Marjaana Jauhola

Senior Research Fellow, Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University

Docent in Development Studies, University of Helsinki

Principal Investigator of EnVi(r)oCare 2023-27 (Research Council of Finland) that studies intersectional human-non-human relations, and embodied need-care relations and hierarchies within commodity frontiers connected to green transition.

I am an ethnographer and film documentarist with eyes on intersectional inequalities and entanglments of violence and care in global responses to crises.

I am currently writing up my research ‘Gendered Political Violence and Urban Post-Disaster Reconstruction’ (Academy of Finland Fellow 2015-2020) which studies the intersection of gender, disaster politics, political violence, and national ideologies in post-disaster urban Gujarat, India and emergence of feminist peace everydayes in a temporary shelter neighbourhood in the city of Bhuj.

Besides research, during academic year 2023-24 I am in charge of MA thesis seminar of PEACE program and teach PEACE060 Feminist Peace Research course.

The past 18 years my focus has been on global responses to crises, such as the Indian Ocean Tsunami and armed conflict in Aceh, Indonesia and the 2001 Kachchh earthquake and in 2023-27 me and my EnVi(r)oCare (Entanglements of Violence and Care: feminist analysis of commodity frontiers and ’living green’) team will focus on the questions of justice of commodity frontiers of date palms and sisal fibres, ecological transitions, and ‘living green’.

I do transdisciplinary research, often combining ethnography with lifehistorical and archival research, promoting collaborative approaches to knowledge production across divides in languages, education, and forms of communication.

Successful in highly competitive research funding from Academy of Finland (2023-27, 2025-20), Finnish Cultural Foundation (2015-6), European Community Marie Curie Host Fellowship for Early Stage Researchers Training (2006-9).

Honorable mention for the 2022 IPS Best Book Award, International Political Sociology Section of International Studies Association of the 2020 monograph Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process (Helsinki University Press)

Board Member of Finnish Peace Research Association (2023-)

Advisory board member of Feminist Studies on Peace, Justice and Violence, Edinburgh University Press (2022-)

Editorial board member of Pro et Contra book series, Helsinki University Press (2022-)

Reviewer for: International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, Critical Military Studies, International Studies Review, Journal of Islamic Studies, Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI)

Feminist peace research

Feminist political economy and ecology

Global gender inequalities and their governance

Intersection between development and post-disaster and post-conflict aid

Critical disaster studies and climate justice

Research Council of Finland project funding 2023-27 for EnVi(r)oCare: Entanglements of violence and care: feminist analysis of commodity frontiers and “living green”

2022- Senior Research Fellow, Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University

2017-22 University Lecturer, Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki

2015-20 Academy of Finland Fellow, University of Helsinki

2011-2015 Researcher, Global Development Studies/World Politics, University of Helsinki

2011 University Lecturer, World Politics, University of Helsinki

2010 Postdoctoral researcher, Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University

Jauhola, Marjaana (2020) Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Mediation Process . Helsinki University Press. 

Marjaana Jauhola (2022) ”Visual Methodologies: Theorizing Disasters and IR” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford University Press.

Jauhola, Marjaana, Niti Mishra, Jacquleen Joseph & Shyam Gadhavi (2021) “Disaster Recovery (after Catastrophes)” in Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts, Parker Krieg and Reetta Toivanen (eds), Helsinki University Press.

Joseph, Jacquleen, Marjaana Jauhola, Lavanya Shanbhogue Arvind, and Shyam Gadhavi (2021). Wounded Attachments of Disaster Recovery: Gendered Structural Violence and Everyday life, Indian Experiences Explored. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 59(1):1-11. 

Meriläinen, Eija, Jacquleen Joseph, Marjaana Jauhola, Juliette Marin, Eila Murphy, Punam Yadav and Shyam Gadhavi (2021). “Examining Relational Social Ontologies of Disaster Resilience: Lived Experiences from Nepal, Indonesia, India and Chile”, Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal 31(3), 273-287.

Vardhani, Vishnu Rajan, Shyam Gadhavi and Marjaana Jauhola (2021) ” Co-Creation Through Quilting: Connected Entanglements and Disruptures with Care” in Seppälä, Tiina, Melanie Sarantou and Satu Miettinen (eds.) Decolonising Participatory Research through Arts-Based Methods? Routledge.