Tuomo Alhojärvi

I’m a geographer specialised in postcapitalist theory and practice. I work as Senior Researcher in UEF’s Cultural Studies research group. From March 2026, I’ve led the project After Dystopia: Anticipatory Climate Migration, Spatial Imagination and the Possibility of Mapping Otherwise (2026-2030), funded by Kone Foundation. We study the anticipation of climate mobilities in Finland: how prospective climate-induced migration is anticipated in Finland, and what kind of solidarity-driven, justice-oriented anticipatory practices already exist and may be imagined. Between 2022 and 2026, I worked in the Kone Foundation funded project Post-ownership as an interpretation and experience of economic change.

My current work centres on methods for making urban spaces ‘otherwise’. I build especially upon feminist economic geographies, urban political ecology, critical social and spatial theory, and counter-mapping methods. In ongoing work (August 2026), my research focus is on a critical examination of Finnish anticipations of climate migration. I’m also writing on postdigital geomedia and the cartographies of commons.

I work as part of the Community Economies Research Network and as a member of the Community Economies Institute. I’m also member of the editorial committee of Tiede & edistys, a Finnish journal of critical social studies. I’m an eager collaborator in various social and artistic projects, and will warmly welcome new ideas for collaborations.