?SCALE? CONCEPT SEMINAR
Suggested preparations:
VIDEO: ?Scale? – David Jordhus-Lier
VIDEO: ?The workplace as scale? - David Jordhus-Lier
@Marston, S. A. (2000). The social construction of scale. Progress in human geography, 24(2), 219-242. (23 pages)
@Lier, D. C. (2007). Places of work, scales of organising: a review of labour geography. Geography Compass, 1(4), 814-833. (19 pages)
@MacKinnon, D. (2011). Reconstructing scale: Towards a new scalar politics. Progress in human geography, 35(1), 21-36. (15 pages)
Question 1. What are the main positions and arguments in the “scale debate”?
Choose among the following resources:
VIDEO : ?Scale? - David Jordhus-Lier
@Delaney, D., & Leitner, H. (1997). The political construction of scale. Political Geography, 16(2), 93-97.
@Cox, K. R. (1998). Spaces of dependence, spaces of engagement and the politics of scale, or: looking for local politics. Political geography, 17(1), 1-23. (23 pages)
@Marston, S. A. (2000). The social construction of scale. Progress in human geography, 24(2), 219-242. (23 pages)
@Brenner, N. (2001). The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration. Progress in human geography, 25(4), 591-614. (23 pages)
@Marston, S. A., & Smith, N. (2001). States, scales and households: limits to scale thinking? A response to Brenner. Progress in human geography, 25(4), 615-620. (5 pages)
@Marston, S. A., Jones, J. P., & Woodward, K. (2005). Human geography without scale. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 30(4), 416-432. (16 pages)
@Jonas, A. E. (2006). Pro scale: further reflections on the ‘scale debate’ in human geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31(3), 399-406 (7 pages)
@Collinge, C. (2006). Flat ontology and the deconstruction of scale: a response to Marston, Jones and Woodward. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31(2), 244-251. (7 pages)
@Leitner, H., & Miller, B. (2007). Scale and the limitations of ontological debate: a commentary on Marston, Jones and Woodward. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32(1), 116-125. (9 pages)
@Moore, A. (2008). Rethinking scale as a geographical category: from analysis to practice. Progress in human geography, 32(2), 203-225. (22 pages)
Appr. 145 pages
Question 2. How can scale be understood in relation to other geographical concepts?
Choose among the following resources:
VIDEO: “Movement as mobilization: Geographical concepts on the politics of labour” - Kristian Stokke
@Jessop, B., Brenner, N., & Jones, M. (2008). Theorizing sociospatial relations. Environment and planning D: society and space, 26(3), 389-401. (13 pages)
@MacKinnon, D. (2011). Reconstructing scale: Towards a new scalar politics. Progress in human geography, 35(1), 21-36. (15 pages)
The following chapters from Nicholls, W., Miller, B. og Beaumont, J. (red). (2013). Spaces of Contention: Spatialities and Social Movements. Ashgate:
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Nicholls, W., Miller, B. og Beaumont, J.: Introduction (only pages 1-12) (12 pages)
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Martin, D.G.: Place Frames: Analysing Practice and Production of Place in Contentious Politics (Chapter 4, pp 85-99) (14 pages)
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Mayer, M.: Multiscalar Mobilization for the Just City: New Spatial Politics of Urban Movements. (Chapter 8, pp 163-196) (34 pages)
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Davies, A. D. og Featherstone, D.: Networking Resistances: The Contested Spatialities of Transnational Social Movement Organizing (Chapter 11, pp 239-260) (21 pages)
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Miller, B.: Conclusion: Spatialities of Mobilization: Building and Breaking Relationships (Chapter 13, pp 285-298
Appr. 125 pages
Question 3. How has scale been employed in labour geography?
Choose among the following resources:
VIDEO: ?The workplace as scale? - David Jordhus-Lier
@Herod, A. (1997). Labor's spatial praxis and the geography of contract bargaining in the US east coast longshore industry, 1953–1989. Political Geography, 16(2), 145-169. (24 pages)
@Castree, N. (2000). Geographic Scale and Grass-Roots Internationalism: The Liverpool Dock Dispute, 1995–1998*. Economic Geography, 76(3), 272-292. (20 pages)
@Sadler, D., & Fagan, B. (2004). Australian trade unions and the politics of scale: Reconstructing the spatiality of industrial relations. Economic Geography, 80(1), 23-43. (20 pages)
@Lier, D. C. (2007). Places of work, scales of organising: a review of labour geography. Geography Compass, 1(4), 814-833. (19 pages)
@Tufts, S. (2007). Emerging labour strategies in Toronto's hotel sector: toward a spatial circuit of union renewal. Environment and Planning A, 39(10), 2383-2404. (21 pages)
@Oseland, S. E., Haarstad, H., & Fl?ysand, A. (2012). Labor agency and the importance of the national scale: emergent aquaculture unionism in Chile. Political Geography, 31(2), 94-103. (9 pages)
@Rutherford, T. D. (2013). Scaling up by law? Canadian labour law, the nation‐state and the case of the British Columbia Health Employees Union. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(1), 25-35. (10 pages)
@Ellem, B. (2015). Geographies of the labour process: automation and the spatiality of mining. Work, Employment & Society, 0950017015604108. (17 pages)
@Hastings, T., & MacKinnon, D. (2016). Re-embedding agency at the workplace scale: Workers and labour control in Glasgow call centres. Environment and Planning A, 0308518X16663206 (17 pages).
Appr. 140 pages
?REPRESENTATION? CONCEPT SEMINAR
Suggested preparations:
VIDEO: “Representation #1” – Marielle Stigum Gleiss
VIDEO: “Representation #2” – Marielle Stigum Gleiss
Saward, M. (2006). The Representative Claim. Contemporary Political Theory, 5(3), 297-318.
Stokke, K., & Selboe, E. (2009). Symbolic representation as political practice. In O. T?rnquist, N. Webster, & K. Stokke (Eds.), Rethinking Popular Representation, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 59–78.
Beckman, B. (2009). “Trade Unions and Popular Representation: Nigeria and South Africa Compared”. In O. T?rnquist, N. Webster, & K. Stokke (Eds.), Rethinking Popular Representation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 179-195.
Question 1. How is representation political?
Choose among the following resources:
VIDEO: “Representation #1” – Marielle Stigum Gleiss
Pitkin, H. F. (1967). The Concept of Representation. Berkeley, CA: University of California.
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The classic reference to the concept of representation. Especially chapter 3-6 are relevant in order to understand the different forms of representation identified by Pitkin.
Saward, M. (2006). The Representative Claim. Contemporary Political Theory, 5(3), 297-318.
Saward, M. (2010). The Representative Claim. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Chapters 1 and 2).
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Outlines Saward’s approch to representation, which focus on the construction of representative claims. The 2006 article gives an overview of Saward’s approach. The 2010 book goes more in depth and includes both a critique of Pitkin’s approach to representation (chapter 1) and a model for analyzing representation (chapter 2)
Stokke, K., & Selboe, E. (2009). Symbolic representation as political practice. In O. T?rnquist, N. Webster, & K. Stokke (Eds.), Rethinking Popular Representation, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 59–78.
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Critical discussion of the form of representation which Pitkin refers to as symbolic representation.
T?rnquist, O. (2009). Introduction: The Problem Is Representation! Toward an Analytical Framework.
In O. T?rnquist, N. Webster, & K. Stokke (Eds.), Rethinking Popular Representation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-23.
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Takes Pitkin’s typology of different forms of representation as a starting point and locates these within an analytical framework for studying democratic representation.
Question 2. How are workers represented at work and in society?
Choose among the following resources:
VIDEO: “Representation #2” – Marielle Stigum Gleiss
@Bauder, H. (2005). Landscape and scale in media representations: The construction of offshore farm labour in Ontario, Canada. cultural geographies, 12(1), 41-58.
Beckman, B. (2009). “Trade Unions and Popular Representation: Nigeria and South Africa Compared”. In O. T?rnquist, N. Webster, & K. Stokke (Eds.), Rethinking Popular Representation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 179-195.
@Gleiss, M. S. (2014). How Chinese labour NGOs legitimize their identity and voice. China Information 28(3): 362–381
@Houtzager, P. P., & Lavalle, A. G. (2010). Civil society’s claims to political representation in Brazil. Studies in Comparative International Development, 45(1), 1-29.
Jordhus-Lier, D. C. (2013). “Trade Unions and Democratisation: Representation and Engagement during Local Government Reform in South Africa”. In Stokke, K. and O. T?rnquist (eds), Democratiation in the Global South: The Importance of Transformative Politics, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 195 – 216
@Jordhus‐Lier, D. (2013). The geographies of community‐oriented unionism: scales, targets, sites and domains of union renewal in South Africa and beyond. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(1), 36-49.
@Lewis, N. M., & Mills, S. (2016). Seeking security: Gay labour migration and uneven landscapes of work. Environment and Planning A, 0308518X16659773.
?CITIZENSHIP? CONCEPT SEMINAR
Suggested preparations:
Marshall, T. H. (1992). Citizenship and social class In T. H. Marshall & T. Bottomore (Eds.), Citizenship and social class (pp. 1-54). London: Pluto Press. (54 pages)
@Zhang, C., & Lillie, N. (2014). Industrial citizenship, cosmopolitanism and European integration. European Journal of Social Theory, 1368431014553756. (19 pages)
Question 1. How can citizenship be understood in the age of mobility?
Choose among the following resources:
@Ball, R., & Piper, N. (2002). Globalisation and regulation of citizenship—Filipino migrant workers in Japan. Political Geography, 21(8), 1013-1034. (21 pages)
@Castles, S. (2005). Nation and empire: hierarchies of citizenship in the new global order. International Politics, 42(2), 203-224. (21 pages)
@Zhang, C., & Lillie, N. (2014). Industrial citizenship, cosmopolitanism and European integration. European Journal of Social Theory, 1368431014553756. (19 pages)
Appr 61 pages
Question 2. How did T.H. Marshall define ‘industrial citizenship’ and how has it since been used and critiqued?
Choose among the following resources:
Marshall, T. H. (1992). Citizenship and social class In T. H. Marshall & T. Bottomore (Eds.), Citizenship and social class (pp. 1-54). London: Pluto Press. (54 pages)
@Zetlin, D., & Whitehouse, G. (2003). Gendering industrial citizenship. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 41(4), 773-788. (15 pages)
@Fudge, J. (2005). After industrial citizenship: Market citizenship or citizenship at work? Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, 60(4), 631-656. (24 pages)
Appr 95 pages
Question 3. What characterises industrial citizenship under the Nordic Model?
Choose among the following resources:
VIDEO: Fredrik Engelstad – “The Nordic Model of industrial relations”
@Streeck, W. (1997). Industrial citizenship under regime competition: the case of the European works councils. Journal of European Public Policy, 4(4), 643-664. (21 pages)
Engelstad, F. (2004), “Democracy at Work? Does Democracy in Working Life Make Sense in the 21st Century?”. I F. Engelstad & ?. ?sterud (red.), Power and Democracy. Critical Interventions. Aldershot: Ashgate. Side 209-234. (26 pages)
@D?lvik, Jon Erik (2007), "The Nordic regimes of labour market governance: From crisis to success story?” Fafo-paper 2007:07. (52 pages)
Appr 100 pages
THEMATIC SEMINAR: MOBILE WORKPLACES - THE POLITICS OF THE AVIATION INDUSTRY (Anders Underthun)
Suggested preparations:
@Harvey, G., Turnbull, P. (2012). Power in the skies: Pilot commitment and trade union power in the civil aviation industry. Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations 20, 51-74 (23 pages)
@Weller, S. (2007). Strategy and the contested politics of scale: air transportation in Australia. Economic Geography, 83(2), 137-158. (19 pages)
Appr. 42 pages
THEMATIC SEMINAR: ORGANISED LABOUR AND CLIMATE CHANGE (David Jordhus-Lier)
Suggested preparations:
@O'Brien, K. L., & Leichenko, R. M. (2003). Winners and losers in the context of global change. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 93(1), 89-103. (14 pages)
@Felli, R. (2013). An alternative socio-ecological strategy? International trade unions’ engagement with climate change. Review of International Political Economy, (ahead-of-print), 1-27. (26 pages)
@R?thzel, N., & Uzzell, D. (2011). Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma. Global Environmental Change, 21(4), 1215-1223. (8 pages)
Lipsig-Mummé, C. (2013). “Climate, Work and Labour: the International Context”. In Climate@Work, C. Lipsig-Mummé (ed.), Fernwood Publishing, Winnipeg, CAN, pp 21-40 (19 pages)
Appr. 67 pages
THEMATIC SEMINAR: THE CHANGING POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RESOURCE WORK IN NORTHERN CANADA (Suzanne Mills)
Suggested preparations:
Mills, S.E. & B. Sweeney, (2013). Employment Relations in the Neo-Staples Resource Economy: IBAs and Aboriginal Governance in Canada’s Nickel Mining Industry.
Studies in Political Economy, Spring 91: 7-33.
Dansereau, Suzanne. 2006. "Globalization and mining labour: wages, skills, and mobility." Minerals and Energy 21:8-22.
Bradbury, John H., and Isabelle St.-Martin. 1983. "Winding down in a Quebec mining town: a case study of Schefferville." Canadian Geographer 27 (2):128-144.
THEMATIC SEMINAR: THE STATE AS AN EMPLOYER (David Jordhus-Lier)
Suggested preparations:
@Gialis S.E. and A. Herod (2013). Resisting austerity: the case of Greece’s powerworkers and steelworkers. Human Geography 6(2), 98-115. (17 pages) Available online
@Jordhus‐Lier, D. C. (2012). Public sector labour geographies and the contradictions of state employment. Geography Compass, 6(7), 423-438. (15 pages) Available online
@Sweeney, B. (2013). The labour geographies of education: The centralization of governance and collective bargaining in Ontario, Canada. Geoforum, 44, 120-128.
@Tattersall, A. (2006). Bringing the community in: Possibilities for public sector union success through community unionism. International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 6(2), 186-199. (13 pages) Available online
Appr. 45 pages
THEMATIC SEMINAR: MOBILE BODIES AND TOURISM EMPLOYMENT (David Jordhus-Lier)
Suggested preparations:
Jordhus-Lier, David Christoffer (2014). Extinguishing fires: Coping with outsourcing in Norwegian hotel workplaces, In David Christoffer Jordhus-Lier & Anders Underthun (ed.), A hospitable world?: Organising work and workers in hotels and tourist resorts. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415747790. Chapter 10. s 137 - 155
Alberti, G. (2014). “Multi-scalar organising in London’s hotels: The challenges of engaging transient workers through labour and community alliances”. In Jordhus-Lier, D. C. and Underthun A. (eds). A hospitable world? Organising work and workers in hotels and tourist resorts, Routledge, UK. (22 pages)
Henningsen, E., Jordhus-Lier, D. C. and Underthun, A. (2014). “The resort as a workplace: Seasonal workers in a Norwegian mountain municipality”. In Jordhus-Lier, D. C. and Underthun A. (eds). A hospitable world? Organising work and workers in hotels and tourist resorts, Routledge, UK. (19 pages)
Appr. 56 pages
THEMATIC SEMINAR: COMMUNITY UNIONISM AND ALLIANCE-BUILDING (David Jordhus-Lier)
Suggested preparations:
@Jordhus-Lier, D. (2013). The geographies of community-oriented unionism: scales, targets, sites and domains of union renewal in South Africa and beyond. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(1), 36-49. (13 pages)
@Wills, J. (2012). The geography of community and political organisation in London today. Political Geography, 31(2), 114-126. (12 pages)
@Tufts, S. (1998). Community unionism in Canada and labor's (re) organization of space. Antipode, 30(3), 227-250. (23 pages)
Appr. 48 pages
THEMATIC SEMINAR: LABOUR INTERNATIONALISMS (J?rgen Magdahl)
Suggested preparations:
@Anner, M., Greer, I., Hauptmeier, M., Lillie, N., & Winchester, N. (2006). The industrial determinants of transnational solidarity: Global interunion politics in three sectors. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 12(1), 7-27. (20 pages)
@Munck, R. (2010). Globalization and the labour movement: challenges and responses. Global Labour Journal, 1(2). (15 pages)
Routledge, P., Cumbers, A., & Nativel, C. (2013). Global Justice Networks: Operational Logics, Imagineers and Grassrooting Vectors. Nicholls et al. (eds), Spaces of Contention, Ashgate: Aldershot, 261-284 (23 pages)
@Herod, A. (2003). Geographies of labor internationalism. Social Science History, 27(04), 501-523. (22 pages)
Appr. 93 pages