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Social Investment Policies in Urban Planning: An Argumentative Discourse Analysis of the Regeneration Dialogue in Lindängen, Malmö

Müllern Skanby, Joakim LU (2014) SGEM04 20141
Department of Human Geography
Abstract
This thesis presents an argumentative discourse analysis of the municipal-led urban regeneration initiative the Regeneration Dialogue in Lindängen, Malmö, Sweden. As suggested by the so-called Malmö Commission, the Regeneration Dialogue attempts to establish extensive regeneration of a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhood without producing negative outcomes of current residents. With the aid of Maarten Hajer’s conceptualisation of argumentative discourse analysis, this thesis discerns a discourse-coalition enabled by shared storylines arguing for regeneration of Lindängen. These storylines are: a deterioration storyline, a social mobilisation storyline, and an investment fund storyline. Moreover, this thesis shows how the... (More)
This thesis presents an argumentative discourse analysis of the municipal-led urban regeneration initiative the Regeneration Dialogue in Lindängen, Malmö, Sweden. As suggested by the so-called Malmö Commission, the Regeneration Dialogue attempts to establish extensive regeneration of a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhood without producing negative outcomes of current residents. With the aid of Maarten Hajer’s conceptualisation of argumentative discourse analysis, this thesis discerns a discourse-coalition enabled by shared storylines arguing for regeneration of Lindängen. These storylines are: a deterioration storyline, a social mobilisation storyline, and an investment fund storyline. Moreover, this thesis shows how the discourse-coalition is particularly informed by a social investment discourse. This thesis concludes that the Regeneration Dialogue is said to deflect regeneration-induced negative outcomes through social mobilisation and the implementation of an area-based investment fund. However, The implementation of an investment fund is contested and is thus not considered to contribute to the coherence of the discourse-coalition. (Less)
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author
Müllern Skanby, Joakim LU
supervisor
organization
course
SGEM04 20141
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Social investment perspective, Social mobilisation, Argumentative Discourse Analysis, Neighbourhood regeneration, Investment fund, Urban Planning, Malmö
language
English
id
4463680
date added to LUP
2014-09-03 18:14:11
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2014-09-03 18:14:11
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  abstract     = {{This thesis presents an argumentative discourse analysis of the municipal-led urban regeneration initiative the Regeneration Dialogue in Lindängen, Malmö, Sweden. As suggested by the so-called Malmö Commission, the Regeneration Dialogue attempts to establish extensive regeneration of a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhood without producing negative outcomes of current residents. With the aid of Maarten Hajer’s conceptualisation of argumentative discourse analysis, this thesis discerns a discourse-coalition enabled by shared storylines arguing for regeneration of Lindängen. These storylines are: a deterioration storyline, a social mobilisation storyline, and an investment fund storyline. Moreover, this thesis shows how the discourse-coalition is particularly informed by a social investment discourse. This thesis concludes that the Regeneration Dialogue is said to deflect regeneration-induced negative outcomes through social mobilisation and the implementation of an area-based investment fund. However, The implementation of an investment fund is contested and is thus not considered to contribute to the coherence of the discourse-coalition.}},
  author       = {{Müllern Skanby, Joakim}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Social Investment Policies in Urban Planning: An Argumentative Discourse Analysis of the Regeneration Dialogue in Lindängen, Malmö}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}