Professor of Human Geography at Lund University since 1998
Elected Member of the Royal Society of Letters in Lund since 2005
My research interests include: political economy of space and processes of social geographic change, especially gentrification and land rent as underlying force, financialization of built environments and related processes of accumulation by dispossession; political ecology, especially ecologically unequal exchange and landesque capital; biocultural (society-nature) coevolution; and all of the above in relation to (in)equality and sustainability. Most of my work focuses on urban contexts, but some of my more recent research into historical political ecology and (sustainable) development focuses on islands and agriculture.
Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Islands
Editor, Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography 1999-2008
Editor, Journal of Urban Affairs 2015-2020
Fellowships and visiting positions at Glasgow University 1994, Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies 2002, National Taiwan Normal University 2003, National Taiwan University 2010-2011, University of British Columbia 2011.
Before returning to Lund in 1998, Associate Professor at universities of Oslo and Copenhagen, and Professor at Uppsala University.
Current research projects
Sustainable welfare and transitioning to sustainable agriculture: small-scale ecological farming in Sweden
Funded by Formas, (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development), the purpose of this project is to identify and analyze potentials for and obstacles to the establishment, expansion and survival of small-scale ecological farms, and their contributions to sustainable welfare and transitioning to sustainable agriculture in Sweden.
Publications
- 2014
- 2013
- Boendets nyliberalisering och social polarisering
- Financialisation of the environment: A literature review
- Financialisation, sustainability and the right to the island: a critique of acronym models of island development
- Green sustainable Öresund region - or eco-branding Copenhagen and Malmö?
- Guest editorial introduction: Islanding cultural geographies
- 2012
- 2011
- A Review of “Gentrification; A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity”
- Book review
- Dispossession, displacement and human security
- En stillsam revolution
- Gentrification
- Society-nature coevolution: interdisciplinary concept for sustainability
- Structuring Sustainability Science
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
- Boundary Dynamics and the Construction of Identities
- Boundary dynamics and the construction of identities
- Does welfare matter? Ghettoization in the welfare state
- Grepp på stadskrigsbilismen
- Grounding metaphors of the multicultural city : taking out the 'trash' in Copenhagen
- Nature-Society Interactions on Islands: Introduction
- 2002
- 2001
- Creative Copenhagen : Globalization, urban governance and social change
- Creativity and cost in urban and regional development in the 'new economy'
- Kulturgeografisk forskning om svenska storstäders kulturmiljöer under efterkrigstiden
- Kulturgeografisk forskning om svenska storstäders kulturmiljöer under efterkrigstiden
- Staden som arkipelag
- 2000