Heikki Sirviö

University of Helsinki | HY · Department of Geosciences and Geography

This paper probes the function of competition in society through an analysis of the affective landscape that competition creates. Our focus is on education and the connected process of subjectification. We argue that the analysis of competition in human geography needs to advance through abstractions of political economy to the entanglements and re...

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Alue ja ympäristö -lehti voitti Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton Vuoden tiedelehti -palkinnon. Palkinto jaettiin lokakuussa 2022 ensimmäisen kerran, ja sen suuruus on 25 000 euroa. Palkinnon tarkoituksena on vahvistaa kotimaisen tiedejulkaisutyön näkyvyyttä ja arvostusta. Palkinnon vastaanottivat Joensuussa Tiedejulkaisemisen päivillä lehden päätoim...

Alue ja Ympäristö -lehden pääkirjoitus numerossa 51(1) 2022.

In this article, we contribute to recent debates on the geographies of discontent by examining the implications of urbanisation on the state as a territorial-political community in the European context. Building on an Arendtian conception of politics, we argue that the emergence of the 'urban' as a dominant spatio-political imaginary has led to a n...

Depoliticization has emerged as a key concept in analyzing the changing political dynamics of capitalist democracies. Yet, the concept of public interest has been relatively absent in depoliticization literature. This article argues for a more systematic inclusion of public interest politics in scrutinizing de- and repoliticization. The argument is...

In this paper we draw on the work of Doreen Massey and David Harvey and think with the concept of spatial structure. We divide the concept into three constitutive elements: uneven geographical development (materiality), the discursive production of spatial structures (semiosis) and collective politics of spatial structure (experience). We conclude...

In this article, we contribute to recent debates on the geographies of discontent by examining the implications of urbanisation on the state as a territorial‐political community in the European context. Building on an Arendtian conception of politics, we argue that the emergence of the ‘urban’ as a dominant spatio‐political imaginary has led to a n...

Eero Marttinen: Hiljaisen hymyn mies: Veikko Huovisen elämä. Helsinki: Into, 2018, 342 s.

Introduction to Energy and Nomos

In this chapter, we study the effects of City-regionalism on State spatiality and on State as a Territorial political community in the Finnish context. We conceptualize City-regionalism as an economic-geographical imaginary that has recently emerged as the dominant spatial framework informing national spatial policies and territorial strategies in...

In this article we examine city-regionalism as a powerful spatial-political imaginary through which state territorial strategies and the associated policies are increasingly evaluated, drafted and put into practice around the western world. By analyzing the material and discursive constitution of city-regionalism in Finland, the article illustrates...

In recent years, the bioeconomy has emerged as a key policy idea in liberal western states. This paper analyses the bioeconomy as a state strategy. By building on theoretical strands by Poulantzas, Moore, and Castán Broto, the paper argues that the bioeconomy has to be understood simultaneously as an accumulation strategy within the capitalist worl...

Since the 1980s, the Finnish state has been reshaped in significant ways, much like the transformation of statehood and state territoriality which has taken place all over the world. The economic, social, political and cultural forces working to reshape the state have undermined the legacy of the welfare state era and its "one nation" politics with...