Tom Mels
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Kulturgeografiska institutionen
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 83 51, +46 498 10 83 51
- E-mail:
- tom.mels@kultgeog.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Campus Gotland, Cramérgatan 3
621 57 Visby - Postal address:
- Uppsala universitet, Campus Gotland
621 67 Visby
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Short presentation
I coordinate the undergraduate planning program on Campus Gotland. My research is concerned with power, justice and the politics of nature and landscape, with a historical, materialist and humanist penchant. Empirical interests include capitalist modernity and nature conservation in Sweden; the production of land reclamation spaces on Gotland; wind power landscapes. I teach many courses on e.g. environmental justice, planning theory, globalization, public space and natural resources.
Biography
Fil.dr (PhD) in Human Geography (Lund University, 1999); Assistant Professor at Lund University and Malmö University (1999-2000); Assistant Professor of Human Geography at Kalmar University (2000-2009); Postdoc University College Dublin (2001-2002); Docent (Associate Professor) of Human Geography (Lund University, 2009); Associate Professor of Human Geography at Gotland University (September 2009-2013); Guest lecturer at Stockholm University 2009-2012; Associate Professor of Human Geography at Uppsala University(Campus Gotland) 2013-currently.
My research has appeared in journals such as Antipode, Cultural Geographies, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Landscape Research, Journal of Historical Geography, and Geografiska Annaler. I am associate editor of Landscape Research (Routledge/Taylor Francis) and a member of the editorial board of Cultural Geographies (Sage).
Research
My work is mainly in the field of historical landscape studies, with a particular focus on 19th- and 20th-century capitalist modernity in the Swedish countryside. Wild Landscapes (Lund University Press 1999, dissertation) traces the rise and development of national park ideology and planning in Sweden. Co-written with Anne Buttimer, By Northern Lights (Ashgate, 2006) explores the long history of practicing geography in Sweden, and the edited collection Reanimating Places (Ashgate, 2004) deals with place and ideas of rhythm. I have a longstanding interest in historical geographies of land draining on Gotland, processes of primitive accumulation, planning and environmental justice. I served as an associate editor of Landscape Research and member of the editorial board of Cultural Geographies.
Publications
Recent publications
- Vindkraftens påverkan på människors intressen (2021)
- Producing landscapes of environmental justice (2021)
- Landskap och planering (2021)
- Sociala konsekvenser och förankring (2021)
- Ideology (2020)
All publications
Articles
- Producing landscapes of environmental justice (2021)
- The deep historical geography of environmental justice (2020)
- The Meanings of Landscape (2019)
- The trouble with representation (2016)
- Genialt planlagt? Drabantbyen som hjem i spennet mellom boligfaglige idealer og levde landskap (2015)
- Primitive Accumulation and the Production of Abstract Space (2014)
- Figures in the Revolutionary Landscape (2013)
- Landskapskulturens Öland (2009)
- Romance, Practice and Substantiveness (2007)
- The Low Countries' Connection (2006)
- Edmunds Bunkse, Geography and the Art of Life (2006)
- Between ‘Platial’ Imaginations and Spatial Rationalities (2005)
- Landscape Unmasked (2003)
- Nature, Home, and Scenery (2002)
Books
Chapters
- Landskap och planering (2021)
- Sociala konsekvenser och förankring (2021)
- Ideology (2020)
- Ideology (2020)
- Landscape interpretation (2019)
- Rumsliga metoder (2018)
- Existentialism (2016)
- Environmental discourse (2016)
- From Gotland to Youngstown (2015)
- Globalism, Particularism and the Greening of Neoliberal Energy Landscapes (2014)
- Landscape and Justice (2013)
- Between the Castle and the Trial (2012)
- Emplacing landscape in Sweden (2012)
- Nationalparker, kapitalisme, og natursyn i Sverige (2012)
- Anne Buttimer (2011)
- Cento anni di parchi nazionali in Svezia (2011)
- Analysing Environmental Discourses and Representations (2009)
- Senkapitalismens nimbuslandskap, eller en kritisk kulturell ekonomi (2007)
- Political landscapes of pleasant places (2005)
- Lineages of a geography of rhythms (2004)
- Geokodifiering (2002)
- Landskapsfragment (2000)
Conferences
- Nature and the politics of primitive accumulation (2013)
- Participatory landscape analysis for wind power (2013)
- Landscape in Sweden (2012)
- Globalism, particularism and the greening of neoliberal energy landscapes (2011)
- One hundred years of national parks in Sweden (2010)
- The poetics and politics of primitive accumulation (2010)
- Modernity, landscape and nostalgia (2009)
- Landscape, modernity and post-modernity (2009)
- Against Reification (2005)
- Land, Water and the Platial Justice of Landscape (2003)
- Nature, Home and Scenery (2002)
- Landscape, Nature, and Aesthetics (2001)
- Landscape Theories and the Theories of Geography (1998)
- Imperial wilderness (1997)
- Realism och relativism inom kulturgeografi (1997)