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Hydropowering sustainability transformation: policy frames on river use and restoration in Finland 水力发电的可持续性转型:芬兰河流利用和恢复的政策框架

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Fennia-International Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.11143/fennia.120946

Eerika Albrecht, J. Lukkarinen, Miikka Hakkarainen, Niko Soininen

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Racialized immigrants becoming part of the city: connecting migration, space and race – commentary to van Liempt 种族化的移民成为城市的一部分:将移民、空间和种族联系起来——对范丽佩特的评论

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Fennia-International Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.11143/fennia.129437

Mélodine Sommier

{"title":"Racialized immigrants becoming part of the city: connecting migration, space and race – commentary to van Liempt","authors":"Mélodine Sommier","doi":"10.11143/fennia.129437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.129437","url":null,"abstract":"Building on Ilse van Liempt’s (2023) lecture, this commentary addresses the connection and shift between forced displacement and local emplacement by addressing what becoming part of the city means for racialized immigrants. By bringing forward the notion of racialization I hope to contribute to a growing body of literature discussing how malleable and productive the concept of race – albeit erased and relegated to the past – keeps on shaping conversations about and across Europe. Connecting migration, space and race offers a particularly rich context in which to have this discussion because, as all three elements are mutually constructive, addressing them together exposes some of the complexities and nuances of the experience of becoming part of the city for racialized immigrants.\u0000Addressing this topic calls into question my own experience as an immigrant which, as a French white woman living in Finland and working at the University, is shaped by many privileges. It is therefore important to highlight the position of power from which I talk, in part because of the extent to which whiteness permeates much of our conceptual and methodological work as researchers. However, committed we, as individuals, might be to anti-racism, it is important to recognize that we are working within the structures of academia and as such are working within a (discursive) space that has historically been organized through whiteness. Exposing the racial structures at play in Academia is a small but critical step to contest it and work towards change within the academy as well as society.","PeriodicalId":45082,"journal":{"name":"Fennia-International Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90012379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Emplacement in hostile spaces: hopeless notes – commentary to van Liempt 在敌对空间的安置:无望的笔记——对范丽佩特的评论

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Fennia-International Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.11143/fennia.129570

A. Lounasmaa

{"title":"Emplacement in hostile spaces: hopeless notes – commentary to van Liempt","authors":"A. Lounasmaa","doi":"10.11143/fennia.129570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.129570","url":null,"abstract":"In her keynote lecture from the Finnish Geography Days in 2022 Ilse van Liempt offers a hopeful and useful approach to understanding refugees’ processes of belonging and home-making. She focuses on arrival infrastructures, which encompass both the formal and the informal processes and structures that greet migrants as they arrive. Important part of these is emplacement, where the focus can turn into how migrants themselves become part of creating arrival infrastructures and making home in new environments, including the public spaces they inhabit. My commentary draws from my experiences of the United Kingdom (UK) hostile bordering practices, and I am reminded that hostility, policing migration and migrants and bordering practices are not only present, but often framing both the formal and informal infrastructures. Secondly, I reflect on the meaning of home here: the patriarchal and heteronormative home can follow a migrant on their route, as well as become part of the bordering practice for new arrivals. Hence for some, home itself becomes a prison, a site of violence or a place of non-belonging. Finally, the emergence of the techno-borderscape (Godin & Doná 2020) has moved large parts of arrival infrastructures, both the bordering and the support that these represent, and possibilities of home-making online, with many migrants simultaneously having reduced access to the digital spaces.","PeriodicalId":45082,"journal":{"name":"Fennia-International Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87346081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Lectio praecursoria: Recognizing the plurality of knowledge, values, and experiences interwoven in Mexican community forestry 预备课程:认识到墨西哥社区林业中交织的知识、价值和经验的多元性

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Fennia-International Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2023-05-28 DOI: 10.11143/fennia.129243

Violeta Gutiérrez-Zamora

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Travelling abroad and geopolitical preferences – case of Kharkiv, Dnipro and Mariupol, Ukraine 出国旅游与地缘政治偏好——以乌克兰哈尔科夫、第聂伯罗和马里乌波尔为例

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Fennia-International Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2023-05-19 DOI: 10.11143/fennia.117041

O. Gnatiuk, K. Mezentsev, G. Pidgrushnyi

{"title":"Travelling abroad and geopolitical preferences – case of Kharkiv, Dnipro and Mariupol, Ukraine","authors":"O. Gnatiuk, K. Mezentsev, G. Pidgrushnyi","doi":"10.11143/fennia.117041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.117041","url":null,"abstract":"The paper investigates the relationship between travel abroad experience and individual geopolitical preferences in three geopolitical fault-line cities in the eastern part of Ukraine. Employing binary logistic regression as a principal research method, we show that travel experience to European countries positively correlates with pro-European attitudes and corresponds to weaker pro-Soviet sentiments. On the contrary, travel experience to Russia is associated with somewhat weaker support for European geopolitical and cultural integration but stronger pro-Soviet sentiments. Travel experience to Russia is less important predictor of geopolitical preferences than visiting European countries. Pro-European attitudes, compared with pro-Soviet sentiments, are much more interlinked with international travel experience. The data on bilateral travellers evidences that possible effect of visiting European countries basically neutralises the effect of visiting Russia in terms of impact on geopolitical preferences. Although the relationship between travel abroad experience and geopolitical preferences is similar in all three cities under investigation, certain variations between them may be explained by different economic, socio-cultural and institutional background. The revealed correlations seem to cover both direct causal effect of travel abroad on geopolitical preferences and a reverse causality, namely self-selection of destination country according to personal pre-existing geopolitical views. The importance of discovered relationships for the integration of Ukrainian society into European civilization project is apparent not only considering visa-free regime between Ukraine and the European Union (EU), but also in view of the Russian military invasion in 2022 as a cause of flows of refugees from Ukraine to Europe.","PeriodicalId":45082,"journal":{"name":"Fennia-International Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90361250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Refusals, radical vulnerability, and hungry translations – a conversation with Richa Nagar 拒绝、极端的脆弱和饥渴的翻译——与Richa Nagar的对话

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Fennia-International Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.11143/fennia.121797

R. Nagar, I. Meier, A. Spathopoulou

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Project management and research governance – towards a critical agenda beyond neoliberalization? – commentary to Refstie 项目管理和研究治理——超越新自由主义的关键议程?——对雷夫斯蒂的评论

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Fennia-International Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2023-02-27 DOI: 10.11143/fennia.126176

Elisa Pascucci

{"title":"Project management and research governance – towards a critical agenda beyond neoliberalization? – commentary to Refstie","authors":"Elisa Pascucci","doi":"10.11143/fennia.126176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.126176","url":null,"abstract":"In this contribution to the debate that followed the publication of Hilde Refstie’s timely and cogent Reconfiguring research relevance, I propose to take a closer look at the funding structures that bind academia and other institutional and private sector actors into networks of collaboration and research co-production often experienced as dysfunctional. In particular, I focus on competitive funding bids that distribute financial and labour resources by awarding short-term ‘projects’, with particular reference to European Union (EU) projects. Drawing on my current research work on the ‘project economy’, co-led with Nadine Hassouneh and funded by the KONE Foundation at Tampere University, I make two initial suggestions that expand on some of the points raised so far in the discussion hosted by Fennia. First, project-based research funding is a more politicized and coercive tool than we tend to think. Second, project management and project-based work, and the associated patterns of (gendered and racialized) precarization and even abuse, have a longer and more ingrained history than what we commonly identify as the ‘neoliberalization’ of academia. By way of conclusion, I highlight how scrutinizing the funding architectures that enable and constrain our work help us to explore the relation between research and policy, beyond the limits of critical categories such as ‘neoliberalism’.","PeriodicalId":45082,"journal":{"name":"Fennia-International Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78864320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Depopulation and shrinkage in a Northern context: geographical perspectives, spatial processes and policies 北方地区的人口减少和萎缩:地理视角、空间过程和政策

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Fennia-International Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2023-01-24 DOI: 10.11143/fennia.122933

M. Albrecht, M. Halonen, Josefina Syssner

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Young people as agents in regional shrinkage – commentary to Syssner 年轻人作为代理人在地域上萎缩——对赛斯纳的评论

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Fennia-International Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2023-01-24 DOI: 10.11143/fennia.122487

Mari Kettunen, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola

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Contested planning efforts for the revitalization of small town centres in Finland 芬兰小镇中心的复兴计划备受争议

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Fennia-International Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2023-01-24 DOI: 10.11143/fennia.119852

M. Albrecht, J. Kortelainen

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