Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography: Intellectual Histories and Critical Interventions

ISBN-13: 9783031042362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 293 str.

Peter Jakobsen;Erik Joensson;Henrik Gutzon Larsen

Opis

This open access book is about socio-spatial theory in, and the nature of, Nordic geography. From both historical and contemporary perspectives, the book engages with theorisations of geography in the Nordic countries. Including chapters by geographers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, it reflects how theories about the relations between the social and the spatial have been developed, adopted and critiqued in Nordic human geography in relation to a wide range of themes, concepts and approaches. The book also traces institutional developments, distinct geographical traditions and intellectual histories, as well as authors' own experiences as geographers in and beyond the Nordic area. The chapters together introduce and engage with debates and discussions that permeate Nordic geography and allows readers a glimpse of geographical thinking and the role of socio-spatial theory in the Nordic countries. By providing insights into how geographical ideas emerge, travel and are translated and adapted in specific contexts, the book contributes to debates about historical-geographical situatedness and theorisations of geography.

Spis treści

1. Geographies and theories of geography: An introduction

Peter Jakobsen, Erik Jönsson and Henrik Gutzon Larsen

2. Sublimated expansionism? Living space ideas in Nordic small state geopolitics

Henrik Gutzon Larsen and Carl Marklund

3. Translating Space: The rise and fall of central place theory and planning-geography in Sweden

Pär Wikman and Marcus Mohall

4. Territorial structure: An early Marxist theorisation of geography

Peter Jakobsen and Henrik Gutzon Larsen

5. Synthesis of physical and human geography: Necessary and impossible?

Arild Holt-Jensen

6. Politicisation of nature in Nordic geography

Ari Aukusti Lehtinen

7. In search of Nordic Landscape Geography: Tensions, combinations and relations.

Tomas Germundsson, Erik Jönsson and Gunhild Setten

8. Trends and challenges in Nordic Gender Geography

Gunnel Forsberg and Susanne Stenbacka

9. Economic Geography of innovation and regional development

Bjørn T. Asheim, Høgni Kalsø Hansen and Arne Isaksen

10. The Socio-Spatial articulations of tourism studies in Nordic geography

Edward H. Huijbens and Dieter K. Müller

11. The spatialities of the Nordic compact city 

Per Gunnar Røe, Kristin Edith Abrahamsen Kjærås and Håvard Haarstad

12. Struggling with conceptual framings to understand Swedish displacement processes

Carina Listerborn and Guy Baeten

13. Spatial justice and social reproduction in the Nordic periphery

Madeleine Eriksson and Aina Tollefsen

14. Nordic geographies of nation and nationhood

Jouni Häkli and Mette Strømsø

15. Urban space and Everyday Life: A personal theoretical trajectory within Nordic social and cultural geography

Kirsten Simonsen

16. The institutionalization of regions: An autobiographic view on the making of socio-spatial theory in the Nordic periphery 

Anssi Paasi

O autorze

Peter Jakobsen is a PhD student in human geography at Uppsala University. His current research is about the development of radical geographical thought in Denmark, and shifts from radical to critical geography in the Nordic countries. 

Erik Jönsson teaches human geography and planning at Uppsala University. His current research explores struggles over access to public space and the establishment of a network of People’s Parks in Sweden, and ongoing redevelopment projects in Malmö. 

Henrik Gutzon Larsen teaches human geography at Lund University. His current research addresses urban geography and housing, political geography and histories of geographic thought.