Henrik Halkier

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Regional development platforms and related variety: Exploring the changing practices of food tourism in North Jutland, Denmark

European Urban and Regional Studies (2014)

Laura James Henrik Halkier

There has been growing interest in regional policies that stimulate interactions between different sectors, often based on the concept of ‘related variety’. The identification and development of new cross-sectoral growth trajectories has been described elsewhere as building ‘regional development platforms’. This article contributes to conceptual debates about cross-sectoral regional development platforms and provides an empirical analysis of attempts to create and develop such a platform. From a conceptual perspective we argue that the notion of related variety can help policymakers to identify potential combinatorial platform opportunities, but may overestimate the ability of ‘related’ actors to collaborate together in innovative ways, because knowledge is embedded in practice and the process of ‘combining’ knowledge in new activities is therefore challenging. The paper illuminates the development of cross-sectoral platforms by examining the creation of new activities from a practice perspective that directs attention to the everyday activities, routines and understandings that constitute the ‘doing’ of economic development. We explore the development of a cross sectoral platform in the North Jutland region of Denmark, which integrates actors from the food and tourism sectors into a new food-tourism platform. We identify the dominant forms of the practices of producing food, retailing, catering, and promoting tourism, and then consider the ways in which these have changed in response to new cross-sectoral initiatives. The analysis shows that some aspects of practice are easier to change than others, and we conclude that an analytical approach inspired by practice theory can identify the requirements in terms of micro-level change in the practices of actors that is required for an initiative to succeed.

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10.1177/0969776414557293

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Notat til Sundheds- og Ældreudvalget, Christiansborg: Musikterapi som en integreret del af det danske sundhedsvæsen mhp. forebyggelse og behandling af psykiske lidelser, særligt ved demens

Hanne Mette Ochsner Ridder Ulla Holck Stine Lindahl Jacobsen B. van der Schelde Henrik Halkier

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The Harder They Come: 1789 as a Challenge to Marxism

Henrik Halkier E. J. Hobsbawm

SPECTRE IS HAUNTING MARXISM - the spectre of 1789. Merely 60 years after the fall of the Bastille Marx and Engels put forward their famous interpretation of the relationship between bourgeoisie and feudalism in the Communist Manifesto: feudal relations of production became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they became so many fetters. They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder. This general analysis, widely popularized as part of Marxism's general evolutionary scheme - feudalism, capitalism, socialism - is considered of particular relevance to that classic among the bourgeois revolutions: 1789. So this was what the French revolution was all about according to Marxists: the overthrow of a feudal aristocracy and its absolutist state by a rising capitalist bourgeoisie which replaced feudalism with capitalism as the dominant mode of production. The bicentenary of the revolution has been flooded by grandiloquent official and popular events, and academic seminars. * Thanks are due to Birger Andersen, Henrik Kaare Nielsen, and Morten Ougaard for valuable comments on earlier versions of this article - and to Henning Skaarup with whom the basic ideas originally were conceived.

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Networks Development Agencies and Intelligent Regions

Henrik Halkier Charlotte Damborg

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