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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978, et al.
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A critical view of Gothenburg
- 2010
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In: (Re)searching Gothenburg: essays on a changing city. - Göteborg : Glänta produktion. - 9789186133207 ; , s. 7-26
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978, et al.
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Trettiosju studier av en stad i förändring
- 2010
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In: Göteborg utforskat: studier av en stad i förändring. - Göteborg : Glänta Produktion. - 9789186133153 ; , s. 7-25
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- Farcas, Liliana, et al.
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Precarization in the Name of Freedom : Material Conditions for Early Independent Performing Arts Groups in Gothenburg
- 2022
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In: Nordic Theatre Studies. - 0904-6380. ; 34:1, s. 49-65
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article is written within the frame of the interdisciplinary research project "Expansion and Diversity: Digitally Mapping and Exploring Independent Performance in Gothenburg 1965- 2000". It contributes to the critical ambition of producing an inclusive historiography of local independent performing arts groups by exploring the municipal distribution of cultural grants and the material conditions in the field. Based on interviews with nine well-known members of early independent performing arts groups in Gothenburg, complemented with archived funding applications and news articles, the article uses a cultural studies perspective to elaborate on how artistic freedom was negotiated in relation to dependence on public funding.
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Gentrifiering
- 2014
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Omfattande gentrifieringsprocesser äger idag rum över hela världen. Genom att studera gentrifiering kan man få en förståelse för mer genomgripande förändringar i det urbana landskapet och, i förlängningen, av samhället i stort. I denna bok betonar forskarna vikten av att analysera den ojämlika fördelning av resurser och makt som gentrifiering drivs av och för med sig. Gentrifering skapar segregation genom en rumslig uppdelning av staden och ska inte förstås som en naturlig eller oundviklig förändring av stadsrummet, utan som intimt sammankopplad med ekonomiska, politiska och kulturella processer i samhället. I denna antologi presenteras några av världens ledande gentrifieringsforskare.
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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Att möta myndigheter i småstad
- 2007
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In: Makt, kultur och kontroll över invandrares livsvillkor. Multidimensionella perspektiv på strukturell diskriminering i Sverige. - Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. - 9789155469139 ; , s. 271-298
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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Att värna den ocoola staden
- 2021
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In: Bostadsmanifest: 22 krav för framtidens hem. - Stockholm : Dokument press. - 9789188369512 ; , s. 103-108
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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En stedssensitiv sosiologi – go-alongs og ”mentale” kart
- 2011
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In: Mange ulike metoder, Katrine Fangen & Ann-Mari Sellerberg (red). - Oslo : Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS. - 9788205413917
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Både kreative metoder som er lite brukt, men som har vist seg å være svært nyttige til bestemte studieformål, og noen av de vanligste og mest brukte metodene i samfunnsvitenskapen. Målet med boken er todelt. For det første å gi en innføring i hver enkelt metode i seg selv. For det andre å vise hvilke muligheter som åpner seg når de ulike metodene kombineres. Boken vil være nyttig for studenter i samfunnsvitenskapene, men også for forskere som jobber med samfunnsvitenskapelige forskningsprosjekter.
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978, et al.
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Gentrifiering - kultur, politik och ekonomi
- 2014
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In: Gentrifiering, Catharina Thörn & Helena Holgersson (red). - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144075600 ; , s. 11-32
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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"Gömda flyktingar" som kommunal huvudvärk
- 2010
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In: Göteborg utforskat: studier av en stad i förändring. - Göteborg : Glänta produktion. - 9789186133153 ; , s. 105-110
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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Hemlösa & gömda i staden
- 2006
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In: Nordiska seminariet om urban- och bostadsforskning, Gävle, 6-8 september.
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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"Hidden refugees" as municipal headache
- 2010
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In: (Re)searching Gothenburg: essays on a changing city. - Göteborg : Glänta produktion. - 9789186133207 ; , s. 109-115
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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Icke-medborgarskapets urbana geografi
- 2011
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The object of investigation in this dissertation is the living conditions of refused asylum seekers in Sweden. More specifically, it is an ethnographic study of how a group of people organize their lives in Gothenburg under the threat of deportation. In Sweden these people are often referred to as “hidden refugees”, “without papers” or “illegal immigrants”, but since this study analyzes these terms the informants are described as deportables. The research questions evolve around both what constitutes the Swedish non-citizenship and what characterizes the urban environment. As many other post-industrial cities, Gothenburg is today working within the logic of what David Harvey refers to as entrepreneurialism, which means competing with other cities to “get on the map” and attract capital, tourists and events. This study discusses how deportables can make room for themselves in “the city of events” and “the city of knowledge”. Today we see a distinct conflict of interest in Gothenburg. At the same time as many non-citizens come here, the local authorities work hard to reduce this “inflow”. Consequently, this study focuses on how matters concerning how the welfare state ought to deal with the presence of non-citizens come to a head in cities. It argues that one consequence of what Gøsta Esping-Andersen characterizes as the social democratic welfare regime is that deportables are more obviously excluded in Sweden than in other European countries. Creating parallel systems where these people are given some welfare goes against the fundamental principle of providing a high degree of welfare to everyone. Such politics are hard to live by on the local level though. For instance, Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg has created routines for registering people without a Swedish personal number. In Sweden the most common way of naming rejected asylum seekers is “hidden refugees”, an expression that envisions these people living “underground” and “outside of society”. However, the informants’ everyday life turned out to revolve around learning to navigate in the urban geography and to create a life in the intersection between national regulations and the opportunities that the city, after all, has to offer. Drawing on Les Back’s notion of sociological listening this study aims at formulating a place-sensitive sociology, by, firstly, supplementing traditional methods such as participant observations and interviews with walk-alongs and “mental” maps, and, secondly, combining discourse analytical and symbolic interactionist perspectives.
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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Interaktion inom diskursens ordning
- 2017
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In: Den motspänstiga akademikern : festskrift till Ingrid Sahlin / redaktörer: Björn Andersson, Frida Petersson, Anette Skårner. - Malmö : Égalité. - 9789198131789 ; , s. 171-182
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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Sociologi som teater | teater som sociologi
- 2010
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In: Göteborg utforskat: studier av en stad i förändring. - Göteborg : Glänta produktion. - 9789186133153 ; , s. 301-307
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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Sociology as theatre | theatre as sociology
- 2010
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In: (Re)searching Gothenburg: essays on a changing city. - Göteborg : Glänta produktion. - 9789186133207 ; , s. 303-309
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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Staden & medborgarskapet
- 2007
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In: Konferensen Kulturella identiteter och nationella gränser, CERGU, Göteborg, 7-8 juni.
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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The sociological craft through the lens of theatre A call for imaginative critical research
- 2021
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In: Sociologisk Forskning. - : Sociologisk Forskning, Swedish Sociological Association. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 58:4, s. 361-382
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Since its inception as an academic discipline in the 19th century, sociology has carried an internal tension between the "scientific" and the "hermeneutic" orientations. In response to this tension, the present article reviews important sociological publications that address the art-science dicho-tomy and explores the relationship between academic sociology and artistic work on society. It takes its departure point from a collaboration between the author and the dramatist Mattias Andersson in the documentary theatre project The mental states of Gothenburg (2006, Angered Theatre). To a large extent, the play's script consisted of extracts of interviews with young people from different parts of the city of Gothenburg. Both "the sociologist", who carried out the inter-views, and "the dramatist" ended up as characters on stage. The article especially emphasises the relevance of The sociological imagination by C. Wright Mills (1967[1959]), arguing that through collaborative work with artists, the sociological craft can be further cultivated and thus realise its potential in terms of making well-founded interventions, both in academic discussions and in public conversations.
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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The urban geography of swedish non-citizenship
- 2014
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In: Playgrounds and battlefields: Critical perspektives of social engagement, Francisco Martinez & Klemen Slabina (eds). - Tallinn : Tallinn University Press. - 9789985587744 ; , s. 345-360
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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Urbana medborgarskapsförhandlingar
- 2016
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In: Irreguljär migration i Sverige: rättigheter, vardagserfarenheter, motstånd och statliga kategoriseringar / Maja Sager, Helena Holgersson och Klara Öberg (red.). - Göteborg : Daidalos. - 9789171734914 ; , s. 163-185
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- Holgersson, Helena, 1978
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Working With Mental Maps & Walk-alongs
- 2007
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In: Paper submitted to Exploding Methods: A New Scholar Symposium. Goldsmith, University of London, 22nd September.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In my doctoral thesis I am analysing the contradictory presence of “undocumented immigrants” in the city of Göteborg, Sweden. In this paper I will elaborate on two of the methods that I am working with – mental maps and walk-alongs. In order to analytically be able to put emphasis on the spatial aspects of citizenship I have asked my interviewees to draw a map of “their city” by free hand, and to take a walk with me at a place that means something to them. I will also briefly reflect on the dialectic relationship between method and analysis.
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- Rosen, Astrid von, 1964, et al.
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Debating Diversity - a panel on multiple performing arts histories in a digital age
- 2020
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In: ANTS, Scan-Aesthetics, Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars Conference 2020.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Panel 7: Theatre Ecology in Gothenburg. Chair: Rikard Hoogland Mikael Strömberg: Entertainment as infrastructure. Sandra Grehn: Theatre for young audiences played by independent theatre groups in Gothenburg 1980-1985. Fia Adler Sandblad: Physical theatre in Gothenburg. A performance lecture. Helena Holgersson: Where the expansion was made possible: On the importance of municipal cultural and community centers. Astrid von Rosen: Debating Diversity - Developing a dig where you stand database Abstract: Debating Diversity - a panel on multiple performing arts histories in a digital age. Joint panel organized by the research project: Expansion and Diversity: Digitally mapping and exploring independent performance in Gothenburg 1965-2000, funded by the Swedish Research Council. Expansion and Diversity connects extensive digital explorations of newspapers with place and historiographical analysis in order to take on the urgent challenge of accounting for diversity in late 20th century performing arts history. The project is the first in Scandinavia to bring together historiographical criticism with new information technologies and digital methods in order to find novel ways of countering previous theatre historiography's denouncing of a multiple independent performing arts heritage. The joint panel will briefly introduce the project, offer some current challenges, and present initial results.
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- Rosen, Astrid von, 1964, et al.
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Expansion och mångfald - en relationell forskningsdatabas : Expansion and Diversity - a relational research database
- 2021
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In: Expansion och mångfald: Digital kartläggning och analys av den utominstitutionella scenkonsten i Göteborg 1965-2000.
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- I svenska teaterhistorier ses perioden 1965–2000 som en tid för framväxt och etablering av en utominstitutionell scenkonst. Fältet expanderande kraftigt när institutionsteatrarna utmanades av ”fria” grupper och en ny mycket varierad scenkonstkultur växte fram. Denna nya scenkonst ifrågasatte hierarkier, sökte sig ut från de traditionella scenerna, överskred genregränser, experimenterade konstnärligt och mötte en ny publik. En mångfald angelägna föreställningar för barn, migranter, arbetare, queera personer, studenter och många andra skapades av människor med olika kulturella bakgrunder och kompetenser. Historieskrivningen har observerat detta skifte, men endast lyft fram några få grupper, verk och välkända artister. Därmed har en endimensionell bild fått fäste i historieskrivningen, men nu har det blivit dags att utmana tidigare forskning genom att se perioden på ett nytt sätt och bejaka dess mångfald. Det är dags att inkludera de många olika uttrycken och grupperna i en historieskrivning som gör det fria kulturarvet rättvisa. Forskningsprojektet Expansion och mångfald vill använda digitalt material och metoder för att analysera, lyfta fram och tillgängliggöra frikulturen som ett värdefullt kulturarv som angår och engagerar många olika människor. Den viktiga mångfalden av uttryck, grupper, relationer och spelplatser i det expanderade fältet har visat sig vara svår för att hantera för traditionell historieskrivning. Den har genom sin linjära karaktär inte kunnat ge plats för exempelvis karnevalers mångfacetterade uttryck, migranters kulturföreningar, jazzdans som folkrörelse och konstnärlig katalysator, fysisk teater, spex och populärkulturella uttryck, danskonst i offentliga rum, och scenkonst för barn. Med mångfald och skillnader som utmaning för forskningen krävs att arkivmaterial från det expanderade fältet undersöks och görs tillgängligt på nya sätt och att tidigare oanvänt källmaterial görs åtkomligt och tas i anspråk. En grupp bestående av humanistiska och urban-sociologiska forskare med stor erfarenhet av scenkonstforskning och stadsanalyser kommer att tillsammans med experter från digital humaniora undersöka och tillgängliggöra den frikulturella mångfalden.
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- Rosen, Astrid von, 1964, et al.
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Re-vitalizing Dig Where You Stand: Place as agent in participatory performance history
- 2020
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In: ACHS 2020 Futures.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- By mobilizing place as a particularly pertinent agent in participatory history making, this paper contributes a Swedish case study, to the ongoing re-vitalization of the dig where you stand realm. Both contributors are leading scholars within the international and Swedish movement to update Sven Lindqvist’s Dig Where You Stand (1978) method and ethos in an increasingly digital world. Within this broader research and activist context, this paper focusses on how place oriented urban-sociological analysis, can contribute to expanding and diversifying our knowledge of downplayed independent performance heritage. First, our focus on Gothenburg, Sweden’s second city, and its suburbs, will help counter previous theatre histories national bias and over-emphasis on source materials from the capital Stockholm. Second, our “local digging” and place analysis will not only charter established venues, but also include previously neglected rehearsal studios and other types of alternative places used by local communities in their performance making. Thus, place orientation enables us to better scrutinize conditions pertinent for independent performance culture, and critically relate them to shifts in urban and cultural policies. Third, as memory strongly connects with place, interviews involving performers and their artistic practices within a diversity of cultural hubs, will contribute new knowledge challenging previous elitist and excluding theatre historiography. The research is conducted within the Swedish research project Expansion and Diversity: Digitally mapping and exploring independent performance in Gothenburg 1965–2000, situated at the University of Gothenburg.
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- Sager, Maja, et al.
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Introduktion: irreguljär migration i Sverige
- 2016
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In: Irreguljär migration i Sverige: rättigheter, vardagserfarenheter, motstånd och statliga kategoriseringar / Maja Sager, Helena Holgersson och Klara Öberg (red.). - Göteborg : Daidalos. - 9789171734914 ; , s. 7-48
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- Thörn, Catharina, 1972, et al.
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Göteborg - den urbana frontlinjen och "nya Kvillebäcken"
- 2014
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In: Gentrifering / Catharina Thörn, Helena Holgersson (red.). - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144075600 ; , s. 157-185
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Kapitelet är en analys och begreppslig utveckling av geografen Neil Smiths begrepp om urbana frontlinjer. Med hjälp av detta begrepp analyserar vi omvandlingen av ett tidigare industriområde i Göteborg till ett så kallat skyltfönster för hållbar stadsutveckling.
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- Thörn, Catharina, 1972, et al.
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Revisiting the urban frontier through the case of New Kvillebäcken, Gothenburg
- 2016
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In: City. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1360-4813 .- 1470-3629. ; 20:5, s. 663-684
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- It has been 20years since Neil Smith published his classic The New Urban Frontier. In this paper we argue for the continuing relevance of his concepts by analysing the development of a new exclusive residential area (New Kvillebäcken) in the Gustaf Dalén area, a re-purposed industrial site on the edge of the central city of Gothenburg, Sweden. We show how the early millennial plans to create a new city district—Älvstaden (River City)—involved a redrawing of the city map that changed the conditions for this former industrial area from symbolically peripheral (though geographically central) to attractive, but insufficiently exploited, central city land, thus producing a ‘rent gap’. In our reading of Neil Smith’s concept of the urban frontier, we emphasise the close relationship between the frontier mythology that rationalises redevelopment as inevitable through stigmatisation—and the movements of capital—how and where rent gaps are created. The urban frontier creates an analytical space to unravel how the joint forces of the elite (in our case, the close cooperation between private real estate owners and the municipality of Gothenburg) displace long-time inhabitants in urban spaces such as the Gustaf Dalén area to accomplish more financially profitable land use.
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