dc.contributor.author | Eriksson, Sofia | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-19T13:45:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-10-19T13:45:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-10-19 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/57957 | |
dc.description.abstract | This report examines underlying motives and forces of the West-Link project in Gothenburg
Sweden, understood as a case of contemporary politically governed urban transformation. It
analyzes and compares similarities and differences of contemporary international patterns of
urban transformations as well as the continuity or discontinuity in relation to previous local
transformations. The report also maps and analyzes different networks that resist the project
and their overarching critique, which in turn is compared with contemporary international
critique of urban transformation. The case of the West-Link is studied from a critical
discourse perspective inspired by a Foucauldian approach of analyzing dispositives or
“apparatus”. Meaning, how motives and forces of the West-Link project is part of historical
and on-going heterogonous discourse-network-complexes that produces reality and becomes
part of its materialization. The report draws upon previous research on the contemporary
governing ideology of neoliberalism and advance liberal urban governance, as well as
theoretical concepts such as “ribbon-development”, “place politics”, “gentrification”, and
overarching critique of urban planners’ concept “sustainability” analyzed as an “empty master
signifier” masking neoliberal agendas in the signifying order of text. The main result of the
report is that the West-Link can be understood as a dispositive or “apparatus” that binds all
the above historical and on-going heterogonous discourse-network-complexes together. In
other words, the result shows that the West-Link is part of the overall global discourse of
neoliberal urbanism and the implementing of advanced liberal urban governance in the
context of Gothenburg | sv |
dc.language.iso | swe | sv |
dc.subject | Västlänken | sv |
dc.subject | nyliberalism | sv |
dc.subject | nyliberal urbanism | sv |
dc.subject | gentrifiering | sv |
dc.subject | hållbar utveckling | sv |
dc.title | Stadsomvandling i Göteborg - En fallstudie av Västlänkens motiv & drivkrafter | sv |
dc.type | Text | |
dc.setspec.uppsok | SovialBehaviourLaw | |
dc.type.uppsok | M2 | |
dc.contributor.department | University of Gothenburg / Department of Sociology and Work Science | eng |
dc.contributor.department | Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap | swe |
dc.type.degree | Student essay | |