Books by Lund Hansen Anders
Working Paper Series No XX , 2015
This paper provides a review of research into financialisation of built environments, especially ... more This paper provides a review of research into financialisation of built environments, especially in relation to urban politics, social geographies and sustainability. Focus is limited here to the theoretical and conceptual substance of selected literature. Financialisation is conceptualised as a profoundly spatial process, forging social relations that form conditions for urban governance, social geographic change and urban sustainability. The paper frames financialisation of built environments as a process enmeshed with related processes of commodification, privatisation, neoliberalisation, and accumulation by dispossession, associated with the creation and appropriation of rent gaps. Land rent and rent gaps are highlighted as central to understanding financialisation of built environments. We then review research into relations between financialisation of built environments and urban governance, i.e. how financialisation impacts upon, while being facilitated or deterred by, urban politics. This sets the stage for reviewing research into relations between financialisation of built environments and observed patterns of change in the social geographies of cities, and research into the sustainability implications of financialisation of built environments. Conclusions reconsider the nature of the relationship between financialisation and urbanisation, and the challenges of bringing financial systems into the service of achieving social and natural sustainability.
Vem har rätt till staden i en tid präglad av ökad ojämlikhet, gentrifiering och konkurrens städer... more Vem har rätt till staden i en tid präglad av ökad ojämlikhet, gentrifiering och konkurrens städer emellan? Hur har nyliberalismen berett rum för kapitalismen genom att frånta människor deras platser och rättigheter?
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I Ojämlikhetens nya geografi analyserar kulturgeografen David Harvey den globala kapitalismens nya rumslighet och den ojämlikhet som den skapar. Han diskuterar hur vår kunskap om dessa processer kan bidra till att både stärka jämlikheten och förbättra miljön.
Boken innehåller några av Harveys mest betydande texter och teorier. Här finns både nyskrivet och äldre material från ett författarskap som under fyra årtionden gett oss viktiga inblickar i kapitalismens rumsliga dimension.
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The book analyzes recent urban transformations... more https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/547175
The book analyzes recent urban transformations through the lens of space wars. The main focus is on investment flows in the commercial property market, changes in urban governance and changes in social geography, and how these three aspects are related. Drawing on cross border investment data, archive studies, interviews with key actors and street walking experiences in Copenhagen, Lisbon and New York, the book offers insight into the glocal logic of urban imperialism and its tendency towards uneven development - fundamental forces that shape our cities in the 21st century.
Papers by Lund Hansen Anders
Responding to Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century, 2024
Responding to Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century At the Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM... more Responding to Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century At the Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM) in Copenhagen, June 2024, the Nordic Journal of Urban Studies hosted its inaugural lecture. Dr. Vasna Ramasar, from the Division of Human Ecology at Lund University, shared her insights on responding to urban challenges in the twenty-first century. Her presentation was followed by a conversation with Dr. Anders Lund Hansen, from the journal's editorial board who was the session organizer/chair, and Claus Wilhelmsen, a Danish urban planner and geographer. As a point of departure, the session and this commentary are inspired by the founding editors' seminal 2021 NJUS article (Haarstad et al., 2021). Using a decolonial and feminist perspective, Dr. Ramasar reflected on the current state of urban landscapes worldwide, highlighted the underlying causes of our most pressing urban and global challenges, and articulated a feminist response for a new form of urbanism. The dialogue between Ramasar, Wilhelmsen, Lund Hansen and the session participants is summarized here to inspire further discussion, debate, and action. The Environmental, Climate and Lived Experience of Urban Challenges Urban spaces around the world are characterized by unsustainable and unequal socioecological relationships (Bueno-Suárez & Coq-Huelva, 2020). Modern cities exceed their ecological footprints, with overconsumption of resources being a hallmark of contemporary
Common resistance against state-led stigmatization and displacement
Housing Displacement, 2020
‘Housing is a human right’ reads a sign carried by a young woman at the Almen Modstand (Common Re... more ‘Housing is a human right’ reads a sign carried by a young woman at the Almen Modstand (Common Resistance) demonstration in Copenhagen, 29 September 2018. The movement was created earlier the same year as a reaction to the commodification, privatization, and territorial stigmatiza-tion of the common, non-profit housing (almene boliger) in general and to the government’s ‘ghetto plan’ in particular that are leading to the displace-ment of thousands of peoples. Coordinated parallel demonstrations organ-ized by Almen Modstand took place in two other major cities in Denmark: Aarhus and Odense (see Figure 8.1). Based on an analysis of the Danish state’s production of inequality through housing policy, we explore state-led stigmatization and displacement in a Nordic (post)welfare context (Baeten et al., 2015) – where ‘displacement can take very subtle (yet effective) forms’ (Beaten et al., 2020, Introduction to this volume). Moreover, we examine the new forms of (common) resistance to the assault on common, non-profit housing and marginalized peoples. ‘Losing one’s place can be much more traumatic than simply changing location’, explains Smith (1994: 253–254). Research on displacement and dispossession shows how these acts of violence are commonly sanctioned by the state and inflicted upon undesired movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.minorities and marginalized low- income communities (e.g., Atkinson, 2000; Hartman and Robinson, 2003; Fullilove, 2004; Lees et al., 2008; Porter, 2009). Additionally, when studying processes of marginalization, Wacquant (2016) suggests that we should look into the institutional mechanisms and policies that produce, reproduce, and change networks of position and racialized marginality and stigmatization. This chapter focuses on the role of the Danish state in stigmatizing and dis-placing these groups from targeted common, non-profit housing estates (the so-called ghettos). This politics has spurred critique and housing activism around themes related to ‘the right to the city’, ‘housing as a human right’, and ‘right to freedom from displacement’ – issues clearly linked to transnational discussions (e.g., Attoh, 2011; Fitzpatrick et al., 2014; Hartman 2002; Lund Hansen and Clark, 2017). In this chapter, we look closer at these resistance movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.
Financialisation of Built Environments: A Literature Review
This paper provides a review of research into financialisation of built environments, especially ... more This paper provides a review of research into financialisation of built environments, especially in relation to urban politics, social geographies and sustainability. Focus is limited here to the theoretical and conceptual substance of selected literature. Financialisation is conceptualised as a profoundly spatial process, forging social relations that form conditions for urban governance, social geographic change and urban sustainability. The paper frames financialisation of built environments as a process enmeshed with related processes of commodification, privatisation, neoliberalisation, and accumulation by dispossession, associated with the creation and appropriation of rent gaps. Land rent and rent gaps are highlighted as central to understanding financialisation of built environments. We then review research into relations between financialisation of built environments and urban governance, i.e. how financialisation impacts upon, while being facilitated or deterred by, urban ...
Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 2015
Housing was a backbone of the Danish welfare state, but this has been profoundly challenged by th... more Housing was a backbone of the Danish welfare state, but this has been profoundly challenged by the past decades of neoliberal housing politics. In this article we outline the rise of the Danish model of association-based housing on the edge of the market economy (and the state). From this we demonstrate how homes in private cooperatives through political interventions in context of a booming real estate market have plunged into the market economy and been transformed into private commodities in all but name, and we investigate how non-profit housing associations frontally and stealthily are attacked through neoliberal reforms. This carries the seeds for socio-spatial polarization and may eventually open the gate for commodification-and thus the dismantling of the little that is left of a socially just housing sector. Yet, while the association-based model was an accessary to the commodification of cooperative housing, it can possibly be an accomplice in sustaining non-profit housing as a housing commons.
Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 2015
Urban Studies, 2008
This article contrasts the intentions and outcomes of the publicly instigated and supported urban... more This article contrasts the intentions and outcomes of the publicly instigated and supported urban renewal of Copenhagen's Inner Vesterbro district. Apart from physically upgrading the decaying buildings, the municipality's aim was to include the inhabitants in the urban renewal process and, seemingly, to prevent the dislocation of people from the neighbourhood. However, due to ambiguous policies, the workings of the property market and the lack of sufficient deflecting mechanisms, middle-class inhabitants are now replacing the high concentration of socioeconomically vulnerable people that characterised Vesterbro before the urban renewal. This process may appear `gentle', but it is nonetheless an example of how state and market interact to produce gentrification with `traumatic' consequences for individuals and the city as a socially just space.
Forty Years of System Change: Lessons from the free city of
Globalization of a commercial property market: the case of Copenhagen
Geoforum, 2000
The study examines globalization processes in property markets through an empirical investigation... more The study examines globalization processes in property markets through an empirical investigation into the commercial property market of Greater Copenhagen. The focus is on investment in commercial properties. Globalization of property markets is defined, a framework of analysis ...
Herskabeliggørelsegentrification på dansk
Geografisk Orientering, 2009
De seneste år er begrebet 'gentrification' dukket op i den danske debat. Begrebet har d... more De seneste år er begrebet 'gentrification' dukket op i den danske debat. Begrebet har dybe rødder i den geografiske forskning, og det stiller skarpt på de processer, der forandrer byernes geografi, samt diskuterer hvilke sociale og økonomiske konsekvenser forandringerne ...
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 2008
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2008 ... ISSN: 1557-2935 (onl... more Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2008 ... ISSN: 1557-2935 (online) <http://liminalities.net/4-1/spacewars.htm> ... Walking through a Liquid Forest of Symbols ... Urban territory becomes the battlefield of continuous space war, sometimes erupting ...
Wohnen als öffentliches Gut auf dem Prüfstand: Wohnungsreformen in Dänemark und Schweden
Scandinavia has historically been known for high levels of social justices. Universal and tax-fun... more Scandinavia has historically been known for high levels of social justices. Universal and tax-funded social security and health systems, state pension and free basic as well as higher education became fundamental elements in creating more equal societies. Moreover, housing sectors based on use value rather than exchange value have historically been key to the development of Scandinavian welfare states. In this tradition, housing is seen as an essential necessity rather than only a commodity that can be exchanged for individual gains, encompassing two major forms: Cooperatives and common housing. The paper's focus is on housing in Denmark and Sweden, which many continue to see as examples of countries representing a measure of social justice and solidarity. Both countries have histories of housing forms based on some notion of use value. We outline these alternatives to market-based housing and discuss the transformation processes that have either undermined or challenged them. I...
Care and Homelessness in the Shadow of Plantetary Crisis
Housing displacement: conceptual and methodological issues. London, Routledge., 2020
‘Housing is a human right’ reads a sign carried by a young woman at the Almen Modstand (Common Re... more ‘Housing is a human right’ reads a sign carried by a young woman at the Almen Modstand (Common Resistance) demonstration in Copenhagen, 29 September 2018. The movement was created earlier the same year as a reaction to the commodification, privatization, and territorial stigmatiza-tion of the common, non-profit housing (almene boliger) in general and to the government’s ‘ghetto plan’ in particular that are leading to the displace-ment of thousands of peoples. Coordinated parallel demonstrations organ-ized by Almen Modstand took place in two other major cities in Denmark: Aarhus and Odense (see Figure 8.1). Based on an analysis of the Danish state’s production of inequality through housing policy, we explore state-led stigmatization and displacement in a Nordic (post)welfare context (Baeten et al., 2015) – where ‘displacement can take very subtle (yet effective) forms’ (Beaten et al., 2020, Introduction to this volume). Moreover, we examine the new forms of (common) resistance to the assault on common, non-profit housing and marginalized peoples.
‘Losing one’s place can be much more traumatic than simply changing location’, explains Smith (1994: 253–254). Research on displacement and dispossession shows how these acts of violence are commonly sanctioned by the state and inflicted upon undesired movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.minorities and marginalized low- income communities (e.g., Atkinson, 2000; Hartman and Robinson, 2003; Fullilove, 2004; Lees et al., 2008; Porter, 2009). Additionally, when studying processes of marginalization, Wacquant (2016) suggests that we should look into the institutional mechanisms and policies that produce, reproduce, and change networks of position and racialized marginality and stigmatization.
This chapter focuses on the role of the Danish state in stigmatizing and dis-placing these groups from targeted common, non-profit housing estates (the so-called ghettos). This politics has spurred critique and housing activism around themes related to ‘the right to the city’, ‘housing as a human right’, and ‘right to freedom from displacement’ – issues clearly linked to transnational discussions (e.g., Attoh, 2011; Fitzpatrick et al., 2014; Hartman 2002; Lund Hansen and Clark, 2017). In this chapter, we look closer at these resistance movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.
In CRUSH med Vänner. Baeten, G., Listerborn, C., Valli, C. (eds) Bostadsmanifest. 22 krav för framtidens hem. (Housing manifesto. 22 demands for the home of the future), pp. 38-41. Stockholm, Dokument Press., 2021
Solskinn og brød og ånd eies av alle.
In Mikkel Thorup & Jakob Beck-Thomsen (eds) Klimaets Idehistorie. Baggrund, Aarhus., 2021
En af de mest fremtrædende samtidsdiagnoser, der præger akademisk, politisk og journalistisk disk... more En af de mest fremtrædende samtidsdiagnoser, der præger akademisk, politisk og journalistisk diskurs i det tidlige 21. århundrede er påstanden om, at vi nu lever i en ’urban tidsalder’. For første gang i menneskets historie bor mere end halvdelen af verdens befolkning i dag angiveligt i byer. Dette kapitel bidrager til en kritisk forståelse af klimaspørgsmålets relation til de globale urbaniseringsprocesser. Kapitlet starter med en præsentation af Lefebvres historiske og teoretiske univers. Lefebvre taler om et muligt ’urbant samfund’. Her stilles således skarpt på drivkræfterne – processerne – bag den stigende urbanisering, samt forandringerne i menneskets relation til naturen. Dette bidrager til en forståelse af, hvordan ideer og sociale praksisser påvirker hinanden gensidigt og er situeret i både tid og rum. Endvidere etableres et skelet for forståelsen af, hvordan urbaniseringsprocesserne har spillet en større og større rolle i vores samfund og hvordan modernitetens ’logiske’, abstrakte og universelle rumlige repræsentationer har bidraget til menneskernes fremmedgørelse fra naturen. Den centrale drivkræft for samtidens planetære klimaproblemer er, ifølge Lefebvre, den kapitalistiske produktionsmåde. Med afsæt i et eksempel på øjensynligt klimavenlige teknologier og byer, ser vi herefter på urbaniseringsprocessers relationer til den nye såkaldte ’blå økonomi’. Afslutningsvis diskuterer jeg hvordan byernes ’operationelle landskaber’ og planetariske stofstrømme skaber ulige geografisk udviking.
In Sage Anderson, Gemma Blok and Louise Fabian (eds.) Marginalization and Space in Times of Covid-19. Lockdown Report. Essen, EU HERA. (Pp. 19-33), 2020
Journal of Geography in Higher Education , 2018
ABSTRACT
The doctoral dissertation is a key component of postgraduate education that plays an imp... more ABSTRACT
The doctoral dissertation is a key component of postgraduate education that plays an important role for knowledge production and hence the development of a discipline. Swedish human geography currently lacks an overview of dissertations. This article fills this knowledge gap by reporting findings from a unique database
covering all doctoral dissertations between 1884 and 2015. The paper focuses on the demographics of the authors (age, gender), the format of the dissertation and explores productivity variations for authors of compilation dissertations. The findings show a notable increase
in the number of doctoral dissertations since the late 1960s but a decreasing share of doctoral dissertations in the social sciences since the 1970s. In terms of demographics, we show that while the age of the authors remains relatively stable, the gender-balance has improved considerably. In terms of format, the monograph has rapidly
given way to compilation dissertations, which now account for half the number of dissertations. More than 70% of all dissertations are now published in English. Statistical results suggest that the likelihood of completing a compilation dissertation is greater if the doctoral candidate is young and if attending Umeå University. But individual author productivity for compilation dissertations is mainly influenced by unobservables.
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Books by Lund Hansen Anders
Vilka är förutsättningarna för samhällsförändring?
I Ojämlikhetens nya geografi analyserar kulturgeografen David Harvey den globala kapitalismens nya rumslighet och den ojämlikhet som den skapar. Han diskuterar hur vår kunskap om dessa processer kan bidra till att både stärka jämlikheten och förbättra miljön.
Boken innehåller några av Harveys mest betydande texter och teorier. Här finns både nyskrivet och äldre material från ett författarskap som under fyra årtionden gett oss viktiga inblickar i kapitalismens rumsliga dimension.
The book analyzes recent urban transformations through the lens of space wars. The main focus is on investment flows in the commercial property market, changes in urban governance and changes in social geography, and how these three aspects are related. Drawing on cross border investment data, archive studies, interviews with key actors and street walking experiences in Copenhagen, Lisbon and New York, the book offers insight into the glocal logic of urban imperialism and its tendency towards uneven development - fundamental forces that shape our cities in the 21st century.
Papers by Lund Hansen Anders
‘Losing one’s place can be much more traumatic than simply changing location’, explains Smith (1994: 253–254). Research on displacement and dispossession shows how these acts of violence are commonly sanctioned by the state and inflicted upon undesired movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.minorities and marginalized low- income communities (e.g., Atkinson, 2000; Hartman and Robinson, 2003; Fullilove, 2004; Lees et al., 2008; Porter, 2009). Additionally, when studying processes of marginalization, Wacquant (2016) suggests that we should look into the institutional mechanisms and policies that produce, reproduce, and change networks of position and racialized marginality and stigmatization.
This chapter focuses on the role of the Danish state in stigmatizing and dis-placing these groups from targeted common, non-profit housing estates (the so-called ghettos). This politics has spurred critique and housing activism around themes related to ‘the right to the city’, ‘housing as a human right’, and ‘right to freedom from displacement’ – issues clearly linked to transnational discussions (e.g., Attoh, 2011; Fitzpatrick et al., 2014; Hartman 2002; Lund Hansen and Clark, 2017). In this chapter, we look closer at these resistance movements, with special focus on Denmark’s largest non-profit housing estate, Gellerupparken. We draw on an intersection between the literature of critical urban theory and social movement research (Fabian et al., 2015; Mayer, 2016; Fabian and Nielsen, 2020). This perspective encourages understanding recent urban social movements in the context of general socio- economic processes behind the production of contemporary cities. Accordingly, we conducted an analysis of the neoliberalization of Danish housing (Larsen and Lund Hansen, 2015), and our findings suggest that the stigmatization of underprivileged ar-eas and peoples and the displacement of precarious groups are intrinsically linked to forms of neoliberal urbanism (e.g., privatization of common hous-ing). Our study thus suggests that the ensuing resistance stems from different but intertwined political processes.
The doctoral dissertation is a key component of postgraduate education that plays an important role for knowledge production and hence the development of a discipline. Swedish human geography currently lacks an overview of dissertations. This article fills this knowledge gap by reporting findings from a unique database
covering all doctoral dissertations between 1884 and 2015. The paper focuses on the demographics of the authors (age, gender), the format of the dissertation and explores productivity variations for authors of compilation dissertations. The findings show a notable increase
in the number of doctoral dissertations since the late 1960s but a decreasing share of doctoral dissertations in the social sciences since the 1970s. In terms of demographics, we show that while the age of the authors remains relatively stable, the gender-balance has improved considerably. In terms of format, the monograph has rapidly
given way to compilation dissertations, which now account for half the number of dissertations. More than 70% of all dissertations are now published in English. Statistical results suggest that the likelihood of completing a compilation dissertation is greater if the doctoral candidate is young and if attending Umeå University. But individual author productivity for compilation dissertations is mainly influenced by unobservables.