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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jakobsen, Peter.
Other Authors: Jönsson, Erik., Larsen, Henrik Gutzon.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography
  • Contents
  • About the Contributors
  • Chapter 1: Geographies and Theories of Geography: An Introduction
  • Introduction
  • The Social and the Spatial
  • Geographies of Geography
  • A Certain Nordic Legacy
  • The Book
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Sublimated Expansionism? Living Space Ideas in Nordic Small-State Geopolitics
  • Introduction
  • Kjellén: 'Big Is Beautiful, But Small Is Smart'
  • Hatt: 'Through Private Enterprise and Frequently Under Foreign Flag'
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Translating Space: The Rise and Fall of Central Place Theory and Planning-Geography in Sweden
  • Introduction
  • Central Place Theory in Theory
  • Post-war Social Science and Geography in Sweden
  • Boundaries, Translations, and Mobile Models
  • Central Place Theory and Swedish Planning-Geography
  • Translating and Diffusing Central Place Theory
  • Central Places and Municipal Reforms
  • Escaping Central Place Theory
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Territorial Structure: An Early Marxist Theorisation of Geography
  • Introduction
  • Radical Geography at Copenhagen University
  • The Need to Analyse Territorial Structures
  • Territorial Structure as Concept and Approach
  • Reception, Fate and Wider Influence
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Synthesis of Physical and Human Geography: Necessary and Impossible?
  • Introduction
  • Geographical Societies and Institutionalization of Geography in Nordic Countries
  • Exemplars for Research Projects in Regional Geography
  • Possibilism and Local Subsistence Economy
  • Transitions and Different Nordic Profiles
  • Spatial Science Models and Geographical Synthesis
  • A United or Split Discipline?
  • Sustainability - A Major Research Focus
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Politicisation of Nature in Nordic Geography
  • Introduction.
  • Politics of Nature
  • Post-politics of Nature
  • Back to Politics
  • Nordic Landings
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 7: In Search of Nordic Landscape Geography: Tensions, Combinations and Relations
  • Introduction
  • An Emerging Nordic Landscape Geography
  • Early Meanings and Uses of 'Landscape'
  • The Landscape Concept in Landscape Geography
  • 'Nordic Landscape Geography' in the New Millennium
  • 'The Substantive Nature of Landscape'
  • Landscape as Policy Term
  • Landscapes and/of Environmental Change
  • Towards New Landscape Relations?
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 8: Trends and Challenges in Nordic Gender Geography
  • Introduction
  • The Nordic Countries - A Gender Geography Community?
  • The Meaning of a Scientific and Political Context
  • Structure and Agency - A Starting and Prevailing Point of Departure
  • Re-defining Economic Geography
  • Expanding the Definition of Spatial Identities and Migration
  • Highlighting the Mutual Interdependence of Gender and Planning
  • Emphasising Nordic Distinctiveness - A Synthesis
  • Contextual Gender Theorising
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 9: Economic Geography of Innovation and Regional Development
  • Introduction: Situating the Authors
  • The Socio-Spatial Theorisation in (of) Human (Economic) Geography
  • From Marxist Economic Geography to Industrial Districts and New Industrial Spaces
  • Regional Innovation Systems
  • Constructing Regional Advantage
  • Evolutionary Economic Geography
  • Conclusion: Impacts on Innovation and Regional Development
  • References
  • Chapter 10: The Socio-Spatial Articulations of Tourism Studies in Nordic Geography
  • Introduction
  • Methodology and Framing of the Study
  • The Methods Used
  • The Place of Tourism
  • Tourism Experiences and Social Relations
  • The Tourism Industry
  • The Space of Tourism.
  • Second-Home Tourism and Lifestyle Mobilities
  • Tourism, Wilderness and Landscape
  • Indigenous Tourism and Ethical Perspectives
  • Tourism Research Through Time
  • Destination Development and Sustainability
  • Tourism and Climate Change
  • Concluding Points
  • References
  • Chapter 11: The Spatialities of the Nordic Compact City
  • Introduction
  • The Emergence and Spread of Compact City Policy
  • The Compact City as Spatial Theory
  • The Compact City Model in the Nordic Countries
  • The Compact City Model in Oslo
  • Conclusion: Re-contextualizing the Compact City
  • References
  • Chapter 12: Struggling with Conceptual Framings to Understand Swedish Displacement Processes
  • Introduction
  • Swedish Displacement Trajectories
  • Displacement in the City of Landskrona
  • Conclusion: Displacement, Concepts and Nordic Peculiarities
  • References
  • Chapter 13: Spatial Justice and Social Reproduction in the Nordic Periphery
  • Introduction
  • (Re)Producing the Nordic Periphery
  • Resistance in the Swedish Northern Periphery - Mobilizing Around Social Reproduction
  • The Centrality of Battles Around Social Reproduction and Spatial Justice
  • Conclusions: A Socio-Spatial Theory in an Era of Crisis
  • References
  • Chapter 14: Nordic Geographies of Nation and Nationhood
  • Introduction
  • Theories of the Nation in Nordic Scholarship
  • Socio-Spatial Constructions of Nation in Finland
  • Everyday Nation and Encounters with Otherness in Norway
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 15: Urban Space and Everyday Life: A Personal Theoretical Trajectory Within Nordic Social and Cultural Geography
  • Introduction
  • Some Nordic Predecessors
  • The First Approximation: A Non-deterministic Social Ecology
  • The Second Approximation: Towards a Theory of Practice
  • 'Mode de Vie'
  • A Social Ontology of Practice
  • Time-Space and Contextuality.
  • The Third Approximation: Towards a Critical Phenomenology
  • The Body
  • Emotion and Affectivity
  • Encountering the Stranger
  • Critical Phenomenology
  • Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Chapter 16: The Institutionalization of Regions: An Autobiographic View on the Making of Socio-spatial Theory in the Nordic Periphery
  • Introduction
  • Geographer by Coincidence
  • Working in the Periphery
  • Becoming Interested in Space and Regions
  • Towards the Theory and Practice of the Region
  • Emerging "New Regional Geography"
  • Getting Involved with New Regional Geography Debates
  • Local Stimulus
  • How to Move Forward?
  • The Concept of Theory
  • Reception of the Theory, Further Networking and Move to an Increasingly Competitive Work Environment
  • Theorizing the Political Geography of Bounded Spaces
  • Reflective Interpretation: Brokers and Boundary Spanners
  • Coda: Thymos and the Need for Recognition?
  • References.

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