Urbanization and the organization of territorial cohesion – results from a comparative Danish case-study on territorial inequality and social cohesion

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ID18992906
AutoresAnja Jørgensen (0000-0003-3864-2458, Aalborg University, autor de correspondencia), Mia Arp Fallov (0000-0002-2630-1982, Aalborg University)
Año2022
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas64-78
Fecha de publicación2022-04-04
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Organizational Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2046-6749 • E-ISSN: 2046-6757
EditorialEmerald (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1108/joe-01-2021-0006
OpenAlexW3215384628
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas23

Purpose There is a growing importance for public facilitation of corporate social responsibility and involvement of civil organizations in securing territorial cohesion and development. In the present article, the authors focus on how we are to understand a locally sensitive organization of territorial cohesion in the Danish context. Traditional sociological concepts and standardized area-types used for administrative purposes have turned out not being very helpful in understanding the interrelation between inequality, urbanization and territorial cohesion. The authors argue for a processual and relational approach to urbanization. Design/methodology/approach The present article is based on interview material and policy documents from three Danish case studies representing urban, suburban and rural forms of settlement. The case studies are part of a cross-European research project. Findings The authors show how territorial governance play a key role in the strategies of densification/de-densification facilitating shielding capacities of collective efficacy, and reversely that bottom-up innovations are crucial for the ability of territorial governance to mobilize territorial capital and mediate in effects of territorial inequality. Spatial imaginaries legitimize these efforts to organize cohesion. The spatial imaginaries work as common frame of references for the interplay between strategies of (de)densification and collective efficacy, and they activate particular balances between growth agendas and everyday life. Originality/value These findings represent an original perspective on how and why urbanization impact on places in a more specific and variated way than often portrayed as it highlight how social capacities tied to place might work with or against existing social, economic and cultural structures shaping territorial cohesion

Danish · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Geography · Inequality · Linguistics · Political science · Regional science · Social inequality · Sociology · Urbanization · Anthropology · Regional Development and Policy · Research in Social Sciences · Rural development and sustainability