Lingering atmospheres of stinky matter: weathering violence, weaponising olfaction in Palestine
6 March 2023 - 6 March 2023
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Geography Building, Room W414
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Free
The Middle East and North Africa in the Northeast (MENA-NE) group is interdisciplinary and includes Newcastle and Northumbria. This talk is part of a seminar series supported by the Politics-State-Space Research Cluster at Durham Geography.
Dr Mikko Joronen, Tampere University, Finland
Dr Mikko Jorenen will deliver his talk, ‘Lingering atmospheres of stinky matter: weathering violence, weaponising olfaction in Palestine’.
Mikko Joronen (PhD in Human Geography) is a senior research fellow at Tampere Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS). His research is oriented around politics of vulnerability, tempos and temporalities of everyday violence, and geographical theory, especially at the intersection of ontology, politics and space. He is the leader of the Palestine Research Group, PI of the Academy of Finland-funded research project 'present-futures in/of Palestine', and an associate editor of the journal Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.