Voices from the North

Jan Öhman, Associate Professor, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden Kirsten Simonsen, Professor, Department of Geography and International Development Studies, Roskilde University. Denmark

• Contents: Localized capabilities and industrial competitiveness, Anders Malmberg and Peter Maskell; On the new economic geography of post-Fordist learning economies, Bjorn T. Asheim; Economy-culture relations and the geographies of regional development, Jorgen Ole Baerenholdt and Michael Haldrup; Welfare states and social polarization, Frank Hensen; Does welfare matter? Ghettoization in the welfare state, Hans Thor Andersen and Eric Clark; Geography, local planning and the production of space - a Swedish context, Jan Öhman; Everyday life and urban planning: an approach in Swedish human geography, Ann-Catherine Aguist; Geography, space and identity, Jouni Hakli and Anssi Paasi; The embodied city: from bodily practice to urban life, Kirsten Simonsen; Rural geography and feminist geography: discourses on rurality and gender in Britain and Scandinavia, Nina Gunnerud Berg and Gunnel Forsberg; Choreographs of life youth, place and migration, Anders Lofgren; In search of the Nordic landscape: a personal view, Kenneth R. Olwig; Samhallgeografi and the politics of nature: tracing the Nordic forest regimes in the era of globalization, Ari Lehtinen; Racialization and migration in urban segregation processes: key issues for critical geographers, Roger Andersson and Irene Molina; In Visible City: insecurity, gender and power relations in urban space, Hille Koskela; Landscape of landscapes, Gunnar Olsson.

’Voices from the North is a fresh, stimulating wind from the North. Combining pieces in keeping with a long tradition of applied research and work informed by a variety of poststructual and feminist theories, this anthology splendidly displays - yet again - that the cutting edge of human geography is not a monopoly of British and North American scholars. For many of the voices in question are not merely well-informed, but original in important ways.’ Professor Allan Pred, University of California, Berkeley, USA ’...an excellent reflection of a characterisitc of research in the Nordic countries: its strong integration with international research...The book gives a good overview of the diversity of the discipline in the Nordic countries as well as a couple of very interesting contributions to the interdisciplinary research field of clusters, innovation systems, and firms' and regions' responses to globalization.’ Journal of Regional Science ’...it helps us understand how useful it can be to think about our own speciality fields in relation to the wider contexts in which they are located or against which they are formed.’ Economic Geography