Publications

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].

Popular science articles/presentations

Metzger, J. (2020). Vetenskap och ideologi i hyresdebatten. Dagens Arena/ Arena Essä. https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/vetenskap-och-ideologi-i-hyresdebatten/

Zakhour, S & Metzger, J. (2018). Den oplanerade staden. In City: Samfundet S:t Eriks Årsbok 2018. Reprinted in PLAN 2020.

Metzger, J. (2012) “We are not alone in the universe”, www.eurozine.com (translation of original text in Swedish, also translated into Italian in the journal Internazionale).

Metzger, J. (2012) ”Vi är inte ensamma på planeten”, tidskriften Arena, 1/2012.

Metzger, J (2005) “Real swedes eat meatballs”. In Axess 9/2005.