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‘Culture’ as a discursive resource in newspaper articles from Le Monde about secularism : constructing ‘us’ through strategic oppositions with religion
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Building on research highlighting the complex webs of relations
between secularism, culture, and religion, this study investigates
how the concept of culture was utilized in discourses of laïcité
from the newspaper le ...
‘Democracy’ and ‘People’s Power’ in the Finnish Parliament : the Struggle between Representative, Participatory and Direct Democracy
(Helsingin yliopisto, 2023)
The Finnish language is one that offers two translations of the concept ‘democracy,’ demokratia and kansanvalta (people’s power), which have remained in active political use. We analyse the existence of two terms as a ...
‘I do not trust any of them anymore’ : Institutional distrust and corrective practices in pro-asylum activism in Finland
(SAGE Publications, 2022)
Although there is extensive research on how institutional trust and distrust play out in the forms political participation takes, the existing research lacks thorough analysis on what trust and distrust actually consist ...
‘I shared the joy’ : sport-related social support and communality on Instagram
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2020)
The popularity of sharing photographs on digital platforms has increased significantly due to the communicative affordances of mobile media and the emergence of photo-sharing applications, such as Instagram. In this paper, ...
‘It has given me this kind of courage…’: the significance of CLIL in forming a positive target language self-concept
(Routledge, 2022)
This article sets out to broaden the understanding of foreign language self-concept in CLIL context. The few existing studies on self-concept in CLIL have been quantitative and provided somewhat discrepant results, ...
‘I’m a foreign teacher’ : legitimate positionings in the stories of a migrant teacher
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023)
This qualitative study examines one migrant teacher’s identity positions in the context of a peer mentoring group setting in Finland. Combining theories of legitimacy and teacher narratives, this study asked which positions ...
‘My skin is hard’ - adult learners’ resistance to racialization and racism
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)
This article analyzes experiences of racialization in stories of adult learners with refugee experience who attend a basic education program at a Finnish community college. Throughout a two-year ethnographic study, several ...
‘Our words are stronger’ : re-enforcing boundaries through ritual work in a terrorist news event
(Sage Publications Ltd., 2020)
This article investigates the ritual work in terrorist news events, using the Berlin truck attack as a case in point. The article connects with the larger cluster of anthropologically inspired communication research on ...
‘Reaching Maturity’ or ‘Selling Out’? : The Idea of Green Growth in Finnish Green Party Environmental Discourses 1988–1995
(White Horse Press, 2023)
Over the past decades, major shifts have taken place in public environmental discourses transnationally, of which the Finnish Green party provides an illustrative example. Green parties were formed throughout Europe to ...
‘So close, yet so different’ : reflections on the multicultural course of Slavic languages
(Research-publishing.net, 2019)
The complexity of language learning may be expanded to learning the languages belonging to the same language family, for example, Slavic languages. This paper reports on the reflection-on action research aimed at the ...