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Johdanto : Tunnustuksen filosofia ja politiikka

2020

Filosofi och politik

2014

Disruptive Utopianism : Opening the Present

2020

Meritokratia meriitteihin perustuvana ulossulkemisena

2020

Meritokratia on järjestelmä, jossa jotkut ihmiset suljetaan ulos, koska he eivät ole tarpeeksi hyviä. Termi kehitettiin kuvaukseksi dystopiasta, synkäksi kuvaukseksi tulevaisuudesta. Siitä tuli kuitenkin nopeasti ihanneyhteiskunnan malli. nonPeerReviewed

At the Intersection of Instrumentalism, Understanding, and Critique : Reflections on Development Research on Citizenship in Uganda

2022

This special issue showcases four analyses of lived citizenship in Uganda – a country previously known as a donor darling but, recently, better known for its steady slide towards authoritarian rule (Ssentongo 2021, Tapscott 2021, Wilkins et. al. 2021, Wiegratz et. al. 2018). Individually, the articles draw on and contribute to diverse strands of debate within the field of citizenship studies. As a collection, however, they serve to illustrate a space characterized by three different knowledge interests in development-related research on African societies. A central contention is that the very notion of ‘development-related research’ requires definition; as a field, it is constituted and its…

Finnish education system as seen from an Indonesian perspective

2021

The aim of this paper is to discuss the Finnish education system from an Indonesian perspective, and consider what citizens, notably from middle-income countries, may learn from the Finnish system. The source material is the author’s book, which provides an Indonesian perspective on the Finnish education system, supplemented by discussions from webinars and weekly Instagram Live discussions on the topic. It is known that education is part of a country’s culture, thus the Finnish education system cannot simply be implemented as such in another place. Yet there certainly are elements that can be adopted to the local culture, in this case, in Indonesia. The different models of education in Fi…

Tiny Citizenship, Twisted Politics, and Christian Love in a Ugandan Church Choir

2022

In 1977, the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Janani Luwum, was killed under orders from President Idi Amin following his public criticism of Amin’s reign of terror. This article offers an ethnographic case study of a choir named in Luwum’s honour to extend existing research on the interrelations of Christianity, citizenship, and politics in contemporary Uganda. To do so, I draw a number of conceptual tools – tiny citizenship, authentic citizenship, twisted politics, and love – from work by and referencing Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, and Gary Alan Fine. First, analyzing the choir’s participation in the national commemoration of Janani Luwum Day at Uganda’s State House in 2021, I argue …

Huojuuko talo nimeltä Suomi? Eri kerrosten väen itseymmärrys ja suhde toisiin

2023

Kirja-arvio teoksesta Anu Kantola ja työryhmä (Sanna Aaltonen, Lotta Haikkola, Lotta Junnilainen, Eeva Luhtakallio, Pauliina Patana, Joonas Timonen & Pekka Tuominen): Kahdeksan kuplan Suomi. Yhteiskunnan muutosten syvät tarinat. Gaudeamus, Helsinki 2022. 335 s.
 Suuri ruuvi vääntää kansakuntaa kauttaaltaan, väittää Helsingin yliopiston viestinnän professori Anu Kantola työryhmänsä kanssa kirjoittamassaan teoksessa Kahdeksan kuplan Suomi. Teoksessa työryhmä seuraa yhteiskunnan muutosten syviä tarinoita valitsemansa kahdeksan yhteiskunnallisen ryhmän kautta. Nämä ryhmät ovat yritysjohtajat suurissa kaupungeissa, joita nimitetään globaalin talouden etujoukoksi; palvelualojen keskitulo…

Always in crisis, always a solution? : The Nordic model as a political and scholarly concept

2021

While campaigning for the 2016 US Democratic Party presidential nomination, Senator Bernie Sanders invoked the Nordic countries as a model for future politics. In a debate, he declared, ‘I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people.’1 Hailing the Nordic countries, especially Denmark, as an example of ‘democratic socialism’,2 Sanders’s vision engendered a heated debate, with political opponents critiquing the implied political agenda, the prime minister of Denmark protesting the idea of Denmark as a socialist country, and journalists and pundits presenting corrective views of the economic and soc…

Smooth sailing toward more peaceful societies? Long-run Nordic development paths

2022

Publisher Copyright: © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Christopher Lloyd and Matti Hannikainen. In this chapter, the authors aim to compare the Nordic societies in a broad fashion in the last 200 years in their process of “sailing” (with the implication of rough waters along the way) from social fragmentation to more inclusive welfare societies. The authors’ main goal is to examine the coevolution of economic, political, and fiscal factors among the Nordic societies in the long run by making use of recent longitudinal data sets. In this way, they can map out some key patterns that characterized the shift toward more peaceful and well-functioning societies. First, the authors focus on t…