L’équipe

Bruno Lefort, bruno.lefort@tuni.fi, +358503261841

Ruhoollah Akhundzadeh, ruhoollah.akhundzadeh@tuni.fi

Marjukka Ajakainen, marjukka.ajakainen@tuni.fi

Project leader

Eeva Puumala

Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Social Sciences
Tampere University
+358503137047
eeva.puumala@tuni.fi

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About me

I am a social scientist interested in community relations and their dynamics in diversifying urban environments. I seek to understand changing political and social landscapes by engaging with daily practices and forms of interaction. Currently, I lead the ERC funded project EmergentCommunity (2021-2025) where we work towards creating empirically grounded knowledge on coexistence and conflict. See more: https://www.tuni.fi/en/research/coexistence-and-conflict-age-complexity-emergentcommunity

Research unit

Tampere Peace Research Institute

Funding

Latest publications

John Adams ja harvainvallan uhka Yhdysvalloissa

Vastapuu, L., Kynsilehto, A. & Puumala, E., 23 jouluk. 2024, julkaisussa: Kosmopolis. 54, 4, s. 3-6

Tutkimustuotos: Pääkirjoitus › Tieteellinen

Kruununprinsessan uudet vaatteet

Vastapuu, L., Kynsilehto, A. & Puumala, E., 2024, julkaisussa: Kosmopolis. 54, 1-2, s. 3-8

Tutkimustuotos: Pääkirjoitus › Tieteellinen

Arjen rutiinit ja kohtaamiset tärkeitä yhteisöllisyydelle ja kuulumisen tunteelle

Puumala, E., 18 tammik. 2023, julkaisussa: Politiikasta.fi.

Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli › General public

Conviviality in the city: Experience-based spatial design against the segregation of places

Maununaho, K., Puumala, E. & Luoma-Halkola, H., 2023, julkaisussa: Journal of Urbanism. 16, 4, s. 407-429

Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli › Tieteellinen › vertaisarvioitu

Haavoittuvuus ja osallisuus turvapaikkapuhutteluissa

Määttä, S., Puumala, E. & Ylikomi, R., 2023, Kieli, hyvinvointi ja haavoittuvuus: Kohti kielellistä osallisuutta. Paananen, J., Lindeman, M., Lindholm, C. & Luodonpää-Manni, M. (toim.). Gaudeamus, s. 73-94

Tutkimustuotos: Luku › Tieteellinen › vertaisarvioitu

Kaupungit, rauha ja (maailman)politiikka

Puumala, E., Kynsilehto, A. & Vastapuu, L., 23 lokak. 2023, julkaisussa: Kosmopolis. 53, 3, s. 3-8 6 Sivumäärä

Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli › Tieteellinen

Poliittisen ja henkilökohtaisen suhde muuttuvassa maailmassa

Puumala, E., Vastapuu, L. & Kynsilehto, A., 21 kesäk. 2023, julkaisussa: Kosmopolis. 53, 2, s. 3-6 4 Sivumäärä

Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli › Tieteellinen

Toisin tietäminen ja toivo rauhanomaisesta tulevaisuudesta

Puumala, E., Kynsilehto, A. & Vastapuu, L., 3 huhtik. 2023, julkaisussa: Kosmopolis. 53, 1, s. 3-8 6 Sivumäärä

Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli › Tieteellinen

Tutkijan yhteiskunnallinen valta ja vastuu

Vastapuu, L., Kynsilehto, A. & Puumala, E., 22 jouluk. 2023, julkaisussa: Kosmopolis. 53, 4, s. 3-7

Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli › Tieteellinen

Ei minun takapihalleni: päihdeongelman stigma kaupungissa

Maiche, K., Wallin, A. & Puumala, E., 10 maalisk. 2022, julkaisussa: Alusta!.

Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli › General public

Project members

Bruno Lefort

Grant Holder
Faculty of Social Sciences
Tampere University
+358503187045
bruno.lefort@tuni.fi

By appointment

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Field of expertise

Middle Eastern politics and societies

Diasporas

Identities and collective memory

Research unit

Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI)

Research career

2017 – present: Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow, Tampere Peace Research Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland. Project title: Politics of belonging among young people from conflict generated diasporas in Finland and Canada.

2016-2017: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University de Montréal (QC), Canada. Project title: “Leaving violence behind? An ethnography of diasporic youth from post-conflict societies”. Supervisor: Prof. Marie-Joëlle Zahar.

2013 - 2015: Researcher at Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere.

2014: Doctor of Social Sciences, Major in Peace and Conflict Research, Grade: Eximia cum laude approbatur (19.02.2014). School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland/Aix-Marseille University, France.

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Funding

Selected publications

2020: “Cartographies of Encounters: Understanding conflict transformation through a collaborative exploration of youth spaces in Beirut”, Political Geography, vol. 76, Online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102093.

2019: “Diasporas and Conflicts – Understanding the Nexus”, co-authored with Élise Féron, Diaspora Studies, vol. 12 (1), pp. 34-51.

2019: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: narrating social bonds and boundaries in contemporary Lebanon”. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 46 (4), pp. 663-680.

2018: “Dynamics of Engagement among Youth in Arab Mediterranean Countries”, co-authored with Henri Onodera, Karim Maïche and Sofia Laine, Journal of North African Studies. DOI: 10.1080/13629387.2018.1547197 [Electronic version].

2017: “A confined youth? Lived space and shifting boundaries in Beirut”. Middle East – Topics &Arguments, Issue #9, “Youth”, edited by Christoph H. Schwarz, Anika Oettler (Publication date: Fall 2017).

2017: “The art of bypassing: students’ politicization in Beirut”, Mediterranean Politics, vol. 22 (3), pp. 407-425.

2017: “'Achrafiyeh Invaded'. The Politics of Fear in a Visual Representation of the Lebanese Factionalism” in Kia Lindroos & Frank Möller (eds.), Art as a Political Witness, Budrich Academic Publishers (ISBN: 9783847405801), pp. 139-160.

2015: “Michel Aoun, ‘Patriarch of the Christian Street’: Leadership, Affect, and the Politics of Communalization in Lebanon”, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, no. 8, 1, pp. 102-123.

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Ruhoollah Akhundzadeh

Doctoral Researcher
Faculty of Social Sciences
Tampere University
+358504794609
ruhoollah.akhundzadeh@tuni.fi

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