2nd NUPE Meeting – Malmö, 2023
The 2nd NUPE Meeting was organised as a workshop on critical approaches to the Nordic urban political economy in Malmö, Sweden, 6-7 June, 2023, with 18 participants and 12 paper presentations. The list of abstracts can be downloaded here:
SESSION 1. Housing under Neoliberalism in the Nordics
Chair: Mika Hyötyläinen (Uppsala University)
Presenters
1. “Housing cooperativism in Finland from 1920 to 2020: A century of co-opted experiments?”
Daisy Charlesworth (Lund University)
2. “Gentrifying ”the people’s home”: Displacement pressure and sense of belonging”
Helena Holgersson (University of Gothenburg)
3. “The changing role(s) of housing associations in Denmark under neoliberalisation, illustrated through an estate redevelopment project”
Matt Howells (Aalborg University)
SESSION 2. Lives of People in the Nordics: Migration, Mortgage, Financial Imaginaries
Chair: Lina Olsson (Malmö University)
Presenters
4. “Researching mortgaged lives in Sweden: Preliminary findings and methodological challenges”
Chiara Valli (Malmö University) and Hugo Lidmark (Malmö University)
5. “Debt, Risk and Return: From ‘Vulnerable Neighborhoods’ to Financial Imagineries”
Defne Kadioglu (Malmö University)
6. “Migrants as sustainability actors: ’In between’ nation, city and migrant discourses and actions”
Mark Connaughton (Lund University, LUCSUS), Claudia Fry (Lund University, LUCSUS) and Emily Boyd (Lund University, LUCSUS)
SESSION 3. Urban Redevelopment in the Nordics
Chair: Özlem Celik (University of Helsinki)
Presenters
7. “Lapinlahti mental asylum, Helsinki: Fighting for a Future Sanctuary”
Panu Lehtovuori (Tampere University) and Dalia Milián Bernal (Tampere University)
8. “Land Values and Promises of Social Inclusion on the Urban Waterfront”
Jani Vuolteenaho (University of Helsinki), Johanna Lilius (Aalto University), Hannu Ruonavaara (University of Turku), Juho Kauppi (University of Helsinki), Tommy Lindgren (Aalto University) and Katriina Rosengren (University of Turku)
9. “Tourism Gentrification in Nordic Cities: Unpacking Tourism-Induced Displacement of Shops in Reykjavík”
Anne-Cécile Mermet (Sorbonne University)
SESSION 4. Urban Development and Infrastructure in the Nordics
Chair: Defne Kadioglu (Malmö University)
Presenters
10. “Redeveloping somebody else’s land? Municipal visions and property conflicts in Norra Sorgenfri, Malmö, 2004-2023”
Erik Jönsson (Uppsala University)
11. “Municipal-Led Green Financialization of Urban Development in Sweden”
Özlem Çelik (University of Helsinki) and Lina Olsson (Malmö University)
12. “Implementing efficiency – new public management reforms and the rescaling of public transport in Malmöhus, Sweden 1975 – 2010”
Jens Portinson Hylander (The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, VTI)