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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 am also 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, and the vice director of the New Social Research (NSR) profiling programme in Tampere University. My research lies at the intersection of political geography and global 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.
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.
Kirsi Pauliina Kallio
- Professor of Environmental Pedagogy
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- kirsipauliina.kallio@tuni.fi
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.
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.
Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto
- Professor of Regional Studies (fixed term)
- Docent
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- anna-kaisa.kuusisto@tuni.fi
About me
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.
Research career
Research fellow:
• Doctoral Student, Academy of Finland, “Cross-border regional development in the New Europe”. Project leader: Prof. Häkli (1998–2000)
• Post-doctoral researcher, Academy of Finland, Research Council for Biosciences and Environment, Project “Globalization and the experience of place”. Project leader: Prof. Häkli (2003)
Senior researcher in following projects:
• Centre of Excellence in Research on the Relational and Territorial Politics of Bordering, Identities and Transnationalization (RELATE) (led. by Prof. Paasi and Prof. Häkli), Academy of Finland, (2014–2019)
• Academy of Finland Strategic Research Council, Dwellers in Agile City (DAC), (led. by Docent Leino), (2016–2019)
• Cost action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe (ISTME), (2012-2016). Grand holder and leader: Lund University, Prof. Törnquist-Plewa
Principal investigator and project leader:
• Post-doctoral Fellow, Academy of Finland, Research Council for Culture and Society, “Searching for a sense of place: the experiences of Finnish War Children and Karelian Evacuees”. Project leader and principal investigator: Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen. (2004–2007)
• Academy Research Fellow, Academy of Finland, Research Council for Culture and Society. “Transcultural Memories of Childhood Displacement: Tracing the Emotive-Spatial Tactics of Belonging”. Project leader and principal investigator: Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen. (2013–2018)
• Key project funding, Academy of Finland, “Transcultural roadmap for supporting belonging among unaccompanied children and young people (TRUST)”, Project leader Kuusisto-Arponen, 2016–2018.
Till, E. Karen and Kuusisto-Arponen, Anna-Kaisa (2015). Towards Responsible Geographies of Memory: Complexities of Place and the Ethics of Remembering. Erdkunde, 69: 4, 291¬–306. DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2015.04.01
Kuusisto-Arponen, Anna-Kaisa (2015). Relating self, place and memory: Spatial trauma among the British and Finnish War children. In Harker, C and Horschelmann, K. (eds.). Geographies of Children and Young People: Conflict, Violence and Peace. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-4585-98-9_18-1 [on-line Dec 2015]
Kuusisto-Arponen, Anna-Kaisa & Ulla Savolainen (2016). The interplay of memory and matter: narratives of former Finnish Karelian child evacuees. Oral History Journal, 44: 2, 59–68.
Kuusisto-Arponen, Anna-Kaisa (2016). Perheettömiksi suojellut. Yksin tulleiden alaikäisten oikeus perheeseen. In Fingerroos, O & Tapaninen, A-M, Tiilikainen, M. (eds.). Perheenyhdistäminen. Kuka saa perheen Suomeen, kuka ei ja miksi? Tampere, Vastapaino, 89–109.
Bäcklund, Pia & Kuusisto-Arponen, Anna-Kaisa & Luukkonen Juho (2017). Julkishallinto sosiaalisten käytäntöjen kimppuna: teoreettis-metodologisia näkökulmia julkishallinnon toiminnan tutkimiseen. Hallinnon Tutkimus –lehti, 2/2017, 81–91.
Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Kristiina & Kuusisto, Anna-Kaisa & Tuominen, Jaakko (2018). Everyday negotiations of belonging – Making Mexican masks together with unaccompanied minors in Finland. Journal of Youth Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2018.1523539
Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro & Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto (2019) Socio-material Belonging – Perspectives for the Intercultural Lives of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Finland, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 40:4, 363-382, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2019.1628725
Kuusisto-Arponen, Anna-Kaisa & Gilmartin, Mary (2019). Embodied migration and the geographies of care: the worlds of unaccompanied refugee minors. In Katharyne Mitchell, Reece Jones and Jennifer L. Fluri (eds.). Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration, Edward Elgar, 80–91. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786436030.00014
Gilmartin, Mary & Kuusisto-Arponen, Anna-Kaisa (2019). Borders and bodies: siting critical geographies of migration. In Katharyne Mitchell, Reece Jones and Jennifer L. Fluri (eds.). Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration, Edward Elgar, 18–29. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786436030.00008
Kaukko, Mervi & Korkiamäki, Riikka ja Kuusisto, Anna-Kaisa (2019). Normatiivisesta etiikasta elettyyn kohtaamiseen: tutkimuksellista hengailua yksin tulleiden maahanmuuttajanuorten kanssa. Teoksessa Rutanen, Niina & Vehkalahti, Kaisa (toim.) Tutkimuseettisestä sääntelystä elettyyn kohtaamiseen. Lasten ja nuorten tutkimuksen etiikka II, Nuorisotutkimusverkosto, 86–102.
Kuusisto, Anna-Kaisa & Tuominen, Jaakko (2019). Epäilyä ja myötätuntoa: yksin tulleet alaikäiset turvapaikanhakijat Aamulehdessä, Helsingin Sanomissa ja YLE:n verkkouutisissa 2014–2016. Media ja viestintä, 42: 3, 187-212.
Mikko Joronen
- Academy Research Fellow
- Senior Researcher, Adjunct Professor
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- mikko.joronen@tuni.fi
About me
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.):
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
About me
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.
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 Researcher
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- wassim.ghantous@tuni.fi
About me
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.
Angel Ortiz
- Academy Postdoctoral Researcher
- Faculty of Management and Business
- +358504733869
- angel.iglesiasortiz@tuni.fi
Inka Kaakinen
- Academy Postdotoral Researcher
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- +358503187750
- inka.kaakinen@tuni.fi
Gintarė Kudžmaitė
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- gintare.kudzmaite@tuni.fi
About me
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 my PhD research, I used a combination of visual and linguistic landscaping methods to inquire into borders, border experiences, discourses and narratives, and life at the borderlands.
Research fields
Border studies, migration studies, visual social science, linguistic landscaping, critical policy analysis.
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. 2021. ‘Silencing’ the border as a strategy to conceal the ‘other’ side: The case of the Curonian Spit. cultural geographies, 1-19.
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
About me
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.
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
Miki Mäkelä
- Researcher
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- miki.makela@tuni.fi
Tiina Järvi
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- +358503182540
- tiina.jarvi@tuni.fi
Field of expertise
Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestinian refugees, anthropology of future, multi-sited ethnography
Järvi, Tiina. (2019). Marking landscape, claiming belonging : The building of a Jewish homeland in Israel/Palestine. Teoksessa Lounela, Anu; Berglund, Eeva; Kallinen, Timo (toim.) Dwelling in Political Landscapes : Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives. Helsinki: Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura. (Studia Fennica Anthropologica 4).
SPARG Doctoral Researchers
Majed Abusalama
- Doctoral Researcher
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- majedgaza@gmail.com
About me
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
Sami Lind
- Doctoral researcher
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- sami.lind@tuni.fi
Ulla Tuunanen
- Doctoral Researcher
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- ulla.tuunanen@gmail.com
Ye Shuai
- Visiting doctoral researcher
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- shuai.ye@tuni.fi
About me
I am a visiting doctoral researcher from Qinghai Normal University, China, mainly engaged in research on regional sustainable societal safety. 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.
Adjunct Reseach Fellows
Aila Spathopoulou
- Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- aila.spathopoulou@tuni.fi
About me
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
- Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- isabel.meier@tuni.fi
About me
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.
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@tuni.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
- lotta.koistinen@tuni.fi
Mette Strømsø
- Visiting postdoctoral Researcher
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- mette.stromso@tuni.fi
About me
I defended my doctoral thesis in Human Geography at the University of Oslo in 2019, with the title ‘Beneath the waves of nationalism: How ordinary people living in Norway (re)produce the nation in everyday life’. During my doctoral research, I worked at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), in a PRIO-led project ‘Negotiating the nation: Implications of increased ethnic and religious diversity for national identity (NATION)’. My research interests fall at the intersection of political geography and social and cultural geography, with focus on everyday nationhood and especially the reconciliation between nation and diversity, contributing to ongoing discussions of spatiality, agency, and migration-related diversity, and attending to the temporal dimensions of the nation. More specifically, I study the agency of all individuals living within a shared national space, as they are all involved in (re) producing, upholding or contesting the boundaries of nationhood.
Eeva Enne
- Potdoctoral Researcher
- University Instructor
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- eeva.rinne@tuni.fi