Department of Business Humanities and Law

My research is interdisciplinary and draws on organisation studies, urban sociology, and cultural theory. I am currently coordinating the BHL research group Social and Technological Venturing.

In my PhD titled ‘The Management of the Meantime’ I studied the aestheticization of the city through temporary use of space and culture, a strategy also known as temporary urbanism. The thesis draws on organization studies of time and affect to show how the temporary works as a pervasive temporal order that reorganizes how we feel about, attach to and engage in the places in which we live or work. The findings extend beyond the case study of urban transformation in a post-industrial site in Copenhagen (Refshaleøen) to the politics of time management in the aesthetic economy and in temporary forms of organizing and working.

In my current research project KLIMA-DEL, funded by Velux HumPraxis with Professor Sine N. Just as PI, we study how new forms of democratic participation form out of emotions such as despair, hope, political apathy, and other reactions to climate change. I work with Klimabevægelsen and DemocracyX to understand the changing landscape of democratic participation in climate politics, focusing on the tensions between the political wish to involve citizens in climate politics and citizens’ self-organized and everyday forms of climate participation.