@martinhansson.bsky.social försökte skriva ett PM till dig men det gick visst inte, du kan väll skriva till mig?

This is awful. Solidarity with UK colleagues against this cruel and stupid gutting of university education and disciplinary knowledge

New paper about institutional investors, maintenance of asset values, social struggles and rental housing in Sweden:

Apply to visit us at @iurmalmo.bsky.social as a visiting scholar or artist in residence!

See all six commentaries on @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin A Woods focus article ”The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Har fått pengar från Formas för att forska om privatisering och återkommunalisering av samhällsfastigheter - heltid i tre år! Ett ämne jag har vela djupdyka i länge (tro det eller ej).

Greetings from our editorial board meeting at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) in Uppsala, with Hannu Ruonavaara, Timothy Blackwell, @desireefields.bsky.social, @shadeofjuniper.bsky.social, Chris Foye, @brettchristophers.bsky.social and @jiegson.bsky.social!

Bidragstak, det här kommer göra livet väldigt mycket svårare för många www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

Det kanske bara är jag men visst varvas nyheterna med ena dagen lättsmälta/populistiska/till synes ointressanta nyheter som mobilförbud i grundskolan och minskad kommunalskatt och andra dagen repressiva förslag om att sänka straffåldern till 13. Valår coming up

This long time coming article co-authered with the amazing @idaborg.bsky.social is finally out in Nordic Journal of Housing Research, where we scrutinize suburban poverty trends among private rental and public housing tenants in Malmö www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...

Random Icelandic buildings

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

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:

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

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

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.

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=...

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!

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)

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...

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

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!

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

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

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 theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/prs-financ...

@mickbyrne.bsky.social about renovations, highlighting how these diminish affordable housing. Me and @idaborg.bsky.social has also found that tenants with lower socioeconomic status tend to move less than socioeconomically stronger households, which can be interpreted as a form of 'lock in' effect.

Part II PRS financialization on the wholesale privatization of social housing in Germany & Sweden. Truly amazing what happened in those countries @fingalpimpernel.bsky.social @jiegson.bsky.social @miguel-martinez.bsky.social @javigil.bsky.social theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/prs-financ...

Join us next Tuesday!!

Starting the day at #aag2025 with Chiara Vallis and Ismael Yrigoys session on Class and housing! @iurmalmo.bsky.social

An update from our colleagues at AAG in Detroit - today and tomorrow left to go! Among the smiles: @listerborn.bsky.social, @jiegson.bsky.social, @gbaet.bsky.social, and @defnekadioglu.bsky.social

Ser Yellowstone för första gången. Hur kan jag ha missat detta.

If at AAG, don’t miss our session!

As a book review editor for @housingtheory.bsky.social I am struck by how difficult it is to find books that are not written by men & to avoid getting primarily men to do reviews. Prob. reflection of the housing research field, academic workload for women, and my own skewed gaze.

ett litet skojigt faktum är att AP-fonderna har förlorat mer på Teslas börsfall än northvolt

Swedish pension funds had 5,8 billion sek invested in Northvolt www.sydsvenskan.se/2025-03-12/s...

Jag hoppas att alla förstår att det som kallas ”bidragstak” betyder att staten säger att vissa barn inte ska få äta sig mätta www.dn.se/ledare/vet-d...

Solbadande hästar i Lund hälsar att nu är det vår

Alva Zalar, postdoktor vid Institutionen för kulturgeografi Lunds universitet pratar utifrån sin avhandling ”Queer as a City: Unsettling coherence in ‘sustainable urban development’ ” och om hur arkitektur och stadsplanering bättre kan stödja mångfald och heterogenitet. Välkomna!

Det tråkigast med att ha vinterkräksjukan är kanske att man inte riktigt kan njuta av semmeldagen

Zooming in on interesting seminar with @schultzlarsen.bsky.social and Nagel Delica on their new book, organized by @iurmalmo.bsky.social

@iurmalmo.bsky.social is finally at bluesky! I am of course biased but IUR is a must-follow for urban researchers

Har lämnat barnen med pysslet själva i köket för att dricka kaffe och scrolla i soffan. Femåringen kan väll ta hand om nästan tvååringen. Vad kan gå fel?

We have an interesting seminar coming up. Welcome on March 4 13.15-15 on Zoom and on-site at Malmö University. See more info in comments.