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Working Paper Series No XX , 2015
This paper provides a review of research into financialisation of built environments, especially ... more 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.
Vem har rätt till staden i en tid präglad av ökad ojämlikhet, gentrifiering och konkurrens städer... more Vem har rätt till staden i en tid präglad av ökad ojämlikhet, gentrifiering och konkurrens städer emellan? Hur har nyliberalismen berett rum för kapitalismen genom att frånta människor deras platser och rättigheter?
Vilka är förutsättningarna för samhällsförändring?
I Ojämlikhetens nya geografi analyserar kulturgeografen David Harvey den globala kapitalismens nya rumslighet och den ojämlikhet som den skapar. Han diskuterar hur vår kunskap om dessa processer kan bidra till att både stärka jämlikheten och förbättra miljön.
Boken innehåller några av Harveys mest betydande texter och teorier. Här finns både nyskrivet och äldre material från ett författarskap som under fyra årtionden gett oss viktiga inblickar i kapitalismens rumsliga dimension.
https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/547175 The book analyzes recent urban transformations... more https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/547175
The book analyzes recent urban transformations through the lens of space wars. The main focus is on investment flows in the commercial property market, changes in urban governance and changes in social geography, and how these three aspects are related. Drawing on cross border investment data, archive studies, interviews with key actors and street walking experiences in Copenhagen, Lisbon and New York, the book offers insight into the glocal logic of urban imperialism and its tendency towards uneven development - fundamental forces that shape our cities in the 21st century.
Papers by Lund Hansen Anders
Responding to Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century, 2024
Responding to Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century At the Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM... more Responding to Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century At the Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM) in Copenhagen, June 2024, the Nordic Journal of Urban Studies hosted its inaugural lecture. Dr. Vasna Ramasar, from the Division of Human Ecology at Lund University, shared her insights on responding to urban challenges in the twenty-first century. Her presentation was followed by a conversation with Dr. Anders Lund Hansen, from the journal's editorial board who was the session organizer/chair, and Claus Wilhelmsen, a Danish urban planner and geographer. As a point of departure, the session and this commentary are inspired by the founding editors' seminal 2021 NJUS article (Haarstad et al., 2021). Using a decolonial and feminist perspective, Dr. Ramasar reflected on the current state of urban landscapes worldwide, highlighted the underlying causes of our most pressing urban and global challenges, and articulated a feminist response for a new form of urbanism. The dialogue between Ramasar, Wilhelmsen, Lund Hansen and the session participants is summarized here to inspire further discussion, debate, and action. The Environmental, Climate and Lived Experience of Urban Challenges Urban spaces around the world are characterized by unsustainable and unequal socioecological relationships (Bueno-Suárez & Coq-Huelva, 2020). Modern cities exceed their ecological footprints, with overconsumption of resources being a hallmark of contemporary
Housing Displacement, 2020
‘Housing is a human right’ reads a sign carried by a young woman at the Almen Modstand (Common Re... more ‘Housing is a human right’ reads a sign carried by a young woman at the Almen Modstand (Common Resistance) demonstration in Copenhagen, 29 September 2018. The movement was created earlier the same year as a reaction to the commodification, privatization, and territorial stigmatiza-tion of the common, non-profit housing (almene boliger) in general and to the government’s ‘ghetto plan’ in particular that are leading to the displace-ment of thousands of peoples. Coordinated parallel demonstrations organ-ized by Almen Modstand took place in two other major cities in Denmark: Aarhus and Odense (see Figure 8.1). Based on an analysis of the Danish state’s production of inequality through housing policy, we explore state-led stigmatization and displacement in a Nordic (post)welfare context (Baeten et al., 2015) – where ‘displacement can take very subtle (yet effective) forms’ (Beaten et al., 2020, Introduction to this volume). Moreover, we examine the new forms of (common) resistance to the assault on common, non-profit housing and marginalized peoples. ‘Losing one’s place can be much more traumatic than simply changing location’, explains Smith (1994: 253–254). Research on displacement and dispossession shows how these acts of violence are commonly sanctioned by the state and inflicted upon undesired movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.minorities and marginalized low- income communities (e.g., Atkinson, 2000; Hartman and Robinson, 2003; Fullilove, 2004; Lees et al., 2008; Porter, 2009). Additionally, when studying processes of marginalization, Wacquant (2016) suggests that we should look into the institutional mechanisms and policies that produce, reproduce, and change networks of position and racialized marginality and stigmatization. This chapter focuses on the role of the Danish state in stigmatizing and dis-placing these groups from targeted common, non-profit housing estates (the so-called ghettos). This politics has spurred critique and housing activism around themes related to ‘the right to the city’, ‘housing as a human right’, and ‘right to freedom from displacement’ – issues clearly linked to transnational discussions (e.g., Attoh, 2011; Fitzpatrick et al., 2014; Hartman 2002; Lund Hansen and Clark, 2017). In this chapter, we look closer at these resistance movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.
This paper provides a review of research into financialisation of built environments, especially ... more 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 ...
Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 2015
Housing was a backbone of the Danish welfare state, but this has been profoundly challenged by th... more 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 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.
Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 2015
Urban Studies, 2008
This article contrasts the intentions and outcomes of the publicly instigated and supported urban... more 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 sufficient deflecting 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 gentrification with `traumatic' consequences for individuals and the city as a socially just space.
Geoforum, 2000
The study examines globalization processes in property markets through an empirical investigation... more The study examines globalization processes in property markets through an empirical investigation into the commercial property market of Greater Copenhagen. The focus is on investment in commercial properties. Globalization of property markets is defined, a framework of analysis ...
Geografisk Orientering, 2009
De seneste år er begrebet 'gentrification' dukket op i den danske debat. Begrebet har d... more 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 ...
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 2008
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2008 ... ISSN: 1557-2935 (onl... more Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2008 ... ISSN: 1557-2935 (online) <http://liminalities.net/4-1/spacewars.htm> ... Walking through a Liquid Forest of Symbols ... Urban territory becomes the battlefield of continuous space war, sometimes erupting ...
Scandinavia has historically been known for high levels of social justices. Universal and tax-fun... more 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. I...
Housing displacement: conceptual and methodological issues. London, Routledge., 2020
‘Housing is a human right’ reads a sign carried by a young woman at the Almen Modstand (Common Re... more ‘Housing is a human right’ reads a sign carried by a young woman at the Almen Modstand (Common Resistance) demonstration in Copenhagen, 29 September 2018. The movement was created earlier the same year as a reaction to the commodification, privatization, and territorial stigmatiza-tion of the common, non-profit housing (almene boliger) in general and to the government’s ‘ghetto plan’ in particular that are leading to the displace-ment of thousands of peoples. Coordinated parallel demonstrations organ-ized by Almen Modstand took place in two other major cities in Denmark: Aarhus and Odense (see Figure 8.1). Based on an analysis of the Danish state’s production of inequality through housing policy, we explore state-led stigmatization and displacement in a Nordic (post)welfare context (Baeten et al., 2015) – where ‘displacement can take very subtle (yet effective) forms’ (Beaten et al., 2020, Introduction to this volume). Moreover, we examine the new forms of (common) resistance to the assault on common, non-profit housing and marginalized peoples.
‘Losing one’s place can be much more traumatic than simply changing location’, explains Smith (1994: 253–254). Research on displacement and dispossession shows how these acts of violence are commonly sanctioned by the state and inflicted upon undesired movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.minorities and marginalized low- income communities (e.g., Atkinson, 2000; Hartman and Robinson, 2003; Fullilove, 2004; Lees et al., 2008; Porter, 2009). Additionally, when studying processes of marginalization, Wacquant (2016) suggests that we should look into the institutional mechanisms and policies that produce, reproduce, and change networks of position and racialized marginality and stigmatization.
This chapter focuses on the role of the Danish state in stigmatizing and dis-placing these groups from targeted common, non-profit housing estates (the so-called ghettos). This politics has spurred critique and housing activism around themes related to ‘the right to the city’, ‘housing as a human right’, and ‘right to freedom from displacement’ – issues clearly linked to transnational discussions (e.g., Attoh, 2011; Fitzpatrick et al., 2014; Hartman 2002; Lund Hansen and Clark, 2017). In this chapter, we look closer at these resistance movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.
In CRUSH med Vänner. Baeten, G., Listerborn, C., Valli, C. (eds) Bostadsmanifest. 22 krav för framtidens hem. (Housing manifesto. 22 demands for the home of the future), pp. 38-41. Stockholm, Dokument Press., 2021
Solskinn og brød og ånd eies av alle.
In Mikkel Thorup & Jakob Beck-Thomsen (eds) Klimaets Idehistorie. Baggrund, Aarhus., 2021
En af de mest fremtrædende samtidsdiagnoser, der præger akademisk, politisk og journalistisk disk... more En af de mest fremtrædende samtidsdiagnoser, der præger akademisk, politisk og journalistisk diskurs i det tidlige 21. århundrede er påstanden om, at vi nu lever i en ’urban tidsalder’. For første gang i menneskets historie bor mere end halvdelen af verdens befolkning i dag angiveligt i byer. Dette kapitel bidrager til en kritisk forståelse af klimaspørgsmålets relation til de globale urbaniseringsprocesser. Kapitlet starter med en præsentation af Lefebvres historiske og teoretiske univers. Lefebvre taler om et muligt ’urbant samfund’. Her stilles således skarpt på drivkræfterne – processerne – bag den stigende urbanisering, samt forandringerne i menneskets relation til naturen. Dette bidrager til en forståelse af, hvordan ideer og sociale praksisser påvirker hinanden gensidigt og er situeret i både tid og rum. Endvidere etableres et skelet for forståelsen af, hvordan urbaniseringsprocesserne har spillet en større og større rolle i vores samfund og hvordan modernitetens ’logiske’, abstrakte og universelle rumlige repræsentationer har bidraget til menneskernes fremmedgørelse fra naturen. Den centrale drivkræft for samtidens planetære klimaproblemer er, ifølge Lefebvre, den kapitalistiske produktionsmåde. Med afsæt i et eksempel på øjensynligt klimavenlige teknologier og byer, ser vi herefter på urbaniseringsprocessers relationer til den nye såkaldte ’blå økonomi’. Afslutningsvis diskuterer jeg hvordan byernes ’operationelle landskaber’ og planetariske stofstrømme skaber ulige geografisk udviking.
In Sage Anderson, Gemma Blok and Louise Fabian (eds.) Marginalization and Space in Times of Covid-19. Lockdown Report. Essen, EU HERA. (Pp. 19-33), 2020
Journal of Geography in Higher Education , 2018
ABSTRACT The doctoral dissertation is a key component of postgraduate education that plays an imp... more ABSTRACT
The doctoral dissertation is a key component of postgraduate education that plays an important role for knowledge production and hence the development of a discipline. Swedish human geography currently lacks an overview of dissertations. This article fills this knowledge gap by reporting findings from a unique database
covering all doctoral dissertations between 1884 and 2015. The paper focuses on the demographics of the authors (age, gender), the format of the dissertation and explores productivity variations for authors of compilation dissertations. The findings show a notable increase
in the number of doctoral dissertations since the late 1960s but a decreasing share of doctoral dissertations in the social sciences since the 1970s. In terms of demographics, we show that while the age of the authors remains relatively stable, the gender-balance has improved considerably. In terms of format, the monograph has rapidly
given way to compilation dissertations, which now account for half the number of dissertations. More than 70% of all dissertations are now published in English. Statistical results suggest that the likelihood of completing a compilation dissertation is greater if the doctoral candidate is young and if attending Umeå University. But individual author productivity for compilation dissertations is mainly influenced by unobservables.
Working Paper Series No XX , 2015
This paper provides a review of research into financialisation of built environments, especially ... more 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.
Vem har rätt till staden i en tid präglad av ökad ojämlikhet, gentrifiering och konkurrens städer... more Vem har rätt till staden i en tid präglad av ökad ojämlikhet, gentrifiering och konkurrens städer emellan? Hur har nyliberalismen berett rum för kapitalismen genom att frånta människor deras platser och rättigheter?
Vilka är förutsättningarna för samhällsförändring?
I Ojämlikhetens nya geografi analyserar kulturgeografen David Harvey den globala kapitalismens nya rumslighet och den ojämlikhet som den skapar. Han diskuterar hur vår kunskap om dessa processer kan bidra till att både stärka jämlikheten och förbättra miljön.
Boken innehåller några av Harveys mest betydande texter och teorier. Här finns både nyskrivet och äldre material från ett författarskap som under fyra årtionden gett oss viktiga inblickar i kapitalismens rumsliga dimension.
https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/547175 The book analyzes recent urban transformations... more https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/547175
The book analyzes recent urban transformations through the lens of space wars. The main focus is on investment flows in the commercial property market, changes in urban governance and changes in social geography, and how these three aspects are related. Drawing on cross border investment data, archive studies, interviews with key actors and street walking experiences in Copenhagen, Lisbon and New York, the book offers insight into the glocal logic of urban imperialism and its tendency towards uneven development - fundamental forces that shape our cities in the 21st century.
Responding to Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century, 2024
Responding to Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century At the Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM... more Responding to Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century At the Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM) in Copenhagen, June 2024, the Nordic Journal of Urban Studies hosted its inaugural lecture. Dr. Vasna Ramasar, from the Division of Human Ecology at Lund University, shared her insights on responding to urban challenges in the twenty-first century. Her presentation was followed by a conversation with Dr. Anders Lund Hansen, from the journal's editorial board who was the session organizer/chair, and Claus Wilhelmsen, a Danish urban planner and geographer. As a point of departure, the session and this commentary are inspired by the founding editors' seminal 2021 NJUS article (Haarstad et al., 2021). Using a decolonial and feminist perspective, Dr. Ramasar reflected on the current state of urban landscapes worldwide, highlighted the underlying causes of our most pressing urban and global challenges, and articulated a feminist response for a new form of urbanism. The dialogue between Ramasar, Wilhelmsen, Lund Hansen and the session participants is summarized here to inspire further discussion, debate, and action. The Environmental, Climate and Lived Experience of Urban Challenges Urban spaces around the world are characterized by unsustainable and unequal socioecological relationships (Bueno-Suárez & Coq-Huelva, 2020). Modern cities exceed their ecological footprints, with overconsumption of resources being a hallmark of contemporary
Housing Displacement, 2020
‘Housing is a human right’ reads a sign carried by a young woman at the Almen Modstand (Common Re... more ‘Housing is a human right’ reads a sign carried by a young woman at the Almen Modstand (Common Resistance) demonstration in Copenhagen, 29 September 2018. The movement was created earlier the same year as a reaction to the commodification, privatization, and territorial stigmatiza-tion of the common, non-profit housing (almene boliger) in general and to the government’s ‘ghetto plan’ in particular that are leading to the displace-ment of thousands of peoples. Coordinated parallel demonstrations organ-ized by Almen Modstand took place in two other major cities in Denmark: Aarhus and Odense (see Figure 8.1). Based on an analysis of the Danish state’s production of inequality through housing policy, we explore state-led stigmatization and displacement in a Nordic (post)welfare context (Baeten et al., 2015) – where ‘displacement can take very subtle (yet effective) forms’ (Beaten et al., 2020, Introduction to this volume). Moreover, we examine the new forms of (common) resistance to the assault on common, non-profit housing and marginalized peoples. ‘Losing one’s place can be much more traumatic than simply changing location’, explains Smith (1994: 253–254). Research on displacement and dispossession shows how these acts of violence are commonly sanctioned by the state and inflicted upon undesired movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.minorities and marginalized low- income communities (e.g., Atkinson, 2000; Hartman and Robinson, 2003; Fullilove, 2004; Lees et al., 2008; Porter, 2009). Additionally, when studying processes of marginalization, Wacquant (2016) suggests that we should look into the institutional mechanisms and policies that produce, reproduce, and change networks of position and racialized marginality and stigmatization. This chapter focuses on the role of the Danish state in stigmatizing and dis-placing these groups from targeted common, non-profit housing estates (the so-called ghettos). This politics has spurred critique and housing activism around themes related to ‘the right to the city’, ‘housing as a human right’, and ‘right to freedom from displacement’ – issues clearly linked to transnational discussions (e.g., Attoh, 2011; Fitzpatrick et al., 2014; Hartman 2002; Lund Hansen and Clark, 2017). In this chapter, we look closer at these resistance movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.
This paper provides a review of research into financialisation of built environments, especially ... more 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 ...
Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 2015
Housing was a backbone of the Danish welfare state, but this has been profoundly challenged by th... more 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 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.
Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 2015
Urban Studies, 2008
This article contrasts the intentions and outcomes of the publicly instigated and supported urban... more 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 sufficient deflecting 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 gentrification with `traumatic' consequences for individuals and the city as a socially just space.
Geoforum, 2000
The study examines globalization processes in property markets through an empirical investigation... more The study examines globalization processes in property markets through an empirical investigation into the commercial property market of Greater Copenhagen. The focus is on investment in commercial properties. Globalization of property markets is defined, a framework of analysis ...
Geografisk Orientering, 2009
De seneste år er begrebet 'gentrification' dukket op i den danske debat. Begrebet har d... more 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 ...
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 2008
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2008 ... ISSN: 1557-2935 (onl... more Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2008 ... ISSN: 1557-2935 (online) <http://liminalities.net/4-1/spacewars.htm> ... Walking through a Liquid Forest of Symbols ... Urban territory becomes the battlefield of continuous space war, sometimes erupting ...
Scandinavia has historically been known for high levels of social justices. Universal and tax-fun... more 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. I...
Housing displacement: conceptual and methodological issues. London, Routledge., 2020
‘Housing is a human right’ reads a sign carried by a young woman at the Almen Modstand (Common Re... more ‘Housing is a human right’ reads a sign carried by a young woman at the Almen Modstand (Common Resistance) demonstration in Copenhagen, 29 September 2018. The movement was created earlier the same year as a reaction to the commodification, privatization, and territorial stigmatiza-tion of the common, non-profit housing (almene boliger) in general and to the government’s ‘ghetto plan’ in particular that are leading to the displace-ment of thousands of peoples. Coordinated parallel demonstrations organ-ized by Almen Modstand took place in two other major cities in Denmark: Aarhus and Odense (see Figure 8.1). Based on an analysis of the Danish state’s production of inequality through housing policy, we explore state-led stigmatization and displacement in a Nordic (post)welfare context (Baeten et al., 2015) – where ‘displacement can take very subtle (yet effective) forms’ (Beaten et al., 2020, Introduction to this volume). Moreover, we examine the new forms of (common) resistance to the assault on common, non-profit housing and marginalized peoples.
‘Losing one’s place can be much more traumatic than simply changing location’, explains Smith (1994: 253–254). Research on displacement and dispossession shows how these acts of violence are commonly sanctioned by the state and inflicted upon undesired movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.minorities and marginalized low- income communities (e.g., Atkinson, 2000; Hartman and Robinson, 2003; Fullilove, 2004; Lees et al., 2008; Porter, 2009). Additionally, when studying processes of marginalization, Wacquant (2016) suggests that we should look into the institutional mechanisms and policies that produce, reproduce, and change networks of position and racialized marginality and stigmatization.
This chapter focuses on the role of the Danish state in stigmatizing and dis-placing these groups from targeted common, non-profit housing estates (the so-called ghettos). This politics has spurred critique and housing activism around themes related to ‘the right to the city’, ‘housing as a human right’, and ‘right to freedom from displacement’ – issues clearly linked to transnational discussions (e.g., Attoh, 2011; Fitzpatrick et al., 2014; Hartman 2002; Lund Hansen and Clark, 2017). In this chapter, we look closer at these resistance movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.
In CRUSH med Vänner. Baeten, G., Listerborn, C., Valli, C. (eds) Bostadsmanifest. 22 krav för framtidens hem. (Housing manifesto. 22 demands for the home of the future), pp. 38-41. Stockholm, Dokument Press., 2021
Solskinn og brød og ånd eies av alle.
In Mikkel Thorup & Jakob Beck-Thomsen (eds) Klimaets Idehistorie. Baggrund, Aarhus., 2021
En af de mest fremtrædende samtidsdiagnoser, der præger akademisk, politisk og journalistisk disk... more En af de mest fremtrædende samtidsdiagnoser, der præger akademisk, politisk og journalistisk diskurs i det tidlige 21. århundrede er påstanden om, at vi nu lever i en ’urban tidsalder’. For første gang i menneskets historie bor mere end halvdelen af verdens befolkning i dag angiveligt i byer. Dette kapitel bidrager til en kritisk forståelse af klimaspørgsmålets relation til de globale urbaniseringsprocesser. Kapitlet starter med en præsentation af Lefebvres historiske og teoretiske univers. Lefebvre taler om et muligt ’urbant samfund’. Her stilles således skarpt på drivkræfterne – processerne – bag den stigende urbanisering, samt forandringerne i menneskets relation til naturen. Dette bidrager til en forståelse af, hvordan ideer og sociale praksisser påvirker hinanden gensidigt og er situeret i både tid og rum. Endvidere etableres et skelet for forståelsen af, hvordan urbaniseringsprocesserne har spillet en større og større rolle i vores samfund og hvordan modernitetens ’logiske’, abstrakte og universelle rumlige repræsentationer har bidraget til menneskernes fremmedgørelse fra naturen. Den centrale drivkræft for samtidens planetære klimaproblemer er, ifølge Lefebvre, den kapitalistiske produktionsmåde. Med afsæt i et eksempel på øjensynligt klimavenlige teknologier og byer, ser vi herefter på urbaniseringsprocessers relationer til den nye såkaldte ’blå økonomi’. Afslutningsvis diskuterer jeg hvordan byernes ’operationelle landskaber’ og planetariske stofstrømme skaber ulige geografisk udviking.
In Sage Anderson, Gemma Blok and Louise Fabian (eds.) Marginalization and Space in Times of Covid-19. Lockdown Report. Essen, EU HERA. (Pp. 19-33), 2020
Journal of Geography in Higher Education , 2018
ABSTRACT The doctoral dissertation is a key component of postgraduate education that plays an imp... more ABSTRACT
The doctoral dissertation is a key component of postgraduate education that plays an important role for knowledge production and hence the development of a discipline. Swedish human geography currently lacks an overview of dissertations. This article fills this knowledge gap by reporting findings from a unique database
covering all doctoral dissertations between 1884 and 2015. The paper focuses on the demographics of the authors (age, gender), the format of the dissertation and explores productivity variations for authors of compilation dissertations. The findings show a notable increase
in the number of doctoral dissertations since the late 1960s but a decreasing share of doctoral dissertations in the social sciences since the 1970s. In terms of demographics, we show that while the age of the authors remains relatively stable, the gender-balance has improved considerably. In terms of format, the monograph has rapidly
given way to compilation dissertations, which now account for half the number of dissertations. More than 70% of all dissertations are now published in English. Statistical results suggest that the likelihood of completing a compilation dissertation is greater if the doctoral candidate is young and if attending Umeå University. But individual author productivity for compilation dissertations is mainly influenced by unobservables.
Urban Uprisings: Challenging the neoliberal city in Europe, 2016
"Gentrifiering" (pp. 189-213), edited by Catharina Thörn and Helena Holgersson, 2014
Efter flera år med utflyttning till förorterna och förslumning i innerstaden vidtog den danska hu... more Efter flera år med utflyttning till förorterna och förslumning i innerstaden vidtog den danska huvudstaden ovanligt kreativa åtgärder för att försöka gjuta nytt liv i de hårdast drabbade stadsdelarna. Åtgärderna sattes bland annat in i Vesterbro, en ruffig, centralt belägen stadsdel ökänd för sin narkotikahandel. Men det var inte fråga om någon stadsförnyelse i vanlig bemärkelse, där försöken att rädda ett område leder till att det förstörs, och inte heller om gentrifiering, där man löser problem genom att invånare trängs bort. I stället rustades gamla hyreshus upp med hjälp av generösa offentliga bidrag (även när det i vissa fall skulle ha varit billigare att riva och bygga nytt) och områdets invånare hjälpte till i planeringen. (W alljasper 2001, s. 83) stadsomvandlingen i "det dejlige K0benhavn", sådan som den framställs exempelvis i citatet ovan, låter som en saga. Men var verkligheten fullt så enkel och oproblematisk? Vesterbro är en centralt belägen stadsdel där det · länge har bott nyanlända -först från landsbygden och sedan från andra länder. Vesterbro uppfördes av privata byggherrar so ni byggde hyresbostäder för den växande arbetarklassen i spekulativt syfte i slutet av 18 oo-talet och början av 1900-talet. Stadsdelen har alltid varit ett av Köpenhamns fattigaste områden och har sedan 1960-talet i allt högre grad kommit att förknippas med förslumning och en stor andel socialt marginaliserade och utsatta grup per. Med sitt läge nära centralstationen har Vesterbro traditionellt också varit Köpenhamns prostitutionskvarter och ett centrum för narkotikahandeln. Sedan början av 1990-talet har de inre delarna av Vesterbro varit föremål för Danmarks ambitiösa stadsförnyelseprojekt, med både kommunen och staten som viktiga aktörer. I detta kapitel ställer vi den påstått inkluderande satsningen på stadsförnyelse i inre Vesterbro i kontrast mot processens fak tiska resultat. Vår slutsats att inre Vesterbro genomgår en gentrifiering som drivs på av stadsförnyelseprojektet återspeglas i nästa avsnitt i kapitlet, där vi redogör för centrala delar av gentrifieringslitteraturen och de teoretiska ståndpunk ter som influerat vår undersökning. Det tredje avsnittet banar väg för vår konkreta analys genom en kritisk introduktion till utvecklingen inom den danska stadspolitiken. Därnäst undersöker vi de politiska målen för stads-00 ...J UJ lo... <( �
Skandinavien wird traditionell mit einem hohen Maß an sozialer Gerechtigkeit assoziiert. Universe... more Skandinavien wird traditionell mit einem hohen Maß an sozialer Gerechtigkeit assoziiert. Universelle, steuerfinanzierte Sozialversicherungen und Gesundheitssysteme, staatliche Renten sowie kostenlose Grund- und höhere Bildung wurden grundlegende Elemente zur Schaffung einer egalitären Gesellschaft. Auch der Wohnungssektor stellte in der Vergangenheit eines der Schlüsselelemente für die Entwicklung der skandinavischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten dar, indem er auf das Prinzip des Gebrauchswertes anstelle des Tauschwertes gestellt wurde. In dieser Tradition gilt Wohnen als Bestandteil der Grundversorgung und nicht als Ware, die zur persönlichen Gewinnmaximierung gehandelt werden kann.
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https://vimeo.com/38981359 "Panel Session: The Housing Question Revisited Monday, 2/27/201... more https://vimeo.com/38981359
"Panel Session:
The Housing Question Revisited
Monday, 2/27/2012, AAG, New York City
Organizers:
Gordon MacLeod - University of Durham
Henrik Gutzon Larsen - University of Aalborg
Tom Slater - Edinburgh University
Anders Lund Hansen - Lund University
Chair:
Gordon MacLeod - University of Durham
Panelists:
Ute Lehrer - York University
Kate Shaw - University of Melbourne
Tom Slater - University of Edinburgh
Neil Smith - City University Of New York
Discussant:
Peter Marcuse"
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CRUSH is a Strong Research Environment financed by FORMAS. It will run between 2014 and 2018 and its prime interest is the current acute housing crisis in Sweden.
The aim of CRUSH is also to remain a flexible research platform that can engage with other emerging urban issues.
CRUSH brings together researchers from Göteborg, Uppsala, Lund and Malmö who draw on critical theory to make sense of the contemporary city and in particular its housing condition"
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The Master’s programme in Human Geography is a two-year international programme focusing on cultural, economic, social and political aspects of human activities from distinctly geographical perspectives. Why do uneven geographies between people, neighbourhoods, cities, regions and countries develop? How do processes of globalisation and localisation affect firms and industries, people and places? What drives geographical changes – and are the geographies of such change socially and environmentally just? What can governments, companies, NGOs, activists and other actors at all scales do to address the big challenges of our time? These are the kind of questions human geographers ask and address.
The programme builds on the internationally recognised research by the academic staff at the Department of Human Geography. Our courses introduce you to the theoretical foundations as well as the research frontiers of the field, and they prepare you to develop and carry out your own advanced research in the MSc thesis. Through activities such as excursions, laboratories, internship, guest lectures and assignments, theory is linked to practice.
The programme prepares its graduates for a wide range of professions in public service, NGOs and the private sector. The flexibility of the programme’s second year makes it possible to tailor the education towards particular professions. This flexibility, and the Department of Human Geography’s commitment to critical and independent scholarship, also makes the master programme an ideal platform if you want to prepare for a research career – or simply to pursue a human-geographical topic that engages you.
The Department of Human Geography is a modern successful research institution which received great reviews in the University's internal research evaluation (RQ08). Both in research and education our Department is among the highest rated areas of the University and it hosts numerous relevant national and international research projects and educational programs.
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The Lund Urban Creativity Conference 2019 will take place 15-18 May 2019 at Lund University, Swed... more The Lund Urban Creativity Conference 2019 will take place 15-18 May 2019 at Lund University, Sweden.
ONLINE REGISTRATION AND A PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAMME WILL BE AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2019.
The conference is an opportunity to initiate an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between scholars, artists, activists, planners and others who work within the diverse field of urban creativity. The conference is hosted by the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies in collaboration with the Division of Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University.
https://narcotic-archive.org, 2022
Musically accompanied by Mitch Miller's "The River Kwai March", a woman dressed in Christiania's ... more Musically accompanied by Mitch Miller's "The River Kwai March", a woman dressed in Christiania's girl guard uniform shouts into a megaphone (in Danish): "1, 2, 3, 4. Right, right, right, right…" And then they finally get going. There is dazzling sunshine, it is 20 degrees and a little after three o'clock in the afternoon on 22 September 2021. Christianites have staged a symbolic wedding anniversary between "Mrs. Christiania and Mr. Denmark" on the occasion of the freetown's 50th birthday a couple of days later on 26 September. Specialists in political antics as they are, the Christianites have chosen to let the party start with a kaleidoscopic procession through the streets of Copenhagen from Christiania to the Danish parliament, Christiansborg, further on to the Ministry of the Interior and Housing, and finally to the town square, Rådhuspladsen. Culture as mediator Christiania's legendary girl guard is the first feature of the parade 1-right after the van with representatives from Kulturforening (the culture association of Christiania). And they are all there: the opera on the theatre van, the Santa Claus Army, the free hash movement, the Sundhedshuset (health house), the horses, the Bøssehuset (LGBT+ culture house), Børneengen (children's meadow), Christiania's Frie Natur (Association for the conservation and development of Christiania's free nature), the Galloperiet (art gallery), the Karma Cannon, the Fakir school, Sølyst (afterschool children hangout place), Stjerneskibet (association for