10 articles in this issue
Kirsi Pauliina Kallio
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Tero Mustonen
Traditional land use and occupancy of the wilderness lands of Finnish pre- and early- historic communities has not received much discussion in contemporary geographical debates. This article explores such occupancies and analyses transformations to presen... see more
Martin Hedlund, Linda Lundmark, Olof Stjernström
Based on a comparison of the employment trajectories of two cohorts of men and women in the agricultural sector in Sweden, this article gives an account of the past 50 years’ decline in employment in agriculture. The findings show that the decline of empl... see more
Mirek Dymitrow
Despite fierce criticisms, ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ still constitute powerful narratives around which we structure our society. The ‘formal reality’, however, frequently disregards the cultural nature of these concepts, elevating them to the role of objective ... see more
James Riding, Jack Wake-Walker
Made in collaboration with an independent filmmaker and two poets, the documentary-poetry film Bridges <Bosnia 20> presents life in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina, and delivers a clear message: the war in Bosnia is not yet firmly located in the pa... see more
Henk van Houtum, Rodrigo Bueno Lacy
In this article we carry out a geopolitical analysis of the turbulent breeze driving the EU into uncharted extremes. To do this we zoom in on three cases that we deem both a response to political extremism and a source of political extremism in themselves... see more
James Wesley Scott
Political xenophobia needs to be explained politically. At the same time, while political xenophobia is not a necessary consequence of neoliberalism, the idea of what counts as ‘political’ needs to be expanded. I suggest that one fruitful, non-reductionis... see more
James Riding
We live in a time of paranoid borderism, a time of intense paranoia of the Other, and a time where the privileging of the nation state as the symbolic container of space, our territory, seems to have made a lurid return to the European continent. The cons... see more
Olga Hannonen
This short reflection on the keynote speech given by Henk van Houtum at the Annual Meeting of Finnish Geographers enhances discussion on bordering and border construction, both within the European Union (EU) and via the external border of the EU in the no... see more
Pedro Augusto Flores Tenorio
Review of the book Diagnosing wild species harvest: resourse use and conservation by Salo, Sirén & Kalliola, Elsevier Academic Press, London, 2014, pp. 479, ISBN 9780123972040.