Abstract
This thesis is about how geographical visions worked as discursive tools in the institutionalisation of the Öresund Region.
The geographical vision is defined as a cognitive set of imagined and material pictures of the future structured as a spatial whole. The geographical vision is, in addition to this, a spaceconfiguration-, power-, and disciplinary - instrument, and, the product of a discursive process of struggle/negotiation over competing understandings of how a specific territorial timespace should be shaped in the future. Three geographical visions in the discourse of the Öresund Region are deconstructed and critically discussed, presented as storylines:
-The r/evolution of regional organisms
-The "high-speed" region
-The social integration over the Sound, or, the political disciplinary project
The geographical vision is defined as a cognitive set of imagined and material pictures of the future structured as a spatial whole. The geographical vision is, in addition to this, a spaceconfiguration-, power-, and disciplinary - instrument, and, the product of a discursive process of struggle/negotiation over competing understandings of how a specific territorial timespace should be shaped in the future. Three geographical visions in the discourse of the Öresund Region are deconstructed and critically discussed, presented as storylines:
-The r/evolution of regional organisms
-The "high-speed" region
-The social integration over the Sound, or, the political disciplinary project
| Original language | Swedish |
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| Qualification | Doctor |
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| Award date | 2003 Apr 29 |
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| ISBN (Print) | 91-973856-5-4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2003 |
Bibliographical note
Defence detailsDate: 2003-04-29
Time: 10:00
Place: Sölvegatan 13 2nd floor
External reviewer(s)
Name: Jensen, Ole B.
Title: [unknown]
Affiliation: [unknown]
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Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Human Geography
Free keywords
- power
- discouse
- institutions
- arena
- metaphors
- Oresund region
- Social geography
- region
- visions
- space