A5056555813- Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Research in Social Sciences
- Digital Education and Society
- Critical Theory and Philosophy
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Emile Durkheim and Sociology
- Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Management and Organizational Studies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Theatre and Performance Studies
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- German History and Society
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Critical Realism in Sociology
- Higher Education Practises and Engagement
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
Tampere University
2016-2025
University of Helsinki
2023
Aalto University
2023
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
2020
University of Turku
2007-2014
Finland University
2014
Petar is 43 years old, and lives in Zagreb, Croatia
Today, the impact of work both Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour is increasingly evident in anthropology, most notably subfields medical anthropology science technology. However, so far oeuvres these two thinkers have not been compared a systematic fashion secondary literature. The present consideration intends sustained comparison their to end problematizing notion human or anthropos. We suggest that provide us with vital means question exceptionalism. Instead calling upon essence...
This paper explores relationships between environment and education after the Covid-19 pandemic through lens of philosophy in a new key developed by Michael Peters Philosophy Education Society Australasia (PESA). The is collectively written 15 authors who responded to question: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Their answers are classified into four main themes corresponding sections. first section, 'As we bake earth, let's try it from scratch', gathers wider philosophical considerations about...
This article is a multi-authored response to an editorial ‵Postdigital Science and Education′ published in 2018 by Petar Jandrić, Jeremy Knox, Tina Besley, Thomas Ryberg, Juha Suoranta Sarah Hayes Educational Philosophy Theory as mission statement for the journal Postdigital Education. Nineteen authors were invited produce their sections, followed two author-reviewers who examined whole. Authors' responses signal sense of urgency developing concept postdigital caution about attempts at...
The reduction of consumer and retail food waste is crucial for the transition towards a circular economy to take place. Based on an ethnography conducted in supermarket Finland, article examines hands-on practices producing preventing sector, with focus framing valuing products. We pay special attention process ridding, which our analysis shows be integral selling products thus creating value. findings shed light how different modes valuation, both monetary non-monetary, related sometimes...
Previous scholarship on waste has identified lack of public knowledge as one the greatest barriers to success any recycling initiative. However, informational influencing proven insufficient, it tends ignore messy, ambiguous, bodily relations that people have with waste. Waste is prone evoke visceral affective responses, and those affects matter for how we relate In this article, examine role in practices Finnish trash activists followed by means ethnographic fieldwork both walks social...
In the article, we examine dog-assisted therapy sessions in triadic terms, as a constellation between three agents. The prevalent model of therapeutic relationship is two-person model. article contests such dyadic and anthropocentric understanding by emphasising role ‘the third’ interactions client therapist from multispecies perspective. Our analysis draws on technologically mediated participant observation supplemented ethnographic interviews with therapists. By stressing integral dog...
In this article, we explore various forms that giving and receiving may take in academia as well ambiguous motivations, intentions, outcomes of gifting. Based on responses elicited from fellow academics written form analyzed empirically through thematic coding, the article examines academic gifts along two axes: vertical (research grants) horizontal (citation epistemic sharing). Our results attest to existence what be called ‘academic gift culture’ presents an alternative ‘competitive...
The article discusses Georg Simmel’s theorizing on the social in light of his treatment ‘dyad’ and ‘triad’, constellations two three elements. What makes dyad triad particularly interesting is fact that they express difference between primary intersubjectivity immanent to individuals objectified forms numerical terms, as quantitatively determined. In article, it argued its basic, methodologically simplest form, amounts for Simmel dyadic interaction I you, can be conceptualized ‘beingwith’....
The paper, based on an ongoing research project conducted in Finland, examines voluntary dumpster diving as a practice of valuation. Its main questions are: How is intertwined with the question value? And, conversely, what can teach us about practices valuation more generally? article proceeds via three steps. First, order to emphasize creative side valuation, we draw Georg Simmel’s theory value, supplementing it concepts actuality and virtuality, elaborated by Gilles Deleuze. Second, look...
In the article, we set out to develop contours of a general containerology, interrogating containment as technology and an ontological condition that shapes human more-than-human relations. While exploring technologies spatio-temporal devices ordering vis-à-vis leakage, nevertheless stress how inevitably remains contextual, provisional, leaky at best. Addressing selective permeability containers, also discuss relation between contained interiorities exteriorities processes articulations...
Dumpster diving for food implies using discarded edibles found in waste containers behind supermarkets, example. People who voluntarily engage this activity suggest that it is a form of hands-on social critique. In article, we use interview materials to describe and conceptualize practice. The main question pose is: what way voluntary dumpster 'critical practice'? Drawing on the pragmatic sociology critique, show how an entangled practice multiple ways: first, at once means contestation...
In this text, we offer a vision of waste as integral and immanent to valuation practices argue that engaging with materials can thereby significantly contribute the field studies. We lay special emphasis on intertwined processes assembling disassembling value waste. Creating is process joining together: classifying, grouping, combining, making, re-forming. Yet it also where persons, things, parts bodies, or landscapes are disentangled, abandoned, dismissed, corrupted. The notion disassembly...
In this article, we examine the effort of turning biowaste into an asset in everyday practices Finnish biogas plants. Drawing from social scientific waste studies as well new materialist and posthumanist approaches, approach unruly, fluid matter inclined to leak spill over capable affecting possibilities valuing it. Our analysis shows how resists efforts turn it completely homogenous mass; mass has be taken care production process; is not always clear whether produce valuable assets or...
The article proposes that if sociology is to make sense of a world ever more complex and complicated, it important reconsider the scale(s) our relations actions. Instead assuming nested vertical hierarchy micro macro binary, scale should be treated not only as multiple, but also something produced sustained in practice. Coming grips with world, we are living necessitates attending conduits connections between various sites, fields, terrains which lives entangled. concludes note on...
The article, situated at the crossroads of hospitality studies, human–animal studies and writing offers a more-than-human perspective on by exploring book Language Bugs (2018) Chinese designer artist Zhu Yingchun its crafting process. In existing scholarship, has been mainly considered in anthropocentric terms. article suggests that multispecies relations unfolded between artist, his garden bugs not only unsettle disrupt this bias but also complicate predominant dyadic understanding...
The article argues for the relevance of Simmel's life‐philosophy ( Lebensphilosophie) contemporary thought about life and death. By considering life, paradoxically, at once as a pre‐individual flux becoming individuated, Simmel manages to avoid both reductionism mysticism. In addition, unlike Deleuze, example, thinks that we can experience know only in some individual, actual form, never its pure virtuality, an absolute flow. During course examination, insights will also be discussed...