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 piece with Mark Griffiths on white phosphorus as environmental warfare—how it targets environments and inhabitability, focusing on recent destruction in Lebanon along with other contexts.

Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group@gocep.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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....

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How clans are organizing to fill Gaza’s leadership void

Extended families across the Strip are holding elections to ensure they are accounted for by aid groups — and, for some, to consolidate political ambitions.

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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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Pastoral communities in the West Bank are facing an unseen wave of settler colonial violence, including weaponisation of animals for appropriating space.

Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group@gocep.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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/...

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

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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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...

Stench atmospheres: policing, affect, and colonial boomeranging in Palestine/Israel

Abstract. The weaponization of smell has sparked a growing interest in the studies of warfare, policing, and the senses. This paper examines one peculiar m

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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...

Great paper with interesting theorisation of Israel as a global frontier - waves and homological correspondence.

Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group@gocep.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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....

Important commentary on how to write about Gaza and Palestine.

Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group@gocep.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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....

Khalid from our GOCEP group published a great paper about everyday scarcity, entrapment and erasure of time in Gaza: ‘Temporal ruination: Scarcity, entrapment, and the affective intensities of time in Gaza’

Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group@gocep.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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....

’Breathing atmospheres of failure: the mattet of pollution in Beirut’ out in @politicsandspace.bsky.social

Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group@gocep.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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/...

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...

Wrote this with Marijn Nieuwenhuis; out today: fire, pyroterror, Palestine, arboricide.

Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group@gocep.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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/...

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

Very happy to see this out this week: “Polluting appropriations: Malevolent weathering of settler colonisation in Palestine” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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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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Must read indeed!

Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group@gocep.bsky.social · 2y ago

To give context for Trump’s cleansing plan in Gaza, a must read by our group member Wassim Ghantous. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...

To give context for Trump’s cleansing plan in Gaza, a must read by our group member Wassim Ghantous. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...

If you are at Tampere, come to listen two interesting talks on current situation in Lebanon.

Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group@gocep.bsky.social · 2y ago

’The Cities and Ecologies of Lebanon: Altering Realities and Everyday Violence’, 20-21 Feb 2025, Tampere University Two lectures by Prof. Mona Harb (American University of Beirut) and Ass.Prof. Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi). More info under the link (see ’Events’): www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

On destroying the conditions of living in Lebanon by our research group member dr.Tiina Järvi (in Finnish). www.tuni.fi/alustalehti/...

Hizbollah, Israel ja etelä-Libanonin elinolojen tuhoaminen | Alusta! | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö

Libanonin alueellisella itsemääräämisoikeudella on vähän painoarvoa Israelin sotiessa. Libanonin suvereniteetin loukkaukset ja etelän elinolojen järjestelmällinen tuhoaminen eivät ole aikaansaaneet su...

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In BBC coverage, mentions of Israeli and Palestinians deaths competed for space since 7th October. That's despite far more Palestinian deaths. There's one exception - a huge spike in the mentions of Palestinian deaths in early April. The reason for this should disturb you.

Solidarity with colleagues at the University of Wollongong in geography, history, language, maths, environmental science, physics and public health. Entire units being cut, short sighted and devastating. Petition here: betteruniversities.work/uow-petition...

David Bissell@davidjbissell.bsky.social · 2y ago

The very idea of so many incredible geography friends and colleagues at the University of Wollongong being in scope for possible redundancy next month is absolutely gut wrenching www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11... 1/5

📢Join the TIBG team!📢 We are looking for four new mid-career geographers to join our Editorial Board. We are seeking expertise in environmental, historical and quantitative geography, sustainable development, geopolitics, Africa & Latin America. Deadline: 4 December www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

Editorial opportunities at Society journal - RGS

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, one of the Society’s scholarly journals, is looking for four new Editorial Board members.

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