A5072053001- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Research in Social Sciences
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Sex work and related issues
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
- Global Security and Public Health
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Ethics in Clinical Research
University of Helsinki
2016-2025
University of the Arts Helsinki
2025
Finland University
2023-2024
University of Eastern Finland
2023-2024
Institute for New Economic Thinking
2015-2017
Social role theory posits that binary gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger less egalitarian countries, reflecting these countries’ more pronounced sex-based power divisions. Conversely, evolutionary self-construal theorists suggest the greater autonomy support flexible self-construction processes present countries. Using data from 62 countries ( N = 28,640), we examine agentic communal self-views as a function of country-level objective equality (the Global Gender Gap Index)...
This study explores the views and experiences of sexual harassment among youth young adults aged 15–29 years in wake #metoo movement Finland. The data were collected through a qualitative survey interviews analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. contributes to literature that foregrounds people's own voices by shedding light on participants’ experience-based knowledge harassment. analysis generated three predominant themes: insidious omnipresence harassment, persistence victim-shaming,...
Social scientific research has become increasingly aware of power asymmetries and the elitist exclusive nature knowledge production. These debates have resulted in more inclusive participatory practices. In this article, we focus on co-research, which is a multi-perspective strategy that invites people whom concerns to participate as active influential agents throughout process experts ‘the studied world.’ Co-research being adopted involving who belong marginalised groups or face threat...
Men’s victimisation is a central topic in online discussions, particularly the manosphere, where its emphasis often combined with strong anti-feminist stance. This article examines interplay of affects and discourse meaning-making around men’s both discussions among social crisis workers asked to comment upon meanings circulating online. By using concept affective-discursive practice, analysis shows how this reiterates socially shared interpretative repertoires positionings that mobilise...
Discussions about men’s victimization by their female intimate partners have gained increased visibility in the last two decades. These discussions put victim positions on offer for men that stand stark contrast to more widespread associations between masculinity and perpetration of violence. This article examines how these contradictory positionings play out are discursively negotiated Finnish online female-inflicted partner violence (IPV). Two recurring types positioning were identified...
This article explores the ways in which lethal intimate partner violence perpetrated by both men and women is made sense of news reports Finnish tabloids. An analytical approach drawing upon critical discursive psychology, complemented with tools from membership categorization analysis, was adopted for distinguishing recurring patterns accounting use gendered categorizations news. Two interpretative repertoires were identified. The first constructs as originating interactional or...
Whether intimate partner violence (IPV) is a gendered phenomenon or not question that continuously arouses debate both among scholars and the general public. This article analyses meaning-making around IPV gender in online discussions focus on committed by women. The analysis draws upon critical discursive psychology, identifies ideological dilemmas, interpretative repertoires subject positions related to relevance of gender, one hand, equality, other. dilemmas focused revolve gender-neutral...
The article examines online discussions in Finland that focus on violence committed by Finnish women, one hand, and non-white migrant men, the other. Drawing perspective of sociology value, illustrates how these function as sites struggles over moral worth a contemporary context characterised crises both male white hegemony. authors suggest that, through discussions, current are projected men certain groups who thereby become construed morally reprehensible. analysis sheds light processes...
This article examines how Finnish tabloids portray women who have used violence. The aim is to look at the ways in which violence committed by made sense of relation culturally shared conceptions and expectations regarding relations between gender categories analysis data draws on socio-semiotics distinguishes modalities as discursive devices that attach meanings different levels agency violent action. By focusing descriptions women’s agency, attempts dissect identities “feminine women”...
In this article, I draw on arts-based approaches and new materialist affect theory in order to explore possibilities attune research outputs researcher vulnerability. These theorisations challenge conventional practices geared toward creating distance between the their research, work towards dissolving hierarchical distinctions assumedly invulnerable researchers vulnerable participants. doing so, they pave way for attuning complex interplay of difference sameness as it unfolds surfaces...
In responding to ongoing viral outbreak emergencies, decision-makers constantly face the need deploy governance measures meet uncertain scenarios. One of key aspects such work is identify different sources threat, assess risk that they pose, and act in consequence. this paper, we aim direct attention toward ways which science-based international practices reproduce various social inequalities by enacting divisions based on categorizations into threatening worthy protection. We propose these...
Abstract The notion of intimate partner violence (IPV) as gender-based has been widely questioned by advocates antifeminist men’s rights movements, who have claimed that societal disregard for victimization in relations is a central component discrimination against men contemporary societies. Similar views expressed researchers part gender-neutral discourse articulated opposition to feminist, or gender-sensitive, understandings IPV. To date, the helping professionals work with IPV terms...
Widely circulated cultural conceptions about women who have committed violence recurrently place them in positions of otherness relation to what is considered as being normal, valuable womanhood. This article explores ways which Finnish imprisoned for violent crimes grapple with this troubled between womanhood and their enactments gendered identities. The analysis based on a novel, discursive-affective approach positioning that can accommodate complexity context-specific variability Four...
This article explores the ways in which Finnish women serving prison sentences for violent crimes attach meaning to their violence and themselves relation it. The analysis is based on a study involving 20 imprisoned women, who either sent written account or were interviewed. draws upon critical discursive psychology Sara Ahmed's theorization of emotions. Hence, it focuses affective processes through participating enact identities narratives about involvement with violence. These enactments...
Sexual harassment is an affective, embodied and relational issue with distinctly gendered consequences for those who experience it. Despite a vast literature illuminating the dynamics of sexual harassment, detailed analyses affective dimensions such are scarce. This article young women’s nonbinary people’s experiences from perspective embodiment. The analysis draws on Sara Ahmed’s theorisation hurts, orientations emotions to trace relational, processes gendering linked harassment. identifies...
Online discussions are rife with fear-evoking images and meaning making that highlight a perceived threat to the security of European nations their inhabitants posed by migrants’ violence in wake increased immigration. This paper examines role emotions shaping anti-immigration views as response attached migrants online conversations. Using dataset Finnish discussion threads from 2015 2017 were prompted extensive media attention paid various cases violent crime which suspects, we particularly...
The #metoo movement and various other social media campaigns have made sexual harassment increasingly visible in recent years. Such collective practices of naming thereby resisting been possible by feminist discourses that enabled the linking personal experiences to gendered structures. In this paper, we examine temporal shifts young people’s accounts based on two datasets generated 15–16-year-old girls nonbinary people which were collected 20 years apart (2000 2021) Finland. We draw...