Jennie Gustafsson

Random Icelandic buildings

SVT Nyheter Miljödata går förlorad – 30 år av mätningar i Östersjön stoppade

För att kunna lösa ett problem (Östersjön dör) måste man först förstå det (mäta föroreningarna). Därför slutar den SD-styrda regeringen nu att mäta

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A rightwing minister told Sweden to get tough on crime – until his own son was caught in a Nazi scandal | Martin Gelin In our current political climate, why is migration minister Johan Forssell surprised that a teenage boy might be drawn to extremism? asks journalist Martin Gelin

My latest for The Guardian:
A government that claims to take concerns over crime and national security seriously, while ignoring violent neo-nazi groups, will struggle with its credibility.
Sweden has a long tradition of refusing to talk about racism. Racism could still decide the next election:

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Call for papers for IUR workshop: In the cracks of the asset economy. Housing assets and class formation in contemporary property landscapes - Institute for Urban Research When: 27-28 November 2025 Where: Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona What: Workshop to prepare contributions to a Special Issue. Target journal: International Journal of Urban and Regional Re...

Check out this workshop! www.iuresearch.se/call-for-pap...

Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology Specific subject description The Human Ecology Division applies an inter-disciplinary definition of its research field. Research and education at the division deals with human-environmental relations

Assistant professorship in Human ecology at the dept of Human Geography at Lund Uni just out. Please circulate to anyone working with nature-human relationships who might would want to work out of Lund. Personally hoping people interested in planning issues apply! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

remember how Berlin citizens voted to take back the city from corporate landlords in 2021? it was an emancipatory promise many applauded.
since then, corporate landlords increased their stronghold on the city to 25% of housing stok, and w it, rents went up by 9% annually.

Thanks to the crew at @iurmalmo.bsky.social and @martingrander.bsky.social for making this possible!

These actors might also be vulnerable to inflation and increasing interest rates, especially considering the expected returns to their shareholders, which in turn can incentivize rent increases to cover rising costs.

The institutional investors’ ownership of rental housing raises several questions regarding how local governments can secure their housing provision, especially considering how residential property actors might use rent-increasing investment strategies.

In contrast, France has experienced less privatization of its social housing sector, and its private rental sector is dominated by individual landlords.

We discuss the different experiences of rental housing investments considering the extensive privatizations of public housing in Sweden and in a context of an historically corporate private rental sector.

We also find that property investors have invested rental housing in medium-sized municipalities and towns in Sweden, especially during the low-interest-rate era.

We find that institutional investors (e.g. pension/insurance/sovereign wealth funds being shareholders of residential property companies, such as Heimstaden and Victoriahem) own more than 24% of the private rental housing stock in Sweden. In France, the number is significantly less—not more than 5%.

Perfect way to start the summer with a new publication part of the Studies in Housing and Welfare’s working paper series: Variegated Experiences of Rental Housing Financialization: Residential Property Investors in France and Sweden, with @matthieuvogt.bsky.social: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...

Student anthology project. Abstract submission deadline and schedule.

Did you miss this the first time around?
Call for papers - Are you or do you know a student who has written (or is writing) an academic work on Palestine? Submit an abstract of your text via the Tally form (post 2) or contact us by email (post 4). Deadline 4 July!
All the best,
The anthology team

Come work with us! Human Geo at Lund U is looking for TT assistant prof no more than five years from their Phd who is interested in planning and have some knowledge about LLM, AI, spatial modelling etc: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/.... Please share widely, and get in touch with Qs if you have em.

Kriminologen säger också att Sverige går helt fel väg - fängelser är ”a terrible waste of government money”. Lyssna!

Vårt offentliga språk rymde ett folkmord JOHANNES ANYURU: Gazas män bär vår mänsklighet i sina händer

Läs detta: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/vg2...

Och fortsätt agera!

Great lecture by @kavitaurbanist.bsky.social on embodied thermal justice with @iurmalmo.bsky.social and Network of Global South Urbanism(s)

Call for Abstracts! Urban Matters Special Issue: Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure - Institute for Urban Research Abstract submissions are open for a special issue of Urban Matters journal! Please see below for information and instructions. Title: Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure  Abstract: 250 words  Ar...

Updated with a new link to our freshly redesigned website (check it out!):

The call is open! ✏️Would you like to submit to a special issue on "Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure" for our e-journal Urban Matters? Read more here + send an abstract by June 15: www.iuresearch.se/call-for-abs...

It is open access and part of a special issue on The Role of Planning in ‘Anti-Democratic’ Times by Carina @listerborn.bsky.social and Kristina Grange. @iurmalmo.bsky.social

Eurovision and the City: “United by Music” Meets “Malmö against Genocide” | Commentary | Urban Planning Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, Adriana de La Peña, Laleh Foroughanfar, Jennie Gustafsson, Lorena Melgaço, Chiara Valli

Happy to have been part of this collective and collaborative work initiated by Chiara Valli with Laleh Foroughanfar, Adriana de la Peña, Lorena Melgaço and Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou. It was a great experience thinking about Eurovision, protests and authoritarian urbanism.

Over 700 (!!) faculty and staff in Swedish higher education & research have declared their conscientious objection to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law.

Ps: ppl can still sign!!

Gör en väldigt lundensisk grej och är på Skissernas night

Är det inte att man (eventuellt) får massa bekräftelse och har ett intellektuellt utbyte och sen landar man hårt efter i verkligen…

More details announced! Our panel discussion, moderated by associate professor Paula Mulinari, will include Aina Gagliardo (Röda Korsets Malmökrets), Ana Betancour (IUR), Britt Jürgensen (Backa Kåken), Halimo Nuur (Rosengårds Folkets Hus), and Stefana Hoti (Malmö stad) as participants. Welcome!

Post-Carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)

We have a fresh new book review of Post-Carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice, edited by Ralph Horne and others, written by Melissa García-Lamarca

Universitetslektor i kulturgeografi - Örebro universitet Örebro universitet skapar framtiden genom internationellt konkurrenskraftig forskning och erbjuder professionsinriktade utbildningar som tillhör landets bäst

Rekommenderas: Universitetslektor i kulturgeografi vid Örebro universitet. Sök om du kan – trevliga kollegor ingår i jobbet!
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Permanent position as Senior Lecturer at Örebro University. My old job – highly recommended!

PRS Financialization IV: the big picture The Week in Housing 18/04/25

Last in the series on PRS financialization looks at five key take aways on its significance for housing systems and tenants @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @daraturnbull.bsky.social @jiegson.bsky.social
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