Erland Jonsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 260937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erland Jonsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erland |
| FAMILY NAME | Jonsson |
| SIGNATURE | JONSSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6468-2675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Remembering Social Democracy
Building on interviews, observations and archival research this article traces the relocation of two previous parts of a labour movement-maintained political infrastructure, exploring the memories foregrounded and the histories rendered relatively invisible as two buildings were placed at open-air museums. In 1964 Gersheden's People's House was moved from a village in Western Sweden to the capital Stockholm and there placed at Skansen, the world'…
Whose visions for what land? Planning, power and property in a ‘new inner city’, Malmö 2004–2023
Based in interviews as well as analysis of planning documents and media coverage, this article scrutinizes the role of property in urban morphology by tracing two decades of attempts to redevelop Norra Sorgenfri, a partly deindustrialized area almost at the topographic centre of Malmö, Sweden. In this city, urban redevelopment projects are centrally placed within a hegemonic story of Malmö as shedding its industrial past to become a sustainabilit…
Public acceptance of fossil fuel subsidy removal can be reinforced with revenue recycling
Cross-national analysis of attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy removal
In 2021, governments of 51 countries spent US$697 billion on subsidizing fossil fuels. Removing fossil fuel subsidies is crucial not only for reducing CO 2 emissions and making carbon pricing more effective, but also for making more valuable use of government funds. Currently, however, scientific evidence on the scale and scope of public attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy-removal policies is lacking, yet it is instrumental for gauging politica…
Red outposts in a hostile landscape
Organizing rural workers has always proved to be a challenge for the labour movement. This was especially the case in Scandinavia where well into the industrial era, labour and property relations in the agricultural countryside remained essentially feudal in character. Nonetheless, and especially in the rich agricultural districts of the southernmost province of Skåne, the Swedish labour movement had succeeded spectacularly by the interwar years.…
The People's Park is bigger, more freely located, more beautiful and - Our own park
Engaging with scholarship on hegemony, park history, and in particular with Sevilla-Buitrago's analysis of Central Park as a pedagogical space, this article traces the establishment of two parks in the Swedish textile industry centre of Norrköping. These parks, bearing very similar names - Folkparken and Folkets Park - were established just six years apart. But though both parks linked "park" and "people" ( Folk), their intended political effects…
Making the People’s landscape
Beginning in the 1890s, workers’ associations and social-democratic activists in Sweden developed a series of People’s Parks (Folkets parker) that extended across the length and breadth of the country. By the the mid-twentieth century, nearly every city, town, and village boasted its own People’s Park. Built for relaxation and recreation, as well as for political agitation, Folkets parker also represented a significant expropriation and transform…
On breweries and bioreactors
Set against the attention given to animal-agricultural geographies and animal agriculture's environmental impacts, proponents of cultured meat (i.e., biomass cultured from cells) and genetic modification-based "cellular-agricultural" technologies today promise that the production of animal products could become more sustainable if animals were taken out of the equation. Though future visions for such a shift have often centred on how much land co…
Remaking the People's Park
This article explores how a series of heritage-driven renewal plans in the Swedish city Malmö dealt with a landscape deeply shaped by radical politics: Malmö People's Park (Folkets Park). Arguing against notions of heritage where the past is essentially considered a malleable resource for present commercial or political concerns, we scrutinise plans for the People's Park from the 1980s onward to emphasise how even within renewal attempts built on…
Many Meats and Many Milks? The Ontological Politics of a Proposed Post-animal Revolution
Today plant-based alternatives to animal-agricultural products are made available or developed alongside ‘cultured’ meat, and products utilising genetic modification. To proponents, this signifies the emergence of ‘cellular agriculture’ as a food-production field or the possibility of a ‘post-animal bioeconomy’: a way to safely and sustainably produce animal products without animals. Drawing on previous work on ontological politics enables acknow…
Spectacular, realisable and ‘everyday’
‘Sustainability’, often presented through an ecological–economic–social triad, is today one of spatial planning’s absolute key concepts (and key priorities). But it is also a highly contested concept, whose meaning is often considered evasive or vague. In this paper, we try to counterweigh such evasiveness by putting emphasis on the material landscape produced within a project that is frequently depicted as a pinnacle of sustainable planning: the…
Revisiting the “Subsumption of Nature”
Global material flows and resource use are increasing rapidly, with dramatic social and environmental consequences (Schandl et al. 2016). “Nature,” in all its different forms and functions, is bein
On Resurrected Nuggets and Sphincter Windows
In this article, I scrutinize three art, design, and architecture projects engaging with “cultured,” or “in vitro,” meat (primarily muscle cells cultured outside of bodies) to illuminate the entanglements of academic and extra-academic environments that have characterized cultured meat’s history to date, and the conversations that this technology has spurred. In envisioning new ways of eating, and living, these projects (a book of hypothetical re…
Trump in Scotland
During the last decade Trump International Golf Links Scotland (TIGLS) has built on land where no development was previously outlined and, appropriating parts of a Site of Special Scientific Interest, has come to occupy an important place in debates on Scottish planning policy. Though plans were initially rejected in 2007 by the Aberdeenshire planning body responsible, the Scottish Government subsequently rescaled the decision—instead approving t…
Benevolent technotopias and hitherto unimaginable meats
Today, in vitro (Latin: in glass) meat researchers strive to overhaul meat production technologies by producing meat outside animal bodies, primarily by culturing cells. In the process, meat should become healthier, more environmentally friendly and kinder to animals. In this article, I scrutinize (and problematize) this promissory discourse by examining the world that proponents envision alongside the world from which promises emerge. First, I t…
The nature of an upscale nature
Political ecology, as a perspective for exploring power-permeated socio-ecological transformations, has to date rarely engaged with tourism. Neither has tourism theory, with some notable exceptions, engaged much with political ecology. In this article, I argue that the resultant lack of dialogue between these signifies a loss for political ecology and tourism theory alike, but also that current conceptualisations of tourism have much to offer for…
Brogård backwards
When Bro Hof Slott Golf Club – a high-end, highprofile golf development in Upplands-Bro, northwest of Stockholm – opened, the Brogård manor house became its clubhouse. Here a recent history of Bro Hof Slott as leisure space intermingles with a much longer history of Brogård as a landscape shaped through 400 years of nobility ownership. In place-marketing and in short accounts, the estate's history is frequently reduced to merely a succession of n…
You've been Trumped by AnthonyBaxter (Director) Montrose Pictures, 2011. Running time
Because I am who I am and my mother is Scottish”
Focusing on the establishment of the first European Trump Golf development – on the Menie Estate along the Scottish North Sea coast – the paper contends that neoliberal planning, understood as state interventions to allow individual entrepreneurs to realise their visions, reshapes both planning practice and the socio-ecologies governed by planning in problematic ways. Neoliberal mindsets here cause politicians to depart from previously establishe…
Contested expectations
Annoyance Reactions to External Environmental Factors in Different Sociological Groups
On the Formulation of Questions in Medico-hygienic Interview Investigations
Studies of 'Interviewer Effect' on a Medicohygienic Interview Survey
By ,,error of observation is meant the deviation of the observed from the true value. In an interview survey this may depend on several factors, some of which are referable to the interviewer. The may therefore be defined as the discrepancies attributable to the person conducting the interviews. As far as we know, the question of an interviewer effect has not received close attention in Sweden, but studies from other countries (e.g. Hyman et al. …
Benevolent technotopias and hitherto unimaginable meats
Today, in vitro (Latin: in glass) meat researchers strive to overhaul meat production technologies by producing meat outside animal bodies, primarily by culturing cells. In the process, meat should become healthier, more environmentally friendly and kinder to animals. In this article, I scrutinize (and problematize) this promissory discourse by examining the world that proponents envision alongside the world from which promises emerge. First, I t…
Many Meats and Many Milks? The Ontological Politics of a Proposed Post-animal Revolution
Today plant-based alternatives to animal-agricultural products are made available or developed alongside ‘cultured’ meat, and products utilising genetic modification. To proponents, this signifies the emergence of ‘cellular agriculture’ as a food-production field or the possibility of a ‘post-animal bioeconomy’: a way to safely and sustainably produce animal products without animals. Drawing on previous work on ontological politics enables acknow…
On breweries and bioreactors
Set against the attention given to animal-agricultural geographies and animal agriculture's environmental impacts, proponents of cultured meat (i.e., biomass cultured from cells) and genetic modification-based "cellular-agricultural" technologies today promise that the production of animal products could become more sustainable if animals were taken out of the equation. Though future visions for such a shift have often centred on how much land co…
Contested expectations
Revisiting the “Subsumption of Nature”
Global material flows and resource use are increasing rapidly, with dramatic social and environmental consequences (Schandl et al. 2016). “Nature,” in all its different forms and functions, is bein
Spectacular, realisable and ‘everyday’
‘Sustainability’, often presented through an ecological–economic–social triad, is today one of spatial planning’s absolute key concepts (and key priorities). But it is also a highly contested concept, whose meaning is often considered evasive or vague. In this paper, we try to counterweigh such evasiveness by putting emphasis on the material landscape produced within a project that is frequently depicted as a pinnacle of sustainable planning: the…
The nature of an upscale nature
Political ecology, as a perspective for exploring power-permeated socio-ecological transformations, has to date rarely engaged with tourism. Neither has tourism theory, with some notable exceptions, engaged much with political ecology. In this article, I argue that the resultant lack of dialogue between these signifies a loss for political ecology and tourism theory alike, but also that current conceptualisations of tourism have much to offer for…
Because I am who I am and my mother is Scottish”
Focusing on the establishment of the first European Trump Golf development – on the Menie Estate along the Scottish North Sea coast – the paper contends that neoliberal planning, understood as state interventions to allow individual entrepreneurs to realise their visions, reshapes both planning practice and the socio-ecologies governed by planning in problematic ways. Neoliberal mindsets here cause politicians to depart from previously establishe…
The People's Park is bigger, more freely located, more beautiful and - Our own park
Engaging with scholarship on hegemony, park history, and in particular with Sevilla-Buitrago's analysis of Central Park as a pedagogical space, this article traces the establishment of two parks in the Swedish textile industry centre of Norrköping. These parks, bearing very similar names - Folkparken and Folkets Park - were established just six years apart. But though both parks linked "park" and "people" ( Folk), their intended political effects…
Making the People’s landscape
Beginning in the 1890s, workers’ associations and social-democratic activists in Sweden developed a series of People’s Parks (Folkets parker) that extended across the length and breadth of the country. By the the mid-twentieth century, nearly every city, town, and village boasted its own People’s Park. Built for relaxation and recreation, as well as for political agitation, Folkets parker also represented a significant expropriation and transform…
Remaking the People's Park
This article explores how a series of heritage-driven renewal plans in the Swedish city Malmö dealt with a landscape deeply shaped by radical politics: Malmö People's Park (Folkets Park). Arguing against notions of heritage where the past is essentially considered a malleable resource for present commercial or political concerns, we scrutinise plans for the People's Park from the 1980s onward to emphasise how even within renewal attempts built on…
On Resurrected Nuggets and Sphincter Windows
In this article, I scrutinize three art, design, and architecture projects engaging with “cultured,” or “in vitro,” meat (primarily muscle cells cultured outside of bodies) to illuminate the entanglements of academic and extra-academic environments that have characterized cultured meat’s history to date, and the conversations that this technology has spurred. In envisioning new ways of eating, and living, these projects (a book of hypothetical re…
Trump in Scotland
During the last decade Trump International Golf Links Scotland (TIGLS) has built on land where no development was previously outlined and, appropriating parts of a Site of Special Scientific Interest, has come to occupy an important place in debates on Scottish planning policy. Though plans were initially rejected in 2007 by the Aberdeenshire planning body responsible, the Scottish Government subsequently rescaled the decision—instead approving t…
Brogård backwards
When Bro Hof Slott Golf Club – a high-end, highprofile golf development in Upplands-Bro, northwest of Stockholm – opened, the Brogård manor house became its clubhouse. Here a recent history of Bro Hof Slott as leisure space intermingles with a much longer history of Brogård as a landscape shaped through 400 years of nobility ownership. In place-marketing and in short accounts, the estate's history is frequently reduced to merely a succession of n…
Studies of 'Interviewer Effect' on a Medicohygienic Interview Survey
By ,,error of observation is meant the deviation of the observed from the true value. In an interview survey this may depend on several factors, some of which are referable to the interviewer. The may therefore be defined as the discrepancies attributable to the person conducting the interviews. As far as we know, the question of an interviewer effect has not received close attention in Sweden, but studies from other countries (e.g. Hyman et al. …
Annoyance Reactions to External Environmental Factors in Different Sociological Groups
On the Formulation of Questions in Medico-hygienic Interview Investigations
Contested expectations
You've been Trumped by AnthonyBaxter (Director) Montrose Pictures, 2011. Running time
Because I am who I am and my mother is Scottish”
Focusing on the establishment of the first European Trump Golf development – on the Menie Estate along the Scottish North Sea coast – the paper contends that neoliberal planning, understood as state interventions to allow individual entrepreneurs to realise their visions, reshapes both planning practice and the socio-ecologies governed by planning in problematic ways. Neoliberal mindsets here cause politicians to depart from previously establishe…
The nature of an upscale nature
Political ecology, as a perspective for exploring power-permeated socio-ecological transformations, has to date rarely engaged with tourism. Neither has tourism theory, with some notable exceptions, engaged much with political ecology. In this article, I argue that the resultant lack of dialogue between these signifies a loss for political ecology and tourism theory alike, but also that current conceptualisations of tourism have much to offer for…
Brogård backwards
When Bro Hof Slott Golf Club – a high-end, highprofile golf development in Upplands-Bro, northwest of Stockholm – opened, the Brogård manor house became its clubhouse. Here a recent history of Bro Hof Slott as leisure space intermingles with a much longer history of Brogård as a landscape shaped through 400 years of nobility ownership. In place-marketing and in short accounts, the estate's history is frequently reduced to merely a succession of n…
Trump in Scotland
During the last decade Trump International Golf Links Scotland (TIGLS) has built on land where no development was previously outlined and, appropriating parts of a Site of Special Scientific Interest, has come to occupy an important place in debates on Scottish planning policy. Though plans were initially rejected in 2007 by the Aberdeenshire planning body responsible, the Scottish Government subsequently rescaled the decision—instead approving t…
Benevolent technotopias and hitherto unimaginable meats
Today, in vitro (Latin: in glass) meat researchers strive to overhaul meat production technologies by producing meat outside animal bodies, primarily by culturing cells. In the process, meat should become healthier, more environmentally friendly and kinder to animals. In this article, I scrutinize (and problematize) this promissory discourse by examining the world that proponents envision alongside the world from which promises emerge. First, I t…
Spectacular, realisable and ‘everyday’
‘Sustainability’, often presented through an ecological–economic–social triad, is today one of spatial planning’s absolute key concepts (and key priorities). But it is also a highly contested concept, whose meaning is often considered evasive or vague. In this paper, we try to counterweigh such evasiveness by putting emphasis on the material landscape produced within a project that is frequently depicted as a pinnacle of sustainable planning: the…
Revisiting the “Subsumption of Nature”
Global material flows and resource use are increasing rapidly, with dramatic social and environmental consequences (Schandl et al. 2016). “Nature,” in all its different forms and functions, is bein
On Resurrected Nuggets and Sphincter Windows
In this article, I scrutinize three art, design, and architecture projects engaging with “cultured,” or “in vitro,” meat (primarily muscle cells cultured outside of bodies) to illuminate the entanglements of academic and extra-academic environments that have characterized cultured meat’s history to date, and the conversations that this technology has spurred. In envisioning new ways of eating, and living, these projects (a book of hypothetical re…
Many Meats and Many Milks? The Ontological Politics of a Proposed Post-animal Revolution
Today plant-based alternatives to animal-agricultural products are made available or developed alongside ‘cultured’ meat, and products utilising genetic modification. To proponents, this signifies the emergence of ‘cellular agriculture’ as a food-production field or the possibility of a ‘post-animal bioeconomy’: a way to safely and sustainably produce animal products without animals. Drawing on previous work on ontological politics enables acknow…
Remaking the People's Park
This article explores how a series of heritage-driven renewal plans in the Swedish city Malmö dealt with a landscape deeply shaped by radical politics: Malmö People's Park (Folkets Park). Arguing against notions of heritage where the past is essentially considered a malleable resource for present commercial or political concerns, we scrutinise plans for the People's Park from the 1980s onward to emphasise how even within renewal attempts built on…
On breweries and bioreactors
Set against the attention given to animal-agricultural geographies and animal agriculture's environmental impacts, proponents of cultured meat (i.e., biomass cultured from cells) and genetic modification-based "cellular-agricultural" technologies today promise that the production of animal products could become more sustainable if animals were taken out of the equation. Though future visions for such a shift have often centred on how much land co…
Making the People’s landscape
Beginning in the 1890s, workers’ associations and social-democratic activists in Sweden developed a series of People’s Parks (Folkets parker) that extended across the length and breadth of the country. By the the mid-twentieth century, nearly every city, town, and village boasted its own People’s Park. Built for relaxation and recreation, as well as for political agitation, Folkets parker also represented a significant expropriation and transform…
Red outposts in a hostile landscape
Organizing rural workers has always proved to be a challenge for the labour movement. This was especially the case in Scandinavia where well into the industrial era, labour and property relations in the agricultural countryside remained essentially feudal in character. Nonetheless, and especially in the rich agricultural districts of the southernmost province of Skåne, the Swedish labour movement had succeeded spectacularly by the interwar years.…
The People's Park is bigger, more freely located, more beautiful and - Our own park
Engaging with scholarship on hegemony, park history, and in particular with Sevilla-Buitrago's analysis of Central Park as a pedagogical space, this article traces the establishment of two parks in the Swedish textile industry centre of Norrköping. These parks, bearing very similar names - Folkparken and Folkets Park - were established just six years apart. But though both parks linked "park" and "people" ( Folk), their intended political effects…
Public acceptance of fossil fuel subsidy removal can be reinforced with revenue recycling
Cross-national analysis of attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy removal
In 2021, governments of 51 countries spent US$697 billion on subsidizing fossil fuels. Removing fossil fuel subsidies is crucial not only for reducing CO 2 emissions and making carbon pricing more effective, but also for making more valuable use of government funds. Currently, however, scientific evidence on the scale and scope of public attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy-removal policies is lacking, yet it is instrumental for gauging politica…
Whose visions for what land? Planning, power and property in a ‘new inner city’, Malmö 2004–2023
Based in interviews as well as analysis of planning documents and media coverage, this article scrutinizes the role of property in urban morphology by tracing two decades of attempts to redevelop Norra Sorgenfri, a partly deindustrialized area almost at the topographic centre of Malmö, Sweden. In this city, urban redevelopment projects are centrally placed within a hegemonic story of Malmö as shedding its industrial past to become a sustainabilit…
Remembering Social Democracy
Building on interviews, observations and archival research this article traces the relocation of two previous parts of a labour movement-maintained political infrastructure, exploring the memories foregrounded and the histories rendered relatively invisible as two buildings were placed at open-air museums. In 1964 Gersheden's People's House was moved from a village in Western Sweden to the capital Stockholm and there placed at Skansen, the world'…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Vision (6 works)