Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2011
... Hallman, A. 1998. Evaluating Humanitarian Assistance , London: ODI. View all references; Macr... more ... Hallman, A. 1998. Evaluating Humanitarian Assistance , London: ODI. View all references; Macrae 200123. ... Roe, E. 1994. Narrative Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice , Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press. View all references; Keeley & Scoones 200316. ...
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2012
(2010, 1328 1345). It focuses on the Gassmark’s national research programme, demonstrating the co... more (2010, 1328 1345). It focuses on the Gassmark’s national research programme, demonstrating the continued capacity of trade unions and regional interests to shape national strategic priorities. Article 3, ‘Scalar politics and strategic consolidation: The Norwegian Gas Forum’s quest for embedding Norwegian gas resources in domestic space’ (co-authored with Sjur Kasa and Marit Reitan), is published in Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift Norwegian Journal of Geography 65 (2011, 226 237). Lastly, the fourth article, ‘The pipeline never meant to be? The scalar selectivities and paradoxes of the Skanled gas infrastructure project’ investigates the development of the Skanled pipeline, with its eventual termination highlighting the tension between national state projects and global market logics. A particular strength of Underthun’s the analysis is the interweaving of discursive strategies as a specific series of representations, practices, and performances through which meaning is produced, connected into networks, and legitimized with political and corporate strategies and political alliance formation or conflict intermediation. While the national state remains central in much of the analysis, the research shows the growing relevance of regionalization policy and regionalizing consensus politics whereby regional agencies, actors, and intermediaries engage in explicitly scalar political strategies. The thesis shows how the attempts at regionally embedding Norwegian gas resources and the associated politics of scale are performative in the process of transforming the corporatist-welfare state to a Schumpetarian workfare state through tactics of regionalization. On a more critical note, the thesis would have benefitted from greater empirical nuance in places. In particular, the specific arguments and agendas that shaped the political initiatives in question might have received more sustained attention. In addition, more direct use could have been made of primary research materials, such as interview quotations for illustrative as well as analytical purposes. Some reflections on theoretical issues and directions in the light of the empirical analysis are provided in the summarizing part of the thesis, particularly in terms of developing the discursive dimension of scalar thinking and relational conceptions of power. However, this element could have been strengthened by relating these observations back to more fundamental debates on approaches to scale and the reorientation of national states in the context of globalization. In overall terms, the thesis provides an excellent and insightful contribution to our understanding of how material resources become mobilized by and articulated with state-selective processes of geopolitical and geo-economic rescaling. Theoretically, it demonstrates the continued purchase and relevance of scale as an analytical category, particularly in terms of how scales are politically mobilized and contested by various social actors and interest groups. More concretely, the thesis concludes that political campaigns for the domestic utilization of natural gas have had limited success, arguing that the scalar selectivities of the Norwegian state and key corporations such as Statoil and Norsk Hydro have tended to privilege European and global scales over national and regional scales in recent decades. This raises important wider questions about the tensions between inherited national institutions and processes of neoliberalization articulated in terms of competitiveness and flexibility. In summary, Anders Underthun has produced a highly original and thought-provoking thesis that will be of great interest to researchers in geography and related disciplines concerned with questions of globalization, scale, and state restructuring.
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2009
The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement proposed by Francis M. Deng in 1998 offer three d... more The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement proposed by Francis M. Deng in 1998 offer three durable solutions to internal displacement. States are not unwilling alliances when it comes to drawing up elaborate policies as solutions in the best interests of their displaced populations, but which also, albeit most importantly, help to preserve the fragile national security situation of which IDPs are often a product. By counter-posing such dominant government and/or policy discourses on return to the lived realities of IDPs in a dynamic war-torn context, the paper seeks to highlight the ‘subaltern’ narratives of conflict-displaced IDPs in Vavuniya, in northern Sri Lanka, with regard to the solutions they consider viable in the face of ongoing conflict. Policy narratives and the discursive practices they produce, as well as an eclectic consideration of various concepts, should be useful in understanding not only the policy practices but also the extent to which the displaced are (or are not) part of the solutions that claim to address their displacement. Accordingly, a qualitative method of enquiry was judged to be a relevant approach to answering the question of whether the voices of internally displaced people (IDPs) feature in the discourses claiming to provide a solution to their displacement. The method was applied in an attempt to bring to the fore the perceptions and meanings which IDPs in Vavuniya assign to policies implemented on their behalf.
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2012
(2010, 1328 1345). It focuses on the Gassmark’s national research programme, demonstrating the co... more (2010, 1328 1345). It focuses on the Gassmark’s national research programme, demonstrating the continued capacity of trade unions and regional interests to shape national strategic priorities. Article 3, ‘Scalar politics and strategic consolidation: The Norwegian Gas Forum’s quest for embedding Norwegian gas resources in domestic space’ (co-authored with Sjur Kasa and Marit Reitan), is published in Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift Norwegian Journal of Geography 65 (2011, 226 237). Lastly, the fourth article, ‘The pipeline never meant to be? The scalar selectivities and paradoxes of the Skanled gas infrastructure project’ investigates the development of the Skanled pipeline, with its eventual termination highlighting the tension between national state projects and global market logics. A particular strength of Underthun’s the analysis is the interweaving of discursive strategies as a specific series of representations, practices, and performances through which meaning is produced, connected into networks, and legitimized with political and corporate strategies and political alliance formation or conflict intermediation. While the national state remains central in much of the analysis, the research shows the growing relevance of regionalization policy and regionalizing consensus politics whereby regional agencies, actors, and intermediaries engage in explicitly scalar political strategies. The thesis shows how the attempts at regionally embedding Norwegian gas resources and the associated politics of scale are performative in the process of transforming the corporatist-welfare state to a Schumpetarian workfare state through tactics of regionalization. On a more critical note, the thesis would have benefitted from greater empirical nuance in places. In particular, the specific arguments and agendas that shaped the political initiatives in question might have received more sustained attention. In addition, more direct use could have been made of primary research materials, such as interview quotations for illustrative as well as analytical purposes. Some reflections on theoretical issues and directions in the light of the empirical analysis are provided in the summarizing part of the thesis, particularly in terms of developing the discursive dimension of scalar thinking and relational conceptions of power. However, this element could have been strengthened by relating these observations back to more fundamental debates on approaches to scale and the reorientation of national states in the context of globalization. In overall terms, the thesis provides an excellent and insightful contribution to our understanding of how material resources become mobilized by and articulated with state-selective processes of geopolitical and geo-economic rescaling. Theoretically, it demonstrates the continued purchase and relevance of scale as an analytical category, particularly in terms of how scales are politically mobilized and contested by various social actors and interest groups. More concretely, the thesis concludes that political campaigns for the domestic utilization of natural gas have had limited success, arguing that the scalar selectivities of the Norwegian state and key corporations such as Statoil and Norsk Hydro have tended to privilege European and global scales over national and regional scales in recent decades. This raises important wider questions about the tensions between inherited national institutions and processes of neoliberalization articulated in terms of competitiveness and flexibility. In summary, Anders Underthun has produced a highly original and thought-provoking thesis that will be of great interest to researchers in geography and related disciplines concerned with questions of globalization, scale, and state restructuring.
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2011
... Hallman, A. 1998. Evaluating Humanitarian Assistance , London: ODI. View all references; Macr... more ... Hallman, A. 1998. Evaluating Humanitarian Assistance , London: ODI. View all references; Macrae 200123. ... Roe, E. 1994. Narrative Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice , Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press. View all references; Keeley & Scoones 200316. ...
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2012
(2010, 1328 1345). It focuses on the Gassmark’s national research programme, demonstrating the co... more (2010, 1328 1345). It focuses on the Gassmark’s national research programme, demonstrating the continued capacity of trade unions and regional interests to shape national strategic priorities. Article 3, ‘Scalar politics and strategic consolidation: The Norwegian Gas Forum’s quest for embedding Norwegian gas resources in domestic space’ (co-authored with Sjur Kasa and Marit Reitan), is published in Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift Norwegian Journal of Geography 65 (2011, 226 237). Lastly, the fourth article, ‘The pipeline never meant to be? The scalar selectivities and paradoxes of the Skanled gas infrastructure project’ investigates the development of the Skanled pipeline, with its eventual termination highlighting the tension between national state projects and global market logics. A particular strength of Underthun’s the analysis is the interweaving of discursive strategies as a specific series of representations, practices, and performances through which meaning is produced, connected into networks, and legitimized with political and corporate strategies and political alliance formation or conflict intermediation. While the national state remains central in much of the analysis, the research shows the growing relevance of regionalization policy and regionalizing consensus politics whereby regional agencies, actors, and intermediaries engage in explicitly scalar political strategies. The thesis shows how the attempts at regionally embedding Norwegian gas resources and the associated politics of scale are performative in the process of transforming the corporatist-welfare state to a Schumpetarian workfare state through tactics of regionalization. On a more critical note, the thesis would have benefitted from greater empirical nuance in places. In particular, the specific arguments and agendas that shaped the political initiatives in question might have received more sustained attention. In addition, more direct use could have been made of primary research materials, such as interview quotations for illustrative as well as analytical purposes. Some reflections on theoretical issues and directions in the light of the empirical analysis are provided in the summarizing part of the thesis, particularly in terms of developing the discursive dimension of scalar thinking and relational conceptions of power. However, this element could have been strengthened by relating these observations back to more fundamental debates on approaches to scale and the reorientation of national states in the context of globalization. In overall terms, the thesis provides an excellent and insightful contribution to our understanding of how material resources become mobilized by and articulated with state-selective processes of geopolitical and geo-economic rescaling. Theoretically, it demonstrates the continued purchase and relevance of scale as an analytical category, particularly in terms of how scales are politically mobilized and contested by various social actors and interest groups. More concretely, the thesis concludes that political campaigns for the domestic utilization of natural gas have had limited success, arguing that the scalar selectivities of the Norwegian state and key corporations such as Statoil and Norsk Hydro have tended to privilege European and global scales over national and regional scales in recent decades. This raises important wider questions about the tensions between inherited national institutions and processes of neoliberalization articulated in terms of competitiveness and flexibility. In summary, Anders Underthun has produced a highly original and thought-provoking thesis that will be of great interest to researchers in geography and related disciplines concerned with questions of globalization, scale, and state restructuring.
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2009
The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement proposed by Francis M. Deng in 1998 offer three d... more The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement proposed by Francis M. Deng in 1998 offer three durable solutions to internal displacement. States are not unwilling alliances when it comes to drawing up elaborate policies as solutions in the best interests of their displaced populations, but which also, albeit most importantly, help to preserve the fragile national security situation of which IDPs are often a product. By counter-posing such dominant government and/or policy discourses on return to the lived realities of IDPs in a dynamic war-torn context, the paper seeks to highlight the ‘subaltern’ narratives of conflict-displaced IDPs in Vavuniya, in northern Sri Lanka, with regard to the solutions they consider viable in the face of ongoing conflict. Policy narratives and the discursive practices they produce, as well as an eclectic consideration of various concepts, should be useful in understanding not only the policy practices but also the extent to which the displaced are (or are not) part of the solutions that claim to address their displacement. Accordingly, a qualitative method of enquiry was judged to be a relevant approach to answering the question of whether the voices of internally displaced people (IDPs) feature in the discourses claiming to provide a solution to their displacement. The method was applied in an attempt to bring to the fore the perceptions and meanings which IDPs in Vavuniya assign to policies implemented on their behalf.
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2012
(2010, 1328 1345). It focuses on the Gassmark’s national research programme, demonstrating the co... more (2010, 1328 1345). It focuses on the Gassmark’s national research programme, demonstrating the continued capacity of trade unions and regional interests to shape national strategic priorities. Article 3, ‘Scalar politics and strategic consolidation: The Norwegian Gas Forum’s quest for embedding Norwegian gas resources in domestic space’ (co-authored with Sjur Kasa and Marit Reitan), is published in Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift Norwegian Journal of Geography 65 (2011, 226 237). Lastly, the fourth article, ‘The pipeline never meant to be? The scalar selectivities and paradoxes of the Skanled gas infrastructure project’ investigates the development of the Skanled pipeline, with its eventual termination highlighting the tension between national state projects and global market logics. A particular strength of Underthun’s the analysis is the interweaving of discursive strategies as a specific series of representations, practices, and performances through which meaning is produced, connected into networks, and legitimized with political and corporate strategies and political alliance formation or conflict intermediation. While the national state remains central in much of the analysis, the research shows the growing relevance of regionalization policy and regionalizing consensus politics whereby regional agencies, actors, and intermediaries engage in explicitly scalar political strategies. The thesis shows how the attempts at regionally embedding Norwegian gas resources and the associated politics of scale are performative in the process of transforming the corporatist-welfare state to a Schumpetarian workfare state through tactics of regionalization. On a more critical note, the thesis would have benefitted from greater empirical nuance in places. In particular, the specific arguments and agendas that shaped the political initiatives in question might have received more sustained attention. In addition, more direct use could have been made of primary research materials, such as interview quotations for illustrative as well as analytical purposes. Some reflections on theoretical issues and directions in the light of the empirical analysis are provided in the summarizing part of the thesis, particularly in terms of developing the discursive dimension of scalar thinking and relational conceptions of power. However, this element could have been strengthened by relating these observations back to more fundamental debates on approaches to scale and the reorientation of national states in the context of globalization. In overall terms, the thesis provides an excellent and insightful contribution to our understanding of how material resources become mobilized by and articulated with state-selective processes of geopolitical and geo-economic rescaling. Theoretically, it demonstrates the continued purchase and relevance of scale as an analytical category, particularly in terms of how scales are politically mobilized and contested by various social actors and interest groups. More concretely, the thesis concludes that political campaigns for the domestic utilization of natural gas have had limited success, arguing that the scalar selectivities of the Norwegian state and key corporations such as Statoil and Norsk Hydro have tended to privilege European and global scales over national and regional scales in recent decades. This raises important wider questions about the tensions between inherited national institutions and processes of neoliberalization articulated in terms of competitiveness and flexibility. In summary, Anders Underthun has produced a highly original and thought-provoking thesis that will be of great interest to researchers in geography and related disciplines concerned with questions of globalization, scale, and state restructuring.
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