Tuomas Tervasmäki

Postdoc researcher (politics of education) at @TampereUni_EDU. Interests: Philosophy, education & theories of ideology. Member of

[Tuomas Tervasmäki @TTervasmaki]

I wrote a book. A hard, if rewarding, thought-work. The research deals with application of Essex School of Discourse Theory in the ideology-critical analysis of Finnish politics of education. The work can be accessed online at: https://t.co/JK00uu0oSH @cIDA_essex

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

“austerity measures increase both electoral abstention and votes for non-mainstream parties… the effects of austerity on polarization are particularly pronounced when the mainstream right and left parties both stand for fiscal restraint.“

[Tukiliitto @tukiliitto]

Tukiliitto, @KVLiitto, @FDUVFinland ja @Autismiliitto vaativat yhteisessä kannanotossaan, että vammaispalvelulain soveltamisalaa koskeva lakimuutos on hylättävä. Kauan odotettua lakia ei saa romuttaa ennen kuin sitä on edes sovellettu käytäntöön.
https://t.co/Jn35pblZog

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

"rising inequality is legitimated by the popular belief that the income gap is meritocratically deserved: the more unequal a society, the more likely its citizens are to explain success in meritocratic terms... the less important... a person’s family wealth and connections."

[Tuomas Tervasmäki @TTervasmaki]

@pasi_tervasmaki Kiitos paljon Pasi! Oli lystiä! 😊

[Mikko J. Poutanen @PoutanenMJ]

UNIDEMO-tutkimushankkeemme mainiot @tuukkatomperi ja @PaulaSilven oli tässä ihan hiljan Ylen jutussa puhumassa tohtorikoulutuksen muutoksesta (https://t.co/fBQTAlx8Vb).

Muutoin hyvään juttuun ei kuitenkaan mahtuneet kaikki näkökulmat, joita tutkijoilla oli antaa, mutta...

[Tuomas Tervasmäki @TTervasmaki]

@SVastuu @TampereUni Kiitos paljon nostosta! Ja helppo yhtyä jatkokommenttiin ideologiakriittisestä perspektiivistä sivistystyön kentällä.

[Sivistystyön Vapaus ja Vastuu -ohjelma (SVV) @SVastuu]

Paljon onnea väitöksen johdosta @TTervasmaki, joka väittelee 8.11. @TampereUni: Ideologiakritiikki tekee näkyväksi koulutuspolitiikan taustalla vaikuttavat arvot ja ideologiset valinnat. Ks. https://t.co/CCrJe13ngZ

[Tuomas Tervasmäki @TTervasmaki]

The learning process continues on 8.11.2024 at 12.00 (GMT +2) with a public dissertation at the Tampere University (ask for online stream link). Welcome friends, colleagues and co-inhabitants.

[Tuomas Tervasmäki @TTervasmaki]

I wrote a book. A hard, if rewarding, thought-work. The research deals with application of Essex School of Discourse Theory in the ideology-critical analysis of Finnish politics of education. The work can be accessed online at: https://t.co/JK00uu0oSH @cIDA_essex

[Tuomas Tervasmäki @TTervasmaki]

Warm thanks to @TampereUni_EDU, @KoneenSaatio and @wihurinrahasto for funding my research, and many colleagues and friends who helped along the way.

[Antti Moilanen @didaktiikki]

Tutkimuksemme laitaoikeiston koulutuspolitiikasta on julkaistu. Se osoittaa, että laitaoikeiston koulutuspolitiikka on uhka liberaalille demokratialle. Aineistona @persut, @SinimustaLiike, @AfD ja die Heimat kopo-ohjelmat. Ketju tutkimuksesta.

https://t.co/i8elBea5aU

[Tuomas Tervasmäki @TTervasmaki]

@Kalliojoh väittelee tänään itsekasvatuksesta ja tilaisuutta voi seurata myös verkossa klo 12.00 alkaen (linkki tiedotteessa). 🥳Odotettavissa kiehtovaa keskustelua aikuiskasvatustieteen jo osittain unohdetuista perusteista. @POISEDresearch
https://t.co/6RR4041CCp

[Mikko J. Poutanen @PoutanenMJ]

#säätiöpäivä #säätiötekoja
Tutkin kollegoiden @HannaKuu , @tuukkatomperi , @TTervasmaki ja @PaulaSilven kanssa UNIDEMO-hankkeessa demokratiaa yliopistoissa, edustuksellisen demokratian kriisiä ja yliopistojen itsehallintoa. Hankkeen rahoittaa @KoneenSaatio , mistä olemme...

[Timo Aro @timoaro]

MAAHANMUUTON FIKTIOT JA FAKTAT:

FIKTIO
#Maahanmuutto on hallitsematonta haittamuuttoa Lähi-idästä ja Afrikasta

FAKTA
Maahanmuutto muodostuu pääosin työn tai opiskelun perusteella Suomeen muuttavista tai heidän perheenjäsenistä sekä tilapäistä suojelua saavista ukrainalaisista

[Science News @SciencNews]

Scientists should get paid for thinking time @Nature

#PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdocs #Research #Science

[Janne M. Korhonen is moving to BSky & LinkedIn! @jmkorhonen]

Sattuipa hollille kätevä tilastolähde niin pyöräytin pikakatsauksen julkisen sektorin kokoon viimeisen reilun 50 v ajalta. Tästäpä:

Vasemmalla julkisen sektorin koko suhteessa kaikkiin työllisiin. Oikealla julkinen ja yksityinen sektori suhteessa asukaslukuun. Miltäpä näyttää?

[Johanna Vaattovaara @JVaattovaara]

@liina_kaisa @minnahuoti Rajalain toimimattomuutta avaavat hyvin myös @JarnaPetman ja Matti Koskenniemi viime pe ykkösaamussa. On hämmentävää, miksi tätä lakia ajetaan kaikin puolin kalliilla hinnalla, kun Putinin masinointia se ei käytännössä edes estäisi.
: https://t.co/NTjjPTVczK #yleareena

[Heikki Pursiainen @pursiain]

On aivan ällistyttävää kuulla, että juuri porvarit vaativat eduskunnalle ehdotonta vapautta säätää lakeja.

Hei me ollaan niitä liberaalin demokratian kannattajia – sen missä eduskunnan valtaa nimenomaan rajoittavat perusoikeudet ja niitä valvovat tuomioistuimet ynnä muut.