05421nam 22004452 4500 7fd0a9e7-b3a2-45d6-a258-df311a975099 m o d cr n 260401t20202020 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690080 (Paperback) 9789523690097 (PDF) 9789523690103 (Epub) 9789523690110 (Mobi) 10.33134/HUP-3 doi UkCbTOM eng local Youth on the Move : Tendencies and Tensions in Youth Policies and Practices / edited by Lisbeth Lundahl, Kristiina Brunila. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (206 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The book addresses one of the most urgent social problems in many countries, the uncertain school-to-work transitions of young people. As a result, a ‘transition machinery’ has been created, consisting of various education and training measures realised by e.g. teachers and youth workers.The volume demonstrates that discourses related to youth transitions do not simply describe young adults but create them. For example, young people are expected to be active citizens who make themselves attractive to employers, and those who fail in doing so may be labelled having psychological deficiencies. When failing transitions, resulting in lack of higher education or unemployment, are treated as individual’s problems rather than rising from structural factors, the solutions are likewise individualized. The book thus underlines the importance of analysing power relations reflected by gender, health, social class, and ethnicity.The articles of the book combine perspectives from young people, policymakers, teachers, and youth workers in Iceland, Finland, Sweden, and England.The editors of the book are Kristiina Brunila, professor of social justice and equality in education at University of Helsinki, and Lisbeth Lundahl, professor of educational work at Umeå University."In a time of an increasingly segregated school system and a growing precariat on the labour market, there is an urgent need to understand the political and cultural mechanisms that are feeding an unjust political system. Youth on the Move: Tendencies and Tensions in Youth Policies and Practices is an inevitable book for researchers, policymakers and practitioners engaging in equal future possibilities for young people. It takes on the problem not by providing simple solutions on complex problems, but through revealing how good intentions to make young people employable are, in fact, locking them up in segregating norms. Beautifully, the different chapters of the book move between concrete examples, theoretical challenges and political insights. It helps the reader to understand how historically rooted understandings of ‘youth at risk’ and ‘education as the solution of social problems’ take different shapes in the current political landscape – but also how we can resist getting stuck in norms of who is seen as competent, vulnerable, healthy, employable, and/or educable. Youth on the Move helps us to ask necessary critical questions regarding how society (does not) facilitate young people’s transition into labour market and adulthood. I warmly recommend the volume."- Malin Ideland, Professor in Educational Science, Malmö University.Correction notice. Two corrections have been made to the Chapter 5 of this book: Masoud, A., Kurki, T. and Brunila, K. ‘Learn Skills and Get Employed: Constituting the Employable Refugee Subjectivity through Integration Policies and Training Practices’. 1) The direct quote on p. 104, lines 2–4 (Larja et al., 2012, p. 60), included words not present in the original quote. The original wording has now been restored. 2) A sentence previously missing has been included on p. 117, paragraph 2, lines 10–11: ‘Unifying the pathways of integration training may lead to an overflow of workers in those sectors into which refugees are guided.’Original release date: 3 February 2020. The publication has been reloaded in its corrected form on 23 June 2021. We apologise any inconvenience caused. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. school-to-work transitions youth policy careers NEET individualisation governance Lundahl, Lisbeth, editor. University of Umeå. Brunila, Kristiina, editor. University of Helsinki. Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-3 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/a9e5c922-c03a-451c-80a0-fd0f88e4513a.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04762nam 22004332 4500 3cb386f4-fc55-40b6-b037-6ff3759d1a6b m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523691247 (Paperback) 9789523691254 (PDF) 9789523691261 (Epub) 10.33134/HUP-30 doi UkCbTOM eng local Fences and Biosecurity : The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature / edited by Annika Pohl Harrisson, Michael Eilenberg. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (331 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Fences and Biosecurity explores the role of fencing as a mechanism of control, exclusion, and power in the name of biosecurity. While biosecurity is broadly understood as the set of measures taken to prevent the introduction and spread of harmful organisms – thereby protecting humans, animals, and plants – this volume critically examines how fencing has become a key tool in these efforts. Through an interdisciplinary lens, the chapters reveal the ways in which fences, both physical and symbolic, shape social, political, and ecological landscapes.This volume brings together scholars from different regions to investigate the ways in which biosecurity fencing is deployed across different contexts in Europe and North America. As fencing practices increase in scope and intensity, it becomes imperative to assess their effects – both intended and unintended – on human and non-human life. More than passive structures, fences actively participate in the governance of space, reinforcing borders, and regulating mobility. They embody biosecurity concerns, turning abstract discourses into tangible barriers that impact everyday life. Yet, fences are not merely practical tools; they also serve as powerful symbols of fear, control, and exclusion. While they may provide protection, they also create division, evoking a range of intellectual and emotional reactions and raising questions about their long-term implications.Fences and Biosecurity highlights how fencing, as a manifestation of biosecurity anxieties, is not only about managing biological threats but also about organizing the world into hierarchies of value. By delineating spatial boundaries, fences impose distinctions between what is considered safe and what is framed as dangerous or invasive. This separation of differently valued species and biological matter is not neutral; rather, it is deeply entangled with political imaginaries, economic interests, and global trade dynamics. Fences facilitate the circulation of capital while simultaneously restricting the movement of certain species and populations, making them instruments of governance rather than mere physical barriers. While fences physically separate spaces, they also reshape cultural understandings of risk, security, and belonging. By shifting the focus from biosecurity as an abstract policy concern to fencing as a material and discursive practice, this volume reveals the ways in which security measures are enacted on the ground.Annika Pohl Harrisson is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark.Michael Eilenberg is an associate professor of anthropology at Aarhus University. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Biosecurity Fencing Borders Human- animal conflicts Wildlife management Governance (or biopolitics) Harrisson, Annika, editor. University of Southern Denmark. (orcid)0000000176242135 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7624-2135 Eilenberg, Michael, editor. Aarhus University. (orcid)0000000300517424 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0051-7424 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-30 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/72df9380-f8f6-4176-8176-653ca36f70e0.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 05153nam 22004692 4500 e908e0b4-02dc-44ed-8307-6ca29b846ab0 m o d cr n 260401t20222022 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690721 (Paperback) 9789523690738 (PDF) 9789523690745 (Epub) 9789523690752 (Mobi) 10.33134/HUP-17 doi UkCbTOM eng local Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality / edited by Josephine Hoegaerts, Tuire Liimatainen, Laura Hekanaho, Elizabeth Peterson. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2022. ©2022 1 online resource (373 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This multidisciplinary volume reflects the shifting experiences and framings of Finnishness and its relation to race and coloniality. The authors centre their investigations on whiteness and unravel the cultural myth of a normative Finnish (white) ethnicity. Rather than presenting a unified definition for whiteness, the book gives space to the different understandings and analyses of its authors. This collection of case-studies illuminates how Indigenous and ethnic minorities have participated in defining notions of Finnishness, how historical and recent processes of migration have challenged the traditional conceptualisations of the nation-state and its population, and how imperial relationships have contributed to a complex set of discourses on Finnish compliance and identity.With an aim to question and problematise what may seem self-evident aspects of Finnish life and Finnishness, expert voices join together to offer (counter) perspectives on how Finnishness is constructed and perceived. Scholars from cultural studies, history, sociology, linguistics, genetics, among others, address four main topics: 1) Imaginations of Finnishness, including perceived physical characteristics of Finnish people; 2) Constructions of whiteness, entailing studies of those who do and do not pass as white; 3) Representations of belonging and exclusion, making up of accounts of perceptions of what it means to be ‘Finnish’; and 4) Imperialism and colonisation, including what might be considered uncomfortable or even surprising accounts of inclusion and exclusion in the Finnish context.This volume takes a first step in opening up a complex set of realities that define Finland’s changing role in the world and as a home to diverse populations.Josephine Hoegaerts is Associate Professor of European Studies at the University of Helsinki and principal investigator of CALLIOPE: Vocal Articulations of Parliamentary Identity and Empire. Her research has focused on modern histories of nation-building, masculinity, and vocal practices of power and politics.Tuire Liimatainen is a PhD student in Area and Cultural Studies at the University of Helsinki, with a specialisation in Nordic Studies. Her research interests center broadly on questions of migration, national minorities and ethnicity in the Nordic region, as well as language, culture, and new media.Laura Hekanaho is a postdoctoral researcher in Applied Linguistics at the University of Jyväskylä. Her research focuses on the relationship between language, gender, and identity.Elizabeth Peterson is University Lecturer in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki. She conducts research on language contact and language attitudes, including attitudes and ideologies about English. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. whiteness coloniality colonialism multiculturalism migration racism Hoegaerts, Josephine, editor. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000234585444 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3458-5444 Liimatainen, Tuire, editor. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000165212934 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6521-2934 Hekanaho, Laura, editor. University of Jyväskylä. (orcid)0000000210646871 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1064-6871 Peterson, Elizabeth, editor. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000260571804 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6057-1804 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-17 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/f98410dd-6006-464b-95f5-e664bf235ea7.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04456nam 22004452 4500 d6b3d8bb-046b-4902-abe6-bb727d1fa340 m o d cr n 260401t20222022 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690790 (Paperback) 9789523690806 (PDF) 9789523690813 (Epub) 10.33134/AHEAD-2 doi UkCbTOM eng local Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America : Rethinking Finnish Experiences in Transnational Spaces / edited by Rani-Henrik Andersson, Janne Lahti. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2022. ©2022 1 online resource (316 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier AHEAD: Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2737-2812 Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America reinterprets Finnish experiences in North America by connecting them to the transnational processes of settler colonial conquest, far-settlement, elimination of natives, and capture of terrestrial spaces. Rather than merely exploring whether the idea of Finns as a different kind of immigrant is a myth, this book challenges it in many ways. It offers an analysis of the ways in which this myth manifests itself, why it has been upheld to this day, and most importantly how it contributes to settler colonialism in North America and beyond.The authors in this volume apply multidisciplinary perspectives in revealing the various levels of Finnish involvement in settler colonialism. In their chapters, authors seek to understand the experiences and representations of Finns in North American spatial projects, in territorial expansion and integration, and visions of power. They do so by analyzing how Finns reinvented their identities and acted as settlers, participated in the production of settler colonial narratives, as well as benefitted and took advantage of settler colonial structures. Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America aims to challenge traditional histories of Finnish migration, in which Finns have typically been viewed almost in isolation from the broader American context, not to mention colonialism. The book examines the diversity of roles, experiences, and narrations of and by Finns in the histories of North America by employing the settler colonial analytical framework.Rani-Henrik Andersson (PhD) is senior university lecturer of North American Studies at the University of Helsinki and the principal investigator of HUMANA—Human Migration and Network Analysis: Developing New Research Methods for the Study of Human Migration and Social Change. Janne Lahti (PhD) is a historian who works at the University of Helsinki as an Academy of Finland research fellow. His research focuses on global and transnational histories of settler colonialism, borderlands, the American West, and Nordic colonialism. Lahti is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Settler Colonial Studies. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. migration Settler colonialism transnational Nordic colonialism ethnicity/race Andersson, Rani-Henrik, editor. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000303303886 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0330-3886 Lahti, Janne, editor. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000334751542 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3475-1542 Helsinki University Press, publisher. AHEAD: Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2737-2812 https://doi.org/10.33134/ahead-2 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/e60e8ed5-5782-4392-af66-153d3fea550e.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03781nam 22004572 4500 286e8771-f95d-494c-9cf3-6ed6e7f584c9 m o d cr n 260401t20242024 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523691063 (Paperback) 9789523691070 (PDF) 9789523691087 (Epub) 10.33134/HUP-24 doi UkCbTOM eng local Helén, Ilpo, author. University of Eastern Finland. (orcid)0000000200710972 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0071-0972 Genome Finland : From Rare Diseases to Data Economy / Ilpo Helén, Karoliina Snell, Heta Tarkkala, Aaro Tupasela. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2024. ©2024 1 online resource (310 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Genome Finland tells a story of genomic medicine in Finland from the study of rare Finnish diseases in the 1960s and 1970s to the implementation of personalized medicine in the 2020s. The main focus is on the 21st century – the period after the Human Genome Project – and on the establishment of new infrastructures to support genomic medicine, such as biobanks. The book opens up the reasoning and discussions as well as the settings and events through which Finnish medical genetics reached the top level of international biomedicine in the late 1990s, biobanks and biobank research evolved during the 2000s and 2010s, and large transnational public-private partnership projects utilising massive amounts of genome and patient data started to dominate also Finnish research into the 2020s. In particular, Genome Finland examines and exposes the connections between biomedical science, ‘knowledge-based’ economy and business, and innovation policy in Finland during the past decades.Ilpo Helén is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland and a Docent of Sociology at the University of Helsinki.Karoliina Snell is a programme director and a Docent of Sociology at the University of Helsinki.Heta Tarkkala is a Docent of Sociology and an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki.Aaro Tupasela is a Docent of Sociology at the University of Helsinki. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Genomics Biomedical research and innovation Informed consent Biobanking Data economy Nordic welfare state Snell, Karoliina, author. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000226436676 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2643-6676 Tarkkala, Heta, author. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000152843091 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5284-3091 Tupasela, Aaro, author. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000315127533 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1512-7533 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-24 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/15b8795f-e770-48ed-a8e3-0dd27dcbb303.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04426nam 22004452 4500 88658eec-4f51-4232-9f48-a865c5c444aa m o d cr n 260401t20242024 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523691124 (Paperback) 9789523691131 (PDF) 9789523691148 (Epub) 10.33134/HUP-26 doi UkCbTOM eng local Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe / edited by Anna-Liisa Heusala, Kaarina Aitamurto, Sherzod Eraliev. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2024. ©2024 1 online resource (352 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe remain an important hub for migration, with significant implications for both the societies in the region and migrants themselves. Migration can affect illiberal practices by contributing to political polarization, the adoption of restrictive immigration policies, the spread of xenophobia and discrimination, and economic competition.Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe analyses how illiberal states manage migration to absorb resistance and how migration impacts the illiberal political agenda. With this dual perspective, the contributions provide an understanding of how migration becomes a pivotal factor in shaping political discourse, policies, and governance practices within the context of illiberal states. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the studies on Russia, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Hungary, Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine show how illiberalism shapes, influences, and enables states to take advantage of migration to secure and advance political goals. Simultaneously, migration processes can challenge authoritarianism and illiberal political goals by fostering diversity, networking, democracy promotion, and political empowerment. Finally, the volume aims to make the conceptualization of illiberalism more relevant for the study of political and administrative practices and ways of thinking in this region. Political decisions are made in structures which are not only shaped by domestic considerations but are also deeply entwined with the globalized markets and the shadow economy that transcend national borders economically and culturally. Furthermore, the examination of illiberalism vis-à-vis migration in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe illustrates the global socio-political tendencies in many other parts of the world.Anna-Liisa Heusala is a scholar in Russian and Eurasian studies at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.Kaarina Aitamurto is a lecturer at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.Sherzod Eraliev is a senior researcher at the Sociology of Law Department, Lund University, and a senior researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Russia Migration Illiberalism Eurasia Autocracy Eastern Europe Heusala, Anna-Liisa, editor. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000309692149 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0969-2149 Aitamurto, Kaarina, editor. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000281822035 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8182-2035 Eraliev, Sherzod, editor. Lund University. (orcid)0000000177660961 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7766-0961 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-26 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/840d4255-e832-4c7c-a227-3c7f0bca7c1c.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03977nam 22004692 4500 350809f6-127c-4395-ae67-b638fac0406e m o d cr n 260401t20232023 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690882 (Paperback) 9789523690899 (PDF) 9789523690905 (Epub) 10.33134/HUP-20 doi UkCbTOM eng local Global Perspectives on Leadership in Early Childhood Education / edited by Matshediso Modise, Elina Fonsén, Johanna Heikka, Nkidi Phatudi, Marit Bøe, Thembi Phala. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2023. ©2023 1 online resource (340 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Global Perspectives on Leadership in Early Childhood Education aims to improve leadership and management in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings through research evidence. Written for a wide audience, including the academic community, policymakers, practitioners, teachers, directors, and professionals, the book provides knowledge and tools to enhance the ECEC sector.Divided into three thematic sections, the book examines the theory of leadership in ECEC, strategies for improving professional development, and the governance and policies related to ECEC leadership worldwide. In its 16 chapters that blend theoretical and practical perspectives, the book addresses diverse topics, such as pedagogical leadership in different countries, peer mentoring, and the utilization of digital technology in early childhood education. The volume draws upon collaboration through the International Leadership Research Forum in Early Childhood (ILRF–EC) and encompasses contributions from across the world, from South Africa to Norway, Australia, Finland, and beyond. By incorporating different contexts and viewpoints, Global Perspectives on Leadership in Early Childhood Education makes a significant and timely contribution to the field of education. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Early childhood education Educational leadership Pedagogical leadership Educational administration pedagogy inclusion Modise, Matshediso, editor. University of South Africa. (orcid)0000000204042035 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0404-2035 Fonsén, Elina, editor. University of Jyväskylä. (orcid)000000022547905X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2547-905X Heikka, Johanna, editor. University of Eastern Finland. (orcid)0000000207120801 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0712-0801 Phatudi, Nkidi, editor. University of South Africa. (orcid)0000000178603731 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7860-3731 Bøe, Marit, editor. University of South-Eastern Norway. (orcid)0000000337687259 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3768-7259 Phala, Thembi, editor. University of South Africa. (orcid)0000000201115331 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0111-5331 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-20 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/d233e115-e5ab-4b9e-a0cf-a013e76b0305.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04293nam 22004332 4500 aee38a48-bfc9-4780-af0f-3d46e28c72a0 m o d cr n 260401t20242024 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523691216 (Paperback) 9789523691223 (PDF) 9789523691230 (Epub) 10.33134/HUP-29 doi UkCbTOM eng local Tammisto, Tuomas, author. Tampere University. (orcid)0000000197677832 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9767-7832 Hard Work : Producing places, relations and value on a Papua New Guinea resource frontier / Tuomas Tammisto. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2024. ©2024 1 online resource (350 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star For the Mengen people of Papua New Guinea, ‘hard work’ does not refer to drudgery or physically exhausting labour. Instead, it involves creating and recreating social relations through acts of care, marriages, ceremonial events, sharing, and working the land together. ‘Work’ as the Mengen see it, produces value understood as meaningful social relations. This differs significantly from the way colonial officials, loggers, and planters perceived value. Hard Work examines human-environmental relations, value production, natural resource extraction, and state formation within the context of the Mengen. It delves into how the Mengen engage with their land and outside actors like companies, NGOs, and the state through agriculture, logging, plantation labour, and environmental conservation. These practices have shaped the Mengen’s lived environment, while also sparking debates on what is considered valuable and how value is created.Tammisto’s monograph explores the complexities of natural resource extraction, looking at both large-scale processes and personal human-environment interactions. It combines a political ecology focus on the connection between environmental issues and power relations with a focus on how value is produced, represented, and materialized.Tuomas Tammisto is a socio-cultural anthropologist specializing in political ecology. He currently works as an academy research fellow in Social Anthropology at Tampere University.“The fate of tropical rainforests is a paramount global concern, and this is one of the best books yet written about how indigenous people themselves think about logging, plantations, and conservation as possibilities for their environment. Tammisto is uniquely skilled at synthesizing the anthropological tradition of meaning-focused analysis of space and landscape with scholarship on the political economy and ecology of resource extraction. Above all, he has done hard, valuable work of listening to Mengen people’s own accounts of their lives, and he describes with dignity and richness the varied approaches different community members take to futures of land and livelihood currently open to them.” - Rupert Stasch, Professor, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, United KingdomThis book has received support from the Kone Foundation. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. state formation value land use plantations logging swidden horticulture natural resource extraction Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-29 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/4b6be50d-4159-4082-978f-b5aefec451ea.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04185nam 22003852 4500 f6813fff-61f5-47cc-b90e-5df833bfc46c m o d cr n 260401t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690288 (Paperback) 9789523690295 (PDF) 10.33134/HUP-7 doi UkCbTOM eng local Westphal, Kenneth, author. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul. (orcid)000000016039760X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6039-760X Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories : Critical Re-Examination, Elucidation and Corroboration / Kenneth R. Westphal. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (118 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Immanuel Kant’s ‘Transcendental Deduction of the Categories’ addresses issues centrally debated today in philosophy and in cognitive sciences, especially in epistemology, and in theory of perception. Kant’s insights into these issues are clouded by pervasive misunderstandings of Kant’s ‘Deduction’ and its actual aims, scope, and argument. The present edition with its fresh and accurate translation and concise commentary aims to serve these contemporary debates as well as continuing intensive and extensive scholarship on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Two surprising results are that ‘Transcendental Deduction’ is valid and sound, and it holds independently of Kant’s transcendental idealism. This lucid volume is interesting and useful to students, yet sufficiently detailed to be informative to specialists.Kenneth R. Westphal is Professor of Philosophy at Boğaziçi University, İstanbul. His research focuses on the character and scope of rational justification in non-formal, substantive domains, both moral and theoretical. His books include several volumes on Kant.“This compact book will be of very considerable interest to scholars in philosophy and in cognitive science working on Kant’s Kritik der reinen Vernunft / Critique of Pure Reason, especially those concerned with perceptual judgment and with self-consciousness, self-ascription or apperception. It is also an ideal text for advanced courses and seminars treating Kant’s 1787 version of the Transcendental Deduction. The book is constructed to strongly promote running comparison of Kant’s German prose with Westphal’s highly competent translation. Westphal’s succinct analytic commentary culls through two centuries worth of secondary literature to lay out the essential terminological, conceptual, and historical presuppositions of Kant’s key claims and arguments. For decades now, I have been looking for a bilingual edition of the 1787 Deduction suitable for advanced teaching purposes—an edition of the format and sharply focussed scholarly quality exhibited by Westphal’s book. It is especially gratifying to know that this work is freely accessible to everyone.”Professor Jeff Edwards, Stony Brook University, United States Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Immanuel Kant Epsitemology Transcendental Deduction of the Categories Critique of Pure Reason Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-7 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/2148bcb1-a3dd-4c89-af57-9fd5cd64652d.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03126nam 22004212 4500 e37c3845-827d-4b3b-9763-b548135d0ced m o d cr n 260401t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690301 (Paperback) 9789523690318 (PDF) 9789523690325 (Epub) 9789523690332 (Mobi) 10.33134/HUP-8 doi UkCbTOM eng local Lindén, Carl-Gustav, author. University of Bergen. (orcid)0000000173014401 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7301-4401 Kingdom of Nokia : How a Nation Served the Needs of One Company / Carl-Gustav Lindén. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (274 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Kingdom of Nokia tells a fascinating story of corporatism in Finland. How did the mobile phone giant Nokia make the Finnish elite willing to serve the interests of the company? Nokia became a global player in mobile communications in the 1990s, and helped establish Anglo-Saxon capitalism in Finland. Through its success and strong lobbying, the company managed to capture the attention of Finnish politicians, civil servants, and journalists nationwide. With concrete detailed examples, Kingdom of Nokia illustrates how Nokia organised lavishing trips to journalists and paid direct campaign funding to politicians to establish its role at the core of Finnish decision-making. As a result, the company influenced important political decisions such as joining the European Union and adopting the euro, and further, Nokia even drafted its own law to serve its special interests. All this in a country considered one of the least corrupt in the world. Carl-Gustav Lindén is an Associate Professor of Data Journalism at the University of Bergen, Norway. Lindén’s background is in journalism, and he was a business journalist working for newspapers, magazines, and television until 2012, when he turned to academia. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Finland Nokia Nordics Mobile communication Management Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-8 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/7e9a432e-1b4f-4942-b454-ad4dbe4b48e4.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 05055nam 22004452 4500 a4963641-44bf-4ac9-a5b5-293e84fbb042 m o d cr n 260401t20232023 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690851 (Paperback) 9789523690868 (PDF) 9789523690875 (Epub) 10.33134/HUP-19 doi UkCbTOM eng local Living Communities and Their Archaeologies in the Middle East / edited by Rick Bonnie, Marta Lorenzon, Suzie Thomas. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2023. ©2023 1 online resource (286 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This volume presents theoretical ideas, case studies, and reflective insights on community archaeology across the Middle East, with contributions by scholars working in and from Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Syria. The chapters represent a multitude of insights from contemporary public archaeology practice—drawing on theoretical frameworks and discussing the realities of challenges and opportunities presented by opening up archaeological experiences to wider publics in different social and political settings.In particular, the volume focuses on the following three themes: (1) defining and reflecting on ‘community’ in community archaeology; (2) which archaeologies to employ in community archaeology; and (3) measuring the success and failure of community archaeology. In addressing these issues, the chapters reflect different historical trajectories and cultures that enable us to find similarities and differences in the theory and practice of community archaeology.In more recent decades a shift has been noticed among both national authorities and foreign archaeological expeditions, with more emphasis on local heritage experiences. However, this frequently took the form of guiding and introducing communities to ‘their heritage’. Only more recently local voices have become more heard in definitions of heritage and decisions on preservation matters, with more projects tying these voices into their research objectives. This volume presents several projects that combine postcolonial approaches, citizen participation, and community work across the Middle East.By focusing especially on this geographical area, the volume also reflects upon the current state of public and community archaeology in this unique and complex region, adding to the already rich literature from the rest of the world. The Middle East has a long, fascinating, but also complicated history of archaeological investigation, deeply entrenched in colonization, and more recently in the decolonization process. The involvement and social values of the associated communities have often been overlooked in academic discussions. This book aims to redress that imbalance and present original research that reflects on the work of current scholars and practitioners and draws similarities and differences from diverse cultures.Rick Bonnie is University Lecturer in Museology at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and a founding member of the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires.Marta Lorenzon is an archaeologist and earthen architectural specialist. She is currently an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland.Suzie Thomas is Professor of Heritage at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and a member of the Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) research unit. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Community archaeology Middle East Western Asia archaeology Near Eastern archaeology decolonization public engagement Bonnie, Rick, editor. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000165653414 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6565-3414 Lorenzon, Marta, editor. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000347475241 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4747-5241 Thomas, Suzie, editor. University of Antwerp. (orcid)0000000233650136 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3365-0136 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-19 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/e2b4b4ab-458b-47aa-bcaa-cc40ab75e1b6.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04785nam 22004092 4500 8762b7bd-7eb4-4a85-b8d5-03d7c32fbad6 m o d cr n 260401t20222022 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690769 (Paperback) 9789523690776 (PDF) 9789523690783 (Epub) 10.33134/HUP-18 doi UkCbTOM eng local Locating the Mediterranean : Connections and Separations across Space and Time / edited by Carl Rommel, Joseph John Viscomi. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2022. ©2022 1 online resource (264 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Until today, anthropological studies of locality have taken primary interest in local subjects leading local lives in local communities. Through a shift of conceptual emphasis from locality to location, the present volume departs from previous preoccupations with identity and belonging. Instead, Locating the Mediterranean brings together ethnographic examinations of processes that make locations and render them meaningful. In doing so, it stimulates debates on the interplay between location and region-making in history as well as anthropology.The volume’s deeply empirical contributions illustrate how historical, material, legal, religious, economic, political, and social connections and separations shape the experience of being located in the geographical space commonly known as the Mediterranean region. Drawing from research in Melilla, Lampedusa, Istanbul, Nefpaktos/Lepanto, Tunisia, Beirut, Marseille, and elsewhere, the volume articulates location through the overlapping and incorporation of multiple social and historical processes.Individual contributions are linked by the pursuit to rethink the conceptual frames deployed to study the Mediterranean region. Together, the volume’s chapters challenge strict geopolitical renderings of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa and suggest how the ‘Mediterranean’ can function as a meaningful anthropological and historical category if the notion of ‘location’ is reinvigorated and conceptualised anew.Carl Rommel is a researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University. He is an anthropologist, whose research focuses on masculinity, sports, future-making and ‘projects’ in contemporary Egypt.Joseph John Viscomi is a lecturer in European History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a historian and anthropologist specialised in temporality, migration, and political processes in the Mediterranean region.‘Locating the Mediterranean presents the fruit of a collective work that has for several years approached the Mediterranean and Mediterraneanism in a compelling, refreshing, and wonderfully productive new perspective. The introduction articulates and the chapters showcase the locating approach in varied, mutually complementary ways, which the epilogue gracefully brings together. This powerful analytic approach permits us to appreciate regional constellations and specific locations at the same time. That is so, as the authors explain, because these various locations are relative to each other (and to other cross-locations), and because they are all “partial locations”.’ - Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Assistant Professor, Columbia University, United States Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Ethnography Mediterranean Regional studies Location and place Rommel, Carl, editor. Uppsala University. (orcid)0000000303016131 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0301-6131 Viscomi, Joseph, editor. Birkbeck, University of London. (orcid)0000000211478689 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1147-8689 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-18 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/22008cad-8b0b-47ac-80fe-a1ae43ec9d8c.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04105nam 22003732 4500 47449538-8b6a-413d-a79c-de0f7e4a4c72 m o d cr n 260401t20232023 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690912 (Paperback) 9789523690929 (PDF) 9789523690936 (Epub) 10.33134/HUP-21 doi UkCbTOM eng local Bäckström, Olli, author. University of Eastern Finland. (orcid)000000026453674X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6453-674X Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War 1618–1648 : Aspects of Institutional Change and Decline / Olli Bäckström. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2023. ©2023 1 online resource (313 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War 1618–1648 investigates change and decline in military institutions during a period of protracted and destructive European warfare. Conceptual background is provided by the Military Revolution thesis, which argues that changes in military technology and tactics drove revolutionary transformation in the way states organised and waged war in the early modern era. This transformation of military institutions became evident during the long and destructive Thirty Years War in 1618–1648. The outcome of the Military Revolution was the centralised fiscal-military state that possessed a strong claim to the monopoly of violence within its territorial boundaries.The book examines how the Thirty Years War accelerated and even initiated transformation in four military institutions that defined land warfare: feudal cavalry services, militias, regular armies, and war commissariats. The regional scope of the investigation covers the Holy Roman Empire, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, and the Dutch Republic. The book combines military-historical inquiry with ancillary sciences of sociology and economics. It argues that the Military Revolution of the Thirty Years War stimulated institutions capable of increased complexification and specialisation while curtailing those that were locked in stasis and immutability. The institutional legacy of the Thirty Years War was the emergence of complex military organisations that are characteristic to the modern society and its self-renewing social subsystems.Previous scholarship on the Military Revolution has concentrated on military technicalities and the wider process of early modern state formation. This book proposes an alternative way of viewing early modern military transformations from the perspectives of institutions and systems. System-analytical survey of change and decline in the military institutions of the Thirty Years War introduces qualifications to the Military Revolution theory and offers a novel way of conceptualising early modern military history.Olli Bäckström (PhD) holds the title of docent in General History at the University of Eastern Finland. His research focuses on early modern warfare and the Thirty Years War. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Thirty Years War Military Revolution Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-21 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/19e1e320-6c78-4538-ad69-ccac83f05c42.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04016nam 22004452 4500 e37b2d10-957c-4bc2-b5d3-75fce0a6ae34 m o d cr n 260401t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690547 (Paperback) 9789523690554 (PDF) 9789523690561 (Epub) 9789523690578 (Mobi) 10.33134/HUP-13 doi UkCbTOM eng local Modern Folk Devils : Contemporary Constructions of Evil / edited by Martin Demant Frederiksen, Ida Harboe Knudsen. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (294 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The devilish has long been integral to myths, legends, and folklore, firmly located in the relationships between good and evil, and selves and others. But how are ideas of evil constructed in current times and framed by contemporary social discourses? Modern Folk Devils builds on and works with Stanley Cohen’s theory on folk devils and moral panics to discuss the constructions of evil. The authors present an array of case-studies that illustrate how the notion of folk devils nowadays comes into play and animates ideas of otherness and evil throughout the world. Examining current fears and perceived threats, this volume investigates and analyzes how and why these devils are constructed. The chapters discuss how the devilish may take on many different forms: sometimes they exist only as a potential threat, other times they are a single individual or phenomenon or a visible group, such as refugees, technocrats, Roma, hipsters, LGBT groups, and rightwing politicians. Folk devils themselves are also given a voice to offer an essential complementary perspective on how panics become exaggerated, facts distorted, and problems acutely angled.Bringing together researchers from anthropology, sociology, political studies, ethnology, and criminology, the contributions examine cases from across the world spanning from Europe to Asia and Oceania.Martin Demant Frederiksen is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University. He works in the interface of anthropology and contemporary archaeology, focusing on emptiness, temporality and coastal infrastructures in Croatia and Denmark, and on subcultures and urbanization in Georgia.Ida Harboe Knudsen is a social anthropologist, who received her PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale Germany. Her research is focused on rural development in Lithuania after the EU-membership and on Lithuanian inmates in Danish prison facilities. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Otherness Folk devils Moral panic Stigmatization Exclusion Public fear Frederiksen, Martin, editor. Aarhus University. (orcid)0000000280322899 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8032-2899 Harboe Knudsen, Ida, editor. Vytautas Magnus University. Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-13 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/a3413131-4455-45c6-bac7-3d8b1e00796c.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03843nam 22004932 4500 fb902644-fa48-4742-8ac3-a7ac4b375337 m o d cr n 260401t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690349 (Paperback) 9789523690356 (PDF) 9789523690363 (Epub) 9789523690370 (Mobi) 10.33134/HUP-9 doi UkCbTOM eng local Nexus of Patriotism and Militarism in Russia : A Quest for Internal Cohesion / edited by Katri Pynnöniemi. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (342 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This edited volume explores patriotism and the growing role of militarism in today’s Russia. During the last 20-year period, there has been a consistent effort in Russia to consolidate the nation and to foster a sense of unity and common purpose. To this end, Russian authorities have activated various channels, from educational programmes and youth organizations to media and popular culture. With the conflict in Ukraine, the manipulation of public sentiments – feeling of pride and perception of threat – has become more systemic. The traditional view of Russia being Other for Europe has been replaced with a narrative of enmity. The West is portrayed as a threat to Russia’s historical-cultural originality while Russia represents itself as a country encircled by enemies. On the other hand, these state-led projects mixing patriotism and militarism are perceived sceptically by the Russian society, especially the younger generations.This volume provides new insights into the evolution of enemy images in Russia and the ways in which societal actors perceive official projections of patriotism and militarism in the Russian society. The contributors of the volume include several experts on Russian studies, contemporary history, political science, sociology, and media studies.Katri Pynnöniemi holds a joint professorship of Russian security studies at the University of Helsinki and at the Finnish National Defense University. She has published widely on the system change in Russia as well as on Russian foreign and security policy. The contributors of the volume include several experts on Russian studies, contemporary history, political science, sociology, and media studies. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Russia Youth Putin Patriotism Patriotic education Militarism Authoritarianism Blood sacrifice submarine Kursk Threat perception Enemy image Pynnöniemi, Katri, editor. University of Helsinki and National Defence University. (orcid)0000000161231206 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6123-1206 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-9 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/a1a7790d-2170-4d29-8652-1732d4dcf98d.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 06196nam 22005412 4500 b0ba3b54-c100-4c43-b400-6377b8fad02a m o d cr n 260401t20222022 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690622 (Paperback) 9789523690639 (PDF) 9789523690646 (Epub) 9789523690653 (Mobi) 10.33134/HUP-15 doi UkCbTOM eng local Kivivuori, Janne, author. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000235720791 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-0791 Nordic Homicide in Deep Time : Lethal Violence in the Early Modern Era and Present Times / Janne Kivivuori, Mona Rautelin, Jeppe Büchert Netterstrøm, Dag Lindström, Guðbjörg S. Bergsdóttir, Jónas O. Jónasson, Martti Lehti, Sven Granath, Mikkel M. Okholm, Petri Karonen. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2022. ©2022 1 online resource (376 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Nordic Homicide in Deep Time draws a unique and detailed picture of developments in human interpersonal violence and presents new findings on rates, patterns, and long-term changes in lethal violence in the Nordics. Conducted by an interdisciplinary team of criminologists and historians, the book analyses homicide and lethal violence in northern Europe in two eras – the 17th century and early 21st century. Similar and continuous societal structures, cultural patterns, and legal cultures allow for long-term and comparative homicide research in the Nordic context. Reflecting human universals and stable motives, such as revenge, jealousy, honour, and material conflicts, homicide as a form of human behaviour enables long-duration comparison. By describing the rates and patterns of homicide during these two eras, the authors unveil continuity and change in human violence. Where and when did homicide typically take place? Who were the victims and the offenders, what where the circumstances of their conflicts? Was intimate partner homicide more prevalent in the early modern period than in present times? How long a time elapsed from violence to death? Were homicides often committed in the context of other crime? The book offers answers to these questions among others, comparing regions and eras. We gain a unique and empirically grounded view on how state consolidation and changing routines of everyday life transformed the patterns of criminal homicide in Nordic society. The path to pacification was anything but easy, punctuated by shorter crises of social turmoil, and high violence. The book is also a methodological experiment that seeks to assess the feasibility of long-duration standardized homicide analysis and to better understand the logic of homicide variation across space and over time. In developing a new approach for extending homicide research into the deep past, the authors have created the Historical Homicide Monitor. The new instrument combines wide explanatory scope, measurement standardization, and articulated theory expression. By retroactively expanding research data to the pre-statistical era, the method enables long-duration comparison of different periods and areas. Based on in-depth source critique, the approach captures patterns of criminal behaviour, beyond the control activity of the courts. The authors foresee the application of their approach in even remoter periods.Nordic Homicide in Deep Time helps the reader to understand modern homicide by revealing the historical continuities and changes in lethal violence. The book is written for professionals, university students and anyone interested in the history of human behaviour.‘Nordic Homicide in Deep Time is an outstanding work of social science history: rigorous, theoretically sophisticated, and thought-provoking. It offers invaluable insights into the motives and circumstances of homicides, past and present, and into the debates among historians, criminologists, and sociologists over how the character and incidence of homicides have changed since early modern times.’- Professor Randolph Roth, Ohio State University, US Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. History Homicide Violence Criminology Early modern period Northern Europe Rautelin, Mona, author. University of Jyväskylä. (orcid)0000000176930915 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7693-0915 Büchert Netterstrøm, Jeppe, author. Aarhus University. Lindström, Dag, author. Uppsala University. (orcid)0000000330040372 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-0372 Bergsdóttir, Guðbjörg, author. National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police. Jónasson, Jónas, author. Reykjavik Metropolitan Police. Lehti, Martti, author. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000271873277 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7187-3277 Granath, Sven, author. Swedish Police Authority. Okholm, Mikkel, author. Danish Ministry of Justice. Karonen, Petri, author. University of Jyväskylä. (orcid)0000000160905504 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6090-5504 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-15 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/a59d7e56-4325-465e-9dda-346aa99ef192.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03527nam 22004692 4500 ea5b38a4-5bb1-46c4-aa45-876a6424b296 m o d cr n 260401t20222022 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690660 (Paperback) 9789523690677 (PDF) 9789523690684 (Epub) 9789523690691 (Mobi) 10.33134/HUP-16 doi UkCbTOM eng local Peltola, Marja, author. Tampere University. (orcid)0000000199916518 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9991-6518 Nuancing Young Masculinities : Helsinki Boys’ Intersectional Relationships in New Times / Marja Peltola, Ann Phoenix. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2022. ©2022 1 online resource (232 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Nuancing Young Masculinities tells a complex story about the plurality of young masculinities. It draws on the narratives of Finnish young people (mostly boys) of different social classes and ethnicities who attend schools in Helsinki, Finland. Their accounts of relations with peers, parents, and teachers give insights into boys’ experiences and everyday practices at school, home, and in leisure time. The theoretical insights in this volume are wide-ranging, illuminating the plurality of masculinities, their dynamism, and intersections with other social identities. The young people’s enthusiastic and reflexive engagement with the research dispels stereotypes of boys and masculinities and offers a unique and holistic re-imagining of masculinities. Nuancing Young Masculinities provides a nuanced and compelling understanding of young masculinities.Marja Peltola is University Lecturer in Gender Studies at Tampere University. A sociologist and youth researcher by background, her research interests relate to intersectionality, gender, racialisation and personal relationships.Ann Phoenix is Professor of Psychosocial Studies at UCL Institute of Education. Her research interests are intersectional and psychosocial, including work on motherhood, social identities, young people, racialisation and gender and narrative methodology. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. intersectionality masculinities racialisation gender family relations peers and friendships social identities narratives Phoenix, Ann, author. University College London. (orcid)0000000153828918 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-8918 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-16 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/0811ee44-323e-4d5d-a26a-1b97246a4ea7.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03844nam 22004332 4500 abf8750d-f7dd-4e88-bec1-eb24ac5c3460 m o d cr n 260401t20202020 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690042 (Paperback) 9789523690059 (PDF) 9789523690066 (Epub) 9789523690073 (Mobi) 10.33134/HUP-2 doi UkCbTOM eng local Pihlström, Sami, author. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000264108382 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6410-8382 Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy : On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other / Sami Pihlström. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (223 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star As a traditional theological issue and in its broader secular varieties, theodicy remains a problem in the philosophy of religion. In this remarkable book, Sami Pihlström provides a novel critical reassessment of the theodicy discourse addressing the problem of evil and suffering. He develops and defends an antitheodicist view, arguing that theodicies seeking to render apparently meaningless suffering meaningful or justified from a ‘God’s-Eye-View’ ultimately rely on metaphysical realism failing to recognize the individual perspective of the sufferer. Pihlström thus shows that a pragmatist approach to the realism issue in the philosophy of religion is a vital starting point for a re-evaluation of the problem of theodicy. With its strong positions and precise arguments, the volume provides a new approach which is likely to stimulate discussion in the wider academic world of philosophy of religion.Sami Pihlström is professor of philosophy of religion at the University of Helsinki. He has published widely on, e.g., the pragmatist tradition, the problem of realism, and the philosophy of religion."With this fresh and highly stimulating book on pragmatism, realism and antitheodicy, Sami Pihlström consolidates his most important thinking to-date into one coherent account. While demonstrating how his take on pragmatism can have bearing on the debate on realism and anti-realism, fact and value, truth and pluralism, Pihlström also brings his position to bear on the failures of theodicy. Bringing added richness to the pragmatist tradition, Pihlström fruitfully draws on Kant’s transcendentalism, Levinas’ alterity, along with Wittgenstein’s view of language and its limits. Rich, lucidly written and carefully argued, this book deserves a broad readership." - Professor Espen Dahl, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. pragmatism realism theodicy / theodicies antitheodicy / antitheodicies evil suffering Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-2 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/1bd87d02-a997-4b7c-96a0-e4ef584f43d0.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 06399nam 22004692 4500 53b3f2bf-47e5-44d9-b522-c7e46622493c m o d cr n 260401t20242024 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523691032 (Paperback) 9789523691049 (PDF) 9789523691056 (Epub) 10.33134/pro-et-contra-3 doi UkCbTOM eng local Reconfiguring EU Peripheries : Political Elites, Contestation, and Geopolitical Shifts / edited by Miruna Butnaru Troncotă, Ali Onur Özçelik, Radu-Alexandru Cucută. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2024. ©2024 1 online resource (330 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Pro et contra ; 2736-8513 Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Reconfiguring EU Peripheries explores the diverse nature of the European Union’s interactions with its peripheries. Focusing on a period of rising regional tensions marked most recently by the war in Ukraine, the volume casts new empirical and conceptual light on the diverse motivations that underpin the political elites’ attitudes towards the EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania, Türkiye and Ukraine.The volume engages with various understandings of the EU’s interactions with its different peripheries and shows how these dynamics are closely related to the self-perceived nature of the societies in question in relation to the EU. The impact of recent crises and conflicts underscore in some cases the need for strengthening solidarity and for ‘more EU’, whereas others highlight the doubts and disappointment over the challenges these societies have faced over recent years.The empirically rich case studies enable both interpretations of and debates on the EU integration processes. A comparative exploration of countries at different stages in the EU accession process and the various political elites’ attitudes towards the EU outlines the essentially constructed nature of peripherality. By challenging the conventional understanding of contestation and peripherality, this volume is a worthwhile first step towards looking at the EU and the peripheries it creates from an alternative, and sometimes ignored, point of view.Miruna Butnaru Troncotă is an associate professor, a PhD advisor, and the director of the Centre of European Studies in the Department of International Relations and European Integration of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, Romania.Ali Onur Özçelik is an associate professor in the International Relations Department at Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Türkiye.Radu-Alexandru Cucută is a lecturer with the Department of International Relations and European Integration of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, Romania.‘Bringing together experts from across Europe, this volume highlights and explores the difficulties surrounding relations between the EU and its neighbours. An essential collection, full of analysis and insight on the direct experience of local elites, at a time when such questions are of central importance for the entire continent. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand how the EU is seen by its key counterparts, for both better and worse, and how this might shape the future of the regions involved.’- Simon Usherwood, Professor of Politics & International Studies, The Open University*'In an era of increased contestation of European integration and the EU’s impact on its near abroad, this volume puts centre-stage the views of political elites in what the dominant discourse treats as the ‘periphery’. The thorough and insightful analyses offered in the nine empirical chapters, from EU member Hungary to potential membership candidate Kosovo, will become indispensable reading for both analysts and policy-makers who can no longer ignore the diverging views and debates about the EU.'- Thomas Diez, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of TübingenCo-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.This book is a deliverable in the Jean Monnet Network “Linking to Europe at the Periphery” (LEAP) nr 612019-EPP-1-2019-TR-EPP-JMONETWORK.This publication has received a subsidy for scientific publishing granted by the Ministry of Education and Culture from the proceeds of Veikkaus, distributed by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Contestation Geopolitics European Union Western Balkans Türkiye Eastern neighborhood war in Ukraine Butnaru Troncotă, Miruna, editor. National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA). Özçelik, Ali, editor. Eskişehir Osmangazi University. (orcid)0000000272617558 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7261-7558 Cucută, Radu-Alexandru, editor. National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA). (orcid)0009000045997527 https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4599-7527 Helsinki University Press, publisher. Pro et contra ; 2736-8513 https://doi.org/10.33134/pro-et-contra-3 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/991a5bea-ab6f-42d5-b18d-5e91134505c0.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03881nam 22004572 4500 f08642f0-e115-4d1b-a9bd-ad56155cf52b m o d cr n 260401t20242024 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523691186 (Paperback) 9789523691193 (PDF) 9789523691209 (Epub) 10.33134/HUP-28 doi UkCbTOM eng local Religion, Law, and COVID-19 in Europe : A Comparative Analysis / edited by Brian Conway, Lene Kühle, Francesco Alicino, Gabriel Bîrsan. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2024. ©2024 1 online resource (494 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Religion, Law, and COVID-19 in Europe investigates how the pandemic and the subsequent legal restrictions on collective activities influenced religious life in the region. The 19 in-depth country case studies combine legal and sociological analyses and reflect the plurality of religious and secular contexts. They detail how the pandemic curbed the collective aspects of religion and how the religious communities adapted, especially via innovations in online religion and new forms of religious leadership.The volume looks at how ordinary devotees’ religious behaviours changed during the pandemic and reveals shifts in religion–state interactions. In so doing, it shows how the pandemic challenged both religions and societies and how this was influenced by varying religious landscapes, political histories and legal cultures.More broadly, this volume makes three important contributions to the extant literature. First, it presents a novel analytical framing for making sense of how the COVID-19 pandemic affected religion. Second, it provides an empirical account of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted religious groups across Europe. Third, it reveals the importance of sudden, large-scale events in understanding religious change in the modern world.Brian Conway is assistant professor of sociology at Maynooth University, Ireland.Lene Kühle is professor in sociology of religion at Aarhus University, Denmark.Francesco Alicino is professor in law and religion at LUM University, Bari, Italy.Gabriel Bîrsan is an independent scholar of the sociology of religion, canon law and church-state relations. Mode of access: World Wide Web. 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Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-28 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/244e5520-6355-4a46-884d-08ab4ec4a2bd.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03942nam 22004572 4500 96f4dcfb-8f90-4372-bc6a-e9300cda7c40 m o d cr n 260401t20202020 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690165 (Paperback) 9789523690172 (PDF) 9789523690189 (Epub) 9789523690196 (Mobi) 10.33134/pro-et-contra-1 doi UkCbTOM eng local Jauhola, Marjaana, author. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000199740778 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9974-0778 Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh : Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process / Marjaana Jauhola. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (297 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Pro et contra ; 2736-8513 Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The IPS Section of International Studies Association has awarded Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh an Honourable Mention for the 2022 IPS Best Book Award.Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh examines the rebuilding of the city of Banda Aceh in Indonesia in the aftermath of the celebrated Helsinki-based peace mediation process, thirty years of armed conflict, and the tsunami. Offering a critical contribution to the study of post-conflict politics, the book includes 14 documentary videos reflecting individuals’ experiences on rebuilding the city and following the everyday lives of people in Banda Aceh.Marjaana Jauhola mirrors the peace-making process from the perspective of the ‘outcast’ and invisible, challenging the selective narrative and ideals of the peace as a success story. Jauhola provides alternative ways to reflect the peace dialogue using ethnographic and film documentarist storytelling.Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh tells a story of layered exiles and displacement, revealing hidden narratives of violence and grief while exposing struggles over gendered expectations of being good and respectable women and men. It brings to light the multiple ways of arranging lives and forming caring relationships outside the normative notions of nuclear family and home, and offers insights into the relations of power and violence that are embedded in the peace.Marjaana Jauhola is senior lecturer and head of discipline of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on co-creative research methodologies, urban and visual ethnography with an eye on feminisms, as well as global politics of conflict and disaster recovery in South and Southeast Asia.This publication has received a subsidy for scientific publishing granted by the Ministry of Education and Culture from the proceeds of Veikkaus, distributed by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Peace Ethnography Urban studies Political economy Gender intersectionality Helsinki University Press, publisher. Pro et contra ; 2736-8513 https://doi.org/10.33134/pro-et-contra-1 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/d713e70a-ccd4-45af-b295-747bb49cd199.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 05960nam 22004092 4500 adfb9238-5715-4e92-a8f9-e003cb131ab3 m o d cr n 260401t20242024 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523691094 (Paperback) 9789523691100 (PDF) 9789523691117 (Epub) 10.33134/HUP-25 doi UkCbTOM eng local Shaping the Future of Higher Education : Positive and Sustainable Frameworks for Navigating Constant Change / edited by Lesley Wood, Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2024. ©2024 1 online resource (252 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The university is struggling to keep up with the demands of a fast-changing world, and, as a system, higher education generally does not respond quickly to change. Its institutions produce valuable knowledge about social issues and problems, but this is so often not followed by action constructively using that knowledge to effectively address these problems.Shaping the Future of Higher Education generates knowledge to enable researchers, teachers and leadership in higher education to learn how to positively embrace constant change through innovative, collaborative, systemic, critical and creative thinking and action. Through a participatory and transformative paradigm, it strives to create knowledge to enable everyone involved in higher education to move from talking about change to actioning it. The book presents possible structures and processes for learning, teaching, research, community engagement and leadership. It provides pathways to shape a higher education system that is inclusive and student-centred, that promotes knowledge democracy, and is responsive to and relevant for dealing with pressing social issues as they arise.The contributing authors of this book are internationally renowned researchers with years of experience in their respective roles in higher education. Their ideas will benefit all who are involved in, concerned about, and/or actively promote most effective higher education practices.Lesley Wood is an Extraordinary Professor and founder of the Community-Based Educational Research entity in the Faculty of Education, North-West University, South Africa.Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt is an Extraordinary Professor in Community­-Based Educational Research in the Faculty of Education, North-West University, South Africa, and an Adjunct Professor at Griffith University, Australia.‘There are two stories to tell about issues in our world: the story told from the outside through expert analysis and the story from the inside told by those with direct experience. The editors and authors of this exciting volume, each of whom has extensive experiences as researcher, teacher and administrator in higher education explore the story and challenges of contemporary higher education from the inside. Their voice must be heard.’- David Coghlan, Professor Emeritus, Dublin University, Trinity College, Ireland‘Civilisation is in peril. Universities could contribute to rescuing it. Instead, most currently fail badly. Many of their educators know and say as much. Now, this timely and important book raises the issues. The distinguished editors and superbly-chosen authors explain how this crisis came about. Importantly, they explain what must now be done.’- Bob Dick, Adjunct Professor, Southern Cross University, Australia‘This compelling book is a must read for anybody interested in the future direction of higher education (HE). Ranging from local insights to global perspectives, it provides a different approach to considering the rapidly-changing world.This book rejects the more traditional, elitist, expert-centric, hierarchical, Western-dominated characteristics of HE. Its focus on community participatory concepts (including a ‘bottom-up’ approach, sustainability, people-before-profits, educating change agents to working for the community's benefit, inclusivity, etc) and a repudiation of self-interest.Each internationally-recognised contributor believes in action learning and action research which values community-based participation, collaboration, partnerships, alliances, etc.However, each contributor also brings unique expertise developed in different geographical locations and backgrounds to reflect on the topic.Both educational experts and lay readers should find this an easy read – it is well structured and jargon-free.’- Bill Synnot, widely recognised leading consultant specialising in change management Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). 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(orcid)0000000208169308 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0816-9308 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-25 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/0d6511e4-228c-42f8-a14f-a70fa87cf0af.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03735nam 22004452 4500 4c7c930f-c9f8-4c70-940c-ad2d2d1ac129 m o d cr n 260401t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690509 (Paperback) 9789523690516 (PDF) 9789523690523 (Epub) 9789523690530 (Mobi) 10.33134/HUP-14 doi UkCbTOM eng local Situating Sustainability : A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts / edited by C. Parker Krieg, Reetta Toivanen. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (366 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Situating Sustainability reframes our understanding of sustainability through an emerging international terrain of concepts and case studies. These approaches include material practices, such as extraction and disaster recovery, and extend into the domains of human rights and education.This volume addresses the need in sustainability science to recognize the deep and diverse cultural histories that define environmental politics. It brings together scholars from cultural studies, anthropology, literature, law, behavioral science, urban studies, design, and development to argue that it is no longer possible to talk about sustainability in general without thinking through the contexts of research and action. These contributors are joined by artists whose public-facing work provides a mobile platform to conduct research at the edges of performance, knowledge production, and socio-ecological infrastructures.Situating Sustainability calls for a truly transdisciplinary research that is guided by the humanities and social sciences in collaboration with local actors informed by histories of place. Designed for students, scholars, and interested readers, the volume introduces the conceptual practices that inform the leading edge of engaged research in sustainability.C. Parker Krieg teaches Exploratory and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.Reetta Toivanen is professor in Sustainability Science at the Helsinki Institute for Sustainability Science (HELSUS) and Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Sustainability science Environmental wellbeing SDGs and Human rights Traditional ecological knowledge Art and literature Sustainable governance Krieg, C. Parker, editor. University of Nebraska at Omaha. (orcid)0000000270427312 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7042-7312 Toivanen, Reetta, editor. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000214416272 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1441-6272 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-14 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/59dac48d-78f9-44a3-b5dd-be18ad71f4f7.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03980nam 22004212 4500 a6754b19-5253-4fd1-8182-7b320c88cf70 m o d cr n 260401t20232023 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690943 (Paperback) 9789523690950 (PDF) 9789523690967 (Epub) 10.33134/HUP-22 doi UkCbTOM eng local Käihkö, Ilmari, author. Swedish Defence University. (orcid)0000000304626679 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0462-6679 “Slava Ukraini!” : Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance 2014–2023 / Ilmari Käihkö. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2023. ©2023 1 online resource (337 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star “Slava Ukraini!” Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance tells the story of the volunteers lauded to have saved Ukraine twice. The volunteers first emerged in the spring of 2014 after the onset of the war in Donbas in a context characterized by ambiguity, state weakness, political uncertainty, and threat. They re-emerged again in February 2022 after the large-scale Russian invasion. Aimed at an interdisciplinary audience, this volume makes significant contributions to our understanding of events in Ukraine over the past decade. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with volunteer battalion fighters, the volume focuses on strategy, or the creation, control, and use of force. This framework is first applied to the volunteer militias to further the understanding of militia strategy conducted after 2014, and then to the first year and a half that followed the Russian invasion in 2022.“Slava Ukraini!” also discusses the long-term sociological impact of volunteer battalions and the war they fought in Ukraine. The Ukrainian spirit of resistance emerged first on the Maidan in November 2013, ignited the volunteer Spirit of 2014 after the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea, and ultimately flared-up on a national scale in a manner which surprised the invading Russian forces in 2022. Yet initially the volunteers may also have exacerbated internal divisions in Ukraine. The Spirit of 2014 was also better suited to a war of movement than immobile trench warfare that left little room for heroism and aggressive soldiering. Unrealistic expectations about modern warfare led to disillusionment, and many volunteers leaving the war in 2015. The perceived stalemate and lack of Ukrainian soldiers by late 2023 raised the question of a similar dynamic witnessed in 2014 and 1914 alike.Ilmari Käihkö is an associate professor of War Studies at the Swedish Defence University, and a veteran of the Finnish Defence Forces. His research focuses on cultural sociology of war, underpinned by ethnographic study of contemporary war and warfare. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Russia Militias Strategy Sociology Ukraine War Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-22 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/eff40471-1bff-4da4-82df-a8a97a169e74.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03846nam 22004332 4500 af2ced52-1d88-4414-9cb1-7bbf68e8f442 m o d cr n 260401t20202020 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690127 (Paperback) 9789523690134 (PDF) 9789523690141 (Epub) 9789523690158 (Mobi) 10.33134/HUP-4 doi UkCbTOM eng local The Digital Age and Its Discontents : Critical Reflections in Education / edited by Matteo Stocchetti. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (274 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Three decades into the ‘digital age’, the promises of emancipation of the digital ‘revolution’ in education are still unfulfilled. Furthermore, digitalization seems to generate new and unexpected challenges – for example, the unwarranted influence of digital monopolies, the radicalization of political communication, and the facilitation of mass surveillance, to name a few. This volume is a study of the downsides of digitalization and the re-organization of the social world that seems to be associated with it. In a critical perspective, technological development is not a natural but a social process: not autonomous from but very much dependent upon the interplay of forces and institutions in society. While influential forces seek to establish the idea that the practices of formal education should conform to technological change, here we support the view that education can challenge the capitalist appropriation of digital technology and, therefore, the nature and direction of change associated with it. This volume offers its readers intellectual prerequisites for critical engagement. It addresses themes such as Facebook’s response to its democratic discontents, the pedagogical implications of algorithmic knowledge and quantified self, as well as the impact of digitalization on academic profession. Finally, the book offers some elements to develop a vision of the role of education: what should be done in education to address the concerns that new communication technologies seem to pose more risks than opportunities for freedom and democracy. Matteo Stocchetti (PhD) is Senior Lecturer at Arcada University of Applied Science and Docent in Political Communication at University of Helsinki and Åbo Akademi University. The contributors of the volume include international experts on critical approaches to pedagogy, education and technology. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Bildung critical education social media critical theory knowledge production Capitalism Stocchetti, Matteo, editor. Arcada University of Applied Sciences. (orcid)0000000267257842 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6725-7842 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-4 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/c55a94ea-dd29-4f14-a27c-4a893f6fb79e.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04294nam 22004332 4500 4a9a134c-f59f-4ef4-b630-bd590ddfc73d m o d cr n 260401t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690424 (Paperback) 9789523690431 (PDF) 9789523690448 (Epub) 9789523690455 (Mobi) 10.33134/HUP-11 doi UkCbTOM eng local Toivanen, Mari, author. University of Helsinki. (orcid)000000017308571X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7308-571X The Kobane Generation : Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France / Mari Toivanen. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (294 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The Kobane Generation: Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France has been awarded the 2022 Alixa Naff Book Prize in Migration Studies. (https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/announcement/view/35)A small Kurdish city located in northern Syria, Kobane, became symbolically significant when ISIS laid siege to the city between September 2014 and January 2015. This pivotal moment in the fight against ISIS threw the international spotlight on the Kurds. The Kobane Generation analyses how Kurdish diaspora communities mobilised in France after the breakout of the Syrian civil war and political unrest in Turkey and Iraq in the 2010s. Tens of thousands of people, mostly but not exclusively diaspora Kurds, demonstrated in major European capitals, expressed their solidarity with Kobane, and engaged in transnational political activism towards Kurdistan.In this book, Mari Toivanen discusses a series of critical events that led to different forms of transnational participation towards Kurdistan. The focus of this book is particularly on how diaspora mobilisations became visible among the second generation, the descendants of Kurdish migrants. The book addresses important questions, such as why second-generation members felt the need to mobilise and what kind of transnational participation this led to. How did the transnational participation and political activism of the second generation differ from that of their parents, and is such activism simply diasporic or also related to more global changes in political activism?The Kobane Generation offers important insights on the generational dynamics of political mobilisations and their significance to understanding diaspora contributions. More broadly, it sheds light on second-generation political activism beyond the diaspora context, analysing it in relation to global transformations in political subjectivities.Mari Toivanen (PhD) currently works as Academy Research Fellow at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. She has conducted ethnographic research on a wide range of migration-related topics, focusing on diaspora mobilisation, transnational connections and activities, second-generation members, and questions of identity and belonging. (https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/announcement/view/35) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Diaspora Transnationalism Kurdish Migration Second generation Political mobilisation and activism Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-11 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/1edc1fd8-9a29-4b8a-ae47-4d3b91852ea9.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04096nam 22004932 4500 fc93c392-222d-42c5-89ca-2aad69952f78 m o d cr n 260401t20242024 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523691001 (Paperback) 9789523691018 (PDF) 9789523691025 (Epub) 10.33134/HUP-23 doi UkCbTOM eng local Green, Sarah, author. University of Helsinki. (orcid)000000027026383X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7026-383X An Anthropology of Crosslocations / Sarah Green, Samuli Lähteenaho, Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki, Carl Rommel, Joseph J. Viscomi, Laia Soto Bermant, Patricia Scalco. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2024. ©2024 1 online resource (298 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star An Anthropology of Crosslocations introduces a radical new approach to understanding location. The co-authors show that the question of where something is depends on how places are mutually connected and disconnected. The location of a place can be established by different logics, such as national borders, ecosystems, or economic zones. These different ways of classifying the relative value and significance of a place coexist and overlap: for example, national borders are regularly crosscut by ecosystems. By thinking of 'location' as a process defined by several different coexisting locating regimes, the book showcases a fresh way to think about the multiple and overlapping connections and disconnections between here and elsewhere. This approach can fundamentally revise ethnographic and anthropological views on the importance, value and significance of where people, things and animals are located and, as such, redefines the idea of ‘the field.’The volume brings together seven anthropologists who have worked together for six years. The chapters take the reader through a series of journeys around the Mediterranean region—to North Africa, the East Mediterranean, and Southern Europe. Each chapter unfolds an ethnographic or historical account of the coexistence of different values and meanings of location in different places. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Location Mediterranean Borders Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Southern Europe East Mediterranean Lähteenaho, Samuli, author. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000317572331 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1757-2331 Douzina-Bakalaki, Phaedra, author. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000155755636 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5575-5636 Rommel, Carl, author. Uppsala University. (orcid)0000000303016131 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0301-6131 Viscomi, Joseph, author. Birkbeck, University of London. (orcid)0000000211478689 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1147-8689 Soto Bermant, Laia, author. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000216761432 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1676-1432 Scalco, Patricia, author. University of Helsinki. Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-23 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/7f45d472-b2d5-43c3-af8f-74a506484842.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03800nam 22004332 4500 027782f4-5f41-4f85-825b-99dab0bc4bfc m o d cr n 260401t20242024 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523691155 (Paperback) 9789523691162 (PDF) 9789523691179 (Epub) 10.33134/HUP-27 doi UkCbTOM eng local An Investigation of Hate Speech in Italian : Use, Identification, and Perception / edited by Silvio Cruschina, Chiara Gianollo. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2024. ©2024 1 online resource (384 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Language is a key element in constructing and reinforcing social identities. Through hate speech, language becomes an instrument of creating and spreading stereotypes, discrimination, and social injustices based on attributes such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender, nationality, political ideology, disability, or sexual orientation.The rise of digital communication, especially social media, has made hate speech a major topic of research in various fields. An Investigation of Hate Speech in Italian analyses hate speech from a linguistic perspective. The focus is not only on lexical means, but also on more subtle grammatical and pragmatic strategies related to implicit meanings or conversational dynamics. The volume identifies the common linguistic characteristics of hate speech in different domains of communication and explores criteria that can help distinguish between hate speech and freedom of expression.The studies in this volume focus on Italian, but the methods and findings can easily be extended to other languages for comparative and contrastive purposes. The chapters utilize extensive research data. Social media platforms have provided linguistic data that would otherwise be challenging to collect and analyse systematically. The chapters allow readers to link linguistic insights to different real-world contexts, helping them understand the impact language has on various aspects of life and society.Silvio Cruschina is Professor of Italian in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki.Chiara Gianollo is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna. Mode of access: World Wide Web. 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(orcid)0000000163806368 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6380-6368 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-27 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/46c7068b-9c88-4b58-9c36-4a18ebd6955a.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03643nam 22004332 4500 0cb423ad-8558-4ea3-b4f5-8d66553aa160 m o d cr n 260401t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690707 (Paperback) 9789523690714 (PDF) 10.33134/pro-et-contra-2 doi UkCbTOM eng local Parvikko, Tuija, author. University of Jyväskylä. (orcid)0000000156411085 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5641-1085 Arendt, Eichmann and the Politics of the Past / Tuija Parvikko. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (310 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Pro et contra ; 2736-8513 Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Arendt, Eichmann and the Politics of the Past offers a critical analysis of the original American debate over Hannah Arendt’s report of the trial of Adolf Eichmann. First published in 2008, Tuija Parvikko’s book discusses both the campaign against Arendt organised by American Zionist organisations and the controversy Arendt’s report caused within American Jewish intellectual circles. Parvikko’s analysis carefully draws from the historical background of the report, discussing Arendt’s early studies of Zionism and her critique of the Jewish state. The volume also gives an account of Eichmann’s capture in Argentina and the reception of the report among legal scholars and the world press.This edition includes a new prologue in which Parvikko reflects on her own account in connection to recent academic discussions on the controversy. The author’s analysis also covers contributions that have attempted to follow Arendt’s notion of thinking without banisters. With them, Parvikko engages in debate about going beyond Arendt’s theoretical reflections on cohabitation, sharing the world, and discussing the new political evils of the present world without pregiven norms and patterns of thought.Tuija Parvikko, PhD, holds the title of docent at the University of Jyväskylä where she works as a senior researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology. She has published extensively on Hannah Arendt and the politics of memory.This publication has received a subsidy for scientific publishing granted by the Ministry of Education and Culture from the proceeds of Veikkaus, distributed by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Hannah Arendt political trial victimology the Eichmann trial the politics of the past political judgement Helsinki University Press, publisher. Pro et contra ; 2736-8513 https://doi.org/10.33134/pro-et-contra-2 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/6fcfd816-2f37-49db-af77-aeb407e6fda5.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04752nam 22004452 4500 76151870-43d7-4191-8722-0ac1dd34f073 m o d cr n 260401t20232023 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690820 (Paperback) 9789523690837 (PDF) 9789523690844 (Epub) 10.33134/AHEAD-3 doi UkCbTOM eng local Gitzen, Timothy, author. Wake Forest University. (orcid)0000000161487463 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6148-7463 Banal Security : Queer Korea in the Time of Viruses / Timothy Gitzen. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2023. ©2023 1 online resource (265 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier AHEAD: Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2737-2812 Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The decades-long fear of South Korean national destruction has routinized national security and the sense of threat. In present day South Korea, national security includes not only war and the military, but national unity, public health, and the family. As a result, queer Koreans have become a target as their bodies are thought to harbor deadly viruses and are thus seen as carriers of diseases. The prevailing narrative already sees being queer as a threat to traditional family and marriage. By claiming that queer Koreans disrupt military readiness and unit cohesion, that threat is extended to the entire population. Queer Koreans are enveloped by the banality of security, treated as threats, while also being overlooked as part of the nation.What does it mean to be perceived as a national threat simply based on who you would like to sleep with? In their desire to be seen as citizens who support the safety and security of the nation, queer Koreans placate a patriarchal and national authority that is responsible for their continued marginalization. At the same time, they are also creating spaces to protect themselves from the security measures and technologies directed against them. Taking readers from police stations and the galleries of the Constitutional Court to queer activist offices and pride festivals, Banal Security explores how queer Koreans participate in their own securitization, demonstrates how security weaves through daily life in ways that oppress queer Koreans, and highlights the work of queer activists to address that oppression. In doing so, queer Koreans challenge not only the contours of national security in South Korea, but global entanglements of security.Timothy Gitzen is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wake Forest University."Rich in ethnographic and interpretive texture, Banal Security challenges the deep-seated division between ideas about national security and attitudes toward sexuality. Using Korea’s viral genealogies as a window into the geopolitics of queer Asia, Gitzen’s study masterfully exceeds the theoretical limitations of homonationalism and forges new analytics around the fabrics of queer life. At once a rethinking of familiar turning points, such as the 2015 Korean Queer Cultural Festival, and an astute observation of emergent trends, including the co-imbrication of Islamophobia and homophobia, this book sets a new benchmark for cultural anthropology and the study of health epistemology, social alienation, and sexual citizenship."Howard Chiang, Lai Ho and Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. South Korea Queer activism LGBTQ+ rights Discrimination National security Security measures Helsinki University Press, publisher. AHEAD: Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2737-2812 https://doi.org/10.33134/ahead-3 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/70fcc192-3da2-4138-81a5-3e009e52ed15.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04219nam 22004572 4500 9ede75a6-7827-4ef4-8150-56e1b2627d85 m o d cr n 260401t20232023 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690974 (Paperback) 9789523690981 (PDF) 9789523690998 (Epub) 10.33134/AHEAD-4 doi UkCbTOM eng local Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages / edited by Katja Ritari, Jan R. Stenger, William Van Andringa. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2023. ©2023 1 online resource (340 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier AHEAD: Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2737-2812 Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star What does it mean to identify oneself as pagan or Christian in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages? How are religious identities constructed, negotiated, and represented in oral and written discourse? How is identity performed in rituals, how is it visible in material remains?Antiquity and the Middle Ages are usually regarded as two separate fields of scholarship. However, the period between the fourth and tenth centuries remains a time of transformations in which the process of religious change and identity building reached beyond the chronological boundary and the Roman, the Christian and ‘the barbarian’ traditions were merged in multiple ways.Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages brings together researchers from various fields, including archaeology, history, classical studies, and theology, to enhance discussion of this period of change as one continuum across the artificial borders of the different scholarly disciplines. With new archaeological data and contributions from scholars specializing on both textual and material remains, these different fields of study shed light on how religious identities of the people of the past are defined and identified.The contributions reassess the interplay of diversity and homogenising tendencies in a shifting religious landscape. Beyond the diversity of traditions, this book highlights the growing capacity of Christianity to hold together, under its control, the different dimensions – identity, cultural, ethical and emotional – of individual and collective religious experience.Katja Ritari holds the title of docent of Study of Religions at the University of Helsinki.Jan R. Stenger is a professor of Classics at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.William Van Andringa is a director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études Paris. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Ancient Rome Middle Ages conversion Christianity paganism Ritari, Katja, editor. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000308983921 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0898-3921 Stenger, Jan, editor. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. (orcid)0000000266611379 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6661-1379 Van Andringa, William, editor. École Pratique des Hautes Études. Helsinki University Press, publisher. AHEAD: Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2737-2812 https://doi.org/10.33134/ahead-4 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/daa07884-a15d-4628-a68b-194e2d39c835.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04351nam 22004572 4500 ab65bc89-72be-4c61-8196-3c6429e41687 m o d cr n 260401t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690585 (Paperback) 9789523690592 (PDF) 9789523690608 (Epub) 9789523690615 (Mobi) 10.33134/AHEAD-1 doi UkCbTOM eng local Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature : Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature / edited by Rani-Henrik Andersson, Boyd Cothran, Saara Kekki. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (336 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier AHEAD: Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2737-2812 Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star National parks and other preserved spaces of nature have become iconic symbols of nature protection around the world. However, the worldviews of Indigenous peoples have been marginalized in discourses of nature preservation and conservation. As a result, for generations of Indigenous peoples, these protected spaces of nature have meant dispossession, treaty violations of hunting and fishing rights, and the loss of sacred places.Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature brings together anthropologists and archaeologists, historians, linguists, policy experts, and communications scholars to discuss differing views and presents a compelling case for the possibility of more productive discussions on the environment, sustainability, and nature protection. Drawing on case studies from Scandinavia to Latin America and from North America to New Zealand, the volume challenges the old paradigm where Indigenous peoples are not included in the conservation and protection of natural areas and instead calls for the incorporation of Indigenous voices into this debate. This original and timely edited collection offers a global perspective on the social, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges facing Indigenous peoples and their governmental and NGO counterparts in the co-management of the planet’s vital and precious preserved spaces of nature.Rani-Henrik Andersson is Senior University Lecturer of North American Studies at the University of Helsinki and the Principal Investigator of HUMANA—Human Migration and Network Analysis: Developing New Research Methods for the Study of Human Migration and Social Change.Boyd Cothran is Associate Professor of History at York University and the co-Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.Saara Kekki is a Postdoctoral Researcher in North American Studies at the University of Helsinki. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). 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AHEAD: Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2737-2812 https://doi.org/10.33134/ahead-1 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/6cb5c5c5-b0df-41b8-90c9-472be4e6fffd.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04526nam 22004452 4500 2ee552a8-cf96-4cb2-b0c1-296be976cf3c m o d cr n 260401t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690387 (Paperback) 9789523690387 (PDF) 9789523690400 (Epub) 9789523690417 (Mobi) 10.33134/HUP-10 doi UkCbTOM eng local Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland / edited by Petri Talvitie, Juha-Matti Granqvist. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (315 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star During the early modern centuries, gunpowder and artillery revolutionized warfare, and armies grew rapidly. To sustain their new military machines, the European rulers turned increasingly to their civilian subjects, making all levels of civil society serve the needs of the military.This volume examines civil-military interaction in the multinational Swedish Realm in 1550–1800, with a focus on its eastern part, present-day Finland, which was an important supply region and battlefield bordered by Russia. Sweden was one of the frontrunners of the Military Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries. The crown was eager to adapt European models, but its attempts to outsource military supply to civilians in a realm lacking people, capital, and resources were not always successful.This book aims at explaining how the army utilized civilians – burghers, peasants, entrepreneurs – to provision itself, and how the civil population managed to benefit from the cooperation. The chapters of the book illustrate the different ways in which Finnish civilians took part in supplying war efforts, e.g. how the army made deals with businessmen to finance its military campaigns and how town and country people were obliged to lodge and feed soldiers.The European armies’ dependence on civilian maintenance has received growing scholarly attention in recent years, and Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland brings a Nordic perspective to the debate. Petri Talvitie, PhD, is Academy Research Fellow at the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Helsinki. Juha-Matti Granqvist, PhD, is Visiting Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies at the University of Helsinki. The contributors of the book are historians specialized in early modern Finnish and Swedish society.Correction noticeOne correction has been made to Chapter 4 of this book: Talvitie, Petri. The Sales of Crown Farms and State Finances 1580–1808. Footnote 1 has been added to reflect that the chapter is partly based on an earlier work (Talvitie 2020), thus changing the original numbering of the other chapter footnotes by one. Said publication has been added to the chapter’s bibliography. Original release date: June 22, 2021. The publication has been reloaded in its corrected form on March 8, 2022. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused. Mode of access: World Wide Web. 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(orcid)000000019785486X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9785-486X Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-10 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/21c9ab61-4135-484b-8796-e1d06d246977.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 05297nam 22004452 4500 c55db0c1-d35b-44bf-b713-f7e92c1150e3 m o d cr n 260401t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690240 (Paperback) 9789523690257 (PDF) 9789523690264 (Epub) 9789523690271 (Mobi) 10.33134/HUP-6 doi UkCbTOM eng local Juhola, Sirkku, author. University of Helsinki. (orcid)0000000300952282 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0095-2282 Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Cities : A Guidebook for Citizens, Public Officials and Planners / Sirkku K. Juhola, David C. Major. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (202 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This guidebook presents a framework for climate adaptation planning for coastal cities, large and small, focused on the central roles of citizens, public officials, and planners. The book is designed to help all stakeholders in coastal cities understand and develop effective adaptation measures in a sustainable way. Within a framework of eight key planning steps, guidance is provided for stakeholders in the adaptation process from initial assessments of climate impacts to final planning. The work sets out general principles and methods of adaptation to climate change for many types of coastal communities. Adaptation is seen throughout the work as a process that should take into account all coastal assets, including economic, environmental, social, cultural and historical assets, with due attention to disadvantaged communities. Among the adaptation elements covered in the book are: a review of the current climate situation; climate impacts and vulnerabilities; climate models and future scenarios; physical, economic, social and other characteristics of coastal cities and towns; the range of available adaptations, including management, infrastructure, and policy adaptations; evaluation of projects and programs; and working together to develop and finance adaptations. Numerous tables are presented to help organize information and guide planning, and examples of adaptation challenges and opportunities are provided from both developed and developing coastal cities and towns. The volume is copiously illustrated, with extensive up-to-date references to provide the reader with additional sources of information.David C. Major holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. He has been a faculty member at MIT and Clark University, and a long-time Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University (now retired). His scientific research focus is the adaptation of coastal cities and towns, large and small, to climate change. Sirkku Juhola holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia, UK, and has worked in Japan, Sweden, and Finland. She is a Professor at the University of Helsinki, leading the Urban Environmental Policy Group. Her research interests focus on governance and decision-making, climate change policy, and climate risk. She is a member of the Climate Panel of Finland.“Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Cities is a useful manual for those engaged in planning for climate adaptation in large and small coastal cities across the world.I especially like the positive, simple and step-by-step tone of the entire volume, moving from general principles to methods of adaptation for different types of coastal communities. I also welcome the book’s inclusive focus on the different roles that citizens, public officials and planners play in the climate adaptation process, and its emphasis on the vital need for stakeholders to work together to develop and implement adaptation strategies. The examples of adaptation challenges and opportunities as well as the many tables and illustrations further reinforce the value of the book.”- Professor Emeritus Roberto Lenton, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Mode of access: World Wide Web. 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(orcid)0000000157328195 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5732-8195 Helsinki University Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-6 Connect to e-book https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/5c0afc8f-7653-42a3-95a5-11c1661c3c8f.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03016nam 22005412 4500 7451138f-5e31-486d-b25d-f39968290f48 m o d cr n 260401t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9789523690462 (Paperback) 9789523690479 (PDF) 10.33134/HUP-12 doi UkCbTOM eng local Culture and History in the Pacific / edited by Jukka Siikala. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (302 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Culture and History in the Pacific is a collection of essays originally published in 1990. The texts explore from different perspectives the question of culture as a repository of historical information. They also address broader questions of anthropological writing at the time, such as the relationship between anthropologists’ representations and local conceptions.This republication aims to make the book accessible to a wider audience, and in the region it discusses, Oceania. A new introductory essay has been included to contextualize the volume in relation to its historical setting, the end of the Cold War era, and to the present study of the Pacific and indigenous scholarship.The authors of Culture and History in the Pacific include prominent anthropologists of the Pacific, some of whom – Roger Keesing and Marilyn Strathern, to name but two – have also been influential in the anthropology of the late 20th and early 21st century in general. Mode of access: World Wide Web. 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Open Access Unrestricted online access star Jukka Gronow’s book Deciphering Markets and Money solves the problem of the specific social conditions of an economic order based on money and the equal exchange of commodities. Gronow scrutinizes the relation of sociology to neoclassical economics and reflects on how sociology can contribute to the analyses of the major economic institutions. The question of the comparability and commensuration of economic objects runs through the chapters of the book.The author shows that due to the multidimensionality and principal quality uncertainty of products, markets would collapse without market devices that are either procedural, consisting of technical standards and measuring instruments, or aesthetic, relying on the judgements of taste, or both. In his book, Gronow demonstrates that in this respect, financial markets share the same problem as the markets of wines, movies, or PCs and mobile phones, and hence offer a highly actual case to study their social constitution in the process of coming into being. Jukka Gronow is professor emeritus of sociology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published on sociology of consumption, history of sociology and social theory."This is a deeply considered and important contribution which challenges the dominance of economics in political life by providing a fresh sociological analysis of money, markets and other modern economic institutions." - Professor Alan Warde, The University of Manchester, UK "In this highly relevant book, Jukka Gronow offers an analysis of the core institutions of the economy, market and money. By scholarly grounded analysis, in which Gronow draws on a broad knowledge of classic and modern research, the book highlights the trend of anesthetization of life and its important role for the economy. The excellent book is as useful in economic sociology classes as it is for scholars interested in the economic phenomena." - Professor Patrik Aspers, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). 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Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (382 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through Helsinki University Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Historical scholarship is currently undergoing a digital turn. All historians have experienced this change in one way or another, by writing on word processors, applying quantitative methods on digitalized source materials, or using internet resources and digital tools.Digital Histories showcases this emerging wave of digital history research. It presents work by historians who – on their own or through collaborations with e.g. information technology specialists – have uncovered new, empirical historical knowledge through digital and computational methods. The topics of the volume range from the medieval period to the present day, including various parts of Europe. The chapters apply an exemplary array of methods, such as digital metadata analysis, machine learning, network analysis, topic modelling, named entity recognition, collocation analysis, critical search, and text and data mining.The volume argues that digital history is entering a mature phase, digital history ‘in action’, where its focus is shifting from the building of resources towards the making of new historical knowledge. This also involves novel challenges that digital methods pose to historical research, including awareness of the pitfalls and limitations of the digital tools and the necessity of new forms of digital source criticisms.Through its combination of empirical, conceptual and contextual studies, Digital Histories is a timely and pioneering contribution taking stock of how digital research currently advances historical scholarship. Mode of access: World Wide Web. 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