Vola, Joonas

Researcher M.Soc.Sci., PhD student / Tutkija, YTM, jatko-opiskelija

Contacts
  • joonas.vola(at)ulapland.fi
  • tel. +358 (0)40 484 4066, (4066)

Research groups

Title of PhD research project:
  • Form and Matter in the Bioeconomy of the Arctic.

Research interests

  • Aesthetics, semiotics and visual anthropology
  • Material culture, emotional design and ergonomics
  • Representations, performativity and documentation
  • Systems of exchange, value, and production
  • Technologies of power and cultural violence

Publications, papers and presentations

Forthcoming articles in 2013
  • Åkermark, Jenny, Carina Keskitalo and Joonas Vola (2013). Flood response in Swedish/Finnish cooperation on the Torne River. Keskitalo, E. C. H. (Eds.), Climate Change and Flood Risk Management: Adaptation and Extreme Events at the Local Level. Edward Elgar Press. 
Forthcoming research papers/articles
  • Massie, Merle, Jenny Åkermark, Joonas Vola, Åsa Almstedt. Differences in hazard response frameworks in different countries: examples from Canada, Sweden and Finland. 
  • Tennberg, Monica, Carina Keskitalo and Joonas Vola. Political economy of storms: Lessons from Finland and Sweden.  

Presentations 
  • The Finnish International Studies Association (FISA) Fourth National Conference in Naantali (11.-12.1.2013). Northern Political Economy Panel. Joonas Vola: Canonized Gaze and Autistic Eye – Deconstructing the Bio-economic Substance of the Arctic in Human-animal Relations.
  • Sustainable development research group seminar, Arctic Centre (20.9.2012). Joonas Vola: Arctic Regalia -Performing Indigenous Sovereignty in the Northern Regions
  • The 44th Annual Conference of the Finnish Political Science Association, University of Turku (8–9.3.2012). Political theory and philosophy. Joonas Vola: Technologies of Im/Material and Labour of Constructing ‘Real’: Tracing the ‘Small Human’
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