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GOCEP (Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group) works at Regional Studies, Tampere University https://www.tuni.fi/en/research/geographies-coloniality-and-everyday-violence-research-group-gocep
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...
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...
Response by @mikkojorge.bsky.social to commentaries: Weathering Palestine: Frontiering pollution
My response to 4 generous commentaries by Sidaway, Machold, Fregonese and Clark&Henig (see below) on my original paper in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. Further opening ontology, frontiering, and ungovernability of colonial pollution and its malevolent weathering:
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Stench atmospheres and colonial policing/coomeranging in Palestine; congratulations to all authors (two of our research group members)!
Sharing my new article at @antipodeonline.bsky.social which suggests a novel framing for enquiring the deep entanglement between Israel and global centers of domination. doi.org/10.1111/anti...
Fresh paper by @wassim-gh.bsky.social offering a reading of Israel as a frontier of Western-led global domination: ‘Homological Correspondence: Israel as a Frontier of Global Domination’ @antipodeonline.bsky.social
#palestine
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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.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Great paper by Khalid Dader in @societyandspace.bsky.social looking at deliberate ruination of daily life in Gaza - the unstructured, unpredictable, and uninhabitable time; the infrastructural annihilation; the exhaustion, humiliation, and anticipatory dread. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Tiina Järvi and @mikkojorge.bsky.social write about infrastructure, generators, and atmospheric politics of pollution in Lebanon: ’Breathing atmospheres of failure: The matter of pollution in Beirut’
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OnlineFirst - "Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine: Arboricide and fiery dispossessions" by Marijn Nieuwenhuis and @mikkojorge.bsky.social:
@geogdurham.bsky.social #Pyropolitics #Pyrotechniques #Palestine #Arboricide
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Congratulations to our colleague Marijn Nieuwenhuis on the publication of his co-authored article with @mikkojorge.bsky.social in @natureandspace.bsky.social entitled “Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine: Arboricide and fiery dispossessions” which is now available at: doi.org/10.1177/2514...
New paper by Marijn Nieuwenhuis and Mikko Joronen looks at #fire as an elemental tool and condition of #colonial dispossession in #Palestine, but also the settler arson paranoia, state/settler/pyroterror and the vilification of native bodies, plants and animals. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New Online 1st Article “Polluting appropriations: Malevolent weathering of settler colonisation in Palestine” by Mikko Joronen
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Tiina Järvi writes about atmospheres of everyday violence in West Bank.
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Lakolla haluamme muistuttaa työnantajaa siitä, että me olemme (Tampereen) yliopisto ja että opetuksen ja tutkimuksen laatu sekä henkilöstömme hyvinvointi on turvattava, JUKOn Tampereen yliopiston lakkopäällikkö Mika Mattila korostaa. #MeOlemmeYliopisto @sivista.bsky.social
all of a sudden, after a decade of research, this book is available to pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...
‘Stop the violence in Gaza’ statement by Finnish Geographical Society.
A judge just ruled that deporting Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil over his pro-Palestine views is “reasonable” because it could harm U.S. foreign policy. No crime. No evidence. Just dissent.
This is how authoritarianism works.
Fresh out paper on ‘fitful infrastructures’ of survival in Gaza amid infrastructural elimination in Antipode by two GOCEP researchers, Khalid Dader and Mikko Joronen. @antipodeonline.bsky.social
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As part of my effort at strategic autonomy from the US, just switched from Chrome to Norway-based Vivaldi based on this skeet. Works fine
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).
To give context for Trump’s cleansing plan in Gaza, a must read by our group member Wassim Ghantous.
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
’The Cities and Ecologies of Lebanon: Altering Realities and Everyday Violence’, 20-21 Feb 2025, Tampere University
Two lectures by Prof. Mona Harb (American University of Beirut) and Ass.Prof. Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi). More info under the link (see ’Events’): www.tuni.fi/en/research/...
On destroying the conditions of living in Lebanon by our research group member dr.Tiina Järvi (in Finnish).
www.tuni.fi/alustalehti/...
Encountering Palestine elaborates the un/making of colonial space in Palestine by addressing a range of empirical topics and diverse theoretical frameworks.
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
More information on research themes we work with at our webpages: www.tuni.fi/en/research/...