The paper forms a part of a wider paper cluster with Tabea Scharrer @tabeascharrer.bsky.social, Laura Lambert, Mert Peksen, and Ville Laakkonen @vvlaakkonen.bsky.social where we explore the dynamics of future-making in containment.
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This is a truly remarkable outcome - a rare act of collective action within our workplace. Considering that the petition was only live for two weeks, and that it has faced repeated suppression when circulated via university mailing lists:

We also symbolically delivered the petition in person at Porthania. Each of your signatures was delivered as a slip of (reused) green, red, black and white paper - 740 in total. Here is a short video documenting the delivery of the petition slips: blogs.helsinki.fi/researchersf...

Unfortunately, the techniques established by Kitson are still at use by many former British colonies today to target political dissidents. In Kenya, the Brits continued to train Kenyan security after independence. If you’re interested, I wrote a paper on it: www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/Op...

Looks great. I'm gonna give it a read today!

We invite papers that critically engage with these dynamics, to tease apart the paradox of comparison: how idealized imaginaries and lived realities are constructed and contested.

This panel seeks to engage in a critical dialogue on the role of comparison in shaping our understanding of resettlement and integration.

We explore the gap between the fantasies of resettlment and the everyday struggles of being resettlement that expose
the paradox of diversity (Bannerji 2016) where non-White newcomers are positioned as peripheral contributors to the imagined community of white multiculturalism (Hage 2000).