Diskurssintutkimus

Tässä luvussa tarkastelemme diskurssintutkimusta. Aluksi käsittelemme diskurssintutkimuksen teoreettista viitekehystä, joka kiinnittyy sosiaaliseen konstruktionismiin ja määrittelee sitä, millaiset kysymyksenasettelut diskurssintutkimuksen piirissä ovat mahdollisia. Esittelemme lyhyesti diskurssintutkimuksen erilaisia suuntauksia ja kuvaamme esimerkkien kautta sen soveltamista etnologiassa ja sen lähitieteissä. Luvun lopussa annamme käytännön esimerkin siitä, millaista analyysia diskurssintutkimuksen viitekehyksessä voidaan tehdä: millaisia kysymyksiä tutkimusaineistolle voi esittää, miten analyysi etenee ja millaista tietoa se tuottaa. Lopuksi pohdimme, millaisiin tutkimuksiin diskurssintu…

Mistä on diskursiivinen uskonnontutkimus tehty?

Arvio teoksesta Taira, Teemu. Pehmeitä Kumouksia. Uskonto, media, nykyaika. Eetos-julkaisuja 17. Turku: Eetos. 2015. 271 s. ISBN 978-952-67966-8-0.

Local, Natural, Authentic: New Nordic Cuisine as Economic Trend and Cultural Resistance

Banal Sustainability : Renewing the Cultural Norm of Not Wasting Food

Recently food waste has been raised as a major sustainability problem: roughly one third of the food produced globally ends up lost or wasted. This article investigates how people attach meaning to food waste reduction, based on eight individual interviews conducted with people met at a consumer education event in Helsinki in 2017. It is shown how the traditional cultural norm of not wasting food is reproduced in discourse on thrift and frugality and renewed by research-based arguments from circular economy discourse and environmental and sustainability discourse. It is proposed that the interplay of discourses merge into what Lars Kaijser calls banal sustainability: the complicated issue o…

Kaksin hartein kohti kolmatta vuosikymmentä

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Mobilising Consumers for Food Waste Reduction in Finnish Media Discourse

Raippalinna explores how consumers are mobilised for food waste reduction in media discourse. Food waste reduction initiatives are often criticised for putting the responsibility on individual consumers, but little research exists on the mobilisation of consumers in actual contexts. Through critical discourse analysis of media texts, Raippalinna investigates how the food waste problem and consumers are constructed in relation to each other in Finlands leading newspaper Helsingin Sanomat 2010–2017. The analysis demonstrates that the discourses of consumer mobilisation appear mostly as consumer education where the consumer’s role is to manage individual consumption and household practices. Th…

Editorial

Ontological differences and the pursuit of planetary well-being

This chapter emphasizes the importance of ontological dialogue and methodological choices to the conceptual development and practical enactment of planetary well-being. Starting from the premise that cultural practices, including scientific concepts and methods, shape realities, the chapter suggests approaching nature and culture as entangled with each other. From this perspective, this chapter deals with divergent biocultural realities rather than a single, universal Nature viewed from multiple cultural perspectives. Biocultural realities differ in terms of how well they enable more-than-human communities to regenerate themselves. The chapter proposes anthropologist Anna Tsing’s conceptual…

Julkaisemista ja tiedepolitiikkaa

Planetary well-being

Tensions between the well-being of present humans, future humans, and nonhuman nature manifest in social protests and political and academic debates over the future of Earth. The increasing consumption of natural resources no longer increases, let alone equalizes, human well-being, but has led to the current ecological crisis and harms both human and nonhuman well-being. While the crisis has been acknowledged, the existing conceptual frameworks are in some respects ill-equipped to address the crisis in a way that would link the resolving of the crisis with the pivotal aim of promoting equal well-being. The shortcomings of the existing concepts in this respect relate to anthropocentric norma…

Planetary well-being

Tensions between the well-being of present humans, future humans, and nonhuman nature manifest in social protests and political and academic debates over the future of Earth. The increasing consumption of natural resources no longer increases, let alone equalises, human well-being, but has led to the current ecological crisis and harms both human and nonhuman well-being. While the crisis has been acknowledged, the existing conceptual frameworks are in some respects ill-equipped to address the crisis in a way that would link the resolving of the crisis with the pivotal aim of promoting equal well-being. The shortcomings of the existing concepts in this respect relate to anthropocentric norma…