Virve Repo
@virvere.bsky.social
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland. Research interests: carceral geography, institutions, aging. Also an ukulele-player and a student of Salo Music Institute (singing).
Check out this free carceral geographies workshop before RGS annual conference in Birmingham! Registration is now open.
Our first post is an invitation! Join is to explore creative methods in carceral geography with these amazing people. Register here: events.humanitix.com/cgwg-worksho...
June 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Check out this free carceral geographies workshop before RGS annual conference in Birmingham! Registration is now open.
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It was lovely working with @virvere.bsky.social on this wonderful review of Carceral Worlds: Legacies, Textures, and Futures, which foregrounds "how people feel and experience [a multiplicity of] carceralities."
Book Review: Carceral worlds: Legacies, textures and futures
Stuit, H, Turner, J, & Weegels, J. (Eds.). (2024). Carceral worlds: Legacies, textures and futures. Bloomsbury. Reviewed by Virve Repo, Tampere University, Finland Carceral Worlds is an edit…
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May 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It was lovely working with @virvere.bsky.social on this wonderful review of Carceral Worlds: Legacies, Textures, and Futures, which foregrounds "how people feel and experience [a multiplicity of] carceralities."
Democracy has spoken!
Municipal elections in #Finland shaping up to a major, even unprecedented victory for the left in general. Social Democrats set to become the biggest party, and are very close to winning the vote in Helsinki - would be the first time in half a century. Radical right is the biggest loser.💪
April 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Democracy has spoken!
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Tervetuloa keskiviikkona keskustelemaan jokaisenoikeuksista osana @koneensaatio.fi metsädialogipäivää!
March 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Tervetuloa keskiviikkona keskustelemaan jokaisenoikeuksista osana @koneensaatio.fi metsädialogipäivää!
I am ready for @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2025 conference. My presentation will be tomorrow afternoon at the Geographies of care work III session.
March 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I am ready for @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2025 conference. My presentation will be tomorrow afternoon at the Geographies of care work III session.
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CALL for PAPERS! We are happy to announce Call for Papers for two conferences organized during the Radical Care for the City week at Tampere University, Finland, in October 2025:
Architectural Research Symposium ATUT (27-28 Oct) & Re-City Conference (30-31 Oct 2025)
events.tuni.fi/radicalcare2...
Architectural Research Symposium ATUT (27-28 Oct) & Re-City Conference (30-31 Oct 2025)
events.tuni.fi/radicalcare2...
Call for Papers | Radical Care for the City | Tampere Universities
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March 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
CALL for PAPERS! We are happy to announce Call for Papers for two conferences organized during the Radical Care for the City week at Tampere University, Finland, in October 2025:
Architectural Research Symposium ATUT (27-28 Oct) & Re-City Conference (30-31 Oct 2025)
events.tuni.fi/radicalcare2...
Architectural Research Symposium ATUT (27-28 Oct) & Re-City Conference (30-31 Oct 2025)
events.tuni.fi/radicalcare2...
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Re-City Conference, organized on 30-31 October 2025 in Tampere, is happy to announce its keynote speakers: Sabine Knierbein, Päivi Kymäläinen @paivikymalainen.bsky.social, and Ross Beveridge! #CFP opens on 3 March. Read more here. events.tuni.fi/radicalcare2...
Re-City Conference 2025 | Radical Care for the City | Tampere Universities
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February 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Re-City Conference, organized on 30-31 October 2025 in Tampere, is happy to announce its keynote speakers: Sabine Knierbein, Päivi Kymäläinen @paivikymalainen.bsky.social, and Ross Beveridge! #CFP opens on 3 March. Read more here. events.tuni.fi/radicalcare2...
Call for Papers: Creative thinking in carceral geography. There is still time to submit your paper proposal for the RGS annual conference in Birmingham on August 26-29. The last submission date February 21. More detailed description: research.tuni.fi/justspaces/n... #carceralgeography #rgs #acrgs
CFP Creative thinking in carceral geography | Research Network for Justice, Space and Society (JUSTSPACES) | Tampere Universities
Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference August 27-29, 2025, Birmingham, UK Session organizer: Virve Repo, Tampere University, Finland Format: In person
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February 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Call for Papers: Creative thinking in carceral geography. There is still time to submit your paper proposal for the RGS annual conference in Birmingham on August 26-29. The last submission date February 21. More detailed description: research.tuni.fi/justspaces/n... #carceralgeography #rgs #acrgs
Congratulations Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University.
November 22, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Congratulations Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University.
New handbook about spaces of mental health and wellbeing. I had a pleasure to contribute by writing a chapter about carceral riskscapes in institutions of care. www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...
Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Mental Health and Wellbeing
This handbook critically examines spaces of mental health and wellbeing across multiple, often intersecting, domains from green and blue spaces to lived and embodied spaces, creative spaces, work and ...
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November 20, 2024 at 3:09 PM
New handbook about spaces of mental health and wellbeing. I had a pleasure to contribute by writing a chapter about carceral riskscapes in institutions of care. www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...