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The Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG) is a multidisciplinary research group specializing in the study of intersections between politics, space and agency, based at Tampere University.
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....
Screenshot of title and abstract of an article entitled Temporal ruination: Scarcity, entrapment, and the affective intensities of time in Gaza by Khalid Dader, published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
@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
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Online first at Childhood: Unlearning through art: Developing decolonising and empathic pedagogies in climate mobilities education.
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An important collective editorial on Geographies in/of translation, published in Fennia: doi.org/10.11143/fen...
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.
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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....
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...
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...
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
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Important work from @wassim-gh.bsky.social recently out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/anti...
Good to see this important work featured on Tampere University’s website:
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!
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 🤓)
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.