Voices from the north : new trends in Nordic human geography / edited by Jan Öhman, Kirsten Simonsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Öhman, Jan.

Simonsen, Kirsten, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography--Scandinavia.

Human geography.

Scandinavia--Economic conditions.

Scandinavia.

Economic conditions.

Scandinavia--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xii, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: Is there a 'Nordic' human geography? / Kirsten Simonsen, Jan Ohman 1

Part I Production, Social Institutions and Local Development

1 Localised capabilities and industrial competitiveness / Anders Malmberg, Peter Maskell 11

The Nordic context 12

Firms and localised capabilities 14

Globalisation, ubiquitification and the erosion of localised capabilities 15

Knowledge creation as a response to ubiquitification 16

Knowledge creation in the firm 17

Knowledge creation through interaction in industrial systems 18

Tacit knowledge, codified knowledge and ubiquitification 20

2 On the new economic geography of post-Fordist learning economies / Bjorn T. Asheim 29

The global context 29

Clusters and the competitive advantage of regions 31

Innovation as culturally and institutionally contextualised processes 35

Forms of knowledge and localised learning 38

Types of regional innovation networks and systems 40

Challenges from globalisation and the 'new economy' and the future role of regional innovation systems 42

3 Economy-culture relations and the geographies of regional development / Jorgen Ole Baerenholdt, Michael Haldrup 49

Debates in Nordic geography 49

The economy-culture nexus 51

Economy-culture relations within local settings 55

North Atlantic localities 55

East Central European localities 58

Part II Welfare State, Planning and Human Geography

4 Welfare states and social polarisation? / Frank Hansen 69

Poverty and Welfare State Regimes (WSRs) 70

Welfare state regulation, types of regimes and social polarisation 72

Family ideology, family formation and the welfare state regimes 77

The regulation of the work life and the welfare state regimes 79

The Regulation of Social Rights and Equality (RRE) 83

Conclusion: Construction of a provisional model 85

5 Does welfare matter? Ghettoisation in the welfare state / Hans Thor Andersen, Eric Clark 91

Globalisation 91

Welfare 93

Housing and segregation 94

Social inequality and segregation in Scandinavia 95

6 Geography, local planning and the production of space

A Swedish context / Jan Ohman 103

An early human geographer 104

Establishing a tradition: Central places and hinterlands 106

The practice of the tradition 106

The advancement of human geography 107

Planning and the production of space 111

Renewal of municipal planning in Sweden: A few main features 113

7 Everyday life and urban planning: An approach in Swedish human geography / Ann-Cathrine Aquist 121

Two theories of everyday life: Dorothy Smith and Henri Lefebvre 122

Henri Lefebvre 123

The everyday world as problematic 123

Examples of Nordic research pertaining to a perspective of everyday life 124

The research group for the new everyday life 124

Life-mode analysis 125

The characteristics of everyday life 126

Time-geography as a method for studying the everyday 127

A time-geographic study of women's everyday life 129

Urban planning from the perspective of everyday life 130

The Swedish context: A discourse on everyday life 130

Putting everyday life in order 131

Changes in discourses 132

An example of how the perspective of everyday life can be used in urban planning 132

Part III Spatiality, Identity and Social Practice

8 Geography, space and identity / Jouni Hakli, Anssi Paasi 141

Spaces in identities 142

Deconstructing 'identity' 144

Identity and ideology 146

Spatial identity and institutions: Regional administration reform in Finland as an example 148

Contested territories 148

Constructing the 'community' 150

The 'provincialization' of regions 151

9 The embodied city: From bodily practice to urban life / Kirsten Simonsen 157

Some Nordic predecessors 158

Practice and subjectivity 160

Practice, body and space 163

The embodied city 167

10 Rural geography and feminist geography: Discourses on rurality and gender in Britain and Scandinavia / Nina Gunnerud Berg, Gunnel Forsberg 173

The contextual character of knowledge production 173

Positioning ourselves in the theoretical landscape 174

Rural idyll, gender idyll and urban-rural migration 175

Conceptualisations of rurality and migration 175

Gendered ruralities 177

Rural idyll in Britain and the Scandinavian countries 179

Gender idyll in Britain and the Scandinavian countries 181

Complementary versus 'egalitarian' gender relations 181

How to understand the Scandinavian image of gender idyll 183

11 Choreographies of life: Youth, place and migration / Anders Lofgren 191

The socio-spatiality of the life course 192

Youth, home and venturing 196

Place and 'home' 196

Venturing 199

Some implications for empirical studies 201

Leaving home 201

Youth and migration 203

Part IV Nature, Landscape and Environment

12 In search of the Nordic landscape: A personal view / Kenneth R. Olwig 211

Personal prologue: Finding Norden in America 211

Creating a Nordic identity 212

The particularity of Nordic landscape 214

Joachim Frederik Schouw 216

Henrik Steffens 218

The historical background for Steffens' landscape concept: From landscape as polity to landscape as scenery 222

The reconfiguration of the landscape picture 224

Nordic landscape geography 225

The renewal of Nordic landscape geography 226

13 Samhallsgeografi and the politics of nature / Ari Aukusti Lehtinen 233

Introduction: Environmental turn in geography 233

Biopolitics and environmental justice 240

Communities, domination and the sense of justice 244

Just geography? 246

Part V Difference, Distinction and Power

14 Racialization and migration in urban segregation processes / Roger Andersson, Irene Molina 261

The racialization of the Swedish city: A history and a geography 262

The ideological field 263

The political field 265

The discursive field 269

The spatial-material field 271

The creation of 'Immigrant-dense' neighbourhoods: A dynamic model 271

1. The proto-segregation phase 272

2. Segregation-generated migration 274

3. Institutionally-generated migration 276

4. The network-oriented migration 277

15 'In visible city' / Hille Koskela 283

Obsession with security 283

The geography of fear 283

The postmodern sense of insecurity 284

Rise of the gated communities 285

Exaggerated visibilities 286

The eyes upon the street 286

Expansion of panoptic discipline 288

Gendered field of vision 289

'The production of space' revisited 292

Towards gender sensitive planning? 292

Emotions, power relations and space 294

16 Landscape of landscapes / Gunnar Olsson 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754634256

OCLC:

50334248