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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
By Christopher Chagnon, PhD Researcher, University of Helsinki Our world sees many crises today, but I’d like to focus on the political crises of right-wing populism seeming to grip so much of the Western world. There are in-your-face examples such as the Presidency of Trump in the United States; and the ascendency of Boris Johnson …
Opinion: Populism, Development, and the Importance of Communication (November 2019) Read More »
By Melisa Yasav, Master’s student of Development Studies in Helsinki University While studying international politics in the UK I had barely given any thought to the possibilities of combining academia and activism. During that time I was a member of the university’s human rights society and I remember us never expecting nor getting a thumbs …
Durand, Leticia, Anja Nygren, Anne Cristina de la Vega-Leinert (coords.) (2019) Naturaleza e neoliberalismo en América Latina, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de México. Includes a chapter by Anja Nygren: “Gobernanza neoliberal de riesgos y vulnerabilidades en acuajes urbanos en México”, pp. 423-465. And by Saila-Maria Saaristo:“Asociaciones de residentes de las favelas: entre represión, violencia y política”, …
