The article challenges Finland’s efforts to “attract international talent” (Case in point, the ”90-day Finn programme”) while neglecting existing international talent in the country. By Jawaria Khan, Olivia Maury, Quivine Ndomo.
Tämän toimintakehotuksen kirjoitti joukko Suomessa työskenteleviä tutkijoita ja opiskelijoita, jotka haluavat pysyä anonyymeinä, koska Israel kriitikoita sorretaan akateemisesti Euroopassa.
Call to action by a group of scholars and students in Finland who wish to remain anonymous due to the academic repression of Israel’s critics in Europe.
A team of early-career researchers at the Department of Geography and Geology of the University of Turku organized the seminar “Racism: What is it and why does it matter to us all” (May 2021). In a retrospective conversation with RASTER.FI’s Leonardo Custódio, the organizers – (in alphabetical order) Thomas Behrndt, Salla Eilola, Hanna Heino, Tikli Loivaranta, Camilla Marucco and Miriam Tedeschi – reflect about the experience of discussing racism as geographers. Photo by Jon Tyson/Unsplash.
In its March special issue, the magazine ASTRA discussed Black Feminism in the Nordics remarkably featuring the work of Black writers, scholars and artists. In a conversation with RASTER.FI’s Leonardo Custódio, guest editor Jasmine Kelekay (University of California, Santa Barbara) reflects about her trajectory in academia and the experience of putting together ASTRA’s historic publication.
RASTER.FI proudly presents an online book launch for Rasismi, valta ja vastarinta: rodullistaminen, valkoisuus ja koloniaalisuus Suomessa (Racism, power and resistance: Racialization, whiteness and coloniality in Finland) on May 21 (Friday), from 4 to 6 pm. The event is organized on Zoom and it is open to everyone.
RASTER.FI -sivustolla on ilo kutsua teidät Rasismi, valta ja vastarinta: rodullistaminen, valkoisuus ja koloniaalisuus Suomessa–kirjan verkkojulkkareihin pe 21.5. klo 16-18. Tapahtuma järjestetään Zoomissa ja se on avoin kaikille, ennakkoilmoittatumista ei vaadita.
RASTER.FI-sivun päätoimittaja Leonardo Custódio haastatteli Åbo Akademin sosiaalisen syrjäytymisen maisteriohjelman opiskelijoita, jotka järjestävät yksipäiväisen virtuaaliseminaarin 21.5.2021 otsikolla ”Pandemic of Color: Race, Racialization and Health”. Käännös englannista: Matilda Pärssinen and Marianne Runtti.
In this interview with our editor-in-chief Leonardo Custódio, students of the Master’s Programme in Social Exclusion (Åbo Akademi, Turku) talk about the virtual, one-day seminar “Pandemic of color: Race, racialization, and health”, which they organize on May 21st, 2021.
Color-blind sociology fails to recognize many important demographic, social and cultural transformations and the fact that racialized relations determine not only the lives of migrants and those categorized as “others”, but also the lives of people categorized as “us” and white. By Anna Rastas and Sanna Poelman.
