Nordic Urban Political Economy
The Nordic Urban Political Economy Network (NUPE) was launched in 2020 as an initiative for cross-Nordic collaboration and research exchange addressing the variegated political-economic changes occurring in cities and regions across the Nordics today. NUPE aims to promote and develop critical studies of urban political economy and political ecology by studying how neoliberalism, financialization, digitalization, platform economies, sustainability policy, and migration change urban landscapes, welfare systems, and urban and regional politics in the Nordic countries today.
Purpose
• provide an open platform for debates and discussions decentering established perspectives and encouraging the development of new perspectives and theorisation on contemporary urban societies in the Nordics.
• spark cross-Nordic collaborations and interdisciplinary research on urban political economy to strengthen cross-pollination, innovation, and critique within the research community.
• explore up-to-date topics and core areas where profound changes are observed across the Nordics including, amongst others, urban entrepreneurialism and branding; state rescaling; changes in the housing systems and the right to housing; urban and development policies; municipal and infrastructural finance; racial geographies and capitalism; climate and environmental justice; everyday financialization; low-carbon transitions; urban infrastructural change; mobility and transport; social reproduction; and transformative planning strategies.
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