M Nielsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 11074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Nielsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Nielsen |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Museum of Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6165-0360 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ideological Resonances
In recent years, sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed a surge in large-scale urban infrastructure and housing projects driven by speculative capitalism. Often financed through public–private partnerships and involving international investors, these developments aim to transform sections of the continent’s cities into habitats for the most affluent segments of society. This article explores the political and ideological foundations that underpin these…
Spaces of Withdrawal
Shortly after Denmark's 2019 national elections, ‘social mixing’ became a key housing policy and urban development strategy. Aiming to end a period of neoliberal speculation, the new Social Democratic government promoted egalitarianism, civic participation and a benevolent public administration. Despite the government touting social mix as a revitalizing force for Danish cities, global data suggest that spatial proximity does not necessarily redu…
Speculative cities
Based on ethnographic research carried out in Maputo, Mozambique, in this article I explore the significance of housing in an urban context infused by spectacular speculation. As I will argue, in order for different everyday rationalities to become commensurable through speculative investments, they may have to manifest and activate unique and even opposing horizons of value and economic orientations. By thus considering housing beyond convention…
Enclaving
While detachment and separation continue to be central to urban development across the globe, in several sub-Saharan African cities they have acquired a particular form of acute social and political efficacy. In many European and American cities, the making of fortified enclosures is considered to be an effect of an endemic fear of societal dissolution, and a growing number of sub-Saharan African cities are, seemingly, affected by a similar socio…
Islands of Time. Unsettling Linearity Across Deep History
Based on archaeological and anthropological data on the socio-political effects of two historically distant extreme occurrences in nature, we explore how certain types of events unsettle progressive chronology to the extent of establishing periodic intervals of circular and repetitive temporality; 'islands of time'. The article is built around a comparison of the socio-temporal repercussions of two extreme natural events: the El Niño-related floo…
Rooftop Autophagy Vertical Monadism in Maputo, Mozambique
Insurgent aspirations? Weak middle-class utopias in Maputo, Mozambique
Based on ethnographic data from Maputo, Mozambique, this article explores middle-classness as an often-utopic aspiration articulated through particular forms of divides, that assert themselves by continuously deferring the stabilization of a supposedly growing middle-class population. As we argue, however, it is precisely by way of this deferral that new forms of urban citizenship are produced – that are available to the assumed members of the ‘m…
Llamas y cambio climático; intercambio de oxígeno y emisión de gases de efecto invernadero comparados con ovinos y caprinos, por influencia de índices de consumo y coeficientes respiratorios
Se inculpa a la ganadería como uno de los sectores causantes del cambio del clima; el dióxido de carbono (CO2) y el metano (CH4) son gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) que más contribuyen al calentamiento global. Ambos GEI son emitidos por la actividad ganadera. Se midieron índices de consumo, coeficientes respiratorios (RQ), e intercambio de ambos GEI (IGEI). Un total de 18 animales hembras vírgenes, incluyendo seis llamas k`haras, seis ovejas Sh…
Who plans the African city? A case study of Maputo
Urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa constitutes a radically different context from that in the global North, in terms of scale and pace of urban change and the nature of political and economic structures where state capacities are limited and non-state action dominates. However, any urban planning that is generally practiced tends to be based on northern norms and methods, without significant impact. The article draws on empirical research examini…
Who plans the African city? A case study of Maputo
Urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa constitutes a radically different context from that in the Global North, in terms of scale and pace of urban change and the nature of political and economic structures where state capacities are limited and non-state action dominates. However, the nature of urban planning generally implemented tends to be based on northern norms and methods, but without significant impact. This article draws on recent empirical …
The negativity of times. Collapsed futures in Maputo, Mozambique
This article explores how urban temporalities in Maputo, Mozambique's capital, erupt from collapsed futures, which endure within the present as traces of that which will no longer be. The argument is built on an ethnographic analysis of (‘trying to make a life’), a temporal trope, which pre‐figures the future as a failure on a linear scale. Still, although it is identified by its collapse, the future wedges itself within the present as a trace of…
Preventing long-term welfare receipt
Older persons after hospitalization
Older persons after hospitalization: a controlled study of home aide service. M Nielsen, M Blenkner, M Bloom, T Downs, and H BeggsCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.8.1094 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Who plans the African city? A case study of Maputo
Urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa constitutes a radically different context from that in the Global North, in terms of scale and pace of urban change and the nature of political and economic structures where state capacities are limited and non-state action dominates. However, the nature of urban planning generally implemented tends to be based on northern norms and methods, but without significant impact. This article draws on recent empirical …
Enclaving
While detachment and separation continue to be central to urban development across the globe, in several sub-Saharan African cities they have acquired a particular form of acute social and political efficacy. In many European and American cities, the making of fortified enclosures is considered to be an effect of an endemic fear of societal dissolution, and a growing number of sub-Saharan African cities are, seemingly, affected by a similar socio…
Who plans the African city? A case study of Maputo
Urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa constitutes a radically different context from that in the global North, in terms of scale and pace of urban change and the nature of political and economic structures where state capacities are limited and non-state action dominates. However, any urban planning that is generally practiced tends to be based on northern norms and methods, without significant impact. The article draws on empirical research examini…
Insurgent aspirations? Weak middle-class utopias in Maputo, Mozambique
Based on ethnographic data from Maputo, Mozambique, this article explores middle-classness as an often-utopic aspiration articulated through particular forms of divides, that assert themselves by continuously deferring the stabilization of a supposedly growing middle-class population. As we argue, however, it is precisely by way of this deferral that new forms of urban citizenship are produced – that are available to the assumed members of the ‘m…
Older persons after hospitalization
Older persons after hospitalization: a controlled study of home aide service. M Nielsen, M Blenkner, M Bloom, T Downs, and H BeggsCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.8.1094 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Islands of Time. Unsettling Linearity Across Deep History
Based on archaeological and anthropological data on the socio-political effects of two historically distant extreme occurrences in nature, we explore how certain types of events unsettle progressive chronology to the extent of establishing periodic intervals of circular and repetitive temporality; 'islands of time'. The article is built around a comparison of the socio-temporal repercussions of two extreme natural events: the El Niño-related floo…
Spaces of Withdrawal
Shortly after Denmark's 2019 national elections, ‘social mixing’ became a key housing policy and urban development strategy. Aiming to end a period of neoliberal speculation, the new Social Democratic government promoted egalitarianism, civic participation and a benevolent public administration. Despite the government touting social mix as a revitalizing force for Danish cities, global data suggest that spatial proximity does not necessarily redu…
Older persons after hospitalization
Older persons after hospitalization: a controlled study of home aide service. M Nielsen, M Blenkner, M Bloom, T Downs, and H BeggsCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.8.1094 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Preventing long-term welfare receipt
The negativity of times. Collapsed futures in Maputo, Mozambique
This article explores how urban temporalities in Maputo, Mozambique's capital, erupt from collapsed futures, which endure within the present as traces of that which will no longer be. The argument is built on an ethnographic analysis of (‘trying to make a life’), a temporal trope, which pre‐figures the future as a failure on a linear scale. Still, although it is identified by its collapse, the future wedges itself within the present as a trace of…
Llamas y cambio climático; intercambio de oxígeno y emisión de gases de efecto invernadero comparados con ovinos y caprinos, por influencia de índices de consumo y coeficientes respiratorios
Se inculpa a la ganadería como uno de los sectores causantes del cambio del clima; el dióxido de carbono (CO2) y el metano (CH4) son gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) que más contribuyen al calentamiento global. Ambos GEI son emitidos por la actividad ganadera. Se midieron índices de consumo, coeficientes respiratorios (RQ), e intercambio de ambos GEI (IGEI). Un total de 18 animales hembras vírgenes, incluyendo seis llamas k`haras, seis ovejas Sh…
Who plans the African city? A case study of Maputo
Urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa constitutes a radically different context from that in the global North, in terms of scale and pace of urban change and the nature of political and economic structures where state capacities are limited and non-state action dominates. However, any urban planning that is generally practiced tends to be based on northern norms and methods, without significant impact. The article draws on empirical research examini…
Who plans the African city? A case study of Maputo
Urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa constitutes a radically different context from that in the Global North, in terms of scale and pace of urban change and the nature of political and economic structures where state capacities are limited and non-state action dominates. However, the nature of urban planning generally implemented tends to be based on northern norms and methods, but without significant impact. This article draws on recent empirical …
Rooftop Autophagy Vertical Monadism in Maputo, Mozambique
Insurgent aspirations? Weak middle-class utopias in Maputo, Mozambique
Based on ethnographic data from Maputo, Mozambique, this article explores middle-classness as an often-utopic aspiration articulated through particular forms of divides, that assert themselves by continuously deferring the stabilization of a supposedly growing middle-class population. As we argue, however, it is precisely by way of this deferral that new forms of urban citizenship are produced – that are available to the assumed members of the ‘m…
Enclaving
While detachment and separation continue to be central to urban development across the globe, in several sub-Saharan African cities they have acquired a particular form of acute social and political efficacy. In many European and American cities, the making of fortified enclosures is considered to be an effect of an endemic fear of societal dissolution, and a growing number of sub-Saharan African cities are, seemingly, affected by a similar socio…
Islands of Time. Unsettling Linearity Across Deep History
Based on archaeological and anthropological data on the socio-political effects of two historically distant extreme occurrences in nature, we explore how certain types of events unsettle progressive chronology to the extent of establishing periodic intervals of circular and repetitive temporality; 'islands of time'. The article is built around a comparison of the socio-temporal repercussions of two extreme natural events: the El Niño-related floo…
Speculative cities
Based on ethnographic research carried out in Maputo, Mozambique, in this article I explore the significance of housing in an urban context infused by spectacular speculation. As I will argue, in order for different everyday rationalities to become commensurable through speculative investments, they may have to manifest and activate unique and even opposing horizons of value and economic orientations. By thus considering housing beyond convention…
Spaces of Withdrawal
Shortly after Denmark's 2019 national elections, ‘social mixing’ became a key housing policy and urban development strategy. Aiming to end a period of neoliberal speculation, the new Social Democratic government promoted egalitarianism, civic participation and a benevolent public administration. Despite the government touting social mix as a revitalizing force for Danish cities, global data suggest that spatial proximity does not necessarily redu…
Ideological Resonances
In recent years, sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed a surge in large-scale urban infrastructure and housing projects driven by speculative capitalism. Often financed through public–private partnerships and involving international investors, these developments aim to transform sections of the continent’s cities into habitats for the most affluent segments of society. This article explores the political and ideological foundations that underpin these…
Sociology (8 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Context (archaeology (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (4 works) · Civil engineering (3 works)