspekter af Europas politiske geografi
- 2013
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Abstract in Danish Territorier, stater og nationer har stadig stor betydning. Selvom Europa på overfladen kan se ud som en overskuelig politisk geografi af suveræne stater, er der i virkeligheden tale om et kompliceret kludetæppe af formelle og uformelle grænser og overlappende territorier. Nutidens Europa minder på mange måder om middelalderens komplicerede politiske geografi. Territorium, stat og nation giver et grundlag for at forstå og diskutere politisk-geografiske spørgsmål. Bogen retter sig især mod studerende med interesse for politisk geografi, men kan også bruges inden for beslægtede fag som historie og samfundsfag samt i tværfaglige samarbejder i gymnasieskolen. Læsere med interesse for de politisk-geografiske spørgsmål, der indgår i den daglige nyhedsstrøm, kan ligeledes have glæde af bogen.
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- Germundsson, Tomas, et al.
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In Search of Nordic Landscape Geography : Tensions, Combinations and Relations
- 2022
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In: Socio-spatial Theory in Nordic Geography. - Cham : Springer. - 9783031042331 - 9783031042348 - 9783031042362 ; , s. 105-125
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Through tracing what ‘landscape’ has meant, and the political and intellectual work that ‘landscape’ does, we in this chapter explore the shifting nature of Nordic landscape geography. We thereby aim to introduce readers to the role of the landscape concept within Nordic scholarship and critically engage with contemporary debates over the nature and meaning of landscape. Landscape was an important political concept long before the advent of geography as a discipline in the Nordic countries, though what landscape denoted differed between various national and linguistic settings. Based in our mapping of the concept as it has evolved within geography and related disciplines, we centre on three strands of landscape scholarship today: mediations on a particularly ‘Nordic’ substantive landscape concept, attempts to utilise landscape as a concept to influence planning, and attempts to utilise landscape as a concept to grasp environmental issues. Scrutinising these current traditions leads us to primarily underline the necessity of relational approaches to steer the concept away from a problematic and narrow emphasis on the local scale. Yet, and importantly, various relational approaches take analysis in different directions, leading us to also underscore the necessity of critically scrutinising where particular relational approaches might lead landscape geography.
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- Hagbert, Pernilla, Dr, 1986-, et al.
(author)
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Contemporary Co-housing in Europe: Towards Sustainable Cities?
- 2020
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This book investigates co-housing as an alternative housing form in relation to sustainable urban development. Co-housing is often lauded as a more sustainable way of living. The primary aim of this book is to critically explore co-housing in the context of wider social, economic, political and environmental developments. This volume fills a gap in the literature by contextualising co-housing and related housing forms. With focus on Denmark, Sweden, Hamburg and Barcelona, the book presents general analyses of co-housing in these contexts and provides specific discussions of co-housing in relation to local government, urban activism, family life, spatial logics and socio-ecology. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in a broad range of social-scientific fields concerned with housing, urban development and sustainability, as well as to planners, decision-makers and activists.
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- Jakobsen, Peter, et al.
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An alternative for whom? The evolution and socio-economy of Danish cohousing
- 2019
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In: Urban Research & Practice. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1753-5069 .- 1753-5077. ; 12:4, s. 414-430
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Cohousing has caught the attention of activists, academics and decision-makers, and Danish experiences with cohousing as bofællesskaber are routinely highlighted as pioneering and successful. This article presents a mainly quantitative analysis of the development of Danish intergenerational cohousing and investigates socio-economic characteristics of residents in these communities. First, the article demonstrates how the development of Danish cohousing has been undergirded by distinct shifts in dominant tenure forms. Second, it shows that inhabitants in contemporary Danish cohousing are socio-economically distinct. This does not diminish the value of cohousing, but it problematises assumptions about the social sustainability of this housing form.
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- Jakobsen, Peter, et al.
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Geographies and Theories of Geography : An Introduction
- 2022
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In: Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography. - Cham : Springer. - 9783031042331 - 9783031042348 - 9783031042362 ; , s. 1-13
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Approaching Nordic human geography as an evolving community of practice with strong historical-geographical legacies, this chapter introduces the two overarching themes of the book. On the one hand, we foreground how geography has been, and is, theorised in Nordic human geography, particularly (but not exclusively) as socio-spatial theory. On the other hand, if often intersecting with the former, we seek to highlight the importance of historical-geographical context in geographical theorising and research. Following from this, and acknowledging that the balancing of these themes differs between the individual contributions, the chapter outlines the approach of the book.
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Bofællesskab og ejendom
- 2021
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In: Bofællesskaber – 1970 til i dag. - 9788794102087 ; , s. 108-117
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Bofællesskabet – et barn af 1960’erne
- 2023
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In: Bo-Fælles-Skab: Håndbog for kollektiver, bygge og bofællesskaber. - 9788770708562 ; , s. 22-29
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Book chapter (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
(author)
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Commodifying Danish housing commons
- 2015
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In: Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1468-0467 .- 0435-3684. ; 97:3, s. 262-274
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Housing was a backbone of the Danish welfare state, but this has been profoundly challenged by the past decades of neoliberal housing politics. In this article we outline the rise of the Danish model of association-based housing on the edge of the market economy (and the state). From this, we demonstrate how homes in private cooperatives through political interventions in the context of a booming real estate market have plunged into the market economy and been transformed into private commodities in all but name, and we investigate how non-profit housing associations frontally and stealthily are attacked through neoliberal reforms. This carries the seeds for socio-spatial polarization and may eventually open the gate for commodification – and thus the dismantling of the little that is left of a socially just housing sector. Yet, while the association-based model was an accessary to the commodification of cooperative housing, it can possibly be an accomplice in sustaining non-profit housing as a housing commons.
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Gentrification—Gentle or Traumatic? Urban Renewal Policies and Socioeconomic Transformations in Copenhagen
- 2008
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In: Urban Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0042-0980 .- 1360-063X. ; 45:12, s. 2429-2448
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article contrasts the intentions and outcomes of the publicly instigated and supported urban renewal of Copenhagen’s Inner Vesterbro district. Apart from physically upgrading the decaying buildings, the municipality’s aim was to include the inhabitants in the urban renewal process and, seemingly, to prevent the dislocation of people from the neighbourhood. However, due to ambiguous policies, the workings of the property market and the lack of suffi cient defl ecting mechanisms, middle-class inhabitants are now replacing the high concentration of socioeconomically vulnerable people that characterised Vesterbro before the urban renewal. This process may appear ‘gentle’, but it is nonetheless an example of how state and market interact to produce gentrifi cation with ‘traumatic’ consequences for individuals and the city as a socially just space.
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Geografi som det konkretes videnskab
- 2014. - 2
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In: Geofaglighed som kompetence (Version 2). - 9788798362838 ; , s. 85-95
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon
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Geopolitics on trial: politics and science in the wartime geopolitics of Gudmund Hatt
- 2015
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In: Journal of Historical Geography. - : Elsevier BV. - 0305-7488. ; 47, s. 29-39
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The history of Danish geographers during the Second World War is almost synonymous with that of Gudmund Hatt (1884–1960), the Professor of Human Geography at Copenhagen University. Hatt was a key figure in the development of Danish geography and assumed the role of a public intellectual, particularly through his geopolitical analyses as they unfolded in a staggering number of radio speeches, newspaper essays, books and articles during the late 1930s and early 1940s. But this industriousness, which accelerated during the first years of the Nazi-German occupation of Denmark (9 April 1940–5 May 1945), was also the direct reason for Hatt's hard downfall – academically as well as personally. For his wartime activities, Hatt was as the only Danish university professor tried by a post-war public servants' tribunal. It found that he had engaged in 'dishonourable national conduct' during the occupation and dismissed him from his professorship. Drawing on archives and published sources from the period, the paper focuses on Hatt's wartime activities and geopolitical analyses in the complicated political context of the occupation, and it pays particular attention to the conflict between 'science' and 'politics' as it crystallised in the post-war trial of Hatt.
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Herskabeliggørelse : gentrification på dansk
- 2009
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In: Geografisk Orientering. - 0105-4848. ; 39, s. 33-35
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Abstract in Danish De seneste år er begrebet ‘gentrification’ dukket op i den danske debat. Begrebet har dybe rødder i den geografiske forskning, og det stiller skarpt på de processer, der forandrer byernes geografi, samt diskuterer hvilke sociale og økonomiske konsekvenser forandringerne medfører. I denne artikel undersøger vi fænomenet i forhold til de dramatiske forandringer af Vesterbro i København.
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon
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Kampen gælder realiteter: Gudmund Hatts geografiske verdensbillede
- 2013
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In: Geografisk Orientering. - 0105-4848. ; 43:5, s. 16-20
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Abstract in Danish Blandt geografer huskes Gudmund Hatt nok især som professoren, der efter besættelsen blev afskediget for „uværdig national optræden“. Det skyldtes ikke mindst de „tyskvenlige“ geopolitiske analyser, han som en del af samarbejdspolitikken udfoldede i radioen og i det Berlingske Blade. Nogle vil måske også huske Hatt for de lidet flatterende racistiske passager i Jorden og Menneskelivet, den geografiske håndbog i fire tykke bind, han i 1920’erne udgav sammen med Martin Vahl. Men hvilken form for geografi bedrev Hatt egentligt? Og hvordan passer racismen og geopolitikken ind i den geografi?
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon
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Three phases of Danish cohousing: tenure and the development of an alternative housing form
- 2019
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In: Housing Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1466-1810 .- 0267-3037. ; 34:8, s. 1349-1371
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Broadly understood as a housing form that combines individual dwellings with substantial common facilities and activities aimed at everyday living, Danish cohousing communities (bofællesskaber) are often seen as pioneering and comparatively successful. Yet, in spite of frequently being mentioned or addressed as case studies in the growing literature on cohousing and, more generally, alternative forms of housing, Danish cohousing experiences have not been systematically analysed since the 1980s. Emphasizing broader trends and evolving societal contexts, this article investigates the development of Danish cohousing over the past five decades. Through this historical analysis, the article also draws attention to the largely neglected issue of tenure structures in the evolution of cohousing. The multifaceted phenomenon of cohousing cannot and should not be reduced to issues of tenure. But if cohousing is to spread and contribute affordable alternatives to mainstream housing, tenure structures should be a key concern.
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Wohnen als öffentliches Gut auf dem Prüfstand: Wohnungsreformen in Dänemark und Schweden
- 2016
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In: Geographische Rundschau. - 0016-7460. ; 68:6, s. 26-31
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Scandinavia has historically been known for high levels of social justices. Universal and tax-funded social security and health systems, state pension and free basic as well as higher education became fundamental elements in creating more equal societies. Moreover, housing sectors based on use value rather than exchange value have historically been key to the development of Scandinavian welfare states. In this tradition, housing is seen as an essential necessity rather than only a commodity that can be exchanged for individual gains, encompassing two major forms: Cooperatives and common housing. The paper's focus is on housing in Denmark and Sweden, which many continue to see as examples of countries representing a measure of social justice and solidarity. Both countries have histories of housing forms based on some notion of use value. We outline these alternatives to market-based housing and discuss the transformation processes that have either undermined or challenged them. In essence, cooperatives and particularly common housing became common inheritances of social (rather than individual) wealth. However, the development in Denmark and Sweden demonstrates how easily housing commons for the many can be appropriated and turned into sources of exchange value for the few. This is very evident in the histories of Swedish and Danish cooperatives, where use-rights to common property with a few legislative changes became market commodities, subject to price inflation. For common housing, in both countries, if most clearly in Sweden, challenges partly derive from changes to the legal context of common housing, which broadly follows wider political shifts from ‚classic‘ social democracy to neoliberalism. Danish common housing has so far most successfully resisted this transformation. In important respect, this is because ownership of Danish common housing is located in strong organisations outside the neoliberalising state, while Swedish common housing generally is owned by the (local) state. In both countries it will take a concerted effort to sustain and develop common housing as a collective and non-commodified good.
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- Lund Hansen, Anders, et al.
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Financialisation of the Built Environment in Stockholm and Copenhagen
- 2015
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper investigates financialisation of built environments in Stockholmand Copenhagen, especially within the sphere of housing. It presents empiricalanalyses of processes of financialisation of built environments in the two cities, and how these processes relate to urban politics and governance. The case studies include analyses of how financialisation of built environments and associated shifts in urban politics have impacted on the social geographies of these two capital cities. The Stockholm and Copenhagen cases are presented as individual case studies. A comparative analysis including broader conclusions from these studies and a related case study (of Ankara, in a separate working paper) will be the subject of a sequel working paper.
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- Olsen, Sara Høier, et al.
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State-led stigmatisation of place and the politics of the exception
- 2023
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In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. - : SAGE Publications. - 2399-6544 .- 2399-6552. ; 41:1, s. 148-164
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Ghetto area’ has become an official categorisation in Danish housing policy. This article investigates how this stigmatising spatialisation of politics and policy has emerged through evolving storylines for particular housing estates, which gradually have come to structure political debate and become institutionalised in official policy. While political actors can draw on different storylines, it is argued that a range of storylines and associated quantifiable criteria combine to produce a generic ‘ghetto place’ in Danish politics. This scale-framing and objectification have enabled a politics of the exception, making it possible to apply extraordinary measures to particular places. This has significant effects for inhabitants in these places and the cities in which they are located, and it is proposed that, in the longer term, the politics of the exception could also become a battering ram against the collectively owned non-profit housing sector in Denmark.
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Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography : Intellectual Histories and Critical Interventions
- 2022
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This open access book is about socio-spatial theory in, and the nature of, Nordic geography. From both historical and contemporary perspectives, the book engages with theorisations of geography in the Nordic countries. Including chapters by geographers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, it reflects how theories about the relations between the social and the spatial have been developed, adopted and critiqued in Nordic human geography in relation to a wide range of themes, concepts and approaches. The book also traces institutional developments, distinct geographical traditions and intellectual histories, as well as authors’ own experiences as geographers in and beyond the Nordic area. The chapters together introduce and engage with debates and discussions that permeate Nordic geography and allows readers a glimpse of geographical thinking and the role of socio-spatial theory in the Nordic countries. By providing insights into how geographical ideas emerge, travel and are translated and adapted in specific contexts, the book contributes to debates about historical-geographical situatedness and theorisations of geography.
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The Housing Question revisited
- 2016
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In: ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. - 1492-9732. ; 15:3, s. 580-683
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- Thörn, Håkan, et al.
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Co-housing, sustainable urban development and governance : An introduction
- 2020
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In: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. ; , s. 1-20, s. 1-19
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Co-housing is often lauded as an alternative housing form offering a more socially, ecologically and economically sustainable way of living. This book takes its departure in the need for a critical exploration of co-housing in the context of sustainable urban development, beyond the normative approach that often characterizes co-housing research. Based on a four-year research project involving in-depth studies of co-housing in and around major cities in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Spain, the empirical and theoretical contributions presented in the book explore how co-housing developments can be understood and contextualized in urban sustainability discourses and policies in Europe today. The introductory chapter outlines the analytical and contextual framework of the book. After a brief description of the definitions used and the research approach taken, the chapter introduces a discussion on the discourse of sustainable development, to frame the ‘sustainability problems’ that co-housing is perceived to solve. Analytically, it is found relevant to distinguish between two contextual dimensions of co-housing: (1) urban civil society; and (2) urban governance. These contextual dimensions, in turn, are argued to relate to two key facets of co-housing, as recurring themes throughout the book: revolving around forms of community, and forms of autonomy.
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- Thörn, Håkan, 1961, et al.
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Constraints and possibilities for co-housing to address contemporary urban and ecological crises: A conclusion
- 2019
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In: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe: Towards Sustainable Cities? Edited ByPernilla Hagbert, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Håkan Thörn, Cathrin Wasshede. - London : Routledge. - 9781138325913 ; , s. 202-213
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- co-housing, sustainable urban development, governance, gentrification, civil society, ecological sustainability, social sustainability
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