Publications

Peer-review articles

Metzger, J., Allmendinger, P. & Kornberger, M. (2020). Ideology in practice: the career of sustainability as an ideological concept in strategic urban planning. International Planning Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2020.1839390.

Carstens, C., Mossberg, Sonnek, K., Räty, R. Carlsson-Kanyama, A., Wikman-Svahn, P. & Metzger, J. (2019). Insights from Testing a Modified Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways Approach for Spatial Planning at the Municipal Level. Sustainability, 11(2).

Zakhour, S. & Metzger, J. (2019). From a 'planning-led regime' to a 'development-led regime' (and back again?): the role of municipal planning in the urban governance of Stockholm. Disp: the planning review 54(4), 46-58.

Zakhour, S. & Metzger, J. (2018). Placing the action in context: contrasting public-centered and institutional understandings of democratic planning politics. Planning Theory & Practice 19(3): 345-362.

Metzger, J., & Wiberg, S. (2017). Contested framings of urban qualities: Dis/qualifications of value in urban development controversies. Urban Studies, 0042098017712831.

Metzger, J., Soneryd, L., & Linke, S. (2017). The legitimization of concern: A flexible framework for investigating the enactment of stakeholders in environmental planning and governance processes. Environment and Planning A, 0308518X17727284.

Metzger, J., Soneryd, L., & Hallström, K. T. (2017). ‘Power’is that which remains to be explained: Dispelling the ominous dark matter of critical planning studies. Planning Theory, 1473095215622502.

Metzger, J. (2016). Cultivating torment: The cosmopolitics of more-than-human urban planning. City, 20(4), 581-601.

Paasi, A., & Metzger, J. (2017). Foregrounding the region. Regional Studies, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2016.1239818

Johansson, N., & Metzger, J. (2016). Experimentalizing the organization of objects: Re-enacting mines and landfills. Organization, 1350508415624271.

Metzger, J. (2014). ‘Spatial planning and/as caring for more-than-human place’. Environment & Planning A 46 (5); 1001-1011.

Metzger, J. (2013). ‘Raising the regional Leviathan: a relational-materialist conceptualization of regions-in-becoming as publics-in-stabilization’. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37 (4): 1368-1395.

Metzger, J. (2013). ‘Placing the stakes: the enactment of territorial stakeholders in planning processes’. Environment & Planning A 45(4): 781–796.

Metzger, J. & Schmitt, P. (2012) ‘When soft spaces harden: The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region’. Environment & Planning A 44(2).

Metzger, J. (2011) “Neither revolution, nor resignation: (re)democratizing contemporary planning praxis – a commentary on Allmendinger & Haughton’s Spatial planning, devolution, and new planning spaces”. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 29(2):191-196.

Metzger, J. (2011). ”Strange spaces: a rationale for bringing art and artists into the planning process”. Planning Theory 10(3).

Edited books in English

Metzger, J. & Lindblad, J. (eds.) (2020). Dilemmas of sustainable urban development: a view from practice. New York: Routledge.

Frichot, H., Gabrielsson, C. & Metzger, J. (2016) 'Deleuze and the City'. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Hillier, J. & Metzger, J. (2015) ‘Connections: Exploring contemporary planning theory and practice with Patsy Healey’. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Metzger, J., Allmendinger, P. & S. Oosterlynck, eds (2014). ’Planning Against the Political: Democratic deficits in European territorial governance’. New York: Routledge. Contracted, in production. Scheduled for publication early 2014.

Metzger, J. & Rader Olsson, A., eds (2013). ’Sustainable Stockholm: exploring urban sustainable development in Europe’s greenest city’. New York: Routledge.

Book chapters in English

Metzger, J. & Lindblad, J. (2020). ‘A practice-centered approach to dilemmas of sustainable urban development’. In Metzger, J. & Lindblad, J. (eds.). Dilemmas of sustainable urban development: a view from practice.

Metzger, J. & Zakhour, S. (2019). ‘The politics of new urban professions: the case of urban development engineers’. In Savini, F. & Raco, M., eds. Planning and Knowledge: How New Forms of Technocracy are Shaping Contemporary Cities, Bristol: Policy Press. Accepted and in press.

Metzger, J. (2019). ‘A more-than-human approach to environmental planning’. In Davoudi, S., Blanco, H. Cowell, R. and White, I, eds. The Routledge Companion to Environmental Planning and Sustainability, London: Routledge. Accepted for publication.

Metzger, J. (2019). ‘Overflowing with uncertainty: controversies regarding epistemic wagers in climate-economy models’. In Czarniawska, B. & Löfgren, O., eds., Overwhelmed by overflows? How individuals and institutions create and manage excess. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Accepted for publication and in press.

Metzger, J. (2018). ‘Planning and the politics of hope: a critical inquiry’. In Salet, W., ed. The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action, London: Routledge.

Metzger, J. (2017). ‘Postpolitics and planning’. In Gunder, M., Madanipour, A., Watson, V., eds. The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory, London: Routledge, pp. 180-193.

Metzger, J. (2017). ‘Can the Craft of Planning Be Ecologized?’. In Kurath, M., Marskamp, M., Paulos, J. & Ruegg, J., eds. (2017) Relational Planning: Tracing Artefacts, Agencies and Practices, (pp. 99-120). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Frichot, H. & Metzger, J. (2016) 'Never Believe the City Will Suffice to Save Us! Stockholm Gentri-Fictions'. In Frichot, H., Gabrielsson, C. & Metzger, J. (eds.) 'Deleuze and the City'. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Frichot, H., Gabrielsson, C. & Metzger, J. (2016) 'What a City Can Do'. In Frichot, H., Gabrielsson, C. & Metzger, J. (eds.) 'Deleuze and the City'. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Olesen, K., & Metzger, J. (2016). 'The Region is Dead, Long Live the Region: The Øresund Region 15 Years after the Bridge'. In L. Albrects, A. Balducci, & J. Hillier (Eds.), Situated Practices of Strategic Planning: An International Perspective. (pp. 67-83). Chapter 5.Abingdon: Routledge. (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy).

Metzger, J. (2016). 'Expanding the subject of planning: Enacting the relational complexities of more-than-human urban common(er)s'. In Kirwan, S., Brigstocke, J. & Dawney, L. (eds.) Space, Power and the Commons. London: Routledge.

Metzger, J. (2015) ‘The city is not a Menschenpark: conceptualizing the urban commons across the human/non-human divide’. In C. Borch & M. Kornberger Urban commons: rethinking the city, London: Routledge.

Metzger, J. (2015) ‘Doing planning work’. In Hillier, J. & Metzger, J. ‘Connections: Exploring contemporary planning theory and practice with Patsy Healey’. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Metzger, J. (2015) ‘The Planning/Development Nexus: how places are produced and changed’. In Hillier, J. & Metzger, J. ‘Connections: Exploring contemporary planning theory and practice with Patsy Healey’. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Hillier, J. & Metzger, J. (2015) ‘Patsy Healey’s legacy: a revitalized planning project for the 21st century and the promise of democratic planning to come’. In Hillier, J. & Metzger, J. ‘Connections: Exploring contemporary planning theory and practice with Patsy Healey’. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Metzger, J. (2014) ‘The subject of place: Staying with the trouble’ In T. Haas & K.Olsson, Emergent urbanism, Aldershot: Ashgate.

Metzger, J. (2014). ‘The moose are protesting: conceptualizing planning politics across the human/non-human divide’. In J. Metzger, P. Allmendinger & S. Oosterlynck (eds), Planning Against the Political: Democratic Deficits in European Territorial Governance. New York: Routledge.

Metzger, J., Allmendinger, P. & Oosterlynck, S. (2014). ‘The contested terrain of European territorial governance: new perspectives on democratic deficits and political displacements’. In J. Metzger, P. Allmendinger & S. Oosterlynck (eds), Planning Against the Political: Democratic Deficits in European Territorial Governance. New York: Routledge.

Metzger, J. & Rader Olsson, A. (2013) ’Introduction: The greenest city?’. In J. Metzger & A. Rader Olsson (eds.) Sustainable Stockholm: exploring urban sustainable development in Europe’s greenest city. New York: Routledge.

Rader Olsson, A. & Metzger, J. (2013). ’Urban sustainable development the Stockholm way’. In J. Metzger & A. Rader Olsson (eds.) Sustainable Stockholm: exploring urban sustainable development in Europe’s greenest city. New York: Routledge.

Other publications in international academic journals (commentaries, reviews, etc)

Legacy, C., Metzger, J., Steele, W., & Gualini, E. (2019). Beyond the post-political: Exploring the relational and situated dynamics of consensus and conflict in planning. Planning Theory, 18(3), 273-281.

Metzger, J. (2019). Review of Faludi ‘The Poverty of Territorialism: A Neo-Medieval View of Europe and European Planning’, Planning Theory, DOI 1473095219894711.

Metzger, J. & Kallio, K. P. (2018). ’Alternative’ journal publishing and the economy of academic prestige. Editorial. Fennia 196(1), 1-3.

Metzger, J. (2018). Taking care to stay with the trouble. Review Essay. Architectural Theory Review. 22(1): 140-147.

Czarniawska, B. & Metzger, J. (2017). Editorial, Managing overflows: How people and organizations deal with daily overflows. European Management Journal 35(6):711.

Metzger, J. (2012) Review of Healey & Upton ‘Crossing Borders: International exchange in planning practice’, International development planning review 34(2): 211-213.

Metzger, J. (2011) “Dispatches from a time capsule? Moving the ANT, normativity and democracy discussion ten years down the road: an intervention in the Boelens–Rydin–Webb debate”. Planning Theory 10(3).

Reports & other publications in English

Hedin, S., Dahlström, M. & Metzger ,J. (2010) Regional development policies: messages from a Nordic research programme. Stockholm: Nordregio.

Books in Swedish

Metzger, J. (2018) Kunskapsekonomins pionjärer: konsultbranschens framväxt i Sverige och Stockholm. Stockholm: Stockholmia förlag.

Metzger, J. (2005). I köttbullslandet: konstruktionen av svenskt och utländskt på det kulinariska fältet [In the land of meatballs: the construction of swedishness and foreignness in the culinary field]. With a summary in English. Diss. Stockholm : Almquist & Wicksell, 2005. Stockholm.

Book chapters in Swedish

Metzger, J. (2016) Lojal tjänare, paragrafryttare eller gerilla i byråkratin? Funderingar om tjänstepersonens roll som “god byråkrat” i dialogprocesser. I Bornemark, J. (red.) Medborgardialog: om det svåra i att mötas. Praktikers reflektioner om ett av demokratins viktigaste verktyg. Stockholm: Arkus.

Metzger, J. (2016). Ballonger och ansiktsmålning för den kreativa klassen: när innovativa planeringsmetoder blir avpolitiserande avledningsmanövrer. I Tesfahuney, M. & Ek, R. Den postpolitiska staden. Borås: Recito Förlag.

Olesen, K., & Metzger, J. (2015). Regionen er død, længe leve regionen. Byplan, 67(3), 37-42. [på danska]

Metzger, J. (2013) Kultur i hållbar stadsutveckling: ett experiment i gemensamt utforskande [Culture in sustainable urban development: an experiment in common exploration] In Nilsson, D., Olsson, K. & Lindgren, K. (eds) Hållbar utveckling: den kulturella dimensionen. Stockholm: Boverket, Riksantikvarieämbetet, Formas, Ariktekturmuseet, pp. 35-38.

Metzger, J. (2011). ’Konsten som demokratiserande teknologi - möjligheter och utmaningar med konst-iga rum’, [Art as a democratizing technology: the potentials and challenges of art-ful spaces] Widhoff, A (ed.), Skiss: konst, arbetsliv, forskning, pp. 240-252, Konstfrämjandet.

Metzger, J. (2010) ’Befreundung durch verfremdung: en funktion för konstnärliga rum i samhällsplaneringens processer‟ [Befreundung durch verfremdung: a function for artistic spaces in spatial planning processes]. I Magnusson, A. (ed.) Att dela ett samhälle. Stockholm: Stockholms Läns Lansting/Kulturförvaltningen.

Metzger, J. (2009) ”Husmanskostentreprenören: Tore Wretmans omdaning av det svenska kulinariska fältet‟ [The Husmanskost-entrepreneur: Tore Wretman‟s remake of the Swedish culinary field]. I Fjellström, K. (ed.) Gastronomisk Forskning. Stockholm: Gastronomiska akademin.

Reports & other publications in Swedish

Metzger, J (2011) “En plats för konsten i samhällsplaneringens processer: projektet Radikalt Miljöombyte” [A space for art in planning processes: the project A radical shift of scenery]. PLAN 3/2011 [professional journal].

Metzger, J. (2011) ”Svensk forskning om regional utveckling: inriktningar och miljöer” [Swedish research on regional development: topics and research environments], Stockholm: Sveriges kommuner och landsting/Reglab [Swedish association of municipalities and counties].

Metzger, J. (2011) ”Förstudie angående handlingsplan för kulturella och kreativa näringar i Stockholms län” [Pilot study for an action plan for the cultural and creative industries in Stockholm County]. Stockholm: Länsstyrelsen i Stockholm [The Stockholm County Administrative Board].

Metzger ,J. (ed.) (2009) Stockholm: Attraktiv region för internationella experter [Stockholm: an attractive region for international experts]. With a summary in english. Stockholm: Regionplane- och Trafikkontoret [Stockholm County Council Office of Regional Planning and Public Transportation].

Metzger, J. (2008) “Kunskapsöversikt om sambanden mellan konsumtion och tillväxt i storstäder” [Overview of research on the the connection between consumption and growth in metropolitan regions]. In Metzger, J. (ed.) Livsstilar och konsumtionsmönster i Stockholmsregionen: ett regionalt utvecklingsperspektiv. Stockholm: Regionplane- och Trafikkontoret [Stockholm County Council Office of Regional Planning and Public Transportation].

Metzger, J (ed.) (2008) Livsstilar och konsumtionsmönster i Stockholmsregionen: ett regionalt utvecklingspersvpektiv [Life styles and consumption patterns in the Stockholm region: a regional development perspective]. With a summary in english. Stockholm: Regionplane- och trafikkontoret [Stockholm County Council Office of Regional Planning and Public Transportation].

Metzger, J (2008) “Storstadens lockelser: om livsstilar, konsumtion, tillväxt och social sortering”. [The lure of big cities: about life styles, consumption, growth and social sorting]. In PLAN 2/2008[professional journal].

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