Lecture – Geopolitics and biopolitics of governing cross-border mobilities in the COVID-19 pandemic: rationalities, technologies and subjectivities
Lecture – Geopolitics and biopolitics of governing cross-border mobilities in the COVID-19 pandemic: rationalities, technologies and subjectivities
Border surveillance and mobility control measures as normalized geopolitical and biopolitical governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic effectively altered and disrupted the everyday routines of people, resulting in a ‘crisis in crisis’ situation for many living in cross-border regions. Our presentation discusses the intertwinement of geopolitics and biopolitics in pandemic governance in the EU-internal Finnish-Swedish border region.
11 October 2023, 4.00-5.30pm
Online lecture (Zoom)
Lecture in English
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Satu Kivelä is a human geographer working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland.
Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola currently works as a professor of human geography at the Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu.
The lecture is part of the lecture series: “Border Realities: Crises, Resistances, Silences – Perspectives from the Border and Borderlanders”. The series is organised by the UniGR-Center for Border Studies (University of Luxembourg) and the Centre for Border Region Studies (University of Southern Denmark).
