Reading Room | Paris
We're going to keep everything we've been reading for each episode here. This is kind of like a mix of a bibliography and show notes. If you want extra info on the themes covered in each episode this is a great place to start. If you're reading something that you think should be included email us, we're happy to add it.
Density - Episode 1
Griffiths, Tony. Stockholm: a Cultural and Literary History. Signal Books, 2009.
Hall, Thomas, and Rörby Martin. Stockholm: the Making of a Metropolis. Routledge, 2009.
http://www.centrumkartan.org/#/en
The Malms - Episode 2
Smith, Aaron Lake. “Sweden's PEGIDA Problem.” Medium, Medium, 19 Apr. 2016.
Westin, Charles. “Neo-Nazism in a Welfare State: The Example of Sweden.” Journal Für Konflikt- Und Gewaltforschung, vol. 2, pp. 184–206.
Moving - Episode 3
Hatherley, Owen. “How Sweden's Innovative Housing Programme Fell Foul of Privatisation | Owen Hatherley.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 16 June 2013.
Gowan, Peter, et al. “The Radical Reformist.” Jacobin.
Macdougall, Ian. “The Man Who Blew Up the Welfare State.” n+1, 28 Mar. 2014.
Tomasson, Richard F. “The Extraordinary Success of the Swedish Social Democrats.” The Journal of Politics, vol. 31, no. 3, 1969, pp. 772–798. JSTOR.
Segregation - Episodes 4 & 5
Baumgarthuber, Christine. “The People's Kitchen.” The New Inquiry, 7 Mar. 2013.
“Flying Panels – How Concrete Panels Changed the World.” ArkDes, 16 Oct. 2019.
Ismaïl, Agri. “Swedish Kurds | the Towner.” The Towner, 11 Nov. 2016.
Rapacioli, Paul. Good Sweden, Bad Sweden: the Use and Abuse of Swedish Values in a Post-Truth World. Volante, 2018.
Hedin, Karin, et al. “Neoliberalization of Housing in Sweden: Gentrification, Filtering, and Social Polarization.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 102, no. 2, 2012, pp. 443–463.
Family - Episode 6
Åkerström, Lola Akinmade. “Watching My Child Experience Racism in a Country of Contentment.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 31 July 2020.
Barker, Vanessa. “Policing Difference.” The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing, pp. 211–225., doi:10.4135/9781473957923.n13.
Black Archives Sweden
Entertainment - Episode 8
Martínez, Victoria., 2021. Thelocal.se. ‘The most drunken country in Europe’: Read this and you might like Systembolaget a whole lot better”
T-Centralen - Episode 9
Ahlstrand, Ingemar. “The Politics and Economics of Transport Investment and Pricing in Stockholm.” Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, vol. 35, no. 3, 2001, pp. 473–489. JSTOR.
Dye, Steph. “Underground Art: Stockholm's Colourful Metro Stations – in Pictures.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 4 June 2016.
Nature - Episode 10
Clark, Peter. The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St. Petersburg, 1850-2000. Routledge, 2016.
Orange, Richard. “Stockholm Says No to Apple ‘Town Square’ in Its Oldest Park.” The Guardian, The Guardian, Nov. 2018.