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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…
The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model : Challenges in the 21st Century
2021
The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland – two countries topping global indexes for competitiveness, productivity, growth, quality of life, prosperity, and equality – start doubting themselves and their future? Is the Nordic Model at a crossroads? Historically, consensus, continuity, social cohesion, and broad social trust have been hailed as key components for the success and for the self-images of Sweden and Finland. In the contemporary, however, political debates in both countries are increasingly focused on risks, t…
Modern Finnish Economic History
2022
The Finnish economy has experienced a relative late growth and catch-up process in relation to many other advanced Western economies. During this growth period, Finland also experienced a rapid structural change from an agrarian society to a developed service society. In a small open economy, the export industries have played a vital role in this development. Over several centuries, the forest industries have had a dominating impact in exports, along with the metal industries; however, the latter, as well as the electronics industry, with Nokia as the flagship company, gained more importance in the late 20th century in aggregate exports. The egalitarian educational system has to a large ext…
Trust in Finnish Education: A Historical Perspective
2021
This article analyzes the origins of generalized trust in Finnish society and how this relates to trust in education. The study was based on a historical analysis of the role of education in building a Finnish society and nation state. The author discusses the development of a Nordic welfare state and analyzes the relationships between generalized trust and education from the perspectives of democracy, corruption, egalitarian attitudes, wealth, and culture. A reflection was performed of the relationships between generalized trust, school autonomy, and the professional autonomy of teachers. peerReviewed
From Efficiency to Resilience : Systemic Change towards Sustainability after the COVID-19 Pandemic
2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the vulnerability of current socio-economic systems and thrown into question the dominant global paradigm geared towards short-term financial efficiency. Although it has been acknowledged for several decades that this paradigm has detrimental impacts on the climate, the environment and global welfare, the pandemic has now offered a grim ‘rehearsal round’ for more serious crises that are to come with the accelerating climate emergency, loss of biodiversity and growing human inequalities. Along with worsening climate change, there are looming risks for mass migrations and armed conflicts as habitats capable of supporting human wellbeing become scarce, such a…
Prekarisaatio ja affekti
2015
Prekarisaatio ja affekti tutkii nykyisyyden tunnesävyjä ja aistimuksia. Osana poikkitieteistä tutkimushanketta se tarkastelee prekaaria kokemusta kahdeksan toisiinsa lomittuvan pienoistutkimuksen kautta. Kirjan tavoitteena on luoda sanastoa ja käsitteitä tilanteille, joissa modernia elämää kannatelleet instituutiot, kuten palkkatyö ja ydinperhe, eivät enää tarjoa elämälle ehdotonta perustaa. Aikaamme leimaa levottomuus ja tulevaisuuden näkymiä epävarmuus. Työn, hoivan ja koulutuksen rajat ovat hälventyneet. Epäonni on yksilöllistynyt. Millaisia ovat ne uudet käytännöt ja taktiikat, joilla ihmiset tekevät elämäänsä elettäväksi ja joilla usko tulevaan kaapataan takaisin taloudellisen arvon lä…
Áreas protegidas e urbanização : o caso da APA da ilha do Combú, Belém-PA
2020
The paper seeks to answer two questions: what is the influence of the geographical location of the island of Combú in the metropolitan area of Belém, PA, and whether its current status as an Area of Environmental Protection (APA) has any impact on biodiversity and socioeconomic development? Similar to other riverside areas in the Amazon, Combú has a long history of involvement in the trade of extractive products. However, its geographical proximity to Belém and consequent access to markets made producers less dependent on intermediaries, while the ownership of resources was based on independent family units. Therefore, the dominant mode of caboclo extractivism, together with limited access …