Overview
This open access book introduces readers to debates on socio-spatial theory
Covers geography beyond English-speaking contexts
Pays attention to its institutional and regional setting
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- History of Nordic geography
- Socio-spatial theory in Nordic Geography
- Debates within Nordic geography
- History of geographical thought
- Theoretical geographical perspectives and approaches
- Radical and Critical Geography
- History of university developments in the Nordic countries
- Auto-biographical reflections among Nordic geographers
- Nordic small state geopolitics
- Nordic racial exceptionalism
- Regional planning
- Geography and landscape
- Marxist theorisation of geography
- Mobility and rural-urban transformations
- Nordic gender geography
- Urban space
- Nordic social and cultural geography
- Politicisizing nature in Nordic geography
- Tourism studies in Nordic geography
- Open Access
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography
Book Subtitle: Intellectual Histories and Critical Interventions
Editors: Peter Jakobsen, Erik Jönsson, Henrik Gutzon Larsen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04234-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04233-1Published: 31 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04236-2Published: 31 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04234-8Published: 30 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 293
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Social Theory, Geography, general