Tuomo Alhojärvi

Moreover, in the age of machine translation, there really is no good excuse for sticking to the Angloscene and to only reading languages you happen to know. The mesh-like radicalities of, in and around Geography will not be anglicized.

Rather than to posit yourself as "the only fully" whatever in the world, it's usually a better starting point to assume that wonderful, radical, space-changing work is being done all around -- even if it's not being read by you, or readable to you.

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Other diamond OA journals all critical/radical geographers should read include the amazing www.jssj.org, agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org, www.geographica-helvetica.net and many, many others.

List of OA journals in geography, political ecology, anthropology, planning, area studies, and various social sciences Open access journals in social science, political ecology, urban studies, anthropology and geography that are free or with reasonable fees. Continue reading → Continue reading →

You can find Simon's list here: simonbatterbury.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/list-of-decent-open-access-journals In Finland, for example, we have diamond OA fennia.journal.fi publishing in English (and many more relevant journals publishing in Finnish and, occassionally, another language).

There are dozens of international open access journals in Geography, even if you stick to the Angloscene, which of course is myopic. @simonbatterbury.bsky.social's list is a great place to start: the Geography section currently has around 100 OA journals (free to read, free or cheap to publish).

Dear @acme-geography.bsky.social, I love what you do, but this claim is simply untrue. It's the second time I see this assertion in your Call for Editors, so probably not an unintentional slip. You might actually believe in it. So, just to make sure... #geosky

Ping @miscprojects.bsky.social, forgot to tag you but thanks for everything!

Blank utopias: inheriting the cartographic grid with a people’s atlas Blank maps have a disastrous history as tools of erasure, silencing, and annihilation. To be mapped as nothing risks extermination. Yet the blank map also offers a counter-cartographic tool for rei...

Anyway, read for yourself, if you will. I failed to get the text OA due to the annoying technicalities of T&F's deals with Finnish university libraries. At least the publisher gave me this "free link" to share with you all. If it doesn't work, DM me for a pdf. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CDQ9Z...

Thinking map theory together with map template design, I argue for the importance of having (self-)critical analysis (and not simply emancipatory potential and promise) at the heart of counter-mapping. Utopia always reinvents topia too.

Received frameworks, inheritances, are already involved in infrastructuring what appears as a blank map or an open field of potential. As the brilliant @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes, for each nothing, "we have to acknowledge all the countless somethings that make that nothing imaginable."

The People's Atlas project used a blank map to allow anyone and everyone to map their city. It's a hugely interesting small case of utopian map-making. My paper's task is to use the blank map to think how interpretative framework are involved in both opening and restricting the map's potentials.

Throughout history, blank maps have often been tools of erasure and annihilation. But they sometimes also have counter-cartographic uses. Here, I'm looking into the case of Notes for a People's Atlas project, a Chicago-based mapping project running ca 2005-2011. (Or, still running, if you ask me.)

Blank utopias: inheriting the cartographic grid with a people’s atlas Blank maps have a disastrous history as tools of erasure, silencing, and annihilation. To be mapped as nothing risks extermination. Yet the blank map also offers a counter-cartographic tool for rei...

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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649365.2025.2461680#abstract A small thread:

Teoriaan keskittyvä artikkeli ei tarjoa paljonkaan suoria pedagogisia vinkkejä. Toivottavasti se kuitenkin tarjoaa raikkaan näkökulman sekä kriittiseen tutkimukseen että käytännön opetustyöhön. Kasvatus-lehdessä on vuoden embargo, joten laita DM mikäli kaipaat artikkelin peedeeäffän! 5/5

Laajemmin ajateltuna kysymys on siitä, millaista työtä kritiikki tekee analysoidessaan (sinänsä perustellusti ja tarpeellisesti) yhteiskunnallisia käytäntöjä. Se saattaa olla oikeassa, ja samalla ohjata toiminnallisiin umpikujiin. Tarvitaan muitakin työotteita sen rinnalle. 4/5

Vaihtoehtomme ammentaa moninaisen talouden tutkimuksesta. Mitä jos yrittäjyyskasvatusta lähestyisi kriittisen ja luovan yhteiskunnallisen mielikuvituksen ja organisoitumisen alustana? Mitä jos luokkahuoneissa kuhisisi kaikenlaista, mikä ei mahdu kilpailullisten minäyrittäjien kasvatusoppeihin? 3/5

Teoriat tietokykykapitalismista ja uusliberaalista hallinnasta ovat suosittuja kriittisessä tutkimuksessa. Niillä on tärkeät ansionsa, mutta samalla ne tuottavat kuvan aika lailla menetetystä pelistä: kapitalismi rulaa joka paikassa ja joka tasolla, hallinta määrää vallan pelimerkit ja roolit 2/5

Jälkikapitalistinen yrittäjyyskasvatus: Kritiikin umpikujat ja toisintekemisen mahdollisuus Yrittäjyyskasvatus on saanut kasvavaa huomiota osakseen sekä opetuskäytäntönä että tutkimuskohteena. Suomessa kriittinen tutkimus on nostanut esiin perusteltuja huolenaiheita yrittäjyyskasvatuksen ide...

Yrittäjyyskasvatuksen kriittinen tutkimus on ansiokkaasti perannut, millä tavoin tietokykykapitalistinen hallinta muovaa koulutusta. Kritiikin anti käytännön opetustyölle on kuitenkin ollut vähäinen. Etsimme uudessa artikkelissa syitä tälle puutteelle. 1/5 journal.fi/kasvatus/article/view/142278