Abstract

Cultural, social, political and economic are folded into urban landscape. The critical geopolitical study of urban landscape is crucial to understand why and how the cultural, social, political and economic matter. Scale is crucial to understand the histories and geographies of particular places, landscapes and processes. In the presentation I use flexible ‘scale-jumping’ through critical geopolitics as an interpretative frame to indicate simultaneously present connections, flows and circuits in urban landscapes of Tallinn and of other places. The setting is presence but also deliberately post-postmodern when the cyborgs are ‘naturalised’ through the everyday actor-networks between human beings, technology and urban landscape.

• Jussi S. Jauhiainenis Professor of Geography and Regional Planning at the University of Oulu in Finland and Associate Professor of Urban Geography  at the University of Tartu in Estonia. He has experienced urban life and landscapes in many countries and conducted research at several universities, including those of Helsinki, Turku, Milan, Saarland, Wales
  and Barcelona. His current research interests are urban and regional planning and policies, urban networks, Baltic Sea region, geopolitics of security and environment, and technology enterprises. He has over 150 academic publications in ten languages.