Marie Skłodowska-Curie Project: Democratic Breakthrough in the Periphery: An Inter-Imperial Perspective on Non-Sovereign Peripheral Democratization in the Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire

This project investigates the global response to the establishment of women’s suffrage in the periphery of the Russian Empire. The project addresses both a missing global and transnational dimension in Finnish historiography and the continued overlooking of women’s suffrage, non-sovereign movements, and non-Western, peripheral cases in the sociology of modern democracy’s origins.

Selected Recent Publications:

Bavbek, N. Yasemin, and Juho Topias Korhonen. 2024. “A Country of White Lilies: Inter-Imperial Nation-Making and Development from the Russian Empire’s Periphery to Post-Ottoman Turkey.” Comparative Studies in Society and History: 1–26. doi: 10.1017/S0010417523000506

Activist Journalists and Postsocialist Politics Through the Lens of the Armenian Velvet Revolution: https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2023.2228520

Ukraine, Finlandization, and the Coloniality of Sovereignty: https://www.asanet.org/footnotes-article/ukraine-finlandization-and-the-coloniality-of-sovereignty/

Symbolic Power and Geoculture in the World-System: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003325109-5/symbolic-power-geoculture-world-system-juho-korhonen

Most recent courses:

- Decolonial Sociology

- Global Inequalities: Gender, Race, Citizenship

- Research Design for Master's Students

- Global Historical Sociology