Satu Kivelä

PhD
University Lecturer

Geography
Faculty of Science

I am a human geographer working as a University Lecturer in Cultural Geography. My research interests include border regions, regional resilience, cross-border communities and community resilience, geopolitics-biopolitics nexus, political geographies of health governance, and governmentality studies. My current research work discusses the interplay between cross-border dynamics and regional and social resilience in the northernmost regions of Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Research interests

  • State spatial transformation, Border studies, Regional resilience, Geopolitics, Biopolitics

Researcher information

Research groups

Contact information

E-mail

Satu.Kivela@oulu.fi

Phone number

+358294481509

Postal address

Geography Research Unit
PO BOX 3000
FI-90014 UNIVERSITY OF OULU

Keywords

regional resilience Natural Sciences, Environment Geosciences geography national borders and their changes political geography Northern regions