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Blackwell, T., Holgersen, S. & Wallstam, M. (2025). Dreaming of efficient markets? Residential construction, competition & affordability in the Swedish housing sector. Housing Studies, 40(1), 46-69
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2025 (English)In: Housing Studies, ISSN 0267-3037, E-ISSN 1466-1810, Vol. 40, no 1, p. 46-69Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper problematises the perception that enhanced competition within the Swedish residential construction sector offers a panacea to rising building costs and deteriorating housing affordability. The paper investigates the relationships between housing production, exchange, and consumption from three perspectives: (i) an historical analysis of the residential construction industry; (ii) elite semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, and (iii) an exploration of state crisis management. Instead of viewing competition within the construction sector as an isolated sphere, we argue that the inherent unevenness within this sector needs to be grasped in combination with broader political-economic developments. We claim that rising productions costs (particularly in the tenant-owner sector) have been fuelled by soaring land prices, and that this situation has provided fertile terrain for rent-seeking throughout the housing supply chain. We conclude that calls for more competition, both in Sweden and further afield, tend to oversimplify the complex issue of housing provision and shroud more fundamental housing system imbalances.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2025
Keywords
Housing, residential construction, competition, political economy, land, Sweden
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-108689 (URN)10.1080/02673037.2023.2256257 (DOI)001068376500001 ()2-s2.0-85171594795 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2018-01613 2018-00049
Available from: 2023-10-03 Created: 2023-10-03 Last updated: 2025-01-23Bibliographically approved
(2024). Afterword: Extinguishing the flames: A call for future research and action on far-right ecologies. In: Irma Kinga Allen; Kristoffer Ekberg; Ståle Holgersen; Andreas Malm (Ed.), Political ecologies of the far right: Fanning the flames: (pp. 251-259). Manchester University Press
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2024 (English)In: Political ecologies of the far right: Fanning the flames / [ed] Irma Kinga Allen; Kristoffer Ekberg; Ståle Holgersen; Andreas Malm, Manchester University Press, 2024, p. 251-259Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Manchester University Press, 2024
Series
Global Studies of the Far Right
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-118439 (URN)10.7765/9781526167804.00018 (DOI)2-s2.0-85198432872 (Scopus ID)9781526167804 (ISBN)9781526167781 (ISBN)
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2.2.4

Available from: 2025-01-14 Created: 2025-01-14 Last updated: 2025-08-07Bibliographically approved
Holgersen, S. (2024). Delayers and deniers: Centrist fossil ideology meets the far right in Norway. In: Irma Kinga Allen; Kristoffer Ekberg; Ståle Holgersen; Andreas Malm (Ed.), Political ecologies of the far right: Fanning the flames (pp. 121-139). Manchester University Press
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2024 (English)In: Political ecologies of the far right: Fanning the flames / [ed] Irma Kinga Allen; Kristoffer Ekberg; Ståle Holgersen; Andreas Malm, Manchester University Press, 2024, p. 121-139Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Manchester University Press, 2024
Series
Global Studies of the Far Right
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-118437 (URN)10.7765/9781526167804.00011 (DOI)2-s2.0-85198426882 (Scopus ID)9781526167804 (ISBN)9781526167781 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-01-14 Created: 2025-01-14 Last updated: 2025-01-15Bibliographically approved
(2024). Introduction. In: Political ecologies of the far right: Fanning the flames (pp. 1-15). Manchester University Press
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2024 (English)In: Political ecologies of the far right: Fanning the flames, Manchester University Press, 2024, p. 1-15Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Manchester University Press, 2024
Series
Global Studies of the Far Right
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-118453 (URN)10.7765/9781526167804.00005 (DOI)2-s2.0-85198489291 (Scopus ID)9781526167804 (ISBN)9781526167781 (ISBN)
Note

2.2.4

Available from: 2025-01-15 Created: 2025-01-15 Last updated: 2025-08-07Bibliographically approved
Allen, I. K., Ekberg, K., Holgersen, S. & Malm, A. (Eds.). (2024). Political ecologies of the far right: Fanning the flames. Manchester University Press
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2024 (English)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This volume engages with the alarming convergence of far right thinking and the ecological crisis in contemporary society. Growing out of the first international conference on political ecologies of the far right, the volume gathers crucial insights from authorities in the field as well as promising early career researchers. With cases ranging from ethnographical accounts of fossil fuel populist protest, historical analysis of the evangelical support for fossil fuels to interrogations of the settler colonial identities and material conditions defended by far right actors around the world, the book provides scholars, students and activists with ways to understand and counter these developments. © Manchester University Press 2024. All rights reserved.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Manchester University Press, 2024. p. 276
Series
Global Studies of the Far Right
Keywords
Far-right ecology, climate change, anti-environmentalism, climate change denial, case studies, conspiracy theory, cultural Marxism, eco-fascism, fossil fuels, energy
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-118440 (URN)10.7765/9781526167804 (DOI)2-s2.0-85198467763 (Scopus ID)9781526167804 (ISBN)9781526167798 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-01-14 Created: 2025-01-14 Last updated: 2025-01-15Bibliographically approved
Holgersen, S. (2023). Creative Destruction. In: Brent M. Haddad; Barry D. Solomon (Ed.), Dictionary of Ecological Economics: terms for the new millennium (pp. 100-100). Edward Elgar Publishing
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2023 (English)In: Dictionary of Ecological Economics: terms for the new millennium / [ed] Brent M. Haddad; Barry D. Solomon, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, p. 100-100Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-111004 (URN)9781788974912 (ISBN)9781788974905 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-01-25 Created: 2024-01-25 Last updated: 2024-01-29Bibliographically approved
Foroughanfar, L., Holgersen, S., Kefala, L., Kings, L., Kotze, S. & Tahvilzadeh, N. (2023). Introduction. Urban Matters (September)
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2023 (English)In: Urban Matters, ISSN 2004-206X, no SeptemberArticle, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö: Institute for Urban Research, Malmö University, 2023
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-111005 (URN)
Note

Special issue: Class and the City

Available from: 2024-01-25 Created: 2024-01-25 Last updated: 2024-01-29Bibliographically approved
Blackwell, T., Holgersen, S., Polanska, D. V., Richard, Å., Rolf, H. & Wallstam, M. (2023). Kris i bostadsfrågan: för en solidarisk bostadspolitik. Göteborg: Daidalos
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2023 (Swedish)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [sv]

Under de senaste decennierna har fastighetsägare, byggbolag, banker och riskkapitalister tjänat enorma summor på bostäder, medan andra förlorat sina hem eller sett sina bostads kostnader öka kraftigt. Den sociala bostadspolitiken har övergivits, hemlösheten har ökat och bostadsstandarden har försämrats. Samtidigt har det finansiella systemet blivit centrerat kring en bolånespiral som har gjort hushållen och den svenska ekonomin otroligt sårbara.

Sverige behöver ett nytt, socialt och klimatanpassat bostads system, men ett sådant kan bara åstadkommas genom radikala förändringar. Utifrån en gedigen genomgång av över hundra års svensk bostadshistoria analyserar "Kris i bostadsfrågan" orsakerna till och konsekvenserna av att bostadens bruksvärde helt har kommit att överskuggas av dess bytesvärde, och föreslår hur den pågående krisen - med radikala förändringar i politik, finans och byggande - skulle kunna demonteras och utgöra grunden för ett nytt bostadssystem, där alla människors behov av ett hem står i centrum.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Daidalos, 2023. p. 301
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-111003 (URN)9789171736802 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-01-25 Created: 2024-01-25 Last updated: 2024-01-29Bibliographically approved
Holgersen, S. (2023). Neither Productivism nor Degrowth: Thoughts on Eco-socialism. Spectre Journal
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Neither Productivism nor Degrowth: Thoughts on Eco-socialism
2023 (English)In: Spectre Journal, ISSN 2692-6113Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York: Spectre, 2023
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-111006 (URN)
Available from: 2024-01-25 Created: 2024-01-25 Last updated: 2024-01-29Bibliographically approved
Holgersen, S. (2023). Svar om krisernas tid. Röda Rummet (4), 12-14
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2023 (Swedish)In: Röda Rummet, ISSN 1403-3844, no 4, p. 12-14Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [sv]

Jag gillar att skriva böcker, och ännu roligare är det att åka runt och prata om böckerna. Recensioner och feedback är kul, men inkluderar ett skräckinslag: det kan ju gå båda vägarna. Det allra roligaste är att diskutera en bok man har skrivit tillsammans med kamrater på ett öppet, kritisk och konstruktivt sätt. För att tillsammans komma vidare.

Det var därför fantastisk att bli bjuden till Dyrön i mars 2023 och diskutera Krisernas tid tillsammans med Vanja Carlsson, Carl Cassegård, Lars Henriksson, Håkan Thörn, Evelina Johansson Wilén och Carl Wilén. Baserat på diskussionerna den helgen har Röda Rummet publicerat fyra kritiska kommentarer. Jag känner mig privilegierad. Detta är även väldigt bra timing. Krisernas tid ska publiceras på Verso Books hösten 2024, så kommentarerna har hjälpt mig att spetsa argumenten till den engelska utgåvan. TackDen här texten är alltså en kommentar till kommentarerna. Jag kan inte diskutera varenda detalj, men vill kort dryfta de centrala frågorna. Innan jag börjar vill jag bara kort precisera att Krisernas tid handlar om ekonomiska och ekologiska kriser under kapitalismen; om hur kapitalismen producerar kriser och hur krisernas reproducerar kapitalismen. Sedan diskuteras rätt många teman – som till exempel rasism, staten, geografi, fascism, nationalism — men enbart indirekt och i den mån detta är relevant för frågan om kriserna.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Socialistiska partiet, 2023
National Category
Human Geography
Research subject
Social and Economic Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-111007 (URN)
Available from: 2024-01-25 Created: 2024-01-25 Last updated: 2024-01-30Bibliographically approved
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