Professor in Sociology at Malmö University.
Malmö, Sweden
Mikael Stigendal is a Professor in Sociology at Malmö University, Sweden. His research interest concerns processes of societalization, in particular how the reproduction of societal systems causes inequality and global warming as well as provokes resistance and includes weak links that can be exploited in efforts of societal transformation. To handle such a multi-dimensional and multi-scalar agenda, he has in most of his almost 40 projects since the 1980s focused on urban territories and places, also in many comparisons with cities across Europe. Understanding the economy in its inclusive sense, he has shown how segregation in cities can be treated as spatiotemporal fixes, which may contribute to the regulation of structural contradictions and crisis-tendencies, inherent in the capital relation, and securing regimes of accumulation. While doing that,he has taken advantage of the experience-based knowledge that exists among non-academics and carried out most of my research interactively, in collaborations with municipal employees, civil society and young people. In the Commission for a Socially Sustainable Malmö (Malmö Commission), in which he participated and was one of the two editors of the Commission’s final report (2013), they called that knowledge alliances and made it one of their two major recommendations to achieve a more sustainable development, thereby aspiring to build further on the results of their much praised predecessor, the WHO-commission on the social determinants of health led by Michael Marmot.
