Development Studies in Finland: Reflections on the past five decades and the future ahead Date: Wednesday 26th February 2020 Time: 13:00-15:30 Place: Think Corner (Tiedekulma) Development Studies has come a long way since it 50 years ago emerged in Finland. Born from a student movement supporting Third World decolonisation processes, Development Studies has become a …
CALL FOR PAPERS – EXALT Conference CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – DOCSHOP 2020: DATA IN DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH One day workshop for doctoral students Wednesday 26 February, at 9-12 hrs House of Science and Letters (Tieteidentalo), Helsinki The DocShop 2020 seeks to explore diverse meanings of data in Development Studies. In the current age of inequality, multiple …
Event: What is happening in South America and why? Photo: Marcoantonio Segura On Monday, the 13thof January, the discipline of Development Studies and the Academy of Finland Research Project: Citizen Utopias in the Global South, brought together a group of Latin American experts to discuss and make sense of the turbulent fall in South America. …
Forthcoming: The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies, Edited by S.A. Hamed Hosseini, James Goodman, Sara Motta, and Barry K. Gills Description: The Routlege Handbook of Transformative Global Studies is the first of its kind in Globalization, Development, and Global Studies that is very mu8ch in tune with the pioneering scholarly and activist struggles in …
By Ayonghe Akonwi Nebasifu, Ph.D. Researcher, Anthropology Research Team (Arctic Centre) University of Lapland. Email: aayonghe@ulapland.fi Joonas Uotinen, Ph.D. Researcher, Economic Sociology (Department of Social Research) University of Turku. Email: jauoti@utu.fi Introduction “It is increasingly clear that it will cost far less to cut emissions now than to deal with the consequences later […]. The …
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 …
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 …
