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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Anssi Paasi is affiliated with the University of Oulu in Finland. The research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, encompassing a total of 18 publications. Their work addresses several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies, Anthropology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research has concentrated on themes such as Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration, Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Urban Planning and Governance, China's Global Influence and Migration, Migration and Exile Studies, Sex Work and Related Issues, and Urbanization and City Planning.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
  • Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography
  • Political Geography
  • Regional Studies
  • Regional and Country Studies

Some of the recent papers authored by Anssi Paasi are:

  • "Locating the territoriality of territory in border studies" (2022, Political Geography)
  • "Problematizing 'Bordering, Ordering, and Othering' as Manifestations of Socio-Spatial Fetishism" (2020, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie)
  • "Examining the persistence of bounded spaces: remarks on regions, territories, and the practices of bordering" (2022, Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography)
  • "Bounded spaces in question: x-raying the persistence of regions, territories and borders" (2022, Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography)
  • "Regional geographies of climate change" (2023, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie)

The researcher has collaborated frequently with several scholars including Md Azmeary Ferdoush, Reece Jones, Alexander B. Murphy, John Agnew, and Paulina Ochoa Espejo.

Best Publications

  • Territories, Boundaries and Consciousness: The Changing Geographies of the Finnish-Russian Border

    Anssi Paasi;W. R. Mead;Peter J. Taylor

  • Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography

    David Newman;Anssi Paasi

  • Region and place: Regional identity in question

    Anssi Paasi

  • The institutionalization of regions: a theoretical framework for understanding the emergence of regions and the constitution of regional identity

    Anssi Paasi

  • Deconstructing Regions: Notes on the Scales of Spatial Life

    A Paasi

  • Europe as a Social Process and Discourse Considerations of Place, Boundaries and Identity

    Anssi Paasi

  • Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies

    Corey Johnson;Reece Jones;Anssi Paasi;Louise Amoore

  • Bounded spaces in the mobile world: Deconstructing ‘regional identity’

    Anssi Paasi

  • Place and region: looking through the prism of scale:

    Anssi Paasi

  • Place and region: regional worlds and words

    Anssi Paasi

  • Bounded spaces in a ‘borderless world’: border studies, power and the anatomy of territory

    Anssi Paasi

  • Globalisation, Academic Capitalism, and the Uneven Geographies of International Journal Publishing Spaces

    Anssi Paasi

  • Boundaries as social processes: Territoriality in the world of flows

    Anssi Paasi

  • The resurgence of the ‘Region’ and ‘Regional Identity’: theoretical perspectives and empirical observations on regional dynamics in Europe

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  • Regional Planning and the Mobilization of ‘Regional Identity’: From Bounded Spaces to Relational Complexity

    Anssi Paasi

  • Boundaries as Social Practice and Discourse: The Finnish‐Russian Border

    Anssi Paasi

  • Border Studies Reanimated: Going beyond the Territorial/Relational Divide:

    Anssi Paasi

  • Generations and the ‘Development’ of Border Studies

    Anssi Paasi

  • Regions are social constructs, but who or what 'constructs' them? Agency in question

    Anssi Paasi

  • Territorial Dynamics, Cross-border Work and Everyday Life in the Finnish–Swedish Border Area

    Anssi Paasi;Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola

  • When old and new regionalism collide: Deinstitutionalization of regions and resistance identity in municipality amalgamations

    Kaj Zimmerbauer;Anssi Paasi

  • The region, identity, and power

    Anssi Paasi

  • Penumbral borders and planning paradoxes: Relational thinking and the question of borders in spatial planning

    Anssi Paasi;Kaj Zimmerbauer

  • Progress in Human Geography

    Roger Lee;Noel Castree;Vicky Lawson;Anssi Paasi

Frequent Co-Authors

Noel Castree
Noel Castree University of Technology Sydney
Martin Jones
Martin Jones Staffordshire University
Ron Johnston
Ron Johnston University of Bristol
Sarah A. Radcliffe
Sarah A. Radcliffe University of Cambridge
Linda McDowell
Linda McDowell University of Oxford
Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Henry Wai-chung Yeung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Nadine Schuurman
Nadine Schuurman Simon Fraser University
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Keith Richards
Keith Richards University of Cambridge
David Wilson
David Wilson Binghamton University

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