By Pekka Tuominen
Helsinki can feel quite desolate on winter mornings. It is in January 2017 that I started conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Kontula, a district on the urban periphery of Helsinki with a notoriously negative reputation.
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By Tatiana Ruchinskaya, Carlos Smaniotto Costa, Bahanur Nasya, and Dov Winer
Placemaking endeavors to enhance the quality of life of residents, promote social cohesion, and foster a sense of belonging. Academics, practitioners, and policymakers recognize the need to equip individuals with the knowledge, skills, and perspectives necessary to engage effectively in placemaking processes.
Reviewed by Sophia Kalashnikova Horowitz
The book addresses major historiographical questions, including that on the relationship between the purges of 1937-1938 and the Great Patriotic War, the transition away from Stalinism, and the nature of de-Stalinization, based on newly opened political police archives from across the former Soviet space.
By Zsuzsanna Varga
The literary genre of travel writing has been increasingly used in the social sciences. In this course, students focus on selected travel texts emanating from of concerning East-Central Europe, Russia, and London.
Interviewed by Zsuzsanna Varga
An architect and a filmmaker trace their respective journeys to placemaking activism.
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
Helen Zughaib and Houda Kassatly are attentive to the everydayness of refugees’ experiences and to how families who have been forced to migrate attempt to cope.
By Ani Gjika
In Albania in the nineties … men in their twenties and thirties are hungry to align themselves with what they perceive as power … harassing girls and women wherever…
Translated by Peter Sherwood
Miklós was no longer a real being, just a sender of letters with news not from real life but rather as evidence of some sophisticated fiction, as if he were writing to and for himself, to prove that the body that existed in her imagination was not just a doppelgänger of her desires.
By Alexander Leistner
This year will determine whether the political shift to the right can still be halted and the tipping points in democratic culture prevented.
