Alexander Diener

Alexander Diener is Professor of Critical Border Studies at the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland and the Managing Editor of the publishing platform Oxford Intersections Borders. His research focuses on borders/borderlands, migration and diaspora, nationalism/transnationalism, axial development, urban landscape change, and place attachment. Alex has authored and edited numerous books including One Homeland or Two: The Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolia’s Kazakhs (Stanford University Press 2009), Borders: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2012/2024), From Socialist to Post-Socialist Cities (Routledge Publishers 2014), Cities as Power (Bloomsbury Publishers 2019), and The Power of Place in Place Attachment (Routledge Publishers 2023). He is currently leading a research team to better understand borders in the 21st century.