Dr. Özlem Çelik
Özlem Celik is a Collegium Fellow at Turku Advanced Studies Institute (TIAS), University of Turku and a visiting scholar at the University of Helsinki. Özlem’s research concerns the political economy of urban development and change, with a focus on housing, green and climate financialization, role of the state, urban social movements and green transitions in the Nordic cities. Özlem’s previous research has focused on the financialisation of housing, role of the state in housing provision, and the limitations and possibilities of spatial politics of solidarity through commoning practices in Turkey. Özlem is a qualitative researcher, interested in using participatory and collaborative methodological approaches in engagement with housing movements and activist groups. Özlem is the co-founder and co-director of NUPE and Urban and Regional Political Economy Working Group. For more details: https://ozlem-celik.com/about
Dr. Lina Olsson
Lina Olsson (PI) is a Associate Professor at the Department of Urban Studies at Malmö University, and a member of the Institute for Urban Research (IUR) and K2 The Swedish Knowledge Centre for Public Transport. Her research focuses on the political economy of urban and regional development, including urban entrepreneurialism, municipal land policy, land value capture, public transport, regional development policy, and urban green transitions. Her current research projects deal with municipal-led green financialisation of urban development, mobility justice, and public transportation as a human right. Lina is the co-founder and co-director of NUPE.
Municipal Financialisation of Green Urban Development 