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Mikko Joronen

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Geographer focusing on Palestine/Middle East, settler colonialism/ungovernability, violence/vulnerability, dwelling/air and ontology/space, atmosphere/politics. Associate Professor of Regional Studies @TampereUniversity.

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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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08.11.2025 16:14 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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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31.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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    📌 0

Wrote this with Marijn Nieuwenhuis; out today: fire, pyroterror, Palestine, arboricide.

28.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Online 1st Article “Polluting appropriations: Malevolent weathering of settler colonisation in Palestine” by Mikko Joronen

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23.09.2025 14:34 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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    📌 0
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Violence as ‘adii: atmospheric manifestations of normalised violence in the occupied West Bank This article examines the affective repercussions of naming violence as normal in the occupied Palestine. The decades of Israel's military occupation …

Tiina Järvi writes about atmospheres of everyday violence in West Bank.

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29.05.2025 20:13 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Geographical Society of Finland asks divestment from collaborating with Israeli Universities.

26.04.2025 21:07 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Fitful Infrastructures: Dwelling with Infrastructural Elimination in Gaza Since 7 October 2023, Gaza has been subjected to unprecedented Israeli genocidal violence that has erased its life-supporting infrastructure. To understand how Gazans navigated these catastrophic con...

Fresh out paper on ‘fitful infrastructures’ of survival in Gaza amid infrastructural elimination in Antipode by two GOCEP researchers, Khalid Dader and Mikko Joronen. @antipodeonline.bsky.social

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21.03.2025 06:11 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Must read indeed!

05.02.2025 19:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Analysis: Israeli Resettlement Plans in the Gaza Strip Palestine Square

To give context for Trump’s cleansing plan in Gaza, a must read by our group member Wassim Ghantous.

www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...

05.02.2025 19:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

If you are at Tampere, come to listen two interesting talks on current situation in Lebanon.

01.02.2025 07:23 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Hizbollah, Israel ja etelä-Libanonin elinolojen tuhoaminen | Alusta! | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö Libanonin alueellisella itsemääräämisoikeudella on vähän painoarvoa Israelin sotiessa. Libanonin suvereniteetin loukkaukset ja etelän elinolojen järjestelmällinen tuhoaminen eivät ole aikaansaaneet su...

On destroying the conditions of living in Lebanon by our research group member dr.Tiina Järvi (in Finnish).

www.tuni.fi/alustalehti/...

30.01.2025 16:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

21.12.2024 13:33 — 👍 696    🔁 297    💬 15    📌 12

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
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Editorial opportunities at Society journal - RGS Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, one of the Society’s scholarly journals, is looking for four new Editorial Board members.

📢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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13.11.2024 15:40 — 👍 17    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1
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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...

19.11.2024 22:04 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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’Encountering Palestine’ is out, discount code 🔽. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... #Palestine

23.12.2023 07:10 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Read our new commentary on Gaza:

06.02.2024 16:54 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Our 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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31.01.2024 08:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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(PDF) Gaza: A decolonial geography PDF | This commentary addresses three objectives: 1) to situate and contextualise the ongoing military assault on Gaza within longer colonial histories... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

Finally accepted to TiBG:

Gaza: A decolonial geography

#Gaza #colonialism #decolonialpolitics

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

26.01.2024 20:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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...

10.01.2024 06:50 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 2

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29.12.2023 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great 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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29.12.2023 12:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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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.

Christmas celebrations are cancelled, but not Christmas

A Palestinian Christian pastor reflects on the message of Christmas during a time of loss and devastation.

23.12.2023 18:44 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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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 Pa...

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.

23.12.2023 20:55 — 👍 29    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 4
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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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22.12.2023 14:37 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

’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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23.12.2023 07:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Assistant Professor (GEOG_01) Mobile

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    📌 0

Edited with @casesofyou.bsky.social

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