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‘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 ...
‘Something’s Not Right in Silverhöjd’ : Nordic Supernatural and Environmental and Species Justice in <i>Jordskott</i>
(Routledge, 2022)
In the Swedish/Finnish/British/Norwegian television series Jordskott (2015–17) child victims’ mysterious disappearances signal that ‘something’s not right’ in Silverhöjd, a Swedish town. Three detectives uncover a conflict ...
‘The Class of My Dreams’ as Envisioned by Student Teachers of English : What Is There to Teach about the Language?
(Multilingual Matters, 2019)
As part of a bigger project on the motivation of future EFL teachers, this chapter sets out to find
out what a group of student teachers (N = 67) in Finland thought teaching English would involve
once they had graduated ...
‘The Iraq War Momentum’ in the Struggle on the Powers of the US Congress
(Helsinki University Press, 2019)
How parliaments and legislatures participate in war-making has raised interest among researchers from different disciplines, including constitutional law and political science. While war powers are usually considered to ...
‘The will to not be empowered (according to your rules)’ : Resistance in Finnish participatory social policy
(Sage, 2019)
Participation has increasingly become a means and an end for successful and ‘empowering’ social policy. Building on previous governmentality critiques of participatory initiatives, this article investigates practices of ...
‘To Make a People Out of a Mere Population’ : Sovereignty and Governmentality in Hegemonic Russian Cultural Policy
(Brill, 2022)
The paper claims that contemporary Russian cultural policy has been determined by political transformations associated with the political project to establish sovereignty that has organized Putin’s regime since 2012. The ...
‘We hugged each other during the cold nights’ : the role of affect in an anti-deportation protest network in Finland
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2021)
This article analyses the role of affect and emotions in Finland’s first large-scale anti-deportation protest, the 2017 Right to Live protest in Helsinki. Despite deportation protests having recently gained scholarly ...