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Zahan, S. J. & Listerborn, C. (2025). Feminisms for our time! Urban inequalities and contestations in the age of global change. Urban Matters (August 2025)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Feminisms for our time! Urban inequalities and contestations in the age of global change
2025 (English)In: Urban Matters, E-ISSN 2004-206X, no August 2025Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö: Malmö University, 2025
Keywords
feminisms, global south, global north
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-79997 (URN)10.24834/urbanmatters.2025.08.1 (DOI)
Available from: 2025-10-13 Created: 2025-10-13 Last updated: 2025-10-14Bibliographically approved
Baeten, G., Listerborn, C., Miranda, P., de Neergaard, M. & Torisson, F. (2025). 'LIVE BETTER': Smart City Expo as performative ideology formation. Digital Geography and Society, 9, Article ID 100144.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>'LIVE BETTER': Smart City Expo as performative ideology formation
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2025 (English)In: Digital Geography and Society, E-ISSN 2666-3783, Vol. 9, article id 100144Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Based on ethnographic observations, this article seeks to empirically illustrate how one of the main functions of the Smart City Expo in Barcelona in 2024 is to perform smartcity-as-ideology and its technological-solutionist stance that considerably narrows our understanding of urban problems and the solutions for it. The article introduces the Expo and describes our arrival and visit to the Expo. It provides empirical detail of the performativity of technological solutionism and its optimism, including the role of alliances, based on ethnographic observations. The main features of the technological-solutionist ideology underpinning the smart city are summarised and we conclude how this performativity is in line with Althusser's understanding of ideology.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2025
Keywords
Ideology, Smart cities, Technological solutionism
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-80167 (URN)10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100144 (DOI)2-s2.0-105018713519 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2025-10-27 Created: 2025-10-27 Last updated: 2025-10-27Bibliographically approved
Listerborn, C., Mulinari, P. & Sixtensson, J. (2025). Racism Shaping Consumption Spaces: Shopping in Sweden. Space and Culture
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Racism Shaping Consumption Spaces: Shopping in Sweden
2025 (English)In: Space and Culture, ISSN 1206-3312, E-ISSN 1552-8308Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Consumption spaces are culturally allegedly equally accessible to all, based on a person’s abilityto spend money. Critical race studies in a North American context have shown, however, thatconsumption spaces are highly racialized. Racism in consumption spaces in northern Europe isan under-researched area. This article is based on interviews with individuals racialized as non-White about experiences of everyday racism in consumption places in Sweden. It aims to fillthis research gap and answer the questions of how people respond to experiences of racism inconsumption spaces, and how we can understand the spatial aspects of racism that are actedout and reproduced in spaces of consumption. As consumption is a central part of urban life,this understanding helps to further reveal the depth of social inequalities that in turn reinforcepatterns of urban segregation and social spatial division. Theoretically, the spatialization ofeveryday racism and the notion of color-blindness that is prevalent in Sweden underlines howthese experiences shape urban practices such as spatial exclusion and self-constraint.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2025
Keywords
consumption, space, racism, Sweden, color-blindness
National Category
Human Geography
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-78892 (URN)10.1177/12063312251363100 (DOI)001546208400001 ()2-s2.0-105013494539 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2019-03303
Available from: 2025-08-14 Created: 2025-08-14 Last updated: 2025-08-29Bibliographically approved
Johansson, R., Listerborn, C. & Svensson, P. (Eds.). (2025). Speglingar av en stad - Malmö. Malmö: Kira förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Speglingar av en stad - Malmö
2025 (Swedish)Collection (editor) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [sv]

En stad är ett mångfasetterat och svårbestämt begrepp och på samma vis blir därför speglingarna av staden mångfasetterade. Trettio författare bjuder i boken på sina speglingar och berättelser därför finns olika minnen och flera tidsreferenser som ställer frågor om; vad en stad är; vilka historier en stad som Malmö bär på; hur berättandet och avbildandet av staden möjliggörs, genom vilka kanaler sker berättandet? Staden manifesteras genom sina platser och byggnader, men är samtidigt djupt personlig. Staden är vårt kollektiva och gemensamma rum och skiftena i stadens utveckling utgör både vår gemensamma och subjektiva tidsreferens. Därför finns olika minnen och flera tidsreferenser beroende på var vi kommer ifrån, var vi bor i staden, vilken generation vi tillhör, klassbakgrund, genus, gjorda livserfarenheter? Den här bokens författare skriver just utifrån sådana olika perspektiv.Men kanske hämtar författarna också sin gemensamma referens ur Sjöwall/Wahlöös kärleksförklaring till staden som mer än någon annan i landet är gränsstaden som speglas i världen bortom Sundet: ”Snart skulle den röda solskivan försvinna någonstans bortom Ven, och kvällsbrisen,..förde svaga fläktar av behaglig svalka genom Malmös gator…Staden påminner inte i särskilt hög grad om Sverige i övrigt, mest beroende på det geografiska läget. Man har närmare till Rom än till midnattssolen, längs horisonten ser man ljusen på den danska kusten och även om det är sant att vintrarna ofta är slaskiga och vindpinade så är det också sant att somrarna minst lika ofta är långa och varma och fyllda av näktergalssång och dofterna från de vidsträckta parkernas yppiga grönska.”

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö: Kira förlag, 2025. p. 256
National Category
Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Arts
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-77287 (URN)9789187875663 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-06-16 Created: 2025-06-16 Last updated: 2025-06-16Bibliographically approved
Johansson, R., Svensson, P. & Listerborn, C. (2025). Speglingar av en stad - Malmö: Ett försök att fånga staden. In: Roger Johansson; Carina Listerborn; Per Svensson (Ed.), Speglingar av en stad - Malmö: (pp. 7-10). Malmö: Kira förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Speglingar av en stad - Malmö: Ett försök att fånga staden
2025 (Swedish)In: Speglingar av en stad - Malmö / [ed] Roger Johansson; Carina Listerborn; Per Svensson, Malmö: Kira förlag , 2025, p. 7-10Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

En stad är ett mångfasetterat och svårbestämt begrepp ochpå samma vis blir därför speglingarna av staden mångfasetterade.Trettioen författare bjuder i boken på sina speglingar och berättelsersom ställer frågor om vad en stad är; vilka historier en stadsom Malmö bär på; hur berättandet och avbildandet av staden möjliggörsoch genom vilka kanaler berättandet sker.Staden manifesteras genom sina platser och byggnader, menär samtidigt djupt personlig. Staden är vårt kollektiva och gemensammarum och skiftena i stadens utveckling utgör både vår gemensammaoch subjektiva tidsreferens. Därför finns olika minnenoch flera tidsreferenser beroende på var vi kommer ifrån, var vibor i staden, vilken generation vi tillhör, klassbakgrund, genus och gjorda livserfarenheter.

Men kanske hämtar författarna också sin gemensamma referensur Sjöwall/Wahlöös kärleksförklaring till staden som mer ännågon annan i landet är gränsstaden som speglas i världen bortomSundet:”Snart skulle den röda solskivan försvinna någonstans bortomVen, och kvällsbrisen,..förde svaga fläktar av behaglig svalka genomMalmös gator…Staden påminner inte i särskilt hög grad omSverige i övrigt, mest beroende på det geografiska läget. Man harnärmare till Rom än till midnattssolen, längs horisonten ser manljusen på den danska kusten och även om det är sant att vintrarnaofta är slaskiga och vindpinade så är det också sant att somrarnaminst lika ofta är långa och varma och fyllda av näktergalssångoch dofterna från de vidsträckta parkernas yppiga grönska.”

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö: Kira förlag, 2025
Keywords
Malmö, Kulturhistoria, urban historia
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Arts
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-78758 (URN)978-91-87875-66-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-08-07 Created: 2025-08-07 Last updated: 2025-10-16Bibliographically approved
Listerborn, C. (2025). Stadens berättelser och berättelser om staden. In: Roger Johansson; Carina Listerborn; Per Svensson (Ed.), Speglingar av en stad - Malmö: (pp. 96-103). Malmö: Kira Förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Stadens berättelser och berättelser om staden
2025 (Swedish)In: Speglingar av en stad - Malmö / [ed] Roger Johansson; Carina Listerborn; Per Svensson, Malmö: Kira Förlag , 2025, p. 96-103Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö: Kira Förlag, 2025
Keywords
berättelser, städer, historia, Malmö, bostäder
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-78063 (URN)978-91-87875-66-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-06-24 Created: 2025-06-24 Last updated: 2025-06-25Bibliographically approved
Kadıoğlu Polat, D. & Listerborn, C. (2025). The game of rental housing financialization: Institutional investors in the Swedish housing system. European Urban and Regional Studies
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The game of rental housing financialization: Institutional investors in the Swedish housing system
2025 (English)In: European Urban and Regional Studies, ISSN 0969-7764, E-ISSN 1461-7145Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

While attention has been paid to how politico-legal reforms have enabled or inhibited the entrance of institutional investors, less is known about how these providers impact or challenge existing actors, regulations, processes, and institutional arrangements within local housing systems. This article departs from the case of Sweden: it has been discussed how institutional investors have been enabled by the country’s soft rent regulation, which is based on a collective bargaining process between all providers and the Swedish Union of Tenants (SUT) and allows for sharp rent increases after renovation. We show how in the Swedish case large institutional investors exploit existing institutional arrangements and challenge the norms that underlie the functioning of the rental housing system. To explore and illustrate this process we rely on the theory of incremental institutional change and complement it through the conceptual metaphor of “gaming.” We argue that housing systems can be understood as playing fields in which different actors employ tactics to defend or advance their interests, without, necessarily, the need to formally change the rules of the game. We suggest that more attention should be paid to institutional investors’ active engagement with local housing systems over time, beyond dichotomies of enablement or inhibition.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2025
Keywords
Gaming, housing system, institutional change, rent setting, rental housing financialization
National Category
Human Geography
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-73313 (URN)10.1177/09697764241305342 (DOI)001402772300001 ()2-s2.0-85216098469 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2025-01-27 Created: 2025-01-27 Last updated: 2025-02-18Bibliographically approved
Grange, K. & Listerborn, C. (2025). The Role of Planning in ‘Anti‐Democratic’ Times. Urban Planning, 10
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Role of Planning in ‘Anti‐Democratic’ Times
2025 (English)In: Urban Planning, E-ISSN 2183-7635, Vol. 10Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

This thematic issue seeks to bring the urgent questions raised by the current “anti‐democratic turn in history” into conversation with the ambivalent nature of planning practices. What role can planning assume when society moves in a more authoritarian direction, and what responsibilities do academics bear?

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cogitatio Press, 2025
Keywords
academics, anti‐democratic, authoritarian, critical, planning, pluralism
National Category
Other Social Sciences Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-77476 (URN)10.17645/up.10719 (DOI)001512335100006 ()2-s2.0-105009210261 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2025-06-17 Created: 2025-06-17 Last updated: 2025-10-16Bibliographically approved
Sixtensson, J., Mulinari, P. & Listerborn, C. (2025). ‘This is neither Swedish nor Western and doesn’t belong here’: Responses to retail stores’ social media advertisements addressing Ramadan. Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR), 7(1), 20-34
Open this publication in new window or tab >>‘This is neither Swedish nor Western and doesn’t belong here’: Responses to retail stores’ social media advertisements addressing Ramadan
2025 (English)In: Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR), E-ISSN 2003-1998, Vol. 7, no 1, p. 20-34Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article analyses written online responses to Swedish retail stores’ social media advertisements broadly addressing the Muslim celebration of Ramadan. It is based on a selection of 19 social media advertisement posts that together generated a total of 2988 responses in discussion threads. The customer responsive comments are analysed through the theoretical lens of race and racism in the digital society and theories of everyday nationhood and nationalism. At large, the result shows that the social media platforms can be seen as facilitators of anti-Muslim racism. However, the advertisements and the responses to them, which express dislike of as well as support for the retailers, Muslim traditions and the Muslim community, illustrate a negotiation of nationhood which is characterized on the one side by racist anger and fear of loss of nation, and on the other side by support for inclusion. Inspired by the concept of ‘predatory inclusion’, the article argues that this paradoxical phenomenon illustrates both inclusion and exclusion. The retail stores’ social media platforms are not only spaces of hatred against Muslims but also a space in which resistance to anti-Muslim racism is articulated and where constructions of Swedishness are challenged. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
DIGSUM (Centre for Digital Social Research), 2025
Keywords
Social media platforms, Digital consumer spaces, Anti-Muslim Racism and Islamophobia, Nation and nationhood, Exclusion and Inclusion, Retailers’ Advertisement
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-76392 (URN)10.33621/jdsr.v7i133259 (DOI)2-s2.0-105009924674 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2025-06-04 Created: 2025-06-04 Last updated: 2025-10-16Bibliographically approved
Listerborn, C., Sahlström Negash, M. & Yigit Turan, B. (2025). Trygghet och social hållbarhet i stadsomvandlingsprojekt. In: Pernilla Ouis; Klara Öberg; Åke Nilsén; Marta Cuesta (Ed.), Social hållbarhet: vision, kritik och praktik (pp. 199-218). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Trygghet och social hållbarhet i stadsomvandlingsprojekt
2025 (Swedish)In: Social hållbarhet: vision, kritik och praktik / [ed] Pernilla Ouis; Klara Öberg; Åke Nilsén; Marta Cuesta, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2025, p. 199-218Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2025
Keywords
trygghet, stadsomvandling
National Category
Social Sciences Development Studies
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-74811 (URN)9789144163987 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-03-19 Created: 2025-03-19 Last updated: 2025-03-21Bibliographically approved
Projects
Smart cities for City Officials; Malmö University, Institute for Urban Research (IUR)Smart Housing Development: A Critical Exploration through an intersectional approach; Malmö University; Publications
Torisson, F. (2023). The Digitalisation of Swedish Housing: The First Forty Years. Footprint, 17(1), 23-42Torisson, F. (2022). Strategies of visibility in the smart city. City, Territory and Architecture, 9(1), Article ID 15.
Norra Sorgenfri planned, populated and problematised: the role of social sustainability in urban renewal; Publications
Listerborn, C. (2024). Är det verkligen trygghet vi vill ha?: Om trygghetsskapande insatser i stadsomvandling (1ed.). In: E. Jönsson; J. Pries; M. Negash (Ed.), Läget i staden: Fallet Norra Sorgenfri, mellanrummet och innerstaden som löfte (pp. 147-165). Stockholm: Dokument Press
Consumption, everyday racism and everyday resistance; Malmö University; Publications
Listerborn, C., Mulinari, P. & Sixtensson, J. (2025). Racism Shaping Consumption Spaces: Shopping in Sweden. Space and CultureSixtensson, J., Mulinari, P. & Listerborn, C. (2025). ‘This is neither Swedish nor Western and doesn’t belong here’: Responses to retail stores’ social media advertisements addressing Ramadan. Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR), 7(1), 20-34Sixtensson, J. (2024). ’Those foods aren't part of Swedish traditions and don't belong here’: An analysis of responses to retail stores' online advertisement addressing Ramadan. In: : . Paper presented at International Conference on Social Work Research, Education, and Practice (NASSW/FORSA 2024: Social Work as Emancipatory Practice - Creating Pathways towards Social Justice, June 17 - 19 2024, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. (pp. 56-57). Göteborgs universitet
Municipal governance and changing local rental markets: medium-sized municipalities’ strategies when meeting residential property investors; Publications
Gustafsson, J. (2025). MAINTAINING RENTAL HOUSING AS AN ASSET: Exploring Institutional Investors in Sweden’s Rental Market. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Article ID 1468-2427.70039.
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