The 6th NUPE Meeting, 2026

Took place at NGM2026, 23 June, Reykjavík, Iceland

Session Group: Urban Shifts and Political Economy

Chair: Defne Kadıoğlu (Malmö University)

Urban Political Economy in Transition: Critical Perspectives on Urban Processes in a Polycrisis Era

Paper presentations (link to list of abstracts)

1. Corporate landlords and municipal governance: reproduction of urban marginalization in the post-welfare Nordics?

Jennie Gustafsson, Malmö University, Sweden

2. Understanding gentrification by combining approaches from political economy and everyday life

Judit Timár, ELTE Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute for Regional Studies, Békéscsaba. Co-author: András Trócsányi, University of Pécs, Faculty of Sciences, Pécs, Hungary

3. Manifesting growth: Cities in polarizing economic realities

Antti Wallin & Anni Jäntti, Tampere University, Finland. Co-author: Liisa Häikiö, Tampere University

4. Who’s Driving the Financialization of the Urban Green Transition in Sweden? Municipal Financialization as a Class Coalition Process

Lina Olsson, Malmö University, Institute of Urban Research, Sweden