Ståle Holgersen
Befattning: Universitetslektor Organisation: Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskapE-post: stale.holgersen@oru.se
Telefon: Telefonnummer saknas
Rum: F2227
Om Ståle Holgersen
I am a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Örebro University. After submitting my Master's thesis at University of Bergen, Norway, (2007) I worked three years as a city planner in the municipality of Bergen. I defended my PhD in human geography at Lund University 2014, and worked as a post-doc, teacher and researcher in Uppsala between 2015 and 2022. I became Docent at Uppsala University in 2020
My current research interests include urban planning and urban development, class and crises, urban and social geography, and sustainable development and climate denialism. My two latest books “Staden och Kapitalet” (2017) and “Krisernas tid” (2022) have both focused on economic and ecological crises, in different ways and contexts. While I am still working on the (ecological-economic) crisis, even in an urban context, I am also working on a broader front with class, housing, fossil industries and far right ideologies and anti-feminism.
I am currently working within four research projects.
Two project concerns Swedish housing. One is called “The Housing Question in Times of Crisis: searching for socially sustainable solutions”. As Sweden is confronting one of its worst housing crises in modern times, this project will investigate how the housing system has changed through two previous crisis – notably i) the interwar period and ii) the banking crisis of the early 1990s. The other is called “Searching for sustainable alternatives in a time of crisis”. The aim of this project is to discuss housing alternatives in relation to the provision of socially sustainable housing and, crucially, to assess the viability of said alternatives. I am currently finishing some papers and a co-authored book on the topics, with other members of the research projects.
The two other projects are concerned with climate denialism, far right movements and anti-genderism. One is called “White skin, black fuel: Investigating the (anti-)climate politics of European right-wing populism” and the other “An ethnographic exploration of anti-genderism: ideas, identities and political practices in the Nordic region”. The right-wing populist parties that currently exercising increasing influence in Europe have negative attitudes to immigration as their main selling point and they tend to have anti-genderist/anti-feminist agendas, but they also tend to be critical of the scientific consensus on climate change. These projects will investigate how this relates.
The two housing-projects ends 2023/2024, and the two projects on far right/climate denialism/anti-genderism ends around 2026/2027. In the future I want to shift my attention back to urban development, focusing on class, cities, segregation and urban “green” development.
Publikationer
Artiklar i tidskrifter
- Blackwell, T. , Holgersen, S. & Wallstam, M. (2023). Dreaming of efficient markets? Residential construction, competition & affordability in the Swedish housing sector. Housing Studies.
- Holgersen, S. (2023). Neither Productivism nor Degrowth: Thoughts on Eco-socialism. Spectre Journal.
- Holgersen, S. (2023). Svar om krisernas tid. Röda Rummet (4), 12-14.
- Holgersen, S. (2021). How to incorporate theory in (urban) field trips: The built environment as concrete abstraction. Journal of geography in higher education, 45 (3), 361-379.
- Holgersen, S. (2021). Oljeideologer och klimatförnekare: Norge har fulländat förmågan att leva i två parallella klimatvärldar. Aftonbladet (17 mars).
- Holgersen, S. & Hult, A. (2021). Spatial myopia: sustainability, urban politics and Malmö city. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 13 (2), 159-173.
- Holgersen, S. (2020). Against the crisis: The crisis is not an opportunity, it's the enemy. International viewpoint (IV543).
- Hakimnia, R. & Holgersen, S. (2020). Corona, hälsa och klass: Klassen som skapat krisen är inte den som får betala. Röda Rummet (2/3), 3-6.
- Holgersen, S. (2020). Lift the class - not the place! On class, urban policies in Oslo. Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, 102 (2), 135-154.
- Holgersen, S. (2020). Miljø og økonomi: refleksjoner rundt kapitalismens kriser. Gnist (3), 42-51.
- Holgersen, S. (2020). On Spatial Planning and Marxism: Looking Back, Going Forward. Antipode, 52 (3), 800-824.
- Holgersen, S. (2018). Searching for “Solutions” to Crisis: A Critique of Urban Austerity and Keynesianism. Human Geography, 11 (2), 38-58.
- Holgersen, S. & Baeten, G. (2017). Beyond a Liberal Critique of ‘Trickle Down': Urban Planning in the City of Malmö. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40 (6), 1170-1185.
- Holgersen, S. (2017). Klassekompromiss og klassekamp: Et essay om sosialdemokratiets fall. Radikal portal.
- Jönsson, E. & Holgersen, S. (2017). Spectacular, realisable and ‘everyday’: Exploring the particularities of sustainable planning in Malmö. City, 21 (3-4), 253-270.
- Holgersen, S. & Warlenius, R. (2016). Destroy what destroys the planet: Steering creative destruction in the dual crisis. Capital and Class, 40 (3), 511-532.
- Holgersen, S. (2015). Crisis and the Post-Industrial City: Or is Malmö Building Yesterday's City Tomorrow, Again?. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 106 (3), 231-245.
- Holgersen, S. (2015). Economic crisis, (creative) destruction and the current urban condition. Antipode, 47 (3), 689-707.
- Holgersen, S. & Malm, A. (2015). “Green fix” as crisis management. or, in which world is malmö the world's greenest city?. Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, 97 (4), 275-290.
- Holgersen, S. (2015). Spatial planning as condensation of social relations: A dialectical approach. Planning Theory, 14 (1), 5-22.
- Holgersen, S. (2014). Urban responses to the economic crisis: Confirmation of urban policies as crisis management in Malmö. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38 (1), 285-301.
- Holgersen, S. & Haarstad, H. (2009). Class, Community and Communicative Planning: Urban Redevelopment at King’s Cross, London. Antipode, 41 (2), 348-370.
Artiklar, forskningsöversikter
- Foroughanfar, L. , Holgersen, S. , Kefala, L. , Kings, L. , Kotze, S. & Tahvilzadeh, N. (2023). Introduction. Urban Matters (September).
Artiklar, recensioner
- Holgersen, S. (2016). Book Review: The New Urban Question. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 39 (6), 1282-1284.
Böcker
- Blackwell, T. , Holgersen, S. , Polanska, D. V. , Richard, Å. , Rolf, H. , Wallstam, M. & Forskarkollektivet Fundament, . (2023). Kris i bostadsfrågan: för en solidarisk bostadspolitik. Göteborg: Daidalos.
- Holgersen, S. (2022). Krisernas tid: Ekologi och ekonomi under kapitalismen. Göteborg: Daidalos.
- Malm, A. , Allen, I. , Bartfai, A. , Benoist, L. , Bittencourt Costa Moreira, J. , Boukaouit, D. , Custodioa, C. , Edwards, G. & et al. (2021). White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. London: Verso.
- Holgersen, S. (2017). Staden och kapitalet: Malmö i krisernas tid. Göteborg: Daidalos.
- CRUSH, C. U. S. H. , Baeten, G. , Blackwell, T. , Christophers, B. , Grundström, K. , Holgersen, S. , Kärrholm, M. , Listerborn, C. & et al. (2016). 13 myter om bostadsfrågan. Årsta: Dokument Press.
Dagstidningar
- Holgersen, S. (2016). Malmö Live och en dödfödd stadspolitik. Sydsvenskan.
Kapitel i böcker, del av antologier
- Holgersen, S. (2023). Creative Destruction. I: Brent M. Haddad; Barry D. Solomon, Dictionary of Ecological Economics: terms for the new millennium (ss. 100-100). . Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Holgersen, S. (2023). The geography of the ‘world’s greenest cities’: a class-based critique. I: Håvard Haarstad; Jakob Grandin; Kristin Kjærås; Eleanor Johnson, Haste: The Slow Politics of Climate Urgency (ss. 172-178). London: UCL Press.
- Holgersen, S. & Wallstam, M. (2022). Att bygga utan vinst: icke-kommersiella aktörer i den svenska byggsektorn. I: Bo Bengtsson; Markus Holdo; Emma Holmqvist, Allas rätt till bostad: Marknadens begränsningar och samhällets ansvar (ss. 311-328). Göteborg: Daidalos.
- Holgersen, S. (2021). The Urban. I: Beverley Skeggs; Sara R. Farris; Alberto Toscano; Svenja Bromberg, The SAGE Handbook of Marxism: Volume 3 (ss. 1503-1518). London: Sage Publications.
- Holgersen, S. (2020). Offentligt rum, reklam och klasskamp [Public space, out-door advertising and class struggle]. I: Maryam Fannis; Monica Sand, Vi kommer totalt dominera: Om utomhusreklam som demokratifråga (ss. 92-103). Årsta: Dokument Press.
- Holgersen, S. & Blackwell, T. (2016). Myten om att återskapa den förflutna goda socialdemokratin. I: CRUSH, The Critical Urban Sustainability Hub, 13 myter om bostadsfrågan. Årsta: Dokument Press.
Konferensbidrag
- Holgersen, S. (2019). Changing climate policies in Norway: green – neoliberal – denial. Konferensbidrag vid Political Ecologies of the Far Right, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, November 15-17, 2019.
- Holgersen, S. (2019). Climate policies in Norway: green – neoliberal – denial. Konferensbidrag vid Marx Conference, ABF Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, October 25-27, 2019.
- Holgersen, S. (2019). Critique of the middle class as cause and effect for gentrification: Searching for the forgotten class. Konferensbidrag vid 8th Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM 2019), Trondheim, Norway, June 16-19, 2019.
- Holgersen, S. (2019). Undervisa om hållbarhet i kulturgeografi: Stadsvandring. Konferensbidrag vid Konferens i universitetspedagogisk utveckling, Uppsala universitet, Uppsala, 10 oktober, 2019.
- Holgersen, S. (2018). Lift the class, not the place: On housing, gentrification and the importance of class. Konferensbidrag vid ENHR Conference: “More together, more apart: Migration, densification, segregation” (ENHR 2018), Uppsala, Sweden, June 27-29, 2018.
- Holgersen, S. (2017). After neoliberalism; (fascist?) austerity, (green?) Keynesianism or ecosocialism?. Konferensbidrag vid Historical Materialism Annual Conference, London, UK, November 9-12, 2017.
- Holgersen, S. (2017). Alternative geographies after the Great Recession: Austerity, Keynesianism or ecosocialism. Konferensbidrag vid 7th Nordic Geographers Meeting, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, June 19-21, 2017.
- Holgersen, S. (2017). Bostadsbyggande och stadsplanering i krisernas tid. Konferensbidrag vid Bostadsmötet, Uppsala universitet, Uppsala, Oktober 17-18, 2017.
- Holgersen, S. (2017). Omställningsstaden – rätten till en beboelig planet. Konferensbidrag vid Bostadsmötet, Uppsala universitet, 17-18 oktober, 2017.
- Holgersen, S. (2016). After the post-industrial city. Konferensbidrag vid American Association of Geographers, AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, March 29 – April 2, 2016.
Övrigt
- Holgersen, S. (2021). Spatial Planning and Marxism. Marxist Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
- Holgersen, S. (2020). The 'Middle Class' Does Not Exist: A Critique of Gentrification Research. Antipode Online.
- Holgersen, S. (2018). Stoppa projektism! En essä om klass, stad och politik.