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Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research Thematic Section: Narrating the City and Spaces of Contestation Edited by Ragnhild Claesson & Pål Brunnström Extraction from Volume 11, Issue 1 2019 Linköping University Electronic Press Culture Unbound: ISSN 2000-1525 (online) URL: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/ © 201 The Authors. 9 Culture Unbound, Extraction from Volume 11, 2019 Thematic Section: Narrating the City and Spaces of Contestation Culture Unbound Vol. 11 Editorial Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, James Meese, Johanna Dahlin & Jesper Olsson .......................... i Introduction: Narrating the City and Spaces of Contestation Ragnhild Claesson & Pål Brunnström ................................................................................ 1 Manchester’s Post-punk Heritage: Mobilising and Contesting Transcultural Memory in the Context of Urban Regeneration Dagmar Brunow .................................................................................................................. 9 Narrating the Gender-equal City - Doing Gender-equality in the Swedish European Capital of Culture Umeå2014 Christine Hudson & Linda Sandberg .................................................................................. 30 Maintaining Urban Complexities: Seeking Revitalization without Gentrification of an Industrial Riverfront in Gothenburg, Sweden Gabriella Olshammar .......................................................................................................... 53 Remaking the People’s Park: Heritage Renewal Troubled by Past Political Struggles? Johan Pries & Erik Jönsson ................................................................................................. 78 Memory-Making in Kiruna - Representations of Colonial Pioneerism in the Transformation of a Scandinavian Mining Town Johanna Overud ................................................................................................................... 104 Black, LGBT and from the Favelas: an Ethnographic Account on Disidentificatory Performances of an Activist Group in Brazil Rubens Mascarenhas Neto & Vinícius Zanoli .................................................................... 124 Narratives of a Fractured Trust in the Swedish Model: Tenants’ Emotions of Renovation Dominika V. Polanska & Åse Richard ................................................................................ 141 Good and Bad Squatters? Challenging Hegemonic Narratives and Advancing Anti-Capitalist Views of Squatting in Western European Cities Miguel A. Martínez ............................................................................................................. 165 Culture Unbound Vol. 11 Editorial By Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, James Meese, Johanna Dahlin & Jesper Olsson In 219, Culture Unbound turns ten. Moving from childhood into adolescence, the decade that has passed since the inaugural thematic issue in 2009 has been one of great change in scholarly publishing, as indeed in the whole infrastructure of academia more generally. Looking back at the theme of that first 2009 issue, “What’s the Use of Cultural Research?” nothing has been lost in terms of the re- levance of the topic itself. And yet, it is not inconceivable that the question and the possible answers would be articulated and framed quite differently if posed today. In one sense, ten years is a microsecond in the longue durée of scholarly publishing. In another sense, both digitization and globalization has profound- ly influenced the way in which an open access journal such as Culture Unbound now travels in the world. In the accompanying editorial to that first theme http:// www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/v1/a01/cu09v1a01.pdf, the founding editors— Johan Fornäs, Martin Fredriksson and Jenny Johannisson—set out the underlying ideas and thoughts behind Culture Unbound. Their vision of Culture Unbound as an “unbound, free and open space for intellectual exchange,” has guided and will continue to guide Culture Unbound’s transition into its next decade (and beyond). And even while the expression “available to anyone with a networked computer” sounds very much like 2009 and not so much 2019, the fact that Culture Unbound will continue as an open-access resource for those who “wish to take part in recent developments in the understanding of the many facets of culture and culturalisa- tion,” remains as current a vision today as it did ten years ago. Terminology may grow old, but principles live on and evolve. 2019 therefore marks a special year in the life of Culture Unbound. Changes are on the horizon, both in respect to the Editorial Team (Eva Hemmungs Wir- tén is leaving after 5 years and Jesper Olsson will be succeeding her as Editor- in-Chief) as well as a reorganization of the Editorial Board. We are continuously looking into new ways to better make use of the digital format both when it comes to content and the design of that content. But some things will also stay the same. Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva, James Meese, Johanna Dahlin & Jesper Olsson: “Cultu- re Unbound Vol. 11 Editorial”, Culture Unbound, Volume 11, issue 1, 2019: i–ii. Published by Linköping University Electronic Press: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se Culture Unbound Journal of Current Cultural Research The commitment to publishing the best articles on critical cultural research; the ambition to offer a high-quality, peer-reviewed outlet for cross-disciplinary re- search in the humanities and social sciences, and certainly being an active agent in the forefront of current and future discussions on open access and scholarly publishing. We hope that you will continue to read, use and cite articles in Culture Unbound. The current issue is a great way to start. Eva Hemmungs Wirtén is Editor-In-Chief for Culture Unbound. She is Profes- sor of Mediated Culture at the Department of Culture Studies (Tema Q), Linkö- ping University. She has written extensively on the cultural history of interna- tional copyright, the public domain and patents as documents. Her most recent book, Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information was published by University of Chicago Press in 2015. In 2017, she was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant for the project “Patents as Scientific Information, 1895-2020,” (PASSIM), which runs between 2017-2022. E-mail: [email protected] James Meese is Associate Editor for Culture Unbound. He is a Senior Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney. He holds an early career research fellowship from the Australian Research Council to study the algorithmic distribution of news. James is also leading a research project on consumer rights to personal data for the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network. His two books are Authors, Users, Pirates: Subjectivity and Copyright Law (MIT Press) and De- ath and Digital Media (Routledge, co-authored). E-mail: [email protected] Johanna Dahlin is Executive Editor for Culture Unbound. She is Assistant Profes- sor at Linköping University and Södertörn University. She is currently working in a research project concerned with how common resources are enclosed and privatised, focusing on the processes and relations involved in mineral extraction. E-mail: [email protected] Jesper Olsson is Professor at the Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University. He leads the research group Literature, Media History, and Information Cultures (LMI) and is program director of the research program The Seed Box: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory (www.the- seedbox.se). His own research focuses on literature, art, and media ecologies. E-mail: [email protected] Culture Unbound Vol. 9 Editorial ii Introduction: Narrating the City and Spaces of Contestation By Ragnhild Claesson & Pål Brunnström While nation states have a disputed status in a globalised world, cities are often regarded as sovereign and global actors. Along with de-nationalising processes of increased privatisation, supranational governing and networks of transnational corporations, city administrations have developed new capabilities of orientation and governing in a global context (Sassen 2006). Inequality, poverty and segrega- tion are some of the pressing issues that city administrations are grappling with – issues of local challenge with global relevance and repercussions, and vice ver- sa. We wonder, if city administrations also address cultural issues that traditio- nally were of national concern, as fostering and narrating a sense of identity and belonging? If so, we think this shift needs to be further inquired, as we know that narrating and uses of history are not innocent practices. Rather, these are activi- ties which consciously and unconsciously can push developments and futures in specific directions (Sandercock 2003). Further, narrating and history-writing have a spatial dimension and a performative force which may manifest in the physical environment, making changes, or sustaining status quo (De Certeau 1988, Hayden 1997 and Massey 2005). A critical engagement in the making and use of history in urban space is needed to disclose power relations and constructions of categories, such as gender identities (Scott 2011), and to problematize bias perspectives on cultural heritage and an “authorised heritage discourse” (Smith 2006). Processes of narrating the city in urban development and regeneration are often processes where not only urban history, but also urban futures, are negotiated in a very con- crete and physical sense. 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