Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
My current research deals with how the necessity of the inhabitants to satisfy basic needs in the domains of residence, water, energy, and sanitation at the precarious fringes of Windhoek, Namibia’s capital involves relations among the residents, with various authorities, and between off-the-grid and networked infrastructures, and how this contributes to the formation of city space, everyday governance, and urban politics. Previously, I have done research on claims and responses related to land, housing and basic services, and their institutional consequences in Namibia and Botswana. I did my PhD on Namibian ex-combatant and veteran politics.
Fields of Science
- 5143 Social and cultural anthropology
- 5203 Global Development Studies
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A Snapshot of Helsinki Anthropology in Interesting Times: Looking Forwards
Green, S., Eräsaari, M., Metsola, L., Vellava, S., Härkönen, H., Sequeira, M., Tuominen, P. & Lähteenaho, S., 16 May 2025, In: Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. 49, 3, p. 62-71 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
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Vital infrastructures: Precarious presence and the co-constitution of urban spaces, lives, and governance
Metsola, L., 10 May 2024, In: Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. 48, 2, p. 93-98 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
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Affordability and relationality: The reproduction and transformation of the segregated city in Windhoek
Metsola, L., Dec 2022, In: Focaal. 2022, 94, p. 38-56 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Claiming land and housing - imagining a just society: Precarity and urban citizenship in Windhoek
Metsola, L., 1 Jul 2021, In: The Namibian Journal of Social Justice. 1, p. 97-118Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Liberation Autochthony: Namibian Veteran Politics and African Citizenship Claims
Metsola, L., 1 Jun 2019, In: Conflict and Society: Advances in Research. 5, 1, p. 186-201 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Projects
- 2 Active
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Social infrastructuring and everyday governance at southern African precarious urban fringes
Metsola, L. (Project manager)
Suomen Akatemia Projektilaskutus
01/05/2025 → 31/08/2027
Project: Research Council of Finland: Academy Research Fellow's research expenses
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Infrastruktuurien yhteisöllinen rakentuminen ja jokapäiväinen hallinto eteläisen Afrikan kaupunkien laitamilla
Metsola, L. (Project manager)
01/09/2022 → 31/08/2027
Project: Research Council of Finland: Academy Research Fellow
Activities
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Emergent Southern Urbanisms: Dynamics of Everyday City-Making
Forde, K. M. (Member of organizing committee) & Metsola, L. (Member of organizing committee)
28 May 2026 → 29 May 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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The uses of informality in Windhoek
Metsola, L. (Speaker)
27 Jun 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Memory Studies (Journal)
Metsola, L. (Reviewer)
4 Jun 2025 → 11 Jun 2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
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Examination of master's thesis
Metsola, L. (Pre-examiner)
1 Mar 2025 → 25 Mar 2025Activity: Examination types › Supervision of other thesis (Master's, Licentiate)
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University of Cambridge
Metsola, L. (Visiting researcher)
4 May 2025 → 28 May 2025Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
Press/Media
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Hanna Kauppinen: Kuinka epävarmoissa oloissa selviydytään?
21/01/2025
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media