K Horsti
Biographic Data
| ID | 66046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Horsti |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Horsti |
| SIGNATURE | HORSTI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3700-6380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Geopolitics and Memorialisation of Borders
Geopolitics pervades memorialisation of borders worldwide. Border heritage sites commonly form powerful geopolitical bordering by creating myths of division and difference to serve the nation-state, and secure hegemonic narratives. Attention to multiplicity and polyphony of border memorialisation voices reveals coincidence and collision of memories and spatial orders to form resistance to the illusionary hegemonic border. Multiple temporalities m…
Emotions and Affect in Deportation: The Transformative Power of Social Relationships
nonPeerReviewed
Deportability of Christian Converts and the Controversy Over Faith in Finland
The issue of conversion from Islam to Christianity has emerged in the aftermath of Europe's 2015 surge in asylum-seeker numbers. In Finland, the increase in the number of deportation orders issued set in motion affective practices of resistance in the religious field across denomination boundaries. Critical frame analysis to public letters and other documents by religious leaders is combined with thematic analysis of interviews with converts' sup…
The Politics of Public Memories of Forced Migration and Bordering in Europe
Temporality in cosmopolitan solidarity: Archival activism and participatory documentary film as mediated witnessing of suffering at Europe’s borders
This article develops and extends the idea of cosmopolitan solidarity to temporality through a case study of archival activism and participatory film-making. It examines mediated witnessing within the Italian online audiovisual archive Archivio delle memorie migranti, which documents and archives the experiences of contemporary migrants in Italy. The moral basis of Archivio delle memorie migranti is cosmopolitan solidarity, which is usually under…
Digital materialities in the diasporic mourning of migrant death
This article examines memorialization among the family and friends of those who have died at the world’s deadliest border in the Mediterranean Sea. Digital media platforms are central spaces for new, innovative forms of coping with ambiguous loss or the inability to mourn over a dead body. The analysis focuses on the role of digital media technologies and the relationship between digital and material elements in memorialization. I examine the cre…
Memorializing mass deaths at the border: Two cases from Canberra (Australia) and Lampedusa (Italy)
In this paper, we compare two seemingly very similar instances in which individuals and organizations within the borders of the global North have memorialized the deaths of irregular migrants at sea: the SIEV X memorial in Australia's national capital Canberra, and the Giardino della memoria (Garden of Remembrance) on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Unlike ephemeral manifestations of grief, potentially these memorials have effects that reach wel…
Refugee testimonies enacted: Voice and Solidarity in Media Art Installations
This article examines how two media art installations in which celebrity actors enact refugee storytelling create awareness of the complexities of representation and solidarity with refugees. The celebrity actor produces familiarity, or “audibility,” for contents of the stories. Yet at the same time, the familiarity of the actor alerts the visitor to the politics of listening. The artworks therefore produce the potential for ethical listening, wh…
Visibility in mediated borderscapes: The hunger strike of asylum seekers as an embodiment of border violence
Live free or die motionless: Walking the migrant path from Italy to France
This essay and the photographs examine visual traces of irregular mobility in the border landscape between Italy and France. The ruined buildings and objects witness decades of movement of undocumented people on this old migrant path across the mountains. By taking the theoretical concept of multidirectional memory (Rothberg 2009) the essay argues that the Path of Hope can be thought of as a memory site through which the issues of migration in co…
Witnessing the experience of European bordering: Watching the documentary Under den samme himmel in an immigration detention centre
This article draws on theories of bordering and mediated witnessing to examine a documentary film that mediates migrants’ experiences of bordering in Europe. My analysis of Under den samme himmel/Days of Hope shows how the film captures the multiplicity of bordering practices, from geographical to socio-cultural borderings. The analysis is informed by watching and discussing the film in an immigrant detention facility in Finland with people who e…
Communicative memory of irregular migration: The re-circulation of news images on YouTube
This article analyses user-generated YouTube cut and mix videos of irregular migration as producing communicative memory of those who have suffered at Europe’s external borders. Visual and textual analyses examine a neglected perspective on the study of media representations of migration by examining a particular practice through which people engage with news images and participate in (re)construction of collective memory in relation to irregular…
Digital Islamophobia: The Swedish woman as a figure of pure and dangerous whiteness
This article addresses the digital culture of Islamophobic bloggers, focusing on the online circulation of a forensic photograph of a Swedish woman who was assaulted. The analysis shows how through appropriating this image, the bloggers created a unifying, imagined whiteness in the transnational Islamophobic network. The empirical analysis clarifies how this one image migrated and transformed in the blogosphere and legitimated the recurrent discu…
Techno-cultural opportunities: The anti-immigration movement in the Finnish mediascape
Horsti's article analyses how transformations in the media environment shaped the political success of the anti-immigration movement in Finland from 2003 to 2013. The qualitative textual analysis of blogs and mainstream media debates that relate to racism and the national populist Finns Party demonstrates how changes in the mediascape in general and in new media technology in particular have provided opportunities for the emerging anti-immigratio…
Conditions of cultural citizenship: Intersections of Gender, Race and Age in Public Debates on Family Migration
This article analyses problem framings in public debates on family migration in Finland. The study focuses on the less-examined category of age and how it intersects with gender, race and religion. We examine the discursive context within which parliamentarians and the media negotiate questions of migration policies, belonging and citizenship. Our analysis identifies problem framings by combining frame analysis with the ‘What is the problem repre…
The ethics of hospitality in changing journalism: A response to the rise of the anti-immigrant movement in Finnish media publicity
This article examines the role of the media in the rise of nationalist populism in Finland. The interplay between social media and mainstream media has facilitated the emergence of anti-immigrant agendas into the public debate, which has strengthened nationalist populist politics, despite mainstream journalism following professional ethics of balanced reporting. The article concludes that the traditional journalistic framework of agenda setting i…
De-ethnicized victims: Mediatized advocacy for asylum seekers
This article analyzes the framing of asylum seekers in the context of mediatized sanctuary policy and pro-asylum activism in Finland. In 2007, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, together with secular activist groups, successfully campaigned against the deportation of three female asylum seekers. In a textual analysis of the three categories of mediated communication, three approaches to framing analysis are used: the social movement approach, the c…
Directing diversity: Managing cultural diversity media policies in Finnish and Swedish public service broadcasting
This article sets out to examine and evaluate the Finnish and Swedish public service broadcasting companies’ cultural diversity management and implementation. Diversity policies have been in place in Europe since the 1960s. At present, in the 2000s, there are a variety of strategies to increase the representation of minorities and the recruitment of journalists with minority backgrounds into mainstream media. European collaboration is both taking…
Antiracist and Multicultural Discourses in European Public Service Broadcasting: Celebrating Consumable Differences in the Prix Europa Iris Media Prize
Since the dawn of the millennium, public debate on multiculturalism has intensified in Europe. Many countries known for their multicultural and tolerant attitudes, began to tighten their immigration and integration policies. The purpose of this article is to analyze European multicultural discourses by focusing on critical evaluation of the Prix Europa Iris, the yearly awards competition that celebrates multicultural television programming in Eur…
Global Mobility and the Media: Presenting Asylum Seekers as a Threat
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Digital Islamophobia: The Swedish woman as a figure of pure and dangerous whiteness
This article addresses the digital culture of Islamophobic bloggers, focusing on the online circulation of a forensic photograph of a Swedish woman who was assaulted. The analysis shows how through appropriating this image, the bloggers created a unifying, imagined whiteness in the transnational Islamophobic network. The empirical analysis clarifies how this one image migrated and transformed in the blogosphere and legitimated the recurrent discu…
The ethics of hospitality in changing journalism: A response to the rise of the anti-immigrant movement in Finnish media publicity
This article examines the role of the media in the rise of nationalist populism in Finland. The interplay between social media and mainstream media has facilitated the emergence of anti-immigrant agendas into the public debate, which has strengthened nationalist populist politics, despite mainstream journalism following professional ethics of balanced reporting. The article concludes that the traditional journalistic framework of agenda setting i…
De-ethnicized victims: Mediatized advocacy for asylum seekers
This article analyzes the framing of asylum seekers in the context of mediatized sanctuary policy and pro-asylum activism in Finland. In 2007, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, together with secular activist groups, successfully campaigned against the deportation of three female asylum seekers. In a textual analysis of the three categories of mediated communication, three approaches to framing analysis are used: the social movement approach, the c…
Memorializing mass deaths at the border: Two cases from Canberra (Australia) and Lampedusa (Italy)
In this paper, we compare two seemingly very similar instances in which individuals and organizations within the borders of the global North have memorialized the deaths of irregular migrants at sea: the SIEV X memorial in Australia's national capital Canberra, and the Giardino della memoria (Garden of Remembrance) on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Unlike ephemeral manifestations of grief, potentially these memorials have effects that reach wel…
Techno-cultural opportunities: The anti-immigration movement in the Finnish mediascape
Horsti's article analyses how transformations in the media environment shaped the political success of the anti-immigration movement in Finland from 2003 to 2013. The qualitative textual analysis of blogs and mainstream media debates that relate to racism and the national populist Finns Party demonstrates how changes in the mediascape in general and in new media technology in particular have provided opportunities for the emerging anti-immigratio…
Visibility in mediated borderscapes: The hunger strike of asylum seekers as an embodiment of border violence
Directing diversity: Managing cultural diversity media policies in Finnish and Swedish public service broadcasting
This article sets out to examine and evaluate the Finnish and Swedish public service broadcasting companies’ cultural diversity management and implementation. Diversity policies have been in place in Europe since the 1960s. At present, in the 2000s, there are a variety of strategies to increase the representation of minorities and the recruitment of journalists with minority backgrounds into mainstream media. European collaboration is both taking…
Global Mobility and the Media: Presenting Asylum Seekers as a Threat
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Conditions of cultural citizenship: Intersections of Gender, Race and Age in Public Debates on Family Migration
This article analyses problem framings in public debates on family migration in Finland. The study focuses on the less-examined category of age and how it intersects with gender, race and religion. We examine the discursive context within which parliamentarians and the media negotiate questions of migration policies, belonging and citizenship. Our analysis identifies problem framings by combining frame analysis with the ‘What is the problem repre…
Temporality in cosmopolitan solidarity: Archival activism and participatory documentary film as mediated witnessing of suffering at Europe’s borders
This article develops and extends the idea of cosmopolitan solidarity to temporality through a case study of archival activism and participatory film-making. It examines mediated witnessing within the Italian online audiovisual archive Archivio delle memorie migranti, which documents and archives the experiences of contemporary migrants in Italy. The moral basis of Archivio delle memorie migranti is cosmopolitan solidarity, which is usually under…
Digital materialities in the diasporic mourning of migrant death
This article examines memorialization among the family and friends of those who have died at the world’s deadliest border in the Mediterranean Sea. Digital media platforms are central spaces for new, innovative forms of coping with ambiguous loss or the inability to mourn over a dead body. The analysis focuses on the role of digital media technologies and the relationship between digital and material elements in memorialization. I examine the cre…
Witnessing the experience of European bordering: Watching the documentary Under den samme himmel in an immigration detention centre
This article draws on theories of bordering and mediated witnessing to examine a documentary film that mediates migrants’ experiences of bordering in Europe. My analysis of Under den samme himmel/Days of Hope shows how the film captures the multiplicity of bordering practices, from geographical to socio-cultural borderings. The analysis is informed by watching and discussing the film in an immigrant detention facility in Finland with people who e…
Refugee testimonies enacted: Voice and Solidarity in Media Art Installations
This article examines how two media art installations in which celebrity actors enact refugee storytelling create awareness of the complexities of representation and solidarity with refugees. The celebrity actor produces familiarity, or “audibility,” for contents of the stories. Yet at the same time, the familiarity of the actor alerts the visitor to the politics of listening. The artworks therefore produce the potential for ethical listening, wh…
Communicative memory of irregular migration: The re-circulation of news images on YouTube
This article analyses user-generated YouTube cut and mix videos of irregular migration as producing communicative memory of those who have suffered at Europe’s external borders. Visual and textual analyses examine a neglected perspective on the study of media representations of migration by examining a particular practice through which people engage with news images and participate in (re)construction of collective memory in relation to irregular…
Antiracist and Multicultural Discourses in European Public Service Broadcasting: Celebrating Consumable Differences in the Prix Europa Iris Media Prize
Since the dawn of the millennium, public debate on multiculturalism has intensified in Europe. Many countries known for their multicultural and tolerant attitudes, began to tighten their immigration and integration policies. The purpose of this article is to analyze European multicultural discourses by focusing on critical evaluation of the Prix Europa Iris, the yearly awards competition that celebrates multicultural television programming in Eur…
Global Mobility and the Media: Presenting Asylum Seekers as a Threat
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Antiracist and Multicultural Discourses in European Public Service Broadcasting: Celebrating Consumable Differences in the Prix Europa Iris Media Prize
Since the dawn of the millennium, public debate on multiculturalism has intensified in Europe. Many countries known for their multicultural and tolerant attitudes, began to tighten their immigration and integration policies. The purpose of this article is to analyze European multicultural discourses by focusing on critical evaluation of the Prix Europa Iris, the yearly awards competition that celebrates multicultural television programming in Eur…
Directing diversity: Managing cultural diversity media policies in Finnish and Swedish public service broadcasting
This article sets out to examine and evaluate the Finnish and Swedish public service broadcasting companies’ cultural diversity management and implementation. Diversity policies have been in place in Europe since the 1960s. At present, in the 2000s, there are a variety of strategies to increase the representation of minorities and the recruitment of journalists with minority backgrounds into mainstream media. European collaboration is both taking…
The ethics of hospitality in changing journalism: A response to the rise of the anti-immigrant movement in Finnish media publicity
This article examines the role of the media in the rise of nationalist populism in Finland. The interplay between social media and mainstream media has facilitated the emergence of anti-immigrant agendas into the public debate, which has strengthened nationalist populist politics, despite mainstream journalism following professional ethics of balanced reporting. The article concludes that the traditional journalistic framework of agenda setting i…
De-ethnicized victims: Mediatized advocacy for asylum seekers
This article analyzes the framing of asylum seekers in the context of mediatized sanctuary policy and pro-asylum activism in Finland. In 2007, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, together with secular activist groups, successfully campaigned against the deportation of three female asylum seekers. In a textual analysis of the three categories of mediated communication, three approaches to framing analysis are used: the social movement approach, the c…
Techno-cultural opportunities: The anti-immigration movement in the Finnish mediascape
Horsti's article analyses how transformations in the media environment shaped the political success of the anti-immigration movement in Finland from 2003 to 2013. The qualitative textual analysis of blogs and mainstream media debates that relate to racism and the national populist Finns Party demonstrates how changes in the mediascape in general and in new media technology in particular have provided opportunities for the emerging anti-immigratio…
Conditions of cultural citizenship: Intersections of Gender, Race and Age in Public Debates on Family Migration
This article analyses problem framings in public debates on family migration in Finland. The study focuses on the less-examined category of age and how it intersects with gender, race and religion. We examine the discursive context within which parliamentarians and the media negotiate questions of migration policies, belonging and citizenship. Our analysis identifies problem framings by combining frame analysis with the ‘What is the problem repre…
Communicative memory of irregular migration: The re-circulation of news images on YouTube
This article analyses user-generated YouTube cut and mix videos of irregular migration as producing communicative memory of those who have suffered at Europe’s external borders. Visual and textual analyses examine a neglected perspective on the study of media representations of migration by examining a particular practice through which people engage with news images and participate in (re)construction of collective memory in relation to irregular…
Digital Islamophobia: The Swedish woman as a figure of pure and dangerous whiteness
This article addresses the digital culture of Islamophobic bloggers, focusing on the online circulation of a forensic photograph of a Swedish woman who was assaulted. The analysis shows how through appropriating this image, the bloggers created a unifying, imagined whiteness in the transnational Islamophobic network. The empirical analysis clarifies how this one image migrated and transformed in the blogosphere and legitimated the recurrent discu…
Witnessing the experience of European bordering: Watching the documentary Under den samme himmel in an immigration detention centre
This article draws on theories of bordering and mediated witnessing to examine a documentary film that mediates migrants’ experiences of bordering in Europe. My analysis of Under den samme himmel/Days of Hope shows how the film captures the multiplicity of bordering practices, from geographical to socio-cultural borderings. The analysis is informed by watching and discussing the film in an immigrant detention facility in Finland with people who e…
Refugee testimonies enacted: Voice and Solidarity in Media Art Installations
This article examines how two media art installations in which celebrity actors enact refugee storytelling create awareness of the complexities of representation and solidarity with refugees. The celebrity actor produces familiarity, or “audibility,” for contents of the stories. Yet at the same time, the familiarity of the actor alerts the visitor to the politics of listening. The artworks therefore produce the potential for ethical listening, wh…
Visibility in mediated borderscapes: The hunger strike of asylum seekers as an embodiment of border violence
Live free or die motionless: Walking the migrant path from Italy to France
This essay and the photographs examine visual traces of irregular mobility in the border landscape between Italy and France. The ruined buildings and objects witness decades of movement of undocumented people on this old migrant path across the mountains. By taking the theoretical concept of multidirectional memory (Rothberg 2009) the essay argues that the Path of Hope can be thought of as a memory site through which the issues of migration in co…
The Politics of Public Memories of Forced Migration and Bordering in Europe
Temporality in cosmopolitan solidarity: Archival activism and participatory documentary film as mediated witnessing of suffering at Europe’s borders
This article develops and extends the idea of cosmopolitan solidarity to temporality through a case study of archival activism and participatory film-making. It examines mediated witnessing within the Italian online audiovisual archive Archivio delle memorie migranti, which documents and archives the experiences of contemporary migrants in Italy. The moral basis of Archivio delle memorie migranti is cosmopolitan solidarity, which is usually under…
Digital materialities in the diasporic mourning of migrant death
This article examines memorialization among the family and friends of those who have died at the world’s deadliest border in the Mediterranean Sea. Digital media platforms are central spaces for new, innovative forms of coping with ambiguous loss or the inability to mourn over a dead body. The analysis focuses on the role of digital media technologies and the relationship between digital and material elements in memorialization. I examine the cre…
Memorializing mass deaths at the border: Two cases from Canberra (Australia) and Lampedusa (Italy)
In this paper, we compare two seemingly very similar instances in which individuals and organizations within the borders of the global North have memorialized the deaths of irregular migrants at sea: the SIEV X memorial in Australia's national capital Canberra, and the Giardino della memoria (Garden of Remembrance) on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Unlike ephemeral manifestations of grief, potentially these memorials have effects that reach wel…
Emotions and Affect in Deportation: The Transformative Power of Social Relationships
nonPeerReviewed
Deportability of Christian Converts and the Controversy Over Faith in Finland
The issue of conversion from Islam to Christianity has emerged in the aftermath of Europe's 2015 surge in asylum-seeker numbers. In Finland, the increase in the number of deportation orders issued set in motion affective practices of resistance in the religious field across denomination boundaries. Critical frame analysis to public letters and other documents by religious leaders is combined with thematic analysis of interviews with converts' sup…
Geopolitics and Memorialisation of Borders
Geopolitics pervades memorialisation of borders worldwide. Border heritage sites commonly form powerful geopolitical bordering by creating myths of division and difference to serve the nation-state, and secure hegemonic narratives. Attention to multiplicity and polyphony of border memorialisation voices reveals coincidence and collision of memories and spatial orders to form resistance to the illusionary hegemonic border. Multiple temporalities m…
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works)