3rd NUPE Meeting
The 3rd NUPE Meeting was organised as a pair of sessions on the topic “New Forms of Urban Political Economies and Ecologies” at the biannual conference Nordic Geographers Meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, 24-27 June, 2024, with ten participants and eight paper presentations.
The list of abstracts can be found here: NUPE NGM2024 List of abstracts
Chair: Lina Olsson (Malmö University)
Paper presentations
1. “When your landlord is your labour union: Building cooperatives, labour unions, and transformations in the Finnish ‘social’ rental sector”
Daisy Charlesworth, Lund University
Co-authors: Mika Hyötyläinen, Uppsala University, and Johanna Lilius, Aalto University
2. “From the Balance Sheet to the Cash Flow: Maintaining Rental Housing as an Asset”
Jennie Gustafsson, Malmö University, Institute for Urban Research
3. “Non-profit housing actors innovating (in) the housing system?”
Ina Marie Christiansen, Norwegian lnstitute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo Metropolitan University (NIBR, OsloMet)
4. “Danish housing associations as the new urban entrepreneurs? Lessons from the redevelopment of Kildeparken”
Matthew Howells, Aalborg University
Co-author: Kristian Olesen, Aalborg University
5. “Five Finlands: Segmenting climate attitudes to manage equitable decarbonisation of housing”
Joni Vainikka, University of Helsinki
6. “Debility in the Post-Welfare City: Surplus Populations, Surplus Capital, and Extractive Abandonment under the Danish ‘Ghetto Law’”
Lawrence D. Berg, University of British Columbia
Co-author: Morgan Berg, University of Victoria
7. “From Vulnerable Neighborhoods to Financial Imaginaries: The Case of Place-Based Social Impact Investing in Sweden”
Defne Kadioğlu, Malmö University, Institute for Urban Research
8. “Greening Urban Development with Debt: The Emergence of Green Financialised Urban Entrepreneurialism in Sweden”
Lina Olsson, Malmö University, Institute for Urban Research
Co-author: Özlem Çelik, University of Turku