Mikkel Høghøj
Biographic Data
| ID | 4895577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikkel Høghøj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikkel |
| FAMILY NAME | Høghøj |
| SIGNATURE | HØGHØJ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Museum of Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6757-1703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reimagining the Fabric of Community
This article aims to examine the intersection of dense-low housing architecture and welfare politics in 1970s Denmark. Although scholars have investigated the role of architecture and housing in the expansion of the welfare state and later neoliberal restructurings, little attention has been given to the ways in which dense-low housing architecture and non-profit housing estates more broadly functioned as experimental platforms for the reimaginin…
Introduction
This special issue explores and seeks to reinterpret Nordic welfare history through the lens of materiality. Moving beyond institutional and policy-centred narratives, the issue highlights how welfare ideals were shaped, negotiated and experienced through the built environment, infrastructures and everyday objects. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from urban and architectural history, conceptual history, and the history of experiences, t…
Flexible welfare architecture
Recent studies in Nordic and European architectural- and urban history have emphasized the importance of commercial modernism in the making of European welfare societies. However, as this research has predominantly approached architecture from a planning and design angle, we know little about the actual use of these spaces and their socio-spatial flexibility and capacity in negotiating welfare on an everyday scale. Focusing on four shops located …
Material politics
This article proposes the concept of ‘material politics’ as an analytical category for the field of Nordic welfare history. We suggest that our understanding of welfare as a socio-cultural and historical phenomenon can be further enriched if we engage analytically with the multiple ways in which the Nordic welfare societies have been imagined, materialized and negotiated through various forms of material networks, architecture and devices. Thus, …
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship
Taking its cue from the ‘material turn’ of recent years, this survey examines the connections between infrastructure, welfare and citizenship in north European cities in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that connections between these different constructs were fundamental not only to how cities functioned but how citizens themselves were imagined. As such, the survey critiques histories of welfare and citizenship that foregr…
Between the city and the sea
This article is published as part of the Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography special issue ‘Revisiting the Green Geographies of Welfare Planning’, edited by Johan Pries & Mattias Qviström.ABSTRACT This article uses Køge Bay Seaside Park as a case to explore the relations between welfare planning, landscapes and the urbanization of nature in 1970s and 1980s Denmark. In recent years, scholars have increasingly pointed to the constitutive…
The politics of everyday life
This article explores the relations between everyday life, materiality and urban modernity on two Danish mass housing estates, the Gellerup Plan and Vollsmose, in the 1970s. Specifically, the article examines a series of conflicts concerning the residents’ use and misuse of seemingly mundane material devices, including shopping trolleys, waste disposal and laundry facilities. In doing so, the article argues that the residents’ daily engagements w…
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship
Taking its cue from the ‘material turn’ of recent years, this survey examines the connections between infrastructure, welfare and citizenship in north European cities in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that connections between these different constructs were fundamental not only to how cities functioned but how citizens themselves were imagined. As such, the survey critiques histories of welfare and citizenship that foregr…
Between the city and the sea
This article is published as part of the Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography special issue ‘Revisiting the Green Geographies of Welfare Planning’, edited by Johan Pries & Mattias Qviström.ABSTRACT This article uses Køge Bay Seaside Park as a case to explore the relations between welfare planning, landscapes and the urbanization of nature in 1970s and 1980s Denmark. In recent years, scholars have increasingly pointed to the constitutive…
The politics of everyday life
This article explores the relations between everyday life, materiality and urban modernity on two Danish mass housing estates, the Gellerup Plan and Vollsmose, in the 1970s. Specifically, the article examines a series of conflicts concerning the residents’ use and misuse of seemingly mundane material devices, including shopping trolleys, waste disposal and laundry facilities. In doing so, the article argues that the residents’ daily engagements w…
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship
Taking its cue from the ‘material turn’ of recent years, this survey examines the connections between infrastructure, welfare and citizenship in north European cities in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that connections between these different constructs were fundamental not only to how cities functioned but how citizens themselves were imagined. As such, the survey critiques histories of welfare and citizenship that foregr…
Between the city and the sea
This article is published as part of the Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography special issue ‘Revisiting the Green Geographies of Welfare Planning’, edited by Johan Pries & Mattias Qviström.ABSTRACT This article uses Køge Bay Seaside Park as a case to explore the relations between welfare planning, landscapes and the urbanization of nature in 1970s and 1980s Denmark. In recent years, scholars have increasingly pointed to the constitutive…
Material politics
This article proposes the concept of ‘material politics’ as an analytical category for the field of Nordic welfare history. We suggest that our understanding of welfare as a socio-cultural and historical phenomenon can be further enriched if we engage analytically with the multiple ways in which the Nordic welfare societies have been imagined, materialized and negotiated through various forms of material networks, architecture and devices. Thus, …
Reimagining the Fabric of Community
This article aims to examine the intersection of dense-low housing architecture and welfare politics in 1970s Denmark. Although scholars have investigated the role of architecture and housing in the expansion of the welfare state and later neoliberal restructurings, little attention has been given to the ways in which dense-low housing architecture and non-profit housing estates more broadly functioned as experimental platforms for the reimaginin…
Introduction
This special issue explores and seeks to reinterpret Nordic welfare history through the lens of materiality. Moving beyond institutional and policy-centred narratives, the issue highlights how welfare ideals were shaped, negotiated and experienced through the built environment, infrastructures and everyday objects. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from urban and architectural history, conceptual history, and the history of experiences, t…
Flexible welfare architecture
Recent studies in Nordic and European architectural- and urban history have emphasized the importance of commercial modernism in the making of European welfare societies. However, as this research has predominantly approached architecture from a planning and design angle, we know little about the actual use of these spaces and their socio-spatial flexibility and capacity in negotiating welfare on an everyday scale. Focusing on four shops located …
Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Welfare (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · Welfare state (3 works) · Architecture (2 works) · Architecture (2 works)