Suvi Salmenniemi: Suvi Salmenniemi is professor of sociology at the University of Turku. Her research interests include utopian thought and political imagination, therapeutic culture, political sociology, cultural studies, Marxist feminism, and critical social theory. She is the author of Affect, Alienation and Politics in Therapeutic Culture: Capitalism on the Skin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). She is currently heading two research projects: Political Imagination and Alternative Futures and Post-Fossil Working Life: Ecologically and Socially Sustainable Work at the Age of Sustainability Transformation.

Suvi Keskinen is Professor of Ethnic Relations at The Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN) at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests include racism and antiracism, post/decolonial feminism, political activism, solidarity and coalitional politics, racialising practices of welfare and security institutions, and the politics of ‘migration crisis’. She has recently published the co-edited volume Race, Bordering and Disobedient Knowledge: Activism and Everyday Struggles in Europe (2024, Manchester University Press) and the book Mobilising the Racialised ‘Others’. Postethnic Activism, Neoliberalisation and Racial Politics (2022, Routledge), which build on two Research Council of Finland funded research projects. Her research has also been widely published in scientific journals, such as Theoretical Criminology, Social Politics, Critical Social Policy, and Social Identities. 

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Minna Vigren is an Assistant Professor of Global Communications and Climate Change at LUT University. Her Research Council of Finland-funded project, Imagining Sustainable Digital Futures: Outlines for Eco-Digital Citizenship, aims to develop creative methods for imagining socially and ecologically sustainable futures. In her interdisciplinary research she combines critical internet studies, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, radical pedagogies, and futures studies. Central to her work are themes of digital sustainability, alternative futures, imagination and imaginaries, agency, power, and resistance. 

Camilla Marucco Al-Mimar (PhD in human geography) currently works as researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland in the project “Endings: refuge, time, and space”. Her research has examined agencies and temporalities in refugeehood, citizenship, and undocumentedness, and the possibilities of/for activist research methodologies. Since 2018 she coordinates the Activist Research Network with docent Leonardo Custódio. Since 2016-2017, she has been volunteering in the We See You association and in the project “Every Woman’s Centre”, two communities striving for humane, fairer immigration policies in Finland. She currently chairs ETMU ry, the Society for the study of ethnic relations and international migration. 

Anaïs Duong-Pedica is a PhD researcher and university teacher from Kanaky/New Caledonia. Her doctoral research focuses on discourses of multiraciality, race and racism in the context of French settler colonialism in Kanaky. Anaïs is politically committed to anti-colonialism through the Kanak liberation struggle, Palestine and West Papua solidarity, decolonisation in the Pacific and beyond, Indigenous and anti-colonial feminisms and anti-racism. 

Onni Ahvonen is a doctoral researcher in world politics at the University of Helsinki. His research explores the temporal politics of the Caribbean Black radical tradition during the latter part of the twentieth century. Studying guerrilla intellectuals like Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney, his work analyses the ways in which these figures conceptualized time, temporality, and history in relation to struggles for decolonization and Black liberation in and beyond the Caribbean world.