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

• Author: Jakobsen, Peter.
• TeilnehmendeR: Jönsson, Erik.; Larsen, Henrik Gutzon.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 pages)

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.