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List of contents
Contents: Localized capabilities and industrial competitiveness, Anders Malmberg and Peter Maskell; On the new economic geography of post-Fordist learning economies, Bjorn T. Asheim; Economy-culture relations and the geographies of regional development, Jorgen Ole Baerenholdt and Michael Haldrup; Welfare states and social polarization, Frank Hensen; Does welfare matter? Ghettoization in the welfare state, Hans Thor Andersen and Eric Clark; Geography, local planning and the production of space - a Swedish context, Jan Öhman; Everyday life and urban planning: an approach in Swedish human geography, Ann-Catherine Aguist; Geography, space and identity, Jouni Hakli and Anssi Paasi; The embodied city: from bodily practice to urban life, Kirsten Simonsen; Rural geography and feminist geography: discourses on rurality and gender in Britain and Scandinavia, Nina Gunnerud Berg and Gunnel Forsberg; Choreographs of life youth, place and migration, Anders Lofgren; In search of the Nordic landscape: a personal view, Kenneth R. Olwig; Samhallgeografi and the politics of nature: tracing the Nordic forest regimes in the era of globalization, Ari Lehtinen; Racialization and migration in urban segregation processes: key issues for critical geographers, Roger Andersson and Irene Molina; In Visible City: insecurity, gender and power relations in urban space, Hille Koskela; Landscape of landscapes, Gunnar Olsson.
Summary
One of the key points made in this volume is that despite the relative similarities between Nordic countries, specific academic developments have taken place that touch on the histories of Nordic human geography in a manner that influences contemporary geographical discourses.
