Stefan Norgaard
Biographic Data
| ID | 6502218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Norgaard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Norgaard |
| SIGNATURE | NORGAARD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1902-2862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social constructivism in Bus Rapid Transit corridor planning
What motivates urban transport projects, and what roles do various stakeholders play in their design, visioning, and implementation? This theoretical conceptualization article explores urban transport through a social-constructivist lens. I pair inductive and grounded-theory approaches to engage primary-source, qualitative perspectives from a multi-agency Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) planning process in Denver, Colorado. The research setting is Denver…
Introduction to the Special Forum
Place renaming, jurisdictional integration, and political representation
Since South Africa’s 1994 transition from apartheid to democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) has advanced place renaming alongside jurisdictional rescaling. This confluence allows scholars to examine the political-economic, symbolic, and mnemonic dimensions of territorial inscription. The ANC’s wall-to-wall system of local and district municipalities aimed to rectify the inequality-exacerbating geography of apartheid and create more robu…
Resistance and Response in Planning
Mnemonic land war
Although Lebanon and South Africa are often treated as exceptional cases, the use of geographic analogies like ‘bantustans’ and ‘Lebanonization’ signals their relevance to many other places. These analogies point to the recognition of a spatial mode of mnemonic war in which struggles over the past are also struggles over land. Such analogies signal recognition but also require forgetting: as narrative chronotopes, they are limiting. To look beyon…
Modernization through capitalization
Building on recent work by Timothy Mitchell, this article interrogates the concept of capitalization, understood here specifically as models of extracting or capturing streams of future revenue for the present. In the context of urbanizing Ethiopia, national political and business leaders, international-development actors, and academics leverage agrarian–industrial transformations to persuade and justify monetizing the future through capitalizati…
Violence as a genre of urban life
Focusing on the urban identity of South African cities, this paper considers the merit of adopting “genre knowledges” to understand how violence shapes urban sustainability. Genre and the metaphor of unconscious “muscle memories” allow scholars, urban planners, and development practitioners to understand violence in sociohistorical and situated ways, as a systemic impediment to urban sustainability. South African residents and state actors have t…
Mnemonic land war
Although Lebanon and South Africa are often treated as exceptional cases, the use of geographic analogies like ‘bantustans’ and ‘Lebanonization’ signals their relevance to many other places. These analogies point to the recognition of a spatial mode of mnemonic war in which struggles over the past are also struggles over land. Such analogies signal recognition but also require forgetting: as narrative chronotopes, they are limiting. To look beyon…
Modernization through capitalization
Building on recent work by Timothy Mitchell, this article interrogates the concept of capitalization, understood here specifically as models of extracting or capturing streams of future revenue for the present. In the context of urbanizing Ethiopia, national political and business leaders, international-development actors, and academics leverage agrarian–industrial transformations to persuade and justify monetizing the future through capitalizati…
Modernization through capitalization
Building on recent work by Timothy Mitchell, this article interrogates the concept of capitalization, understood here specifically as models of extracting or capturing streams of future revenue for the present. In the context of urbanizing Ethiopia, national political and business leaders, international-development actors, and academics leverage agrarian–industrial transformations to persuade and justify monetizing the future through capitalizati…
Violence as a genre of urban life
Focusing on the urban identity of South African cities, this paper considers the merit of adopting “genre knowledges” to understand how violence shapes urban sustainability. Genre and the metaphor of unconscious “muscle memories” allow scholars, urban planners, and development practitioners to understand violence in sociohistorical and situated ways, as a systemic impediment to urban sustainability. South African residents and state actors have t…
Mnemonic land war
Although Lebanon and South Africa are often treated as exceptional cases, the use of geographic analogies like ‘bantustans’ and ‘Lebanonization’ signals their relevance to many other places. These analogies point to the recognition of a spatial mode of mnemonic war in which struggles over the past are also struggles over land. Such analogies signal recognition but also require forgetting: as narrative chronotopes, they are limiting. To look beyon…
Resistance and Response in Planning
Place renaming, jurisdictional integration, and political representation
Since South Africa’s 1994 transition from apartheid to democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) has advanced place renaming alongside jurisdictional rescaling. This confluence allows scholars to examine the political-economic, symbolic, and mnemonic dimensions of territorial inscription. The ANC’s wall-to-wall system of local and district municipalities aimed to rectify the inequality-exacerbating geography of apartheid and create more robu…
Introduction to the Special Forum
Social constructivism in Bus Rapid Transit corridor planning
What motivates urban transport projects, and what roles do various stakeholders play in their design, visioning, and implementation? This theoretical conceptualization article explores urban transport through a social-constructivist lens. I pair inductive and grounded-theory approaches to engage primary-source, qualitative perspectives from a multi-agency Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) planning process in Denver, Colorado. The research setting is Denver…
Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works) · Forgetting (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works)