Papers by Maria Persdotter
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2021
The question of social dumping has again climbed the EU policy agenda. In this article, we call i... more The question of social dumping has again climbed the EU policy agenda. In this article, we call into question some established views of social dumping that conceptualize the relationship between EU internal market and Member States in binary terms. Based on an analysis of relevant case law, and drawing on the conceptual tools provided by critical legal geography, we show that the project of EU integration relies as much on the scalar differentiation of powers as it does on the 'upward' shift of powers from the national-to the supra-national level. We propose an understanding of EU internal market law as productive of a 'labour law patchwork', defined by the simultaneous fragmentation and overlap of labour law regulations across and within EU Member States. Here, we re-conceptualize cross-border social dumping as a 'game of jurisdiction'-a set of strategic moves by actors within a multi-scalar and multi-jurisdictional space.
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Det har ar en handbok som skrivits for att anvandas praktiskt i kampen om hyresrattens framtid. B... more Det har ar en handbok som skrivits for att anvandas praktiskt i kampen om hyresrattens framtid. Boken har vaxt fram ur gemensamma erfarenheter av att ta strid mot renoveringar med hoga hyreshojningar som foljd. Det har gett oss bade kunskaper om lokal organisering och en overtygelse om vikten av att hyresgaster ska ha ratt till att paverka framtiden i de bostadsomraden de bor i. De senaste aren har vi kunnat se hur hyreslagenheter renoveras med omfattande hyreshojningar som foljd. Konsekvenserna har blivit att manga hyresgaster har tvingats flytta, ibland fran bostadsomraden de bott i under lang tid, da de inte langre har rad att betala hyran. Om inte hyresgaster gar samman och kraver sina rattigheter kommer inget forandras och flera tusentals manniskor tvingas flytta. Den har handboken ska anvandas som ett praktiskt verktyg for lokal organisering. Vi som har gjort den har boken ar engagerade i olika rorelser, nagra av oss ar ocksa forskare med inriktning mot bostad- spolitik och st...
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In this forum piece I argue that the state and municipal authorities in Malmo, Sweden – in the ab... more In this forum piece I argue that the state and municipal authorities in Malmo, Sweden – in the absence of any direct and formal controls on the entry of EU-citizens – have attempted to discourage, ...
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With the undoing of national borders within the European Union – and specifically within the Sche... more With the undoing of national borders within the European Union – and specifically within the Schengen Area – the municipal scale, the city scale, has emerged as an important – if not the most impor ...
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How is it possible to argue that one group of children should be excluded from education when it ... more How is it possible to argue that one group of children should be excluded from education when it has been defined as a fundamental right of all children residing in Sweden? In this article, we expl ...
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Social conflicts related to Roma – Europe’s most persecuted people – are often mired in discourse... more Social conflicts related to Roma – Europe’s most persecuted people – are often mired in discourses of sanitation and framed around garbage, odour, and smoke. What happens when such elements are tra ...
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Analysing the Practices of (Organised) Cultural Encounters, Roskilde University, Department of Cu... more Analysing the Practices of (Organised) Cultural Encounters, Roskilde University, Department of Culture and Identity, 4-5 November, 2015.
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Malmo stad saljer 1 650 av sina allmannyttiga hyreslagenheter till ett nybildat privat aktiebolag... more Malmo stad saljer 1 650 av sina allmannyttiga hyreslagenheter till ett nybildat privat aktiebolag i samband med planeringen av prestigeprojektet Culture Casbah i Rosengard. Forsaljningen ar ett vagskal i Malmos planerings- och bostadspolitik, menar Maria Persdotter, doktorand i urbana studier vid Malmo hogskola.
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Denna presentation problematiserar den historieskrivning som formedlas genom den pagaende debatte... more Denna presentation problematiserar den historieskrivning som formedlas genom den pagaende debatten rorande narvaron av tiggande EU-medborgare i svenska stader. Nagot som ar utmarkande for denna debatt ar de aterkommande hanvisningarna till valfardsstatens tillblivelse. Nyligen meddelades det att regeringen overvager att infora ett tiggeriforbud. Detta for att forsvara ’den svenska modellen’. Pa liknande satt rattfardigade politiker i Malmo stad beslutet att utrymma och riva det sa kallade Sorgenfrilagret med hanvisning till folkhemspolitikens lofte om ’goda bostader for alla’. Aven de som stallt sig kritiska till dessa atgarder har aberopat historiskt baserade argument. Manga har havdat att dagens politik ar ett uttryck for en historiskt kontinuerlig antiziganism, och att denna politik sarskilt paminner om de exkluderande atgarder som riktades mot romer och resande under 1900-talets forsta artionden. Vi fragar oss har vilka forestallningar om det svenska valfardssamhallet och dess h...
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Regeringen föreslår nio åtgärder för att hitta och utvisa papperslösa. Det kommer att slå hårt oc... more Regeringen föreslår nio åtgärder för att hitta och utvisa papperslösa. Det kommer att slå hårt och främst gå ut över redan svaga och jagade människor. Vi uppmanar därför regeringen att ta tillbaka åtgärderna, skriver 43 forskare. See: https://www.svd.se/jakt-pa-papperslosa-gor-oss-till-en-polisstat
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Journal of Common Market Studies, 2021
The question of social dumping has again climbed the EU policy agenda. In this article, we call i... more The question of social dumping has again climbed the EU policy agenda. In this article, we call into question some established views of social dumping that conceptualize the relationship between EU internal market and Member States in binary terms. Based on an analysis of relevant case law, and drawing on the conceptual tools provided by critical legal geography, we show that the project of EU integration relies as much on the scalar differentiation of powers as it does on the 'upward' shift of powers from the national-to the supra-national level. We propose an understanding of EU internal market law as productive of a 'labour law patchwork', defined by the simultaneous fragmentation and overlap of labour law regulations across and within EU Member States. Here, we re-conceptualize cross-border social dumping as a 'game of jurisdiction'-a set of strategic moves by actors within a multi-scalar and multi-jurisdictional space.
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Housing Displacement. Conceptual and Methodological Issues, 2020
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Housing Displacement. Conceptual and Methodological Issues, 2020
It is in the act of displacement that housing injustice finds its prime expression. Therefore, di... more It is in the act of displacement that housing injustice finds its prime expression. Therefore, displacement needs to take a much more central place in our understanding of urban injustices. With this book, we want to reveal how housing displacement processes mutate into new forms and are more diverse than have been acknowledged thus far in the literature. We need to think beyond the existent gentrification literature to understand the reasons and consequences of housing displacement, especially considering geographical differences. We propose giving primacy to researching displacement processes when studying socio-spatial change in the city-even though it is empirically and methodologically more demanding-for several reasons. First, through studying displacement we can, as said, put more focus on gentrification's unjust nature. Second, we can highlight unjust housing policies in cities and neighborhoods that are simply not undergoing gentrification. Third, it is vital to demonstrate how expulsion in all its varieties, though under-researched, has become a vital component of contemporary advanced capitalism (Sassen, 2014). Fourth, the dominance of the concept of gentrification has not only hindered a potential focus on its flipside-displacement-but it has also hindered the study of the occurrence of poor cleansing from a long-term historical perspective. While gentrification is still taking place and will take place in many cities across the globe, it should perhaps no longer be considered the defining factor of unjust urban social change-displacement precedes gentrification. We suggest that the systematic ways in which governments and landlords seek to remove unwanted segments of the population from (inner) cities or prevent them from moving in, with or without subsequent gentrification, is the defining factor of contemporary urban injustice. Thus, this book not only gives examples of how displacement manifests itself in different contexts, it also aims to further our understanding of the underlying power relations.
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Carina Svensson, socialdemokratisk kommunpolitiker i Malmö och ordförande i stadens miljönämnd, verkar påtagligt ansträngd när hon förklarar varför politikerna i nämnden just fattat ett beslut att utrymma och riva den omtvistade boplatsen på Sorgenfriområdet i Malmö. Vi befinner oss i Stadshuset. Det är den 27 oktober 2015, och framför Carina Svensson sitter en grupp särskilt inbjudna journalister. De blir de första att få besked om hur kommunen tänker agera i denna mycket kontroversiella fråga.
Det är intressant att det är just den romska aktivisten och författaren Katarina Taikons tid som Carina Svensson hänvisar till när hon talar om under vilka levnadsförhållanden romer absolut inte får bo i Sverige. Hon har rätt i att det på Katarina Taikons tid fanns grupper av romer som levde i kalla och dragiga husvagnar och tältläger, med dålig eller obefintlig tillgång till vatten eller sanitära anläggningar. Då handlade det främst om en grupp som på den tiden kallades ”svenska zigenare” och som nuförtiden brukar betecknas som ”svenska romer”: ett antal familjer som migrerat till Sverige under 1800-talets slut men som inte fick sitt svenska medborgarskap officiellt erkänt förrän i början av 1950-talet. Det var denna grupp som Katarina Taikon tillhörde. Under många år drev hon, tillsammans med bland andra sin syster Rosa Taikon, en intensiv kamp för romers rätt till bostad, skolgång och socialförsäkringar; en kamp som gav verkliga resultat först på 1970-talet, och som många gånger mötte motstånd från politiker och tjänstemän.
Carina Svensson menar att Miljöförvaltningen i Malmö Stad har ett ansvar att agera när människor lever i undermåliga och provisoriska bostäder; om kommunen inte hade avhyst de boende på Sorgenfriområdet så hade det inneburit en återgång till Katarina Taikons tid. Men om det är just till den tiden och de levnadsförhållandena som Carina Svensson menar att det svenska samhället absolut inte ska återvända till, då är det flera frågor som pockar på svar. Vad det var för slags politik som på 1950-talet medförde att romer då ofta levde i husvagnar och läger? Vilka likheter finns det mellan Katarina Taikons tid och dagens situation, och vilka skillnader?
With international case studies from the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, India, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and Hungary, this book explores how housing displacement processes are more diverse and mutate into more new forms than have been acknowledged in the literature. It emphasizes a need to look beyond the existing rich gentrification literature to give primacy to researching processes of displacement to understand the socio-spatial change in the city. Although it is empirically and methodologically demanding for several reasons, studying displacement highlights gentrification’s unjust nature as well as the unjust housing policies in cities and neighborhoods that are simply not undergoing gentrification. The book also demonstrates how expulsion, though under-researched, has become a vital component of contemporary advanced capitalism, and how a focus on gentrification has hindered a potential focus on its flipside of ‘displacement’, as well as the study of the occurrence of poor cleansing from a long-term historical perspective.
This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on housing displacement to academics and researchers in the fields of urban studies, housing, citizenship and migration studies interested in housing policies and governance practices at the urban scale.
Property relations are such a common feature of social life that the complexity of the web of laws, practices, and ideas that allow a property regime to function smoothly are often forgotten. But we are quickly reminded of this complexity when conflict over property erupts. When social actors confront a property regime – for example by squatting – they enact what can be called ‘contested property claims’. As this book demonstrates, these confrontations raise crucial issues of social justice and show the ways in which property conflicts often reflect wider social conflicts. Through a series of case studies from across the globe, this multidisciplinary anthology brings together works from anthropologists, legal scholars, and geographers, who show how exploring contested property claims offers a privileged window onto how property regimes function, as well as an illustration of the many ways that the institution of property shapes power relationships today.
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Foreword: how property matters
NICHOLAS BLOMLEY
Introduction: disagreement as a window onto property
PATRICK J. L. COCKBURN, MAJA HOJER BRUUN, BJARKE SKÆRLUND RISAGER, AND MIKKEL THORUP
PART 1
Squatting and eviction
1 The right to the city and its limits: contested property claims, urban exceptionality, and the fight for relational space in Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games 2014
NEIL GRAY AND LIBBY PORTER
2 Possession through dispossession: in quest of property and social mobility in urban Brazil
MARIE KOLLING
3 The politics of legal technicalities: an inquiry into the demolition of a Roma EU-migrant settlement in Malmö, Sweden
MARIA PERSDOTTER
4 Urban emptiness, ghost owners and squatters’ challenges to private property
MIGUEL A. MARTÍNEZ
Intermezzos
5 Landed (Freeman’s Wood): an exploration of landownership through contemporary art
JOHN ANGUS AND STOREY G2
6 In the time of Trump: housing, whiteness, and abolition
MANISSA M. MAHARAWAL AND ERIN MCELROY
PART 2
Land rights and conflicting laws
7 The work of ownership: shaping contestation in Ontario’s aggregate extraction disputes
ESTAIR VAN WAGNER
8 Climate adaptation on the Australian east coast
TAYANAH O’DONNELL
9 Property as a technique of jurisdiction: traplines and tenure
SHIRI PASTERNAK
10 Decolonizing neoliberalism? First Nations reserves, private property rights, and the legislation of Indigenous dispossession in Canada
MICHAEL FABRIS (KREBS)
11 Contesting claims to gardens and land: gendered practice in post-war northern Uganda
JULAINA A. OBIKA, BEN ADOL OTTO, SULAYMAN MPISI BABIIHA, AND MICHAEL WHYTE
Afterword: prophecies on property’s probability: climate change and smart contracts in the Anthropocene
BILL MAURER
Index