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The global ranking game : narrowing academic excellence through numerical objectification

2018

The objective of this article is to study some of the intended and unintended effects on academe of the evolving global ranking game. I will start with some broader points on the global ranking game, the formal terms and economic interests it promotes, then continue with a presentation of the Shanghai ranking and its main rival the Times Higher Education. Through reversed engineering, I will bring out the main problems of the Shanghai ranking. I will finish with some of the key features of the demand side, the uses and effects of the tool: the psychosocial mechanisms that reproduce ranking and the lock-ins it creates. peerReviewed

Doing Research for and With Others : A Researcher's Relationship With Research Content

2022

The chapter discusses the question of social justice in social science research by problematizing the researcher-research content relationship and its guiding principle framework Science-Society-Me. With a focus on early career researchers, the author draws on her own PhD research experience to highlight the social justice tension inherent in the normative approaches and methods for selecting research topic, collecting data and relating with research participants, and analyzing and interpreting data especially in empirical research with fellow human beings. Drawing on the theory of affect, the chapter centralizes the position, biography and experience of the researcher, and the relationship…

Lapsuuden väkivaltakokemusten yhteys itse ilmoitettuun rikollisuuteen

1997

Käsikirjoitettu kirjailija ja adaptaatioprosessit : Komisario Palmu -teosten cameo-roolit ja tekijyys elämyksellisinä sisältöinä

2016

Elämykset kulttuurina ja kulttuuri elämyksinä : kulttuurintutkimuksen näkökulmia elämystalouteen

2016

Elämyksellisyydestä on viime vuosikymmenten aikana tullut markkinoinnille keino erottautua ja houkutella kuluttajia. Elämyksellisyys kietoutuu talouden logiikkaan. Tätä yhteen kietoutumista on kuvattu sekä tieteessä että taloudessa elämystalouden käsitteellä. Elämykset kulttuurina ja kulttuuri elämyksinä -teos ottaa kriittiseen tarkasteluunsa elämystalouden osana kulttuuria – ja kulttuurin osana elämysteollisuutta. Kirjan keskeisiä kysymyksiä ovat: Miten kulttuuria tuotteistettiin jo ennen elämystalouden käsitettä? Kuinka sitä tuotteistetaan niin kutsutussa globaalissa kilpailukyky-yhteiskunnassa? Miten elämystalouden logiikan piirissä luodut kulttuuriset sisällöt, tuotteet, konseptit ja pa…

Tutkiva sosiaalityö 2022 : Ympäristö ja rakenteet sosiaalityössä

2022

Data practices and inequality in South African early childhood development policy: Technocratic management versus social transformation

2019

Background: In 1994, the African National Congress identified early childhood development as a potential strategy to redress the inequalities of apartheid, however, two and a half decades later, poverty still persists, and South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world. Aim: This article explores how policy texts based on and with the use of certain data practices establish ‘truths’ about childhoods and society, construct families and communities, and determine forms of provision to address inequality. Setting: In 2015, the South African government published the National Integrated Early Childhood Policy (NIECDP) to continue to address poverty and inequality. Its implementat…

Hierarchies of knowledge, incommensurabilities and silences in South African ECD policy: Whose knowledge counts?

2017

AbstractPolicy for young children in South Africa is now receiving high-level government support through the ANC’s renewed commitment to redress poverty and inequity and creating ‘a better life for all’ as promised before the 1994 election. In this article, I explore the power relations, knowledge hierarchies and discourses of childhood, family and society in National Curriculum Framework (NCF) as it relates to children’s everyday contexts. I throw light on how the curriculum’s discourses relate to the diverse South African settings, child rearing practices and world-views, and how they interact with normative discourses of South African policy and global early childhood frameworks. The NCF…

Revealing colonial power relations in early childhood policy making: An autoethnographic story on selective evidence

2021

The COVID-19 pandemic exposes uncertainty, instability and glaring inequality that requires urgent global policy decisions. Historically, bureaucrats regard uncertainty as the enemy and look for tested solutions (Stevens, 2011). In contrast, Fielding & Moss (2010) acknowledge an uncertain future and encourage shifting policy making towards the search for possibilities instead of replicating singular solutions. Escobar (2020) advocates for pluriversal politics, with many possibilities created through collective decision-making by autonomous interlinked networks. In this paper, I combine autoethnography with policy analysis drawing on my own experience in South African early childhood pol…

Sukupuolistunut väkivalta : tunteet, affektit ja affektiiviset käytännöt

2021

Marita Husso, Sanna Karkulehto, Tuija Saresma, Jari Eilola, Heli Siltala & Aarno Laitila (toim.): Ideological, Institutional and Affective Practices of Interpersonal Violence. Painopaikka: Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 292 s. ISBN 978-3-030- 56929-7