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Dancing tango and herding camels as ways to combat social deprivation?
University of Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6936-342X
University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
2015 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Sustainable development
SDG 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable, SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all, SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Abstract [en]

Marginalization and social deprivation in urban areas are hardships not necessarily limited to developing countries. Around 80 million Europeans today live in conditions that fall within the definition of poverty. However, certain areas are more prone to affliction than others. Such estates usually consist of concrete slab high-rise buildings and are often characterized by high levels of ethnic segregation, unemployment and crime, as well as low levels of education and health. In the Swedish equivalent of this type of environments, the current situation is not encouraging despite the many urban development programs launched to address the issues at hand. In a wish to eschew conventional explanations of failure, we instead turn our attention towards some more systemic flaws in the conceptual design of these programs, arguing that one of these flaws could be the idiomatic elephant in the room. In this presentation, we undertake a discussion about the probability that, in areas where social deprivation is the greatest, not all signifiers of the presumed concept of urbanity are met. Hence, rigid adherence to ‘urbanity’ as a guiding force in development programs might in fact contribute to counterproductive plans of action. On the basis of experiences from two Swedish suburbs, we problematize the ’urban bias’ of large-scale actions set to target complex issues of social deprivation, whose character may not easily align with a conceptual rural-urban axis. We conclude that more context-sensitive understanding of the human condition beyond inflexible labeling could help arrive at more accurate inferences.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2015.
Keywords [en]
rural, urban, social deprivation, unsustainability, urban development program
National Category
Human Geography
Research subject
Humanities, Human Geography
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-128987OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-128987DiVA, id: diva2:1853133
Conference
6th Nordic Geographers Meeting: “Geographical Imagination: Interpretations of Nature, Art and Politics”, Tallinn University / University of Tartu,Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia, 15–19 June 2015,
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