Fennia - International Journal of Geography https://fennia.journal.fi/ <p align="left">Fennia is a non-profit peer-review journal published by the Geographical Society of Finland since 1889. It is an international scientific publication dedicated to all fields of geography with attentiveness to northern dimensions. In 2010, Fennia became an open access electronic journal with two yearly issues. It is devoted to a fast publication process, including the open access publication of forthcoming papers before inclusion in an issue. The journal has no submission or article processing charges, and authors retain all rights to their work throughout the publication process and after publication. We appreciate that authors clearly bring up that the text has been originally published in Fennia. We also offer the opportunity to publish short, popularized texts based on research articles through the <a href="https://www.versuslehti.fi/english/">Versus</a> platform that aims to make research more visible, dialogical and effective in societies.</p> <p align="left">Fennia publishes papers of high scholarly merit in three categories: Research Papers, Reviews and Essays, and Reflections. Research Papers are original full-length articles that make a significant contribution to geographic and related research. Reviews and Essays introduce empirical, theoretical or methodological insights from ongoing research, including dialogical literature reviews. Reflections section includes commentaries, debates, discussion pieces, interventions, lectio praecursoria, and other argumentative short texts related to contemporary issues, including commentaries to our published articles stemming from open review process. With these three publication formats, Fennia seeks to take forward geographical research and discussion in a critical and responsible spirit. In addition to individual contributions, the journal welcomes proposals for special issues and sections.</p> <p align="left">The fully open access Fennia publications are under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY 4.0</a>). The journal is member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (<a href="http://publicationethics.org/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COPE</a>) and follows the peer review standards set by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (<a href="http://www.tsv.fi/en/services/label-for-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TSV</a><a href="http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&amp;Word=fennia" target="_self">)</a>. It is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (<a href="https://doaj.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DOAJ</a>) and the Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Citation Index (<a href="http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&amp;Word=fennia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESCI</a>), and is part of the <a href="http://freejournals.org/">Free Journal Network</a>. The main language of the journal is English.</p> en-US <p>Authors who publish with Fennia agree to the following terms:</p> <ol type="a"> <li>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creative Commons Attribution License</a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. The license of the published metadata is Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0). </li> <li>Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a doctoral dissertation or book compilation), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.</li> <li>Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html" target="_new">The Effect of Open Access</a>).</li> </ol> editor.fennia@geography.fi (Kirsi Pauliina Kallio) managing.fennia@geography.fi (Henrik Dorf Nielsen) Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0200 OJS 3.2.1.4 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Resonances of planetarity and commons within evolving urbanisms https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/148026 <p><span class="TextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">This essay explores urbanism in relation to earthly and planetary concerns as relational processes in which the roles of humans and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">the sustaining of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">life</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"> forms</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"> are negotiated and transformed. The guiding question is: how do </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">urbanites</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"> resonate with significant environmental matters while intersecting diverse disturbances, commons, and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">anticipated</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"> futures? The resonances of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">planetary within </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">urban change</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"> are examined through three vignettes about coastal assemblages involving waste, birds, and energy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">.</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">These vignettes</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">related</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">to the Baltic Sea and its diverse publics, illustrate how urbanis</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">ation interacts with voluminous </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">spaces</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"> and emergent commons. The essay highlights urban-environmental entanglements in which contested ideologies of nature </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">and entangled care </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">reshape understandings of envir</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">onmental problems and solutions</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"> alongside significant changes in urbanism. Some zones of ignorance are extensively exploited in future transformations, yet these zones could also be transformed into spaces of nature</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241013784 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)">culture care and commons, pointing toward conviviality.</span></span></p> Tarmo Pikner Copyright (c) 2025 Tarmo Pikner http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/148026 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300 Reviewing research on regional development in the AI era: new there(s), new actors, and an old call “from cluster to process” https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/141937 <p>The aim of this review is to present the current state and suggest next steps for research on AI-related regional development. Based on thematic content analysis of 37 articles in key journals of regional development and economic geography, I answer where, by whom, and how AI-related regional development takes place. The results reveal a strong narrative of increasing concentration and regional polarization, and a less considered narrative of the potential of dispersion that also enables the development of remote regions. I suggest advancing research through identifying ‘new there(s)’ as virtual and augmented realities, AI as a new actor, and a methodological step from ‘cluster to process’ to investigate the everyday spatial processes of creating knowledge and being creative with AI that catalyze regional development.</p> Johanna Hautala Copyright (c) 2024 Johanna Hautala http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/141937 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300 Rethinking urban sustainability: consumption-based emissions through the lens of planetary urbanization https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/155018 <p>Urban areas, which are responsible for the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions, play an important role in climate change mitigation. Although many cities are setting ambitious targets, these typically focus on production-based emissions within municipal boundaries, leaving consumption-based emissions — those embedded in goods and services often produced elsewhere — largely unaddressed. Meanwhile, the theoretical concept of planetary urbanization highlights how urban processes extend well beyond traditional city limits, shaping global resource flows, infrastructure networks, and ecosystems.</p> <p>Cities are beginning to recognize the importance of tracking and managing consumption-based emissions, yet most use such metrics only as informational tools rather than formal targets. Various strategies — ranging from degrowth proposals that advocate reduced overall consumption to circular economy initiatives emphasizing reuse and recycling — offer pathways for lowering urban footprints. However, the efficacy and equity of these approaches require more research, and existing indicators often overlook complex transboundary impacts.</p> <p>Despite these challenges, cities are uniquely positioned to lead the shift toward more sustainable lifestyles, given their density-driven advantages in infrastructure provision and innovation. By leveraging these strengths, experimenting with policy interventions, and rigorously measuring outcomes, urban areas have the potential to catalyze transformative change. Ultimately, a deeper acknowledgment of planetary interconnectedness, combined with expanded data collection and inclusive decision-making, is essential for cities to fulfill their potential as engines of global sustainability.</p> Sanna Ala-Mantila Copyright (c) 2024 Sanna Ala-Mantila http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/155018 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300 The World Makers https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/146904 <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digital twins – realistic digital representations of physical entities, connected by real-time data flow – have spread into varied sectors of society. One sector that deserves further attention is the digital twinning of urban areas. The quick deployment of digital twins of cities and their interactions with the material and social elements of the “smart city” have been enabled by discourses of technological optimism and the hope that smart cities can allow for solutions to “hard problems” like the climate emergency. However, the social and cultural values that underpin the creation and practice of these technologies are not yet well understood. In this essay, I tell the story of Joakim, a man who has created a digital twin of his small hometown. The direction he has taken with his digital twin, one which he believes takes his project beyond the limits of city-centric twins, is guided by his notions of community, democracy and sustainability. Attention to small-scale and grassroots digital twins can help us to reconsider the affordances of digital twins: the ways that they can create multiple representations of reality and can allow users to make actionable predictions. Given digital twins’ increasing importance in the governance of urban areas, a vital first step in becoming more literate in our interactions with the technology is to better understand their social construction.</span></em></p> Kenneth Ravn Copyright (c) 2024 Kenneth Ravn http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/146904 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300 Using easy read formats in geography https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/148662 <p>This Leaflet is in Easy Read.</p> Daniel Jones Copyright (c) 2024 Daniel Jones http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/148662 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300 Geographies of AI: urgent need for educational strategies https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/159897 <p>With the advent of ChatGPT in October 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has entered the public consciousness, forcing engagement with its inevitable impact on various aspects of life, including academic work. This editorial up some environmental, social, and economic sustainability concerns associated with AI, particularly within the realm of critical pedagogy-oriented environmental education. Energy and water consumption, environmental degradation from resource extraction, and geographic disparities in labor markets are identified as pressing issues. The need to integrate these and other AI-related sustainability concerns into educational programs is highlighted, to prepare people and societies for a future where AI is ubiquitous. Similarly, greater integration of educational considerations into geographic research on AI is needed, including importantly critical geography.</p> Kirsi Pauliina Kallio; James Riding Copyright (c) 2025 Kirsi Pauliina Kallio; James Riding http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/159897 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300 Receipts for a healthy nature: Exploring municipal officials’ framings of biodiversity and human-environmental relationships in Sweden https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/142915 <p>Cities and their governance structures face myriad environmental and sustainability challenges and are often important sites for environmental action. This is the case for biodiversity protection, which is increasingly an urban policy focus. Concomitant to this are conceptualisations of human-environmental relationships. Exploring and problematising such relationships is an increasingly prominent concern within sustainability science, not least around urban planning. In this article, I explore how public officials at four Swedish municipalities frame biodiversity protection within urban planning. The article contributes by increasing knowledge of how the concept of biodiversity is applied at the level of local government. I apply Pálsson’s typology of human-environmental relationships. Analysis of these data reveals a predominance of paternalistic views of human-environmental relations. Biodiversity is considered a measurable indicator for wider nature; a feature of place; a source of value and something that can be engineered. Uniting these framings is the paternalistic view of ‘nature’ as a separate entity to ‘society’, and that biodiversity is framed as a largely technical issue. The implications of these framings are that alternative views of human-environmental relations and the diversity of society are currently occluded. This is relevant as the public officials participating in this study, including ‘ecologists’ and ‘landscape architects’, were equivocal about the prospect of combining biodiversity protection and urban development.</p> Benedict Singleton Copyright (c) 2024 Benedict Singleton http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/142915 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300 Objects of affection and competing images of the Swedish North: movements for and against ‘green’ investments and reindustrialization https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/149032 <p>We are witnessing the mobilization of geographical and social peripheries as sites for change in the current industrialization and ‘green’ development of the sparsely populated Swedish North (Norrland). In this article, we aim to explore how objects of affection and images of the Swedish North are framed in movements both for and against the establishment of a new so-called green industry in the northern Swedish countryside. This prospect has been hotly debated in the local community, which has seen both struggles for it (because of job opportunities) and against it (because of the destruction of nature and livelihood opportunities). Combining selective digital archiving with Sara Ahmed’s concept of affective economies and its application to images of place and belonging, we analyze how the region’s re-industrialization both draws upon and contests traditional images of the northern countryside. Our analysis shows that the resistance to and mobilization of such ideas of renewal and escape are rooted both in nostalgia for a pre-industrial past and a desire for the prosperity brought by industrial investments. It also shows how different development goals are invoking different ideas of what is best for the local community, making visible the rural as a conflicted space.</p> Katarina Giritli Nygren, Sara Nyhlén Copyright (c) 2024 Katarina Giritli Nygren, Sara Nyhlén http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/149032 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300 Disability, rurality and spatial competence: on the importance of embodied knowledge and supportive contexts https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/130953 <p>In this article, I investigate the interaction between the rural environment and disability to explore how place can be a resource in processes of participation and belonging. The aim is to explain how individuals experiencing disability make use of, give meaning to, evaluate, and negotiate their surroundings. The embodied experiences of individuals living in rural places are at the centre of the study that this work is based on. The empirical material includes in-depth interviews with 15 men and women experiencing either a physical or a neuropsychiatric impairment. The analysis focuses upon the environmental-social interface. The article argues that the concept of spatial competence offers a relatively open entrance for studying enabling spaces and identifying factors contributing to the well-being of individuals and places. Spatial competence is understood as a process that emphasises agency and the ability to navigate social and material environments. Departing from the participants’ elaborations and reflexivity with regard to their local places, I argue that the physical environment, social networks and local welfare structures constitute pillars in the development of spatial competence. Welfare structures are explicitly addressed, for example regarding social support in everyday life or material support in the case of remodelling a home. These structures are also implicitly present in narratives on excursions, outdoor activities or social contexts initiated or supported by the public sector or civil society. A conclusion is that the development of spatial competence intersects with a functioning welfare society.</p> Susanne Stenbacka Copyright (c) 2024 Susanne Stenbacka http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/130953 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300 How eco-clubs foster pro-environmental behavior in a school context: a case from Finland https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/146717 <p><span class="TextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0">Promoting pro-environmental behavior with environmental education (EE) has been proven to be challenging due to various school and student-related barriers. Eco-clubs are a widely used pathway in EE, which may help to overcome these barriers. Despite the popularity of eco-clubs, few studies have been conducted on the topic. This study approaches this problem with a case study to examine students’ </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0">perceptions</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0"> of an eco-club in a Finnish general upper secondary school. In the study, 14 of the schools’ eco-club students </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0">participated</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0"> in group interviews, which focused on their </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0">perceptions</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0"> of the eco-club and its activities. Additionally, 100 non-eco-club students </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0">participated</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0"> in a qualitative survey about their </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0">perceptions</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0"> of the eco-club. This study found that eco-club students consider the club important in supporting their environmental actions in the school. They also find the club’s atmosphere and community to be a crucial part of supporting these actions. The members also find that the participation of peers and practical things enable the eco-club activities, while external influences, lack of time, and the reluctance of </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW187487217 BCX0">peers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0"> act as a barrier. The results </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0">indicate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0"> that there is a contradiction between the members’ and non-members’ </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0">perceptions</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0"> of the eco-clubs’ effect on students and the school. While members find the eco-club important in supporting the environmental actions of the students and the school and spreading their influence outside of the school, the lack of knowledge dominates non-members’ </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0">perceptions</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0">, and some of them find the eco-club unimportant. Based on this research, eco-clubs </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0">seem to be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0"> a promising pathway in promoting members’ pro-environmental behavior while the club’s influence outside of the club </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0">remains</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW187487217 BCX0"> small.</span></span></p> Anssi Huoponen Copyright (c) 2024 Anssi Huoponen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/146717 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300 The burden of mobility: multi-local living and its effects on infrastructure, services, and housing markets in rural areas https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/143777 <p>Multi-locality has become increasingly common over the past decade in many countries, and it has increased the temporal population, especially in rural areas. Despite the growing popularity of this lifestyle, an overall picture of the effects of mobility is missing. A lack of official data is one of the main reasons why little attention has been paid to this phenomenon in rural areas. The results of this study illustrate the need to ensure that the burden caused by this lifestyle, especially for telecommunications connections, is better considered in planning. Special attention is needed because this lifestyle is directed towards rural municipalities, which are vulnerable to the increase in population and the resulting spatial injustice.</p> Olli Lehtonen, Olli Voutilainen, Venla Heiskanen Copyright (c) 2024 Olli Lehtonen, Olli Voutilainen, Venla Heiskanen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/143777 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300 Dwelling with limits: the work of love in participatory research https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/143566 <p><span class="TextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{&quot;ObjectId&quot;:&quot;4994c84d-0481-42e9-bc4a-8871ecacd768|24&quot;,&quot;ClassId&quot;:1073872969,&quot;Properties&quot;:[469775450,&quot;Body A&quot;,201340122,&quot;2&quot;,134233614,&quot;true&quot;,469778129,&quot;BodyA&quot;,335572020,&quot;1&quot;,469777841,&quot;Calibri&quot;,469777842,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777843,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777844,&quot;Calibri&quot;,469769226,&quot;Calibri,Arial Unicode MS&quot;,335551500,&quot;0&quot;,469789810,&quot;nil&quot;,335572083,&quot;0&quot;,335572084,&quot;0&quot;,335572085,&quot;0&quot;,469789802,&quot;nil&quot;,335572075,&quot;0&quot;,335572076,&quot;0&quot;,335572077,&quot;0&quot;,469789798,&quot;nil&quot;,335572071,&quot;0&quot;,335572072,&quot;0&quot;,335572073,&quot;0&quot;,469789806,&quot;nil&quot;,335572079,&quot;0&quot;,335572080,&quot;0&quot;,335572081,&quot;0&quot;,469789814,&quot;nil&quot;,335572087,&quot;0&quot;,335572088,&quot;0&quot;,335572089,&quot;0&quot;,469789818,&quot;nil&quot;,335572091,&quot;0&quot;,335572092,&quot;0&quot;,335572093,&quot;0&quot;,201342446,&quot;1&quot;,201342447,&quot;5&quot;,201342448,&quot;1&quot;,201342449,&quot;1&quot;,201341986,&quot;1&quot;,268442635,&quot;22&quot;]}">In this article, we </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">examine</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> some of the theoretical </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">and methodological </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">challenges facing Participatory Action Research (PAR), including the continued challenge of the silence of the subaltern, the re-subjugating power relations in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">many </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">traditional epistemologies of research production, and the problems of representation. We </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">attempt</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> to address these considerations by looking beyond the relational, outlining </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">originary</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> call to ethics at the heart of PAR </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">in terms of a commitment to a sustained engagement with that which outstrips relationality, namely the radical alterity of the other. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">P</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">ropos</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">ing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> a rigorous articulation of the concept of translation as a means of meaningfully and ethically thinking with the subaltern, disenfranchised, and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">at-risk</span> </span><span class="TextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">—</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> including young people</span> </span><span class="TextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">—</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">in PAR,</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">w</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">e unpack Spivak’s </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">articulation of a h</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">esitant love in</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">translation</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> that is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">marked by</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> a surrendering to the call of the other, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">to the work of putting oneself into a position not to ‘speak for’ but to ‘hear from’ the unknowable, and un-preemptable other.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> Understanding</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> love</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> as a doing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> that affects</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">, we outline the need to consider ‘action’ in PAR </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">in terms of practice</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">beyond </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">happenings, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">representations</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">method</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">,</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">to acknowledge the movements and shifts in the research encounter that refuse representational knowing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">. We </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">add to this by</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> outlin</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">ing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> the researcher’s ontological indebtedness to this </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">alterity</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> by re-considering our notion of translation in terms of Heidegger’s trans-position, highlighting the ‘</span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">rhizovocality</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">’ of the research encounter as fundamentally beyond any notion of authentic voice or settled subjectivities. In highlighting the ontological dependency inherent in the research encounter, we </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">revisit</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> the commitment of PAR as a work of being vulnerable </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">—</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> of putting ourselves into play </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">by dwelling with</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> the foreignness of the other</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> and in doing so</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">,</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">trans-posing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> ourselves </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A">unto</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Body A"> new understanding.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW43617029 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360,&quot;335572071&quot;:0,&quot;335572072&quot;:0,&quot;335572073&quot;:0,&quot;335572075&quot;:0,&quot;335572076&quot;:0,&quot;335572077&quot;:0,&quot;335572079&quot;:0,&quot;335572080&quot;:0,&quot;335572081&quot;:0,&quot;335572083&quot;:0,&quot;335572084&quot;:0,&quot;335572085&quot;:0,&quot;335572087&quot;:0,&quot;335572088&quot;:0,&quot;335572089&quot;:0,&quot;469789798&quot;:&quot;nil&quot;,&quot;469789802&quot;:&quot;nil&quot;,&quot;469789806&quot;:&quot;nil&quot;,&quot;469789810&quot;:&quot;nil&quot;,&quot;469789814&quot;:&quot;nil&quot;}"> </span></p> Raine Aiava, Noora Pyyry Copyright (c) 2024 Raine Aiava, Noora Pyyry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/143566 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300