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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…
Dailes teātra attīstības reprezentācija Eduardam Smiļģim veltītajās vēstulēs (1920-1925)
2016
Bakalaura darba „Dailes teātra attīstības reprezentācija Eduardam Smiļģim veltītajās vēstulēs (1920-1925)” mērķis noskaidrot, kā tiek veidota Dailes teātra attīstības reprezentācija E. Smiļģim veltītajās vēstulēs no laikabiedriem, teātra aktieriem un skatītājiem. Vēstuļu analīzei tika izmantotas divas pētniecības metodes – kontentanalīze un vēsturiskā diskursa pieeja. Vēstuļu analīzei tika izmantoti vēsturiskās diskursa pieejas Rutas Vodakas pieci pētījuma jautājumi. Darbā iekļautas trīs komunikācijas teorijas – kultūras atmiņa, komunikācija ar vēstuļu starpniecību, reprezentācija. Bakalaura darba pētījuma rezultātu vizualizācijai tika izmantots Rutas Vodakas interdiskursīvais un intertekst…
Millaista demokratiaa? : diskurssianalyysi tavoitellun kuntaliitoksen (Oulainen-Vihanti) keskusteluista vuosina 2011-2014
2014
Demokratian kehitys on huolestuttanut suomalaisia pitkään. Alenevat äänestysprosentit ja vaisu osallistuminen yhteisten asioiden hoitoon ovat saaneet aikaan sen, että Suomen valtiohallinnossa on paneuduttu voimakkaasti demokratian ongelmien kartoittamiseen ja suotuisan kehityksen aikaansaamiseen. Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena on selvittää kuntaliitosargumentaatiota vuosien 2011–2014 ajalta entisen Vihannin kunnan valtuuston pöytäkirjoista, paikallislehdistä ja kuntalaisten kommenteista sosiaalisessa mediassa. Ensiksi tarkastelun kohteena ovat argumentaatiot puolesta ja vastaan, kun kyseessä on Vihannin eteläosien liittäminen Oulaisten kaupunkiin. Toiseksi pureudutaan siihen, millaisena dem…
“Diagnosing” the Need or in “Need” of a Diagnosis? Reconceptualizing Educational Need
2017
This chapter is based on compulsory school experiences of students diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and their parents in the educational context of Finland. Located in the theoretical framework of Disability Studies, the chapter aims to contribute to theory of inclusive education by initiating a new dialogue on conceptual foundations of inclusive schooling. In this regard, the chapter first deconstructs the concept of educational need that stems from the field of traditional special education as contradictory to the original ideals of inclusive education. It then moves on to reconstruct the concept of educational need in accordance with the foundational values …
Einleitung : Diskursschulen kontrastiv. Grundzüge – Methoden – Perspektiven
2020
International audience
Hybrid Engagement: Discourses and Scenarios of Entrepreneurial Journalism
2018
Although the challenge posed by social media and the participatory turn concerns culture and values at the very heart of journalism, journalists have been reluctant to adopt participatory values and practices. To encourage audience participation and to offer journalism that is both trustworthy and engaging, journalists of the future may embrace a hybrid practice of journalistic objectivity and audience-centred dialogue. As innovative and experimental actors, entrepreneurial journalism outlets can perform as forerunners of such a culture. By analysing discourses in the “About Us” pages of 41 entrepreneurial journalism outlets, the article examines the emerging journalistic ethos of entrepren…