Bjarke Risager, Postdoctoral Fellow
Home Campus:
U of T St. George
PhD:
Aarhus University
Other Degrees:
Cand.soc., Aarhus University
MA, King's College London
BA, Aarhus University
Cross Appointments:
Independent Research Fund Denmark International Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisor(s):
Jason Hackworth
Contact Information:
Personal Website: https://utoronto.academia.edu/BjarkeRisager
Research Interests:
- Social movements and activism: critical social movement theory, leftist movements, anti-austerity, housing and anti-eviction movements
- Political economy: Marxism, (re)composition of class, class struggle, financialization, cultural and everyday political economy, precarity
- Human geography: urban theory and studies, the Right to the City, housing, gentrification, production of space
Selected Publications:
Mohandesi, S., Risager, B. S., & Cox, L. (Eds.). (2018). Voices of 1968: Documents from the Global North. London: Pluto Press.
Bruun, M. H., Cockburn, P., Risager, B. S., & Thorup, M. (Eds.). (2018). Contested Property Claims: What Disagreement Tells Us about Ownership. Abingdon & New York, NY: Routledge.
Risager, B. S. (2018). Mobilizing for a ‘Europe from Below’: Network, Territory, and Place in the Anti-Austerity Blockupy Movement. Space and Polity, 22(1), 67–85. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2018.1488537
Risager, B. S. (2017). The Eventful Places of Occupy Wall Street and Tahrir Square: Cosmopolitan Imagination and Social Movements. Globalizations, 14(5), 714–729. http://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2016.1217623
Harrison, Y. N. A., & Risager, B. S. (2016). Convergence as Organization: Blockupy against the ECB. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 36(11/12), 843–859. http://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-12-2015-0132
Risager, B. S., & Thorup, M. (2016). Protesting the Neoliberal University: The Danish Student Movement, ‘A Different University’. Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements, 8(1), 7–33. Retrieved from http://www.interfacejournal.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Issue-8-1-Risager-and-Thorup.pdf
Risager, B. S. (2016). Neoliberalism is a Political Project: An Interview with David Harvey. Jacobin Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/
Research Clusters:
Cities and Everyday Life, Political Spaces