Merje Kuus

Prof. Kuus is a political geographer whose work examines knowledge and authority in bureaucratic structures. In broad terms, she investigates how policy-making institutions, such as government agencies (including universities), international organizations, or civil society groups, know what they know, and how they convince themselves and others that this is so. Empirically, her current research examines transnational regulatory practices in contemporary Europe, but the empirical focus undergirds a broader interest in knowledge and power, structure and agency, in bureaucratic and policy-making settings. She has also worked on, and remain interested in, political identity, subject-formation, and center-periphery relations, especially in contemporary Europe.

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