Tiina Seppälä holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Lapland. Her PhD thesis (2010) dealt with the anti-war movement and theories of global resistance. She is interested in activism, social movements, development, forced migration, displacement, postcolonial and feminist theory, ethnography and engaged scholarship. Recently, she has focused on feminization of resistance, decolonial feminist solidarity, and arts-based research methods. She has engaged with slum activists...

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    University researcher

  • University of Helsinki

    University, Helsinki, Finland

  • University of Helsinki

    University, Helsinki, Finland
    University lecturer in Global Development Studies

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    University lecturer in Qualitative Research

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    University lecturer in Political Science (temporary position)

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    University lecturer in Political Science (temporary position)

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    University lecturer in Political Science (temporary position)

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    University lecturer in Political Science (temporary position)

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    University researcher in International Relations (funded by Academy of Finland)

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    University lecturer in Political Science (temporary position)

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    University researcher in International Relations (funded by Academy of Finland)

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    Post-doctoral researcher in International Relations

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    Post-doctoral researcher in International Relations (funded by Kone Foundation)

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    Post-doctoral researcher in International Relations (funded by Alfred Kordelin Foundation)

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    Post-doctoral researcher in International Relations (funded by Academy of Finland)

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    Post-doctoral researcher in International Relations (funded by Alfred Kordelin Foundation)

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    Post-doctoral researcher in International Relations (funded by Academy of Finland)

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    Post-doctoral researcher in International Relations

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    Junior researcher in International Relations

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    PhD researcher in International Relations (funded by Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation)

  • University of Lapland

    University, Rovaniemi, Finland
    PhD researcher in International Relations (funded by Kone Foundation)

Research

Decolonial feminist solidarity/ies

Authors Ybiskay González, Sara C. Motta, Tiina Seppälä
Year 2023
Book Title Handbook of Feminist Research Methodologies in Management and Organization Studies
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1 Book Chapter

“No One is Illegal” As a Reverse Discourse Against Deportability

Authors Tiina Seppälä
Year 2022
Journal Name Global Society
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3 Journal Article

Rethinking knowledge, power, agency: learning from displaced and slum communities in Bangladesh

Authors Afroja Khanam, Tiina Seppälä
Year 2020
Book Title Ethics and Politics of Space for the Anthropocene
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4 Book Chapter

In-Between Space/Time: <i>Affective Exceptionality during the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Northern Finland</i>

Authors Tiina Seppala, Tapio Nykanen, Saara Koikkalainen, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Citations (WoS) 4
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5 Journal Article

Rethinking knowledge, power, agency: learning from displaced and slum communities in Bangladesh

Authors Afroja Khanam, Tiina Seppälä
Year 2020
Book Title Ethics and Politics of Space for the Anthropocene
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6 Book Chapter

In-Between Space/Time: Affective Exceptionality during the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Northern Finland

Authors Saara Koikkalainen, Tiina Seppälä, Tapio Nykänen, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Nordic Journal of Migration Research
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7 Journal Article

On ‘outsourcing’ the political in political science

Authors Tiina Seppälä
Year 2017
Journal Name Social Identities
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8 Journal Article

Special Issue: Gender, Development and Resistance in South Asia

Authors Tiina Seppälä
Year 2016
Journal Name Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration
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9 Journal Article

Feminizing Resistance, Decolonizing Solidarity: Contesting Neoliberal Development in the Global South

Authors Tiina Seppälä
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of Resistance Studies
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10 Journal Article

Biopolitics, Resistance and the Neoliberal Development Paradigm

Authors Tiina Seppälä
Year 2014
Journal Name Journal für Entwicklungspolitik
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11 Journal Article

Biopolitics, Resistance and the Neoliberal Development Paradigm

Authors Tiina Seppälä
Year 2014
Journal Name Journal für Entwicklungspolitik
12 Journal Article

Making feminist sense of militarisation of the mind

Authors Susanna Hast, Noora Kotilainen, Tiina Seppälä, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Critical Studies on Security
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13 Journal Article

Civil Disobedience from Nepal to Norway

Authors Tapio Nykänen, Tiina Seppälä, Petri Koikkalainen
Year 2022
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14 Book

Kansalaisrohkeus: Tottelemattomia yksilöitä, yhteisöjä, tutkijoita

Authors Teppo Eskelinen, Tiina Seppälä, Sanna Ryynänen
Year 2019
Journal Name Sosiaalipedagoginen aikakauskirja
15 Journal Article

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