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The Team behind the Scenes<\/h2>\n \n \n
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\n \"Hanna\n <\/div>\n\n
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Hanna Laako<\/p>\n \n

Senior researcher<\/p>\n \n

University of Eastern Finland UEF<\/p>\n \n

Hanna Laako is a senior researcher at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). Her fields include Politics and International Relations, Forests and Conservation, Borderlands Studies, Indigenous Peoples and Regions – in other words, many kinds of critical edges. Her research is part of the UEF research profile development (PROFI7) and the Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters Research Community (BOMOCULT).<\/p>\n \n

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\n \"Vadim\n <\/div>\n\n
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Vadim Romashov<\/p>\n \n

Postdoctoral researcher<\/p>\n \n

University of Eastern Finland UEF<\/p>\n \n

Vadim Romashov is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland. He employs ethnographic and participatory research methods to study community narratives, practices, and spaces of living together with differences. His research also examines the solidarities, frictions, and everyday insecurities that arise in response to hegemonic socio-political orderings, particularly problematizing issues of liberal peacebuilding, nationalism, militarization, and securitization. His research position is associated with the UEF research profile development (PROFI7) and the Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters Research Community (BOMOCULT).<\/p>\n \n

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\n \"Katherine\n <\/div>\n\n
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Katherine Hall<\/p>\n \n

Doctoral researcher<\/p>\n \n

University of Eastern Finland UEF<\/p>\n \n

Katherine Hall is an environmental policy specialist with 15 years\u2019 experience working with environmental NGOs, global development organizations, UN agencies, and universities with a focus on Central Asia. She has previously worked with UNDP in Kyrgyzstan, led multi-partner projects with UNEP in Afghanistan, and led UNEP\u2019s regional air quality program in Central Asia. Katherine currently co-chairs the Central Asian Conservation Network, is the Chair of the Board of the Nature Foundation (Kyrgyzstan), and is undertaking a PhD at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research focuses on the role that local non-governmental organisations play in implementing wildlife conservation in authoritarian regimes, and how they introduce democratic principles into their conservation activities to promote transformational social and ecological change. <\/p>\n \n

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\n \"Eleonoora\n <\/div>\n\n
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Eleonoora Karttunen<\/p>\n \n

Doctoral researcher<\/p>\n \n

University of Eastern Finland UEF<\/p>\n \n

Eleonoora Karttunen is a PhD researcher in the University of Eastern Finland. She has a master\u2019s degree in Latin American studies\/Cultural and area studies, with focus on Bolivian social movements, from the University of Helsinki. Her ethnographic research discusses civic activities in forest fire management in Bolivia, exploring possibilities of plural politics from below.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \"Kerttu\n <\/div>\n\n
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Kerttu Matinpuro<\/p>\n \n

Documentarist, producer and journalist \/ Podcast editor<\/p>\n \n \n

Kerttu Matinpuro is a freelance documentarist, producer and journalist based in Joensuu, Finland. She works with different interdisciplinary projects, collaborating with NGOs, academic projects, and cultural institutions. 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