Important new paper from Danna Masad and @wassim-gh.bsky.social on colonial herding practices in Palestine: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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New piece by Jouni Häkli and Noora Peltonen out in @spaceandpolity.bsky.social that examines how the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum produces migrant vulnerability and raises questions about how humanitarianism legitimizes restrictive border policies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The European Union as a humanitarian border: the production of vulnerability in the New Pact on Migration and Asylum

This article critically examines the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum through the conceptual lens of the ‘humanitarian border’, which captures the entanglement of care and control in migration...

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@dader-khalid.bsky.social develops a conceptualization of temporal ruination to understand scarcity-making and entrapment in Gaza. Out online first in @societyandspace.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Online first at Childhood: Unlearning through art: Developing decolonising and empathic pedagogies in climate mobilities education. doi.org/10.1177/0907...

Unlearning through art: Developing decolonising and empathic pedagogies in climate mobilities education - Kirsi Pauliina Kallio, Vilhelmiina Vainikka, Jouni Häkli, 2025

This paper introduces arts-based participatory research combining decolonising and empathic transformative environmental pedagogies, in the context of climate m...

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An important collective editorial on Geographies in/of translation, published in Fennia: doi.org/10.11143/fen...

Geographies in/of translation

This collective editorial calls for a deeper engagement with translation in geography, arguing that translation is not a peripheral concern or a practical textual question, but a constitutive element ...

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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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New research out in Social Inclusion by Vesna Holubek, @derek-ruez.bsky.social, Mila Bujić, Marisa Honkanen, and Zsuzsa Millei exploring the diverse experiences and agencies of international academics in the context of lived and managed university internationalization doi.org/10.17645/si....

International Academics as Agents of Transformation: Lived and Managed Internationalization in a Finnish University | Article | Social Inclusion

Vesna Holubek, Derek Ruez, Mila Bujić, Marisa Honkanen, Zsuzsa Millei

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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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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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Check out this new piece from Aura Lounasmaa, Kirsi Pauliina Kallio, and Jouni Häkli: Migration research in ‘play space’: joyful encounters, empathic unsettlement and refusal in arts-based ethnography doi.org/10.1080/1464...

Migration research in ‘play space’: joyful encounters, empathic unsettlement and refusal in arts-based ethnography

This paper introduces joyful embodied encounters, empathic unsettlement, agentic acts of refusal and ethical and personal tensions as key dimensions of narrative ethnographic research. Grounded in ...

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Important work from @wassim-gh.bsky.social recently out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/anti...

Homological Correspondence: Israel as a Frontier of Global Domination

This article offers a novel framing for enquiring the deep entanglement between Israel and Western-led global centers of domination. Moving beyond geopolitical reasonings and historical analogies, it....

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Good to see this important work featured on Tampere University’s website:

Study explores how life continues amid annihilation | Tampere universities

A new study investigates how Palestinians in Gaza are establishing fragile infrastructures to survive the systematic destruction of their way of life. Amid ongoing violence and infrastructure destr...

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Strong and active presence of SPARG scholars in the historic one-day strike @ Tampere Uni

Wonderful to visit and see a great exhibition curated by Maria Villa @ Myymälä2 in Helsinki!

Danna Masad and Wassim Ghantous gave a timely and interesting paper 'War through the milieu' in a session on Palestine organized by Mikko Joronen and Mark Griffiths at the Detroit AAG!

Great to see this important paper out in the world!

Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group@gocep.bsky.social · last yr.

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/...

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).

The program for #AAG2025 looks great! (And it includes a number of interesting presentations by SPARG researchers and colleagues 🤓)

American Association of Geographers@geographers.bsky.social · last yr.

It's here! The #AAG2025 Program is now finalized. Browse dates and times for the more than 1,000 available sessions in the Session Gallery and start building your schedule (including field visits & workshops!) www.aag.org/events/aag20... Let us know what you're looking forward to the most! #GeoSky

Professor Mona Harb giving a splendid keynote lecture in seminar "The Cities and Ecologies of Lebanon: Altering Realities and Everyday Violence", organized by Dalia Zein and Tiina Järvi from GOCEP & SPARG @Tampere_University

Today we had SPARG's spring term opening seminar.