Hanna-Mari Kivisto

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Hanna-Mari Kivistö

Postdoctoral researcher in Political Science, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä. She received her PhD degree in December 2013. During 2014 and 2015 she worked as an acting university lecturer in political science, teaching courses on political thought, political concepts, human rights, democratic theory and methods of political analysis.

Her fields of interests include human rights, political theory, right to asylum, conceptual history and political rhetoric. She began her three year Kone Foundation postdoctoral scholarship in 2016. The study theorises politics of human rights with focus on debates that are connected to asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in particular.

Her publications include ‘The Concept of 'Human Dignity' in the Post-War Human Rights Debates’ Res Pública. Revista de Filosofía Política, 27 (2012), 99-108; 'Dubliners' in the European Union: a perspective on the politics of asylum-seeking’, in Taru Haapala and Tuula Vaarakallio, eds., The Distant Present (Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, SoPhi, 2013), 106-128; ‘Debating Right to Asylum: A Conceptual and Rhetorical Reading of German post-war Deliberations’ (Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2013); ‘The Status of the Right to Political Asylum: A Rhetorical Analysis of German and United Nations Debates’, in Kari Palonen, José María Rosales and Tapani Turkka, eds., The Politics of Dissensus: Parliament in Debate (Santander: Cantabria University Press & McGraw-Hill, 2014), 449-476; ‘Rights of Noncitizens: Asylum as an Individual Right in the 1949 West German Grundgesetz’. Contributions to the History of Concepts, 9:1 (2014), 60-73; ‘Right of the Politically Persecuted Non-citizen or Right of the State?: Conceptual Debates on Asylum’ in Claudia Wiesner, Anna Björk, Hanna-Mari Kivistö and Katja Mäkinen, eds., Shaping Citizenship: A Political Concept in Theory, Debate and Practice (Routledge, forthcoming 2017).

Her forthcoming monograph on right to asylum will be published by Nomos. Together with Claudia Wiesner, Anna Björk and Katja Mäkinen she has co-edited the volume Shaping Citizenship: A Political Concept in Theory, Debate and Practice (forthcoming Routledge 2017).

E-mail: hanna-mari.kivisto (at) jyu.fi

Web: https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/yfi/en/staff/kivisto-hanna-mari