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Care and gendered work in reception centers in Finland
2019
PurposeThis paper focuses on how gendered processes of working life are (re)constructed and are also challenged discursively in paid and volunteer care and work in reception centers. The purpose of this paper is to show how caring work with asylum seekers can both enhance the traditional gender order and challenge it through enabling men to have opportunities to care.Design/methodology/approachThe data were produced through qualitative interviews among paid workers and volunteers in reception centers, and analyzed through a discourse analysis approach.FindingsThree discourses of care and work were identified: a discourse on solidarity and care; a discourse on control and order; and a discou…
“A Shameless Ideology of Shameless Women”: Positioning the Other in Social Media Discourse Surrounding a Women’s Rights Movement in Pakistan
2022
This study analyzes social media (YouTube) discourse related to Aurat March 2019, a women’s rights movement in Pakistan. Using a discourse analytical approach that draws on the premises of Positioning theory, the analysis reveals the following two major storylines from the data: “The women who stray from the path, and the men who will return them to it,” and “Islam under threat from the outside.” Social media platforms allow their users to express opinions in online spaces, often resulting in polarization and clustering of like-minded people in so-called echo-chambers. This study demonstrates how social media users actively participate in the discursive construction of the “other,” and how…
Banal Sustainability : Renewing the Cultural Norm of Not Wasting Food
2022
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…
Presidential speeches and the online politics of belonging : Affective-discursive positions toward refugees in Finland and Estonia
2019
The so-called ‘refugee crisis’ has added urgency to the social dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in European societies. This study explores how emotions figure in this politics of belonging by studying their discursive mobilization in Finnish and Estonian public debates on asylum seekers. Focusing on presidential speeches addressing the refugee issue, on the one hand, and their reception by online commenters on popular tabloid news sites, on the other, the comparative analysis highlights both similarities and differences in how emotional expressions are employed in these two countries with very different experiences of taking refugees. Despite employing common discursive elements in thei…
“Cute Goddess is Actually an Aunty”: The Evasive Middle-Aged Woman Streamer and Normative Performances of Femininity in Video Game Streaming
2022
In this paper the focus is on the representations of “middle-aged” or “aging” women streamers in western media. I analyze discussions in Western online media around a case of Chinese DouYu live-streamer. “Qiaobiluo Dianxia,” as her streamer name goes, became a topic in Western media after a glitch in her live stream revealed her to be a middle-aged woman, rather than young woman she was assumed to be. The discussions are analyzed with critical discourse analysis. It is argued that the aging bodies of women, both their presence and absence, should be read and understood through toxic gaming culture and geek masculinity and the hegemonic discourse they constitute.
Can ambivalence hold potential for fat activism? An analysis of conflicting discourses on fatness in the Finnish column series Jenny’s Life Change
2018
In 2017, a publicly funded, nationwide campaign called the Scale Rebellion set out to address fatness through body positivity and fat activism in Finland, with a fat woman named Jenny Lehtinen havi...
Weaving the threads of international criminal justice: The double dialogicity of law and politics in the ICC al-Mahdi case
2021
International audience; In this paper, we examine the international criminal trial of Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi, a Malian Islamist who appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, charged with the destruction of Islamic shrines during the 2012 jihadist occupation of Timbuktu. Our objective is to analyze the so-called 'al-Mahdi case' as a dialogical network (the destructions occurred in the context of an asynchronous translocal press-mediated exchange between jihadists and the international community) and as an event unfolding at a dialogical site (when the commander responsible for the destructions was referred to the ICC four years later). These two dialogical orders e…
Kaitējuma atlīdzināšanas problemātika sauszemes transportlīdzekļu īpašnieku civiltiesiskās atbildības obligātajā apdrošināšanā
2015
Pētījuma mērķis ir parādīt šī brīža aktuālākās problēmas kaitējumu atlīdzināšanā sauszemes transportlīdzekļu tiesīgo lietotāju obligātajā civiltiesiskajā apdrošināšanā. Darbā tiek konstatētas problēmas spēkā esošo tiesību normu pielietojumā reālās situācijās, konstatējot transportlīdzekļu tiesīgo lietotāju atbildības pakāpi un atlīdzinot radīto kaitējumu trešajām personām. Tāpat tiek analizētas Latvijas tiesību normu savstarpējās pretrunas, kā arī to atbilstība Eiropas Savienības tiesību normām un Eiropas Savienības Tiesu nolēmumiem. Ņemot vērā Eiropas Savienības tiesību avotu ietekmi uz Latvijas tiesību normām, mēģināts sniegt iespējamos risinājumus, kas izpaužas gan interpretācijā, gan iz…
Starptautisko un Eiropas tiesību uz privāto dzīvi ierobežošana drošības dienestu operatīvajā darbībā
2016
Savā bakalaura darbā autors izceļ ļoti aktuālu mūsdienu problēmjautājumu, ar kuru saskaras sabiedrības daļa, kura dažādu apsvērumu dēļ tiek drošības dienestu redzeslokā, proti indivīda slepena izsekošana un noklausīšanās veicot operatīvo darbību. Darba mērķis ir skaidrot lasītājam kādos gadījumos ir pieļaujamas šādas darbības un kādos gadījumos tas ir tiešs starptautisko un Eiropas cilvēktiesību pārkāpums. Darbs ir strukturēts četrās nodaļās. Darbs ir izveidots tā, lai lasītājs izprot drošības dienestu izsekošanas un noklausīšanās tendenču attīstību no 20.gs līdz mūsdienām un izprastu autora galveno domu un ierosinājumus problēmjautājumu risināšanā, kad notiek kolīzija starp cilvēktiesību p…
Dabas materiāli kā 5 - 6 gadīgu bērnu runas attīstību veicinošs līdzeklis
2019
Bakalaura darba temats: „Dabas materiāli kā 5 - 6 gadīgu bērnu runas attīstību veicinošs līdzeklis.” Bakalaura darba autors: Diāna Tabore Zinātniskā darba vadītājs: profesore, dr. paed. Elita Volāne Mērķis: Izzināt un analizēt 5 - 6 gadīgu bērnu runas attīstības veicināšanas iespējas, izmantojot dabas materiālus. Hipotēze: 5 - 6 gadīgu bērnu runas attīstība norit sekmīgāk, ja skolotājs izmanto daudzveidīgus metodiskos paņēmienus un daudzveidīgus dabas materiālus rotaļdarbībā. Uzdevumi: 1. Analizēt literatūru par runu, tās attīstību veicinošiem faktoriem. 2. Izzināt un analizēt literatūru par 5 - 6 gadīgu bērnu attīstību īpatnībām runas attīstības aspektā. 3. Analizēt metodisko literatūru pa…