Julian Honkasalo

Personlig profil

Information om forskning och undervisning

Current research project:

Trans Futures: Theorizing Community Building as Resistance to Biopolitics (Academy of Finland 2019-2021)

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.

Description of my earlier postdoc research project:

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?

I am interested in biopolitics, social and political constructions of the fit and able-bodied citizen, dynamics of racialization as well as feminist disability studies, transgender reproductive justice, self-determination and theorization of resistance. My research approach and interests are multidisciplinary and stem from personal interests in human rights activism.

My latest publication can be downloaded and read at:

The intimate labour of non-normative bodies: Transgender patients in early Swedish medical research

My research project is funded by Kone Foundation and is carried out at the University of Helsinki, Department of Gender Studies.

Teaching experience

Trans/feminism, SKY doctoral program PhD seminar with Prof. Susan Stryker. Helsinki, March 5-6.2020.

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.

Utbildning information

Ph.D in political theory, Department of Political Science, The New School for Social Research, USA, 2017. Advisor: Prof. Andreas Kalyvas.
Ph.D in gender studies, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, 2016. Advisor: Prof. Tuija Pulkkinen.
MA in political science, Department of Political Science, The New School for Social Research (USA) 2010. Advisor: Prof. Andreas Kalyvas.
MA in philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2006. Advisor: doc. Martina Reuter.

Utbildning / akademisk kvalifikation

Political theory , PhD, The New School for Social Research

31 aug 2010 → 15 dec 2017

Tilldelningsdatum: 15 dec 2017

Gender studies, PhD, Genusforskning

aug 2010 → 23 jan 2016

Tilldelningsdatum: 23 jan 2016

Externa befattningar

PhD, The New School for Social Research

31 aug 2010 → 31 dec 2017

Vetenskapsgrenar

6160 Övriga humanistiska vetenskaper
611 Filosofi
517 Statsvetenskap

Internationellt och inhemskt samarbete Publikationer och projekt inom de senaste fem åren.

Publikationer

17 Artikel
8 Kapitel
2 Konferensartikel
2 Doktorsavhandling
1 Mer
- 1 Magisteruppsats

In the shadow of eugenics: transgender sterilization legislation and the struggle for self-determination

Honkasalo, J., 2019, The Emergence of Trans: Cultures, Politics and Everyday Lives. Pearce, R., Moon, I., Gupta, K. & Steinberg, D. L. (red.). London & New York: Routledge, s. 17-33 17 s.

Forskningsoutput: Kapitel i bok/rapport/konferenshandling › Kapitel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review

When boys will not be boys: American eugenics and the formation of gender nonconformity as psychopathology

Honkasalo, J., 30 nov 2016, I : Norma: International Journal for Masculinity Studies. 11, 4, s. 270–286 17 s.

Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review

Arendt and Feminism

Honkasalo, J., sep 2020, The Bloomsbury Companion to Hannah Arendt. Gratton, P. & Sari, Y. (red.). Bloomsbury, 28

Forskningsoutput: Kapitel i bok/rapport/konferenshandling › Kapitel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review

Genderqueer

Honkasalo, J., mar 2020, I : Lambda nordica.. 25, 1, s. 57-63 7 s.

Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review

Öppen tillgång

Fil

Hyödyttömien hallinnointi: biopolitiikasta talouskriiseihin

Honkasalo, J., 1 aug 2020, Kuka maailmaa hallitsee? Vallan umpisolmuja avaamassa. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, Vol. 2. s. 44-65 22 s. (Tiedekulmapokkari; vol. 2020/2).

Forskningsoutput: Kapitel i bok/rapport/konferenshandling › Kapitel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review

Projekter

2 Aktiv
6 Slutfört

Unfit for Citizenship: Eugenics and the Pathologization of Gender Non-Conformity (Koneen Säätiö)

Honkasalo, J.

01/11/2015 → 31/12/2019

Projekt: Forskningsprojekt

Trans Futures - Community Building as Resistance to Biopolitics

Honkasalo, J.

01/09/2019 → 31/10/2022

Projekt: Forskningsprojekt

Gender Studies Research Community

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-Männistö, 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.