This podcast we speak with Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, postdoctoral researcher from Hanken School of Economics comes on the podcast to take a deep dive into the pluriverse and how she has explored this concept in her research. This conversation covers ideas of decoloniality, degrowth, and turning a critical eye to some of the established notions of …

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Welcome to the second volume of the FSDR newsletter. With this edition, we find ourselves leaving both the year and decade. However, for this introduction, I would like to focus on the future, as we are also leaving the darkest part of the year and it is an excellent time to look to the brighter …

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Event: What is happening in South America and why? Date: Mon 13.1.2020 Time: 13-15 Location: Think Corner/Fönster Stage in the 1st floor,                    Yliopistonkatu 4, 00100 Helsinki   During the past fall, South America has been in flames. Countries like Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia have …

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman (New journal publishing from January 2020) Anthropocenes engages our contemporary epoch of the Anthropocene on the basis that its importance goes far beyond the popular and scientific concerns of global warming and climate change. As well as new problems, the Anthropocene offers new opportunities: questioning and disrupting …

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University of Helsinki Confucius Institute Hosts Seminar on China-Africa Engagement On December 2, the University of Helsinki Confucius institute hosted a seminar on Chinese engagement in Africa. The presenters were Christopher Chagnon, PhD researcher at UH Development Studies, and Destiny Chen, PhD researcher at UNU WIDER and SOAS. Christopher presented about the history of Chinese …

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AWARD: Dr. Özlem Celik Dr. Özlem Celik is awarded with Liverpool University Press 2019 Outstanding Peer Reviewer for her service to International Development Planning Review Journal.

Celik, Özlem. 2020. AKP’s income-differentiated housing strategies under the pressure of resistance and debt, in Turkey’s New State in the Making: Transformations in Legality, Economy, Ideology and Coercion, Bedirhanoglu, P., C. Dolek, F. Hulagu and O. Kaygusuz (Eds.), London: ZED.(in press) Coates, Robert and Nygren, Anja. 2020. Urban floods, clientelism, and the political ecology of …

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By Christopher Chagnon, PhD Researcher, University of Helsinki As we feel looking back every year, 2019 was an eventful one. Beyond that, it represents the end of a remarkable decade (though, again, there are likely few decades that people would label as “unremarkable”), especially looking at the twists and turns of the preceding decades. To …

Opinion: Looking back on the 2010s – a decade of remarkable change and upheaval (December 2019) Read More »