NUPE Kick-Off Meeting – Joensuu, 2022
The NUPE Kickoff Meeting was organised as a series of sessions on the topic “Varieties Of Nordic Neoliberalisms: Changing Urban Political Economies In Northern Europe” at the bi- annual conference Nordic Geographers Meeting in Joensuu, Finland, 21-22 June, 2022, with 17 participants and 11 paper presentations.
You can download the list of presentations and abstracts here:
Chairs
Lina Olsson (Malmö University) & Özlem Çelik (University of Helsinki)
Paper Presentations
1. The role of Finnish land-use planning legislation in the ordering of neoliberal environmental governance
Uula Saastamoinen (Finnish Environment Institute)
2. The neoliberalisation of spatial planning in Denmark – a 30-year perspective
Kristian Olesen (Aalborg University)
3. Political Institutions, Local Governance, and Land-Use Changes: A Comparative Study of Norway and Sweden
Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska (University of Warsaw), António F. Tavares (University of Minho) & Emanuel Wittberg (Linköping University)
4. Design, Everyday Experiments and Nordic Neoliberalism
Guy Julier (Aalto University)
5. Finance, Capital Accumulation, and the Production of the Built Environment in Sweden
Maja Stalevska (Uppsala University)
6. Light Rail Transit as Spatial Fix: Regulatory and Accumulative Strategies in the Transit-Oriented Neoliberal City in Sweden
Lina Olsson (Malmö University)
7. Solutions in search of a problem. Translating BIDs into the Nordic countries
Chiara Valli (Malmö University) & Kristian Olesen (Aalborg University)
8. How does the struggle to define homes’ value drive transformation of the post-crisis national housing finance? The case of Sweden
Anetta Proskurovska (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research)
9. Problematizing urban segregation – a genealogy of the question of vulnerable urban areas in Denmark
Martin Severin Frandsen (Roskilde University) & Jesper Visti Hansen (Roskilde University)
10. Neoliberal discourse and the state-driven gentrification of Danish housing association areas
Matthew Howells (Aalborg University)
11. Renoviction, Class, and Contested Urban Redevelopment in a Swedish Neighborhood
Miguel Martínez (Uppsala University) & Christoffer Berg (Uppsala University)