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Papers by Heikki Sirviö
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
This paper probes the function of competition in society through an analysis of the affective lan... more This paper probes the function of competition in society through an analysis of the affective landscape that competition creates. Our focus is on education and the connected process of subjectification. We argue that the analysis of competition in human geography needs to advance through abstractions of political economy to the entanglements and relations in which competition is internalised through embodied experience. We conceive competition as a process of organising power relations that work through affective subjectivation and knowledge-production. Those processes are efficiently at work in education, and hence, in young people’s everyday lives. It is our suspicion that education is increasingly organised in a way that naturalises competition and marginalises or even closes horizons from other actual and possible modes of social relations and organisational principles. This organising frame links to ideas about learning as an individual endeavour, a linear process that can be p...
The urban book series, Nov 1, 2019
In this chapter, we study the effects of city-regionalism on state spatiality and on state as a t... more In this chapter, we study the effects of city-regionalism on state spatiality and on state as a territorial political community in the Finnish context. We conceptualize city-regionalism as an economic-geographical imaginary that has recently emerged as the dominant spatial framework informing national spatial policies and territorial strategies in the context of the capitalist world economy. The effects of city-regional policies and strategies on national economies‚ on the states’ physical spaces‚ or on the institutional arrangements of territorial governance have been discussed widely in political and academic circles. However, the potential implications of the imaginary of city-regionalism on the state as a territorial political community have received less attention. In this chapter, we seek to fill this gap by scrutinizing city-regionalist policies and discourse in the Finnish context through Hannah Arendt’s concepts of politics and political community. We start with the view that a state, even if nationally scaled, is at least potentially a more inclusive and plural form of political community than any city or metropolis. Based on our empirical analysis of the city-regionalist discourse, we argue that city-regionalism is an exclusive and selective imaginary, which builds on a peculiar form of depoliticized politics fueled by particular forms of economic knowledge and rationales. Moreover, the imaginary privileges specific urban localities, issues, and actors as politically appropriate topics of public deliberation and as relevant subjects of national political concern. Accordingly, city-regionalist imaginary not only contributes to the transformation of the state’s physical territorial structure but also considerably delimits the public space of politics, the notion of citizen-subject—and eventually, the state as a territorial political community.
Alue ja ympäristö, Jan 12, 2023
Alue ja ympäristö, Nov 29, 2022
Vuoden tiedelehti-palkinnon kiitospuhe Tiedejulkaisemisen päivillä Alue ja ympäristö-lehti voitti... more Vuoden tiedelehti-palkinnon kiitospuhe Tiedejulkaisemisen päivillä Alue ja ympäristö-lehti voitti Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton Vuoden tiedelehti-palkinnon. Palkinto jaettiin lokakuussa 2022 ensimmäisen kerran, ja sen suuruus on 25 000 euroa. Palkinnon tarkoituksena on vahvistaa kotimaisen tiedejulkaisutyön näkyvyyttä ja arvostusta. Palkinnon vastaanottivat Joensuussa Tiedejulkaisemisen päivillä lehden päätoimittajat Nina Nygren ja Heikki Sirviö. Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton palkinnot rahoitetaan tekijänoikeusjärjestö Kopioston keräämillä tiedejulkaisujen käyttökorvauksilla.
Alue ja ympäristö, Jun 15, 2021
Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain, Jun 25, 2020
Nordia geographical publications, 2019
Alue ja ympäristö, Dec 14, 2020
Luonnon, työn ja talouksien materialismit Pääkirjoitus a Geotieteiden ja maantieteen osasto, Hels... more Luonnon, työn ja talouksien materialismit Pääkirjoitus a Geotieteiden ja maantieteen osasto, Helsingin yliopisto,
Alue ja ympäristö, Jun 12, 2020
Political Geography, Aug 1, 2019
In this article we examine city-regionalism as a powerful spatial-political imaginary through whi... more In this article we examine city-regionalism as a powerful spatial-political imaginary through which state territorial strategies and the associated policies are increasingly evaluated, drafted and put into practice around the western world. By analyzing the material and discursive constitution of city-regionalism in Finland, the article illustrates that city-regionalism has provided a framework for highlighting the nationally-important economic role of the main metropolitan area, and for questioning the legitimacy of the "State" as a territorial entity and as a political actor. The article also brings to the fore that the city-regionalist imaginary relies heavily on a particular kind of economic geographical reasoning as well as on the politics of depoliticization. The article also demonstrates that city-regionalism is an internally heterogeneous imaginary which provides frames for a range of differentially scaled, policy debates and discourses. Consequently, more nuanced and comparative studies on the context-specific national and regional adaptations of city-regionalism are needed along with the current academic research which has paid considerable attention in to studying how the city-regional scale is politically orchestrated by states in order to bolster international economic competitiveness.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Mar 1, 2019
Alue ja Ympäristö
Alue ja ympäristö -lehti voitti Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton Vuoden tiedelehti -palkinnon. Pal... more Alue ja ympäristö -lehti voitti Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton Vuoden tiedelehti -palkinnon. Palkinto jaettiin lokakuussa 2022 ensimmäisen kerran, ja sen suuruus on 25 000 euroa. Palkinnon tarkoituksena on vahvistaa kotimaisen tiedejulkaisutyön näkyvyyttä ja arvostusta. Palkinnon vastaanottivat Joensuussa Tiedejulkaisemisen päivillä lehden päätoimittajat Nina Nygren ja Heikki Sirviö. Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton palkinnot rahoitetaan tekijänoikeusjärjestö Kopioston keräämillä tiedejulkaisujen käyttökorvauksilla. Lue Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton tiedote: https://tiedekustantajat.fi/tiedotteet/alue-ja-ymparisto-on-vuoden-tiedelehti-2022/
Alue ja Ympäristö
Pääkirjoitus teemanumeroon Resurssiperiferia elää metsistään?
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
This paper probes the function of competition in society through an analysis of the affective lan... more This paper probes the function of competition in society through an analysis of the affective landscape that competition creates. Our focus is on education and the connected process of subjectification. We argue that the analysis of competition in human geography needs to advance through abstractions of political economy to the entanglements and relations in which competition is internalised through embodied experience. We conceive competition as a process of organising power relations that work through affective subjectivation and knowledge-production. Those processes are efficiently at work in education, and hence, in young people’s everyday lives. It is our suspicion that education is increasingly organised in a way that naturalises competition and marginalises or even closes horizons from other actual and possible modes of social relations and organisational principles. This organising frame links to ideas about learning as an individual endeavour, a linear process that can be p...
The urban book series, Nov 1, 2019
In this chapter, we study the effects of city-regionalism on state spatiality and on state as a t... more In this chapter, we study the effects of city-regionalism on state spatiality and on state as a territorial political community in the Finnish context. We conceptualize city-regionalism as an economic-geographical imaginary that has recently emerged as the dominant spatial framework informing national spatial policies and territorial strategies in the context of the capitalist world economy. The effects of city-regional policies and strategies on national economies‚ on the states’ physical spaces‚ or on the institutional arrangements of territorial governance have been discussed widely in political and academic circles. However, the potential implications of the imaginary of city-regionalism on the state as a territorial political community have received less attention. In this chapter, we seek to fill this gap by scrutinizing city-regionalist policies and discourse in the Finnish context through Hannah Arendt’s concepts of politics and political community. We start with the view that a state, even if nationally scaled, is at least potentially a more inclusive and plural form of political community than any city or metropolis. Based on our empirical analysis of the city-regionalist discourse, we argue that city-regionalism is an exclusive and selective imaginary, which builds on a peculiar form of depoliticized politics fueled by particular forms of economic knowledge and rationales. Moreover, the imaginary privileges specific urban localities, issues, and actors as politically appropriate topics of public deliberation and as relevant subjects of national political concern. Accordingly, city-regionalist imaginary not only contributes to the transformation of the state’s physical territorial structure but also considerably delimits the public space of politics, the notion of citizen-subject—and eventually, the state as a territorial political community.
Alue ja ympäristö, Jan 12, 2023
Alue ja ympäristö, Nov 29, 2022
Vuoden tiedelehti-palkinnon kiitospuhe Tiedejulkaisemisen päivillä Alue ja ympäristö-lehti voitti... more Vuoden tiedelehti-palkinnon kiitospuhe Tiedejulkaisemisen päivillä Alue ja ympäristö-lehti voitti Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton Vuoden tiedelehti-palkinnon. Palkinto jaettiin lokakuussa 2022 ensimmäisen kerran, ja sen suuruus on 25 000 euroa. Palkinnon tarkoituksena on vahvistaa kotimaisen tiedejulkaisutyön näkyvyyttä ja arvostusta. Palkinnon vastaanottivat Joensuussa Tiedejulkaisemisen päivillä lehden päätoimittajat Nina Nygren ja Heikki Sirviö. Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton palkinnot rahoitetaan tekijänoikeusjärjestö Kopioston keräämillä tiedejulkaisujen käyttökorvauksilla.
Alue ja ympäristö, Jun 15, 2021
Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain, Jun 25, 2020
Nordia geographical publications, 2019
Alue ja ympäristö, Dec 14, 2020
Luonnon, työn ja talouksien materialismit Pääkirjoitus a Geotieteiden ja maantieteen osasto, Hels... more Luonnon, työn ja talouksien materialismit Pääkirjoitus a Geotieteiden ja maantieteen osasto, Helsingin yliopisto,
Alue ja ympäristö, Jun 12, 2020
Political Geography, Aug 1, 2019
In this article we examine city-regionalism as a powerful spatial-political imaginary through whi... more In this article we examine city-regionalism as a powerful spatial-political imaginary through which state territorial strategies and the associated policies are increasingly evaluated, drafted and put into practice around the western world. By analyzing the material and discursive constitution of city-regionalism in Finland, the article illustrates that city-regionalism has provided a framework for highlighting the nationally-important economic role of the main metropolitan area, and for questioning the legitimacy of the "State" as a territorial entity and as a political actor. The article also brings to the fore that the city-regionalist imaginary relies heavily on a particular kind of economic geographical reasoning as well as on the politics of depoliticization. The article also demonstrates that city-regionalism is an internally heterogeneous imaginary which provides frames for a range of differentially scaled, policy debates and discourses. Consequently, more nuanced and comparative studies on the context-specific national and regional adaptations of city-regionalism are needed along with the current academic research which has paid considerable attention in to studying how the city-regional scale is politically orchestrated by states in order to bolster international economic competitiveness.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Mar 1, 2019
Alue ja Ympäristö
Alue ja ympäristö -lehti voitti Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton Vuoden tiedelehti -palkinnon. Pal... more Alue ja ympäristö -lehti voitti Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton Vuoden tiedelehti -palkinnon. Palkinto jaettiin lokakuussa 2022 ensimmäisen kerran, ja sen suuruus on 25 000 euroa. Palkinnon tarkoituksena on vahvistaa kotimaisen tiedejulkaisutyön näkyvyyttä ja arvostusta. Palkinnon vastaanottivat Joensuussa Tiedejulkaisemisen päivillä lehden päätoimittajat Nina Nygren ja Heikki Sirviö. Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton palkinnot rahoitetaan tekijänoikeusjärjestö Kopioston keräämillä tiedejulkaisujen käyttökorvauksilla. Lue Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton tiedote: https://tiedekustantajat.fi/tiedotteet/alue-ja-ymparisto-on-vuoden-tiedelehti-2022/
Alue ja Ympäristö
Pääkirjoitus teemanumeroon Resurssiperiferia elää metsistään?