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Jouni Häkli

Professor of Regional Studies
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
+358401973664
jouni.hakli@tuni.fi

About me

I am Professor or Regional Studies and lead the Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG). I was the PI for Tampere University part of the Centre of Excellence in Research on the Relational and Territorial Politics of Bordering, Identities and Transnationalization (RELATE) funded by the Academy of Finland (2014-2019), and the vice director of the New Social Research (NSR) profiling programme in Tampere University (2017-2021). My research lies at the intersection of political geography, migration studies, and transnational sociology, with focus on the study of political subjectivity, political agency, forced migration and transnationalization. I am particularly interested in the political agency of people in vulnerable positions. I have also studied discourses and practices of territoriality, borders and national identities, urban planning and civic participation, and the methodology of human geography.

A recent keynote talk on Environmental Citizenship, titled “Environmental Citizenship – Between (Unwarranted) Hope and (Unproductive) Despair”

Selected publications

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2020). Bodies and persons: The politics of embodied encounters in asylum seeking. Progress in Human Geography (published online 2 July 2020). DOI: 10.1177/0309132520938449

Kallio, K.P., Meier, I. & Häkli. J. (2020). Radical hope in asylum seeking: Political agency beyond linear temporality. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (published online 18 May 2020). DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1764344

Häkli, J. (2020). What can flat ontology teach the legislator? Dialogues in Human Geography. 10:3, 370-373. DOI: 10.1177/2043820620940055 (published online 6 July 2020).

Kallio, K.P. Wood, B.E. & Häkli, J. (2020) Lived citizenship: conceptualising an emerging field, Citizenship Studies, 24:6, 713-729. DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2020.1739227

Häkli, J., Ruez, D. (2020). Governmentality. In: Kobayashi, A. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition. vol. 6, Elsevier, pp. 259–265. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10651-1

Häkli, J., Kallio, K.P. & Ruokolainen, O. (2020). A missing citizen? Issue-based citizenship in city-regional planning. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 44:5, 876-893. DOI:10.1111/1468-2427.12841

Häkli, J., Korkiamäki, R., & Kallio, K.P. (2018). ‘Positive recognition’ as a preventive approach in child and youth welfare services. International Journal of Social Pedagogy 7(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2018.v7.1.005.

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2019). Care as mundane politics – Contested familial refugee lives in Finland. Gender, Place and Culture, 26(6), 795-812.

Pascucci, E., Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2019). ‘Delay and neglect’: the everyday geopolitics of humanitarian borders. In: Paasi, A., Prokkola, E.-K., Saarinen, J., Zimmerbauer, K.
(Eds.) Borderless Worlds – for Whom? Ethics, Moralities and Mobilities. Routledge, London, 93-107.

Kallio, K.P., Häkli, J. & Pascucci, E. (2019). Refugeeness as political subjectivity: Experiencing the humanitarian border. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(7) 1258-1276.

Häkli, J. and Kallio, K.P. (2018). Theorizing children’s political agency. In Skelton, T. and Aitken, S. (eds) Establishing Geographies of Children and Young People, Vol 1 of Skelton, T. (ed) Springer Major Reference Work in Geographies of Children and Young People. Singapore: Springer.

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2018). On becoming political: the political in subjectivity. Subjectivity 11:1, 57-73. doi.org/10.1057/s41286-017-0040-z

Häkli, J. (2018). The subject of citizenship – Can there be a posthuman civil society? Political Geography 67, 166-175 . DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.08.006

Häkli, J. (2018). Transcending scale? In G. H. Herb and D. H. Kaplan (eds.) Scaling Identities. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 271-282.

Häkli, J., Pascucci, E. & Kallio, K.P. (2017). Becoming refugee in Cairo: The political in performativity. International Political Sociology 11:2, 185-202. doi: 10.1093/ips/olx002

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2017). Geosocial Lives in Topological Polis: Mohamed Bouazizi as a Political Agent. Geopolitics 22:1, 91–109. doi:10.1080/14650045.2016.1208654

Joronen, M. & Häkli, J. (2017). Politicizing ontology. Progress in Human Geography 41:5, 561-579. [online since June 10 2016) DOI: 0.1177/0309132516652953

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2016). Children’s rights advocacy as transnational citizenship. Global Networks 16:3, 307–325. DOI: 10.1111/glob.12096

Häkli, J. (2015). Symbolic violence in border corssing – a bodily geopolitics. Nordia Geographical Publications 44:4, 75-80.

Häkli, J. (2015). The Border in the Pocket: Passport as a Mobile Boundary Object. In Amilhat-Szary, A.L. and Giraut, F. (eds.) Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 85-99.

Kallio, K.P. and Häkli, J. (eds.) (2015). The Beginning of Politics. London: Routledge/Taylor&Francis.

Kallio, K.P. and Häkli, J. (2015) Children’s political geographies. In Agnew, J., Mamadouh, V., Secor, A. and Sharp, J. (eds.) Companion to Political Geography. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 265-278.

Kallio, K.P., Häkli, J. & Bäcklund, P. (2015). Lived citizenship as the locus of political agency in participatory policy. Citizenship Studies 19:1, 101–119. DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2014.982447

Bäcklund, P., Kallio, K.P. and Häkli, J. (2014) Residents, customers or citizens? Tracing the idea of youthful participation in the context of administrative reforms in Finnish public
administration. Planning Theory and Practice 15:3, 311–327. DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2014.929726

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2014). The global as a field: children’s rights advocacy as a transnational practice. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23(2), 293-309. DOI: 10.1068/d0613

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2014). Subject, action and polis: Theorizing political agency. Progress in Human Geography 38(2), 181-200. DOI: 10.1177/0309132512473869

Häkli, J. (2013). State space – outlining a field theoretical approach. Geopolitics 18(2), 343-355. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2012.723285

Kallio, K.P & Häkli, J. (2013) Children and young people’s politics in everyday life. Space & Polity 17(1), 1–16. DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2013.780710

Häkli, J. (2012). Boundary objects in border research: methodological reflections with examples from two European borderlands. In Martin Klatt, Marie Sandberg and Dorte Andersen (eds.). The Border Multiple:The Practicing of Borders between Public Policy and Everyday Life in a Re-scaling Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 163-178.

Häkli, J. (2011). Re-Demarcating Transnational Space: The Case of Haparanda-Tornio. In Jaroslaw Janczak (ed). De-Bordering, Re-Bordering and Symbols on the European Boundaries. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 21-35.

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2011). Tracing children’s politics. Political Geography 30(2), 99-109.

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2011) Are there politics in childhood? Space & Polity 15(1), 21–34.

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2011). Young people’s voiceless politics in the struggle over urban space. GeoJournal 76 (1), 63-75.

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2010) Political geography in childhood. Guest editorial. Political Geography 29(7), 357–458.

Herb, G., J. Häkli, M. Corson, N. Mellowd, S. Cobarrubias, M. Casas-Cortes (2009). Intervention – mapping is critical. Political Geography 28(6), 332-342.

Häkli, J. (2009). Governmentality. In Kitchin, Rob & Thrift, Nigel (eds). International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 4. Oxford UK: Elsevier, 628-633.

Häkli, J. (2009). Geographies of trust. In Jouni Häkli & Claudio Minca (eds.). Social Capital and Urban Networks of Trust. Aldershot: Ashgate, 13-36.

Häkli, J. (2009). Boundaries of trust: building a transnational space in Haparanda-Tornio. In Jouni Häkli & Claudio Minca (eds.). Social Capital and Urban Networks of Trust. Aldershot: Ashgate, 205-232.

Häkli, J. (2008). Regions, Networks and Fluidity in the Finnish Nation-State. National Identities 10(1), 5-22.

Häkli, J. (2008). Re-Bordering Spaces. In Kevin R. Cox, Murray Low & Jenny Robinson (eds). Handbook of Political Geography. London: Sage, 471-482.

Häkli, J. (2007). Biometric identities. Progress in Human Geography 31(2), 1-3.

Häkli, J. (2005). Who is the Finn? Globalization and Identity in Finland. Journal of Finnish Studies 9(2), 12-26.

Häkli, J. (2004). Governing the mountains: Cross-border Regionalization in Catalonia. In Kramsch, Olivier & Hooper, Barbara (eds). Cross-Border Governance in the European Union. London: Routledge, 56-69.

Häkli, J. (2003). To discipline or not – is that the question? Political Geography 22(6), 657–661.

Häkli, J. & Paasi, A. (2003). Geography, space and identity. In Öhman, J. & Simonsen, K. (eds.). Voices from the North: New Trends in Nordic Human Geography. Aldershot: Ashgate, 141-155.

Häkli, J. (2002). Transboundary Networking in Catalonia. In Kaplan, D. & Häkli, J. (eds.) Boundaries and Place: European borderlands in geographical context. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 70-92.

Häkli, J. (2001). The Politics of Belonging: Complexities of Identity in the Catalan Borderlands. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography 83(3), 5-13.

Häkli, J. (2001). In the territory of knowledge: state-centered discourses and the construction of society. Progress in Human Geography 25(3), 403-422.

Häkli, J. (1999). Cultures of Demarcation: Territory and National Identity in Finland. In Guntram H. Herb & D. H. Kaplan (eds.). Nested identities: Identity, Territory, and Scale. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 123-149.

Häkli, J. (1998). Discourse in the production of political space: Decolonizing the symbolism of provinces in Finland. Political Geography 18(3), 331-363.

Häkli, J. (1998). Cross-border regionalization in the New Europe – Theoretical reflection with two illustrative examples. Geopolitics 3(3), 83-103.

Dear, M. & J. Häkli (1998). Space, place and urbanism – methodological notes for contemporary urban research [Tila, paikka ja urbanismi – uuden kaupunkitutkimuksen metodologiaa]. Terra 110(2), 59-68.

Häkli, J. (1998). Manufacturing Provinces: theorizing the encounters between governmental and popular geographs in Finland. In S. Dalby & G. Ò Tuathail (eds.). Rethinking Geopolitics. London: Routledge, 131-151.

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Kirsi Pauliina Kallio

Professor of Environmental Pedagogy
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
kirsipauliina.kallio@tuni.fi

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About me

I am Professor of Regional Studies and Docent of Childhood Studies. My research interests form around the human subject as a constantly developing political being with capacities to act, and relational political space that actualizes contextually in the form of communities and societies with various scalar dimensions. My current interdisciplinary work focuses on refugeeness (as an experienced condition), humanitarian border (as a topological constellation), relational age (from the perspective of youthful political agency and intersubjective spatial socialization) and lived citizenship (in the city-regional scale and as environmental agency). I am also actively involved in development projects where the perspective of Positive Recognition, based on co-creative research, is put into practice and further developed in different professional context. I edit the geographical journal Fennia, an open access peer review publication by the Geographical Society of Finland. The journal is affiliated with the Versus forum that publishes popular research-inspired articles and discussions. I also edit the book reviews section in the journal Space & Polity.

Selected publications

Kallio, K.P. (forthcoming) Topological mapping: a methodological approach to studying children’s experiential worlds. In Reilly, K., Moran, L. and Brady, B. (eds.) Narrating Childhoods: Knowledge, Place and Materiality, xx–xx. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Häkli, J., Kallio, K.P. & Ruokolainen, O. (2019). A missing citizen? Issue-based citizenship in city-regional planning. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. DOI:10.1111/1468-2427.12841

Wood, B. & Kallio, K.P. (2019) Green citizenship: towards spatial and lived perspectives. In Simin Davoudi, Hilda Blanco, Richard Cowell and Iain White (eds.) Routledge Companion to Environmental Planning and Sustainability, 171–180. London: Routledge. Versus: Kenen politiikkaa ympäristökansalaisuus on?

Kallio, K.P. & Riding, J. (2019) Editorial: Open policies, open practices – open attitudes? Fennia 197:1, 1–7.

Rye, S.A., Kallio, K.P. & Bærenholdt, J.O. (2019) Nielsen, Sigurd Solhaug 2018. Developing global awareness among young students: A study of students’ experiences with the museum exhibition A World at Stake. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift, 1-2.

Kallio, K.P. & Thomas, Mary (2019) Editorial: Intergenerational encounters, intersubjective age relations. Emotion, Space and Society 32 (100575).

Kallio, K.P. (2019) Elettyä kansalaisuutta jäljittämässä: kansalaisuuden ulottuvuudet Nuorisobarometrissa. Pekkarinen, E. and Myllyniemi, S. (eds.) Vaikutusvaltaa Euroopan laidalla: Nuorisobarometri 2018, 167–182. Valtion nuorisoneuvosto, Nuorisotutkimusseura, Nuorisotutkimusverkosto, Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö.

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2019) Care as mundane politics in contested familial refugee lives. Gender, Place and Culture, 26:6, 795–812.

Pascucci, E., Häkli, J., Kallio, K.P., (2019) “Delay and neglect”: the everyday geopolitics of humanitarian borders. In: Paasi, A., Prokkola, E.-K., Saarinen, J., Zimmerbauer, K. (Eds.), Borderless Worlds – for Whom? Ethics, Moralities and Mobilities, 93–107. Routledge, London. ISBN: 9780815360025.

Kallio, K.P., Häkli, J. & Pascucci, E. (2019) Refugeeness as political subjectivity: Experiencing the humanitarian border. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37:7, 1258–1276.

Kallio, K.P. & Riding, J. (2018) Editorial: Geographies of welcome. Fennia,196:2, 131–136.

Ruokolainen, O., Häkli, J., Kallio, K.P. & Bäcklund, P. (2018) Seudullista kansalaisosallistumista jäljittämässä tiedon yhteistuottamisen keinoin. Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu 56:3, 25–38.

Häkli, J., Korkiamäki, R. & Kallio, K.P. (2018) ‘Positive recognition’ as a preventive approach in child and youth welfare services. International Journal of Social Pedagogy, 7:1.

Kallio, K.P. (2018) Care as a many‐splendoured topology (including prickles). Area. doi:10.1111/area.12490.

Kallio, K.P. (2018) Leading refugee lives together: Familial agency as a political capacity. Emotion, Space and Society, 32 (100541).

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2018) Ketterä kaupunkiseutu ja demokratian dilemma. Tiede & edistys, 2018/2, 78–82.

Metzger, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2018) Editorial: ‘Alternative’ journal publishing and the economy of academic prestige. Fennia, 196:1, 1–3.

Riding, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2018) Editorial: Dialogical peer-review and non-profit open-access journal publishing: welcome to Fennia. Fennia 196:1, 4–8.

Kallio, K.P. (2018) Exploring space and politics with children: A geosocial methodological approach to studying experiential worlds. In CutterMackenzie, A., Malone, K. and Barratt, E. (eds.) Research Handbook on ChildhoodNature, 1–28. Singapore: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51949-4_125-1

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2018) Theorizing children’s political agency. In Skelton, T. and Aitken, S. (eds) Establishing Geographies of Children and Young People, Vol 1 of Skelton, T. (ed) Springer Major Reference Work in Geographies of Children and Young People. Singapore: Springer.

Millei, Z. and Kallio, K.P. (2018) Recognizing politics in the nursery: early childhood education institutions as sites of mundane politics. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 19:1, 31–47. doi: 10.1177/1463949116677498

Rytioja, A. & Kallio, K.P. (2018) Opittua käsitteistöä vai koettua yhteiskunnallisuutta? Pohdintoja kansalaisuudesta lasten ja nuorten näkökulmasta. Sosiologia 55:1, 6–27. Ilmiö: Elettyä kansalaisuutta yhteiskuntaan – iästä riippumatta! Vaikuttaja: Lisää huomiota nuorten poliittiseen aktiivisuuteen

Kallio, K.P. (2018) Citizen-subject formation as geo-socialisation: a methodological approach on ‘learning to be citizens’. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography 100:2, 81– 96. doi: 10.1080/04353684.2017.1390776

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2018). On becoming political: the political in subjectivity. Subjectivity 11:1, 57–73.

Korkiamäki, R. and Kallio, K.P. (2018) Experiencing and practicing inclusion through friendship. Area 50, 74–82.

Kallio, K.P. (2018) Not in the same world: topological youths, topographical policies. Geographical Review 108:4, 566–591.

Kallio, K.P. & Hyvärinen, P. (2017). A question of time – or academic subjectivity? Editorial. Fennia 195:2, 121–124.

Riding, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2017). Six sideways reflections on academic publishing. Editorial. Fennia 195:2, 161–163.

Bäcklund, P., Ruokolainen, O., Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2017). Kansalaisten osallistumisen asema kaupunkiseututasoisessa maankäytön suunnittelussa. Terra 129:3, 159–169. Versus: Kaupunkiseututasoinen suunnittelu ja kadonnut kansalainen: Strategisesti tehokkaampaa, mutta ulossulkevampaa kaupunkisuunnittelua?

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2017). Meluisa osallistuminen kamppailuna kaupunkitilasta – tapaus Kiikelinpuisto. Teoksessa Bäcklund, P., Häkli, J. & Schulman, H. (toim.). (2017). Kansalaiset kaupunkia kehittämässä. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 219–238.

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2017) Kaupungin arkipoliittinen elämä: reflektioita Kiikelistä. Teoksessa Marginaalien maantiede, toim. Mustonen, T., Tanskanen, M. & Semi, J. OSK Lumimuutos, 46–51.

Kallio, K.P. (2017) Disqualified knowledges and theory building. Society & Space Essays and Features [published September 12]

Kallio, K.P. (2017) Subtle radical moves in scientific publishing. Editorial. Fennia 195:1, 1–4.

Rinne, E. and Kallio, K.P. (2017) Nuorten tilallisten mielikuvien lähteillä. Alue & Ympäristö, 46(1), 17–31. Versus: Miten suomalaisnuoret näkevät maailman ja miksi? Pohdintaa maailmankuvien muodostumisesta.

Häkli, J., Pascucci, E. & Kallio, K.P. (2017). Becoming refugee in Cairo: The political in performativity. International Political Sociology, 11(2), 185–202.

Kallio, K.P. & Bartos, A.E. (2017) Children’s caring agencies. Quest editorial in Political Geography 58, 148–150. [Online 11 October 2016] doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.09.009

Mitchell, K. & Kallio, K.P (eds) (2017) Spaces of the Geosocial: Exploring Transnational Topologies. Special issue. Geopolitics 22:1, 1–14. doi: 10.1080/14650045.2016.1226809

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2017). Geosocial Lives in Topological Polis: Mohamed Bouazizi as a Political Agent. Geopolitics 22:1, 91–109. doi: 10.1080/14650045.2016.1208654

Kallio, K.P. (2017) Shaping subjects in everyday encounters: Intergenerational recognition in intersubjective socialisation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35:1, 88–106. DOI: 10.1177/0263775816654916

Minoia, P. & Kallio, K. P. (2016). Handing over the baton. Editorial. Fennia 194:2, 117–118.

Korkiamäki, R., Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2016) Tunnustaminen näkökulmana ja käytäntönä lapsi- ja nuorisotyössä. Sosiaalipedagoginen aikakauskirja, vuosikirja 2016 17, 9–34.

Kallio, K.P. (2016) Living together in the topological home. Space and Culture 19:4, 373–389.

Kallio, K.P. & Mitchell, K. (eds) (2016) Special issue on transnational lived citizenship. Editorial: Re-spatializing citizenship. Global Networks. 16:3, 259–267.

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2016) Children’s rights advocacy as transnational citizenship. Global Networks 16:3, 307–325.

Kallio, K.P. (2016) Becoming geopolitical in the everyday world. In Benwell, M. and Hopkins, P. (eds) Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics, 169–186. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Kallio, K. P. and Mills, S. (eds) (2016) Politics, Citizenship and Rights, Vol. 7 of Skelton, T. (ed) Geographies of Children and Young People, Editorial, ix–xviii. Singapore: Springer. [online July 2015]

Kallio, K.P. (2016) Youthful political presence: right, reality and practice of the child. In Kallio, K. P. and Mills, S. (eds) Politics, Citizenship and Rights, Vol. 7 of Skelton, T. (ed.) Geographies of Children and Young People, 89–110. Singapore: Springer. [online July 2015]

Häkli, J., Kallio, K.P. & Korkiamäki, R. (toim) (2015) Myönteinen tunnistaminen. Nuorisotutkimusverkoston Kenttä-sarjan julkaisuja. Helsinki: NTV.

Kallio, K.P., Korkiamäki, R. & Häkli, J. (2015) Myönteinen tunnistaminen – näkökulma hyvinvoinnin edistämiseen ja syrjäytymisen ehkäisemiseen. Teoksessa Häkli, J., Kallio, K.P. & Korkiamäki, R. (toim) Myönteinen tunnistaminen, 9–35. Nuorisotutkimusverkoston Kenttä-sarjan julkaisuja. Helsinki: NTV.

Stenvall, E., Korkiamäki, R. & Kallio, K.P. (2015) Arjen moninaisuuden tavoittaminen tutustumisen kautta. Teoksessa Häkli, J., Kallio, K.P. & Korkiamäki, R. (toim) Myönteinen tunnistaminen, 39–64. Nuorisotutkimusverkoston Kenttä-sarjan julkaisuja. Helsinki: NTV.

Kallio, K.P. (2015) Ylisukupolvinen tunnustaminen lasten ja nuorten arkiympäristöissä. Teoksessa Häkli, J., Kallio, K.P. & Korkiamäki, R. (toim) Myönteinen tunnistaminen, 89–111. Nuorisotutkimusverkoston Kenttä-sarjan julkaisuja. Helsinki: NTV.

Kallio, K.P & Häkli, J. (2015) Children’s political geographies. In Agnew, J., Mamadouh, V., Secor, A. and Sharp, J. (eds) Companion to Political Geography, 265–278. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.

Kallio, K.P., Häkli, J. & Bäcklund, P. (2015). Lived citizenship as the locus of political agency in participatory policy. Citizenship Studies 19:1, 101–119. [online Dec 2014]

Häkli, J. and Kallio, K. P. (eds) (2015). Political georaphies of childhood and youth. Virtual special issue. Political Geography.

Kallio, K. P. and Häkli, J. (eds) (2015) The Beginning of Politics. London and New York: Routledge.

Kallio, K.P & Häkli, J. (2015) Children and young people’s politics in everyday life. The Beginning of Politics, 1–16. London and New York: Routledge.

Kallio, K.P. (ed) (2014) Critical political geography. Intervention series. Introduction. Conclusions. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 13:3, 424–472.

Kallio, K.P. (2014) Who is the subject of political action. Intervention. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 13:3, 428–433.

Kallio, K.P. (2014) Rethinking spatial socialization as a dynamic and relational process of political becoming. Global Studies of Childhood 4:3, 210–223. [online]

Bäcklund, P., Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2014). Residents, customers or citizens? Tracing the idea of youthful participation in the context of administrative reforms in Finnish public administration. Planning Theory and Practice 15:3, 311–327. [online July 2014]

Kallio, K.P. (2014) Intergenerational recognition as political practice. In Vanderbeck, R. and Worth, N. (eds) Intergenerational Space, 139–154. London: Routledge.

Korkiamäki, R. & Kallio, K.P. (2014) Ystävyys tilallisen kiinnittymisen suuntaajana: tilateoreettisia tulkintoja lasten ja nuorten ystävyyksistä. Alue & Ympäristö 43:1, 16–33.

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2014) The global as a field: children’s rights advocacy as a transnational practice. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 32:2, 329–309. [online]

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2014) Subject, action and polis: Theorizing political agency. Progress in Human Geography, 38:2, 181–200. [online Jan 2013]

Kallio, K.P., Stenvall, E., Bäcklund, P. and Häkli, J. (2013) Arjen osallisuuden tukeminen syrjäytymisen ehkäisemisen välineenä. Teoksessa Reivinen, J. & Vähäkylä, L. (toim) Ketä kiinnostaa? – Lasten ja nuorten hyvinvointi ja syrjäytyminen, 69–87. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Kallio, K.P & Häkli, J. (eds) (2013) Children and young people’s politics in everyday life. Special issue. Editorial. Space & Polity, 17:1, 1–16.

Kallio, K.P. & Bäcklund, P. (2012) Oletettu alueellisuus, kuviteltu osallisuus: Tilalliset sidokset julkishallinnon lapsi- ja nuorisopoliittisessa retoriikassa. Terra, 124:4, 245–258.

Kallio, K.P. (2012) Political presence and politics of noise. Space & Polity 16:3, 287–302. [online]

Bäcklund, P. & Kallio, K.P. (2012) Poliittinen toimijuus julkishallinnon lapsi- ja nuorisopoliittisessa osallistumisretoriikassa. Alue & Ympäristö, 41:1, 40–53.

Kallio, K.P. (2012) Paikka politiikan välineenä. Nuorten artikuloimaton arkipolitiikka. Teoksessa Strandell, H., Haikkola, L. & Kullman, K. (toim) Lapsuuden muuttuvat tilat, 119–145. Tampere: Vastapaino.

Kallio, K.P. (2012) Desubjugating childhoods by listening to the child’s voice and childhoods at play. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 11:1, 81–109.

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2011) Are there politics in childhood? Space & Polity, 15:1, 21–34.

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2011) Tracing children’s politics. Political Geography, 30:2, 99–109.

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2011) Young people’s voiceless politics in the struggle over urban space. GeoJournal, 76:1, 63–75.

Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. (2010) Political geography in childhood. Guest editorial in Political Geography 29:7, 357–458.

Kallio, K.P., Mäyrä, F. & Kaipainen, K. (2011) At least nine ways to play: approaching gaming mentalities. Games & Culture 6:4, 327–353.

Kallio, K.P. (2010) Lasten ja nuorten epäsuoran kohtaamisen etiikka. Teoksessa Vehkalahti, K., Rutanen, N., Pösö, T., Lagström, H. & Kuula, A. (toim) Lasten ja nuorten tutkimuksen etiikka, pp.163–187. NTS/NTV, julkaisuja 101. Helsinki: Nuorisotutkimusseura.

Kallio, K.P., Ritala-Koskinen, A. & Rutanen, M. (toim) (2010) Missä lapsuutta tehdään? NTS/NTV, julkaisuja 105. Helsinki: Nuorisotutkimusseura. (ks. myös Missä lapsuus tapahtuu?)

Kallio, K.P. (2009) Between social and political: children as political selves. Childhoods Today, 3:2, December 10th.

Kallio, K.P. (2009) Tilateoreettisen lapsuudentutkimuksen mahdollisuus. Epifyytti. Alue ja ympäristö 38:1, 67–70.

Kallio, K.P. (toim) (2009) Lapsuuden maantiede keskustelusarja. Terra 121:1, 41–51.

Kallio, K.P. (2009) Totuus lapsuudesta vai lapsuustotuuksia? Metodologisia lähtökohtia lapsuuden nykyisyyden historian tutkimukseen. Kasvatus & Aika 3:3, 115–131.

Kallio, K.P., Mäyrä, F. & Kaipainen, K. (2009) Pelikulttuurin monet kasvot: digitaalisen pelaamisen arkiset käytännöt Suomessa. Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2009, 1–15. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto.

Kallio, K.P. (2009) Katsaus monitieteiseen pelitutkimukseen: suhteellinen määrällinen, strukturoitu laadullinen ja muutamia muita kompromissiratkaisuja. Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2009, 106–113. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto.

Kallio, K.P. (2008) The body as a battlefield: approaching children’s politics. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography 90:3, 285–297.

Kallio, K.P. (2007) Performative bodies, tactical agents and political selves: rethinking the political geographies of childhood. Space & Polity 11:2, 121–136.

Kallio, K.P. (2006) Lasten poliittisuus ja lapsuuden synty. Keho lapsuuden rajankäynnin tilana. Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 1193. Tampere: Tampere University Press.

Kallio, K.P. (2006) Pääsy kielletty alle 18: lapsuuden tilapolitiikka. Alue ja ympäristö 35:2, 3–13.

Kallio, K.P. (2005) Ikä, tila ja valta: koulu politiikan näyttämönä. Terra, 117:2, 79–90.

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Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto

University Lecturer (Regional Studies)
Docent
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
anna-kaisa.kuusisto@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3979-6934

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I am Adjunct Professor (Docent) in Political Geography in University of Helsinki (since 2009). My fields of expertise include Regional studies and Political geography; Urban studies and spatial identity politics; Migration policy and governance; Methodology and research methods in social sciences; Memory studies and visual methodology; and Policy relevance of research.

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Mikko Joronen

Associate Professor (MAB), Senior Research Fellow (Tampere IAS)
Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
mikko.joronen@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4051-2348

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I am a political geographer currently working as a Finnish Academy Research Fellow at Tampere University. I also hold a docentship (Adjunct Professor) in Political Geography at University of Turku. In Tampere I am affiliated to Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG), but also run Palestine Research Group.

My current research is focused on two broader themes: one, on the politics of vulnerability, particularly on how it is formed in relation to different forms of governing, power and everyday life under military occupation (West Bank in particular); and two, on looking at how different futures in /of Palestine emerge in the intersection of everyday life and political violence. These themes are related to my long interest on the questions of ontology, politics and space, which I have recently approached by elaborating the notions of ‘woundedness’ and ‘politics of wound’. My recent publications thus deal with questions of waiting, slow wounding, mundane resistance, settler colonialism, thanatopolitics, and prospective temporalities in Palestine, but I have also discussed questions of ontology, space and politics in relation to themes such as neoliberalism, globalisation and topological theory.

Currently I am leading two research projects – first one focusing on ‘Politics of Precarity‘ in vulnerable parts of the West Bank (Academy of Finland, 2017-2022, PI), the second one dealing with the ‘Present-futures in/of Palestine’ (Academy of Finland project, 2019-2023, PI) – while also working as a co-investigator in a project focusing on Israel’s VISA restrictions and their effect on Palestinian social and political life (British Academy, Newcastle University, 2019-2021).

More information (publications, personal profile etc.):

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY PERSONAL PROFILE

ACADEMIA.EDU

RESEARCH GATE PROFILE

PALESTINE RESEARCH GROUP

Fields of Expertise

Political geography; power and everyday violence; geographies of war, conflict and political violence; Palestine; Middle East; theory and philosophy of geography; globalisation and neoliberalism; spatial and political ontologies

Derek Ruez

Academy Research Fellow
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
derek.ruez@tuni.fi

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I work across urban, political, and queer geographies, as well as interdisciplinary conversations in social and political theory and urban studies.

My Ph.D. work examined how the geographies of sexuality and racialization shaped queer migrants’ experiences of everyday life and political possibility in Sydney, Australia. In contrast with a depoliticizing ‘torn between two worlds’ frame that imagines queer migrants as being torn between ethnic or religious communities on the one hand, and ‘mainstream’ LGBTQI+ communities on the other, I showed—in dialogue with Hannah Arendt’s writing on plurality in an unevenly shared world—how queer migrants cultivated opportunities to appear and to act politically as they worked to make a place for themselves in Sydney.

My current research project, funded by the Academy of Finland, explores the politics of compassionate urbanism. Through examining a number of instances where city governments have made official committments to being compassionate, I am investigating how compassion, as public discourse and affective experience, informs urban governance and planning, as well as how such committments to compassion can become politicized in urban activism and movement organizing. In addition to problematizing the limits of compassionate urbanism, this project seeks to raise broader critical questions about a turn to compassion evident in political, scientific, religious, and therapeutic contexts and to theorize compassion otherwise through engagement with feminist work on care and abolitionist conceptions of justice.

I have also been engaged in a number of more explicitly theoretical projects, including work on difference and space in Gilles Deleuze in collaboration with Daniel Cockayne and Anna Secor, as well as an ongoing attempt to theorize the specificity of politics in ways that can be simultaneously critical and pluralistic.

Selected publications

Häkli J & Ruez D (2020) Governmentality. In: A Kobayashi (ed) The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier

Cockayne D, Ruez D & Secor A (2019) Thinking space differently: Deleuze’s Möbius topology for a theorization of the encounter. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, doi: 10.1111/tran.12311.

Ruez D & Parekh T (2019) ‘There is no political agenda’: Governing and contesting the compassionate city in Louisville. CITY 23(1): 17-34.

Ruez D, Strawser M & Hutchins F (2019) Incorporating geography, contingently: Geographic pedagogies in a university without a geography department. Journal of Geography 118(3): 117-129.

Ruez D (2017) ‘I never felt targeted as an Asian… until I went to a gay pub’: Sexual racism and the aesthetic geographies of the bad encounter. Environment and Planning A 49(4): 893-910.

Ruez D (2017) Evaluating otherwise: Hierarchies and opportunities in publishing practices. Fennia – International Journal of Geography 195(2): 189-193.

Cockayne D, Ruez D & Secor A (2017) Between ontology and representation: Locating Gilles Deleuze’s ‘difference-in-itself’ in and for geographical thought. Progress in Human Geography 41(5): 580-599.

Ruez D (2016) Working to appear: The plural and uneven geographies of race, sexuality, and the local state in Sydney, Australia. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34(2): 282-300.

Ruez D (2013) Partitioning the sensible at Park 51: Rancière, Islamophobia, and common politics. Antipode 45(5): 1128-1147.

Wassim Ghantous

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
wassim.ghantous@tuni.fi

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My research interests and engagements cut across the academic fields of political geography and international relations, as well as the sub-fields of critical security studies, settler-colonial studies and surveillance studies. My primarily empirical focus is on Israel-Palestine, yet I am also interested in how discourses, affects and practices of coloniality, (in)security, control and violence circulate and expand in and through other contexts globally. I joined the Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG) in March 2020 after completing my PhD degree in Peace and Development at the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Current projects revolve around the interrelations between present practices, technologies and logics of control, violence, colonization and resistance in Palestine and that of the concept of futurity.

Gintarė Kudžmaitė

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
gintare.kudzmaite@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5821-3656

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I am a Postdoctoral research fellow working in the field of (asylum) migration into the EU (The Politics of Embodied Encounters in Asylum Seeking (POEMS) research project). My primary research task is to critically analyse European documents on migration and asylum using a variety of content, frame, discourse and other analysis methods in order to inquire into the rhetoric of the EU when talking about migration and migrants. Thus, I ask: How are migration and migrants represented in policy discourses, what can we learn from these representations and their impact on the lived experiences of those on the move, and how can we intervene to create better futures for and a dialogue between migrants and their host societies?

In my PhD research, I used a combination of visual and linguistic landscaping methods to study borders, border experiences, discourses and narratives, and life at the borderlands. In our highly spatially and socially bordered communities, I seek to pay attention to the unique personal narratives of migration and settlement, and how these individual experiences and life stories fit into – or oppose and challenge – the established hegemonic regimes.

Research fields

Border studies, migration studies, visual social science, linguistic landscaping, critical policy analysis.

Selected publications

Kudžmaitė, G. 2023 [online first]. Drifting borders, anchored community: re-reading narratives in the semiotic landscape with ethnic Lithuanians living at the Polish borderland. Identities. DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2023.2189351

Kudžmaitė, G., and Pauwels, L. 2022. Researching visual manifestations of border spaces and experiences: Conceptual and methodological perspectives. Geopolitics 27(1): 260-291.

Kudžmaitė, G. 2022. Exploring cultural margins and liminalities through visual and material culture: the case of Kaliningrad as presented in guided tours. Journal of Baltic studies, 53(1): 19-46.

Kudžmaitė, G. 2022. ‘Silencing’ the border as a strategy to conceal the ‘other’ side: the case of the Curonian Spit. Cultural Geographies, 29(4): 565–583.

Kudžmaitė, G., and Juffermans, K. 2020. ‘Politically open – sociolinguistically semi-permeable: A linguistic landscape view into the Lithuanian-Polish borderland’. In Reterritorializing linguistic landscapes: Questioning boundaries and opening spaces, ed. D. Malinowski, and S. Tufi, 262-283. UK: Bloomsbury Academic.

Kudžmaitė, G. 2019. Before, during and after crossing the border: Narrating the ‘visa-free Grodno’. Visual Studies 34(2): 148-163.

Aura Lounasmaa

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
aura.lounasmaa@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8667-6524

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I am a narrative scholar and interested in participatory research, the connections between research and social justice and research ethics. I have developed and ran initiatives on refugee Higher Education access in Calais and the UK and continue to foster collaborations with students.

I am a co-director of the Association for Narrative Researh and Practice and a board member of the Narrare narrative studies centre at Tampere University.

I currently work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Academy of Finland funded The Politics of Embodied Encounters in Asylum Seeking (POEMS), led by Jouni Häkli and Kirsi Pauliina Kallio.

Selected publications

Oddy, J., Harewood, M., Masserano, E., and Lounasmaa, A. 2022. Experiences of forced migration: learning for educators and learners: a report, International Review of Psychiatry, pp.1-8, DOI: 10.1080/09540261.2022.2096403

Lounasmaa, A., Masserano, E., Harewood M., and Oddy. J. 2022. Strategies against everyday bordering in universities: the Open Learning Initiatives. In: Cantat, Cook and Rajaram (eds) Opening Up the University: Teaching and Learning with Refugees. Oxford: Berghahn Books. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/OpenAccess/CantatOpening/CantatOpening_18.pdf

Masserano, Lounasmaa, Achola, Fernando, Goba, Makuyana, Mordi and Phantsi. 2021. Transformative Storytelling Without Borders: The Case of OLIve. The Sociological Observer 2(1). (Published by the Sociological Association of Ireland https://www.sociology.ie/publications.html)

Lounasmaa, A., Esin, C. and Hughes, C. 2020. Decolonisation, Representation, and Ethics in Visual Life Stories from the Jungle. in: Dodd, S. (ed.) Ethics and Integrity in Visual Research Methods Vol: 5 Emerald Publishing Limited. pp. 11-28

Lounasmaa, A. 2020. Refugees in Neoliberal Universities. in: Crimmins, G. (ed.) Strategies for Supporting Inclusion and Diversity in the Academy: Higher Education, Aspiration and Inequality. Palgrave Macmillan.

Esin, C. and Lounasmaa, A. 2020. Narrative and ethical (in)action: creating spaces of resistance with refugee-storytellers in the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 23 (4), pp. 391-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1723202

Dona, G., Esin, C. and Lounasmaa, A. 2019. Qualitative Research in Refugee Studies. in: Atkinson, P., Delamont, S., Cernat, A., Sakshaug, J. W. and Williams, R. A. (ed.) SAGE Research Methods Foundations SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1723202

Lounasmaa, A. and Esenowo, I. with OLIve course students. 2019. ‘Education is Key to Life: the importance of education from the perspective of displaced learners’, Forced Migration Review 60 (March 2019) pp. 41-43 https://www.fmreview.org/education-displacement

Hall, T., Lounasmaa, A. and Squire, C. 2019. From Margin to Centre? Practising New Forms of European Politics and Citizenship in the Calais ‘Jungle’. in: Birey, T., Cantat, C., Maczynska, E. and Sevinin, E. (ed.) Challenging the Political Across Borders: Migrants’ and Solidarity Struggles Central European University. pp. 99-128

Calais Writers Godin, Marie, Hansen, Katrine Møller, Lounasmaa, Aura, Squire, Corinne and Zaman, Tahir (ed.) 2017. Voices from the ‘Jungle’: Stories from the Calais refugee camp. Pluto Press.

Brannlund, Kovacic and Lounasmaa. 2013. ‘Trialogue on narrative research and translation’, Narrative Works, 3(2) autumn 2013 [available at https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/NW/article/view/21469/0]

Elisa Pascucci

Postdoctoral Researcher
Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives
University of Helsinki
elisa.pascucci@helsinki.fi

Nadine Hassouneh

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
nadinehassouneh@gmail.com

Vilhelmiina Vainikka

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Education and Culture
Tampere University
vilhelmiina.vainikka@tuni.fi

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I am a human geographer and work as a post doctoral research fellow in the Academy of Finland funded The civic potential of climate mobility (HUMANE-CLIMATE) led by Kirsipauliina Kallio.

I have previously worked on discourses of mass tourism, natural force rhetorics and massification by media in tourist-refugee nexus in crisis, culturally sensitive tourism planning, suburban-aware development and mass tourist portrayals in the art of Erika Adamsson. My long term interest is the individual-mass(es) continuum in several contexts.

I also have extensive experience of university teaching from Finland and Denmark. Before my academic career I worked as a part-time travel agent.

My current research interests are concerned about different challenges such as climate change and traumas, their contextual understanding and how to promote co-living in the given circumstances for example with art-based methods or empathy as a tool. I am very interested in interdisciplinary collaboration and research.

I am affiliated to Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG), Spatial Socialization and Environmental Citizenship Research Collective (SPECS) and Research Network for Justice, Space and Society (JUSTSPACES)

Dalia Zein

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
+358505772637
dalia.zein@tuni.fi

Ismaël Maazaz

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
+358504713190
ismael.maazaz@tuni.fi

Abdalrahman Kittana

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
abdalrahman.kittana@tuni.fi

SPARG Doctoral Researchers

Khalid Dader

Researcher
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
+358504726228
khalid.dader@tuni.fi

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Khalid Dader is a literary translator and an academic researcher. Currently, he is a PhD fellow researcher at Tampere University, part of the project ‘Dwelling with Crisis: Home at Spaces of Chronic Violence’ (HOMCRI). In June 2023, he obtained a two-year master’s degree in Human Rights and Multiculturalism with a focus on masculinities and human dignity in the Gaza Strip. In May 2020, Dader finished his BA in English Language and Literature. His research interests as an emerging scholar are interdisciplinary such as poetic justice, literary translation, human dignity, gender issues, and homemaking amid crisis. He is also an active member of the research group ‘Human Rights and Diversity’ at the University of South-Eastern Norway.

Majed Abusalama

Doctoral Researcher
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
majedgaza@gmail.com

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I am a doctoral researcher in the Regional Studies Department. My research will be part of the Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG) and the newly founded Palestine Research Group. I am also an independent Award-Winning Journalist, campaigner and Human Rights Defender who grew up in Jabalia Refugees Camp in the Gaza Strip, and now based between Berlin and Tampere. I helped initiate and organize several national, and local organizations in Palestine, Norway and Germany, including the Coalition for Palestinian Rights and Against Racist, We Are Not Numbers, Students for Justice in Palestine in Norway, and, most recently, a Hebrew website BorderGone, which translates We Are Not Numbers Stories. My research is intersectional and broadly centered on Palestine, and Palestinians everywhere, everyday life, de-colonizing Gaza in particular, human and political geography, borders, political agency, grassroots movements, policy research and conflict transformation. My current research will examine digital and non-digital colonial tactics, and decolonizing people, time, and space in the chaos of waiting, possibilities and the politics of temporality.

Tuomas Lammi

Doctoral Researcher
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
tuomas.lammi@tuni.fi

Ulla Tuunanen

Doctoral Researcher
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
ulla.tuunanen@gmail.com

Danna Masad

Doctoral Researcher
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
danna.masad@tuni.fi

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Danna Masad is currently a doctoral researcher at Tampere University and part of the project ‘Dwelling with Crisis: Home at Spaces of Chronic Violence’ (HOMCRI). Her background is in architecture with extensive experience in architectural practice and several years of experience in teaching architecture and design at Birzeit University. Her current research examines home-making and un-making through the practice of shepherding in the divided and segregated territory of the occupied West Bank and under conditions of prolonged violence and uncertainty. Her research interest crosses disciplinary boundaries of architecture, political geography, critical geography, political ecology, landscape studies and Indigenous studies. She has served on the board of directors of several Palestinian institutions including Birzeit University’s Institute for Women Studies, Khalil Al-Sakakini Cultural Center and Sakiya, Art, Science and Agriculture. She is part of the Palestine Research Group and the Space and Political Agency Research Group at Tampere University.

María Villa Largacha

Doctoral Researcher
Faculty of Education and Culture
Tampere University
maria.villalargacha@tuni.fi

Adjunct Reseach Fellows

Iuliia Gataulina

Postdoctoral Researcher
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
+358503182508
iuliia.gataulina@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8980-9428

Aila Spathopoulou

Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology
Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
University of Stirling
aila.spathopoulou@stir.ac.uk

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I graduated from Kings College London in 2019. My PhD looks at the European migration hotspot regime in Greece as a new phase of militarized migration management, offering a perspective of mobility that is focused on “encounters” with subjects whose experience is shaped by frictions, struggles to appropriate mobility, diversion of routes, and by the denial of mobility. My work combines research into bordering and governmentality with empirical research on the ground, with ethnographic research experience on practices of arbitrary detention of refugees, spaces of political agency/resistance and the uneven geographies of mobility along the Eastern migration route via the Aegean Turkish-Greek border. In early 2020, I will start as a postdoctoral researcher at Goldsmiths University of London, as part of an ESRC funded project on the financial inclusion and digital connectivity in refugee governance.

Isabel Meier

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences
Northumbria University, Newcastle
isabel.meier@northumbria.ac.uk

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My research interests are broadly centred around the politics of asylum and solidarity, bordering, urban life, community, with a particular focus on collaborative ethnographic methods. I joined the Space and Political Agency Group at Tampere University in 2019 following a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of East London. My current research interests are oriented around four main areas: 1) the emotional politics of bordering: the politics of dis/comfort, disappointment, alienation, shame and heartbreak; emotional labour and its entanglements with bordering practices; 2) the politics of temporality: waiting and the possibility of politics opening up in the present moment, 3) postcolonial and decolonial theory and borders, 4) political possibilities beyond citizenship.

Francesco Amoruso

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Exeter
f.amoruso5@exeter.ac.uk

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I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the project ‘Present-Futures in/of Palestine’ at Tampere University and a member of the Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG) and the Palestine Research Group. My research lies at the intersection of political geography, political theory, urban anthropology, and Marxist political economy. I am also a member of the European Centre for Palestine Studies (ECPS) at the University of Exeter, where I conducted my doctoral research on the newly established city of Rawabi in the West Bank, Palestine. Drawing on a six-month ethnographic fieldwork, my thesis interpreted the construction and peopling of Rawabi as a crucial case study for understanding the role of indigenous economic elites in the production of politics of colonial recognition in Palestine. My current research mainly focuses on the social production of political normalisation within cities in Palestine and the wider Arab region. I am approaching this question from a class angle, investigating the tensions and overlaps between middle class aspirations to normalcy and the normalisation of relations with Israeli state and society.

Angel Ortiz

Academy Postdoctoral Researcher
Faculty of Management and Business
+358504733869
angel.iglesiasortiz@tuni.fi

Adriana Carmen Calvo Viota

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Education and Culture
Tampere University
+358504640868
adriana.calvoviota@tuni.fi

Former SPARG Researchers (Alumni)

Pia Bäcklund

Associate Professor
Department of Geosciences and Geography
University of Helsinki
pia.backlund@helsinki.fi

Robert Imre

Senior Research Fellow
Tampere Peace Research Institute (Tapri)
Tampere University
robert.imre@tuni.fi

Sara Koopman

Assistant Professor
School of Peace and Conflict Studies
Kent State University
skoopman@kent.edu

Riikka Korkiamäki

Associate Professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Tampere University
riikka.korkiamaki@tuni.fi

Zsuzsa Millei

Associate Professor
tenure track
Faculty of Education
Tampere University
zsuzsa.millei@tuni.fi

Pauliina Raento

Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Tampere University
pauliina.raento@tiedetoimittajat.fi

James Riding

NU Academic Track Fellow (NUAcT)
School of Geography Politics and Sociology
Newcastle University
james.riding@ncl.ac.uk

Olli Ruokolainen

Senior Researcher
Foundation for Cultural Policy Research (CUPORE)
olli.ruokolainen@cupore.fi

Miliza Ryöti

Doctoral Researcher
Department of Geosciences and Geography
University of Helsinki
miliza.ryoti@helsinki.fi

Elina Stenvall

Development Planner
SOS Children's Villages Finland
elina.stenvall@sos-lapsikyla.fi

Lotta Koistinen

Doctoral Researcher
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University

Mette Strømsø

Visiting postdoctoral Researcher
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
mettestr@gmail.com

Eeva Enne

Potdoctoral Researcher
University Instructor
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University

Sami Lind

Visiting researcher
Faculty of Social Sciences
Tampere University
sami.lind@tuni.fi

Ye Shuai

Visiting doctoral researcher
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University

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I am a visiting doctoral researcher from Qinghai Normal University, China, mainly engaged in research on regional sustainable societal safety (prof. Jouni Häkli as co-supervisor). At present, my research focuses on the three spatial elements of sustainable societal safety (regional economy, social security and ecological sustainability), which, through the degree of development, stability and coordination, act on the sense of acquisition, safety and happiness of local residents, forming identity awareness, institutional identity and local attachment, and ultimately improving the level of regional sustainable societal safety.

Miki Mäkelä

Researcher
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
miki.makela@tuni.fi

Inka Kaakinen

Academy Postdotoral Researcher
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
+358503187750
inka.kaakinen@tuni.fi