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City Marketing in a Dual City: Discourses of Progress and Problems in post-Industrial Malmö

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Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference

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The Municipal Executive Committee in Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, is producing a history of the city. In brief, the storyline is as follows:

Malmö has during the last decade gone through a tremendous change from being a manufacturing town to becoming a city of knowledge.

(City of Malmö — A Diversity of Encounters and Opportunities within Europe, 2003, p. 7)1

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  1. Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Lund University, Sweden

    Bo Petersson (Professor of Political Science, Deputy Head of the Centre for European Studies) (Professor of Political Science, Deputy Head of the Centre for European Studies)

  2. Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK

    Katharine Tyler (Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity) (Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity)

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Mukhtar-Landgren, D. (2008). City Marketing in a Dual City: Discourses of Progress and Problems in post-Industrial Malmö. In: Petersson, B., Tyler, K. (eds) Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582644_4

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