Tiina Järvi and @mikkojorge.bsky.social write about infrastructure, generators, and atmospheric politics of pollution in Lebanon: ’Breathing atmospheres of failure: The matter of pollution in Beirut’
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@mikkojorge.bsky.social
Geographer focusing on Palestine/Middle East, settler colonialism/ungovernability, violence/vulnerability, dwelling/air and ontology/space, atmosphere/politics. Associate Professor of Regional Studies @TampereUniversity.
Tiina Järvi and @mikkojorge.bsky.social write about infrastructure, generators, and atmospheric politics of pollution in Lebanon: ’Breathing atmospheres of failure: The matter of pollution in Beirut’
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
OnlineFirst - "Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine: Arboricide and fiery dispossessions" by Marijn Nieuwenhuis and @mikkojorge.bsky.social:
@geogdurham.bsky.social #Pyropolitics #Pyrotechniques #Palestine #Arboricide
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Congratulations to our colleague Marijn Nieuwenhuis on the publication of his co-authored article with @mikkojorge.bsky.social in @natureandspace.bsky.social entitled “Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine: Arboricide and fiery dispossessions” which is now available at: doi.org/10.1177/2514...
30.10.2025 08:46 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Wrote this with Marijn Nieuwenhuis; out today: fire, pyroterror, Palestine, arboricide.
28.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New Online 1st Article “Polluting appropriations: Malevolent weathering of settler colonisation in Palestine” by Mikko Joronen
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Very happy to see this out this week: “Polluting appropriations: Malevolent weathering of settler colonisation in Palestine” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
24.09.2025 19:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tiina Järvi writes about atmospheres of everyday violence in West Bank.
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Geographical Society of Finland asks divestment from collaborating with Israeli Universities.
26.04.2025 21:07 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Fresh out paper on ‘fitful infrastructures’ of survival in Gaza amid infrastructural elimination in Antipode by two GOCEP researchers, Khalid Dader and Mikko Joronen. @antipodeonline.bsky.social
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Must read indeed!
05.02.2025 19:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0To give context for Trump’s cleansing plan in Gaza, a must read by our group member Wassim Ghantous.
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
If you are at Tampere, come to listen two interesting talks on current situation in Lebanon.
01.02.2025 07:23 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0On destroying the conditions of living in Lebanon by our research group member dr.Tiina Järvi (in Finnish).
www.tuni.fi/alustalehti/...
In BBC coverage, mentions of Israeli and Palestinians deaths competed for space since 7th October.
That's despite far more Palestinian deaths.
There's one exception - a huge spike in the mentions of Palestinian deaths in early April.
The reason for this should disturb you.
Solidarity with colleagues at the University of Wollongong in geography, history, language, maths, environmental science, physics and public health. Entire units being cut, short sighted and devastating. Petition here: betteruniversities.work/uow-petition...
22.11.2024 09:48 — 👍 44 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 1📢Join the TIBG team!📢
We are looking for four new mid-career geographers to join our Editorial Board.
We are seeking expertise in environmental, historical and quantitative geography, sustainable development, geopolitics, Africa & Latin America.
Deadline: 4 December
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Our editorial ’Topologies of scholasticide in Gaza: education in spaces of elimination’ is out in Fennia journal.
fennia.journal.fi/article/down...
’Encountering Palestine’ is out, discount code 🔽. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... #Palestine
23.12.2023 07:10 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Read our new commentary on Gaza:
06.02.2024 16:54 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Our paper on skunk water spraying in Palestine is out in Environment and Planning E.
'Weathering violence: Atmospheric materialities and olfactory durations of ‘skunk water’ in Palestine’
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Finally accepted to TiBG:
Gaza: A decolonial geography
#Gaza #colonialism #decolonialpolitics
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79 civil servants in the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a letter in Nov to the Minister calling for ceasefire and Israel to halt excessive use of force. Exceptional as these kinds of letters are not often sent in Finland.
www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...
@tibg.bsky.social
29.12.2023 12:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great article by Antti Tarvainen and Benoit Challand fresh out in TiBG. Focus on #Palestine, #innovation as erasure and the role of #Gulfstates.
“Innovation as erasure: Palestine and the new regional alliances of technology”
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Christmas celebrations are cancelled, but not Christmas
A Palestinian Christian pastor reflects on the message of Christmas during a time of loss and devastation.
Open letter to the Columbia administration
A statement by 18 Columbia University deans amounts to a new norm prohibiting Palestinian political aspirations in favor of privileging a politics of feeling to protect those who feel threatened by Palestinian freedom.
New Online 1st Article “Working through our differences: Limits of ontology in the ordinary lives of critical geographical theory” by Shawn Bodden
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’Atmospheric negations: Weaponising breathing, attuning irreducible bodies’ out in Society&Space. Focus on #Palestine, #breathing, #materiality, #violence, #embodiment. Thinks #NegativeGeographies, #ontology, #air-dwelling.
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We are hiring in Human Geography at Durham! We are seeking to fill two positions at the assistant professor (grade 8) level. The closing date for applications is 14/01/2024. Areas of specific interest are environment, urban, and critical development studies.
08.12.2023 08:27 — 👍 19 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0Edited with @casesofyou.bsky.social
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