Eeva Puumala
Biographic Data
| ID | 218337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eeva Puumala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eeva |
| FAMILY NAME | Puumala |
| SIGNATURE | PUUMALA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2303-361X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Everyday coexistence: A research agenda for rethinking living-together in the city
How do we live together? This question, at the heart of society, is vividly debated in contemporary European cities in times of rapid demographic changes and rising inequalities. While these discussions often point towards increased differences and the emergence of new cleavages over identity, they fail to grasp what unfolds in everyday relationships. Creating a dichotomy opposing identity and alterity, thinking through difference muffles the pow…
We Have Another Technical Issue: How Can VR be Used to Study the Affective Footing of Urban Encounters
This article explores the methodological potential and technical challenges of using scripted 360° videos, viewed with a virtual reality (VR) headset for immersive experience, in research on urban everyday life. More specifically, it contributes to ongoing debates about the role of affect in urban encounters and everyday coexistence. Bridging ethnography and experimental psychology through the use of VR, the article reflects on lessons learned fr…
Affective abundance in the urban everyday: Unpacking the emotive dynamics of coexistence in diverse neighbourhoods
This article explores the emotive dynamics of everyday life in socioeconomically diverse urban neighbourhoods. It draws on Sara Ahmed's theory of affective circulation and Xavier Guillaume and Jef Huysmans’s thinking on the everyday to introduce the notion of affective abundance, which is designed to unpack how emotions shape and are shaped by urban life. Based on interviews conducted in Helsinki and Hyvinkää (Finland) and Malmö and Eskilstuna (S…
Linguistic, psychological and epistemic vulnerability in asylum procedures: An interdisciplinary approach
This article analyzes three video-recorded asylum interviews, their written records and the corresponding decisions by the Finnish Immigration Service. The goal is to identify the causes and consequences of vulnerability in instances that are particularly important when assessing whether the asylum seeker has a well-grounded fear of persecution. A combination of linguistic, psychological and epistemic perspectives on vulnerability shows that thes…
Exploring the links between language, everyday citizenship, and community
The so-called migration and refugee ‘crisis’ has seen a wide-spread phenomenon across the world where people come together to build relationships to enact their visions of community, regardless of different ways in which they are included in or excluded from the citizenship regime. This special issue contributes to the studies of these political struggles to explore how such encounters of people are facilitated, negotiated, and contested, from th…
Whether you like it or not, this is the future: Everyday Negotiations of the Community's Boundary in Urban Space
How are the boundary and ground of community produced and negotiated in mundane practices of interaction and language use in urban space? The article explores how claims of belonging and legitimate presence are formulated, communicated, and contested and what kind of daily collisions emerge between people in multilingual and multicultural urban contexts. By so doing, it contributes to critical scholarship that discusses connections between commun…
What can co-creation do for the citizens? Applying co-creation for the promotion of participation in cities
Co-creation has become a globally popular concept in different sectors of the society. Its promise lies in breaking down hierarchies between local government, business life, universities, citizens and other stakeholders. Instead of being a top-down or bottom-up process, co-creation involves a multi-directional approach to problem solving. In this article, we scrutinize the capacity of co-creation to transform the practices of public sector in the…
Giving an Account of Persecution: The Dynamic Formation of Asylum Narratives
Asylum interviews are a central part of the refugee determination procedures where an asylum claimant’s right to receive international protection is evaluated. While research on the culture of disbelief that characterizes the asylum procedure and on the problems of interpretation and credibility assessment within the process exist, the process of giving an account of persecution has not been subjected to scrutiny. In this article, we shed light o…
Choreographies of Resistance: Mobile Bodies and Relational Politics
Choreographies of Resistance examines bodies and their capacity for obstructive and resistant action in places and spaces where we do not expect to see it. Drawing on empirical research that considers cases on asylum seekers, beggars, undocumented migrants and migrant nurses, the book attests to the scope and diversity of corporeal resistance in the realm of politics. It is shown that bodies that are not assumed to have political agency can obstr…
Does the body matter? Determining the right to asylum and the corporeality of political communication
Analyses of political agency often take the Habermasian notion of an ideal speech situation and its related discourse ethics as the ultimate model of politically relevant communication. Our examination of Finnish asylum officers’ perspectives on their work leads us to consider the asylum interview as an event of the political, an event of the body politic. Our interest lies in acts of communication that go beyond speech, which necessitates an eng…
Bodies of War, the Past Continuous, and (Ar)rhythmic Experiences
In recent years, International Relations scholars have shown a growing interest in the body. Yet, the body often remains rather abstract. In this article, we engage with the lived body and personal histories, claim that the international is not only personal but also corporeal with bodily dimension, and explore the body as a complex intersection that characterizes and shapes the relations between the singular, social, and international. To illust…
Persecution as Experience and Knowledge: The Ontological Dynamics of Asylum Interviews
Journal Article Persecution as Experience and Knowledge: The Ontological Dynamics of Asylum Interviews Get access Anitta Kynsilehto, Anitta Kynsilehto University of Tampere Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eeva Puumala Eeva Puumala University of Tampere Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 16, Issue 4, November 2015, Pages 446–46…
Political life beyond accommodation and return: Rethinking relations between the political, the international, and the body
This article explores political agency in the interstices of the bodily politics of asylum. It shows how its practices make bodily surfaces and how alternative forms of political authority emanate from bodies. Relying on Jean-Luc Nancy's ontology of the body, it examines forms of political agency that are enacted by people often considered as abjective subjectivities in the spaces of the international. Deriving from interviews conducted with fail…
Events of the Body Politic: A Nancian Reading of Asylum-seekers' Bodily Choreographies and Resistance
This article thinks the place of the body, agency and movement in politics through the body of the asylum-seeker. Asylum-seekers do not have ample space to politically voice their experiences, but their bodies and ways of taking agency are fluid. The Agambenian idea of exceptional space and bare life privileges the power of the sovereign, leaving little space for agency for its subjects. It leads to an impasse, as it offers no viable option of th…
Corporeal Choreographies between Politics and the Political: Failed Asylum Seekers Moving from Body Politics to Bodyspaces
Corporeal choreography can capture the kind of political agency needed for a transformative politics to emerge. Interviews with failed asylum seekers exemplify negotiations and articulations of agency through movements in a bodyspace we call the interzone. In the explorations of the ways and implications of failed asylum seekers moving between body politics and the political bodyspace Jean-Luc Nancy's ideas of the ontological body, politics and t…
Whether you like it or not, this is the future: Everyday Negotiations of the Community's Boundary in Urban Space
How are the boundary and ground of community produced and negotiated in mundane practices of interaction and language use in urban space? The article explores how claims of belonging and legitimate presence are formulated, communicated, and contested and what kind of daily collisions emerge between people in multilingual and multicultural urban contexts. By so doing, it contributes to critical scholarship that discusses connections between commun…
What can co-creation do for the citizens? Applying co-creation for the promotion of participation in cities
Co-creation has become a globally popular concept in different sectors of the society. Its promise lies in breaking down hierarchies between local government, business life, universities, citizens and other stakeholders. Instead of being a top-down or bottom-up process, co-creation involves a multi-directional approach to problem solving. In this article, we scrutinize the capacity of co-creation to transform the practices of public sector in the…
Persecution as Experience and Knowledge: The Ontological Dynamics of Asylum Interviews
Journal Article Persecution as Experience and Knowledge: The Ontological Dynamics of Asylum Interviews Get access Anitta Kynsilehto, Anitta Kynsilehto University of Tampere Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eeva Puumala Eeva Puumala University of Tampere Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 16, Issue 4, November 2015, Pages 446–46…
Linguistic, psychological and epistemic vulnerability in asylum procedures: An interdisciplinary approach
This article analyzes three video-recorded asylum interviews, their written records and the corresponding decisions by the Finnish Immigration Service. The goal is to identify the causes and consequences of vulnerability in instances that are particularly important when assessing whether the asylum seeker has a well-grounded fear of persecution. A combination of linguistic, psychological and epistemic perspectives on vulnerability shows that thes…
Corporeal Choreographies between Politics and the Political: Failed Asylum Seekers Moving from Body Politics to Bodyspaces
Corporeal choreography can capture the kind of political agency needed for a transformative politics to emerge. Interviews with failed asylum seekers exemplify negotiations and articulations of agency through movements in a bodyspace we call the interzone. In the explorations of the ways and implications of failed asylum seekers moving between body politics and the political bodyspace Jean-Luc Nancy's ideas of the ontological body, politics and t…
Giving an Account of Persecution: The Dynamic Formation of Asylum Narratives
Asylum interviews are a central part of the refugee determination procedures where an asylum claimant’s right to receive international protection is evaluated. While research on the culture of disbelief that characterizes the asylum procedure and on the problems of interpretation and credibility assessment within the process exist, the process of giving an account of persecution has not been subjected to scrutiny. In this article, we shed light o…
Bodies of War, the Past Continuous, and (Ar)rhythmic Experiences
In recent years, International Relations scholars have shown a growing interest in the body. Yet, the body often remains rather abstract. In this article, we engage with the lived body and personal histories, claim that the international is not only personal but also corporeal with bodily dimension, and explore the body as a complex intersection that characterizes and shapes the relations between the singular, social, and international. To illust…
Events of the Body Politic: A Nancian Reading of Asylum-seekers' Bodily Choreographies and Resistance
This article thinks the place of the body, agency and movement in politics through the body of the asylum-seeker. Asylum-seekers do not have ample space to politically voice their experiences, but their bodies and ways of taking agency are fluid. The Agambenian idea of exceptional space and bare life privileges the power of the sovereign, leaving little space for agency for its subjects. It leads to an impasse, as it offers no viable option of th…
Exploring the links between language, everyday citizenship, and community
The so-called migration and refugee ‘crisis’ has seen a wide-spread phenomenon across the world where people come together to build relationships to enact their visions of community, regardless of different ways in which they are included in or excluded from the citizenship regime. This special issue contributes to the studies of these political struggles to explore how such encounters of people are facilitated, negotiated, and contested, from th…
Does the body matter? Determining the right to asylum and the corporeality of political communication
Analyses of political agency often take the Habermasian notion of an ideal speech situation and its related discourse ethics as the ultimate model of politically relevant communication. Our examination of Finnish asylum officers’ perspectives on their work leads us to consider the asylum interview as an event of the political, an event of the body politic. Our interest lies in acts of communication that go beyond speech, which necessitates an eng…
Political life beyond accommodation and return: Rethinking relations between the political, the international, and the body
This article explores political agency in the interstices of the bodily politics of asylum. It shows how its practices make bodily surfaces and how alternative forms of political authority emanate from bodies. Relying on Jean-Luc Nancy's ontology of the body, it examines forms of political agency that are enacted by people often considered as abjective subjectivities in the spaces of the international. Deriving from interviews conducted with fail…
Corporeal Choreographies between Politics and the Political: Failed Asylum Seekers Moving from Body Politics to Bodyspaces
Corporeal choreography can capture the kind of political agency needed for a transformative politics to emerge. Interviews with failed asylum seekers exemplify negotiations and articulations of agency through movements in a bodyspace we call the interzone. In the explorations of the ways and implications of failed asylum seekers moving between body politics and the political bodyspace Jean-Luc Nancy's ideas of the ontological body, politics and t…
Events of the Body Politic: A Nancian Reading of Asylum-seekers' Bodily Choreographies and Resistance
This article thinks the place of the body, agency and movement in politics through the body of the asylum-seeker. Asylum-seekers do not have ample space to politically voice their experiences, but their bodies and ways of taking agency are fluid. The Agambenian idea of exceptional space and bare life privileges the power of the sovereign, leaving little space for agency for its subjects. It leads to an impasse, as it offers no viable option of th…
Persecution as Experience and Knowledge: The Ontological Dynamics of Asylum Interviews
Journal Article Persecution as Experience and Knowledge: The Ontological Dynamics of Asylum Interviews Get access Anitta Kynsilehto, Anitta Kynsilehto University of Tampere Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eeva Puumala Eeva Puumala University of Tampere Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 16, Issue 4, November 2015, Pages 446–46…
Political life beyond accommodation and return: Rethinking relations between the political, the international, and the body
This article explores political agency in the interstices of the bodily politics of asylum. It shows how its practices make bodily surfaces and how alternative forms of political authority emanate from bodies. Relying on Jean-Luc Nancy's ontology of the body, it examines forms of political agency that are enacted by people often considered as abjective subjectivities in the spaces of the international. Deriving from interviews conducted with fail…
Does the body matter? Determining the right to asylum and the corporeality of political communication
Analyses of political agency often take the Habermasian notion of an ideal speech situation and its related discourse ethics as the ultimate model of politically relevant communication. Our examination of Finnish asylum officers’ perspectives on their work leads us to consider the asylum interview as an event of the political, an event of the body politic. Our interest lies in acts of communication that go beyond speech, which necessitates an eng…
Bodies of War, the Past Continuous, and (Ar)rhythmic Experiences
In recent years, International Relations scholars have shown a growing interest in the body. Yet, the body often remains rather abstract. In this article, we engage with the lived body and personal histories, claim that the international is not only personal but also corporeal with bodily dimension, and explore the body as a complex intersection that characterizes and shapes the relations between the singular, social, and international. To illust…
Choreographies of Resistance: Mobile Bodies and Relational Politics
Choreographies of Resistance examines bodies and their capacity for obstructive and resistant action in places and spaces where we do not expect to see it. Drawing on empirical research that considers cases on asylum seekers, beggars, undocumented migrants and migrant nurses, the book attests to the scope and diversity of corporeal resistance in the realm of politics. It is shown that bodies that are not assumed to have political agency can obstr…
Giving an Account of Persecution: The Dynamic Formation of Asylum Narratives
Asylum interviews are a central part of the refugee determination procedures where an asylum claimant’s right to receive international protection is evaluated. While research on the culture of disbelief that characterizes the asylum procedure and on the problems of interpretation and credibility assessment within the process exist, the process of giving an account of persecution has not been subjected to scrutiny. In this article, we shed light o…
What can co-creation do for the citizens? Applying co-creation for the promotion of participation in cities
Co-creation has become a globally popular concept in different sectors of the society. Its promise lies in breaking down hierarchies between local government, business life, universities, citizens and other stakeholders. Instead of being a top-down or bottom-up process, co-creation involves a multi-directional approach to problem solving. In this article, we scrutinize the capacity of co-creation to transform the practices of public sector in the…
Linguistic, psychological and epistemic vulnerability in asylum procedures: An interdisciplinary approach
This article analyzes three video-recorded asylum interviews, their written records and the corresponding decisions by the Finnish Immigration Service. The goal is to identify the causes and consequences of vulnerability in instances that are particularly important when assessing whether the asylum seeker has a well-grounded fear of persecution. A combination of linguistic, psychological and epistemic perspectives on vulnerability shows that thes…
Exploring the links between language, everyday citizenship, and community
The so-called migration and refugee ‘crisis’ has seen a wide-spread phenomenon across the world where people come together to build relationships to enact their visions of community, regardless of different ways in which they are included in or excluded from the citizenship regime. This special issue contributes to the studies of these political struggles to explore how such encounters of people are facilitated, negotiated, and contested, from th…
Whether you like it or not, this is the future: Everyday Negotiations of the Community's Boundary in Urban Space
How are the boundary and ground of community produced and negotiated in mundane practices of interaction and language use in urban space? The article explores how claims of belonging and legitimate presence are formulated, communicated, and contested and what kind of daily collisions emerge between people in multilingual and multicultural urban contexts. By so doing, it contributes to critical scholarship that discusses connections between commun…
Affective abundance in the urban everyday: Unpacking the emotive dynamics of coexistence in diverse neighbourhoods
This article explores the emotive dynamics of everyday life in socioeconomically diverse urban neighbourhoods. It draws on Sara Ahmed's theory of affective circulation and Xavier Guillaume and Jef Huysmans’s thinking on the everyday to introduce the notion of affective abundance, which is designed to unpack how emotions shape and are shaped by urban life. Based on interviews conducted in Helsinki and Hyvinkää (Finland) and Malmö and Eskilstuna (S…
Everyday coexistence: A research agenda for rethinking living-together in the city
How do we live together? This question, at the heart of society, is vividly debated in contemporary European cities in times of rapid demographic changes and rising inequalities. While these discussions often point towards increased differences and the emergence of new cleavages over identity, they fail to grasp what unfolds in everyday relationships. Creating a dichotomy opposing identity and alterity, thinking through difference muffles the pow…
We Have Another Technical Issue: How Can VR be Used to Study the Affective Footing of Urban Encounters
This article explores the methodological potential and technical challenges of using scripted 360° videos, viewed with a virtual reality (VR) headset for immersive experience, in research on urban everyday life. More specifically, it contributes to ongoing debates about the role of affect in urban encounters and everyday coexistence. Bridging ethnography and experimental psychology through the use of VR, the article reflects on lessons learned fr…
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