Although broadly based within the field of human geography, my research interests generally revolve around relationships between politics and geography; that is, between power, space and place. More specifically, my current research addresses questions concerning urban politics and change, housing, histories of geographical thought and (small-state) geopolitics. I have also addressed issues relating to political geographies of large-scale environmental politics.
Many of my research results are available at academia.edu.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Jakobsen, P., Jönsson, E. & Larsen, H.G. (eds.) (2022) Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography: Intellectual Histories and critical interventions. Cham: Springer Nature.
Berg, L.D., Best, U., Gilmartin, M. & Larsen, H.G. (eds.) (2022) Placing Critical Geographies: Historical Geographies of Critical Geography. London: Routledge.
Hagbert, P., Larsen, H.G., Thörn, H. & Wasshede, C. (eds.) (2020) Contemporary Co-Housing in Europe: Towards Sustainable Cities? London: Routledge.
Engelstoft, S. & Larsen, H.G. (2013) Territorium, stat og nation: aspekter af Europas politiske geografi [Territory, state and nation: aspects of Europe’s political geography]. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur.
Larsen, H.G. (2005) Environmental Spaces: A Geopolitics of Environmental Interdependence in the Baltic Sea Area (Geographica Hafniensia A13). Copenhagen: Institute of Geography.
Articles
Larsen, H.G. (2024) Property relations between state and market: A history of housing cooperatives in Denmark. Housing Studies, e-pub ahead of print.
Olsen, S.H. & Larsen, H.G. (2023) State-led stigmatisation of place and the politics of the exception. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 41(1):148-164.
Larsen, H.G. (2022) Must be Marxist: A situated history of Danish radical geography. Antipode 54(6): 1880-1900.
Jakobsen, P. & Larsen, H.G. (2019) An alternative for whom? The evolution and socio-economy of Danish cohousing. Urban Research & Practice 12(4): 414-430.
Larsen, H.G. (2019) Three phases of Danish cohousing: Tenure and the development of an alternative housing form. Housing Studies 34(8): 1349-1371.
Larsen, H.G., Lund Hansen, A., MacLeod, G. & Slater, T. (2017) Introduction au dossier: «Retour sur La question du logement». Espaces et sociétés 170: 125-131.
Larsen, H.G. & Lund Hansen, A. (2016) Wohnen als öffentliches Gut auf dem Prüfstand: Wohnungsreformen in Dänemark und Schweden. Geographische Rundschau 68(6): 26-31.
Larsen, H.G., Lund Hansen, A., MacLeod, G. & Slater, T. (2016) Introduction: The Housing Question revisited. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 15(3): 580-589.
Berg, L.D., Huijbens, E.H. & Larsen, H.G. (2016) Producing anxiety in the neoliberal university. The Canadian Geographer 60(2): 168-180.
Larsen, H.G. & Lund Hansen, A. (2015) Commodifying Danish housing commons. Geografiska Annaler B 97(3): 263-274.
Carter, H., Larsen, H.G. & Olesen, K. (2015) A planning palimpsest: Neoliberal planning in a welfare state tradition. European Journal of Spatial Development, no. 58: 1-20.
Larsen, H.G. (2015) Geopolitics on trial: Politics and science in the wartime geopolitics of Gudmund Hatt. Journal of Historical Geography 47: 29-39.
Larsen, H.G. (2011) Small-state geopolitics. In S. Moisio, K. Stokke, E. Sæther, H.G. Larsen, R. Ek and A. Lund Hansen, 'Interventions in Nordic political geographies', Political Geography 30(5): 241-249.
Larsen, H.G. (2011) Geopolitikkens geografi [The geography of geopolitics]. Politik 14(1): 43-50.
Larsen, H.G. (2011) 'The need and ability for expansion': Conceptions of living space in the small-state geopolitics of Gudmund Hatt. Political Geography 30(1): 38-48.
Larsen, H.G. & Lund Hansen, A. (2008) Gentrification – gentle or traumatic? Urban renewal policies and socioeconomic transformations in Copenhagen. Urban Studies 45(12): 2429-2448.
Larsen, H.G. (2008) Scaling the Baltic Sea environment. Geoforum 39(6): 2000-2008.
Book chapters
Larsen, H.G. (2023) Bofællesskabet – et barn af 1960’erne [Co-housing – a child of the 1960s]. In J.R. Rask and H.R. Gjerding, Bo-Fælles-Skab: Håndbog for kollektiver, bygge og bofællesskaber, pp. 22-29. Gjern: Hovedlandet.
Larsen, H.G. (2022) Danmark: Bofælleskaber som nisch för experiment [Denmark: Co-housing as niche for experiments]. In C. Caldenby and C. Wasshede (eds.) Gemenskap och autonomi: Kollektivboende som hållbart alternativ?, pp. 21-32. Gothenburg: Bokförlaget Korpen.
Jakobsen, P., Jönsson, E. & Larsen, H.G. (2022) Geographies and theories of geography: An introduction. In P. Jakobsen et al. (eds.) Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography, pp. 1-13. Cham: Springer Nature.
Larsen, H.G. & Marklund, C. (2022) Sublimated expansionism? Living space ideas in Nordic small-state geopolitics. In P. Jakobsen et al. (eds.) Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography, pp. 15-30. Cham: Springer Nature.
Jakobsen, P. & Larsen, H.G. (2022) Territorial structure: An early Marxist theorisation of geography. In P. Jakobsen et al. (eds.) Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography, pp. 51-68. Cham: Springer Nature.
Berg, L.D., Best, U., Gilmartin, M. & Larsen, H.G. (2022) Introduction: Placing critical geographies. In L.D. Berg et al. (eds.) Placing Critical Geography, pp. 1-8. London: Routledge.
Larsen, H.G. (2021) Bofællesskab og ejendom [Co-housing and property]. In M.A. Andersen (ed.) Bofællesskaber – 1970 til i dag, pp. 108-117. Copenhagen: Strandberg Publishing.
Thörn, H., Larsen, H.G., Hagbert, P. & Wasshede, C. (2020) Co-housing, sustainable urban development and governance: An introduction. In P. Hagbert et al. (eds.) Contemporary Co-housing in Europe: Towards Sustainable Cities? pp. 1-19. London: Routledge.
Larsen, H.G. (2020) Denmark: Anti-urbanism and segregation. In P. Hagbert et al. (eds.) Contemporary Co-housing in Europe: Towards Sustainable Cities? pp. 23-37. London: Routledge.
Larsen, H.G. (2020) Barcelona: Housing crisis and urban activism. In P. Hagbert et al. (eds.) Contemporary Co-housing in Europe: Towards Sustainable Cities? pp. 74-93. London: Routledge.
Scheller, D. & Larsen, H.G. (2020) Urban activism and co-housing. In P. Hagbert et al. (eds.) Contemporary Co-housing in Europe: Towards Sustainable Cities? pp. 120-139. London: Routledge.
Thörn, H., Larsen, H.G., Hagbert, P. & Wasshede, C. (2020) Constraints and possibilities for co-housing to address contemporary urban and ecological crises: A conclusion. In P. Hagbert et al. (eds.) Contemporary Co-housing in Europe: Towards Sustainable Cities? pp. 202-213. London: Routledge.
Larsen, H.G. & Lund Hansen, A. (2014) Köpenhamn – varsam eller traumatisk gentrifiering? [Copenhagen – gentle or traumatic gentrification?] In C. Thörn and H. Holgersson (eds.) Gentrifiering, pp. 189-213. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Larsen, H.G. & Lund Hansen, A. (2012) Retten til byen [The right to the city]. In J. Andersen, M. Freudendal-Pedersen, L. Koefoed and J. Larsen (eds.) Byen i bevægelse, pp. 131-147. Frederiksberg: Roskilde University Press.
Larsen, H.G. (2009) Gudmund Hatt 1884-1960. In H. Lorimer and C. Withers (eds.) Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, vol. 28, pp. 17-37. London: Continuum.
Larsen, H.G. (2008) Geografi som det konkretes videnskab [Geography as science of the concrete]. In P. Ehlers and G. Volkers (eds.) Geofaglighed som kompetencer, pp. 107-119. Copenhagen: Tunet.
Larsen, H.G. (2003) Environmental boundaries of inclusion. In E. Berg and H. van Houtum (eds.) Routing borders between territories, discourses and practices, pp. 99-118. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.
Communication and book reviews
Bengtsson, B., Hagbert, P. and Larsen, H.G. (2022) Hållbarhet i alternativt boende [Sustainability in alternative housing]. Bo tillsammans 63: 7.
Larsen, H.G. (2013) Kampen gælder realiteter: Gudmund Hatts geografiske verdensbillede [The struggle concerns realities: Gudmund Hatt’s geographical worldview]. Geografisk Orientering 43(5): 16-20.
Larsen, H.G. (2011) Simon Dalby: Security and Environmental Change. Geografiska Annaler B 93(2): 186-187.
Larsen, H.G. (2011) Kortpolitik – storpolitikkens kartografiske realitet (review of Jeppe Strandsbjerg, ‘Territory, Globalization and International Relations’). Politik 14(1): 66-67.
Larsen, H.G. & Lund Hansen, A. (2009) Herskabeliggørelse – gentrification på dansk [‘Herskabeliggørelse’ – gentrification in Danish]. Geografisk Orientering 39 (special issue): 33-35.
Larsen, H.G. (2008) Scavenius’ geograf: Gudmund Hatt og geopolitikken [Scavenius’ geographer: Gudmund Hatt’s geopolitics]. In M. K. Hansen and O. Mertz (eds.) Geografi 2007, pp. 44-46. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Geographical Society.
Larsen, H.G. (2000) Kronikk: Det grønne geopolitiske blikk [Feature article: The green geopolitical gaze]. Morgenbladet, Oslo, 14 July 2000.
Other
Lund Hansen, A., Larsen, H.G., Grydehøj, A. & Clark, E. (2015) Financialisation of the built environment in Stockholm and Copenhagen (FESSUD Working Paper Series, no. 115).
Clark, E., Larsen, H.G. & Lund Hansen, A. (2015) Financialisation of built environments: A literature review (FESSUD Working Papers Series, no. 114).
Larsen, H.G. (2009) Gudmund Hatt og geopolitikken – en kommenteret bibliografi [Gudmund Hatt’s geopolitics: an annotated bibliography] (Skriftserien 2009-1). Aalborg: Department of Development and Planning.