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| Laughing at northernness: postcolonialism and metafictive irony in the imaginative geography J Ridanpää Social & Cultural Geography 8 (6), 907-928, 2007 | 72 | 2007 |
| Ethnic representations and social exclusion: Sáminess in Finnish Lapland tourism promotion M Niskala, J Ridanpää Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism 16 (4), 375-394, 2016 | 62 | 2016 |
| Geographical studies of humor J Ridanpää Geography Compass 8 (10), 701-709, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| A masculinist northern wilderness and the emancipatory potential of literary irony J Ridanpää Gender, Place & Culture 17 (3), 319-335, 2010 | 42 | 2010 |
| Kuvitteellinen pohjoinen: Maantiede, kirjallisuus ja postkoloniaalinen kritiikki J Ridanpää Oulun yliopisto, 2005 | 41* | 2005 |
| From the Bronx to the Wilderness: Inari‐Sami Rap, Language Revitalisation and Contested Ethnic Stereotypes J Ridanpää, A Pasanen Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 9 (2), 213-230, 2009 | 39 | 2009 |
| Politics of literary humour and contested narrative identity (of a region with no identity) J Ridanpää cultural geographies 21 (4), 711-726, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |
| ‘Humour is Serious’ as a Geopolitical Speech Act: IMDb Film Reviews of Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator J Ridanpää Geopolitics 19 (1), 140-160, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |
| Pajala as a literary place: in the readings and footsteps of Mikael Niemi J Ridanpää Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 9 (2), 103-117, 2011 | 35 | 2011 |
| Border guarding and the politics of the body: An examination of the Finnish border guard service EK Prokkola, J Ridanpää Gender, Place & Culture 22 (10), 1374-1390, 2015 | 33 | 2015 |
| The media and the irony of politically serious situations: consequences of the Muhammed cartoons in Finland J Ridanpää Media, Culture & Society 34 (2), 131-145, 2012 | 28 | 2012 |
| Why save a minority language? Meänkieli and rationales of language revitalization J Ridanpää Fennia-International Journal of Geography 196 (2), 187-203, 2018 | 24 | 2018 |
| Following the plot of Bengt Pohjanen's Meänmaa: narrativization as a process of creating regional identity EK Prokkola, J Ridanpää Social & Cultural Geography 12 (7), 775-791, 2011 | 24 | 2011 |
| Seriously serious political spaces of humor J Ridanpää ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 13 (3), 450-456, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
| ‘Singing acts’ from the deep North: critical perspectives on northern exotics, contemporary ethnic music and language preservation in Sámi communities J Ridanpää Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives, 17-30, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
| Metafictive geography J Ridanpää Culture, Theory & Critique 51 (1), 47-63, 2010 | 17 | 2010 |
| Crisis events and the inter-scalar politics of humor J Ridanpää GeoJournal 84 (4), 901-915, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
| Humor and parody in Finnish rap music videos M Tervo, J Ridanpää European Journal of Cultural Studies 19 (6), 616-636, 2016 | 16 | 2016 |
| Narrativizing (and laughing) spatial identities together in Meänkieli-speaking minorities J Ridanpää Geoforum 83, 60-70, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
