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Anitta Kynsilehto

apulaisprofessori (Associate Professor), Yhteiskuntatutkimus, erityisesti globaali liikkuvuus.
Tampereen yliopisto
anitta.kynsilehto [at] tuni.fi (anitta[dot]kynsilehto[at]tuni[dot]fi)
puhelinnumero+358503187595

Oma esittely

Associate Professor (tenure-track) working at Tampere Peace Research Institute. Docent in Ethnic relations at the Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. 

Työtehtävät

Editor-in-chief in Kosmopolis: Finnish Journal in Peace and Conflict Research and World Politics (with Eeva Puumala and Leena Vastapuu, 2022-2025). Associate editor in Frontiers Human Dynamics: Refugees and Conflicts (since 2019).

Osaamisalueiden kuvaus

My research encompasses global mobility, different forms and practices of solidarity and resistance, and the concept and practical implications of intersectionality. In my current work, I focus increasingly on mobilities in the so-called Global South and in possibilities and forms of decolonizing knowledge production.

Tutkimuskohteet

Mobility, solidarity, politics, peace, resistance

Tutkimusyksikkö

Social Research, Tampere Peace Research Institute

Tutkimusura

I received my doctorate in Political Science from the University of Tampere in 2011. Alongside Tapri, I have worked at Institute for Advanced Social Research (UTA) and Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden.

Merkittävimmät julkaisut

Kynsilehto, Anitta (2024) Navigating spaces of everyday peace and violence: Societal protest, care, and solidarity in post-18O Chile. Geopolitics 29(5): 1583–1603.

Kynsilehto, Anitta & Marja Alastalo (2024) Enacting the border multiple in the post-welfare state: Registration of foreign-born persons in Finland. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, DOI:10.1177/23996544241282655

Kynsilehto, Anitta (2023) Making do as a migrant in Morocco: Between formal recognition and true integration. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 21(2): 158–170.

Penttinen, Elina & Anitta Kynsilehto (2017) Gender and Mobility: A Critical Introduction. Lanham, MD, and London: Rowman & Littlefield. (Korean translation published in 2021)

Kynsilehto, Anitta (2017) Mobilities, Politics and Solidarities. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 29(1): 48–54.

Kynsilehto, Anitta & Eeva Puumala (2015) Persecution as Experience and as Knowledge. The Ontological Dynamics of Asylum Interviews. International Studies Perspectives 16(4): 446–462.

Kynsilehto, Anitta (2011) Negotiating intersectionality in highly educated migrant Maghrebi women’s life stories. Environment and Planning A 43(7): 1547–1561.

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