Dissertation project 

Stadspolitik i Malmö. Politikens meningsskapande och materialitet.

Rethinking Local Politics in Malmö. Towards a Discursive-Material Analysis of Politics.  

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Research interests

Urban politics

Urban governance, local development, urban regeneration, urban entrepreneurialism, place-marketing

Cultural Political Economy (the critical turn in political economy)

Governance, urban regime theory, interpretative policy analysis, the politics of scale

Public administration

Research associate

The Pufendorf Institute, Lund University, Research programme 'After the Crisis'.

Cultural Political Economy Research Centre, Institute for Advanced Studies,

Lancaster University.

Publications

Dannestam, Tove, 2009. Stadspolitik i Malmö. Politikens meningsskapande och materialitet. Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Lunds universitet. Dissertation (doktorsavhandling). Lund Political Studies, 155.  

Dannestam, Tove, 2008a. ”Rethinking Local Politics: Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Entrepreneurial Cities”, Space and Polity, vol. 12, nr, 3, pp. 353-372.

Dannestam, Tove, 2008b. “Tillväxt och välfärd i Malmö. Att ge stadspolitik organisatoriskt rum”, i Lisberg Jensen, Ebba – Ouis, Pernilla (red). Inne och ute i Malmö: Studier av urbana förändringsprocesser. Malmö University Publications in Urban Studies 2, pp. 200-213.

Dannestam, Tove, 2007. ”Att göra region genom stadspolitik – America’s Cup och gränslöshetens gränser”, i Nilsson, Fredrik – Sanders, Hanne – Stubbergaard, Ylva (red.). Öresundsgränser: Rörelser, möten och visioner i tid och rum. Stockholm: Makadam Förlag, pp. 285-320.

Dannestam, Tove, 2006. ”Kommunens uppgift, roll och territorium inte längre självklar i stadspolitiken”. Kommunal ekonomi – Tidning för kommunal ekonomi och ledning, nr 5.

Unpublished work (in selection)

The Entrepreneurial City in a Scandinavian Context - A Conceptual and Political Challenge. Paper presented at the EURA conference "The Vital City", University of Glasgow, September 2007 and at the IAS conference "Regions and Regionalism in Europe", Lancaster University, September 2007.

America’s Cup och omformuleringens politik, paper presented at the XIV Nordic Political Science Association Conference, Reykjavik, 11-13 August 2005 and at the Swedish Political Science Association’s annual meeting, Lund 3-5 October 2005.  

The Theories and Politics of Entrepreneurial Cities – a Theoretical Summing up and the Next Step Forward, paper presented at the ECPR IX European Summer School in Local Government Studies, University of Twente, the Netherlands, 5-16 July 2004 and at the 22nd Nordic Sociology Congress, Malmö August 2004.

Att försöka förverkliga en resa – en studie av Malmö som entreprenörsstad, Master Thesis, Department of Political Science, Lund University 2003.   

Bringing Feminism into Urban Politics – A Reconstruction of Clarence N. Stone’s Regime Theory, presented at the Intensive Seminar “Social Cohesion in a Globalising Era”, 13-23 May 2002, Queen’s University, Canada.

Teaching

"Challenge and Change - Rethinking the Urban and the Regional", STV 003, Department of Political Science.

“Politics and Public Administration”, School of social work, Lund University. 

KAOS – Konsten att organisera och skriva uppsats, STV 002, Department of Political Science.

Scholarships and Awards

Scholarship from KEFU – Rådet för KommunalEkonomisk Forskning och Utbildning, award for ”Best Master Thesis in 2003”.  

Scholarship for participation in the Intensive Seminar “Social Cohesion in a Globalising Era”, Canada – European Community Programme for Cooperation in Higher Education and Training, 13-23 May 2002, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.                        

Other

Participant at the ESRC Research Seminar on "Cultures of Competitiveness", 18 January, IAS, Lancaster University.

Project member in a Ø-forsk multidisciplinary research project, ”Development of a Cross Border Region”, ongoing since autumn 2005.

Participant in Eurocities Cooperation Platform, Brussels 1-2 June 2006.   

Participant in the conference Urban Futures 2.0, organised by the City of Stockholm, the Swedish Government and the European Commission, Stockholm 3-5 May 2006

Participant in the ECPR IX European Summer School in Local Government Studies, University of Twente, the Netherlands 5-16 July 2004.