Suvi Keskinen

Personal profile

Description of research and teaching

My research interests include post/decolonial feminism, critical race and whiteness studies, politics of belonging, nationalism, welfare state, political activism and gendered violence. I recently finished the Academy Research Fellow project Postethnic Activism in the Neoliberal Era: Translocal Studies on Political Subjectivities, Alliance-Building and Social Imaginaries, funded by the Academy of Finland (2014-2019). I also lead the research projects The Stopped - Spaces, Meanings and Practices of Ethnic Profiling, funded by the Kone foundation (2015-2019), Intersectional Border Struggles and Disobedient Knowledge in Activism (2018-2022), funded by the Academy of Finland, and Border Crises in Two Languages - Mediatized Politics and Solidarity Activism in the Wake of the 2015 Asylum Migration (2019-2022), funded by the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland.

Previously I have investigated the politics of gender, nation and race in debates on immigration and multiculturalism, with a special focus on right-wing populist rhetoric. My post doctoral research project analysed the construction of national belonging and unbelonging in Danish and Finnish public debates on gendered violence in migrant/minority families.

I have also participated in a research project on generational negotiations, social control and gendered sexualities, funded by the Academy of Finland (2012-2016). In a previous research project, I analysed the narratives of migrant women abused by their family members, and the discourses of multiculturalism and violence that welfare professionals and authorities (police, social workers, staff in shelters and projects) draw upon.

I lead The Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN) at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki.

RESEARCH NETWORKS

I actively participate in Nordic and European research networks. I was the leader of the Nordic research network Multiculturalism, Cultural Homogeneity and Societal Security (NOS-HS, 2016-2018). I am the Finnish partner in the research networks Decolonial Critique, Knowledge Production and Social Change (NOS-HS, 2018-2019) and The Power of Narratives: Democracy and Media in Political Turmoil (NOS-HS, 2018-2019). I am a member of the Management Committee of EU COST Action Police Stops -network (2018-2022).

I have also been the Finnish coordinator in the Nordic research network The Futures of Feminism in the Nordic Region (NOS-HS, NIKK, 2016-2017) and Research Network on Nordic Populism (Nordforsk, 2011-2015).

Fields of Science

5200 Other social sciences
Ethnic Relations
Nationalism
Racism
Antiracism
Whiteness
Political Activism
Ethnic and Racial Profiling
Minority Families
Gendered Violence
Right-Wing Populism
Media and Migration

International and National Collaboration Publications and projects within past five years.

Publications 2009 2019

19 Article
14 Chapter
2 Anthology or special issue
2 Book
1 More
- 1 Book/Film/Article review

Intra-Nordic Differences, Colonial/Racial Histories and National Narratives: Rewriting Finnish History

Keskinen, S., 2019, In : Scandinavian Studies (Provo). 91, 1-2, p. 163-181 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access

Keskustelu kunniaväkivallasta langettaa epäilyksen varjon kaikkien maahanmuuttotaustaisten perheiden ylle: Nuorten kokema väkivalta ei aina liity kunniakysymyksiin: Mielipide

Translated title of the contribution: Discussions of honour-related violence pose all migrant families under suspicion : Young people's experiences of violence are not always related to questions of honourKeskinen, S. & Honkatukia, P., 18 Aug 2019, In : Helsingin Sanomat. 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public

Open Access

Narrations of Homogeneity, Waning Welfare States, and the Politics of Solidarity

Keskinen, S. P., Skaptadottir, U. D. & Toivanen, M., 2019, Undoing Homogeneity in the Nordic Region: Migration, Difference and the Politics of Solidarity. Keskinen, S., Skaptadottir, U. D. & Toivanen, M. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 1-17 17 p. (Studies in Migration and Diaspora).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access

Undoing Homogeneity in the Nordic Region: Migration, Difference and the Politics of Solidarity

Keskinen, S. P. (ed.), Skaptadottir, U. D. (ed.) & Toivanen, M. (ed.), 2019, Abingdon: Routledge. 210 p. (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)

Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review

Etninen profilointi - arka aihe vai tuttu juttu?

Translated title of the contribution: Ethnic profiling - a sensitive topic or common knowledge?Keskinen, S. P., Himanen, M., Pietarinen, K., Böök, L. & Sutinen, A., 2018, Jakautuuko Suomi?: Eriarvoisuus tutkijoiden, toimittajien ja taiteilijoiden silmin. Lähde, V. & Vehkoo, J. (eds.). Helsinki: Into kustannus, p. 57-65 9 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific

Open Access