Tuomo Alhojärvi
Tuomo Alhojärvi
@tuomo-a.bsky.social
Geographer, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Eastern Finland. Postcapitalist studies, diverse economies, spatial theories, political ecologies. Currently working on the ends of private ownership.
Moreover, in the age of machine translation, there really is no good excuse for sticking to the Angloscene and to only reading languages you happen to know. The mesh-like radicalities of, in and around Geography will not be anglicized.
June 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Rather than to posit yourself as "the only fully" whatever in the world, it's usually a better starting point to assume that wonderful, radical, space-changing work is being done all around -- even if it's not being read by you, or readable to you.
June 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Other diamond OA journals all critical/radical geographers should read include the amazing www.jssj.org, agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org, www.geographica-helvetica.net and many, many others.
© Philippe Lavigne Delville
www.jssj.org
June 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
You can find Simon's list here: simonbatterbury.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/list-of-decent-open-access-journals In Finland, for example, we have diamond OA fennia.journal.fi publishing in English (and many more relevant journals publishing in Finnish and, occassionally, another language).
List of OA journals in geography, political ecology, anthropology, planning, area studies, and various social sciences
Open access journals in social science, political ecology, urban studies, anthropology and geography that are free or with reasonable fees. Continue reading → Continue reading →
simonbatterbury.wordpress.com
June 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
There are dozens of international open access journals in Geography, even if you stick to the Angloscene, which of course is myopic. @simonbatterbury.bsky.social's list is a great place to start: the Geography section currently has around 100 OA journals (free to read, free or cheap to publish).
June 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Ping @miscprojects.bsky.social, forgot to tag you but thanks for everything!
February 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Anyway, read for yourself, if you will. I failed to get the text OA due to the annoying technicalities of T&F's deals with Finnish university libraries. At least the publisher gave me this "free link" to share with you all. If it doesn't work, DM me for a pdf. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CDQ9Z...
Blank utopias: inheriting the cartographic grid with a people’s atlas
Blank maps have a disastrous history as tools of erasure, silencing, and annihilation. To be mapped as nothing risks extermination. Yet the blank map also offers a counter-cartographic tool for rei...
www.tandfonline.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Thinking map theory together with map template design, I argue for the importance of having (self-)critical analysis (and not simply emancipatory potential and promise) at the heart of counter-mapping. Utopia always reinvents topia too.
February 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Received frameworks, inheritances, are already involved in infrastructuring what appears as a blank map or an open field of potential. As the brilliant @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes, for each nothing, "we have to acknowledge all the countless somethings that make that nothing imaginable."
February 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The People's Atlas project used a blank map to allow anyone and everyone to map their city. It's a hugely interesting small case of utopian map-making. My paper's task is to use the blank map to think how interpretative framework are involved in both opening and restricting the map's potentials.
February 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Throughout history, blank maps have often been tools of erasure and annihilation. But they sometimes also have counter-cartographic uses. Here, I'm looking into the case of Notes for a People's Atlas project, a Chicago-based mapping project running ca 2005-2011. (Or, still running, if you ask me.)
February 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Teoriaan keskittyvä artikkeli ei tarjoa paljonkaan suoria pedagogisia vinkkejä. Toivottavasti se kuitenkin tarjoaa raikkaan näkökulman sekä kriittiseen tutkimukseen että käytännön opetustyöhön. Kasvatus-lehdessä on vuoden embargo, joten laita DM mikäli kaipaat artikkelin peedeeäffän! 5/5
February 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Laajemmin ajateltuna kysymys on siitä, millaista työtä kritiikki tekee analysoidessaan (sinänsä perustellusti ja tarpeellisesti) yhteiskunnallisia käytäntöjä. Se saattaa olla oikeassa, ja samalla ohjata toiminnallisiin umpikujiin. Tarvitaan muitakin työotteita sen rinnalle. 4/5
February 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Vaihtoehtomme ammentaa moninaisen talouden tutkimuksesta. Mitä jos yrittäjyyskasvatusta lähestyisi kriittisen ja luovan yhteiskunnallisen mielikuvituksen ja organisoitumisen alustana? Mitä jos luokkahuoneissa kuhisisi kaikenlaista, mikä ei mahdu kilpailullisten minäyrittäjien kasvatusoppeihin? 3/5
February 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Teoriat tietokykykapitalismista ja uusliberaalista hallinnasta ovat suosittuja kriittisessä tutkimuksessa. Niillä on tärkeät ansionsa, mutta samalla ne tuottavat kuvan aika lailla menetetystä pelistä: kapitalismi rulaa joka paikassa ja joka tasolla, hallinta määrää vallan pelimerkit ja roolit 2/5
February 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM