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Karkotukset ja hidas väkivalta
2021
Karkotuksiin liittyvä ”hidas väkivalta” on ennen muuta pelkoa ja epävarmuutta tulevaisuudesta, ja se uuvuttaa ja näännyttää kohteensa vähitellen. Hidas väkivalta ravistelee myös karkotuksen tai karkotusuhan kohteena olevien ihmisten lähipiiriä. nonPeerReviewed
The Slow Violence of Deportability
2021
Stefano Manusco: Kasvien tasavalta
2022
Examining Power and Inequality through Informality in Urban Africa
2021
As increasing numbers of Africans live in cities, their strategies for living and surviving challenge prevailing theories and models of urban development. Scholars of poverty and development have given more attention to rural areas than to urban ones, yet urban lifeways need more study because people’s material lives in the city differ significantly from those in rural areas. Urban residents are exposed to more ethnic, religious, and socio-economic diversity than rural residents (Jha et al. 2005) . Urban areas are also highly monetized, and the lives of especially the poorest residents are determined almost entirely by market forces. Money thus becomes the focus of city dwellers’ attention:…
Southern civil society organizations as practical hybrids : Dealing with legitimacy in a Ugandan gender advocacy organization
2023
This chapter explores the ways in which Southern civil society organizations (CSOs) navigate between diverse audiences and logics in relation to which their legitimacy is negotiated. Drawing on the notions of practical hybrids and organizational legitimacy in hybrid organizations, the chapter explores the legitimacy audiences and logics relevant to a Ugandan gender advocacy organization, Action for Development (ACFODE). The chapter identifies five influential legitimacy audiences – central government, local government, project participants in the communities, international development partners, and other Ugandan gender CSOs. Further, it establishes four significant logics in alignment to wh…
Cultic revelations : studies in modern historical cult personalities and phenomena
2010
This collection of articles contains history papers of the third conference of the joint project of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Finland titled Cult and Community , held in Jyväskylä, 6 7 September, 2007. They are complemented by a couple of specialized, independent contributions by scholars working in the field of cults. It may be noted that the Finnish participants were newcomers in the cult research group since the Hungarian cult studies draw on traditions in the history of literature (e.g. Péter Dávidházi on Shakespeare-cult, the publications of the Petőfi Museum of Literature, Budapest and the Déri Múzeum, Debrecen) and critical studies. Also studies in per…
Eettinen kuluttaminen kulutuskulttuurissa
2016
The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to our knowledge and understanding of the various meanings of ethical consumption constructed in consumer culture, especially from consumers’ viewpoint. This doctoral thesis belongs to the field of cultural and interpretive consumption research (CCT). The research consists of an introductory essay and three articles, of which two are published in academic journals. The introductory essay presents the general research task, conceptual framework, and methodological choices and discussion to conclude the main results of the dissertation. The research included in this dissertation uses qualitative methods and applies discursive content analysis, geo…
Neoliberalizing Subjects through Global ELT Programs
2023
Evie Wyld: Me olemme susia
2020
Kirja-arvostelu teoksesta Evie Wyld: Me olemme susia (The Bass Rock). Suom. Aleksi Milonoff. Tammi 2020. 415 s. nonPeerReviewed