Journal of Organizational Ethnography: Volume 11 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Organizing the city

Bagga Bjerge, Jonas Strandholdt Bach

Governing urban diversity through myths of national sameness – a comparative analysis of Denmark and Sweden

Tina Gudrun Jensen, Rebecka Söderberg

The purpose of this paper is to explore problematisations of urban diversity in urban and integration policies in Denmark and Sweden; the paper aims to show how such policies…

Moral urban citizenship and the youth problem in a Danish ghetto

Jonas Strandholdt Bach, Nanna Schneidermann

This article examines the interventions from municipality, state and other actors in the Gellerup estate, a Danish “ghetto” by focusing on the youth problem and its construction…

Inclusive gentrification? Reproducing logics of exclusion in strategies for inclusive urban planning

Maj Nygaard-Christensen, Bagga Bjerge

The authors investigate two contrasting, yet mutually constitutive strategies for regulating open drug scenes in the city of Aarhus, Denmark: A strategy of dispersing marginalized…

Real-estate valuation and the organization of the city: a document-centred ethnography of Tel Aviv's planning in action

Uri Ansenberg

The increasing financialization of urban organization has been well-documented over the last couple of decades. Nevertheless, the planning process has been seen as distinct from…

Urbanization and the organization of territorial cohesion – results from a comparative Danish case-study on territorial inequality and social cohesion

Anja Jørgensen, Mia Arp Fallov

There is a growing importance for public facilitation of corporate social responsibility and involvement of civil organizations in securing territorial cohesion and development…

The missing builders: craftwork and crafty resistance in the “eco-metropolis” of Copenhagen

Maia Ebsen

The paper ethnographically explores modes of urban resistance emerging in tandem with climate change mitigation programs in Copenhagen.