Search results for "mentality"

A Uniform Conspiracy Mindset or Differentiated Reactions to Specific Conspiracy Beliefs? Evidence From Latent Profile Analyses

2021

Conspiracy theories arise for virtually any public event (e.g., pandemics, assassinations, disasters). In light of positively correlated endorsements of such beliefs, many have pointed to a more general mindset behind this. Others have argued against this notion of a consistent mindset. Applying Latent Profile Analyses, we examine the evidence for either uniform or differentiated response patterns to various items in five studies (reanalyzed datasets, total N = 7877). Overall, the results speak strongly to uniform reactions that could be summarized as a general mindset, but also revealed important qualifications. First, small parts of the samples show more differentiated patterns in relatio…

Unravelling the rationalities of childhood cycling promotion

2022

Decrease of children’s independent mobility (CIM) has worried academics, policymakers, educators and other professionals for decades. Research and policy often emphasise that promoting children’s physically active and independent transport modes as cycling is important to achieve better public health, solve environmental challenges and increase related economic benefits. Yet, cycling promotion is not a neutral process and all promotion efforts are derived from latent notions of ‘cyclists’ and ‘cycling’. This paper discusses different rationalities of childhood cycling promotion and the representations of ‘children’ as independent ‘cyclists’ they entail. We argue that in order to efficiently…

‘We are all responsible now’: Governmentality and responsibilized subjects in corporate social responsibility

2014

The corporate social responsibility promise is a fascinating one: companies are able and willing to regulate themselves, and self-regulation is manifested in collaborative efforts that promote individual well-being. Yet, this macro-level promise has a silenced flip side in organizational contexts. We argue that corporate social responsibility has diffused the idea of employee responsibilization into organizational environments, so it entails a dual role for employees: employees become both the objects and the subjects of corporate social responsibility. The primary aim of this article is thus to develop a theoretical understanding that acknowledges the role of individual members of the org…

Liberal Governmentality and Urban Culture: Governing Differences and Diversity in the Policies of Helsinki and Sydney

2023

This article uses Michel Foucault’s understanding of police and liberalism to discuss the governance of diversity and differences, and how they appear as a regulatory form of power in urban cultural policy. The data consists of interviews conducted with policymakers in Helsinki and Sydney. The article asserts that the policing of cultural spaces of encounter at the city level is not limited to the regulatory practices and controls that produce a sense of safety and order for citizens in the city. This governance has great significance for representing excluded people and the socioeconomic identity of their neighborhoods. Finally, the use of language as a means of communication in cultural p…

Hallinnan näkökulmia huumeriippuvuuden hoitoon Suomessa vuosina 1965-2005

2011

Lo sguardo dell'esule. Per un' 'immagine mentale' di Roma fra Tristia ed Epistulae ex Ponto

2021

Ovid’s production of exile reveals a different look at the city: a ‘mental image’ that dialogues with the rhetorical codification of the laudes urbium and, at the same time, selects the places that best celebrate the monumentality of Augustan Rome. Of particular interest is the description of the monumental complex on the Palatine Hill (Tr. 3, 1), inside which the protagonist (the liber) follows an itinerary that leads him directly from the Forum to the Palatium and its library. The library-curia, commissioned by Augustus, a political and cultural emblem, as well as a religious one, of the regime is a part of a monumental complex conceived as the new seat of power and represented a few year…

Kirja-arvio teoksesta Jani Kaisto & Miikka Pyykkönen: Hallintavalta. Sosiaalisen, politiikan ja talouden kysymyksiä.

2010

Aika-, yksilö- ja yhteiskuntakäsitykset suomalaisessa tulevaisuuspolitiikassa

2015

Making experts-by-experience : governmental ethnography of participatory initiatives in Finnish social welfare organisations

2018

This dissertation analyses expertise-by-experience in Finnish social welfare organisations as part of the participatory practices presented as new democracy. It employs a governmental ethnographic method to investigate how a person with difficult experiences is made into ‘an expert of one’s own life’ and how the subjectivity thus created is connected to different possibilities and rationales of participation. It asks: 1. What characterises the subjectivities created in the initiatives? 2. How (through which practices) are the participants constructed as experts? In this summary article the democratic quality of expert-making practices is interpreted through a critical democratic lens by inq…

Mobilising Consumers for Food Waste Reduction in Finnish Media Discourse

2019

Raippalinna explores how consumers are mobilised for food waste reduction in media discourse. Food waste reduction initiatives are often criticised for putting the responsibility on individual consumers, but little research exists on the mobilisation of consumers in actual contexts. Through critical discourse analysis of media texts, Raippalinna investigates how the food waste problem and consumers are constructed in relation to each other in Finlands leading newspaper Helsingin Sanomat 2010–2017. The analysis demonstrates that the discourses of consumer mobilisation appear mostly as consumer education where the consumer’s role is to manage individual consumption and household practices. Th…