Juha Ridanpää
Biographic Data
| ID | 83872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juha Ridanpää |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juha |
| FAMILY NAME | Ridanpää |
| SIGNATURE | RIDANPÄÄ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7028-1843 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Teaching human geography fieldwork during Covid-19: Challenges and new possibilities
Fieldwork has long been a cornerstone of geographical research, and field courses have likewise served as an essential means of engaging with the key issues that define the discipline, both in physical and human geography. In human geography field courses, students learn to use qualitative methods such as interviews and participant observation among people. In this intervention paper I discuss what practical challenges the COVID-19 pandemic posed…
Borderland community and the transformative resilience of covidfencing
The article studies the relationship between borders and community resilience during the time of COVID-19 pandemic and the specific crisis condition termed ‘covidfencing’. While there is common agreement that communities and their resilience are of the uttermost importance for crisis adaptation and recovery, there is less consensus about the definition of community. The spatial and discursive framing of community and community resilience are espe…
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…
Geopoliticisation of Belonging: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Spatial Narratives of Finnish Researchers Studying Russian Literature
Russia invading Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was a major geopolitical shift with several impacts on economics, various levels of society as well as on cultural life, particularly in the neighbouring countries of Russia. Within the theoretical framework of everyday geopolitics and belonging, this article discusses how the Russo-Ukrainian War has geopoliticised the values, attitudes, opinions, and identities of Finnish researchers who study Russian …
La frontera finlandesa-sueca, las movilidades y la geopolítica de la resiliencia
Este artículo analiza el potencial del concepto de resiliencia para la investigación desde la geopolítica crítica en el contexto de la frontera interna entre Finlandia y Suecia en la Unión Europea. El examen se centra en la geopolítica cotidiana de la resiliencia, manifestada en la política de adaptación/no adaptación a los requisitos estatales, y en dos de los principales eventos fronterizos que han tenido un impacto considerable en las instituc…
New geopolitics and the Finnish-Russian border as a marker of territoriality
Carbon footprint nationalism’: Re-conceptualizing Finnish nationalism and national pride through climate change discourse
During recent years media discussion over the gravity of climate change has increased rapidly. One of the most used bywords has been ‘carbon footprint’, a concept with a moral appeal to global responsibility and a sense of global environmental togetherness. However, ‘carbon footprint responsibility’ cannot be separated from nationalistically loaded affects and their representations but instead it has effected new articulations that support state-…
Dark Humor, Irony, and the Collaborative Narrativizations of Regional Belonging
In literary geography there is a relatively long history of studying regional narratives, but less focus has been placed on how senses of spatial belonging and identity become actualized through the reception and reinterpretations of regional literatures. This article discusses how Meänkieli-speaking minorities in northern Sweden narrativize their shifting spatial identities through regional literature, specifically Mikael Niemi’s successful humo…
Crisis events and the inter-scalar politics of humor
Narrativizing (and laughing) spatial identities together in Meänkieli-speaking minorities
Youth organizations, citizenship, and guidelines for tourism in the wake of mass tourism in Finland
This paper will study tourism as a site of citizenship formation with a particular focus on the arrangements and lived practices of citizenship in the Finnish Youth Organization and in a sub-section of Northern Ostrobothnian Travel Club between 1965 and 1985. From the perspective of the model of citizenship in Finland, modern mass tourism was not unproblematic and it was uniquely incorporated in the program and activities of the Finnish Youth Org…
‘Singing acts’ from the deep North: Critical perspectives on northern exotics, contemporary ethnic music and language preservation in Sámi communities
This paper discusses the relationship of northernness and performances of contemporary ethnic popular music, within the context of critical geography and postcolonial theory. The focus is on the Sámi ethnic minorities of northern Finland. The North of Finland, ‘nature-Finland’, is understood here as an imaginative region which over the course of several centuries has been constituted through various forms of stereotyping, mystifying, exoticising …
Humor and parody in Finnish rap music videos
In this article, we discuss Finnish rap music by dissecting its relations to various forms of humor and spatiality. While there exists a stereotypical understanding of the rap scene as a continuum of the heritage of a serious, masculine and even aggressive African-American ghetto culture, our purpose is to show how humor and parody have also prevailed within the scene. Through dissecting spatiality, contextuality and humor in Finnish music videos…
Culturological Analysis of Filmic Border Crossings: Popular Geopolitics of Accessing the Soviet Union from Finland
Recent studies in popular geopolitics have emphasized how films and the film industry play a significant role in the process of constructing politically charged worldviews, stereotypes of the “other, ” as well as in the cultural reproduction of world politics. The production and screening of films takes place within certain social and geopolitical circumstances, which set the limits and the scope of perspective as far as what is a permissible, ad…
Literature and the peripheral city
Humour is Serious’ as a Geopolitical Speech Act: IMDb Film Reviews of Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator
Humour is a manifold cultural institution through which society and space become politicised. In this paper, the political nature of humour is discussed by dissecting the IMDb film reviews of Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy, The Dictator (2012), a parody of democracy in which the topics of racism, political incorrectness and sexism, as well as their relationship to the discourses of Neo-Orientalism and the Global War on Terrorism, are present. The rev…
Border guarding and the politics of the body: An examination of the Finnish Border Guard service
In previous studies, the question of the state control over the bodies of people at border-crossing points has been of great interest, while less attention has been given to the bodies that carry out border surveillance and control. This article introduces a new perspective on the study of the state and gender by examining the imaginations and rationalities of state border guarding and the politics of the body in the Finnish Border Guard (FBG) se…
Geographical Studies of Humor
Humor is a spatially embedded institution in many ways. Although a highly marginal field of study, the number of geographical studies on humor has been increasing lately. The aim of this article is to introduce the various approaches and also draw connecting links between them. The review shows how practices of popular media are geopolitically charged, how humor is intertwined with issues of social marginalization, how humor operates as an import…
Politics of literary humour and contested narrative identity (of a region with no identity)
The paper concerns the reading of humour, literary imaginativeness, social structures, local identities, as well as their emancipation, and their interconnected nature. Humour is approached here as a tool through which the writer as well as the reader can self-consciously rise above the social and cultural discourses within which the text itself is written. These themes are discussed by investigating how literary humour is used in the process of …
The media and the irony of politically serious situations: Consequences of the Muhammed cartoons in Finland
This article discusses the connections between political conflicts and situational irony and their relationship to the media. The focus is on a continuum of ironic events that started from the crisis following the publication of the Muhammed cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which led to a satirical comic strip being published on the web pages of Kaltio, a small cultural journal produced in Oulu, Northern Finland, and ended in the…
Pajala as a literary place: In the readings and footsteps of Mikael Niemi
This paper concerns the relationship between literature and tourism, with specific focus on the Swedish novelist Mikael Niemi and his influence on local tourism development in his home municipality of Pajala. Attention is paid to how the success of Niemi's breakthrough novel Populärmusik från Vittula has turned Pajala into a well-known 'literary place', at the same time increasing tourism in the region. This paper discusses the literary meanings …
Following the plot of Bengt Pohjanen's Meänmaa: Narrativization as a Process of Creating Regional Identity
This paper discusses the artistic and cultural work of one minority author and regional activist, Bengt Pohjanen, and how it constitutes a means for mediating regional identity narratives, constructing Meänmaa, the region straddling the border between Sweden and Finland in the Tornio River Valley. We will approach narrativization as a creative social action, focusing on the performative, social and political aspects of regional stories, and by th…
A masculinist northern wilderness and the emancipatory potential of literary irony
There has been an increasing body of critical research in modern literary geography claiming that forms of social oppression and injustice can become established through the institution of literature. It has also been stated that literature can equally well act as an emancipatory ‘tool’ through which subjugated histories are rewritten. This article is concerned with the colonialist history of Finnish northern literature, Lapland romanticism, the …
From the Bronx to the Wilderness: Inari‐Sami Rap, Language Revitalisation and Contested Ethnic Stereotypes
This article discusses how rap music operates as an emancipatory ‘tool’ in the processes of language preservation and the deconstruction of ethnic stereotypes. It focuses on Amoc, the first ever rap musician to use the Inari Sami language, a minority language spoken in Northern Finland with only approximately 350 remaining speakers. The case as a whole is understood as a confrontation between two opposite discursive worlds. Rap music is perceived…
Geopolitics of Humour: The Muhammed Cartoon Crisis and theKaltioComic Strip Episode in Finland
Humour and cartoons are commonly perceived as practices of innocent entertainment, but the crisis following the publishing of twelve cartoons of the prophet Muhammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten finally proved what serious matters popular culture, cartoons and humour can be. One repercussion of this notorious cartoon crisis was the publication in Kaltio, a minor cultural journal produced in northern Finland, of a comic strip in which v…
Geopolitics of Humour: The Muhammed Cartoon Crisis and theKaltioComic Strip Episode in Finland
Humour and cartoons are commonly perceived as practices of innocent entertainment, but the crisis following the publishing of twelve cartoons of the prophet Muhammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten finally proved what serious matters popular culture, cartoons and humour can be. One repercussion of this notorious cartoon crisis was the publication in Kaltio, a minor cultural journal produced in northern Finland, of a comic strip in which v…
Laughing at northernness: Postcolonialism and Metafictive Irony in the Imaginative Geography
This paper examines the role played by literature in constructing regional otherness focusing on a case study of Northern Finland. In the case of the Finnish North the direct connections between literary tradition, cultural imaginativeness and spatial otherness have been distinctive. Literary stereotypes concerning northern exoticism and the romantics have formed an imaginary contrast with the southern culture, a homogeneous region without any co…
Politics of literary humour and contested narrative identity (of a region with no identity)
The paper concerns the reading of humour, literary imaginativeness, social structures, local identities, as well as their emancipation, and their interconnected nature. Humour is approached here as a tool through which the writer as well as the reader can self-consciously rise above the social and cultural discourses within which the text itself is written. These themes are discussed by investigating how literary humour is used in the process of …
A masculinist northern wilderness and the emancipatory potential of literary irony
There has been an increasing body of critical research in modern literary geography claiming that forms of social oppression and injustice can become established through the institution of literature. It has also been stated that literature can equally well act as an emancipatory ‘tool’ through which subjugated histories are rewritten. This article is concerned with the colonialist history of Finnish northern literature, Lapland romanticism, the …
Humour is Serious’ as a Geopolitical Speech Act: IMDb Film Reviews of Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator
Humour is a manifold cultural institution through which society and space become politicised. In this paper, the political nature of humour is discussed by dissecting the IMDb film reviews of Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy, The Dictator (2012), a parody of democracy in which the topics of racism, political incorrectness and sexism, as well as their relationship to the discourses of Neo-Orientalism and the Global War on Terrorism, are present. The rev…
Border guarding and the politics of the body: An examination of the Finnish Border Guard service
In previous studies, the question of the state control over the bodies of people at border-crossing points has been of great interest, while less attention has been given to the bodies that carry out border surveillance and control. This article introduces a new perspective on the study of the state and gender by examining the imaginations and rationalities of state border guarding and the politics of the body in the Finnish Border Guard (FBG) se…
Following the plot of Bengt Pohjanen's Meänmaa: Narrativization as a Process of Creating Regional Identity
This paper discusses the artistic and cultural work of one minority author and regional activist, Bengt Pohjanen, and how it constitutes a means for mediating regional identity narratives, constructing Meänmaa, the region straddling the border between Sweden and Finland in the Tornio River Valley. We will approach narrativization as a creative social action, focusing on the performative, social and political aspects of regional stories, and by th…
Carbon footprint nationalism’: Re-conceptualizing Finnish nationalism and national pride through climate change discourse
During recent years media discussion over the gravity of climate change has increased rapidly. One of the most used bywords has been ‘carbon footprint’, a concept with a moral appeal to global responsibility and a sense of global environmental togetherness. However, ‘carbon footprint responsibility’ cannot be separated from nationalistically loaded affects and their representations but instead it has effected new articulations that support state-…
Geographical Studies of Humor
Humor is a spatially embedded institution in many ways. Although a highly marginal field of study, the number of geographical studies on humor has been increasing lately. The aim of this article is to introduce the various approaches and also draw connecting links between them. The review shows how practices of popular media are geopolitically charged, how humor is intertwined with issues of social marginalization, how humor operates as an import…
Culturological Analysis of Filmic Border Crossings: Popular Geopolitics of Accessing the Soviet Union from Finland
Recent studies in popular geopolitics have emphasized how films and the film industry play a significant role in the process of constructing politically charged worldviews, stereotypes of the “other, ” as well as in the cultural reproduction of world politics. The production and screening of films takes place within certain social and geopolitical circumstances, which set the limits and the scope of perspective as far as what is a permissible, ad…
Pajala as a literary place: In the readings and footsteps of Mikael Niemi
This paper concerns the relationship between literature and tourism, with specific focus on the Swedish novelist Mikael Niemi and his influence on local tourism development in his home municipality of Pajala. Attention is paid to how the success of Niemi's breakthrough novel Populärmusik från Vittula has turned Pajala into a well-known 'literary place', at the same time increasing tourism in the region. This paper discusses the literary meanings …
New geopolitics and the Finnish-Russian border as a marker of territoriality
Narrativizing (and laughing) spatial identities together in Meänkieli-speaking minorities
The media and the irony of politically serious situations: Consequences of the Muhammed cartoons in Finland
This article discusses the connections between political conflicts and situational irony and their relationship to the media. The focus is on a continuum of ironic events that started from the crisis following the publication of the Muhammed cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which led to a satirical comic strip being published on the web pages of Kaltio, a small cultural journal produced in Oulu, Northern Finland, and ended in the…
From the Bronx to the Wilderness: Inari‐Sami Rap, Language Revitalisation and Contested Ethnic Stereotypes
This article discusses how rap music operates as an emancipatory ‘tool’ in the processes of language preservation and the deconstruction of ethnic stereotypes. It focuses on Amoc, the first ever rap musician to use the Inari Sami language, a minority language spoken in Northern Finland with only approximately 350 remaining speakers. The case as a whole is understood as a confrontation between two opposite discursive worlds. Rap music is perceived…
Crisis events and the inter-scalar politics of humor
Humor and parody in Finnish rap music videos
In this article, we discuss Finnish rap music by dissecting its relations to various forms of humor and spatiality. While there exists a stereotypical understanding of the rap scene as a continuum of the heritage of a serious, masculine and even aggressive African-American ghetto culture, our purpose is to show how humor and parody have also prevailed within the scene. Through dissecting spatiality, contextuality and humor in Finnish music videos…
Geopoliticisation of Belonging: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Spatial Narratives of Finnish Researchers Studying Russian Literature
Russia invading Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was a major geopolitical shift with several impacts on economics, various levels of society as well as on cultural life, particularly in the neighbouring countries of Russia. Within the theoretical framework of everyday geopolitics and belonging, this article discusses how the Russo-Ukrainian War has geopoliticised the values, attitudes, opinions, and identities of Finnish researchers who study Russian …
Dark Humor, Irony, and the Collaborative Narrativizations of Regional Belonging
In literary geography there is a relatively long history of studying regional narratives, but less focus has been placed on how senses of spatial belonging and identity become actualized through the reception and reinterpretations of regional literatures. This article discusses how Meänkieli-speaking minorities in northern Sweden narrativize their shifting spatial identities through regional literature, specifically Mikael Niemi’s successful humo…
Youth organizations, citizenship, and guidelines for tourism in the wake of mass tourism in Finland
This paper will study tourism as a site of citizenship formation with a particular focus on the arrangements and lived practices of citizenship in the Finnish Youth Organization and in a sub-section of Northern Ostrobothnian Travel Club between 1965 and 1985. From the perspective of the model of citizenship in Finland, modern mass tourism was not unproblematic and it was uniquely incorporated in the program and activities of the Finnish Youth Org…
Literature and the peripheral city
Laughing at northernness: Postcolonialism and Metafictive Irony in the Imaginative Geography
This paper examines the role played by literature in constructing regional otherness focusing on a case study of Northern Finland. In the case of the Finnish North the direct connections between literary tradition, cultural imaginativeness and spatial otherness have been distinctive. Literary stereotypes concerning northern exoticism and the romantics have formed an imaginary contrast with the southern culture, a homogeneous region without any co…
From the Bronx to the Wilderness: Inari‐Sami Rap, Language Revitalisation and Contested Ethnic Stereotypes
This article discusses how rap music operates as an emancipatory ‘tool’ in the processes of language preservation and the deconstruction of ethnic stereotypes. It focuses on Amoc, the first ever rap musician to use the Inari Sami language, a minority language spoken in Northern Finland with only approximately 350 remaining speakers. The case as a whole is understood as a confrontation between two opposite discursive worlds. Rap music is perceived…
Geopolitics of Humour: The Muhammed Cartoon Crisis and theKaltioComic Strip Episode in Finland
Humour and cartoons are commonly perceived as practices of innocent entertainment, but the crisis following the publishing of twelve cartoons of the prophet Muhammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten finally proved what serious matters popular culture, cartoons and humour can be. One repercussion of this notorious cartoon crisis was the publication in Kaltio, a minor cultural journal produced in northern Finland, of a comic strip in which v…
A masculinist northern wilderness and the emancipatory potential of literary irony
There has been an increasing body of critical research in modern literary geography claiming that forms of social oppression and injustice can become established through the institution of literature. It has also been stated that literature can equally well act as an emancipatory ‘tool’ through which subjugated histories are rewritten. This article is concerned with the colonialist history of Finnish northern literature, Lapland romanticism, the …
Pajala as a literary place: In the readings and footsteps of Mikael Niemi
This paper concerns the relationship between literature and tourism, with specific focus on the Swedish novelist Mikael Niemi and his influence on local tourism development in his home municipality of Pajala. Attention is paid to how the success of Niemi's breakthrough novel Populärmusik från Vittula has turned Pajala into a well-known 'literary place', at the same time increasing tourism in the region. This paper discusses the literary meanings …
Following the plot of Bengt Pohjanen's Meänmaa: Narrativization as a Process of Creating Regional Identity
This paper discusses the artistic and cultural work of one minority author and regional activist, Bengt Pohjanen, and how it constitutes a means for mediating regional identity narratives, constructing Meänmaa, the region straddling the border between Sweden and Finland in the Tornio River Valley. We will approach narrativization as a creative social action, focusing on the performative, social and political aspects of regional stories, and by th…
The media and the irony of politically serious situations: Consequences of the Muhammed cartoons in Finland
This article discusses the connections between political conflicts and situational irony and their relationship to the media. The focus is on a continuum of ironic events that started from the crisis following the publication of the Muhammed cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which led to a satirical comic strip being published on the web pages of Kaltio, a small cultural journal produced in Oulu, Northern Finland, and ended in the…
Humour is Serious’ as a Geopolitical Speech Act: IMDb Film Reviews of Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator
Humour is a manifold cultural institution through which society and space become politicised. In this paper, the political nature of humour is discussed by dissecting the IMDb film reviews of Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy, The Dictator (2012), a parody of democracy in which the topics of racism, political incorrectness and sexism, as well as their relationship to the discourses of Neo-Orientalism and the Global War on Terrorism, are present. The rev…
Border guarding and the politics of the body: An examination of the Finnish Border Guard service
In previous studies, the question of the state control over the bodies of people at border-crossing points has been of great interest, while less attention has been given to the bodies that carry out border surveillance and control. This article introduces a new perspective on the study of the state and gender by examining the imaginations and rationalities of state border guarding and the politics of the body in the Finnish Border Guard (FBG) se…
Geographical Studies of Humor
Humor is a spatially embedded institution in many ways. Although a highly marginal field of study, the number of geographical studies on humor has been increasing lately. The aim of this article is to introduce the various approaches and also draw connecting links between them. The review shows how practices of popular media are geopolitically charged, how humor is intertwined with issues of social marginalization, how humor operates as an import…
Politics of literary humour and contested narrative identity (of a region with no identity)
The paper concerns the reading of humour, literary imaginativeness, social structures, local identities, as well as their emancipation, and their interconnected nature. Humour is approached here as a tool through which the writer as well as the reader can self-consciously rise above the social and cultural discourses within which the text itself is written. These themes are discussed by investigating how literary humour is used in the process of …
‘Singing acts’ from the deep North: Critical perspectives on northern exotics, contemporary ethnic music and language preservation in Sámi communities
This paper discusses the relationship of northernness and performances of contemporary ethnic popular music, within the context of critical geography and postcolonial theory. The focus is on the Sámi ethnic minorities of northern Finland. The North of Finland, ‘nature-Finland’, is understood here as an imaginative region which over the course of several centuries has been constituted through various forms of stereotyping, mystifying, exoticising …
Humor and parody in Finnish rap music videos
In this article, we discuss Finnish rap music by dissecting its relations to various forms of humor and spatiality. While there exists a stereotypical understanding of the rap scene as a continuum of the heritage of a serious, masculine and even aggressive African-American ghetto culture, our purpose is to show how humor and parody have also prevailed within the scene. Through dissecting spatiality, contextuality and humor in Finnish music videos…
Culturological Analysis of Filmic Border Crossings: Popular Geopolitics of Accessing the Soviet Union from Finland
Recent studies in popular geopolitics have emphasized how films and the film industry play a significant role in the process of constructing politically charged worldviews, stereotypes of the “other, ” as well as in the cultural reproduction of world politics. The production and screening of films takes place within certain social and geopolitical circumstances, which set the limits and the scope of perspective as far as what is a permissible, ad…
Literature and the peripheral city
Narrativizing (and laughing) spatial identities together in Meänkieli-speaking minorities
Youth organizations, citizenship, and guidelines for tourism in the wake of mass tourism in Finland
This paper will study tourism as a site of citizenship formation with a particular focus on the arrangements and lived practices of citizenship in the Finnish Youth Organization and in a sub-section of Northern Ostrobothnian Travel Club between 1965 and 1985. From the perspective of the model of citizenship in Finland, modern mass tourism was not unproblematic and it was uniquely incorporated in the program and activities of the Finnish Youth Org…
Dark Humor, Irony, and the Collaborative Narrativizations of Regional Belonging
In literary geography there is a relatively long history of studying regional narratives, but less focus has been placed on how senses of spatial belonging and identity become actualized through the reception and reinterpretations of regional literatures. This article discusses how Meänkieli-speaking minorities in northern Sweden narrativize their shifting spatial identities through regional literature, specifically Mikael Niemi’s successful humo…
Crisis events and the inter-scalar politics of humor
Carbon footprint nationalism’: Re-conceptualizing Finnish nationalism and national pride through climate change discourse
During recent years media discussion over the gravity of climate change has increased rapidly. One of the most used bywords has been ‘carbon footprint’, a concept with a moral appeal to global responsibility and a sense of global environmental togetherness. However, ‘carbon footprint responsibility’ cannot be separated from nationalistically loaded affects and their representations but instead it has effected new articulations that support state-…
La frontera finlandesa-sueca, las movilidades y la geopolítica de la resiliencia
Este artículo analiza el potencial del concepto de resiliencia para la investigación desde la geopolítica crítica en el contexto de la frontera interna entre Finlandia y Suecia en la Unión Europea. El examen se centra en la geopolítica cotidiana de la resiliencia, manifestada en la política de adaptación/no adaptación a los requisitos estatales, y en dos de los principales eventos fronterizos que han tenido un impacto considerable en las instituc…
New geopolitics and the Finnish-Russian border as a marker of territoriality
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…
Geopoliticisation of Belonging: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Spatial Narratives of Finnish Researchers Studying Russian Literature
Russia invading Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was a major geopolitical shift with several impacts on economics, various levels of society as well as on cultural life, particularly in the neighbouring countries of Russia. Within the theoretical framework of everyday geopolitics and belonging, this article discusses how the Russo-Ukrainian War has geopoliticised the values, attitudes, opinions, and identities of Finnish researchers who study Russian …
Teaching human geography fieldwork during Covid-19: Challenges and new possibilities
Fieldwork has long been a cornerstone of geographical research, and field courses have likewise served as an essential means of engaging with the key issues that define the discipline, both in physical and human geography. In human geography field courses, students learn to use qualitative methods such as interviews and participant observation among people. In this intervention paper I discuss what practical challenges the COVID-19 pandemic posed…
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