Table of Contents

1. Geographies and Theories of Geography: an Introduction (Peter Jakobsen, Erik Jönsson and Henrik Gutzon Larsen).- 2. Sublimated Expansionism? Living Space Ideas in Nordic Small State Geopolitics (Henrik Gutzon Larsen and Carl Marklund).- 3. Translating Space: The rise and Fall of Central Place Theory and Planning-Geography in Sweden (Pär Wikman and Marcus Mohall).- 4. Territorial Structure: An Early Marxist Theorisation of Geography (Peter Jakobsen and Henrik Gutzon Larsen).- 5. Synthesis of Physical and Human Geography: Necessary and Impossible? (Arild Holt-Jensen).- 6. Politicisation of Nature in Nordic Geography (Ari Aukusti Lehtinen).- 7. In search of Nordic Landscape Geography: Tensions, Combinations and Relations (Tomas Germundsson, Erik Jönsson and Gunhild Setten).- 8. Trends and Challenges in Nordic Gender Geography (Gunnel Forsberg and Susanne Stenbacka).- 9. Economic Geography of Innovation and Regional Development (Bjørn T. Asheim, Høgni Kalsø Hansen and Arne Isaksen).- 10. The Socio-Spatial Articulations of Tourism Studies in Nordic Geography (Edward H. Huijbens and Dieter K. Müller).- 11. The Spatialities of the Nordic Compact City (Per Gunnar Røe, Kristin Edith Abrahamsen Kjærås and Håvard Haarstad).- 12. Struggling with Conceptual Framings to Understand Swedish Displacement Processes (Carina Listerborn and Guy Baeten).- 13. Spatial Justice and Social Reproduction in the Nordic Periphery (Madeleine Eriksson and Aina Tollefsen).- 14. Nordic Geographies of Nation and Nationhood (Jouni Häkli and Mette Strømsø).- 15. Urban space and Everyday Life: A Personal Theoretical Trajectory within Nordic Social and Cultural Geography (Kirsten Simonsen).- 16. The Institutionalization of Regions: An Autobiographic View on the Making of Socio-spatial Theory in the Nordic Periphery (Anssi Paasi).

About the Author

Peter Jakobsen is a PhD student in human geography at Uppsala University. His current research is about the development of radical geographical thought in Denmark, and shifts from radical to critical geography in the Nordic countries. 

Erik Jönsson teaches human geography and planning at Uppsala University. His current research explores struggles over access to public space and the establishment of a network of People’s Parks in Sweden, and ongoing redevelopment projects in Malmö. 

Henrik Gutzon Larsen teaches human geography at Lund University. His current research addresses urban geography and housing, political geography and histories of geographic thought.