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Abstract
This paper pulls together reflections with action research in community work and urban policy from the past decades. We will present two cases rooted in different but complementary theoretical and methodological approaches.
The Nørrebro United case. Empowering a community oriented soccer club from the inside. This approach is inspired by Antonio Gramsci and Olav Eikeland. Through a critical engagement med the soccer club’s capacity for becoming accessible to kids from marginalized housing estates, this action research project undertakes a transformation of practice from the inside through strengthening the interplay with the local community as well as an activist engagement with changing the urban infrastructures of soccer and the municipal policies of leisure.
The Lynetteholm Case. Lynetteholm is an infrastructural megaproject – the creation of a huge artificial island the harbour of Copenhagen. The project as been much disputed due to its possible negative impact on the marine environment in vast areas of The Baltic Sea, highly speculative financialization, but due to the city of Copenhagen’s debt driven development scheme, the knowledge basis is produced in a dubious way. Citizen activists and critical experts in Stop Lynetteholm is disputing the knowledge-base and legitimazy of the project possibly bringing the project to a halt. Inspired by the phronetic case study tradition (Flyvbjerg and Foucault) challenges dominant discources etc and systemetic action research (Burns).
The Nørrebro United case. Empowering a community oriented soccer club from the inside. This approach is inspired by Antonio Gramsci and Olav Eikeland. Through a critical engagement med the soccer club’s capacity for becoming accessible to kids from marginalized housing estates, this action research project undertakes a transformation of practice from the inside through strengthening the interplay with the local community as well as an activist engagement with changing the urban infrastructures of soccer and the municipal policies of leisure.
The Lynetteholm Case. Lynetteholm is an infrastructural megaproject – the creation of a huge artificial island the harbour of Copenhagen. The project as been much disputed due to its possible negative impact on the marine environment in vast areas of The Baltic Sea, highly speculative financialization, but due to the city of Copenhagen’s debt driven development scheme, the knowledge basis is produced in a dubious way. Citizen activists and critical experts in Stop Lynetteholm is disputing the knowledge-base and legitimazy of the project possibly bringing the project to a halt. Inspired by the phronetic case study tradition (Flyvbjerg and Foucault) challenges dominant discources etc and systemetic action research (Burns).
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 2024 |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
| Event | The Common City Conference - Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Duration: 11 Sept 2024 → 13 Sept 2024 Conference number: 1 https://www.uu.se/en/department/housing-and-urban-research/research/the-common-city-conference |
Conference
| Conference | The Common City Conference |
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| Number | 1 |
| Location | Uppsala University |
| Country/Territory | Sweden |
| City | Uppsala |
| Period | 11/09/2024 → 13/09/2024 |
| Other | How is the common city of the future to be produced, created, built and imagined? How are different forms of urban commoning experienced worldwide? What obstacles and struggles should we expect in creating and fostering the urban commons? What are the key facilitating conditions, forms of organising and possible institutions for maintaining the urban commons? How can we define the common city in ways that help overcome capitalist urban and social relations? To what extent are the struggles for the right to the city, and for housing and urban justice at the core of urban commoning?<br/><br/>This conference gather scholars and activists who are concerned about the above questions. It is promoted by the cooperation project between Uppsala University (Sweden) and the UFMG (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) that has been developed since 2019, on the one hand, and The Housing & Urban Justice Project based at IBF, on the other.<br/><br/>The conference focuses on three stands:<br/><br/> Urban struggles for the right to the city and urban commons<br/> Activist research: methodological reflexivity and practical experiences<br/> Housing and Urban (In)Justice in Global North & South contexts<br/><br/>Programme |
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Activities
- 1 Organisation and participation in conference
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1st PAAR-net International Knowledge Exchange Event and 3rd MC meeting
Andersen, J. (Participant)
5 Sept 2024 → 6 Sept 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference