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Space and Political Agency Research Group

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The Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG) is a multidisciplinary research group specializing in the study of intersections between politics, space and agency, based at Tampere University.

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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great book chapter from Nadine Hassouneh: From Invalidation to Precarity: A Story of an Upgrade. In Rahbari, L. & Burlyuk, O. (Eds.) From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, pp 271-284. Open access here: doi.org/10.11647/obp...
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interesting paper out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social from Antti Tarvainen exploring 'the relationship between innovation urbanism and settler colonial city-making through the case of Jerusalem/al-Quds' doi.org/10.1111/anti...
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New paper from Jouni Häkli, Kirsi Kallio, Aura Lounasmaa, and @derek-ruez.bsky.social analyzing how people who have migrated in Finland and Denmark encounter discretionary power within arrival infrastructures doi.org/10.1080/1465...
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Between Welcome and Exclusion: Discretion in Arrival Infrastructures
This article explores discretionary power from the perspective of people who have migrated. Drawing on insights from ethnographic research, our analysis examines the experiences of migrants as they...
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great paper from Tiina Järvi approaching the 'state failure' paradigm from a new direction by examining how different actors in Lebanon mobilize the language of state failure in the form of a demand, 'trying to influence the becoming of the state' doi.org/10.1080/2162...
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Failing as a state? Lebanon, state failure and politics of demand
While the failed state paradigm has generally served Western interests, in this article I suggest that ‘failed state’ can also be approached as a demand that is employed beyond its conventional mea...
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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
‘Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe’ (edited by Paul Harrison, @ajsecor.bsky.social and @mikkojorge.bsky.social) is out today at @edinburghup.bsky.social. Great set of chapters, open access, see link ⬇️. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cultura...
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Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe
Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An important new book on De-bordering Higher Education by Giorgia Doná, SPARG's Aura Lounasmaa, and Corinne Squire. It analyzes refugees' pathways to higher education, and offers examples and models for anti-racist, refugee-centered approaches bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/de-bordering...
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De-bordering Higher Education
De-bordering Higher Education - Refugees, Universities and Social Justice; This book provides an interdisciplinary look at refugees' and forced migrants' paths to higher education in the Global North ...
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Exciting new postdoc opportunity here in Tampere:
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Important new paper from Danna Masad and @wassim-gh.bsky.social on colonial herding practices in Palestine: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New piece by Jouni Häkli and Noora Peltonen out in @spaceandpolity.bsky.social that examines how the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum produces migrant vulnerability and raises questions about how humanitarianism legitimizes restrictive border policies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The European Union as a humanitarian border: the production of vulnerability in the New Pact on Migration and Asylum
This article critically examines the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum through the conceptual lens of the ‘humanitarian border’, which captures the entanglement of care and control in migration...
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
@dader-khalid.bsky.social develops a conceptualization of temporal ruination to understand scarcity-making and entrapment in Gaza. Out online first in @societyandspace.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot of title and abstract of an article entitled Temporal ruination: Scarcity, entrapment, and the affective intensities of time in Gaza by Khalid Dader, published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Online first at Childhood: Unlearning through art: Developing decolonising and empathic pedagogies in climate mobilities education. doi.org/10.1177/0907...
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Unlearning through art: Developing decolonising and empathic pedagogies in climate mobilities education - Kirsi Pauliina Kallio, Vilhelmiina Vainikka, Jouni Häkli, 2025
This paper introduces arts-based participatory research combining decolonising and empathic transformative environmental pedagogies, in the context of climate m...
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
An important collective editorial on Geographies in/of translation, published in Fennia: doi.org/10.11143/fen...
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Geographies in/of translation
This collective editorial calls for a deeper engagement with translation in geography, arguing that translation is not a peripheral concern or a practical textual question, but a constitutive element ...
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Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group @gocep.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Essay by group of Gazan scholars, including our Khalid Dader @dader-khalid.bsky.social, problematising framings of Gazan resilience, ingenuity and strenght. Highly recommended read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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When Resilience Becomes a Burden: Reflections from Gazan Palestinian Scholars
In this essay, Palestinian scholars from Gaza reflect on how Gaza is brought into Western academic spaces since the beginning of the genocide. Over the last two years, academic engagement with Gaza...
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
New research out in Social Inclusion by Vesna Holubek, @derek-ruez.bsky.social, Mila Bujić, Marisa Honkanen, and Zsuzsa Millei exploring the diverse experiences and agencies of international academics in the context of lived and managed university internationalization doi.org/10.17645/si....
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International Academics as Agents of Transformation: Lived and Managed Internationalization in a Finnish University | Article | Social Inclusion
Vesna Holubek, Derek Ruez, Mila Bujić, Marisa Honkanen, Zsuzsa Millei
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Migration: A Critical Introduction, by @marygilmartin.bsky.social, Malene Jacobsen and Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, 'offers a fresh and accessible framework for understanding migration through a distinctly geographical lens': www.wiley.com/en-us/Migrat...
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Migration: A Critical Introduction
<p><B>A CRITICAL, NUANCED, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION</B> <p><i>Migration: A Critical Introduction</i> offers a fresh and accessible framework for understandin...
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Great to see the article forum on @mikkojorge.bsky.social's Polluting appropriations: Malevolent weathering of settler colonisation in Palestine coming together in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. The article, an impressive set of commentaries, and now Mikko's response are online: doi.org/10.1177/2043...
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Weathering Palestine: Frontiering pollution - Mikko Joronen, 2026
In this response, I further elaborate the notions of ‘colonial pollution’ and ‘malevolent weathering’ in relation to three aspects: ontology, frontiering, and u...
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Check out this new piece from Aura Lounasmaa, Kirsi Pauliina Kallio, and Jouni Häkli: Migration research in ‘play space’: joyful encounters, empathic unsettlement and refusal in arts-based ethnography doi.org/10.1080/1464...
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Migration research in ‘play space’: joyful encounters, empathic unsettlement and refusal in arts-based ethnography
This paper introduces joyful embodied encounters, empathic unsettlement, agentic acts of refusal and ethical and personal tensions as key dimensions of narrative ethnographic research. Grounded in ...
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Important work from @wassim-gh.bsky.social recently out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/anti...
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Homological Correspondence: Israel as a Frontier of Global Domination
This article offers a novel framing for enquiring the deep entanglement between Israel and Western-led global centers of domination. Moving beyond geopolitical reasonings and historical analogies, it....
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Good to see this important work featured on Tampere University’s website:
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Study explores how life continues amid annihilation | Tampere universities
A new study investigates how Palestinians in Gaza are establishing fragile infrastructures to survive the systematic destruction of their way of life. Amid ongoing violence and infrastructure destr...
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Strong and active presence of SPARG scholars in the historic one-day strike @ Tampere Uni
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Wonderful to visit and see a great exhibition curated by Maria Villa @ Myymälä2 in Helsinki!
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Danna Masad and Wassim Ghantous gave a timely and interesting paper 'War through the milieu' in a session on Palestine organized by Mikko Joronen and Mark Griffiths at the Detroit AAG!
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Great to see this important paper out in the world!
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
For anyone around Tampere University, another exciting iteration of the Decentering the Global lecture series is in the works for April. Students can register to participate for course credit (5 ECTS).
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The program for #AAG2025 looks great! (And it includes a number of interesting presentations by SPARG researchers and colleagues 🤓)
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Professor Mona Harb giving a splendid keynote lecture in seminar "The Cities and Ecologies of Lebanon: Altering Realities and Everyday Violence", organized by Dalia Zein and Tiina Järvi from GOCEP & SPARG @Tampere_University
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Today we had SPARG's spring term opening seminar.
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