From creep to co-op: research(er) paying the cost of displacement?

Forsemalm, J. (2013). From Creep to Co-op: Research(er) Paying the Cost of Discplacement? Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 5(3), 385–397. doi:10.3384/cu.2000.1525.135385

Platform
Gothenburg
Publication type
Scientific article (peer-reviewed)
Projects
Cities as value networks (CAVN)
DOI Title
From Creep to Co-op: Research(er) Paying the Cost of Discplacement?
Journal
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
ISSN/ISBN
2000-1525
DOI
10.3384/cu.2000.1525.135385
Author(s)
Joakim Forsemalm
Published year
Tags
urban planning Ethnography cultural planning cultural broker

 

Abstract

As discussed by planning researchers Jalakas & Larsson (2008), in Sweden, socie-tal issues such as social sustainability, urban life and gender fails to travel from comprehensive documents in the urban planning system to the legislative ones (i.e. the “detailed development plans”). This might, as this essay argues, have to do with the absence of “cultural brokers”, i.e a kind of translator of the narratives told in a particular society. Can researchers act as such translators – increasing the pre-cence of cultural and everyday-life experiences in legislative planning documents? This essay discusses problems and possibilities with an ethnography engageing with/in society.

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