Rate My Professor Suvi Keskinen

Keskinen's research specializations encompass post/decolonial feminism, critical race and whiteness studies, politics of belonging, political activism, welfare state transformations, intersections of nationalism, racism, and class, mediatized politics of migration, ethnic and racial profiling, right-wing populism, and social movements. She has served as principal investigator on Academy of Finland projects such as 'Postethnic Activism in the Neoliberal Era: Translocal Studies on Political Subjectivities, Alliance-Building and Social Imaginaries' (2014–2019), 'Intersectional Border Struggles and Disobedient Knowledge in Activism' (2018–2022), and Kone Foundation's 'The Stopped – Spaces, Meanings and Practices of Ethnic Profiling' (2015–2018). She received the ETMU academic award in 2023 and has been involved in EU COST Action and Nordic research networks. Her major publications include books such as 'Complying With Colonialism: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Nordic Region' (2009, co-edited), 'Undoing Homogeneity in the Nordic Region: Migration, Difference, and the Politics of Solidarity' (2019, co-edited), 'Mobilising the Racialised ‘Others’: Postethnic Activism, Neoliberalisation and Racial Politics' (2022), 'Race, Bordering and Disobedient Knowledge: Activism and Everyday Struggles in Europe' (2024, co-edited), and 'The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies' (2023, co-edited). Key articles address institutional racism in policing (2025), welfare chauvinism (2016), and neonationalist femininities (2018). She serves on the editorial boards of Current Sociology and Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, and has organized events on antiracism, Palestine solidarity, and academic politics.