Nordia Geographical Publications (NGP) is an open access non-profit journal published by the Geographical Society of Northern Finland and the Geography Research Unit at the University of Oulu. NGP publishes yearly theme issues and the doctoral theses of the research unit. 

The scope of the journal covers empirical and theoretical interventions from any branch of geography. NGP particularly welcomes research that is committed to northern dimensions of human, physical and applied geography.

Open access NGP publications are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0) license which ensures that authors retain full copyright to their work. The journal follows the peer review standards set by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) and it is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Scopus.

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Call for Papers - Fieldwork in geography and geographies of fieldwork

2025-03-27

The Geographical Society of Northern Finland and the Geography Research Unit at the University of Oulu are pleased to announce a call for papers for Nordia Geographical Publications' Theme Issue on "Fieldwork in geography and geographies of fieldwork".

This theme issue aims to bring together research and discussions about fieldwork, which is a topic that connects geographers and geographically oriented scholarship across (sub)disciplines.

Deadline for he preliminary title and abstract is 30th of April, 2025 and the manuscript submission deadline is 30th of September, 2025.

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Current Issue

Vol. 54 No. 5 (2025): Rethinking spaces of education: a multi-sited study of youth educational paths in northern Finland
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This dissertation examines the transitional stage between lower and upper secondary education among 15–16-year-old young people in northern Finland. To address the complexity of the spatial dynamics and tensions at play, this study approaches youth educational paths as spaces of education. Drawing on relational theories of space and particularly the work of Doreen Massey, it contributes to rethinking spaces of education via a multi-sited and multi-scalar approach. The study underlines that youth educational paths are not merely linear transitions from one educational stage to another but involve complex and dynamic spatialities and spatial inequalities at the nexus of policy, everyday life, and emotion.

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Published: 2025-08-07

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