PhD programmes in Social Sciences & Political, Societal and Regional Change @helsinkiuni. 2020 conference jointly organised with @ExaltResearch #HelsinkiPhDConf
My new book, Iron Will, is out. Open access, from @UofMPress. This is a multi-sited political ethnography on resistance to extractivism, analyzing iron ore politics in Brazil and India. I explore what resistance strategies have been most impactful. https://t.co/UKiGvCNhPt
➡️Social Policy on challenges of pragmatic RCT data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic
Methods Workshop with Assistant Professor @AnniKajanus, Associate Professor Tuomas M. Ylä-Anttila, and Professor @AKouvonen.
https://t.co/YdqZxx3Wsc
Check out the recordings from the #HelsinkiPhDConf ➡️Keynote Cori Hayden - Crowding extractivism: Data and more-than-social media
https://t.co/YQHKIJnNEU
Now the keynote recordings from the Doctoral Students pre-conference can also be found on the EXALT website. Tune in for talks on social media and crowding extractivism, #resistance and the methodologies for studying #extractivism(s) and alternatives.
https://t.co/8aWgmRG13I
Our conference is coming to an end. The #HelsinkiPhDConfCommittee thanks all speakers and participants for attending the event. We hope you enjoyed the experience, and wish you all the best🥰
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.@MarttaKaskinen's presentation is entitled "Problematic Dichotomy of State and Civil Society in Kenya: Historical perspectives and contemporary implications"
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Saila-Maria Saaristo gives a talk entitled "Fighting Evictions in the Context of Austerity Urbanism and Real Estate Speculation: Experience of Association Habita from Lisbon Metropolitan Area"
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Valter Sandell-Maury's paper is entitled "Extractivism as an Operational Mode of Capital: Towards a Broadened Notion of Extractivism in Social Work"
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Emma Villman concludes that early release from prison with electronic monitoring can both hook and hinder for change. Whether the prisoner will benefit from this form of sentence or not depends on the target group.
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Maija-Eliina Sequeira talks about "Decolonising Academia: Lessons for Anthropology from Black Lives Matter"
Centering Black voice, considering intersectionality, co-creation of research, and public and political engagement are listed as some solutions.
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Georgia De Leeuw's presentation is entitled "Telling stories of value: Resisting extractivist access to indigenous land" and asks how access to land is discursively controlled, regulated and renegotiated.
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Outi Puukko's presentation is entitled ”Same rights
online and offline” and is about civil society actors and the discourse of digital human rights.
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