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Current research interests
My current research interests include philosophy of democracy, democratic theory, freedom of speech, online hate speech, democratic debate and argumentation, anti-gender mobilizing, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt.
You can find my most recent publication in English here:
Previous research projects
Trans Futures: Theorizing Community Building as Resistance to Biopolitics (Academy of Finland and The Finnish Cultural Foundation 2019-2023)
A key point of examination of my current research project is the question of how shared representations of struggle shape the ways in which future and community are conceptualized. The project theorizes transgender resistance and agency in the plural, as multiple practices that are context-dependent, local and challenge predominant, pathologizing regimes of truth. The project complicates the simplistic logic of community as based either on identity-politics and recognition or subversive anti-futurity. A characteristic of trans community-building is care and memory preservation as a means of resisting state-legitimated and socially sanctioned forms of oppression and violence. The research project utilizes archival material in the US and the Nordic Countries.
Unfit for Citizenship: Eugenics and the Pathologization of Gender Nonconformity (Kone Foundation 2016-2019) advances and reconstructs earlier scholarly literature on 20th century eugenic discourses by examining the phenomenon of gender reassignment -related sterilization legislation in Scandinavian countries from a queer-theoretical and historical perspective. The research project aims to understand and answer the following questions: 1) how do certain forms of embodiment and gender expression come to be viewed as legitimately subjected to state-sanctioned sterilization? 2) What do various moral, psychiatric and political techniques around gender non-conforming embodiment and subjectivity reveal about a society, the nation-state, and notions of citizenship?
SPT-375 Introduction to feminist trans- and disability studies (in Finnish). Gender Studies, University of Helsinki, fall 2018.
SPT-373 Feminist research on violence (in Finnish). Gender Studies, University of Helsinki, spring 2018.
Introduction to Feminist Thought and Action. Teaching Assistant for Prof. Ann Snitov, gender studies, The New School, USA. Fall, 2015.
WNA310 Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt. Gender Studies, University of Helsinki, Spring 2014.
FFI220 The history of the mind-body problem. Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Helsinki, spring, 2008.
The History of the Philosophy of Mathematics (in Swedish). Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, fall 2007.
Political theory , PhD, The New School for Social Research
31 Aug 2010 → 15 Dec 2017
Award Date: 15 Dec 2017
Gender studies, PhD, Gender Studies
Aug 2010 → 23 Jan 2016
Award Date: 23 Jan 2016
PhD, The New School for Social Research
31 Aug 2010 → 31 Dec 2017
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
01/11/2015 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research project
Elomäki, A., Al-Sharmani, M., Dahlgren, S., Engelberg, M., Haritaworn, J., Holli, A., Honkasalo, J., Hoppania, H., Ihrche-Åberg, I., Jokila, H., Kalha, H., Kantola, J., Kinnarinen, K., Kornak, J., Korsisaari, E. M., Koskinen, T., Kuosmanen, P. K., Kupari, H., Leclin, J., Moisala, P., Moring, A., Muravyeva, M., Niemi, J., Norocel, O. C., Nousiainen, K., Oikkonen, V., Oroza, S., Paasonen, S., Pakkanen, J., Palin, T., Patosalmi, M., Paunu, H., Pulkkinen, T., Raevaara, E., Ratinen, S., Repo, J., Roman-Lagerspetz, S., Rossi, L., Rundgren, H., Ruuskanen, M., Saari, M., Saarikangas, K., Salmesvuori, P., Saresma, T. A. M., Sorainen, A., Soronen, A., Svanström, M. E., Tsokkinen, A., Tuomaala, S., Tuomi, L. M., Uimonen, M., Urponen, M., Urrio, E., Utriainen, T., Weide, M., Werner, L., Vuola, E., Vänskä, A. & Xu-Susiluoto, Q.
01/03/2011 → …
Project: Research Evaluation 2011
Suomen Akatemia Projektilaskutus
01/09/2019 → 06/02/2023
Project: Adacemy of Finland: Postdoctoral Researcher
Penttinen, E., Hast, S., Honkasalo, J. & Schwanck, A.
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2018
Project: University of Helsinki Three-Year Research Project
Pulkkinen, T., Elomäki, A., Honkasalo, J., Kinnunen, H., Kornak, J., Patosalmi, M. & Urrio, E.
01/01/2014 → 31/10/2016
Project: Research project
Honkasalo, Julian (Recipient), 2009
Prize: Prizes and awards
Honkasalo, Julian (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prizes and awards
Honkasalo, Julian (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prizes and awards
Julian Honkasalo (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Julian Honkasalo (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Julian Honkasalo (Speaker: Keynote)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Julian Honkasalo (Teacher)
Activity: Other activity types › Types for other activities - External teaching and subject coordination
Julian Honkasalo (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
07/11/2016
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17/06/2021
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07/06/2021
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01/11/2020
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30/10/2020
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