Jelena Salmi
Biographic Data
| ID | 175290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jelena Salmi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jelena |
| FAMILY NAME | Salmi |
| SIGNATURE | SALMI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5964-7146 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Measuring soil, making territory: Developing eDNA and other soil biodiversity indicators in Finland as a struggle over scales of governance
As a key instrument of governance, indicators are world-making; and yet, the processes by which indicators are made are rarely critically examined or opened to public scrutiny. Monitoring a soil biodiversity, as part of monitoring soil health, is increasingly relevant to policy. Healthy soils are cast as a ‘nature-based solution’ to socio-ecological challenges such as sustainable food production, land degradation, human health, and climate change…
Intermittent mobility as a livelihood strategy for landless rural people in Andhra Pradesh
This article analyses the multiple causes and temporalities of mobility between the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh and Mumbai’s Madh Island in India. For several decades, the fisheries of Madh Island have been the destination of migrant workers from the rain-shadow region of Rayalaseema. Development practitioners, researchers, and the media have generally addressed migration from Rayalaseema in the context of droughts. Problematizing narrat…
Fish Drought: Life Project of Koli Fishers in the Aftermath of Cyclones
An Anthropology of Disturbed Landscapes
Reviewed book: Anu Lounela, Eeva Berglund & Timo Kallinen (eds.). 2019. Dwelling in Political Landscapes: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. ISBN 978-951-858-087-7 (Print) ISBN 978-951-858-114-0 (PDF) ISBN 978-951-858-113-3 (EPUB) ISSN 0085-6835 (Studia Fennica) ISSN 1796-8208 (Studia Fennica Anthropologica
From Third-Class to World-Class Citizens: Claiming Belonging, Countering Betrayal in the Margins of Ahmedabad
This paper ethnographically explores the repercussions of the large-scale displacement and resettlement of slum-dwellers in the city of Ahmedabad, India, where state-sponsored urban development aimed at the creation of a slum-free world-class city is strongly personified around the figure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Based on ten months' fieldwork in the slum resettlement site of Sadbhavna Nagar in 2015-2016, I explore the intricacies of betr…
Sense and Sensibility – Ethnology of Affect
With the so-called “affective turn” in the humanities and social sciences, affect has become a popular theoretical frame in the research of human practice and sociality. The notion of affect places feelings, emotions, embodied experiences, and the feel of things at the front and center of academic interest. Researchers differ in their definitions of affect – some see affect as a potential to affect and an openness to being affected, while others …
From Third-Class to World-Class Citizens: Claiming Belonging, Countering Betrayal in the Margins of Ahmedabad
This paper ethnographically explores the repercussions of the large-scale displacement and resettlement of slum-dwellers in the city of Ahmedabad, India, where state-sponsored urban development aimed at the creation of a slum-free world-class city is strongly personified around the figure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Based on ten months' fieldwork in the slum resettlement site of Sadbhavna Nagar in 2015-2016, I explore the intricacies of betr…
Sense and Sensibility – Ethnology of Affect
With the so-called “affective turn” in the humanities and social sciences, affect has become a popular theoretical frame in the research of human practice and sociality. The notion of affect places feelings, emotions, embodied experiences, and the feel of things at the front and center of academic interest. Researchers differ in their definitions of affect – some see affect as a potential to affect and an openness to being affected, while others …
Sense and Sensibility – Ethnology of Affect
With the so-called “affective turn” in the humanities and social sciences, affect has become a popular theoretical frame in the research of human practice and sociality. The notion of affect places feelings, emotions, embodied experiences, and the feel of things at the front and center of academic interest. Researchers differ in their definitions of affect – some see affect as a potential to affect and an openness to being affected, while others …
An Anthropology of Disturbed Landscapes
Reviewed book: Anu Lounela, Eeva Berglund & Timo Kallinen (eds.). 2019. Dwelling in Political Landscapes: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. ISBN 978-951-858-087-7 (Print) ISBN 978-951-858-114-0 (PDF) ISBN 978-951-858-113-3 (EPUB) ISSN 0085-6835 (Studia Fennica) ISSN 1796-8208 (Studia Fennica Anthropologica
From Third-Class to World-Class Citizens: Claiming Belonging, Countering Betrayal in the Margins of Ahmedabad
This paper ethnographically explores the repercussions of the large-scale displacement and resettlement of slum-dwellers in the city of Ahmedabad, India, where state-sponsored urban development aimed at the creation of a slum-free world-class city is strongly personified around the figure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Based on ten months' fieldwork in the slum resettlement site of Sadbhavna Nagar in 2015-2016, I explore the intricacies of betr…
Measuring soil, making territory: Developing eDNA and other soil biodiversity indicators in Finland as a struggle over scales of governance
As a key instrument of governance, indicators are world-making; and yet, the processes by which indicators are made are rarely critically examined or opened to public scrutiny. Monitoring a soil biodiversity, as part of monitoring soil health, is increasingly relevant to policy. Healthy soils are cast as a ‘nature-based solution’ to socio-ecological challenges such as sustainable food production, land degradation, human health, and climate change…
Intermittent mobility as a livelihood strategy for landless rural people in Andhra Pradesh
This article analyses the multiple causes and temporalities of mobility between the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh and Mumbai’s Madh Island in India. For several decades, the fisheries of Madh Island have been the destination of migrant workers from the rain-shadow region of Rayalaseema. Development practitioners, researchers, and the media have generally addressed migration from Rayalaseema in the context of droughts. Problematizing narrat…
Fish Drought: Life Project of Koli Fishers in the Aftermath of Cyclones
Geography (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Affect (linguistics (1 works) · Agriculture (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works)