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The Children of Risk Communication
2022
For the management of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk communication has been a much-needed preventive and educative action to support citizens – including children – to adopt preventive and health protective measures. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is not the only health concern at hand that has raised concerns about the health status of children and required disease-preventive strategies. Bearing in mind the mental health problems and learning losses reported during the pandemic, in this commentary, we will argue that by now, it is time to consider critically if there could be more space for positive communication and education, both alongside and as an integral part of risk communication, to…
Being positive, being hopeful, being happy : young adults reflecting on their future in times of austerity
2020
The aim of this article is to analyse the ways in which young adults reflect on their futures. We are particularly interested in how they expect to organize their lives in conditions that seem to offer pessimistic rather than hopeful prospects. How does this happen under social conditions where the major public and individual concerns are with how young adults organize their material lives and how they earn sufficient livelihoods to become good citizens? What are the grounds for their future visions? In our analysis we use 40 interviews with young Finnish adults aged between 18 and 30. The respondents are students, as well as employed and unemployed young adults. Our findings show that the…
Kokemus elämänhallinnasta eläkkeelle siirryttäessä ja kolmannessa iässä
2008
Suomalaisen yhteiskunnan vanheneminen ja suurten ikäluokkien siirtyminen eläkkeelle ja kolmanteen ikään nostaa esille kysymyksiä, miten vastattaisiin tulevaisuuden palvelujen tarpeisiin ja miten palvelujärjestelmää olisi kehitettävä. Tutkimuksen tarkoitus on selvittää 60- ja 65-vuotiaiden ikääntyvien elämänhallintaa ja nykyistä sekä tulevaa tuen tarvetta. Elämänhallinnan viitekehyksenä on Antonovskyn koherenssiteoria, jossa elämänhallinta rakentuu merkityksellisyydestä, hallinnantunteesta ja ymmärrettävyydestä. Aineisto koostuu 35 Helsingin Vanhan kaupungin alueella asuvan henkilön haastattelusta. Haastateltavista enemmistö oli jo eläkkeellä, mutta osa oli vielä työelämässä. Haastattelu rak…
Understanding youth athletes' life designing processes through dream day narratives
2018
A number of studies have investigated career pathways in elite sport with retrospective designs, but few studies have explored how youth elite athletes construct narratives about their future lives and how their dreams and hopes relate to their careers in sport and other life contexts. We drew on career construction theory to understand youth elite athletes' dreams for the future and prominent life themes. Seventeen Finnish youth elite athletes (7 men, 10 women) in the first year of upper secondary sport school participated in the study. They were asked to make visual representations of their “dream days”, and these were used as aids for reflection in low-structured interviews where partici…
Changing Economic Conditions and Identity Formation in Adulthood
2010
Identity formation in political and occupational domains was examined from young to middle adulthood based on an ongoing longitudinal study. In addition to the participants’ identity status (diffused, moratorium, foreclosed, achieved), we assessed their perceived importance of politics, future orientation, and career stability four times in adulthood, at ages 27, 36, 42, and 50. The number of participants varied between analyses, from 168 to 291. Changes in the economic situation in Finland from 1986 to 2009 provided a context for the study. Data collections at ages 36 (in 1995) and 50 (in 2009) took place during economic recessions, and at age 42 (in 2001) during an economic boom. The res…
"Ny se oikee elämä alkaa" : ESY-opetuksessa olleiden nuorten peruskoulun päättövaihe ja ensiaskeleet sen jälkeen
2000
Antenarratives in Ongoing Strategic Change : Using the Story Index to Capture Daunting and Optimistic Futures
2018
Strategic organizational change is a complex, future-oriented phenomenon that is critical for any organization. Traditional means of inquiry have struggled with the difficulty of capturing the future; thus, the methods for managing things to come remain scarce. In this chapter, we contribute to managing strategic change, and thereby the future of the organization, by developing the Story Index (SIX) method. The method facilitates a better understanding of how organizational change takes shape in the discursive reality before materializing in concrete terms. SIX is an analytical process combining antenarratives and narrative rationality to reveal the emerging meanings and rationales of chang…
Epävarmuuden ja ennustamattomuuden kokemukset tekevät lastensaamisesta entistä kuormittavampaa
2022
Syntyvyyden laskua pidetään julkisessa keskustelussa vakavana uhkana. Vastuu tilanteen korjaamisesta langetetaan yksilöille, erityisesti lisääntymisikäisiksi naisiksi tulkituille. Heihin kohdistuu tulevaisuuden ennakoinnin vaade, joka voi olla mahdottomuudessaan lähes lamauttavaa. nonPeerReviewed
Tulevaisuuskuvat : merkitykset, roolit ja käyttötavat tulevaisuudentutkimuksessa
2022
Tulevaisuuskuva on tulevaisuudentutkimuksen keskeinen käsite. Yksinkertaistettuna se tarkoittaa ihmisen tai yhteisön kuvamaista ajatuskokonaisuutta tulevaisuudesta. Tulevaisuuskuva voi kuvata millaista tulevaisuutta tahansa: tulevaisuus voi olla kaukainen tai läheinen, mahdollinen tai mahdoton, toivottu tai epätoivottu, todennäköinen tai epätodennäköinen. Tavoitteenamme on tässä artikkelissa kuvata käsitteen syntyhistoriaa sekä empiirisiä sovelluksia. Artikkelin johdantoluvussa määrittelemme tulevaisuuskuvan käsitteen lyhyesti ja avaamme sen roolia tulevaisuudentutkimuksessa. Toisessa luvussa perehdymme tarkemmin erilaisiin tulevaisuuskuvan määritelmiin. Kolmannessa luvussa tutustumme erila…
Shared socioeconomic pathways for climate change research in Finland: co-developing extended SSP narratives for agriculture
2021
AbstractShared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs), developed at global scale, comprise narrative descriptions and quantifications of future world developments that are intended for climate change scenario analysis. However, their extension to national and regional scales can be challenging. Here, we present SSP narratives co-developed with stakeholders for the agriculture and food sector in Finland. These are derived from intensive discussions at a workshop attended by approximately 39 participants offering a range of sectoral perspectives. Using general background descriptions of the SSPs for Europe, facilitated discussions were held in parallel for each of four SSPs reflecting very different c…