Professor Anssi Paasi Department of Geography

Oulu University

September 2013

A. Articles in refereed/peer reviewed journals and books B. Non-refereed articles C. Books and monographs, edited special issues in journals D. Publications directed to the professional community E. Popular articles F. Dissertations

Articles in refereed/peer reviewed journals and books

Paasi, Anssi (2013). Fennia: Positioning a ‘peripheral’ but an international journal under conditions of academic capitalism. Fennia 191 (1), pp. 1-13.

Paasi, Anssi (2013) Regional planning and the mobilization of ‘regional identity’: from bounded spaces to relational complexity. Regional Studies 47 (8), pp. 1206-1219 Nolan R, Taylor P, Rao A, Eissenstat H, Kim EJ, Glaser B, Akaha T, Paasi A, van Houtum H and R Schofield (2013) The Big Question: Setting Boundaries.How should borders be drawn? World Policy Journal 30:1, pp. 3-8 Moisio, Sami & Anssi Paasi (2013) From geopolitical to geoeconomic? The changing political rationalities of state space. Geopolitics 18:2, pp. 267-283. Zimmerbauer, Kaj and Anssi Paasi (2013) When old and new regionalism collide. De-institutionalization and resistance identity in municipality amalgamations. Journal of Rural Studies 30:2, pp. 31-40 Moisio, Sami & Anssi Paasi (2013) Beyond state-centricity: the geopolitics of changing state spaces. Geopolitics 18:2, pp. 255-266. Paasi, Anssi (2013) Borders and border crossings. In Johnson, Nuala, Schein, Richard and Jamie Winders (editors): A New Companion to Cultural Geography. London: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 478-493. Paasi, Anssi (2013) Borders. In Dodds, Klaus, Kuus Merje & Joanne Sharp (editors). The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics. London: Ashgate pp. 213-229.

Jones, Martin and Anssi Paasi (2013) Regional worlds: Advancing the geography of regions. Regional Studies 47:1, pp. 1-5.

Paasi. Anssi (2012) Border studies re-animated: going beyond the relational/territorial divide. Environment and Planning A 44:10, pp. 2303-2309

Paasi, Anssi (2012) Regional identities. In Juergensmeyer, Mark and Anheimer, H. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Global Studies. London: Sage. pp.

Paasi, Anssi (2012) Borders. In Ritzer, Georg (editor) The Blackwell Encyclopedia on Globalization, vol. I. Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley, pp. 125-126.

Johnson, Corey, Jones, Reece, Paasi, Anssi, Amoore, Louise, Mountz, Alison, Salter, Mark, Rumford, Chris:´(2011) Interventions on Rethinking “the Border'” in Border Studies. Political Geography vol. 30, pp. 61-69

Paasi Anssi & Kaj Zimmerbauer (2011) Theory and practice of the region: a contextual analysis of the transformation of Finnish regions. Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia 71-72, pp. 163-178.

Paasi, Anssi (2011) A “Border theory”: an unattainable dream or a realistic aim for border scholars? In Wastl-Walter, Doris (editor) A Research Companion to Border Studies. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp. 11-31.

Paasi, Anssi (2011) From region to space, part II. In Agnew John A. and James S Duncan (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 161-175.

Paasi, Anssi (2011): Geography, space and the re-emergence of topological thinking. Dialogues in Human Geography. Vol. 2:3, pp. 299-303

Paasi, Anssi (2011) The Region, Identity, and Power. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences vol. 14, 9-16.

Paasi, Anssi (2010) Regions are social constructs, but ‘who’ or ‘what’ constructs them? Agency in question. Environment and Planning A vol. 42, pp. 2296 – 2301

Bauder, Harald, Bernd Belina, David Butz, Ze’ev Gedalof, Arnould Lagendijk, Pierpaolo Mudu, Anssi Paasi, Nadine Schuurman, David Wilson (2010) Critical practice of grant application and administration: an intervention. ACME: An International E-journal for Critical Geographies vol. 9:1, pp. 102-112.

Paasi, Anssi (2010) Re-visiting the region and regional identity: theoretical reflections with empirical illustrations. In Barndon, Randi, Øye, Ingvild and Asbjørn Engevik jr. (eds). The Archaeology of Regional Technologies. London: The Edwin Mellen Press . pp. 15-33

Paasi, Anssi (2009) Bounded spaces in a ‘borderless world’? Border studies, power, and the anatomy of the territory. Journal of Power vol. 2:2, pp. 213-234.

Paasi, Anssi (2009) The resurgence of the ‘region’ and ‘regional identity’: theoretical perspectives and empirical observations on the regional dynamics in Europe. Review of International Studies, vol. 35, Supplement S1 pp. 121-146

[Article reprinted in Fawn, Rick, editor, Globalising the Regional, Regionalising the Global Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2009]

Paasi, Anssi (2009) Political boundaries. In Kitchin, Rob et al. (editors). International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Volume 8. Oxford, UK: Elsevier, pp., pp. 217–227

Paasi, Anssi (2009) Regions and regional dynamics. In Rumford, Chris (ed.): Handbook of European Studies. Sage, London. pp. 464-484.

Paasi, Anssi (2009) Regional Geography I. In Kitchin, Rob et al. (editors). International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Volume 9. Oxford, UK: Elsevier, pp., pp. 214–227.

Ward Kevin, Johnston Ron, Richards Keith, Gandy Matthew, Taylor Zbigniew, Paasi Anssi, Fox Roddy, Serje Margarita, Wai-chung Yeung Henry, Barnes Trevor, Blunt Alison and McDowell Linda (2009) The future of research monographs: an international set of perspectives. Progress in Human Geography 33:1, pp. 101-126.

Paasi, Anssi (2008) Is the world more complex than our theories of it? TPSN and the perpetual challenge of conceptualization. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26, pp. 405-410.

Paasi, Anssi and Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola (2008) Territorial dynamics, cross-border work and everyday life in the Finnish-Swedish border’ Space and Polity 12 (1), pp. 13-29

[Article reprinted in Rumford, Chris, editor 2009, Citizens and Borderwork in Contemporary Europe. London: Routledge]

Paasi, Anssi (2008) The Finnish landscape as social practice: mapping identity and scale. In Jones, Michael & Kenneth R. Olwig (eds.): Nordic Landscapes. Thinking Landscape and Regional Identity on the Northern Edge of Europe. The University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (2008). pp. 511-539.

Paasi, Anssi (2007) Borders and regions in the transforming (Northern) Europe: a conceptual perspective. In Lähteenmäki, M. (ed.) The Flexible Frontier: Change and Continuity in Finnish-Russian Relations. Aleksanteri Series, Helsinki. pp. 24-41.

Paasi, Anssi (2007) Regional identity – theoretical viewpoints and empirical examples of a contested category. In Elenius, Lars & Christer Karlsson (eds). Challenges of Globalisation and Regionalisation. Luleå University of Technology. Studies in Northern European Histories 4. Luleå. pp. 31-39.

Paasi, Anssi (2006): Border theory and the problem of contextuality. Proceedings of the Lineae Terrarum International Borders Conference (El Paso). CD-rom.

Paasi, Anssi (2006) Texts and contexts in the globalizing academic marketplace: a commentary on the debate on geopolitical remote sensing. Eurasian Geography and Economics 47, nr. 2, pp. 216-220.

Paasi, Anssi (2006) The quality of research and the generations of scientific productivity (in Finnish). Terra vol. 117 (2006), no. 1, pp. 17-25.

Paasi, Anssi (2005) Globalization, academic capitalism and the uneven geographies of international journal publishing spaces. Environment and Planning A, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 769-789.

[The winner (one of two) of the Ashby Prize given to the most innovative paper in EPA in 2005]

Paasi, Anssi: Generations and the ‘development’ of border studies. Geopolitics vol. 10, nr. 4 (2005), pp. 663-671.

[Article reprinted in Dodds, Klaus, editor, 2009, Geopolitics vol. 2. London, Sage, pp. 245-253]

Paasi, Anssi (2005) A field between national and international pressures: contextualizing the progress of Finnish human geography. Social & Cultural Geography vol. 6, issue 4, pp. 607-629

[Article reprinted in Kitchin, Rob, editor, 2007, Mapping Worlds: Social and Cultural Geographies. London: Routledge]

Paasi, Anssi (2005) Remarks on Europe’s transforming meta-geography. Geopolitics vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 580-585

Paasi, Anssi (2005) Border studies on the move (review article). Geopolitics vol. 10, nr. 4, pp. 816-823.

Paasi, Anssi (2006) The uneven geographies of “internationalism” in the global academic bazaar (in Danish). In Buciek, Keld, Bærenholdt Jørgen Ole, Haldrup, Michael & John Pløger (eds.). Rumlig praksis (Spatial Practice). Roskilde University Press, Roskilde. pp. 49-62.

Paasi, Anssi (2005) The changing discourses on political boundaries: mapping the backgrounds, contexts and contents. In van Houtum, Henk, Kramsch, Olivier and Zierhofer Wolfgang (editors). B/ordering the World. Ashgate, London, pp. 17-31.

Paasi, Anssi (2004) Place and region: looking through the prism of scale. Progress in Human Geography vol. 28, issue 4, pp. 536-546.

Paasi, Anssi (2003): Region and place: regional identity in question. Progress in Human Geography, vol. 28, issue 4, pp. 475-485.

Paasi, Anssi (2002) Place and region: regional worlds and words. Progress in Human Geography, vol. 28, issue 6, pp. 802-811.

[Article reprinted in Keating, Michael, editor, 2004, Regions and Regionalism in Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar]

Paasi, Anssi (2004) Boundaries. In Harrison, Stephan, Pile, Steve and Nigel Thrift (editors). Patterned Ground: Entanglements of Nature and Culture. Reaktion Books, London, pp. 172-174.

Paasi, Anssi (2004) Territory. In Harrison, Stephan, Pile, Steve and Nigel Thrift (editors). Patterned Ground: Entanglements of Nature and Culture. Reaktion Books, London, pp. 270-271.

Jouni Häkli & Paasi, Anssi (2003) Geography, space and identity. In Öhman, Jan & Simonsen, Kirsten (editors): Voices from the North: New trends in Nordic Human Geography . Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 141-156.

Paasi, Anssi (2003): Territory. In Agnew, John, Mitchell, Katharyne & Gerard Toal (editors). A Companion to Political Geography. Blackwell, Oxford 2003, pp. 109-122.

Paasi, Anssi (2003) Boundaries in a globalizing world. In Anderson, Kay, Domosh, Mona, Pile, Steve and Nigel Thrift (editors) Handbook of Cultural Geography. Sage, London, pp. 462-472.

Paasi, Anssi (2002) Place, Boundaries, and the Construction of Finnish Territory. In Kaplan, D & J Häkli (editors) Boundaries and Place: European Borderlands in Geographical Context. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford, pp. 178-199.

Paasi, Anssi (2002) ‘Region’ as a social and cultural construct; reflections on the history of the category and its time-specific meanings (in German). In Werlen, Benno & Roland Lippuner (editors) Texte zur Theorie der Sozialgeographie 1. Jenaer Geographische Manuskripte Band 23, Jena, pp. 67-85.

Paasi, Anssi (2002) Regional transformation in the European context: notes on regions, boundaries and identity. Space and Polity vol. 6, number 2, pp. 197-201.

Paasi, Anssi (2002) Bounded spaces in the mobile world: deconstructing ‘regional identity’. TESG: Journal of Economic and Social Geography, vol. 93, number 2, pp. 137-148.

[Article reprinted in Entrikin, J. Nicholas, editor, 2008, Regions: Critical Essays in Human Geography. London: Ashgate;

Also reprinted in Gregory Derek and Noel Castree, editors, 2011, Human Geography, volume 3, London: Sage]

Paasi, Anssi (2001) Region och regional identitet: teori och empiriska exemplen på olika regionala nivåer (Region and regional identity: Theory and empirical examples from various spatial scales, in Swedish). Historisk Tidskrift för Finland, vol. 86, no. 4 (2001), pp. 516-535.

Paasi, Anssi (2001) Europe as a social process and discourse: considerations of place, boundaries and identity. European Urban and Regional Studies, vol. 8, number 1, (2001), pp. 7-28.

[Article reprinted in Fredrik Söderbaum and Philippe Lombaerde, editors 2013, Regionalism, volume 4, London: Sage Library of International Relations]

Paasi, Anssi (2001) “A borderless world” – is it only rhetoric or will boundaries disappear in the globalizing world? In Reuber, Paul and Wolkersdorfer, Gunther (editors) Politische Geographie: Handlungsorientierte Ansätze und ‘Critical Geopolitics’. Heidelberg, pp. 133-145.

Newman, David and Anssi Paasi (2001) Rethinking boundaries in political geography. In Antonsich, Marco, Kolossov, Vladimir and Pagnini, Maria Paola (editors). Europe between Political Geography and Geopolitics I. Società Geografica Italiana, Rome, pp. 301-316.

Paasi, Anssi (2000) Classic – territoriality and place: Commentary 2 (on R.D.Sack’s Human Territoriality). Progress in Human Geography vol. 26, issue 1 (2000), pp. 93-95.

Paasi, Anssi (2000) The Finnish-Russian border as a shifting discourse: boundaries in the world of de-territorialization. In Ahponen, Pirkkoliisa & Pirjo Jukarainen (eds.): Tearing Down the Curtain, Opening the Gates: Northern Boundaries in Change. Sophi, Jyväskylä. 2000, pp. 85-100.

Paasi, Anssi (2000) Territorial identities as social constructs. Hagar – International Social Science Review vol.1, issue pp. 91-113.

Paasi, Anssi (1999) Boundaries as social practice and discourse: the Finnish-Russian border. Regional Studies, vol. 33, Nr. 7, pp. 669-680

[Article reprinted in Paul Ganster and David Lorey, editors, Borders and Border Politics in the Globalizing World, Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2005]

Paasi, Anssi (1999) Nationalizing everyday life: individual and collective identities as practice and discourse. Geography Research Forum, vol. 19, pp. 4-21.

Paasi, Anssi (1999) Boundaries as social processes: territoriality in the world of flows. Geopolitics, vol. 3, issue 1, pp. 69-88.

[Article reprinted in Newman, David, editor, Boundaries, Territory and Postmodernity. Frank Cass, London 1999, pp. 69-88]

Paasi, Anssi (1999) The Finnish-Russian border in the world of de-territorialization. In Hedegaard, Lars & Bjarne Lindström (eds.). The NEBI Yearbook 1999. North European and Baltic Sea Integration. Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, pp. 215-229.

Paasi, Anssi (1999) The political geography of boundaries at the end of the millennium: the challenges of the de-territorializing world. In Eskelinen, Heikki, Liikanen, Ilkka and

Jukka Oksa (editors). Curtains of Iron and Gold: Reconstructing Borders and Scales of Interaction, Ashgate Publishers, London, pp. 9-24.

Paasi, Anssi (1998) Between East and West? - mapping Finland’s geopolitical position in the global system of states (summary in German, French and Russian). In Burdack, Joachim, Grimm, Frank-Dieter & Leo Paul (editors): The Political Geography of Current East-West Relationships. Institut für Länderkunde. Leipzig, pp. 288-296

Paasi, Anssi (1999) The provinces go to Europe. In Tapaninen, Jaakko et al. (eds.). Finland: The Northern Experience, New Europe, and the next Millennium. Tammi Publishers, Helsinki, pp. 122-127.

Paasi, Anssi (1999) Les régions à l’heure de l’Europe. In Tapaninen, Jaakko et al (eds.): Finlande: Le Nord, L’Europe et le Millénaire. Editions Tammi, Helsinki, pp. 122-127.

Paasi, Anssi (1999) Die Provinzen auf dem Weg nach Europa. In Tapaninen, Jaakko et al. (eds.): Finnland: Der Nordern, das neue Europa und das kommende Jahrtausend. Tammi, Helsinki. 1999, pp. 122-127.

Paasi, Anssi (1999) The chancing pedagogies of space: the representation of the Other in Finnish school geography textbooks (Summary in German, French and Russian). In Brunn, Stanley D., Buttimer Anne & Ute Wardenga (editors): Text and Image: Social Construction of Regional Knowledges. Institut für Länderkunde. Leipzig, pp. 226-237.

Paasi, Anssi (2002) Boundaries and identity in the globalizing world (in Finnish). In Tunturi, J. & T. Syrjämaa (eds.) Eletty ja muistettu tila. (Space as lived and memorized) SKS, Helsinki. pp. 154-176.

Paasi, Anssi (2000) Johannes Gabriel Granö (1882-1956), Professor of Geography (in Finnish). Kansallisbiografia (The National Biography of Finland). Helsinki. (http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/)

Paasi, Anssi: Provinces and cultural areas (in Finnish). In Westerholm, John and Pauliina Raento (eds.): Suomen Kartasto 1999. 100-vuotisjuhlakartasto. (Atlas of Finland: 100 Years Commemoration Publication). WSOY, Porvoo-Helsinki-Juva 1999, pp. 100-103.

Paasi, Anssi: Education as a national project: ‘We’ and Others in the Finnish geography textbooks (in Finnish). In Alasuutari, Pertti & Petri Ruuska (eds.): Elävänä Euroopassa: muuttuva suomalainen identiteetti (Staying alive in Europe: the changing Finnish Identity). Vastapaino, Tampere 1998, pp. 217-252.

Paasi, Anssi: The renaissance of regions and identity discourses: reflections on the Finnish debates on regions (in Finnish). In Hänninen, Sakari (editor). Missä on tässä? (Where is here? In Finnish). Sophi, Jyväskylä 1998. pp. 170-190.

Paasi, Anssi & Petri J.Raivo (1998) Boundaries as barriers and promoters: constructing the tourist landscapes of Finnish Karelia. Visions in Leisure and Business, vol. 17, nr. 3 (1998), pp. 30-45.

Newman, David & Anssi Paasi (1998) Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography. Progress in Human Geography vol. 22, issue 2 (1998), pp. 186-207.

[Article reprinted in Agnew, John and Virginie Mamadouh, eds., Politics: Critical Essays in Human Geography. Ashgate, Aldershot 2008].

Paasi, Anss (1997): Geographical perspectives on Finnish national identity. GeoJournal vol. 43, pp. 41-50

Paasi, Anssi: The Finnish regional system and regional identities. In Supphellen, S (ed.): Kultursamanhengar i Midt-Norden. Trondheim: Tapir Forlag. 1997, pp. 213-219.

Granö, Olavi & Anssi Paasi: Editors’ Preface. In Granö, O. & A.Paasi (eds.). J.G.Granö: Pure Geography. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 1997, pp. vii-ix.

Granö, Olavi & Anssi Paasi: Preamble: The intellectual and social contexts of J.G.Granö’s Pure Geography. In Granö, O. and A.Paasi (eds.): J.G.Granö: Pure Geography. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 1997, pp.xi-xxxi.

Paasi, Anssi (1996) Deconstructing the idea of geography: Dimensions of professional practice. In Berdoulay, Vincent & Hans A. van Ginkel: Geography and Professional Practice. NGS, Utrecht 1996, pp. 87-99.

Paasi, Anssi (1996) Inclusion, exclusion and the construction of territorial identities: Boundaries in the globalizing geopolitical landscape. Nordisk Samhällsgeografisk Tidskrift Nr. 23, Oktober 1996, pp. 6-23.

Paasi, Anssi: Regional identity and regional migration: the birth-places and current dwelling-places of the Finns (in Finnish, with an abstract in English). Terra, vol. 108 (1996), pp. 210-223.

Hajdú, Zoltan & Anssi Paasi (1995) The changing image of Finland in geographical texts in Hungary: a contextual analysis. Fennia, vol. 173 (1995), pp. 33-51.

Paasi, Anssi (1996) Regions as social and cultural constructs: reflections on recent geographical debates. In Idvall, M & A. Salomonsson (eds.): Att skapa en region - om identitet och territorium. NordREFO, Copenhagen, pp. 90-107, 1996.

Paasi, Anssi: Geography, geopolitics and the changing representations of Finland’s eastern border (in Finnish). Alue ja Ympäristö/Journal of the Association of Applied Geography and Planning Nr. 24 (1995), pp. 28-49

Paasi, Anssi (1995) Constructing territories, boundaries and regional identity. In Forsberg, T (ed.): Contested Territory: Border Disputes at the Edge of the Former Soviet Empire. Edward Elgar, Aldershot 1995, pp. 42-61.

Paasi, Anssi (1995) The social construction of peripherality: the case of Finland and the Finnish-Russian border area. In Eskelinen, Heikki & Folke Snickars (eds): Competitive European Peripheries. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 1995, pp. 235-258.

Knuuttila, Seppo & Anssi Paasi: Space, culture and mentality: searching for the connections between geography and anthropology (in Finnish). Katajala, Kimmo (ed.). Manaajista maalaisaateliin: Tulkintoja Toisesta historian, antropologian ja maantieteen välimaastossa. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura (SKS), Helsinki 1995, pp. 28-93.

Paasi, Anssi: The social construction of geopolitical space: theoretical perspectives with empirical illustrations. In Klemsdal, Tormod (ed.): Geografiens innhold og anvendelse. Geografi: på stram line balansegang mellon natur og samfunn. Rapport fra Norske Geografers Forenings Jubileumseminar 1994. Oslo 1995, pp. 101-118.

Paasi, Anssi & Perttu Vartiainen: On the living space of geographers and on the social construction of reality (in Finnish). Terra, vol.107 (1995), pp. 113-116.

Paasi, Anssi: The sign and its denotations: deconstructing the idea of geography. Nordia Geographical Yearbook 1995, vol. 24, pp. 9-38.

Paasi, Anssi & Perttu Vartiainen: The challenges of the human and social geography of the 1990s for Finnish geography: comments on recent discussions (in Finnish) Terra, vol. 105:1, (1993) pp. 47-52.

Karjalainen, Pauli Tapani & Anssi Paasi: Contrasting the nature of the written city: Helsinki in regionalistic thought and as a dwelling place. In Preston, Peter & Paul Simpson-Housley (eds.): Writing the City: Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem. Routledge: London and New York 1994, pp. 58-79.

Paasi, Anssi: The state, territoriality and boundaries: a contextualized comment for R.J. Johnston. Fennia 172, (1994). pp. 97-104.

[Article reprinted in Publicationes instituti geographici universitatis Turkuensis N:o 145]

Paasi, Anssi, Raatikka, Veli-Pekka, Raivo, Petri & Heikki Riikonen: Regions, places and landscapes: Research in regional and human geography at Oulu University. Fennia, vol. 172, (1994), pp. 153-161.

[Article reprinted in Publicationes instituti geographici universitatis Turkuensis N:o 145]

Paasi, Anssi: The changing representations of the Finnish-Russian boundary. In Galluser, Werner A. (with Bürgin, Matthias & Walter Leimgruber) (eds.): Political Boundaries and Coexistence. Peter Lang: Bern/Paris/New York 1994, pp. 103-111.

Paasi, Anssi: The development of the Finnish-Russian border and its changing role in the social consciousness of the Finns. In Hajdú, Zoltán & Guyla Horváth (eds.): European Challenges and Hungarian Responses in Regional Policy. Hungarian Aca-demy of Sciences, Pécs 1994, pp. 49-58.

Paasi, Anssi: The changing meanings of the Finnish-Russian boundary. In Eskelinen, Heikki, Oksa, Jukka & Daniel Austin (eds.): Russian Karelia in Search of a New Role. Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu. Joensuu 1994, pp. 26-40.

Paasi, Anssi (1993)The construction of socio-spatial consciousness: geographical perspectives on the history and contexts of Finnish nationalism. Nordisk Samhällsgeografisk Tidskrift, Nummer 15, pp. 79-100

Paasi, Anssi: The changing geography of boundaries: the Finnish-Russian boundary as an example (in Finnish with an abstract in English). Terra, vol. 105 (1993), pp. 253-263.

Paasi, Anssi: Geography, space and social theory: an interpretation of the debates and contexts (in Finnish). Alue ja Ympäristö/Journal of the Association of Applied Geography and Planning, vol. 21:2 (1993). pp. 38-56.

Paasi, Anssi: The construction of socio-spatial consciousness. In Palmieri, R.P. & J.B.Gouger (eds.). Proceedings of the IGU Commission on the History of Geographical Thought Symposium, August 4-7, 1992, Fredericksburg, Virginia. Fredericksburg 1993, pp. 34-50.

Paasi, Anssi: The changing idea of geography and its manifestations in the language of geographers. In Sjong, M-L (ed.): Geografi og Kjaerlighet. Skrifter fra Norske Geografers Forening, Ny Serie Nr.3. Trondheim 1992, pp. 58-73.

Paasi, Anssi: Some thoughts on geography and internationalization (in Finnish). Terra, vol. 104:1 (1992), pp. 45-52.

Paasi, Anssi: The key principles in the activities of the Research Council for the Sciences in the Academy of Finland (in Finnish). Terra, vol. 104:4 (1992) pp. 287-295.

Paasi, Anssi: Regional identitet: en handelsvara eller en mental förutsättning för utveckling (Regional identity: a commercial commodity or a mental prerequisite for development? in Swedish). NordRevy, Tidskrift for Regional Udvikling, Naeringsliv og Miljö No. 4/90-1/91, pp.13-19.

Paasi, Anssi (1991) Deconstructing regions: notes on the scales of human life. Environment and Planning A, vol. 23, 1991, pp. 239-256.

[Article reprinted in Elden, Stuart, Barnes, Trevor, Batty, Mike, Bennett, Bob, Peck, Jamie and Nigel Thrift (eds): Environment and Planning: Volume I, Cities and Regions. London, Sage 2011]

Paasi, Anssi (1990) The rise and fall of Finnish geopolitics. Political Geography Quarterly, vol. 9:1, pp. 53-65.

Paasi, Anssi: One Europe - many Europes (in Finnish). Terra, vol. 102 (1990):1, pp. 65-74.

Paasi, Anssi: On the language of community studies and its methodological implications: theory and empirical examples (in Finnish with an abstract in English). Terra, vol. 103:3, (1991), pp. 226-241.

Paasi, Anssi: Culture: geographical perspectives (in Finnish). Alue ja ympäristö/Journal of the Association of Applied Geography and Planning vol. 20, (1991), pp. 2-19.

Paasi, Anssi: The changing concepts of region as indicators of the development of geography (in Finnish with an abstract in English). Terra, vol. 103:4, 1991, pp. 293-308.

Paasi, A: A régiók fejlödése és a regionális identitás kialakulása (in Hungarian). Tér és Társadalom/Space and Society (1989), issue nr. 3, pp. 70-79.

Paasi, Anssi: Kultur, region och regional utveckling (Culture, region and regional development, in Swedish). NordREFO, vol. 19 (1989):2, pp. 63-74.

Paasi, A: The emergence of the provinces and the development of regional consciousness (in Finnish). In Heikkinen, Antero (ed.): Maakuntien nousu/The Rise of Provinces. Kustannuskiila, Kuopio 1989, pp. 272-287.

Paasi, Anssi: On the constitution of Värtsilä locality, with special emphasis on its institutionalization. In Pulliainen, Kyösti & Hannes Sihvo (eds.): West of East. In Com-memoration of the 20th Anniversary of the University of Joensuu. Joensuu 1989, pp.23-34.

Paasi, Anssi: The media as creator of local and regional culture. In de Gaudemar, Jean-Paul & Evert Nilsson (eds.): The Long-term Future of Regional Policy - A Nordic View. NordREFO. Borgå. 1989, pp.151-165.

Paasi, Anssi: “Kulturens” manifestering i geografisk forskning: från naturvetenskap till samhällsanalys (The manifestations of ‘culture’ in geographical studies: from a natural science to the analysis of the society, in Swedish). Nordisk Samhällsgeografisk Tidskrift, vol. (1988) Nummer 7, pp. 15-24.

Paasi, Anssi: Locality studies - a new connection between geography and sociology? (in Finnish with an abstract in English) Sosiologia, vol. 26 (1989):4, pp. 298-309.

Paasi, Anssi: Culture and international integration (in Finnish). Yhteiskuntasuunnittelu/ Finnish Journal of Housing and Planning, vol. 26 (1988):1, pp. 7-12.

Paasi, Anssi: The formation of Finnish Lapland into a province and its present identity (in Finnish). Lapin Tutkimusseura, vuosikirja/The Research Society of Lapland, Yearbook XXIX (1988), pp. 4-12.

Paasi, Anssi: Geographical perspectives to the research of rural areas (in Finnish). Aluesuunnittelu/Regional Planning vol. 16 (1987):1, pp. 2-8.

Paasi, Anssi: The development and contents of cultural geography, and its concepts of culture (in Finnish with an abstract in English). Suomen Antropologi/Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, vol. 12 (1987):3, pp. 136-146.

Paasi, Anssi: Regional utveckling och den regionala identiteten - begrepp och konkreta exempel från det Finska regionsystemet (Regional development and regional identity - concepts and concrete examples from the Finnish regional system, in Swedish). NordREFO, vol. 87 (1987):1, pp. 40-49.

Paasi, Anssi: The institutionalization of regions: a theoretical framework for understan-ding the emergence of regions and the constitution of regional identity. Fennia, vol. 164 (1986), issue 1, pp.105-146.

[Article reprinted in Entrikin, J. Nicholas, editor, 2008, Regions: Critical Essays in Human Geography. London: Ashgate]

Paasi, Anssi: Some theoretical premises for understanding the origins of regions and the formation of their structures of expectations. In Sällström, P. (ed.): Mentaliteter: funderingar kring begreppet mentalitet och möjligheten av en forskning om mentalitet. Publications of the Research Institute of the Åbo Akademi Foundation Nr. 118. Turku 1986, pp. 102-107.

Paasi, Anssi: Connections between J.G. Granö’s geographical thinking and behavioural and humanistic geography. Fennia, vol. 162 (1984), issue 1, pp. 21-31.

Paasi, Anssi:: Regional identity and factors influencing on it: regional literature as an example) (in Finnish with an English summary). Terra, vol. 96 (1984):2, pp. 113-120.

Paasi, Anssi: The social content of regional identity (in Finnish). Suomen Antropologi/Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, vol. 9 (1984):2, pp. 50-57.

Paasi, Anssi: Region as the research object of human geography: the perspective of the theory of institutionalization (in Finnish). Terra, vol. 98 (1986):4, pp. 299-303.

Paasi, Anssi: Finns’ perceptions of their home areas (in Finnish). Kotiseutu/Journal of the Society of the Finnish Folklore, vol. (1986):4, pp. 164-170.

Paasi, Anssi: The role of subjective element in J.G.Granö’s geographical thought (in Finnish with an English summary). Terra, vol. 94 (1982):2, pp. 140-156.

Paasi, Anssi: Den regionala identiteten och det samhälleliga medvetandet - iakttagelser från Finland (Regional identity and social consciousness - observations from Finland, in Swedish). Nordisk Samhällsgeografisk Tidskrift, vol. 1 (1984):1, pp. 47-53.

Paasi, Anssi: Region and place - regional identity and the identity of place (in Finnish). Aluesuunnittelu/Regional Planning, vol. (1984):2, pp. 29-31.

Paasi, Anssi: Geography and the education towards international understanding (in Finnish). Natura, vol. 21 (1984):3-4, pp.20-24.

Paasi, Anssi: New geography in high-school geography textbooks: perception geography as an example (in Finnish). Natura, vol. 19 (1982):4, pp. 4-9.

Paasi, Anssi & Perttu Vartiainen: Migration between centers and surrounding rural communes: a case study of Joensuu, Finland (in Finnish with an abstract in English). Terra, vol. 83 (1981): 2, pp. 57-72.

Paasi, Anssi: Spatial preferences and migration: a geographical perspective (in Finnish with an English summary). Siirtolaisuus-Migration, vol. (1981):3, pp. 2-12.

Paasi, Anssi: Space preference studies in perception geography: a critique (in Finnish). Terra/Journal of the Geographical Society of Finland, vol. 92 (1980): 1, pp. 40-46.

Paasi, Anssi: Energy policy and planning at the village level (in Finnish). Aluesuunnit-telu/Regional Planning, vol. 2 (1979), pp. 52-57.

Non-refereed scientific papers

Paasi, Anssi: Travelling words: regional identity as an example (in Finnish). In Paasi, Anssi, Rannila Päivi & Sirpa Tani (editors 2013). On the Road (in Finnish). Multiprint, Oulu, pp. 31-37.

Paasi, Anssi: Provinces at a turning point: regions, strategic planning and civil society (in Finnish). In Pynttäri, V (ed. 2012). De Urbe Uloa 2011: Rakenteet ryskyvät – ihmisen parhaaksi? Oulun kaupungin julkaisuja. Oulu.

Paasi, Anssi: Review on Monmonier, M: No dig, no fly, no go: how maps restrict and control. Progress in Human Geography 36:2 (2012), pp. 282-289.

Paasi, Anssi (2011): The quality of publications arises debate (invited editorial, in Finnish) Terra 121:2.

Paasi, Anssi: Review on Kirby, P.W: Boundless worlds: an anthropological approach to movement. Progress in Human Geography vol. 35 (2011), pp. 430-431.

Mantila, Harri and Paasi, Anssi (2010): Pellolaisnuorten ympäristösuhde, murremielteet ja h:n käyttö (Opponent’s review of a PhD thesis in linguistics). Virittäjä vol. 114, no. 1, 156-160.

Paasi, Anssi: Review on Cox K R et al.: The Sage Handbook of Political Geography. Progress in Human Geography 34 (2010)

Lee, Roger, Castree, Noel, Lawson, Vicky, Paasi, Anssi, Radcliffe, Sarah and Charles Withers: Progress in Human Geography? Progress in Human Geography 33: 1 (2009), pp. 3-6

Paasi, Anssi: From “Joensuu school” to a Professorship in regional and systematic geography: observations and experiences from the journey (in Finnish). In Rusanen, Jarmo (ed.). Viisi vuosikymmentä oululaista maantiedettä (The Five Decades of

Geography at the University of Oulu). Nordia Geographical Publications 2009, pp. 29-45.

Paasi, Anssi: Regional studies and the globalizing world (in Finnish). Hiidenkivi Nr. 5/2008, pp. 10-13.

Paasi, Anssi: Review on Yiftachel, O: Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine. Progress in Human Geography 32 (2008), issue 5, pp. 734-736.

Paasi, Anssi: An anatomy of place and boundaries (Review on Massey, D: Samanaikainen tila, Vastapaino, Tampere). Sosiologia vol. 45 (2008), no. 2., pp.170-171.

Paasi Anssi & Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola: Introduction: The changing cultural geographies of place, region and mobility. Nordia Geographical Yearbook 2007. Oulu. 2008. pp.1-4.

Paasi, Anssi: Review on Jensen O.B. & T.Richardson: Making European Space: Mobility, Power and Territorial Identity. European Urban and Regional Studies vol. 13, nr. 2 (2006), pp. 183-185.

Paasi, Anssi: Grenzen schaffen Identitäten und Unterschiede. Denken und Glauben, Nr. 135-136, März, April (2005), pp. 11-15

Paasi, Anssi: Finnish human geography and the fourth task of geography (invited editorial, in Finnish). Terra vol. 116 (2005), no. 1, pp. 1-2.

Paasi, Anssi: Impact factors and symbolic violence? The structures and boundaries of internationality in scientific publishing (in Finnish). Tieteessä tapahtuu no. 3 (2005), pp. 50-56.

Paasi, Anssi: Review on Erika Lind (2004). Housing the nation? Post-Apartheid public housing provision in the Eastern Cape Province, South-Africa. University of Uppsala, Geografiska Regionstudier Nr. 57. Svensk Geografisk Årsbok vol. 79-80. Lund 2005, pp. 149-151.

Paasi, Anssi: Review on Cresswell, T: Place: a short introduction. Progress in Human Geography vol. 29, issue 5 (2005), pp. 678-680.

Paasi, Anssi: A multi-scalar redefinition of political geography (in Finnish) (Review on: Sami Moisio; Geopoliittinen kamppailu Suomen EU-jäsenyydestä). Kosmopolis 33 (2003), 61-66.

Paasi, Anssi: One episode from the static 1980s (in Finnish). Idäntutkimus 4 (2003) 10, pp. 32-33

Paasi, Anssi: Global times and emerging socio-spatial shapes [Review essay on Sassen, S (ed.): Global networks, linked cities, and Lahiri, S (ed.): Regionalism and globalization] International Journal of Urban and Regional Studies vol. 26:4 (2003), pp. 958-961.

Paasi, Anssi: Regional identities and the challenge of the mobile world. In Engen, Thor Ola (editor): Kulturell identitet og regional utvikling. Högskolen i Hedemark Rapport Nr. 8. Hamar 2002, pp. 33-48.

Paasi, Anssi: Review on Dijkink, G & H.Knippenberg (eds.) Territorial Factor: Political Geography in a Globalizing World. TESG: Journal of Economic and Social Geography, vol. 93, issue 4 (2002), pp. 476-478.

Paasi, Anssi: Review on Smith, J (ed.) Beyond the Limits: The Concept of Space in Russian History and Culture (Studia Historica 62). Scandinavian Journal of History, vol.26, issue 4, (2001), pp. 333-334.

Paasi, Anssi: Review on G. Ó Tuathail and S. Dalby (editors) Rethinking Geopolitics. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 18, number 2, (2000), pp. 282-284.

Paasi, Anssi: Review on Herb, G & D.Kaplan: Nested Identities: Nationalism, Territory & Scale. Progress in Human Geography, vol. 26, issue 3 (2000), pp. 686-688

Paasi, Anssi: Review on Dijkink, G: National Identity and Geopolitical Visions. Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 25, No.1 (1999), pp.129-131.

Paasi, Anssi: Review on: Benko, G & U.Strohmayer. Geography, History and Social Sciences. GeoJournal vol. 41, nr. 1 (1997), pp. 93-94.

Paasi, Anssi: Political geography and postmodern time? Review on: ÓTuathail, Gearoid: Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Geopolitical Space. Alue ja ympäristö 26, (1996) 81-84.

Paasi, Anssi: Space, culture and society (in Finnish). Sosiologia, vol. 32 (1995), pp. 163-164.

Paasi, Anssi: A search for the nature of place (in Finnish). Terra vol. 104:1 (1992) pp. 56-58.

Paasi, Anssi: Review of Johnston, R.J., A Question of Place: Exploring the Practice of Human Geography. Geografiska Annaler, Series B, vol.74 (1992), 75-77.

Paasi, Anssi: On the rules of scientific communication: a note on the paper “Postgraduate studies from the perspective of applied geography” (in Finnish) (Terra l991/1). Terra, vol. l03:2. 1991, pp.152-154.

Paasi, Anssi & Pertti Vuorela: Suunnittelumaantieteen uusia tuulia (Review on Schulman, H: Alueelliset todellisuudet ja visiot. Helsingin kehitys ja kehittäminen 1900-luvulla. Teknillinen korkeakoulu, Yhdyskuntasuunnittelun täydennyskoulutuskeskuksen julkaisuja A18. Espoo 1990). Terra, vol. l03, no.2. 1991. pp.148-150.

Paasi, Anssi: The awakening of Finnish landscape geography (Review on Keisteri, T, l990, The study of changes in cultural landscape. Fennia l68:1) (in Finnish). Terra, vol. 102:3, 1990, pp.197-198.

Paasi, Anssi: Europe in the geography curricula of Finnish universities (in Finnish). Terra, vol. 102 (1990):1, pp.63-64.

Paasi, Anssi: A cultural geography for the 1990s (Review on Jackson, P.: Maps of Meaning, An Introduction to Cultural Geography) (in Finnish). Terra, vol. 102 (1990), pp. 93-94.

Paasi, Anssi: Review of Johnston, R.J., Gregory, Derek & David M. Smith (eds.): The Dictionary of Human Geography. Political Geography Quarterly, vol. 8 (1989):2, pp. 203-204

Paasi, Anssi: Culture and international integration (in Finnish). In Kansainvälistyminen - uhka vai mahdollisuus Suomen aluekehitykselle. Sisäasiainministeriö, aluepoliittinen osasto, aluepoliittisia artikkeleita/Ministry of Internal Affairs, Department of Regional Policy 1/88. Helsinki 1988 pp. 122-138

Paasi, Anssi: The connections of human geography at the University of Joensuu (in Finnish). Terra, vol. 100 (1988): 2, pp. 178-180.

Paasi, Anssi: A new basic text into the personal library of human geographers (Review on Johnston, R.J., et al.: The Dictionary of Human Geography) (in Finnish). Terra, vol. 100 (1988):3, pp. 416-417.

Paasi, Anssi: A theory and practice territoriality (Review on Sack, R.: Human Territoriality. Its Theory and History) (in Finnish). Terra, vol. 100 (1988):3, pp. 417-418.

Paasi, Anssi: Institutionalization of regions: outline of a framework. In Forsström, B., Vartiainen, P. & S. Virkkala (eds.): Den senindustriella utvecklingen och den regionala problematiken i Norden. Publications of the Association of Applied Geography and Planning No. 24. Helsinki 1986, pp.139-152.

Paasi, Anssi: Great Migration and the transformation of the Life-World: the change of migrant’s community from the perspective of language) (Review on Nuolijärvi, P: Kieliyhteisön vaihto ja muuttajan identiteetti) (in Finnish). Terra, vol. 98 (1986):2, pp.222-224

Paasi, Anssi: A concise work on behavioural approaches to human geography, (Review on Walmsley J. & Lewis: Human Geography: Behavioural Approaches) (in Finnish) Terra, vol. 96 (1984):4, pp. 232-233.

Paasi, Anssi: J.G.Granö’s Pure Geography and the present time (in Finnish). In Tuhkanen, S (ed.).J.G.Granö’s Pure Geography and its renaissance in the form of an English-language translation, in Finnish). Publicationes instituti geographici universitatis Turkuensis N:o 157 (1997) pp. 27-30.

Paasi, Anssi: Borders in the globalizing world: the viewpoint of political geography (in Finnish with an abstract in English). In Saarikoski, V. (ed.): And never shall they meet? European Space and Thought between East and West. Department of Political History, University of Turku. 1997. pp. 22-34.

Paasi, Anssi: Global, national and local: notes on the development of regional geography during the 1980s and 1990s (in Finnish with an abstract in English). In Mikkonen, K (ed.). Maantieteen perspektiivejä. Vaasan yliopiston julkaisuja, selvityksiä ja raportteja 12 (1996). s.45-61.

Paasi, Anssi: Notes on the changing idea of geography and the revival of regional geography. In Karjalainen, P.T. (ed.): Different Geographies (Dedicated to Professor Juhani Hult on his 60th birthday). Institutum Geographicum, Universitas Ostiensis. Joensuu 1993. pp. 43-58.

Paasi, Anssi: Culture and regional development (in Finnish). In Saarelainen, Pertti (ed.): Aluesuunnittelupäivät 1988. Yhdyskuntarakenne-rakennemuutos: 20-vuotias suunnittelumaantiede uusien haasteiden edessä. University of Joensuu, Human Geography and Planning, Occasional papers 8. Joensuu 1989, pp. 237-239.

Paasi, Anssi: The region in social geography: a viewpoint (in Finnish). In Hautamäki, L., etc. (eds.) Maantiede ja ihminen. Tampere 1986, pp. 23-38.

Paasi, Anssi: The shaping of the Eastern and Western regions of Finland (in Finnish). In Tuomi, Ossi (ed.): Aluetutkimuksen Itä ja Länsi. Chydenius-instituutti, tutkimuksia no. 19. Kokkola 1986, pp. 1-11.

Paasi, Anssi: An interesting book for the devotees of planning and behavioural geography (Review on Horelli, L.: Ympäristöpsykologia, (in Finnish). Terra, vol. 94 (1982):2, pp. 181-182.

Paasi, Anssi: A geography of mental health in Chicago (Review on Daiches, S.: People in Distress. A Geographical Perspective on Psychological Well-being) (in Finnish). Terra, vol. 94 (1982):3, pp. 277-278.

Paasi, Anssi: On the problems of perception geography (a comment in Finnish). Terra, vol. 92 (1980): 2, pp. 122-123.

Paasi, Anssi: Some initiatives for researching Finnish environments (in Finnish). In Siirilä, S., Hautamäki, L., Rouhinen, S. & E. Tervamäki (eds.): Kylät ja kaupunginosat yhteiskunnan alueellisina perusyksikköinä. Finnpublishers. Tampere 1980, pp. 316-322.

Books, monographs and edited books/journal issues

Martin Jones & Paasi, Anssi (2014). Regional World(s): Advancing the geography of regions. Regional Studies Association Book Series (forthcoming).

Bufon, Milan, Minghi, Julian and Anssi Paasi (eds). The New European Frontiers: Social and Spatial (Re)-Integration Issues in Multicultural and Borders Regions. Cambridge, Cambridge Scholar Publishing (forthcoming).

Lee, Roger, Castree, Noel, Kitchin, Rob, Lawson, Victoria, Paasi, Anssi, Philo, Christopher, Radcliffe, Sarah, Roberts, Sue and Charles WJ Withers (editors) The Sage Handbook of Progress in Human Geography. Sage, London (forthcoming 2014)

Paasi, Anssi, Rannila, Päivi and Sirpa Tani (editors 2013). On the Road (in Finnish). Oulu: Multiprint. 137 p.

Martin Jones & Paasi, Anssi: Edited special issue on “Regional World(s): Advancing the geography of regions”. Regional Studies 47:1 (2013), pp. 1-129.

Moisio, Sami & Paasi, Anssi (2013). Edited special issue on ”Beyond state-centricity: Geopolitics of changing state spaces”. Geopolitics 18(2).

Kitchin, Rob, Thrift, Nigel (editors-in-chief), Castree, Noel, Crang, Mike, Domosh, Mona (senior editors), Anderson, Kay, Cloke, Paul, Crampton, Jeremy, Graham, Brian, Hadjimichalis, Costis, Hubbard, Philip, Kearns, Roger, Kwan, Mei-Po, McLafferty, Sara, Lees, Loretta, Paasi, Anssi, Philo, Chris, Sidaway, James, Willis, Katie and Henry Yeung (section editors). International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Volumes I-XII. Elsevier, London. 8250 pages. 2009

Granö, Olavi and Anssi Paasi (editors): J.G.Granö: Pure Geography. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 1997. 191p.

Paasi, Anssi: Territories, Boundaries and Consciousness: the Changing Geographies of the Finnish-Russian Border (Foreword by W.R.Mead and Preface by Peter J.Taylor) John Wiley & Sons, London 1996, xx + 353 p.

Paasi Anssi & Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola (Guest Editors). Special Issue: The Changing Cultural Geographies of Place, Region and Mobility. Nordia Geographical Yearbook 2007. Oulu 2008. 99 pp.

Paasi, Anssi: The cycles of systematic and regional geography and the question of interests in geographical research (in Finnish). Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu, May l990. Oulu.

Paasi, Anssi: Perspectives on Postgraduate Studies in Finnish Geography up to the Year 2000 (in Finnish with an English summary). University of Joensuu, Publications in Human Geography and Planning, no. 1. Joensuu 1989. 144p.

Paasi, Anssi: On the border of the Western and Eastern worlds. The emergence of the utopia of Värtsilä community, in Eastern Finland. University of Joensuu, Human Geography and Planning, Occasional papers No. 6. Joensuu 1988. 35p.

Paasi, Anssi: Four provinces in Finland: geographical study of the development of regional consciousness (in Finnish with a summary in English). University of Joensuu, Publications in Social Sciences 8. Joensuu 1986. 345p.

Paasi, Anssi: The development of the provincial division of Finland and its shape in the regional consciousness of the Finnish people (in Finnish with a summary in English).

Publications of the Association of Applied Geography and Planning no. 15. Helsinki 1984. 151p.

Paasi, Anssi: The concept of national character and its use in Finnish school geography textbooks - a study of regional stereotypes (in Finnish with a summary in English). University of Joensuu, Research Reports of the Faculty of Education (Sociology of Education) no. 2. Joensuu 1984. 136p.

Paasi, Anssi: Regional consciousness and regional identity as part of man’s spatial ties (in Finnish with a summary in English). Publications of the Association of Applied Geography and Planning no. 13. Helsinki 1984. 188p.

Paasi, Anssi: The space preferences of Finnish students as an indicator of regional consciousness (in Finnish with a summary in English). Publications of the Association of Applied Geography and Planning no. 15. Helsinki 1984. 92p.

Paasi, Anssi: The subject of geography? The road to modern themes of humanistic and behavioural geography (in Finnish with a summary in English). University of Joensuu, Publications of Social and Regional Sciences no. 34. Joensuu 1983. 531p.

Paasi, Anssi: The concept of space as a methodological problem in the so-called ‘New geography’ (in Finnish).). In Karjalainen, P., Paasi, A. & P. Vartiainen. Three methodological studies in the field of geography (in Finnish). University of Joensuu, Publications of Social and Regional Sciences 25, pp. 38-129. Joensuu 1981.

Paasi, Anssi: (ed.): Symposium on “Environmental problems and planning” (in Finnish) Joensuu 1980. Publications of the Association of Applied Geography and Planning no. 3. Helsinki 1981. 39p.

Paasi, Anssi (ed.): Geography in the l980s: some perspectives (in Finnish). University of Joensuu, Publications of Social and Regional Sciences no. 26. 1980. 154p.

Hult, Juhani & Anssi Paasi: The Finnish Environments Project. A pilot study for the Scientific Editorial Committee of the Atlas of Finland (in Finnish). Joensuu 1980. 63p.

Heinonen, Harri & Anssi Paasi (197(). lan for the village of Särkivaara, Kiihtelysvaara municipality (in Finnish). Joensuu 1978. 30p.

D. Publications for professional/policy community

Paasi, Anssi: The meaning of cultural environment for local identity. In Oulun kulttuuriympäristöohjelma. Oulun kaupunkisuunnittelu A205. Oulu 2013 pp. 14-15.

Paasi, Anssi: National stereotypes reflect feelings more than reason (in Finnish). Aktuumi, nr. 7/l992. pp. 8-11.

Paasi, Anssi: Culture and regional development (in Finnish). In Marjomaa, I. & J.Nykyri (ed.): Luova ympäristö - luova ihminen/ Creative Environment - Creative Human Being. Oulu 1991. pp.38-48.

Paasi, Anssi: The human geography of the province of Satakunta (in Finnish). Länsi-Suomen Korkeakouluyhdistyksen julkaisuja, sarja B/11 - Publications of the University Association of Western Finland B/11. Rauma l990. 39 p.

Paasi, Anssi & Pertti Saarelainen. The Institute of Rural Studies at the University of Joensuu and the research related to rural areas at the university (in Finnish). Joensuun yliopiston tiedotuslehti no. 17. Joensuu 1988, pp. 5-9.

Paasi, Anssi: Regional identity and regional development - some observations (in Finnish). In Aluepolitiikan muuttuva toimintaympäristö. Sisäasiainministeriö, aluepoliittinen osasto, aluepoliittisia artikkeleita/Ministry of Internal Affairs, Department of Regional policy (1985):2, pp.113-131.

E. Popular articles related to the research

Paasi, Anssi & Kaj Zimmerbauer (2012). Municipality mergers foster debate. Kaleva February

Kaj Zimmerbauer & Anssi Paasi (2012), The discords of municipality reform Ilkka, February

Paasi, Anssi: Boundaries in the borderless world (in Finnish). Kaleva, April, 2008

Paasi, Anssi: Geography has also sociological and humanistic connections (in Finnish). In Perko, T (ed.): Tiede muutosten maailmassa/Science in the World of Changes. Atena, Jyväskylä 1990. pp. 33-39.

Paasi, Anssi: On the development of geography as an institutional whole (in Finnish). Joensuun Ylioppilaslehti (1983):4

G. Dissertations

PhD –thesis consisted of the following three publications:

1. Paasi, Anssi: The institutionalization of regions. Theory and comparative case studies. (Ph.D-thesis synopsis).University of Joensuu, Publications in Social Sciences No. 9. Joensuu 1986 35p.

2. Paasi, Anssi: The institutionalization of regions: a theoretical framework for understanding the emergence of regions and the constitution of regional identity. Fennia, vol. 164 (1986), issue 1, pp.105-146.

3.Paasi, Anssi: Four provinces in Finland: a geographical study of the development of regional consciousness (in Finnish with a summary in English). University of Joensuu, Publications in Social Sciences 8. Joensuu 1986. 345p.

Unpublished Licentiate of Philosophy –thesis:

Paasi, Anssi: The concept of space as a methodological and empirical problem in migration research: the perspective of behavioral geography (in Finnish). University of Joensuu, 1980. 300p.

M.Sc –thesis:

Paasi, Anssi: Energy and material flows in agriculture at local scale. University of Joensuu 1979. 100p.