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Vasna2023

Vasna Ramasar

Associate professor

Vasna2023

Responding to Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century

Author

  • Vasna Ramasar
  • Anders Lund Hansen
  • Claus Wilhelmsen

Summary, in English

At the Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM) in Copenhagen, June 2024, the Nordic Journal of Urban Studies hosted its inaugural lecture. Dr. Vasna Ramasar, from the Division of Human Ecology at Lund University, shared her insights on responding to urban challenges in the twenty-first century. Her presentation was followed by a conversation with Dr. Anders Lund Hansen, from the journal’s editorial board who was the session organizer/chair, and Claus Wilhelmsen, a Danish urban planner and geographer. As a point of departure, the session and this commentary are inspired by the founding editors’ seminal 2021 NJUS article (Haarstad et al., 2021).
Using a decolonial and feminist perspective, Dr. Ramasar reflected on the current state of urban landscapes worldwide, highlighted the underlying causes of our most pressing urban and global challenges, and articulated a feminist response for a new form of urbanism. The dialogue between Ramasar, Wilhelmsen, Lund Hansen and the session participants is summarized here to inspire further discussion, debate, and action.

Department/s

  • Department of Human Geography

Publishing year

2024-09-18

Language

English

Pages

1-1

Publication/Series

Nordic Journal of Urban Studies

Volume

4

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article (letter)

Publisher

Universitetsforlaget

Topic

  • Human Geography

Keywords

  • Urban challenges
  • unequal socio-ecological relationship
  • Global inequality
  • interdependence
  • care
  • planetary urbanization
  • Metabolic Rift
  • Community
  • Conviviality
  • progressive and emancipatory transformation
  • Urban political ecology
  • prefigurative politics

Conference name

Nordic Geographers Metting 2024

Conference date

2024-06-24 - 2024-06-27

Conference place

Copenhagen, Denmark

Status

Published

Project

  • Collaborative housing in a Pandemic Era: cross-country inter- and transdisciplinary evaluation, innovative approaches, human rights-based policy recommendations and capacity building
  • Women’s resistance to extractivism. A transnational embodied framework for analysis.

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2703-8866