As a member of the three-person InBorder research team, Storm(-Närväinen) is interested in dissecting practices of border- and borderlander governance in democratic, semi-democratic, and authoritarian regimes. The InBorder research team, made up of P.I. Prof. Christofer Berglund (Malmö University, Sweden), Prof. Ketevan Bolkvadze (Lund University, Sweden), and Storm-Närväinen (UEF, KTL), and is charged with investigating official and unofficial practices of borderland governance across three paradigmatic cases–among Russians in Estonia’s Ida-Viru region, Armenians in Georgia’s Javakheti region, and among Talysh in Azerbaijan’s Lenkaran region. Storm-Närväinen is primarily occupied with the Georgian and Azerbaijani aspects of the study, although she is involved in aspects of the desk research phase of the Estonian case as well.
Storm(-Närväinen)’s prior research focused upon the politics of memory and identity among members of ethnic/national minority groups in Georgia, namely among the Georgian Azeri-Turks of the Kvemo Kartli border region. Her geographic area of expertise is the South Caucasus and its constituent states (Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan), although her research interests have led her to undertake inquiries touching upon peoples and states in Russia and Central Asia as well. Storm-Närväinen is a native speaker of English and possesses varying levels of proficiency in the Azerbaijani, Finnish, Georgian, Kazakh, and Russian languages as well.
Publications
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'Diffuse Support' and Authoritarian Regime Resilience: Azerbaijanism vis-à-vis Azerbaijan's Talysh Minority
Storm, Karli. 2024. Caucasus survey. [Epub ahead of print 24 May 2024]: 1-26 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Discursive-technical landscaping and policing the body (politic) in Azerbaijan: a case study of Talysh activists
Storm, Karli-Jo. 2023. Geografiska annaler series b: human geography. [Epub ahead of print 17 Nov 2023]: 1-20 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
States as Bastions of Memory: Lessons from the Talysh Case
Storm-Närväinen, Karli. 2023. Peripheral Histories?. : . D1 Article in a trade journal -
The 'ultimate toponym' and national imaginaries in Georgia and Azerbaijan: Constraining Imaginaries of Borchali among Georgian Azeri-Turks
Storm, Karli-Jo T.. 2020. Journal of geography, politics and society. 10: 16-28 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Whither the Veten? The Framing of Homeland in Official Discourse vis-à-vis Georgia's Azeri Population
Storm, Karli-Jo T.. 2020. Ideology and politics journal. 16: 130 - 166 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
"Who and where are we?" : Landscapes as mediums of identity negotiation for Georgia's Azeri-Turks
Storm, Karli-Jo T. 2019. Demokratizatsiya: the journal of post-soviet democratization. 27: 443-478 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
A People In-Between: Examining Indicators of Collective Identity among Georgian Azeri-Turks
Storm, Karli-Jo T. 2019. Ethnopolitics. [Epub ahead of print 13 May 2019]: - A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Flexible Memory Narratives in the Physical Landscape: A Case Study of Tbilisi, Georgia
Storm, Karli. 2019. Demokratizatsiya: the journal of post-soviet democratization. 27: 131-161 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
The dynamics of identity negotiation in a border region : the case of the Georgian Azeri-Turks of Kvemo Kartli
Storm, Karli-Jo. 2019. Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. Dissertations in social sciences and business studies G5 Doctoral dissertation (article) -
Unpacking the Georgian Nation: Examining the Symbolic Boundaries of Group Membership through National Iconography
Storm, Karli-Jo T. 2018. Identity. 18: 195-217 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research