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Dialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social · 15d

New Online 1st Article “Polluting appropriations: Malevolent weathering of settler colonisation in Palestine” by Mikko Joronen

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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · 14d

Very happy to see this out this week: “Polluting appropriations: Malevolent weathering of settler colonisation in Palestine” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group @gocep.bsky.social · May 29

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

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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 …

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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · Apr 26

Geographical Society of Finland asks divestment from collaborating with Israeli Universities.

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Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group @gocep.bsky.social · Mar 21

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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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...

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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · Feb 5

Must read indeed!

Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group @gocep.bsky.social · Feb 5

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

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Analysis: Israeli Resettlement Plans in the Gaza Strip

Palestine Square

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Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group @gocep.bsky.social · Feb 5

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

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Analysis: Israeli Resettlement Plans in the Gaza Strip

Palestine Square

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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · Feb 1

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

Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group @gocep.bsky.social · Feb 1

’The Cities and Ecologies of Lebanon: Altering Realities and Everyday Violence’, 20-21 Feb 2025, Tampere University

Two lectures by Prof. Mona Harb (American University of Beirut) and Ass.Prof. Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi). More info under the link (see ’Events’): www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group (GOCEP) | Tampere universities

Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) constitute the Tampere Universities community. Our areas of priority in research and education are technology, health and societ...

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Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group @gocep.bsky.social · Jan 30

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

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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...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Dec 21

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.

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · Nov 22

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...

David Bissell @davidjbissell.bsky.social · Nov 15

The very idea of so many incredible geography friends and colleagues at the University of Wollongong being in scope for possible redundancy next month is absolutely gut wrenching www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11... 1/5

University to cut 137 academics due to $35m drop in international student enrolments

The University of Wollongong has approached staff across 25 disciplines for redundancies in a restructure the union fears could abolish its degrees in history, mathematics, geography and languages.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Nov 13

📢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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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.

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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · Nov 19

Our editorial ’Topologies of scholasticide in Gaza: education in spaces of elimination’ is out in Fennia journal.

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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · Dec 23

’Encountering Palestine’ is out, discount code 🔽. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... #Palestine

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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · Feb 6

Read our new commentary on Gaza:

TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Feb 6

New in TIBG:

'Gaza: A decolonial geography' by Zena Agha, James Esson, @casesofyou.bsky.social & @mikkojorge.bsky.social

This piece considers what geographers can do in response to the ongoing military assault on Gaza - free to access for 3 months.

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Screenshot of a commentary abstract in Transactions by Zena Agha, James Esson, Mark Griffiths & Mikko Joronen (2024) entitled 'Gaza: A decolonial geography' with a red banner at the top.

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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · Jan 31

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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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · Jan 26

Finally accepted to TiBG:

Gaza: A decolonial geography

#Gaza #colonialism #decolonialpolitics

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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...

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Tiina Hyyppä @hyyppati.bsky.social · Jan 10

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.

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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · Dec 29

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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · Dec 29

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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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · Dec 23

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.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · Dec 23

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.

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...

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Dialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social · Dec 22

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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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · Dec 23

’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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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · Dec 8

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.

Assistant Professor (GEOG_01)

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