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Mats Brusman

Associate Professor

The City as a Social Arena

Mats received  his PhD in Culture Studies at Linköping University, Campus Norrköping in 2008. He had previously an MA in History,  and a degree as Upper Secondary School Teacher, from LiU in 2002. 

His research deals with historical and cultural perspectives on urban change and development and on postindustrial cities as cultural and social arenas. He is interested in the meaning(s) of place for identity processes and how global discourses and local structures interacts or counteracts in practices of local planning. In a current project he studies the varying roles of culture and how it is perceived, used and communicated in local city development processes.

Mats teaches on several programmes, foremost within the BA Social and Cultural Analysis, and the MA-programme Social and Welfare Studies and also in several course at the teachers college.

Publications

2018

Mats Brusman, Päivi Turunen (2018) Socialt hållbar samhällsplanering Samhällsarbete: Aktörer, arenor och perspektiv, p. 117-138

2014

Mats Brusman, Leif Jonsson (2014) Kommunledningsrum: om rummets betydelse för ledningsarbetet i kommuner

2012

Mats Brusman (2012) Stadens kulturer Kulturaliseringens samhälle: Problemorienterad kulturvetenskaplig forskning vid Tema Q 2002-2012, p. 127-129
Mats Brusman (2012) Kultursamverkan och hållbar stadsutveckling: kulturen som aspektpolitik i samhällsplaneringe Under konstruktion: Effekter av kultursamverkansmodellen 2010 - 2012, p. 99-110

2011

Mats Brusman (2011) Plats Perspektiv på turism och resande: Begrepp för en kritisk turismanalys, p. 147-168