RELATE 2014-2016

Relate activities 2014, 2015 and Jan-April 2016

RELATE (The Relational and Territorial Politics of Bordering, Identities, and Transnationalization) centre of

excellence started officially 1.1.2014. The RELATE Center of Excellence has brought together human

geographers from the Universities of Oulu and Tampere to study theoretical and empirical themes related to

contemporary bordering practices and forms of political agency. More information on the background and

current research topics can be found on www.oulu.fi/relate.

This document summarizes the main activities of the CoE for year 2014, 2015 and early 2016 (Jan-April).

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Report on the activities of the RELATE Center of Excellence during the period 1.1. 2014-30.4. 2016

(Academy of Finland 2014-2019)

Director Professor Anssi Paasi, Oulu University (PI)

Vice-Director Professor Jouni Häkli, Tampere University (PI)

Professor Jarkko Saarinen, Oulu University (PI)

Professor Sami Moisio, Helsinki University/Oulu University (PI)

Coordinator Kaj Zimmerbauer, Oulu University

Introduction

RELATE CoE started on 1st January 2014. The recruitment process was launched already in autumn 2013

when first post docs and PhD students were appointed to four research teams led by PIs noted above. PIs also

form the board of the project. Recruited researchers have helped to internationalize considerably the staff of

the CoE (see the list of members). The first internal kick off seminar was organized in April 2014 and a

major meeting with international Resource Persons and SAB members was organized in September 2014.

The feedback and support received in the report prepared by the SAB was used to advance and focus the

conceptual and empirical approaches of the project. The SAB report suggested that the project should

develop further meta-level concepts and cultural approaches to articulate the themes more effectively.

Substantial effort was therefore put to reinforce these matters in each theme. Meta-level concepts are useful

not only in moving beyond the territorial/relational dualism but also in deepening the connections between

the theoretical and empirical approaches of the four teams. Researcher’s links with RPs (across themes) and

SAB members has helped to sharpen the critical evaluation of the socio-cultural processes/practices of the

fluid, relational world and the simultaneously ongoing hardening/securitizing of borders/walls and the

everlasting allure of territory.

Themes integrating the work of four teams are the co-constitution of the relational and territorial, the

changing/’expanding’ national state spaces (in various activities and through transnationalization), the

politics of global-local relations and bordering practices in the ostensibly ‘borderless’ global world. Shared

meta-concepts for the themes are transnationalism, knowledge production, policy mobility/transfer, and

spatial socialization/subjectification. In empirical sense, the shared elements for themes 1 and 4 are the

territorial and relational dimensions in strategic planning and knowledge production, and for 3 and 4

bordering and border-crossings. Two other areas that are in a dialogue with several teams are the re-

interpretation of the global-national nexus and the role of (political) national and transnational subjectivities,

and the control/promotion of mobilities (tourists, immigrants, policies, ideas). Cooperation and thematic

interaction between research teams has given rise to new ideas and openings. The teams have had concrete

cooperation in the following ways:

1. Cooperation between teams and their RPs (seminars, articles, journal theme issues, books)

2. Collaboration between individual researchers (seminars, articles, theme issues and books)

3. Supervision of PhD students across themes and teams

4. Concrete meetings between groups/PIs (official/unofficial work meetings e.g. during the annual

meetings of the Finnish Geographers, AAG and RGS)

5. Major conferences where all teams are participating (e.g. the forthcoming event in Oulu in

September 2016)

6. Making social impact towards the society in media in connection with such events, practical societal

participation (for example researchers in theme 2 have actively participated in public discussions on

the rights of asylum seekers and the Finnish immigration policy (interviews, blogging, voluntary

work). We can also note the participation in the semi-popular cultural event organized by the

Academy of Finland and Kuhmo city (e.g. Human Beings and Cosmos 2015 event in Kuhmo, where

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Prof. Paasi gave a keynote on borders). Similarly the keynotes given in the context of the EUREGIO

meetings can be mentioned.

Continual updating of the webpage regarding various events, activities and new publications has also helped

to maintain contacts.

We will depict below the activities of each theme and also outline briefly the future plans for the next three

years.

Theme 1: Changing state spaces

Team Leader: Prof. Sami Moisio

Team Members: Prof. Anssi Paasi, Pia Bäcklund, Fredriika Jakola, Juho Luukkonen, Satu Kivelä, Kaj

Zimmerbauer

The state can be understood in a number of ways. It is abstract yet concrete, a thing and a process, structuring

practices and structured by practices, material and imagined, theorized and experienced. In recent scholarly

discourse, these seemingly mutually exclusive characteristics have often been discussed under the rubric of

‘the relational’ versus “the territorial,” with the relational being associated with poststructuralist, feminist,

and network approaches, and the territorial with materialist and structural interpretations. Far too often, this

has been presented as an ontological question about how the world really is or how it should be (for some

scholars, the issue of territoriality and relationality is a pressing political concern). This framing sometimes

prompts superficial articulations of change: for instance, that the contemporary world is increasingly made

up of networks rather than bounded state territories.

In order to overcome the aforementioned conceptual fallacies, the members of the team 1 are interrogating

the constitution of transnational political spaces in ‘statist’ social practices such as planning, education and

economy. The key focus of research is on territorializing and deterritorializing practices of the contemporary

capitalist condition. In so doing, we seek to contribute to the coming together of the ‘networked’ and the

‘territorial’ in the social practices constitutive of state spaces and supranational polities such as the European

Union. Research in the team 1 can be divided into three empirical focus areas, all of which are closely

connected with the key dimensions of the RELATE.

Firstly, the team is producing a major intervention on the concept of the geopolitical in the context of the

knowledge-based economy. We examine the knowledge-based economy as a historically contingent societal

system and a form of regulating policy fiction. The key idea here is to single out the key territorializing

social practices through which the knowledge economy has been re-territorialized as knowledge-based

societies. These practices range from education to urban planning. In such a view, we consider the

knowledge-based economy as a ubiquitous political process: a combination of discourses and institutional as

well as administrative mechanisms and producers of knowledge which are inherently spatial in nature. One

of the challenges is to further conceptualize and empirically investigate the role of the contemporary

economic geographical knowledge production (broadly understood) in the political framings of the

knowledge-based society as a territorial polity.

As an example of the conceptual work conducted in this branch of research, the team is producing an

intervention on the geopolitics of city-regionalism at the age of the conceivably knowledge-intensive

capitalism. In particular, we propose a geopolitical reading of city-regionalism which seeks to overcome the

instrumentalist readings according to which a seemingly coherent nation-state have always “used” cities as

geopolitical instruments. Rather than reinforcing the duality between the state and the city, our perspective

highlights the coming together of the state and city regionalism as a geopolitical process which can be

empirically analysed through three elements: 1) the territorializing processes in which city-regionalism is

conjoined with broader political, cultural and economic visions of the state in a given context, 2) the material

arrangements that characterize such conjoining, and 3) the actors (and their capacities to act) which play a

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crucial role formulating the political strategies/experiments in which city-regionalism and the nation state

come together in different temporal contexts.

Secondly, the team is contributing to the literature on state spatial transformation through a fresh empirical

focus. In particular, the focus here is on the ways in which such transformation can be analyzed through

statist practices of health care systems. We have proposed that the history of health care might well be

written as a history of biopolitical and geopolitical problematizations. We propose that an interrogation of

the coming together of the biopolitical and the geopolitical in the statist social practices of health care opens

up new paths to investigate the ways in which the territorial management of state space and the changing

relational spaces of population management together produce changing forms of statehood. We have thus

sought to demonstrate that an examination of the relation between geopolitics and biopolitics in the context

of health care offers insights into the study of the spatial transformation of the state and the diverse processes

of neoliberalization. We have also proposed that while the territorial structures of health care may remain

relatively intact, the ways in which biopolitics works through these inherited geopolitical structures is a topic

which merits more attention in different contexts.

All what is being said above indicates that the state spatial transformation also includes reconstruction of

citizen subjectivities. With regard to subjectification and citizenship in general, one of the research

challenges of the second research branch is to inquire further into the mundane political and social practices

of health care through which state power permeates into the everyday life of citizens. Furthermore, as health

care is nowadays increasingly entangled, for instance, with the issues of Europeanization and the so called

global health, another important research theme is the emergent transnationalization of health policies and

practices as well as the associated potentiality of increasing marketization of health care services.

Thirdly, the team’s research has discussed about the practices of local government and co-operation in north

European border regions, where the dynamics between local socio-institutional premises and national as well

as EU’s planning discourses play a central role. In these studies, the focus has been on the regionalization of

supranational regions through territory-network interplay. These studies have thus contributed also to

discussions on relational/territorial spaces. This research strand has also teased out the contemporary state

rescaling processes in relation to cross-border co-operation and transnationalization of state spaces. Borders,

for their part, have been conceptualized as distinctively multilayered and contextual, but also as building

blocks of regional identities. Following that notion, the questions on belonging and resistance in regional

transformations have also been investigated.

The team 1 will continue its work on the abovementioned three research fronts. During the year 2017, the

team will start to prepare for its exit strategy. One of the crucial issues here is to enhance the networking of

the researchers of the team 1 and in so doing to secure funding in large collaborative research projects both

in Finland and abroad. The team has already applied funding from the European Commission (Horizon

2020) as part of a large European network.

Theme 2: Subjectification and Spatial Socialization

Team Leader: Prof. Jouni Häkli

Team Members: Prof. Anssi Paasi, Prof. Jarkko Saarinen, Pia Bäcklund, Mikko Joronen, Inka Kaakinen,

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio, Zsuzsa Millei, Elisa Pascucci, Taina Renkonen, Juha Ridanpää, Elina Stenvall

In theme 2, scholars are pushing forward the research frontier on the relationship between 'relational' and

'territorial' conceptions of political space with three major theoretical emphases. First, the team has continued

to develop a field theoretical approach for distinguishing between what can be understood as 'global'

(relationally composed) field of forces relatively immune to contextual factors, and 'local' (territorially

constituted) field of forces that are more prone to contextual influences. This work is significant in

overcoming dualist understanding that posit relational and territorial structuration of the geopolitical world as

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exclusive alternatives. In this sense, field theory provides a metatheoretical frame for making sense of how

global and local logics of practice differ without need to assume that relational or territorial conception of

space ontologically dominates over the other. Empirically the team has studied the practices of transnational

citizenship spanning the local-global continuum as a structured reality of differing social forces (Finland,

Australia, and Egypt).

Second, the team has theorized mundane political agency as a socio-spatial realm constituted at once by

relational and territorial 'realities'. In empirical terms the team has worked on a range of topics with main

focus on the mundane geopolitics of/in childhood (Finland, UK, Australia, Palestine, Egypt, Mozambique)

and forced/mixed migration, asylum seeking and mobility control (Middle East and North Africa, Finland,

Russia, Somalia). Much of this work conceptualizes the constitution of people's political engagements in

terms of topological and topographical political space, thus distinguishing between the non-contiguous

(relational) logic that binds together the ecologies of people's political concerns, and the forms of political

engagement that depend on various institutionalized (territorial) forms. The significance of this work lies in

the recognition that relational and territorial facets of political agency are mutually constitutive and thus can

only be separated analytically. Both facets also continue to be important conditions for peoples’ mundane

political engagement.

Third, the team is critically scrutinizing the ontological stances and assumptions related to how politics and

space are constituted and correlated in the current literature mainly published under the broad rubric of ‘turn

to ontology’. This work is conceptual with emphasis on the politics of ontologization. The main argument is

that whereas a growing body of geographical literature is currently proposing that ontological argumentation

necessarily enlivens our understanding of the political, the proposition itself remains problematic. The team

seeks to show how rigid ontology building operates not for but against the essential possibility of the

political invested in ontological openness, and thus remains blind to its own politics of establishing a

foundation. The team is developing an alternative understanding of the politics of ontology that employs

ontology as a form of questioning (not answering) and thus capable of responding to the ontological

alreadiness of being-in-the-world.

The forthcoming research in the theme 2 will continue to develop these three theoretical problem areas, but

empirically will most likely emphasize more the challenges set by the imminent crisis of humanitarian

migration in Europe and beyond. New internationally recruited researchers will also bring in their expertise

and research experience to benefit this work. Even though RELATE is now approaching its midterm, the

team has already started to prepare for the period subsequent to this funding (exit strategy). The most

important action it this regard is engaging with several large-scale domestic and international research

projects that are applying for funding from the Academy of Finland (Strategic Research Council) and the

European Commission (Horizon 2020).

Theme 3: Border crossings: everyday life, encounters and the production of responsibilities

Team Leader: Prof. Jarkko Saarinen

Team Members: Prof. Jouni Häkli, Mark Griffiths, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Monkgogi Lenao, Anna-Kaisa

Kuusisto-Arponen, Juha Ridanpää, Outi Kulusjärvi, Maaria Niskala, Alix Varnajot

Based on the proposed initial key research questions (How national/transnational responsibility and

citizenship become articulated in border crossing practices; and How are territorial spaces being rearticulated

in tourism/ mobilities?) the theme 3 researchers have operated in two interrelated fronts. Firstly, we have

redefined and re-worked with the theoretical and conceptual aspects of bordering processes and how they are

challenged by mobile subjects and their (relational) identities. In general, our interest has been on social and

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governing practices that are involved in bordering, what are their socio-spatial outcomes and the roles of

states in defining the practices and impacts. We have aimed to develop a new perspective on the study of the

state and gender, for example, by examining the imaginations and rationalities of state border guarding

(Prokkola & Ridanpää, 2015). By emphasizing the body politics and gendered relations of border guarding,

we have aimed to ‘feminize’ the study of borders and border securitization, by showing the pervasive and

also controversial nature of gendered imaginations and rationalities in the domain of border guarding in

contemporary societies. In border crossing contexts we have introduced and developed a concept of border

heritage and how the approaches of geographical scale and scalar politics could be employed as an analytical

lens through which the sites and events of border heritage-making can be examined (Prokkola & Lois, 2016).

Researchers have also examined the bordering and corporeal subject of the occupation in Palestinian context,

e.g. by seeking to document the circulation of violent affects and activist work (Griffiths, 2016a). In addition,

in relation to migration and everyday life a long-term socio-spatial experiences, emotions and embodied

memories of unaccompanied refugee minors have been analyzed (Kuusisto-Arponen, 2015), with a special

purpose to develop an in-depth understanding of how and why (transnational) displacement leaves particular

impacts on individuals and cultural communities. In this case a specific policy relevant aim has been based

on an attempt to identify new sustainable approaches to aftercare of unaccompanied refugee minors.

Secondly, the theme 3 researchers have continued to work with complex and multi-scalar processes of

mobility and its spatial configurations. The team has tried to push further our understanding of these

processes in international tourism, volunteering, youth programs, regional development and (community-

based) natural resource management (CBNRM) contexts. For example, modern tourism has been analyzed as

a site of citizenship formation with a particular focus on the arrangements and lived practices of citizenship

in a Finnish youth organization with an aim to understand the mutual formation of citizenship and

responsible tourism at various geographical scales (Prokkola & Ridanpää, in process). International

volunteering has been analyzed through host-development relations with special emphasis on the ethics,

politics of intervention and researcher positionality in the Global South (specifically India)(Griffiths, 2016b).

Overall, researchers have rethought ‘us & them’ and ‘host & guests’ in voluntary mobilities and related

encounters and border crossings. These encounters connecting the peripheral and marginal areas of the world

in the Global North and South take place on different scales and levels influenced by historical contexts and

power relations. Historical approach has been based on the tourism promotional materials and archive works,

for example, and how the representations of the indigenous and ethnic peoples are constructed for Western

tourists and how the encounters between host-guest are depicted in the place promotion (Niskala, 2015). In

addition, the role of state is scrutinized with an aim to understand how the states perceive, define and

construct their ethnic minorities in the tourism industry and regional development purposes. Related to the

question how territorial spaces are being rearticulated in tourism/mobilities the team has focused a specific

issue of tourism enclavisation and how border-work is constituted and what bordering mechanisms are

involved in these transnational spaces (Kulusjärvi, 2016; Saarinen, 2015). We have also tried to push further

our understanding of the relations between mobilities and bordering in tourism development and natural

resource management (NRM) processes. Research has focused on the conceptual idea of a (host) community

in relation to territorial and relational processes taking place ‘in tandem’. This rethinking has called for a

deeper understanding what community or host means as an idea beyond a fixed ‘spatial location’

(territoriality) alone, as it is often framed in tourism and CBNRM policies, for example. We recognize that

the community characteristics such as ethnicity, gender and livelihood compositions are deeply connected

with the issues of power, empowerment, participation and inequality in local-global nexus having both

relational and territorial aspects in organizing exclusions and inclusions in local benefits from tourism and

CBNRM (Lenao, 2014). Here a key approach is based on political ecology that combines the concerns of

ecology and a broadly defined political economy (Nepal & Saarinen, 2016). Understanding communities and

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their specific characteristics, history and internal and external dynamics has an intrinsic academic value but

also great societal significance in policy-making e.g. when managing regional development impacts.

Future research activities will continue to develop these two research areas with deeper empirical level

analysis and theoretical connections. A purpose is also to strengthen the existing and working fruitful

connection with other team areas. The empirical work has so far included cases and research material

collections in Finland, India, southern Africa and Palestine. In future the team aims to emphasize also the

Arctic frontier in research activities with a support of new recruited researchers and active international and

national collaboration is research and funding, including the Academy of Finland and EU. The team is

already working as a part of the Nordic Centre of Excellence in Arctic Research (Resource Extraction and

Sustainable Arctic Communities (REXSAC), 2016– ) and preparing a COST Network (Tourism in European

Borderlands: knowledge and networking for local sustainable development) application jointly with the

international teams.

Theme 4: Bordering, control and security in a ‘borderless’, networked world

Team Leader: Prof. Anssi Paasi

Team Members: Prof. Anssi Paasi, Prof. Jouni Häkli, Lauren Martin, Oliver Belcher, Joni Vainikka, Cadey

Korson, Jonathan Burrow, Katharina Koch, Juha Kalaoja, Vesa Väätänen, Fredriika Jakola.

The early 1990s witnessed the rapid collapse of the Cold War international order. The subsequent expansion

of the EU gave a boost to applied border research that the Union intensely funded in order to lower the

European economic, political and cultural borders. Yet, instead of leading to a ‘borderless world’ the

collapse of Eastern Europe triggered a number of new states and borderlines. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks,

bordering has accelerated. Even if the ‘war against terrorism’ recognizes seemingly no borders as limits to its

practices, this does not mean that borders are no longer erected or that they do not impact on the sphere of

the political: borders and boundaries are at the hearth of this apparently borderless ground. Where old-style

sovereignty was ‘defended’ through takeover and the accumulation of stocks of capital, raw materials, goods

or human capital, the material necessities of sovereignty are nowadays ever more related to the capacity to

control and manage flows. Recent major upheavals in Europe and elsewhere have displayed that territory and

borders are firmly present in the contemporary world and walls – both physical and mental – are under

construction around the world.

Since the beginning the key focus of team 4 has been to examine diverse territorial/relational settings in

order to make sense of how borders, territory and region matter in the networking world, how they could be

understood/conceptualized and how these elements are mobilized in and through networked social relations.

The continuing significance of regional and national identities, spatial planning, and boundary producing

practices clearly show the power of these categories but also a need to rethink them in the increasingly

transnational world. There is a growing tendency to see spatialities through a topological ‘network gaze’ and

recognize linkages across various limits, together with flows, power and clustering, among the key elements

of globalization. Networks are not universal de-territorializing forces of globalization; networks are formed,

expanded and maintained through localized and regionalized sets and flows of knowledge, ideologies and

practices that fuse the local-global divide.

Team 4 has paid particular attention to scrutinizing the existing and emerging, at times contested, forms of

region/territory-building, bordering and management practices as well as the related spatial identity politics

and the legacies of identities at various spatial scales. The aim has been firstly to contribute to border

research by providing more nuanced insights on how various networked and boundary producing practices

in economy, culture, politics and governance are constituted by and constitutive of territorial/regional life at

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various scales. We see it significant to expose the current roles of borders as complex networked socio-

spatial elements that are embedded in the everyday lives of both citizens and territories/regions but which

increasingly are also constituted in and constitutive of transnational contexts. When analyzing the

manifestations and significance of relationality team members have at once critically reflected the enduring

appeal of the territory/territoriality at various spatial scales, from local to regional, from state to supra-state

(especially European scale) and how it perpetually motivates social action and spatial socialization. This

issue is more and more significant around the world where also (ethno-)nationalism, autonomy/independence

movements and political extremism have arisen and which can be seen in concrete efforts to “fortify” the

borders of territorial states but also in geopolitical activities that are used in controlling cross-border flows

and managing cross-border cooperation. A geopolitical/-economic element comes into this research project

via theme that analyses the growing prominence of national branding that has arisen in the global world of

flows where states aim to be more competitive. This activity not only fuses the territorial and relational

modes of state operation but also stretch local, regional and national imaginaries into transnational

constructions.

Respectively, and secondly, all team members have aimed to conceptualize the overlapping, at times

incompatible elements of relational and territorial perspectives in their own empirical themes. In theoretical

terms team members have been activated to conceptualization and search for conceptual invariances rather

than adopting existing theories and frameworks of thought. Some fruitful cooperation has been done across

team borders, which has led to coauthored publications.

The conceptual analysis of the territorial-relational relations led to an analysis of the topological concepts of

space that was published in a key forum (PIHG) as well as to a conceptual study of the nuances and

historical contingency of the widely cited ‘borderless’ thesis. The latter effort will continue in team’s work

(one example is the international conference organized with team 3 in Oulu, in September 2016).

Conceptual work has been implemented and advanced into a series of case studies at various spatial scales

that explore the territorial and relational processes and practices (e.g. the making of the Arctic region,

contested territorial reconstruction, border control as a constituent of everyday life, national branding, EU’s

external border strategies, territorial/relational elements in spatial planning). Particular attention is paid to

European context and e.g. how new bordering practices are mobilized by the EU in order to manage the

security borders of the EU. A PhD project (will be introduced in the SAB meeting 2016) is analyzing

security borders in the context of Finland and the Baltic Sea region whose role has transformed significantly

since the beginning of Ukrainian crisis, resonating with the changing Russian geopolitics.

The conceptual-historical work on network thinking will continue and it will be paralleled with an empirical

analysis of the co-constitution of the relational and territorial spaces. An analysis will be carried out of how

the ideas of networks and topological reach are contested within the European space. Empirically this

subproject analyses the core of the human rights movement ideas (e.g. Amnesty) and the reasons why the

universalism of human rights has its own versions in Russia.

Team 4 has already started to get ready for the period following the current funding, i.e. the exit strategy

expected by the Academy. Team leader is participating, as part of the wider consortium, in the ongoing

application process of so-called Strategic funding from the Academy of Finland. This consortium has

submitted a second/final-round application with the topic “Multilayered Borders - Global Security” which

belongs to the general funding scheme “Security in a networked world”. Researchers of team four will be

motivated to be active in potential application processes of both Finnish and the European level funding

sources.

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Conclusions

The planned research work of the CoE has progressed well during 2014 - 1.4. 2016 and almost 180

publications have been produced. A number of them have been published in top international geographical

and interdisciplinary journals and book series, and have been immediately broadly cited. PhD students in the

CoE have also started their work successfully. The first PhD exam (international student) came out at the end

of 2014 and 2 others followed in 2015. We expect 1-2 more PhDs in 2016.

The world has dramatically changed in recent years and all kinds of mobilities are the order of the day which

has led to societal conflicts and to the rise of new borders both around and inside societies. In Europe, the

current geopolitical and migration crisis has challenged the existing bounded spaces and fixed state-centric

cartographies, and raised serious humanitarian concerns that all European states have faced. These critical

issues raise vital challenges to the rest of the ongoing CoE period. These themes will be the key topic in the

international RELATE-conference “Borderless worlds - for whom? Ethics, moralities and (in)justice in

migration and tourism” that will be organized in Oulu in September 2016, organized jointly by teams 3 and 4

and where teams 1 and 2 are well represented.

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1. Year 2014

1.1 Recruitments and staff

Call for positions was launched on late October - early November 2013. Total of 74 applications were

received for open posts. Of all applicants, 28 were doctoral students and 46 were postdoctoral researchers. Of

those applicants who stated their gender, 27 were women and 28 were men. All applicants were asked to

state two themes they were primarily targeting to. Thematically, the distribution of applicants was:

1. Changing state spaces: 25 applied primarily, 11 secondarily.

2. Subjectification and spatial socialization: 17 applied primarily, 12 secondarily

3. Border-crossings: 15 primarily, 16 secondarily

4. Bordering, control and security in a ‘borderless’, networked world: 7 primarily, 16 secondarily

As for the doctoral students, 11 applied primarily for theme 1, four applied for theme 2, five for theme 3 and

three for theme 4. Of all post docs who stated the preferred themes, 14 applied for theme 1, 13 for theme 2,

10 for theme 3 and finally, four for theme 4. Three applied for the coordinator/post doc post.

It needs to be noted that not all stated which themes they did apply for. Accordingly, some applicants stated

two most relevant themes but did not mention which one was the first and which one the second most

important.

So far, the personnel hired directly by the RELATE-funding have been:

Post docs:

1. Juho Luukkonen 1/2014-12/2016 (Oulu) (Nationality: Finland)

2. Mikko Joronen 3/2014 - 7/2015 (Tre) (Finland)

3. Elisa Pascucci 10/2014 - 12/2016 (Tre) (Italy)

4. Zsuzsa Millei 2/2015 - 12/2016 (Tre) (Hungary)

5. Pia Bäcklund 9/2014 - 8/2015 (Tre) (Finland)

6. Mark Griffiths 8/2014-12/2016 (Oulu) (Great Britain)

7. Juha Ridanpää 1/2014-5/2015 (Oulu) (Finland)

8. Oliver Belcher 1/2014-12/2015 (Oulu) (USA)

9. Kaj Zimmerbauer (Post doc/coordinator) 1/2014-12/2016 (Oulu) (Austria)

10. Joni Vainikka 1/2016-12/2016 (Oulu) (Finland)

PhD students:

1. Heikki Sirviö 1/2014-5/2015 (Oulu) (Nationality: Finland)

2. Satu Kivelä 9/2014-12/2016 (Oulu) (Finland)

3. Taina Renkonen 2/2014-12/2016 (except 9/2015-5/2016) (Tre) (Finland)

4. Monkgogi Lenao 4/2014-12/2015 (Oulu) (Botswana)

5. Outi Kulusjärvi 1/2014-3/2014, 8/2014-12/2014 (Oulu) (Finland)

6. Katharina Koch 1/2014-12/2016 (Oulu) (Germany)

7. Joni Vainikka (11/2014-12/2014 (Finland)

8. Juha Kalaoja (3/2016-12/2016)

9. Alix Varnajot (4/2016-12/2016) (France)

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Note: some of recruited have been at times working with other funding, but have been part of the RELATE

research team. Also, RELATE has number of researchers that are part of the research team but got the

funding entirely from elsewhere (e.g. Academy of Finland, departments). Those RELATE team members

are:

1. Kristiina Vihmalo (Nationality: Finland)

2. Anni Kangas (Finland)

3. Fredriika Jakola (Finland)

4. Maaria Niskala (Finland)

5. Elina Stenvall (Finland)

6. Kirsi Pauliina Kallio (Finland)

7. Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen (Finland)

8. Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola (Finland)

9. Eeva Rinne (Finland)

10. Wame Hambira (Botswana)

11. Jonathan Burrow (Australia)

12. Sami Lind (Finland)

13. Lauren Martin (ended 31.12.2015) (USA)

14. Martina Tazzioli (ended 31.1.2015) (Italy)

15. Riikka Korkiamäki (Finland)

16. Inka Kaakinen (Finland)

17. Cadey Korson (USA)

18. Pia Bäcklund (9/2015-) (Finland)

19. Mikko Joronen (8/2015-) (Finland)

The team leaders of RELATE CoE are:

Professor Anssi Paasi, Director, ‘Bordering, control and security in a ‘borderless’, networked world’ Team

Leader, Department of Geography, University of Oulu.

Professor Jouni Häkli, Vice-Director, ‘Subjectification and Spatial Socialization’ Team Leader, School of

Management, University of Tampere.

Professor Sami Moisio, ‘Changing State Spaces’ Team Leader, Department of Geography, University of

Helsinki (University of Oulu 1.1.- 31.12.2014).

Professor Jarkko Saarinen, ‘Border Crossings’ Team Leader, Department of Geography, University of Oulu.

In addition to team leaders, RELATE CoE has Resource Persons. They are world leading scholars on the

fundamental RELATE research themes:

1. Changing State Spaces

Professor Andrew Jonas, University of Hull, UK

Professor Martin Jones , University of Sheffield,

Professor Maano Ramutsindela, University of Cape Town, South Africa

2. Spatial Socialization and subjectification

Professor Katharyne Mitchell, University of Washington

Professor Lynn Staeheli, University of Durham, UK

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Professor Virginie Mamadouh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

3. Border-crossings

Professor Alison Mountz, Wilfred Laurier University, Canada

Professor Dallen Timothy, University of Arizona, US

Professor J.D.Sidaway, University of Singapore

4. Bordering, control and security in a ‘borderless’, networked world

Professor Derek Gregory, University of British Volumbia, Vancouver,

Professor Julian Reid, University of Lapland

Professor David Newman, University of Ben Gurion, Israel

The Research Councils at the Academy of Finland nominated a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) to the

RELATE Centre of Excellence. The purpose of the Board is to advice, support, strengthen and monitor the

scientific work of the CoE and the implementation of its research plan. The members of the RELATE SAB

are:

Professor Alexander B. Murphy (University of Oregon)

Professor Doris Wastl-Walter (University of Bern)

Science Adviser Riitta Launonen (Academy of Finland)

Professor Pauline von Bonsdorff (2014-2015, University of Jyväskylä)

Professor Kia Lindroos (2016, University of Jyväskylä)

Director Sinikka Eskelinen (University of Oulu)

Project services manager Hanna Honkamäkilä (University of Oulu)

Professor Pertti Haapala (2014-2015, University of Tampere)

Professor Seppo Parkkila (2016, University of Tampere)

1.2. Meetings

In addition to more informal meetings, RELATE has organized following meetings/events:

1. RELATE Spring kick off. April 2nd- 3rd 2014

The first RELATE kick off meeting was held on April 2nd and 3rd, and had 23 participants. The purpose

of the kick off meeting was to get to know each other better and to discuss about our research in

RELATE CoE in constructive and rather informal way. Besides sessions of all four groups, the

background of RELATE was discussed and each team leader presented their teams. The event was

organized at Lasaretti, Oulu.

2. Border Struggles: Ontologies, Epistemologies and Practices. May 26th 2014

An interdisciplinary Workshop “Border Struggles: Ontologies, Epistemologies and Practices”, subtitled:

“Challenging the humanitarian-military border in the Mediterranean” was organized in Oulu 26th of

May as a Skype workhop, participants included Martina Tazzioli (University of Oulu) Paolo Cuttitta

(University of Amsterdam) Glenda Garelli (University of Illinois, Chicago) Lorenzo Pezzani

(Goldsmiths College, London) Alessandra Sciurba (University of Palermo, Italy).

3. RELATE kick off and scientific advisory board meeting. September 3rd-5th 2014

The major Kick off meeting was held on September 3rd-5th and had 43 participants. All RELATE

researchers, team leaders, Resource persons and Scientific advisory board members were invited. Each

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team had over two hour time slot to have the Resource Persons’ presentations and researchers’

presentations as well as discussion/comments on presentations. In addition, parallel workshops for each

theme were organized. At the end of the event some future events were planned. The Scientific advisory

board meeting took place immediately after the kick off, on the afternoon of the 5th.

4. Border Struggles: Epistemologies, Politics, and Practices. September 11th-12th 2014

This workshop was organized in Oulu, with speakers: Mat Coleman, Nicholas De Genova, Juanita

Sundberg, William Walters, Oliver Belcher, Lauren Martin, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Elisa Pascucci and

Martina Tazzioli. The primary motivation of this workshop was to rethink the concept of “borders” and

“bordering” from an empirical and theoretical-epistemological point of view. Borders have been a

contested object of research in the past two decades, approached from a variety of perspectives and case-

studies. This workshop investigated “border struggles” and bordering mechanisms that are productive of

contemporary border formations, particularly processes of differential exclusion and subject formation.

5. Youthful citizenship: institutional settings, mundane processes. September 18th 2014

This multi-disciplinary workshop was organized by the Space and Political Agency Research Group

(SPARG) and RELATE in collaboration with the Tampere Centre for Childhood, Youth and Family

Research (PERLA). With Bronwyn Wood from Victoria University of Wellington in New

Zealand/Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo as an international quest, this multi-disciplinary research

workshop was open to all scholars interested in the theme workshop concentrates on citizenship learning

in the various institutional settings where children and young people’s lives are embedded (municipality,

school, kindergarten, social welfare, health care, church, hobbies, youth clubs, etc.). Rather than rights

and practices, citizenship was approached primarily as a set of mundane processes that take variable

forms and may be performed as diverse acts, depending on the context and the people involved.

6. Relate-session at the geographers' meeting. October 30th-31st 2014

Much of the RELATE staff participated the annual Finnish geographers’ meeting, held in Oulu 30.-

31.10.2014. The researchers participated in various sessions, and a special “round table” discussion was

organized only for the RELATE staff. There, the overall aims and the ways to increase cross fertilization

between the four themes was discussed in particular.

1.3. PhDs

So far three PhD theses have been produced by the RELATE doctoral studies. The first of the three was

completed in 2014. It was:

Lenao, Monkgogi (11/2014): Rural tourism development and economic diversification for local

communities in Botswana : the case of Lekhubu Island. Nordia geographical publications 43:2. Oulu,

University of Oulu.

Lenao, who started as PhD student in RELATE, finished his PhD thesis 22nd of November 2014. He

continued to work in RELATE as a post doc researcher to the end of December 2015. He is currently

working at the University of Botswana (lecturer).

1.4. Publications 2014

The publications in this document are classified according to the Academy of Finland’s classification

guidelines: http://www.aka.fi/en/funding/how-to-apply/appendices-required/guidelines-for-list-of-

publications/

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A) Peer-reviewed scientific articles 2014

Ahlqvist, T. and Moisio, S. 2014. Neoliberalization in a Nordic state: From cartel polity towards a

corporate polity in Finland. New Political Economy 19(1), 21-55.

Belcher, O. 2014. Staging the Orient: Counterinsurgency Training Sites and the U.S. Military

Imagination. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 104 (5): 1012-1029.

Bäcklund, P., Kallio, K.P. & Häkli, J. 2014. Residents, customers or citizens? Tracing the idea of

youthful participation in the context of administrative reforms in Finnish public administration. Planning

Theory and Practice 15:3, 311–327.

Faehnle, M., Bäcklund P., Tyrväinen L., Yli-Pelkonen V. & Niemelä J. 2014. How can residents'

experiences inform planning of urban green infrastructure? Case Finland. Landscape and Urban Planning

130, 171–183.

Griffiths, M. 2014. Transcending neoliberalism in international volunteering. Rural Tourism: An

International Perspective, Dashper, K. (ed), Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 115-133.

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. 2014. The global as a field: children's rights advocacy as a transnational practice.

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 32:2, 293-309.

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. 2014. Subject, action and polis: Theorizing political agency. Progress in Human

Geography 38:2, 181–200.

Kajan, E. and J. Saarinen 2014. Transforming Visions and Pathways in Destination Development: Local

Perceptions and Adaptation Strategies to Changing Environment in Finnish Lapland, pp. 189-208 In

Viken, A. and B. Granås (eds) Destination dynamics. Themes, turns and tactics. Adelshot: Ashgate.

Kallio, K.P. 2014. Rethinking spatial socialization as a dynamic and relational process of political

becoming. Global Studies of Childhood 4:3, 210–223.

Kallio, K.P. 2014. Who is the subject of action? Intervention. ACME: An International E-Journal for

Critical Geographies 13:3, 428–433.

Kallio, K.P. (ed.) 2014. Critical political geography. Intervention series. Introduction. Conclusions.

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 13:3, 424–472.

Karekallas, M., Raento, P. & Renkonen, T. 2014. Diffusion and learning: twenty years of sports betting

culture in Finland. UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal 18:1, 25–50.

Korkiamäki, R. 2014. Rethinking loneliness — a qualitative study about adolescents' experiences of

being an outsider in peer group. Open Journal of Depression 3:4, 125–135.

Korkiamäki, R. & Kallio, K.P. 2014. Ystävyys tilallisen kiinnittymisen suuntaajana: tilateoreettisia

tulkintoja lasten ja nuorten ystävyyksistä. Alue & Ympäristö 43:1, 16–33.

Kuusisto-Arponen, A-K. 2014. Silence, Childhood Displacement and Spatial Belonging. In Kallio, Kirsi

Pauliina (ed.). Six Openings to Critical Political Geographies. Intervention in ACME. 13:3, 434-441.

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Kuusisto-Arponen, A-K, Laine, M. and Rauhala, M. 2014. Osallistumisen odotusten kurimus:

Narratiivinen analyysi paikallisesta maankäytön konfliktista. [A maelstrom of expectations: Narrative

analysis of participation in local land use conflict]. Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu, 52: 4. 11-33.

http://www.yss.fi/journal/osallistumisen-odotusten-kurimus/

Lee, R., Castree, N., Kitchin, R., Lawson, V., Paasi, A., Philo, C., Radcliffe, S., Roberts S. and Charles

WJ W. 2014. Handbook of Human Geography – Methodological Prologue: the vital requirement of

reflexivity. In Lee, R., Castree, N., Kitchin, R., Lawson, V., Paasi, A., Philo, C., Radcliffe, S., Roberts S.

and Charles WJ W. (editors) Sage Handbook of Progress in Human Geography. Sage, London. pp. ix-x.

Lee, R., Castree, N., Kitchin, R., Lawson, V., Paasi, A., Philo, C., Radcliffe, S., Roberts S. and Charles

WJ W. 2014. Introduction: Sage Handbook of Progress in Human Geography. In Lee, R., Castree, N.,

Kitchin, R., Lawson, V., Paasi, A., Philo, C., Radcliffe, S., Roberts S. and Charles WJ W. (editors) Sage

Handbook of Progress in Human Geography. Sage, London. pp. xi-iv.

Lenao M. 2014. Bringing heritage management and tourism in Botswana under the spot light: notes from

Lekhubu Island. Botswana Journal of Business 7(1), 30–42.

Lenao M. 2014. Packaging culture and heritage for tourism to improve rural lives at Lekhubu Island in

Botswana. In Dashper K. (ed.),Rural tourism: an international perspective. 172–188. Cambridge Scholars

Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Lenao, M., Mbaiwa, J & J. Saarinen 2014. Community Expectations from Rural Tourism Development

at Lekhubu Island, Botswana. Tourism Review International 17(4), 223–236.

Martin, L and Secor, A. 2014. “Towards a Post-mathematical Topology?” Progress in Human

Geography, 38(3): 420-438.

Martin, L. 2014. “Accounting for the familial: discourse, practice and political possibility.” ACME: An

International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 13(3):457-462.

Millei Z. & Jones, A. 2014. Australian early childhood education and care policy and the (re)production

of 'global imaginary. International Journal of Early Childhood 46:1, 63–79.

Millei, Z. & Cliff, K. 2014. The preschool bathroom: making ‘problem bodies’ and the limit of the

disciplinary regime over children. British Journal of Sociology of Education 35:2, 244–262.

Paasi, A. 2014. Beyond the history of ideas: words, concepts and practice. Dialogues in Human

Geography 5:3, 327–330.

Paasi, A. 2014. The shifting landscape of border studies and the challenge of relational thinking. In

Bufon, M., Minghi, J. and Paasi, A. (eds.). The New European Frontiers: Social and Spatial

(Re)integration Issues in Multicultural and Border Regions. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

pp. 361-379.

Prokkola, E-K. 2014. Using Narrativity as Methodological Tool. ACME: An International E-Journal for

Critical Geographies 13 (3), 442-449.

Renkonen, T. 2014 Konfliktin koreografiat: Maisema, tarina ja kehollinen geopolitiikka opastetuilla

turistikierroksilla Jerusalemissa. Alue & Ympäristö 43:2, 30–45.

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Ridanpää, J. 2014. Geographical Studies of Humor. Geography Compass 8(10), 701–709.

Ridanpää, J. 2014. Politics of literary humour and contested narrative identity (of a region with no

identity). Cultural Geographies 21(4), 711–726.

Ridanpää, J. 2014. Seriously Serious Political Spaces of Humor. ACME: An International E-Journal for

Critical Geographies. 13(3), 450-456.

Ridanpää, J. 2014. ‘Humour is Serious’ as a Geopolitical Speech Act: IMDb Film Reviews of Sacha

Baron Cohen’s The Dictator. Geopolitics 19(1), 140–160.

Saarinen, J. 2014. Critical Sustainability: Setting the Limits to Growth and Responsibility in Tourism.

Sustainability 6(11), 1–17.

Saarinen, J. 2014. Tourism Geographies: Connections with Human Geography and Emerging

Responsible Geographies. Geographia Polonica 87(2), pp. 243-252.

Saarinen, J. 2014. Nordic Perspectives on Tourism and Climate Change Issues. Scandinavian Journal of

Hospitality and Tourism 14(1), 1–5.

Saarinen, J. 2014. Transforming Destinations: A Discoursive Approach to Tourist Destinations and

Development, pp. 47-62. In Viken, A. and B. Granås (eds) Destination dynamics. Themes, turns and

tactics. Adelshot: Ashgate.

Saarinen, J., N. Moswete and M.J. Monare 2014. Cultural Tourism: New Opportunities for Diversifying

the Tourism Industry in Botswana. Bulletin of Geography: Socio–Economic Series, No. 26: 7–18. DOI:

10.2478/bog-2014-0041

Saarinen, J. & M. Lenao 2014. Integrating tourism to rural development and planning in the developing

countries. Development Southern Africa 31(3), 363–372.

Saarinen, J. & C.M. Rogerson 2014. Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals: Perspectives

Beyond 2015. Tourism Geographies 16(1), 23–30.

Sirviö, H. 2014. Viiksimiesten maailmanpolitiikka. Kosmopolis 44:3–4, 96–111.

Sirviö, H. 2014. Rajanylityksen politiikat romaanissa Noitaympyrä. Tiede & edistys 39: 4, 321–346.

Skinner, A., Brown E., Griffiths M., Kontzi, K. and Koleth, M. 2014. International volunteering and

development – learning to be a global citizen? Voluntaris, 2(2), 117-125.

Torres, A. & J. Saarinen 2014. Using Indicators to Assess Sustainable Tourism Development: A Review.

Tourism Geographies 16(1), 31–47.

Zimmerbauer, K. 2014. Constructing peripheral cross-border regions in planning. Territory-network

interplay in the Barents region. Environment and Planning A, 46(11), 2718 – 2734.

B) Non-refereed scientific articles 2014

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Bäcklund, P., Kuisma, K. & Rahikainen R. 2014. Se toinen Leena. Teoksessa Harinen, P. & al. (toim.)

Mikä olikaan tutkimuksen teoreettinen kysymys? Leena Kosken juhlakirja, 282-296. Joensuu: University

Press of Eastern Finland.

Häkli J. (2014). Kukkakaali ja kumpupilvi. Teoksessa Helle Tanja et al. (toim.) Vaeltaja: Professori Yrjö

Hailan juhlakirja. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto, 37-40.

Häkli Jouni. (2014). Tampereen aluetiede ja tiedeympäristön pysyvä muutos. Terra 126 (3), 141-142.

Kallio, K.P. 2014. Intergenerational recognition as political practice. In Vanderbeck, R. and Worth, N.

(eds.) Intergenerational Space, 139–154. London: Routledge.

Korkiamäki R. 2014. Ikätoverisuhteet voimavarana. Teoksessa Mononen K. et al. (toim.) Tavoitteena

nuoren urheilijan hyvä päivä – Urheilijan polun valintavaiheen asiantuntijatyö, 57-59. Kilpa- ja huippu-

urheilun tutkimuskeskuksen (KIHU) julkaisuja, nro 46. Jyväskylä: Jyväskylän yliopisto.

Korkiamäki, R. 2014. "Jos mä nyt voisin saada ystäviä" - Ulkopuolisuus vertaissuhteissa nuorten

kokemana. Teoksessa Muranen, P. et al. (toim.) Nuoruus toisin sanoen - Nuorten elinolot vuosikirja

2014, 38–50. Helsinki: THL, Nuorisotutkimusverkosto, Nuorisoasiain neuvottelukunta.

Korkiamäki R. 2014 Huonokin kaveripiiri voi olla nuorelle hyväksi. Noste 2014:1, 58–59.

Kuusisto-Arponen, A-K. 2014. Poliittinen keho. Kohtaamisia, tunteita ja tietoa. Eirikoisnumeron

pääkirjoitus. Alue ja Ympäristö 43:2, 1–3.

Martin L. 2014. Book review: Basaran, Tugba. Security, Law and Borders: At the Limits of Liberties.

Abingdon: Routledge, 2011; 145 pp. Progress in Human Geography 38(2): 330-331.

Millei, Z. 2014. The cultural politics of childhood and nation: space, mobility and a global world. Special

Issue, Part 1. Global Studies of Childhood 4:3, 137–142.

Moisio, S. 2014. Review on: Agnew, J. & Muscarà, Making political geography: Second edition.

Progress in Human Geography 38(1), 172-173.

Paasi, A. 2014. Review on: Partitioned lives. The Irish Borderlands. Cultural Geographies 21 (4), pp.

748-749.

Paasi, A. 2014. Maantiede yliopistojärjestelmän muutoksessa: kokemuksia Oulun yliopistosta. Terra 126

(3), pp. 142-146.

Paasi, A. 2014. Boundary: the word, concept and practice. Current Anthropology vol. 55 (6), pp. 42-43.

Pascucci, E. 2014. Getting Somalia wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State by M. Harper –

Review Essay. Space and Polity 18:1, 112–113.

Prokkola, E-K. 2014. Book review: Darshan Vigneswaran, Territory, Migration, and the Evolution of the

International System. Antipode. Available at: http://antipodefoundation.org/book-reviews/

Renkonen, T. (2014). Lainsuojattoman siirtolaisen odysseia. Terra 126:4, 207 - 208.

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Saarinen, J. 2014. African hosts & their guests: Cultural dynamics of tourism (book review). Journal of

Sustainable Tourism 22(7), 1128-1130.

Tazzioli, M. 2014. People not of concern. Radical Philosophy, 184, 2014.

Zimmerbauer, K. 2014. A multidisciplinary approach to governance in the Barents Region. Book review.

Barents Studies 1 (1), 120-122

C) Scientific books 2014

Bufon, M., Minghi, J. and Paasi, A. (eds.) 2014. The New European Frontiers: Social and Spatial (Re)-

Integration Issues in Multicultural and Borders Regions. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholar Publishing.

375p.

Lee, R., Castree, N., Kitchin, R., Lawson, V., Paasi, A., Philo, C., Radcliffe, S., Roberts, S. and Charles

WJ W. (eds.) 2014. The Sage Handbook of Progress in Human Geography, volumes I-II. Sage, London.

804 p.

Tazzioli, M (2014). Spaces of Governmentality. Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings.

Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.

E) Publications intended for the general public 2014

Moisio, Sami (2014). Suomeen tarvitaan uutta alueellista itsehallintoa. Helsingin Sanomat 8.10.

(Vieraskynä)

Moisio, Sami (2014). Metropolipainotus haastaa laajan kaupunkiseutujen verkoston idean. Kaleva 30.8.

(Alakerta)

Moisio, Sami (2014). Sosiaali- ja terveyspalveluiden uusi aluepolitiikka. Kaleva 21.7. (Alakerta)

Moisio, Sami (2014). Jakaantuva Suomi. Kaleva 24.6. (Alakerta)

G) Theses 2014

Belcher, O. 2014. The afterlives of counterinsurgency: postcolonialism, military social science, and

Afghanistan 2006-2012. The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (Geography). University of

British Columbia.

Lenao M. (2014). Rural tourism development and economic diversification for local communities in

Botswana: the case of Lekhubu Island. Nordia Geographical Journal 43(2). Published PhD Thesis,

University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.

Pascucci, E. 2014 Beyond depoliticization and resistance: refugees, political agency and

humanitarianism in neoliberal Cairo. School of Global Studies, Department of Geography. University of

Sussex.

1.5. Researcher visits and other international activities

Oliver Belcher: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, June 1- July 31, 2014 (visiting scholar)

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Juho Luukkonen: Brussels, 10.11.-14.11. 2014 (fieldwork)

Kaj Zimmerbauer: University of Oregon, September-October 2014 (visiting scholar)

Monkgogi Lenao: Botswana: 5.12. 2014 – 23.3.2015 (fieldwork)

Martina Tazzioli: Bologna, April-May 2014 (visiting scholar). Italy and Tunisia 4.6.-25.8. 2014

(fieldwork)

Fredriika Jakola: Luleå University of Technology, February-May 2014 (visiting scholar + fieldwork)

Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen: Maynooth University, Ireland, September-December 2014-2015

(Visiting Professor) and University of Lund, Sweden, June 2014 (Visiting researcher)

Pia Bäcklund: Newcastle University, Global Urban Research Unit, Jan-Feb 2014 (Research Fellow) and

Radboud University, School of Management, March 2014 (Research Fellow)

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio: Durham University, Geography Department, March-June 2014 (Research Fellow)

and University of Leeds, October 2014–June 2015 (fieldwork in Leeds and Durham, UK, facilitated by

the University of Leeds Department of Geography, collaborator: Dr. Robert Vanderbeck).

1.6. Awards, etc.

1. Professor Anssi Paasi

The Regional Council of North-Ostrobothnia has rewarded Professor Anssi Paasi with the North-

Ostrobotnia award. The award was given for the research on borders and regional identities. The

provincial government also acknowledged that Paasi is the director of RELATE Centre of Excellence as

nominated by the Academy of Finland, and that the Centre of Excellence is the first ever in geography.

In general, the award was given for the long-term, top-notch international research.

2. PhD Juho Luukkonen

RELATE PhD Juho Luukkonen was rewarded with the 2014 Planning Thought Award. The Evolution of

Planning Thought project organized an international Planning Thought Award competition to recruit

early career planning scholars to contribute to the Evolution of Planning Thought project. The awardees

were expected to be passionate about planning and keen to understand the roots of planning on the basis

of oral histories. The project sought for scholars interested in looking for a meaningful way to contribute

to the international disciplinary debate on what planning is, might and/or should be in the future. The

Planning Thought Award Jury nominated 4 award winners out of 39 applications. The Planning Thought

Award went to: Sabrina Lai (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture,

University of Cagliari, IT), Kathrine Quick (Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of

Minnesota, US), Chris Maidment (Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, UK) & Juho

Luukkonen (University of Oulu, Finland).

The awardees were invited to a week-long intensive symposium in Vienna in May 2014, where they had

a chance to conduct face-to-face interviews with highly respected planners from the first planning

generation. These inter-generational dialogues sought to challenge the seniors of the planning discipline

to come forward with messages that have contemporary and future salience. The results of these

discussions will be made available in different publishing formats. On the one hand, one of the

concluding chapters of the book The Future of Planning: Personal Stories in the Evolution of Planning

Thought is dedicated to disseminating these discussions. On the other hand, the Editors of the book seek

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to jointly write an Interface article to be published in the Journal Planning Theory and Practice with the

award winners.

3. MSc Inka Kaakinen

Inka Kaakinen’s paper: Julkijuominen, julkisten tilojen sääntely ja Karhupuiston käytöskukat (Taming

the Bear Park: drinking, drunkenness and public space management through community involvement)

was selected the best scientific paper in urban studies in Finland 2013. Kaakinen’s paper contributes to

recent discussions on urban regeneration, drinking and community involvementin public space

management by drawing on empirical evidence from a case study in the Kallio neighbourhood, central

Helsinki. It examines the origins, processes and impacts of regeneration of an urban park, Karhupuisto

(the Bear Park), and explores the varying meanings that the participants involved attributed to the

project. The award was given at the Finnish Urban Studies Days in Helsinki. The award has been given

annually (for 12 years) to the best Finnish article in urban studies. Kaakinen’s paper was selected from 9

nominees.

1.7. Other activities

1.7.1 Invited talks

Kaj Zimmerbauer: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, September 10th, 2014. Invited lecturer.

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio: Durham University, Children and Childhood Research Forum, UK, 3/2014. Invited

speaker in an interdisciplinary research seminar, organized by Durham PhD students.

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio: University of Linköping, Child Studies/Tema Barn, Sweden, 3/2014. Invited

speaker in an interdisciplinary research seminar, organized by Prof. Karin Zetterqvist-Nelson.

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio: Political Geography/Elsevier, University of Tampere, Finland, 1/2014. Inviter

speaker in a research seminar “Making Political Geographies”, organized by Prof. Pauliina Raento.

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio: Durham University Geography Department, UK, 1/2014. Invited speaker in a

research workshop “Ecologies of Protest”, organized by Prof. Lynn Staeheli and Dr. David Marshall.

Jarkko Saarinen: Sustainability and Governance: Call for New Responsibility in Global Tourism (Invited

Keynote). In Tourism Research and Management in a Rapidly Changing World, 15 September 2014,

Leuven, Belgium.

Jarkko Saarinen: Matkailu, kehitys ja paikallisuus: Vastuullinen matkailu? (kutsuttu puhe) Meille annettu

maa -seminaari, 8.10.2014, Ylläs.

Anssi Paasi: Invited keynote lecture, PhD Winter School, Ghent, Belgium, February 2014

Anssi Paasi: Invited keynote, 9th Biennal MESEA conference, Saarbrucken, Germany, May-June 2014

Anssi Paasi: Invited special plenary (together with Prof. David Newman) (in Joensuu), ABS World

Congress, Joensuu and St. Petersburg, June 2014.

Anssi Paasi: Invited keynote lecture (in St.Petersburg), ABS World Congress, Joensuu and St.

Petersburg, June 2014.

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Anssi Paasi: Invited Guest Lecture, “European Borders and Regional Integration” lecture series,

Department of Border Region Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Sönderborg, December 1st,

2014.

1.8. Scientific advisory board notions

Scientific advisory board report states that: “the plans the CoE has developed for the coming years are

promising. We (SAB) would, however, encourage CoE leaders to revisit the themes for upcoming workshops

and seminars after making an effort to crystalize the key meso‐scale issues that will be the focus of RELATE

research”.

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2. Year 2015

2.1. Recruitment and staff

Zsuzsa Millei started as a post doc in RELATE in February 2015. Sami Moisio left the University of Oulu to

work at the University of Helsinki, but continues as a team leader in RELATE team 1. Martina Tazzioli

moved to England at the beginning of 2015 to work at the Queen Mary University of London (Lecturer in

Political Theory, politics department) and Monkgogi Lenao to Botswana at the end of 2015 (Lecturer at the

University of Botswana). Cadey Korson started to work as a RELATE researcher in Oulu. No team leaders

or Resource Persons changed in 2015.

2.2 Meetings

In 2015 the four RELATE teams organized mostly smaller workshops that focused on the topics of each

team. However, some more general activities were also organized:

1. Border enforcement and humanitarianism in North Africa. February 18th.

This RELATE workshop hosted Dr. Michael Collyer from the University of Sussex, beginning with his

visiting lecture and continuing with Q&A session and discussion. Moving from recent debates on the so-

called “humanitarian turn” in border management in the Mediterranean region, and based on his current

research in Morocco and Sudan, Dr. Collyer’s lecture focused on the legal, political, and social

consequences of humanitarian bordering policies along the externalized Southern European frontier. The

workshop took place at the University of Tampere.

2. Borders & Border Crossings. May 21st.

In this workshop/colloquium the focus was on borderlands, cross-border co-operation and on border

militarization and violence. Keynote speakers were Reece Jones from the Univrsity of Hawaii, and

Bartosz Czepil and Wojciech Opioła, both from Opole University, Poland. In addition to their

presentations, the workshop had three presentations of RELATE doctoral students. This

workshop/colloquium was organized in Oulu.

3. Territory’s continuing allure. August 24th.

The workshop/colloquium was organized to discuss geographical writings on territoriality, spatial

socialization and state-driven knowledge production, and is seeked to provide tools for understanding the

inertia and power of modernist territorial ideas. The keynote speaker, Professor Alexander B. Murphy

focused especially on providing “insight both into territory’s continuing allure and into the forces

shaping interstate conflict in the contemporary world”. In addition to Murphy’s keynote, the workshop

discussed the more territorial thinking also through three RELATE pots doc presentations. The event was

also organized to publish the book: “Geographies of regions, borders and identity” (by: Martin, L.,

Prokkola, E-K., Saarinen, J. and Zimmerbauer, K. (eds.) (2015). NGP yearbook 2015. Oulu.

Geographical society of Northern Finland, 44:4)

4. New dimensions of state space transformation. September 2nd.

RELATE team 1 attended the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2015 in Exeter together with

the team’s Resource Persons. In their session, team members and two Resource Persons (Andy Jonas and

Martin Jones) discussed changing state spaces, supranational regionalization and policy transfer among

the other things. Team also discussed about forthcoming book project.

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5. Methodologies for the Liminal, the Excluded, and the Mobile. October 7th-8th

Studying state transformation, borders, migration, and subject formation can place researchers in

ambiguous and difficult positions. We research "on the move," both because our research subjects move

and change, and because our reflexive methodologies change and adapt to our research contexts. In

addition, researching migration, asylum, and mobility through embodied methodologies requires close

attention to liminality, silence, and experiences of dislocation. This workshop explored the methods and

methodologies through which we approach our research. These methods are risky, but make room for

great creativity and surprises. This workshop provided a supportive environment in which both were

discussed. The goal was share, receive and provide feedback on early work.

6. RELATE meeting at the geographers' meeting. October 29th.

Like 2015, much of the RELATE staff participated the annual Finnish geographers’ meeting, which was

now held in Tampere, 29th-30th of October. The researchers participated in various sessions, and a special

“round table” discussion was again organized for the RELATE staff. The overall aim of the discussion

was to outline the forthcoming bigger RELATE events in 2016, but also to further boost the cross

fertilization between the four themes.

7. Colloquium series

RELATE Oulu organized a colloquium series together with the department of Geography. The

colloquium visitors included: Päivi Lujala (Dec. 16), Sarah Green (Dec. 8), Kees Terlow (Nov. 12),

James Scott (Nov. 5), Jonathan Metzger (Sep. 25), Andrew Burridge (Sep. 10), Reece Jones (May 21),

David Jansson (May 12) and Jemima Repo (Mar. 18). The colloquiums were open for all to participate.

2.3. PhDs

Two of the three RELATE PhDs were completed in 2015. They are:

Sirviö, Heikki (5/2015): Valtiomuutos ja satiirin pohjoinen ulottuvuus. Alueellinen ero ja kirjallisuuden

politiikka Haanpään, Huovisen ja Heikkisen tuotannossa (State transformation and the northern

dimension of satire. Territorial difference and the politics of literature in selected works by Haanpää,

Huovinen and Heikkinen. Nordia geographical publications 44:1. Oulu, University of Oulu.

Heikki Sirviö, who started as PhD student in RELATE, finished his PhD thesis at the end of May, 2015,

public defence was 29th of May. Heikki is currently writing a book with the grant given by Wihuri

foundation. He is also teaching at the University of Oulu, dpt. of geography.

Vainikka, Joni (6/2015): "Identities and regions: Exploring spatial narratives, legacies and practices with

civic organizations in England and Finland". Nordia geographical publications 44:3. Oulu, University of

Oulu.

Joni Vainikka defended his thesis 17th of June, 2015. He is currently working in RELATE as a post doc

researcher.

2.4. Publications 2015

A) Peer-reviewed scientific articles 2015

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Belcher, O. (2015). Tribal Militias, Neo-Orientalism, and the U.S. Military's Art of Coercion in:

Bachmann, J., Bell, C. and Holmqvist, C. (eds.): The New Interventionism: Perspectives on War-Police

Assemblages. London: Routledge 109-125.

Belcher, O. (2015). Data Anxieties: Objectivity and Difference in Early Vietnam War Computing. In:

Amoore, L. and Piotukh, V. (eds.): Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in a Digital Age. Abingdon,

Routledge. 127-142.

Bäcklund, P. & Kanninen, V. (2015) Valtaistetut asukkaat: Neighbourhood Planning ja

asuinalueperustaisen osallistumisen rajaamisen taktiikat. Alue & Ympäristö 44:1, 4-16.

Casas-Cortes, M., Cobarrubias, S., De Genova, N., Garelli, G., Grappi, G., Heller, C., Hess, S.,

Kasparek, B., Mezzadra, S., Neilson, B., Peano, I., Pezzani, L., Pickles, J., Rahola, F., Riedner, L.,

Scheel, S. and M. Tazzioli (2015) New Keywords: Migration and Borders. Cultural Studies, 29:1, 55-87.

DOI:10.1080/09502386.2014.891630.

Griffiths, M. (2015). I’ve got goose bumps just talking about it! The affective life of neoliberalized

international volunteering. Tourist Studies vol. 15 no. 2, 205-221.

Hall, C. M., Amelung, B., Cohen, S., Eijgelaar, E., Gössling, S., Higham, J., Leemans, R., Peeters, P.,

Ram, Y., Scott, D., Aall, C., Abegg, B., Araña, J. E., Barr, S., Becken, S., Buckley, R., Burns, P., Coles,

T., Dawson, J., Doran, R., Dubois, G., Duval, D. T., Fennell, D., Gill, A. M., Gren, M., Gronau, W.,

Guiver, J., Hopkins, D., Huijbens, E. H., Koens, K., Lamers, M., Lemieux, C., Lew, A., Long, P.,

Melissen, F. W., Nawijn, J, Nicholls, S., Nilsson, J.-H., Nunkoo, R., Pomering, A., Reis, A. C., Reiser,

D., Richardson, R. B., Rogerson, C. M., Saarinen, J., Sæþórsdóttir, A. D., Steiger, R., Upham, P., van der

Linden, S., Visser, G., Wall, G. and Weaver, D. (2015). No time for smokescreen skepticism: a rejoinder

to Shani and Arad. Tourism Management, Volume 47, 341-347.

Hall, C. M., Amelung, B., Cohen, S., Eijgelaar, E., Gössling, S., Higham, J., Leemans, R., Peeters, P.,

Ram, Y., Scott, D., Aall, C., Abegg, B., Araña, J. E., Barr, S., Becken, S., Buckley, R., Burns, P., Coles,

T., Dawson, J., Doran, R., Dubois, G., Duval, D. T., Fennell, D., Gill, A. M., Gren, M., Gronau, W.,

Guiver, J., Hopkins, D., Huijbens, E. H., Koens, K., Lamers, M., Lemieux, C., Lew, A., Long, P.,

Melissen, F. W., Nawijn, J, Nicholls, S., Nilsson, J.-H., Nunkoo, R., Pomering, A., Reis, A. C., Reiser,

D., Richardson, R. B., Rogerson, C. M., Saarinen, J., Sæþórsdóttir, A. D., Steiger, R., Upham, P., van der

Linden, S., Visser, G., Wall, G. and Weaver, D. (2015). Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and

tourism research. Tourism management, Volume 47, 352–356

Hambira, W. and Saarinen, J. (2015). Policy-makers’ perceptions on the tourism-climate change nexus:

policy needs and constraints in Botswana. Development Southern Africa 32:3, 350-362.

DOI:10.1080/0376835X.2015.1010716

Häkli, J. (2015). Symbolic violence in border crossing - a bodily geopolitics. Nordia Geographical

Publications 44:4, 75–80.

Häkli, J. (2015). The Border in the Pocket: Passport as a Mobile Boundary Object. In Amilhat-Szary,

A.L. and Giraut, F. (eds.) Borderities: the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders, 85-99. Basingstoke:

Palgrave McMillan.

Häkli, J., Vilkko, R. & Vähäkylä, L. (2015) Johdanto. Teoksessa Häkli, J., Vilkko, R. & Vähäkylä, L.

(toim.) Kaikki kotona? Asumisen uudet tuulet. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 7-16.

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Häkli, J. (2015) Asumisen tulevaisuus? Teoksessa Häkli, J., Vilkko, R. & Vähäkylä, L. (toim.) Kaikki

kotona? Asumisen uudet tuulet. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 167-170.

Häkli, J. and Kallio, K.P. (eds) (2015). Political geographies of childhood and youth. Virtual special

issue. Editorial. Political Geography.

Häkli, J. and Kallio, K.P. (2015). Children’s rights advocacy as transnational citizenship. Global

Networks 16:3, DOI: 10.1111/glob.12096 [online Oct 25 2015].

Jones, M. and Paasi, A. (2015). Introduction: Regional World(s). Advancing the geography of regions.

In: Jones, M. and Paasi, A. (eds.). Regional Worlds: Advancing the geography of regions. London,

Routledge, 1-5.

Jones, M., Paasi, A., Murphy, A. B., Entrikin, J. N., Macleod, G., Jonas A. E. G. and Hudson R. (2015):

Bounded vs. Open regions, and beyond: critical perspectives on regional worlds and words. In: Jones, M.

and Paasi, A. (eds.). Regional Worlds: Advancing the geography of regions. London, Routledge, 5-16.

Joronen, M. and Imre, R.: Betraying the own-most: Heidegger and pitfalls of being-there, Geographica

Helvetica 70:3, 199–203, doi:10.5194/gh-70,-199-2015.

Joronen, M. (2015) Minor(s) matter: stone-throwing, securitization and the government of Palestinian

childhood under Israeli military rule. In Z. Millei, Z. & Imre, R. (Eds) (2015) Childhood and Nation:

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Kaján, E., Tervo-Kankare, K. and Saarinen, J. (2015). Cost of Adaptation to Climate Change in Tourism:

Methodological Challenges and Trends for Future Studies in Adaptation. Scandinavian Journal of

Hospitality and Tourism 15:3, 311-317, DOI:10.1080/15022250.2014.970665.

Kallio, K.P., Häkli, J. and Bäcklund, P. (2015). Lived citizenship as the locus of political agency in

participatory policy. Citizenship Studies 19:1, 101-119.

Kallio, K.P., Korkiamäki, R. & Häkli, J. (2015). Myönteinen tunnistaminen – näkökulma hyvinvoinnin

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Kallio, K.P and Häkli, J. (2015) Children’s political geographies. In Agnew, J., Mamadouh, V., Secor, A.

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Kallio, K.P & Häkli, J. (2015) Children and young people's politics in everyday life. In Kallio, K.P. and

Häkli, J. (eds.) The Beginning of Politics. Youthful political agency in everyday life, London and New

York: Routledge. 1-16.

Koch, K. (2015). Region-Building and Security: The Multiple Borders of the Baltic Sea Region After EU

Enlargement, Geopolitics, 20:3, 535-558. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2015.1026964.

Korkiamäki, R. (2015). Lasten ja nuorten arkisen toimijuuden tukeminen. Teoksessa Häkli, J., Kallio,

K.P. & Korkiamäki, R. (toim.) Myönteinen tunnistaminen. Nuorisotutkimusverkoston Kenttä-sarjan

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Korson, C. and W. Kusek (2015). The Comparison of a Thematic vs. Regional Approach to Teaching a

World Geography Course. Journal of Geography, 115:4, 2016, 159-168. Published online: 21 Sep 2015.

DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2015.1076498.

Koski, L. & Bäcklund, P. (2015) On the fringe - the position of dogs in Finnish dog training culture.

Society & Animals 23:1, 24–44.

Kuusisto-Arponen, A.-K. & Gilmartin, M. (2015) (eds.). The politics of migration. Virtual Special Issue.

Political Geography. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/political-geography/news/virtual-special-issue-

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Kuusisto-Arponen, A-K. & Laine, M. (2015). Leikkien ajateltu – piirtäen tehty. Esikoululaiset

leikkipuistoa suunnittelemassa. Visuaaliset menetelmät lapsuuden- ja nuoruuden tutkimuksessa.

Teoksessa: Mustola, M, Mykkänen, J., Böök, M-L. & Kärjä, A-V. (toim.) Visuaaliset menetelmät

lapsuuden- ja nuorisotutkimuksessa, 93–104. Helsinki: Nuorisotutkimusseura, julkaisuja 170.

Lenao, M. and Saarinen, J. (2015). Integrated rural tourism as a tool for community tourism

development: exploring culture and heritage projects in the North-East District of Botswana, South

African Geographical Journal, 97:2, 203-216, DOI:10.1080/03736245.2015.1028985.

Luukkonen, J. 2014. Planning in Europe for ‘EU’rope: Spatial planning as a political technology of

territory. Planning Theory, 14:2, 174-194. doi: 10.1177/1473095213519355.

Martin, L. (2015). Family Detention, Law, and Geopolitics in US Immigration Enforcement Policy. In:

Harker, C., Horschelmann, K. and Skelton, T. (eds.): Geographies of Children and Young People:

Conflict, Violence, and Peace. SpringerMeteor Publishers. 1-20.

Martin, L. (2015). Security. In: Agnew, J., Mamadouh, V. and Secor, A. (eds.): Wiley Blackwell

Companion to Political Geography, 100-113.

Martin, L. (2015). Noncitizen Family Detention: Spatial Strategies of Migrant Precarity in US

Immigration and Border Patrol. Annales de Géographie, 702-703, 231-247.

Martin, L. (2015). Deportation and the disposession of time. Darkmatter 12: Border Struggles.

http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2015/10/05/deportation-and-the-dispossession-of-time/

Martin, L., Prokkola, E-K., Saarinen, J. and Zimmerbauer, K. (2015). Regions, borders and identity in a

relational and territorial world. In: Martin, L., Prokkola, E-K., Saarinen, J. and Zimmerbauer, K. (eds.).

Geographies of regions, borders and identity. NGP yearbook 2015. Oulu, Geographical society of

Northern Finland, 44:4, 1-4.

Miedema, E. & Millei, Z. (2015). We reaffirm our Mozambican identity in the fight against HIV &

AIDS: Examining educational perspectives on women’s ‘proper’ place in the nation of Mozambique.

Global Studies of Childhood 5:1, 7–18.

Millei, Z. (ed.) (2015). The cultural politics of childhood and nation: space, mobility and a global world.

Editorial. Part 2. Global Studies of Childhood 5:1, 3-6.

Millei, Z. (2015) Governing the Brain: New narratives of human capital in early childhood education. In

Lightfoot, T. & Peach, R. (eds.). Questioning the Discourses of Human Capital in Early Childhood

Education: Reconceptualizing Theory, Policy and Practice. New York, Palgrave, 47-70.

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Millei, Z. & Petersen, B. E. (2015) Complicating ‘student behaviour’: exploring the discursive

constitution of ‘learner subjectivities’. Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties 20:1, 20–34.

Minca, Claudio, Crampton Jeremy, Brian Joe, Fall Juliet F., Murphy, Alexander B., Anssi Paasi and

Stuart Elden (2015): Reading Stuart Elden’s The Birth of Territory. Political Geography 46: 93-101.

doi:10.10.16/j.polgeo.2014.09.002

Moisio, S. (2015). Geopolitics/critical geopolitics. In, Agnew, J., Mamadouh, V., Secor, A. & Sharp, J.

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Moisio, S. and Luukkonen, J. (2015). European spatial planning as governmentality: An inquiry into

rationalities, techniques and manifestations. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 33:4,

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Moisio, Sami (2015) Towards transnational spatial policies in Finland. Nordia Geographical Publications

44(4), 87–93.

Moswete, N., Saarinen, J. & M.J. Monare (2015). Perspectives on Cultural Tourism: A Case Study of

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Niskala, M. & Ridanpää, J. (2015). Ethnic Representations and Social Exclusion: Sáminess in Finnish

Lapland Tourism Promotion. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. DOI:

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Paasi, A. (2015). Dancing on the graves: Independence, hot/banal nationalism and the mobilization of

memory. Political Geography. doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.07.005.

Paasi, A. (2015). Academic capitalism and the geopolitics of knowledge. In Agnew John, Secor Anna,

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Paasi, A. (2015). Hot Spots, Dark-side Dots, Tin Pots? The uneven internationalism of the global

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Pascucci, E. (2015) Diaspora, Immobility and the Everyday Politics of Waiting: Young Iraqi Refugees in

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Petersen, B.E. & Millei, Z. (2015). Psychological cogs in the education machine. Knowledge Cultures

3:2, 127–145.

Prokkola, E.-K., Zimmerbauer, K. and Jakola, F. (2015). Performance of regional identity in the

implementation of European cross-border initiatives. European Urban and Regional Studies, 22:1, 104-

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Prokkola, E-K and Ridanpää, J. (2015). Border guarding and the politics of the body: an examination of

the Finnish Border Guard Service. Gender, Place and Culture 22:10, 1374-1390, DOI:

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Saarinen, J. (2015). Conflicting Limits to Growth in Sustainable Tourism. Current Issues in Tourism 32

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Saarinen, J. & C. Rogerson (2015). Setting Cultural Tourism in Southern Africa. Nordic Journal of

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Saarinen, J (2015). Core-periphery. In Carl Cater, Brian Garrod & Tiffany Low (Eds). The Encyclopedia

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Saarinen, J (2015). Global-local nexus. In Carl Cater, Brian Garrod & Tiffany Low (Eds). The

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Saarinen, J (2015). Heritage. In Carl Cater, Brian Garrod & Tiffany Low (Eds). The Encyclopedia of

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Samers M., Bigger P. and Belcher, O. (2015). To Build Another World: Activism in Light of Marxist

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Sirviö, H. (2015). Syrjäseutujen liian helppo elämä? Hyvinvointivaltio Veikko Huovisen satiireissa (Easy

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Till, E. K. & Kuusisto-Arponen, A-K. (2015). Towards responsible geographies of memory:

Complexities of place and the ethics of remembering. Erdkunde 69: 4, 291-306.

Vainikka, J. (2015). Reflexive identity narratives and regional legacies. Tijdschrift voor Economische en

Sociale Geografie. 106: 5, 521–535. DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12118.

Watson, K. Millei, Z. & Petersen, E. B. (2015) ‘Special’ non-human actors in the ‘inclusive’ early

childhood classroom: The wrist band, the lock and the scooter board. Global Studies of Childhood

Journal 5:3, 266–278.

Zeddies, M. & Millei, Z. (2015) ‘It Takes a Global Village’: Troubling discourses of global citizenship in

United Planet’s voluntourism. Global Studies of Childhood 5:1, 100–111.

Zimmerbauer, K. (2015). Unusual regionalism in Northern Europe. Barents region in the making. In

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B) Non-refereed scientific articles 2015

Belcher, O., Martin, L. and Tazzioli, M. (2015). “Border Struggles: Epistemologies, Ontologies,

Politics.” Introduction to Special Issue on “Border Struggles” for darkmatter Volume 12.

http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2015/10/05/editorial-border-struggles-epistemologies-ontologies-and-

politics/.

Bäcklund, P. & Virtanen P. (2015). Julkishallinnon rationaliteetit ja myönteisen tunnistamisen

mahdollisuudet. In: Häkli, Kallio & Korkiamäki (eds.) Myönteinen tunnistaminen, 191-208.

Nuorisotutkimusverkoston Kenttä-sarjan julkaisuja. Helsinki, NTV.

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Häkli J., Kallio K.P. ja Korkiamäki R. (2015). Tukeminen myönteisen tunnistamisen ulottuvuutena.

Teoksessa Häkli J., Kallio K.P. ja Korkiamäki R. (toim.) Myönteinen tunnistaminen. Helsinki:

Nuorisotutkimusverkosto, 179-181. (Nuorisotutkimusseura, julkaisuja 171).

Häkli J., Kallio K.P. ja Korkiamäki R. (2015). Tutustuminen myönteisen tunnistamisen ulottuvuutena.

Teoksessa Häkli J., Kallio K.P. ja Korkiamäki R. (toim.) Myönteinen tunnistaminen. Helsinki:

Nuorisotutkimusverkosto, 84-86. (Nuorisotutkimusseura, julkaisuja 171).

Häkli J., Kallio K.P. ja Korkiamäki R. (2015). Tunnustaminen myönteisen tunnistamisen ulottuvuutena.

Teoksessa Häkli J., Kallio K.P. ja Korkiamäki R. (toim.) Myönteinen tunnistaminen. Helsinki:

Nuorisotutkimusverkosto, 126-128. (Nuorisotutkimusseura, julkaisuja 171).

Kask, E. and and Martin, L. (2015) Deportation and the Dispossession of Time. Photo essay for special

issue of darkmatter on “Border Struggles.” http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2015/10/05/deportation-

and-the-dispossession-of-time/.

Kuusisto-Arponen, A-K. (2015) Ajatuksia myötätunnosta ja kivusta. Terra 127:2, 83–89.

Millei, Z. & Imre R. (2015) Introduction. In Z. Millei, Z. & Imre, R. (eds.): Childhood and Nation:

Interdisciplinary Engagements. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 1-22.

Moisio, S. (2015). Polar geopolitics? Knowledges, resources and legal regimes. Book review. Area.

47(3), 346-347. DOI: 10.1111/area.12184.

Pascucci Elisa. (2015). Asylum Seeking and the Global City. Book review. Border Criminologies Blog,

University of Oxford https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-

criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2015/02/book-review.

Saarinen, J. (2015). Understanding and Governing Sustainable Tourism Mobility: Psychological and

Behavioural Approaches (book review). Anatolia – An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality

Research 26(1), 119.

Saarinen, J. (2015). Encountering Nature (book review on: Governing the Wild: Ecotours of Power by S.

Rutherford). Tourism Geographies 16(1), 166–168.

Stenvall, E., Korkiamäki, R. & Kallio, K.P. (2015). Arjen moninaisuuden tavoittaminen tutustumisen

kautta. Teoksessa Häkli, J., Kallio, K.P. & Korkiamäki, R. (toim.). Myönteinen tunnistaminen.

Nuorisotutkimusverkoston Kenttä-sarjan julkaisuja. Helsinki: NTV, 39-64.

Vainikka, J. (2015). Identiteetti tilan ja ajan funktiona: Alueellisten kertomusten ja perintöjen

kerroksellisuus Englannissa ja Suomessa, Alue ja Ympäristö 44: 2, 64–67.

C) Scientific books 2015

Fuggle, S., Lanci, Y. and Tazzioli, M. (eds. 2015) Foucault and the History of our Present, London:

Palgrave-McMillan.

Häkli, J., Kallio, K. P. and Korkiamäki, R. (eds.) (2015). Myönteinen tunnistaminen.

Nuorisotutkimusverkosto/Nuorisotutkimusseura, julkaisuja 171, Kenttä.

Häkli, J., Vilkko, R. & Vähäkylä, L. (toim.) Kaikki kotona? Asumisen uudet tuulet. Helsinki:

Gaudeamus.

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Jones, M. and Paasi, A. (eds.) (2015). Regional Worlds: Advancing the Geography of Regions. London:

Routledge/Taylor-Francis-Routledge.

Kallio, K. P. and Häkli, J. (eds.) (2015). The Beginning of Politics. Youthful political agency in everyday

life. London and York: Routledge.

Martin, L., Prokkola, E-K., Saarinen, J. and Zimmerbauer, K. (eds.). Geographies of regions, borders and

identity. NGP yearbook 2015. Oulu, Geographical society of Northern Finland, 44:4.

Sirviö. H. (2015). Valtiomuutos ja satiirin pohjoinen ulottuvuus. Alueellinen ero ja kirjallisuuden

politiikka Haanpään, Huovisen ja Heikkisen tuotannossa. (State transformation and the northern

dimension of satire. Territorial difference and the politics of literature in selected works by Haanpää,

Huovinen and Heikkinen). Nordia geographical publications 44:1. University of Oulu, Oulu.

Vainikka, J. (2015) Identities and regions: Exploring spatial narratives, legacies and practices with civic

organizations in England and Finland. Nordia Geographical Publications 44: 3: 1–172.

D) Publications intended for professional communities 2015

Collyer, M., Ahmed, B., Breines M., Iaria V. and Pascucci E. (2015) Beyond root causes: Fragmented

Migration in the Middle East and North Africa. Migration Policy Practice 5 (3), 14–19.

http://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/mpp_issue_22_0.pdf

Collyer, M., Ahmed, B., Breines, M., Iaria V. and Pascucci E. (2015) Conditions and Risks of Mixed

Migration in North-East Africa. MHUB – Mixed Migration Hub Research Report. Study2.

http://www.mixedmigrationhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Conditions-and-Risks-in-Mixed-

Migration-in-North-East-Africa.pdf

Griffiths M (2015) Peace through tourism: promoting human security through international citizenship.

In Blanchard L, Higgins-Desbiolles F (eds), Journal of Heritage Tourism

Griffiths M (2015) A compelling and flawed story of power-body relations: Volunteer tourism: popular

humanitarism in neoliberal times, Mostafanezhad M, Tourism Geographies.

Kuusisto-Arponen, A-K. (2015) Sotalapsen paikka. In: Hetemäki, Ilari, Pauliina Raento, Hannu Sariola

ja Tuomas Seppä (eds.). Kaikkea sattuu. Gaudeamus: Helsinki, 126-127.

Moisio, S. (2015). Aluesuunnittelun ja aluepolitiikan maantieteellinen tutkimus. Alue ja Ympäristö

44(1), 67–69.

Sirviö, H. (2015) Yhtenäisvaltion kuolleet kirjaimet (The Unity of Unitary State as a Dead Letter). Niin

& näin 22:4, 24-25.

Sirviö, H. (2015) Lectio praecursoria. Valtiomuutos ja satiirin pohjoinen ulottuvuus: alueellinen ero ja

kirjallisuuden politiikka Haanpään, Huovisen ja Heikkisen tuotannossa (State Transformation and the

Northern Dimension of Satire: Territorial Difference and the Politics of Literature in Selected Works by

Haanpää, Huovinen and Heikkinen). Alue & ympäristö 44:2, 60-63.

E) Publications intended for the general public 2015

Kangas, A., Kynsilehto A., Norocel O. C., Särmä S., Weaver C. Let’s not internationalize but

postnationalize universities. Politiikasta 28.4.2015 http://politiikasta.fi/lets-not-internationalize-but-

postnationalize-universities/

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Moisio, S. (2015). Itsehallintoaluejako voi rakentua maakuntapohjalle. Kaleva 26.10. (Yläkerta)

Moisio, S. (2015). Itsehallintoalueita kehitetään väärässä järjestyksessä. Helsingin Sanomat 23.9.

(Vieraskynä)

Moisio, S. (2015). Aluepolitiikkaa biotalouden ja sote-ratkaisun avulla. Kaleva 15.8. (Yläkerta)

Vainikka, J. (2015) Maakunnista ja identiteetistä. Kaleva 11.8.2015. B32.

G) Theses 2015

Sirviö. H. (2015). Valtiomuutos ja satiirin pohjoinen ulottuvuus. Alueellinen ero ja kirjallisuuden

politiikka Haanpään, Huovisen ja Heikkisen tuotannossa. (State transformation and the northern

dimension of satire. Territorial difference and the politics of literature in selected works by Haanpää,

Huovinen and Heikkinen). Nordia geographical publications 44:1. University of Oulu, Oulu. (PhD-

thesis).

Vainikka, J. (2015). Identities and regions: Exploring spatial narratives, legacies and practices with civic

organizations in England and Finland. Nordia Geographical Publications 44: 3. University of Oulu, Oulu.

1–172. (PhD-thesis).

2.5. Researcher visits and other international activities

Sami Moisio: Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, May 2015 (visiting professor)

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio: Leeds and Durham, UK, October 2014–June 2015. (fieldwork in Leeds and

Durham, facilitated by the University of Leeds, Department of Geography, collaborator: Dr. Robert

Vanderbeck).

Zsuzsanna Millei: University Of Lehigh, College Of Education, Bethlehem, 2-7th Of March 2015,

(visiting Scholar, host: Prof Iveta Silova)

Lauren Martin: US, March-April 2015 (fieldwork) and Italy, July 2015 (fieldwork)

Elisa Pascuccci: Cairo, Egypt 8-19 January 2015 (fieldwork).

Katharina Koch: Brussels, 5/2015 (fieldwork).

Juho Luukkonen: Brussels, 18.5.-21.5. 2015 (fieldwork).

Mikko Joronen, West Bank, 07.2015-08.2015 (fieldwork).

2.6. Other activities

2.6.1 Invited talks

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio: University of Leeds, Centre for Research on Families, Life Course and Generations

(FLaG), UK, 11/2015. Invited speaker in an interdisciplinary research seminar led by Prof. Sarah Irwing.

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio: University of Sheffield, Geography Department, UK, 11/2015. Invited speaker in

a research workshop “Learning to be citizens”, organized by Prof. Lynn Staeheli and Dr. Daniel

Hammett.

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Elisa Pascucci: American University in Cairo, Centre for Refugee and Migration Studies Cairo, Egypt,

4/11/2015. Guest lecture.

Jarkko Saarinen: ‘Tourism, Communities and Poverty Alleviation’ (Invited Keynote). BEST-EN

Sustainable Tourism Conference, 19 June 2015. Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Jarkko Saarinen: Border studies and Tourism Geographies (invited discussant). In AAG Annual Meeting,

April 2015, Chicago, USA

Jarkko Saarinen: Tourism, Leisure and Poverty: Searching for Responsibility in Sustainable Tourism

Development. Innovation Fusion Colloquium (invited presentation), the World Leisure Centre of

Excellence, 27 Jan 2015, Vancouver Island University.

Saarinen, J. Kestävä kehitys ja matkailu Namibiassa (kutsuttu puhe). Suomi-Namibia Seuran kokous,

18.3.2015, Oulu

Anssi Paasi: Invited opening keynote lecture, Symposium on Heritage and Regional Identities, Vrije

Universiteit Amsterdam, January 2015

Anssi Paasi: Invited keynote lecture, Spatial polarisation and segregation in Central and Eastern Europe,

Scientific concepts, data evidence and specifics, 1st RegPol School, University of Tartu, Estonia,

February 2015

Anssi Paasi: Invited keynote lecture, "Borders and borderlands in 19th century Europe" June 9-10th

Deutsche Historische Institut, Rome, Italy 2015

Anssi Paasi: Invited keynote lecture in the Eric Castren Institute’s 28th Summer Seminar on International

Law, University of Helsinki, 18th August 2015

Anssi Paasi: Invited opening keynote lecture, The conference of Cultural Studies Association, Oulu 3-4

December 2015

Anssi Paasi: Invited keynote lecture: The Barents and the Baltic Sea region: contacts, influences and

social change conference, Oulu, Finland, 10–11 December 2015.

Jouni Häkli: "Nordic experiences of living with state boundaries". An invited talk in ESRC Scottish

Centre on Constitutional Change Borders Seminar, June 25th 2015, Edinburgh, UK

Jouni Häkli: "The subject of citizenship?". An invited presentation in seminar The Dilemmas of Civil

Society: Civil, Civic or Contested? 25th-27th March 2015, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK

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3. Year 2016

3.1. Recruitment and staff

Joni Vainikka was hired as a RELATE Post doc to replace Oliver Belcher, who moved to England to work at

the University of Durham (lecturer at the department of Geography). Also, Lauren Martin started to work at

the University of Durham at the beginning of 2015 (lecturer/department of Geography). Juha Kalaoja has

worked as a PhD student in RELATE Oulu since March 2016, and Alix Varnajot (France) started as a PhD

student at the beginning of April. There were no other changes in RELATE staff in early 2016.

3.2 Meetings

There were no meeting to report in Jan-Apr 2016.

3.3. Publications

A) Peer-reviewed scientific articles 2016

Baillie Smith M, Laurie N, Brown E, Griffiths M & Humble D (2016) Young people’s subjectivities and

geographies of development: education, international volunteering and citizenship. Geographies of

Global Issues, Series: Geographies of Children and Young People, Vol. 8, Ansell, N, Klocker, N,

Skelton, T (eds.) New York: Springer.

Griffiths M (2016). “It’s all bollocks!” and other critical standpoints on the UK government’s vision of

global Citizenship. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.

DOI:10.1080/1070289X.2016.1161515.

Griffiths M (2016). Response to the special issue on volunteer tourism: the performative absence of

volunteers. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 24(2) 169-176.

Griffiths, T.G. & Millei, Z. (2016) Education in/for socialism: historical, current and future perspectives.

In T.G. Griffiths & Z. Millei (eds.) Education in/for socialism: historical, current and future perspectives.

Abingdon, UK: Routledge: SPIB. 1-9.

Hokkanen, J., Saarinen, J. & K. Tervo-Kankare (2016). Tourism demand and adapation to climate

change (in Finnish). Matkailututkimus – Finnish Journal of Tourism Research 12(1), (in press)

Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2016) Children’s rights advocacy as transnational citizenship. Global Networks

16:3, DOI: 10.1111/glob.12096 [online Oct 25 2015]

Joronen, M. (2016). 'Death comes knocking on the roof': Thanatopolitics of ethical killing during

Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. Antipode. Volume 48, Issue 2, p. 336–354.

Joronen, M. (2016). Politics of being-related. On onto-topologies and ‘coming events’. Geografiska

Annaler B (forthcoming).

Joronen, M. (2016). Politics of Precarious Childhood: Ill-treatment of Palestinian children under the

Israeli Military Order. Geopolitics 21(1), 92-114, doi:10.1080/14650045.2015.1123251. (Green Open

Access).

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Kallio, K.P. (2016) Youthful political presence: right, reality and practice of the child. In Kallio, K.P,

Mills, S. and Skelton, T. (eds.): Politics, Citizenship and Rights, Vol. 7 of Skelton, T. (ed.): Geographies

of Children and Young People. Singapore, Springer.

Kallio, K.P. (2016) Becoming geopolitical in the everyday world. In Benwell, M. and Hopkins, P. (eds)

Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics, 169–186. Aldershot, Ashgate.

Kallio, K.P. (2016) Living together in the topological home. Space and Culture. doi:

10.1177/1206331216631290. [OnlineFirst March 2016].

Kallio, K. P. and Mills, S. (2016). Editorial: Geographies of Children and Young People’s Politics,

Citizenship, and Rights. In: Skelton, T. (ed.): Geographies of Children and Young People, Vol. 7.

Singapore: Springer. ix-xviii.

Kallio, K.P. & Mitchell, K. (2016). Introduction to the special issue on transnational lived citizenship.

Special issue on transnational lived citizenship. Global Networks. 16:3. 259-267. DOI:

10.1111/glob.12113

Kavita, Erling & Jarkko Saarinen (2016). Tourism and rural community development in Namibia: policy

issues review. Fennia 194: 1, 79–88.

Kivelä, S. & S. Moisio. (2016). The state as a space of health: on the geopolitics and biopolitics of health

care systems. Territory, Politics, Governance. DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2016.1158122.

Korson, C. (2016). Nationalism and Reconciliation in Memorial Landscapes: The Commemoration of

Jean-Marie Tjibaou in Kanaky/New Caledonia. Journal of Historical Geography. DOI:

10.1016/j.jhg.2016.02.007.

Kulusjärvi, O. (2016). Resort-oriented tourism development and local tourism networks – a case study

from northern Finland. Fennia 194: 1, 3–17.

Kuusisto-Arponen, A-K. (2016). Relating self, place and memory: Spatial trauma among the British and

Finnish War children. In: Harker, C. & Horschelmann, K. (eds.): Conflict, Violence and Peace, Vol. 11

of Skelton, T. (ed.): Geographies of Children and Young People. Singapore: Springer. DOI:

10.1007/978-981-4585-98-9_18-1 [online Dec 2015].

Lenao, M & J. Saarinen (2016). Political ecology of community-based natural resources management:

principles and practices ofpower sharing in Botswana. In Nepal, J. & J. Saarinen (eds). Political Ecology

and Tourism. London, Routledge, 115-129.

Luukkonen, J. & Moisio, S. (2016) On the socio-technical practices of the European Union territory.

Environment and Planning A. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X16641413

Manwa, H., Moswete, N. & J. Saarinen, J (2016). Introduction: Perspectives on Cultural Tourism. In

Manwa, H., Moswete, N. & J Saarinen (Eds). Cultural Tourism in Southern Africa: perspectives on a

growing market. Bristol, Channleview, 3-16.

Martin, L. and Paasi, A. (2016). Afterword: Spatialities of transnational lived citizenship. Global

Networks 16:1. DOI: 10.1111/glob.12116.

Millei, Z. (2016). Generationing Educational and Caring Spaces for Young Children. In R. Vanderbeck

& S. Punch (eds.) Families, Intergenerationality and Peer Group Relations, Vol. 5 of Skelton, T. (ed.):

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Geographies of Children and Young People. Singapore: Springer. Doi:10.1007/978-981-4585-92-7_25-

1.

Millei, Z. (2016) Memory and kindergarten teachers¹ work: Children¹s needs before the needs of the

socialist state. In T.G. Griffiths & Z. Millei (eds.) Education in/for socialism: historical, current and

future perspectives. Abingdon, UK: Routledge: SPIB. 10-33.

Millei, Z. & Imre, R. (2016). Down the toilet: Spatial politics and young children’s participation. In

Kallio, K. P. and Mills, S. (eds.) Politics, Citizenship and Rights, Vol. 7 of Skelton, T. (ed.) Geographies

of Children and Young People. Singapore: Springer.

Millei, Z. & Joronen, M. (2016). The (bio)politicization of neuroscience in Australian early years

policies: Fostering brain-resources as human capital. Journal of Education Policy. DOI:

10.1080/02680939.2016.1148780.

Moisio, S. & Kangas, A. (2016). Reterritorializing the global knowledge-based economy: An analysis of

geopolitical assemblages of higher education. Global Networks. DOI: 10.1111/glob.12103.

Moisio, S. & Belina, B. (2016). The state. In, Richardson, D. et al. (eds.), The Wiley-AAG International

Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell,

Oxford.

Monare, M. Moswete, N. Perkins, J. & J. Saarinen (2016). Emergence of cultural tourism in southern

Africa: Case studies of two communities in Botswana. In Manwa, H., Moswete, N. & J Saarinen(Eds).

Cultural Tourism in Southern Africa: perspectives on a growing market. Bristol, Channleview, 165-180.

Moswete, N., Manwa, H & J. Saarinen (2016). Cultural tourism in southern Africa: Conclusions. In

Manwa, H., Moswete, N. & J Saarinen (Eds). Cultural Tourism in Southern Africa: perspectives on a

growing market. Bristol, Channleview, 181-189.

Nepal, S. Saarinen, J. & E. McLean-Purdon (2016). Tourism and Political ecology: Introduction. In

Nepal, J. & J. Saarinen (eds). Political Ecology and Tourism. London, Routledge, 1-15.

Niskala, M. (2016). Encountering the Other: The Ovahimba Culture and People in Namibian Tourism

Promotion. Nordic Journal of African Studies [forthcoming].

Paasi, A. (2016). Review on “Universities at War”, Sage Swifts, London. Community Development

Journal 51 (1), 170-173.

Paasi, A. and Zimmerbauer, K. (2016). Penumbral borders and planning paradoxes: Relational thinking

and the question of borders in spatial planning Environment and Planning A, vol. 48 no. 1, 75-93.

Pascucci, E. (2016) Transnational disruptions: materialities and temporalities of transnational belonging

among Somali refugees in Cairo. Global Networks DOI: 10.1111/glob.12115

Pyyhtinen, O. & Joronen, M. (2016) Sterben und das Sein des Lebens: Simmel und Heidegger. In

Tasheva, G. & Weiß, J. (eds) Die Existenzialanalytik Martin Heideggers in ihren sozialtheoretischen und

soziologischen Bezügen. Mohr Siebeck Verlag. [in process]

Saarinen, J. (2016). Wilderness conservation and tourism: What do we protect for and from whom?

Tourism Geographies 18(1), 1–8 (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2015.1116599).

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Saarinen, J. (2016). Cultural Tourism in Southern Africa: The Role of Local Cultures and Ethnicity in

Tourism Development. In Manwa, H., Moswete, N. & J Saarinen (Eds). Cultural Tourism in Southern

Africa: perspectives on a growing market. Bristol, Channelview, 17-30.

Saarinen, J. (2016). Political Ecologies and Economies of Tourism Development in Kaokoland, North-

West Namibia. In Mostafanezhad, M., Carr, A. & R. Norum (eds) Political Ecology of Tourism:

Communities, Power and the Environment. London: Routledge, 213-230.

Saarinen, & S. Nepal (2016). Conclusions: Towards a political ecology of tourism - key issues and

research prospects. In Nepal, J. & J. Saarinen (eds). Political Ecology and Tourism. London, Routledge,

253-264.

Sæþórsdóttir, A. D. and Saarinen, J. (2016). Challenges due to changing ideas of natural resources:

tourism and power plant development in the Icelandic wilderness. Polar Record 52:01, 82-91.

Sæþórsdóttir, A-D. and J. Saarinen (2016). Changing Ideas about Natural Resources: Tourists’

Perspectives on the Wilderness and Power Production in Iceland. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality

and Tourism 16 (accepted). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15022250.2015.1108866.

Vainikka, J. (2016) ‘A citizen of all the different bits’: Emotional scaling of identity. GeoJournal 81: 1,

5–22. DOI:10.1007/s10708-014-9596-0

Zimmerbauer, K. (2016). Alueiden sekamelska. Vanhaa ja uutta regionalismia aluejärjestelmän

muutoksessa. In: Riukulehto, S. (ed.). Kunnat, rajat, kulttuuri. Muutoskokemuksia. Helsinki,

Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 23-45.

B) Non-refereed scientific articles 2016

Griffiths, M. (2016). Letters to Palestine: writers respond to war and occupation, Prashad, V (ed),

Cultural Geographies.

Paasi, A. (2016). Review on “Universities at War”, Sage Swifts, London. Community Development

Journal 51(1), 170-173.

Vainikka, J. (2016). Finland’s parliamentary election 2015: Certainty of the result with uncertainty of the

outcome. Regional & Federal Studies, on-line first, 1–18. DOI:10.1080/13597566.2015.1136927

C) Scientific books 2016

Griffiths, T.G. and Millei, Z. (2016) Education in/for socialism: Historical, current and future

perspectives. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138956377.

Nepal, J. & J. Saarinen (Eds.)(2016). Political Ecology and Tourism. London, Routledge.

Manwa, H., Moswete, N. & J Saarinen (Eds).(2016). Cultural Tourism in Southern Africa: perspectives

on a growing market. Bristol, Channleview.

3.4. Researcher visits and other international activities

Sami Moisio: University of Torino, Italy, January 17.-18.

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