JMC Research Projects

REPRO

Reproduction Wars: Imaginaries and Mobilizations in the U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region

The four-year Research Council of Finland project examines the “Reproduction Wars” in the United States after the constitutional right to abortion was overturned in June 2022, resulting in a respatialization of women’s bodily rights, contested within progressive and reactionary politics of each state.

Illustration: Julia Niinistö

CUBAFLUX

Cuba in Flux: Visualizing Urban Transformation in Havana

The Kone Foundation project examines visual displays and everyday experiences of urban transformation in Havana from 2019 to 2022.

CAMPUS CARRY

The four-year Academy of Finland project (2017–2021) studied the implications of the Texas state “Campus Carry” gun legislation (SB 11) that came into effect on August 1, 2016. Through qualitative and quantitative research, the project focused on the changing spatial dynamics at The University of Texas at Austin campus.

 

 

Photograph: Lotta Kähkönen

#TRAGE

Tragediauutisoinnin haasteet – median mahdollisuudet käsitellä kouluampumisia

This Helsingin Sanomat Foundation project, which began in January 2019, examined U.S. and Finnish media’s reporting of the 2018 high school shootings in Parkland, Florida. The project produced a new, comparative database on reporting on school shootings and opened up a new avenue for discussing the challenges posed by such reporting. The project considered the tensions between traditional media and social media based #-activism, with concrete suggestions for journalists’ work.

 

Photograph: Jaakko Hirvioja

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