We explore how political struggles influence innovation policy through a Norwegian case study on the formation of a state-funded research and development program for utilizing natural gas feedstock from the North Sea. Despite the apparent dominance of business, specialized branches of the state,...

1. Introduction : the spatialities of hotels and tourism workplaces / David Jordhus-Lier and Anders Underthun -- 2. Making difference within the hotel : labour mobility and the internationalization of reproductive work / Kristina Zampoukos and Dimitri Ioannides -- 3. Stretching liminal spaces of...

"The hospitality and tourism sector is a large and rapidly expanding industry worldwide, and can rightfully be described as a vehicle of globalisation. Hotels are among the cornerstones of the industry often drawing workers from the most vulnerable segments of multicultural labour markets,...

I examine the political campaign to bring a state-financed gas pipeline to the Norwegian region of Grenland and its existing manufacturing industry. It is argued that the politics of space for capturing and holding onto investments takes a specifically scalar form within a rescaled state that no...