This paper reviews recent research on the nature of local belonging. It highlights how local
belonging continues to matter to most people; that it can have individual and collective …

Humor is a spatially embedded institution in many ways. Although a highly marginal field of
study, the number of geographical studies on humor has been increasing lately. The aim of …

This article examines the rationales for language revitalization and their materialization on a
local scale. The starting premise is that, due to specific social, cultural, as well as spatial …

Drawing on Marco Antonsich's framework for analyzing belonging while also engaging
critical legal geographies, this article applies a legal lens to Muslim belonging. It does so …

The past decade has witnessed a shift from “open borders” policies and cross-border
cooperation towards heightened border securitization and the building of border walls. In the …

In literary geography there is a relatively long history of studying regional narratives, but less
focus has been placed on how senses of spatial belonging and identity become actualized …

Suomalainen yhteiskunta on varsin monikulttuurinen, ja ihmisten identiteetit ovat yhä
moninaisempia niin etnisyyden, kielen, sukupuolen, seksuaalisuuden kuin vaikkapa …

This paper scrutinizes how the Meänkieli-speaking minority in The Torne Valley, northern
Sweden, use humor in the process of narrativizing their shifting spatial identities, as well as …

In this article, we discuss Finnish rap music by dissecting its relations to various forms of
humor and spatiality. While there exists a stereotypical understanding of the rap scene as a …

The concept of'imaginative geography', first used by Edward Said in 1978, has been widely
recognized by human geographers. This chapter discusses how regions and regionality …