Tiina Järvi writes about Lebanon and ”failed state” as a political demand, expectation and care. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Failing as a state? Lebanon, state failure and politics of demand

While the failed state paradigm has generally served Western interests, in this article I suggest that ‘failed state’ can also be approached as a demand that is employed beyond its conventional mea...

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@mikkojorge.bsky.social and @dader-khalid.bsky.social participate in the discussion around Lubna Abu Sitta’s commentary on Gaza: ”Holding space open: Wor(l)ding the ruins of Gaza” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... See other commentaries and the original piece ⬇️

Holding space open: Wor(l)ding the ruins of Gaza - Mikko Joronen, Khalid Dader, 2026

Witnessing the erasure of spaces and landscapes in Gaza reveals as much the ethical and ontological necessity to narrate as it does the limits of writing. In th...

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New paper on environmentally mediated violence of military white phosphorus use by @mikkojorge.bsky.social and @casesofyou.bsky.social; focus on Lebanon & Gaza: ’The Military Violence of White Phosphorus: Geopower, Weathering, Inhabitability’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Military Violence of White Phosphorus: Geopower, Weathering, Inhabitability

White phosphorus munitions are known to produce significant thermal effects, burning bodies and scorching lands in multiple contexts of military violence (e.g., in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria). It is less...

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The PNT Heritage Award 2026 has been awarded for the Yalla Project (TYP), the umbrella organization for The Nablus Old Town Regeneration Project, co-founded by Abdalrahman Kittana. The PNT Heritage Award, recognizes excellence in cultural heritage preservation. www.theyallaproject.com

OnlineFirst - "The wandering frontier: Geographies of colonial herding in Palestine" by @dmasad.bsky.social and @wassim-gh.bsky.social: @gocep.bsky.social @sparg-tuni.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Abdalrahman Kittana writes about families and social endurance in Gaza in al-Shakaba: ’The Families of Gaza: Sumud as Collective Endurance’. #sumud #gaza #socialendurance al-shabaka.org/commentaries...

The Families of Gaza: Sumud as Collective Endurance | Al-Shabaka

We cannot understand Gaza’s endurance through a binary that casts Palestinians as either heroic in their resistance or passive victims.

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In this highly topical paper Danna Masad and Wassim Ghantous write about the colonial herding outposts in the occupied West Bank, and the settler use of animals—sheep, goats, cows, and camels—as instruments of frontier expansion. @natureandspace.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The wandering frontier: Geographies of colonial herding in Palestine - Danna Masad, Wassim Ghantous, 2026

This article examines the emergent phenomenon of Israeli colonial herding outposts in the occupied West Bank, where animals—sheep, goats, cows, and camels—are d...

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Text by Tiina Järvi on South Lebanon. ‘Libanonilaiset kärsivät jälleen, kun Israel ja Hizbollah ottavat yhteen Iranin pommitusten varjossa’ blogs.tuni.fi/alustalehti/...

Great to see the article forum on @mikkojorge.bsky.social's Polluting appropriations: Malevolent weathering of settler colonisation in Palestine coming together in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. The article, an impressive set of commentaries, and now Mikko's response are online: doi.org/10.1177/2043...

Weathering Palestine: Frontiering pollution - Mikko Joronen, 2026

In this response, I further elaborate the notions of ‘colonial pollution’ and ‘malevolent weathering’ in relation to three aspects: ontology, frontiering, and u...

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Migration: A Critical Introduction, by @marygilmartin.bsky.social, Malene Jacobsen and Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, 'offers a fresh and accessible framework for understanding migration through a distinctly geographical lens': www.wiley.com/en-us/Migrat...

Migration: A Critical Introduction

<p><B>A CRITICAL, NUANCED, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION</B> <p><i>Migration: A Critical Introduction</i> offers a fresh and accessible framework for understandin...

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Response by @mikkojorge.bsky.social to commentaries: Weathering Palestine: Frontiering pollution

Mikko Joronen@mikkojorge.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My response to 4 generous commentaries by Sidaway, Machold, Fregonese and Clark&Henig (see below) on my original paper in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. Further opening ontology, frontiering, and ungovernability of colonial pollution and its malevolent weathering: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My response to 4 generous commentaries by Sidaway, Machold, Fregonese and Clark&Henig (see below) on my original paper in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. Further opening ontology, frontiering, and ungovernability of colonial pollution and its malevolent weathering: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Weathering Palestine: Frontiering pollution - Mikko Joronen, 2026

In this response, I further elaborate the notions of ‘colonial pollution’ and ‘malevolent weathering’ in relation to three aspects: ontology, frontiering, and u...

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Stench atmospheres and colonial policing/coomeranging in Palestine; congratulations to all authors (two of our research group members)!

Wassim Ghantous@wassim-gh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our paper (with @mikkojorge.bsky.social and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian) on the colonial weaponization of smell, boomeranging, and atmospheric policing through the Israeli invented Skunk Water technology is out at @secdialogue.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sd/advance-a...

Sharing my new article at @antipodeonline.bsky.social which suggests a novel framing for enquiring the deep entanglement between Israel and global centers of domination. doi.org/10.1111/anti...

Fresh paper by @wassim-gh.bsky.social offering a reading of Israel as a frontier of Western-led global domination: ‘Homological Correspondence: Israel as a Frontier of Global Domination’ @antipodeonline.bsky.social #palestine onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Essay by group of Gazan scholars, including our Khalid Dader @dader-khalid.bsky.social, problematising framings of Gazan resilience, ingenuity and strenght. Highly recommended read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When Resilience Becomes a Burden: Reflections from Gazan Palestinian Scholars

In this essay, Palestinian scholars from Gaza reflect on how Gaza is brought into Western academic spaces since the beginning of the genocide. Over the last two years, academic engagement with Gaza...

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Great paper by Khalid Dader in @societyandspace.bsky.social looking at deliberate ruination of daily life in Gaza - the unstructured, unpredictable, and uninhabitable time; the infrastructural annihilation; the exhaustion, humiliation, and anticipatory dread. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Tiina Järvi and @mikkojorge.bsky.social write about infrastructure, generators, and atmospheric politics of pollution in Lebanon: ’Breathing atmospheres of failure: The matter of pollution in Beirut’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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OnlineFirst - "Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine: Arboricide and fiery dispossessions" by Marijn Nieuwenhuis and @mikkojorge.bsky.social: @geogdurham.bsky.social #Pyropolitics #Pyrotechniques #Palestine #Arboricide journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to our colleague Marijn Nieuwenhuis on the publication of his co-authored article with @mikkojorge.bsky.social in @natureandspace.bsky.social entitled “Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine: Arboricide and fiery dispossessions” which is now available at: doi.org/10.1177/2514...

New paper by Marijn Nieuwenhuis and Mikko Joronen looks at #fire as an elemental tool and condition of #colonial dispossession in #Palestine, but also the settler arson paranoia, state/settler/pyroterror and the vilification of native bodies, plants and animals. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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New Online 1st Article “Polluting appropriations: Malevolent weathering of settler colonisation in Palestine” by Mikko Joronen doi.org/10.1177/2043...

Tiina Järvi writes about atmospheres of everyday violence in West Bank. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Violence as ‘adii: atmospheric manifestations of normalised violence in the occupied West Bank

This article examines the affective repercussions of naming violence as normal in the occupied Palestine. The decades of Israel's military occupation …

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Lakolla haluamme muistuttaa työnantajaa siitä, että me olemme (Tampereen) yliopisto ja että opetuksen ja tutkimuksen laatu sekä henkilöstömme hyvinvointi on turvattava, JUKOn Tampereen yliopiston lakkopäällikkö Mika Mattila korostaa. #MeOlemmeYliopisto @sivista.bsky.social

Tampereen yliopistossa lakko keskiviikkona 7.5.

Yliopistojen työntekijöitä edustavien pääsopijajärjestöjen JUKOn, JHL:n ja Pron yhteinen vuorokauden kestävä lakko alkaa Tampereen yliopistossa 7. toukokuuta 2025 kello 00.01 ja päättyy samana päivänä...

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all of a sudden, after a decade of research, this book is available to pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...

Checkpoint 300

Tracing how a notorious checkpoint shapes power, resistance, and lives in Palestine   Checkpoint 300, the highly securitized border facility between occupi...

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‘Stop the violence in Gaza’ statement by Finnish Geographical Society.

A judge just ruled that deporting Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil over his pro-Palestine views is “reasonable” because it could harm U.S. foreign policy. No crime. No evidence. Just dissent. This is how authoritarianism works.

Fresh out paper on ‘fitful infrastructures’ of survival in Gaza amid infrastructural elimination in Antipode by two GOCEP researchers, Khalid Dader and Mikko Joronen. @antipodeonline.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fitful Infrastructures: Dwelling with Infrastructural Elimination in Gaza

Since 7 October 2023, Gaza has been subjected to unprecedented Israeli genocidal violence that has erased its life-supporting infrastructure. To understand how Gazans navigated these catastrophic con...

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As part of my effort at strategic autonomy from the US, just switched from Chrome to Norway-based Vivaldi based on this skeet. Works fine

MOL@mol-sunny.bsky.social · last yr.

🇺🇲 Google ---> 🇪🇺 Ecosia 🇺🇲 Chrome ---> 🇪🇺 Vivaldi 🇺🇲 Translate ---> 🇪🇺 DeepL 🇺🇲 Gmail ---> 🇪🇺 Mailfence 🇺🇲 Maps ---> 🇪🇺 Here WeGo 🇺🇲 ChatGPT ---> 🇪🇺 Le Chat

For anyone around Tampere University, another exciting iteration of the Decentering the Global lecture series is in the works for April. Students can register to participate for course credit (5 ECTS).