Curriculum Vitae Mirek Dymitrow

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Academic degrees Ph.D., , University of Gothenburg Master, Geography, University of Gothenburg Bachelor, Geography, University of Gothenburg

Positions within academia: Researcher, Lund University, Department of Human Geography Doctoral student, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economy and Society Guest, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economy and Society Guest, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities 2017 - Other, Chalmers University of Technology / Mistra Urban Futures (Research coordinator) 2014 - 2016 Committee member, Unit Research Committee, Human Geography Unit at the Department of Economy and Society, University of Gothenburg 2013 - 2015 Board member, Research and Postgraduate Education Board, Department of Economy and Society, University of Gothenburg 2013 - 2014 Council member, Department Council, Department of Economy and Society, University of Gothenburg

Main research fields: Human Geography, Critical Geography, Cultural Geography, Historical Geography, STS (Science, Technology and Society)

Main teaching fields: Human Geography, Rural/urban theory, Discourse analysis, Binary theory, Social Geography

Academic experience

Head of research project: 2017 - 2019 Research Forum Urban Rural Gothenburg International research projects: 2019 - Rural/urban redux, R. Brauer (René Brauer (University of Surrey, UK), J. Biegańska, E. Grzelak-Kostulska, (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland), R. Krzysztofik, (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland), M. Stenseke (University of Gothenburg) 2013 - 2018 Knowledge production and implications of concepts, René Brauer (Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland / University of Surrey, UK / University of Hull) 2014 - 2018 Rural-urban linkages in the context of dysfunctionality: Post- agricultural state farms and post-military estates, Biegańska, J., Grzelak -Kostulska, E. Środa-Murawska, S., Chodkowska-Miszczuk, J., Rogatka, K. (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland), Krzysztofik, R. (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland), Feltynowski, M., (University of Lodz, Poland), Senetra, A. (University of Warmian and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland) 2012 - 2018 Abandoned, degraded and restituted towns in Poland, Robert Krzysztofik, Iwona-Kantor Pietraga, Tomasz Spórna, Jolanta Pełka- Gościniak, Weronika Dragan, Marta Chmielewska (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland), Robert Szmytkie (University of Wrocław, Poland), Wiesław Droberk (Opole University of Technology, Poland), Dariusz Sokołowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland), Elżbieta Przesmycka (Wrocław University of Technology, Poland), Hanka Zaniewska, Maria Thiel (Institute of Urban Development, Kraków, Poland / University of Ecology and Management, Warsaw, Poland), Barbara Konecka/Szydłowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland), Ewa Dawidejt-Drobek (State Scientific Institute - Silesian Institute in Opole, Poland), Norbert Dąbkowski (Warsaw University of Life Sciences), René Brauer (University of Surrey, UK)

Reviewer assignments: Sustainability (MDPI), Quaestiones Geographicae (UAM), Geographia Polonica (Polish Academy of Sciences), The Professional Geographer (American Association of Geographers / Routledge), The Professional Geographer (American Association of Geographers / Routledge), Land Use Policy (Elsevier), International Journal of Heritage Studies (Routledge), Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography (Routledge, Taylor & Francis), Journal of Rural Studies (Elsevier), Rural Research (Polish Academy of Sciences), Sustainable Cities and Society (Elsevier), Agricultural and Food Economics (Springer), Asian Development Perspectives (Yonsei University), Agricultural and Food Economics (Springer), Ymer: Periferi som process (The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography), Cities – The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning (Elsevier) , Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Administratio Locorum, Journal of Rural Studies (Elsevier), Rural Research (Polisch Academy of Sciences), International Journal of Architectural Heritage (Routledge), International Journal of Heritage Studies (Routledge), Natural resource conflicts and sustainable development (Earthscan / Routledge), International Journal of Heritage Studies (Routledge), Landscape Research (Routledge), Moravian Geographical Reports (De Gruyter), Rural Landscape: Society, Environment, History (Stockholm University Press), Journal of Cultural Geography (Routledge)

Academic assignments: 2014 - Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series (De Gruyter) (Editor)

2017 Expert evaluator Arranging conference, symposium, seminar or workshop: 2017 Session Chair, Session VI at the 11th International Conference Man– City–Nature: “New opportunities – new challenges – new perspectives” , 2017-10-10 2014 Session Organizer, Session: “Under Urban Mask: On Rural Landscapes with Different” Logics", 2014-09-09 2014 Conference Secretary at the 26th edition of The Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, 2014-09-07 2014 Scientific Committee Member, The active city: Unleashing the recreational potential of space, Conference and Workshops, 2014-04-23

Pedagogical training: 2019 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 3: Pedagogical project 2017 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2: Discipline-Specific Course 2015 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 1: Basic Course

International academic experience: 2019 - 2021 Guest researcher 2016 - 2016 International internship / Guest researcher 2014 - 2014 International internship / Guest researcher 2013 - 2013 International internship / Guest researcher

Other experience

Participation in public seminars:

Publications

Journal article (peer-reviewed) Dymitrow, Mirek (2020) Introducing “captaining”. Journal of Pedagogical Research, 4:1.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2020) Begrepp som skadar: Exempel från inre periferier i Polen, Nordmakedonien och Sverige. Ymer, 140.

Biegańska, Jadwiga, Dymitrow, Mirek, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta, Środa-Murawska, Stefania (2019) From policy to misery? The State Agricultural Farm vs. 'the rural'. Quaestiones Geographicae, 38:4.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Brauer, Rene, Arsovski, Slobodan, Biegańska, Jadwiga (2019) Atavism, layering and subversion: Understanding great social challenges of today through the lens of cultural contingents. Geographical Reviews, 51–52.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2019) The concept of ‘rural’ as a psychosocial process: From concept attainment to concept unlearning. Quaestiones Geographicae, 38:4.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2019) The concept of ‘rural’ as a psychosocial process. Quaestiones Geographicae, 38:4, p. 15-28.

Brauer, Rene, Dymitrow, Mirek, Tribe, John (2019) The impact of tourism research. Annals of Tourism Research, 77:July 2019.

Haysom, Gareth, Almered Olsson, Gunilla, Dymitrow, Mirek, Opiyo, Paul, Taylor Buck, Nick, Oloko, Michael, Spring, Charlotte, Fermskog, Kristina, Ingelhag, Karin, Kotze, Shelley, Gaya Agong, Stephen (2019) Food systems sustainability: An examination of different viewpoints on food system change. Sustainability, 11:12.

Dragan, Weronika, Dymitrow, Mirek, Krzysztofik, Robert (2019) Between history, politics and economy: The problematic heritage of former border railway stations in Poland. Mitteilungen der österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, 161.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Halfacree, Keith (2018) Sustainability—differently. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 40:40.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Brauer, Rene (2018) Meaningful yet useless? Factors behind the retention of questionable concepts in human geography. Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography, (Epub 1–25).

Dymitrow, Mirek, Biegańska, Jadwiga, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta (2018) Deprivation and the rural-urban trap. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 109:1, p. 87- 108.

Arsovski, Slobodan, Kwiatkowski, Michał, Lewandowska, Aleksandra, Jordanova Peshevska, Dimitrinka, Sofeska, Emilija, Dymitrow, Mirek (2018) Can urban environmental problems be overcome? The case of Skopje—world’s most polluted city. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 40:40, p. 17-39.

Arsovski, Slobodan, Kwiatkowski, Michał, Lewandowska, Aleksandra, Jordanova Peshevska, Dimitrinka, Sofeska, Emilija, Dymitrow, Mirek, Peshevska, Dimitrinka Jordanova (2018) Can urban environmental problems be overcome? The case of Skopje- world's most polluted city. Bulletin of Geography, 40:40, p. 17-39.

Arsovski, Slobodan, Kwiatkowski, Michał, Lewandowska, Aleksandra, Jordanova Peshevska, Dimitrinka, Sofeska, Emilija, Dymitrow, Mirek, Peshevska, Dimitrinka Jordanova (2018) Can urban environmental problems be overcome? The case of Skopje- world's most polluted city. Bulletin of Geography, 40:40, p. 17-39.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2018) Rural/urban: Laying bare the controversy. Geographia Polonica, 91:4.

Krzysztofik, Robert, Dymitrow, Mirek, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta, Biegańska, Jadwiga (2017) Poverty and social exclusion: An alternative spatial explanation. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 35 (2017):35, p. 45-64.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2017) Degradation, restitution and the elusive culture of rural-urban thinking. – International Journal of Geography, 195:1, p. 36-60.

Brauer, Rene, Dymitrow, Mirek (2017) Human geography and the hinterland: The case of Torsten Hägerstrand’s ‘belated’ recognition. Moravian Geographical Reports, 25:2, p. 74- 84.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Brauer, Rene (2017) Performing rurality. But who?. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 38, p. 27-45.

Krzysztofik, Robert, Dymitrow, Mirek, Biegańska, Jadwiga, Senetra, Adam, Gavriilidou, Eleftheria, Nadolu, Bogdan, Kantor-Pietraga, Iwona, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta, Oureilidou, Eleni, Luches, Daniel, Spórna, Tomasz, Teodorescu, Dominic, Wasilewicz-Pszczółkowska, Monika, Holmertz, Gun, Szczepańska, Agnieszka, Brauer, Rene (2017) Landscapes with different logics: A physicalistic approach to semantic conflicts in spatial planning. Quaestiones Geographicae, 36:4, p. 29-45.

Biegańska, Jadwiga, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta, Dymitrow, Mirek, Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Justyna, Środa-Murawska, Stefania, Rogatka, Krzysztof (2016) Youth of former State Agricultural Farm estates as local human resources. Studia Obszarów Wiejskich – Rural Studies, 44.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Brauer, Rene (2016) Land or people? On the iatrogenesis of conflation. Acta Geobalcanica, 2:2.

Krzysztofik, Robert, Dymitrow, Mirek, Kantor-Pietraga, Iwona, Spórna, Tomasz (2016) The concept of urban hibernation. European Planning Studies, 24:2, p. 316-343.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Stenseke, Marie (2016) Rural-urban blurring and the subjectivity within. Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History, 3:1, p. 1-13.

Krzysztofik, Robert, Dymitrow, Mirek, Szmytkie, Robert, Kantor-Pietraga, Iwona, Pełka-Gościniak, Jolanta, Spórna, Tomasz (2015) Environmental hazards and urban abandonment: Case studies and typological issues. Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography, 97:4, p. 291-308.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2014) The effigy of urbanity or a rural parody? A visual approach to small-town public space. Journal of Cultural Geography, 31:1, p. 1-31.

Brauer, Rene, Dymitrow, Mirek (2014) Quality of life in rural areas: A topic for the Rural Development policy?. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 25:25.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2013) Degraded towns in Poland as cultural heritage. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 19:7, p. 613-631.

Journal article (other academic) Ingelhag, Karin, Dymitrow, Mirek (2020) Celebrating a truly collective effort. Dymitrow, M. and Ingelhag, K. (eds.), Anatomy of a 21st-century sustainability project: The untold stories, in production.

Book chapter Dymitrow, Mirek, Ingelhag, Karin (2020) A model for co-production of knowledge: Creating a Research Forum. In Hemström, K., Simon, D., Palmer, H., Perry, B. and Polk, M. (eds.), "Knowledge co-production: A practical guide based on joint experiences", Rugby, UK : Practical Action.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Kotze, Shelley, Ingelhag, Karin (2020) Anatomy of a 21st-century project: A critical analysis. In Dymitrow, M. and Ingelhag, K. (eds.), Anatomy of a 21st- century sustainability project: The untold stories, 205–236. Gothenburg : Mistra Urban Futures / Chalmers University of Technology.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Ingelhag, Karin (2020) Anatomy of a 21st-century project: A quick autopsy. In Dymitrow, M. and Ingelhag, K. (eds.), Anatomy of a 21st-century sustainability project: The untold stories, 1–12. Gothenburg : Mistra Urban Futures / Chalmers University of Technology.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Ingelhag, Karin (2020) Making two worlds meet. In Dymitrow, M. and Ingelhag, K. (eds.), Anatomy of a 21st-century sustainability project: The untold stories, 175–179. Gothenburg : Mistra Urban Futures / Chalmers University of Technology.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2020) The spatial dimension of project-making. In In: Dymitrow, M. and Ingelhag, K. (eds.), Anatomy of a 21st-century sustainability project: The untold stories, 44–53. Gothenburg : Mistra Urban Futures / Chalmers University of Technology.

Ingelhag, Karin, Dymitrow, Mirek, Kotze, Shelley, Wright, John (2020) The future of sustainability projects: Flights of fancy or a threnody to a lost age?. In Dymitrow, M. and Ingelhag, K. (eds.), Anatomy of a 21st-century sustainability project: The untold stories, 236–238. Gothenburg : Mistra Urban Futures / Chalmers University of Technology.

Smit, Warren, Durakovic, Elma, Sitas, Rike, Johansson, Magnus, Haysom, Gareth, Dymitrow, Mirek, Ingelhag, Karin, Kotze, Shelley (2020) Replicating projects for comparative research: Mistra Urban Futures’ experiences with comparative work on knowledge exchange, food and transport. In Simon, D., Palmer, H. and Riise, J. (eds.), "Comparative urban research from theory to practice: Co-production for sustainability", 63–88. Bristol : Policy Press.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Krzysztofik, Robert (2015) Degradation and restitution: Understanding the concept of urbanity through its oscillations within formal contexts. In Krzysztofik, R., & Dymitrow, M. (Eds.): Degraded and restituted towns in Poland: Origins, development, problems / Miasta zdegradowane i restytuowane w Polsce. Geneza, rozwój, problemy, 443-451 / 453-461. Göteborg : University of Gothenburg.

Krzysztofik, Robert, Dymitrow, Mirek (2015) Preface. In Krzysztofik, R., & Dymitrow, M. (Eds.): Degraded and restituted towns in Poland: Origins, development, problems / Miasta zdegradowane i restytuowane w Polsce. Geneza, rozwój, problemy, xi-xii / xiii-xiv. Göteborg : University of Gothenburg.

Krzysztofik, Robert, Dymitrow, Mirek (2015) Research on degraded and restituted towns: Overview and state-of-the-art. In Krzysztofik, R., & Dymitrow, M. (Eds.): Degraded and restituted towns in Poland: Origins, development, problems / Miasta zdegradowane i restytuowane w Polsce. Geneza, rozwój, problemy, 1-3 / 5-36. Göteborg : University of Gothenburg.

Spórna, Tomasz, Krzysztofik, Robert, Dymitrow, Mirek (2015) Degraded and restituted towns on maps. In Krzysztofik, R., & Dymitrow, M. (Eds.): Degraded and restituted towns in Poland: Origins, development, problems / Miasta zdegradowane i restytuowane w Polsce. Geneza, rozwój, problemy, 423-424 / 425-442. Göteborg : University of Gothenburg.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2015) The concept of urbanity in light of the municipal reform in interwar Poland. In Krzysztofik, R., & Dymitrow, M. (Eds.): Degraded and restituted towns in Poland: Origins, development, problems / Miasta zdegradowane i restytuowane w Polsce. Geneza, rozwój, problemy, 61-63 / 65-115. Göteborg : University of Gothenburg.

Krzysztofik, Robert, Dymitrow, Mirek, Kantor-Pietraga, Iwona, Spórna, Tomasz (2015) The concept of urban hibernation: Scientific note. In Krzysztofik, R., & Dymitrow, M. (Eds.): Degraded and restituted towns in Poland: Origins, development, problems / Miasta zdegradowane i restytuowane w Polsce. Geneza, rozwój, problemy, 347-349 / 351-353. Göteborg : University of Gothenburg.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2015) Deconstructing the discourse of degradation. In Krzysztofik, R., & Dymitrow, M. (Eds.): Degraded and restituted towns in Poland: Origins, development, problems / Miasta zdegradowane i restytuowane w Polsce. Geneza, rozwój, problemy, 355-359 / 361-366. Göteborg : University of Gothenburg.

Spórna, Tomasz, Krzysztofik, Robert, Dymitrow, Mirek (2015) Degraded and restituted towns in numbers. In Krzysztofik, R., & Dymitrow, M. (Eds.): Degraded and restituted towns in Poland: Origins, development, problems / Miasta zdegradowane i restytuowane w Polsce. Geneza, rozwój, problemy, 367-368 / 369-422. Göteborg : University of Gothenburg.

Szmytkie, Robert, Krzysztofik, Robert, Dymitrow, Mirek, Kantor-Pietraga, Iwona, Pełka-Gościniak, Jolanta, Spórna, Tomasz, Brauer, Rene (2015) Degraded towns and urban abandonment. In Krzysztofik, R., & Dymitrow, M. (Eds.): Degraded and restituted towns in Poland: Origins, development, problems / Miasta zdegradowane i restytuowane w Polsce. Geneza, rozwój, problemy, 185-187 / 189-207. Göteborg : University of Gothenburg.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Brauer, Rene (2014) Social deprivation and urbanity as the elephant in the room. In Urban and urbanization. Eds.: Efe, R., Onay, T.T., Sharuho, I. and Atasoy, E, 381–395. Sofia : St. Kliment Ohridski University Press.

Doctoral thesis Dymitrow, Mirek (2017) Rural/urban redux: Conceptual problems and material effects. Doct. thesis, Göteborg: Göteborgs Universitet.

Conference paper Dymitrow, Mirek, Ingelhag, Karin, Carlsson, Monika, Eliasson, Sara (2019) Nutrition, health and climate: What have we learned so far?. Conference on Food Science and Nutrition: “Forum for food science and nutrition for a better tomorrow”, 25–26 February 2019, Rome, Italy.

Simon, David, Smit, Warren, Riise, Jan, Hemström, Kerstin, Durakovic, Elma, Dymitrow, Mirek, Haysom, Gareth (2019) The challenge of conflicting rationalities about urban development: Experiences from Mistra Urban Futures’ transdisciplinary urban research. International Conference: “At the frontiers of the urban: Thinking concepts and practices globally”, University College London, 10–12 November 2019, London, UK.

Smit, Warren, Nilsson, Per-Arne, Nordqvist, Joakim, Månsson, Monika, Almered Olsson, Gunilla, Dymitrow, Mirek, Spring, Charlotte, Haysom, Gareth, Hemström, Kerstin (2019) What is meaningful collaboration? Reflections from work on food systems and urban regeneration. 4th Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference: “Lessons, Impacts and Outcomes”, Cutler’s Hall, 14–18 October 2019, Sheffield, UK.

Simon, David, Smit, Warren, Riise, Jan, Hemström, Kerstin, Durakovic, Elma, Dymitrow, Mirek, Haysom, Gareth (2019) The challenge of conflicting rationalities about urban development: Experiences from Mistra Urban Futures’ transdisciplinary urban research. Trialog 2019 Conference: “Whose knowledge counts? The meaning of co-productive processes for urban development and urban research”, Institute of Urban Planning and Design (Städtebau Institut) at the University of Stuttgart, 7–9 November 2019, Stuttgart, Germany.

Kotze, Shelley, Dymitrow, Mirek, Omondi, Lillian, Blazheva, Ana (2019) Using South- North collaborations to explore the role of gender within immigrant integration projects. 2019 RINGS Conference: “Genders and Feminisms in a Polarised World – Sustainability, Futures and Utopias”, The International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies / Tallinn University – Gender Studies Research Group, 2–4 October 2019, Tallinn, Estonia.

Kotze, Shelley, Dymitrow, Mirek (2019) Transboundary research collaborations: An evaluation against 11 principles of transboundary research. MiReKoc – 15th Anniversary Conference on Migration and Development in the ‘Global South’: “Research Challenges and Implications”, Migration Research Center at Koç University, 24–25 October 2019, Istanbul, Turkey.

Kotze, Shelley, Dymitrow, Mirek (2019) Ticking boxes and clocking in: A critical view of gender mainstreaming in labour-market integration. Conference “Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies”, Gothenburg Research Institute and Centre on Global Migration, 6–9 November 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Kotze, Shelley, Dymitrow, Mirek (2019) The role of trust in street-level organisations within integration projects. The 17th Annual ESPANET Conference: “Social citizenship, migration and conflict – Equality and opportunity in European welfare states”, The European Network for Social Policy Analysis, 5–7 September 2019, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Kotze, Shelley, Dymitrow, Mirek, Omondi, Lillian (2019) Double jeopardy within Swedish integration: Using South–North collaborations to explore the role of gender within transdisciplinary integration projects. International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019: “Joining Forces for Change”, TD-Net – Network for Transdisciplinary Research / Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, 10–13 September 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Fermskog, Kristina, Ingelhag, Karin, Dymitrow, Mirek (2019) Working with the Gothenburg food system: Civil servants and researchers connected through the Urban Rural Gothenburg Research Forum. 4th Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference: “Lessons, Impacts and Outcomes”, Cutler’s Hall, 14–18 October 2019, Sheffield, UK.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2019) Understanding great social challenges of today through the lens of cultural contingents. 70th Anniversary Symposium of the Macedonian Geographic Society: “New Trends in Geography”, 3–4 October 2019, Ohrid, North Macedonia.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Ingelhag, Karin, Kotze, Shelley (2019) The ‘Research Forum’ as a methodological tool for transdisciplinary co-production. International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019: “Joining Forces for Change”, TD-Net – Network for Transdisciplinary Research / Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, 10–13 September 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2019) Six conceptions of space: Rural/urban revisited. 5th Jubilee International Scientific Conference & Expo Geobalcanica, 13–14 June 2019, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Kotze, Shelley, Dymitrow, Mirek, Ingelhag, Karin (2019) Can a city feed itself? Innovations in City–Region Food Systems from a Swedish perspective. 4th Global Food Security, Food Safety & Sustainability Conference,10–11 May 2019, Montreal, Canada.

Melander, Dan, Ingelhag, Karin, Dymitrow, Mirek (2018) Urban Rural Gothenburg: What? How? For whom?. Stadslandet Half-time Conference, Business Region Gothenburg, Lärjeåns Trädgårdar, 26 September 2018, Angered, Sweden.

Biegańska, Jadwiga, Dymitrow, Mirek, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta, Środa-Murawska, Stefania, Szymańska, Daniela (2018) Rural development vs. conceptually induced harm. 5th Nordic Conference for Rural Research: “Challenged ruralities: Nordic welfare states under pressure”, 14–16 May, 2018, Vingsted, Denmark.

Almén Linn, Jenny, Dymitrow, Mirek, Ćorić, Şefika, Berg, Martin, Ingelhag, Karin (2018) Food tourism as a way of integration into the Swedish labor market?. Tomorrow’s Food Travel (TFT) conference, Centre for Tourism – University of Gothenburg, 8–10 October 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Almered Olsson, Gunilla, Burman, Anders, Dymitrow, Mirek, Armbrecht, John, Rinaldi, Chiara, Nilsson, Anders, Ohlén, Björn, Ingelhag, Karin, Fermskog, Kristina (2018) City–Region Food Systems: Scenarios to re-establish urban-rural links through sustainable food provisioning. Tomorrow’s Food Travel (TFT) conference, Centre for Tourism – University of Gothenburg, 8–10 October 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Almered Olsson, Gunilla, Haysom, Gareth, Dymitrow, Mirek, Fermskog, Kristina, Nyström, Maria, Opiyo, Paul, Spring, Charlotte, Taylor Buck, Nick, Agong’, Stephen Gaya (2018) Food systems sustainability: For whom and by whom? – An examination of different 'food system change' viewpoints. Development Research Conference 2018: “Rethinking development”, 22–23 August 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Fermskog, Kristina, Ingelhag, Karin, Kotze, Shelley (2018) Integration and green business development in a trust-building context. Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference “Comparative Co-Production”, SunSquare Conference Centre, 5– 7 November 2018, Cape Town, South Africa.

Melander, Dan, Almén Linn, Jenny, Ingelhag, Karin, Dymitrow, Mirek (2018) Destination development and food: Can it work?. Tomorrow's Food Travel #TFTSWEDEN Corporate Conference; Visit Sweden, Centre for Tourism at the University of Gothenburg, West Sweden Tourist Board and Gothenburg & Co., 9–10 October 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Jordanova Peshevska, Dimitrinka, Biegańska, Jadwiga, Brauer, Rene (2018) Wicked problems or wicked solutions? Sustainability–differently. Urban Research, Mistra Urban Futures, 18 September 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2018) Introducing Research Forum Urban Rural Gothenburg. Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference: “Geographical landscapes / Changing landscapes of geography”, 28–31 August 2018, Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Fermskog, Kristina, Dymitrow, Mirek (2018) Gothenburg’s applied food strategy: Meaningful – but how useful?. Development Research Conference 2018: “Rethinking development”, 22–23 August 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Isemo, Sanna, Ingelhag, Karin, Dymitrow, Mirek (2018) Urban food revisited: Green business development through co-creation. Thinkfood, Thinkpoint Innovation Arena, 15–16 September 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Magnusson, Kristina, Ingelhag, Karin, Dymitrow, Mirek, Dahlin, Jonas, Carlsson, Monika (2018) Food and climate as part of public kitchens' sustainability work. Chalmers Sustainability Day Conference: “Good Health and Well-being”, Chalmers University of Technology, Session “Loin, larvae or lentils – On eating for health and climate”, 23 October 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Ingelhag, Karin, Dymitrow, Mirek, Fermskog, Kristina (2018) Local food strategies for the future: Experiences from Gothenburg. Måltid Sverige: “Livsmedelsforum 2018” Conference, Chalmers University of Technology, Environmental Protection Agency, RISE – Research Institutes of Sweden, Västra Götaland Regional Council, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management; 11 October 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Justyna, Biegańska, Jadwiga, Martinat, Stanislav, Dymitrow, Mirek, Rogatka, Krzysztof (2018) Biogas enterprises: A chance or a challenge for rural development?. 5th Nordic Conference for Rural Research: “Challenged ruralities: Nordic welfare states under pressure”, 14–16 May, 2018, Vingsted, Denmark.

Sofeska, Emilija, Kwiatkowski, Michał, Arsovski, Slobodan, Dymitrow, Mirek (2018) Solving the unsolvable? Pollution as a factor creating the modern outpost of unsustainability . International Conference “Pollution of cities in the Republic of Macedonia: What are the solutions?”, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts / Research Center for Environment and Materials, 1–2 November 2018, Skopje, Macedonia.

Fermskog, Kristina, Dymitrow, Mirek, Ingelhag, Karin (2018) From skipped free school lunches to poverty-induced food deserts: Some thoughts on Gothenburg’s local food strategy – and how to make it happen. Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference “Comparative Co-Production”, SunSquare Conference Centre, 5–7 November 2018, Cape Town, South Africa.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2017) Urban Rural Gothenburg. Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference: “Realising Just Cities – Learning Through Comparison”, 13–15 November 2017, Kisumu, Kenya.

Kwiatkowski, Michał, Biegańska, Jadwiga, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta, Dymitrow, Mirek (2017) Dysfunctional landscapes vs. quality of life. 23rd Interdisciplinary Landscape Seminar "Landscape vs. health and quality of life" (XXIII Interdyscyplinarne Seminarium Krajobrazowe "Krajobraz a zdrowie i jakość życia"), UMCS / PTTK / PTG, 21–22 September 2017, Lublin and Nałęczów, Poland.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Brauer, Rene (2017) When concepts go bad: Iatrogenesis and stigmatization. 7th Nordic Geographers Meeting; “ of inequalities”, 18-21 June 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.

Krzysztofik, Robert, Dymitrow, Mirek, Kantor-Pietraga, Iwona, Spórna, Tomasz (2017) Selected urban centers of the Holy Cross Province in view of the concept of urban hibernation. 5th National Conference on Historical Geography (V Ogólnopolska Konferencja Geografii Historycznej), 22-23 June 2017, Łódź, Poland.

Biegańska, Jadwiga, Dymitrow, Mirek, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta, Środa-Murawska, Stefania (2017) Inconvenient ruralities? The State Agricultural Farm vs. the rural. 11th International Conference Man–City–Nature: “New opportunities – new challenges – new perspectives”, 9–10 October 2017, Toruń, Poland.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2017) 'If they are not urban, then they must be rural': On the iatrogenic effects of cultural stereotypes in socially deprived areas. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 5–9 April 2017, Boston, USA.

Brauer, Rene, Dymitrow, Mirek (2017) Understanding conceptual vestigiality within social sciences from an ecosystem perspective. 3rd Nordic Science and Technology Studies Conference, 31 May-2 June 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Brauer, Rene, Dymitrow, Mirek (2017) Understanding the telos of ‘research impact’ – or how to survive the new tourism-studies agenda. 9th International Congress on Coastal and Marine Tourism, 13-16 June 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Muñoz-Olsö, Pauline, Rydberg, Stina, Melander, Dan, Runsten, Susan (2017) Crossing dichotomies and breaking mental patterns: Green business development when all else fails?. 8th International Scientific Conference “Rural Development 2017: Bioeconomy Challenges”, 23–24 November, 2017 Kaunas, Lithuania.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Brauer, Rene (2017) Making ’the rural’ rural? Exploring the tautological tenets in performativity-oriented rural research. 11th International Conference Man–City– Nature: “New opportunities – new challenges – new perspectives”, 9–10 October 2017, Toruń, Poland.

Biegańska, Jadwiga, Dymitrow, Mirek, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta, Szymańska, Daniela, Środa-Murawska, Stefania, Kwiatkowski, Michał (2017) Ruralities of oblivion: When structural weakness gets swept under the carpet. International Conference on Challenges and Opportunities of Structurally Weak Rural Regions in Europe: ”Social Innovations and Social Enterprises Acting Under Adverse Conditions”, Adam Mickiewicz University / RurAction, 4–6 December 2017, Poznań, Poland.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Brauer, Rene (2016) The other side of ‘everyday ruralities’. Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers): "Nexus thinking", 30 August–2 September 2016, London, United Kingdom.

Brauer, Rene, Dymitrow, Mirek (2016) Trust vs. indirect harm of research: Introducing the defiltration maxim. RSA (Regional Studies Association) Conference: “Towards Impact and Contributions to Knowledge”, 27-28 October 2016, Newcastle, UK.

Brauer, Rene, Tribe, John, Morgan, Nigel, Dymitrow, Mirek (2016) The value of the negative. 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) / EASST (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology) Conference: “Science and Technology by Other Means”, 31 August–3 September 2016, Barcelona, Spain.

Brauer, Rene, Dymitrow, Mirek (2016) Rethinking participation: Ruralities, urbanities and the sociomaterialities of transposition. Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers): "Nexus thinking", 30 August–2 September 2016, London, United Kingdom.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Brauer, Rene (2016) Conflating land with people a.k.a. the iatrogenesis of rural-urban ideations. Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific Conference "Geobalcanica", 10-12 June, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

Brauer, Rene, Dymitrow, Mirek (2016) Extra-scientific factors and the dissemination of (un)popular ideas. Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific Conference "Geobalcanica", 10-12 June, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

Biegańska, Jadwiga, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta, Dymitrow, Mirek, Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Justyna, Środa-Murawska, Stefania, Rogatka, Krzysztof (2016) Młodzież z osiedli popegeerowskich a kształtowanie społecznych zasobów lokalnych. 32nd Seminar on Rural Geography "The role of local rural resources", organized by the Polish Geographical Association (Commission for Rural Areas) and the Polish Academy of Sciences (Stanisław Leszczycki Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization), 6-7 June 2016, Jachranka/Warsaw, Poland.

Brauer, Rene, Morgan, Nigel, Dymitrow, Mirek, Tribe, John (2016) How to write a REF impact case study? Critical discourse analysis of evidencing practices. “Making an impact: Creative constructive conversations” International Conference, 19-22 July 2016, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

Feltynowski, Marcin, Senetra, Adam, Biegańska, Jadwiga, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta, Dymitrow, Mirek, Środa-Murawska, Stefania (2015) Some problems of local development: the example of former State Agricultural Farms in Poland. Research for Rural Development 2015, Annual 21st International Scientific Conference Proceedings, Latvia University of Agriculture, 13–15 May 2015, Jelgava, Latvia.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Brauer, Rene (2015) Dancing tango and herding camels as ways to combat social deprivation?. Geographical Imagination: Interpretations of Nature, Art and Politics. 6th Nordic Geographers Meeting, 15-19 June 2015 - Tallinn & Tartu, Estonia.

Biegańska, Jadwiga, Dymitrow, Mirek, Środa-Murawska, Stefania, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta (2015) Post-socialist estates and the concept of rurality: From policy to misery. Eastern European Countryside Revisited - 25 years after the transition, 26-27 June 2015 - Toruń, Poland.

Biegańska, Jadwiga, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta, Dymitrow, Mirek (2015) Urban-rural dichotomy in the context of dysfunctionality. Integrated development of cities and regions: Local and regional perspective. Man-City-Nature, 10th International Conference, 12-13 October 2015, Toruń, Poland.

Kantor-Pietraga, Iwona, Dymitrow, Mirek, Szmytkie, Robert, Brauer, Rene, Pełka-Gościniak, Jolanta, Spórna, Tomasz, Krzysztofik, Robert (2014) Environmental hazards as a driver of urban abandonment in Poland. Unraveling the logics of landscape. Eds.: Stenseke, M., Dymitrow, M., Saltzman, K. et al.; 26th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, 8–12 September, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg & Mariestad, Sweden.

Brauer, Rene, Dymitrow, Mirek, Fridlund, Mats (2014) The digital shaping of humanities research: The emergence of Topic Modeling within historical studies. Enacting Futures: DASTS 2014 Conference (Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies), 12–13 June 2014, Roskilde University, Denmark.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Sandberg, Mattias, Wasilewicz-Pszczółkowska, Monika (2014) Metropolitan children’s outdoor perspectives and the changing nature of green areas: Ruralization of urban space or reconceptualization of rurality?. The active city: Unleashing the recreational potential of space, Conference and Workshops, University of Warmia and Mazury, 23-25 April 2014, Olsztyn, Poland.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Brauer, Rene (2014) Monitoring… when monitoring fails: The case of quality of life within the Rural Development policy. Unraveling the logics of landscape. Eds.: Stenseke, M., Dymitrow, M., Saltzman, K. et al.; 26th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, 8–12 September, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg & Mariestad, Sweden.

Biegańska, Jadwiga, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta, Dymitrow, Mirek (2014) The ”agri- ghetto”: On dysfunctional landscapes and the rural-urban paradox. Unraveling the logics of landscape. Eds.: Stenseke, M., Dymitrow, M., Saltzman, K. et al.; 26th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, 8–12 September, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg & Mariestad, Sweden.

Dymitrow, Mirek, Brauer, Rene, Holmertz, Gun, Apostolovska-Toševska, Biljana, Holmberg, Fredrik, Johansson, Lars (2014) Transcending the rural-urban meme: Hammarkullen – a landscape caught in-between. Unraveling the logics of landscape. Eds.: Stenseke, M., Dymitrow, M., Saltzman, K. et al.; 26th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, 8–12 September, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg & Mariestad, Sweden.

Brauer, Rene, Dymitrow, Mirek (2013) Using topic modelling to analyse EU’s Rural Development policy. Systematizing and digitalizing Nordic policy studies: Emergent perspectives within Swedish and Finnish research, Symposia, Aalto University, 27 November 2013, Helsinki, Finland.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2013) Local perception and experiential space as useful resources for mitigating the rural-urban dichotomy. Responsible Geographies. Nordic Geographers Meeting 11-14 June 2013 - Reykjavik, Iceland.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2013) Changing landscapes and rural-urban awareness: Conceptualizing rurality and urbanity through the prism of experiential space. Changing European Landscapes: Landscape ecology, local to global. IALE 2013 European Congress, 9-12 September 2013, Manchester, UK.

Brauer, Rene, Dymitrow, Mirek (2013) Digitally modeling regional development in Europe: A new methodological approach to policy analysis. Integrated development of cities and regions. Man-City-Nature, 9th International Conference, 14-15 October 2013, Toruń, Poland.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2013) Managing “lesser urbanity” in light of the assumptions of revitalization. Integrated development of cities and regions. Man-City-Nature, 9th International Conference, 14-15 October 2013, Toruń, Poland.

Report Dymitrow, Mirek, Ingelhag, Karin, Kotze, Shelley (2019) Local projects replicated: Insights from Urban Rural Gothenburg. Göteborg: Mistra Urban Futures.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2018) New developments on the concept of ”wicked solution”. Göteborg: Mistra Urban Futures.

Review Dymitrow, Mirek (2020) Review of "Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development" by Janis Birkeland. Routledge, Editorial proceedings Biegańska, Jadwiga, Dymitrow, Mirek, Grzelak-Kostulska, Elżbieta (ed.) (2014) Under urban mask: On rural landscapes with different logics.

Editorial collection Dymitrow, Mirek, Ingelhag, Karin (ed.) (2020) Anatomy of a 21st-century sustainability project. Gothenburg: Mistra Urban Futures / Chalmers University of Technology.

Krzysztofik, Robert, Dymitrow, Mirek (ed.) (2015) Degraded and restituted towns in Poland: Origins, development, problems. Göteborg: University of Gothenburg.

Stenseke, Marie, Dymitrow, Mirek, Saltzman, Katarina, Almered Olsson, Gunilla, Magnusson, Bo, Gustavsson, Eva, Lagerqvist, Bosse, Nyström, Lars, Sjölander Lindqvist, Annelie, Westin, Jonathan (ed.) (2014) Unraveling the logics of landscape. Göteborg: University of Gothenburg.

Other publication Dymitrow, Mirek, Halfacree, Keith (ed.) (2018) Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series (Volume 40). Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series (De Gruyter), 40:40.

Środa-Murawska, Stefania, Dymitrow, Mirek (ed.) (2016) Bulletin of Geography. Socio- Economic Series (Volume 33). Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series (De Gruyter) , 33:33.

Dymitrow, Mirek (2012) The hidden face of urbanity. Morphological differentiation of degraded and restituted towns in Poland in the context of the efficacy of the national administrative system. University of Gothenburg,