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Anders Lund Hansen

Senior lecturer

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Responding to Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century

Author

  • Vasna Ramasar
  • Anders Lund Hansen
  • Claus Wilhelmsen

Summary, in English

At the Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM) in Copenhagen, June 2024, the Nordic Journal of Urban Studies hosted its inaugural lecture. Dr. Vasna Ramasar, from the Division of Human Ecology at Lund University, shared her insights on responding to urban challenges in the twenty-first century. Her presentation was followed by a conversation with Dr. Anders Lund Hansen, from the journal’s editorial board who was the session organizer/chair, and Claus Wilhelmsen, a Danish urban planner and geographer. As a point of departure, the session and this commentary are inspired by the founding editors’ seminal 2021 NJUS article (Haarstad et al., 2021).
Using a decolonial and feminist perspective, Dr. Ramasar reflected on the current state of urban landscapes worldwide, highlighted the underlying causes of our most pressing urban and global challenges, and articulated a feminist response for a new form of urbanism. The dialogue between Ramasar, Wilhelmsen, Lund Hansen and the session participants is summarized here to inspire further discussion, debate, and action.

Department/s

  • Department of Human Geography
  • LU Profile Area: Human rights

Publishing year

2024

Language

English

Pages

1

Publication/Series

Nordic Journal of Urban Studies

Volume

4

Issue

1

Document type

Letter

Publisher

Universitetsforlaget

Topic

  • Human Geography

Keywords

  • Urban challenges
  • unequal socio-ecological relationship
  • Global inequality
  • interdependence
  • care
  • planetary urbanization
  • Metabolic Rift
  • Community
  • Conviviality
  • progressive and emancipatory transformation
  • Urban political ecology
  • prefigurative politics
  • SDG 1 - No Poverty
  • SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Conference name

Nordic Geographers Metting 2024

Conference date

2024-06-24 - 2024-06-27

Conference place

Copenhagen, Denmark

Status

Published

Project

  • Collaborative housing in a Pandemic Era: cross-country inter- and transdisciplinary evaluation, innovative approaches, human rights-based policy recommendations and capacity building
  • Women’s resistance to extractivism. A transnational embodied framework for analysis.
  • A Network Initiative to Build up Perspectives and Enhance and Capacities for Local Transformation in the Danish-German Fehmarn Belt Region

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2703-8866