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20.11.2019 Timo Harjuniemi (translation by Veli-Pekka Ketola)

In communicative capitalism everything is ”content”

Communicative capitalism forces the political energy to produce added value. In its logic the most important act is to consume the endless content stream of communication platforms and take part in producing content. While communicative capitalism has increased the amount […]

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08.11.2019 Reetta Eiranen (translation by Tiia Tikka)

Emotional ties were the fuel for the national ideology

The members of the Tengström circle were close to each other as spouses, as friends, as siblings and as colleagues. In which ways have these relationships been important to the nationalistic ideology they shared? How have the close personal relations […]

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04.11.2019 Tiina Heikkilä (translation by Veli-Pekka Ketola)

Difficulty to touch can isolate from others

Positive touch memories carry social and emotional capital. Those with a positive relationship to touching are affectively privileged, observes postdoctoral research fellow Marjo Kolehmainen. Touching between Finns is scant and often unnatural. The reason for this is searched in the […]

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04.10.2019 David M. Turner

Disability and Political Activism in the British Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution is often seen in disability studies as a time of increasing marginalization for disabled people. However, the emerging labour movement also allowed some disabled people to find a political voice. Disability activism refers to collective political action […]

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02.09.2019 Ioana Țîștea

Thinking from the border towards envisioning differential subjectivities

The 1990s and early 2000s were marked by political transformations in Eastern Europe, after the collapse of socialist modernity and during European Union expansions in the region. This period was framed within a discursive framework of ‘transition’ from socialism to […]

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23.08.2019 Tiina Heikkilä

What group is an entity with a moral duty in terms of climate change?

Philosopher Stephanie Collins discusses with Alusta’s editor Tiina Heikkilä about climate change and the abilities and duties of different collective actors in preventing and controlling it. Who or what group can be responsible for stopping climate change or controlling it? […]

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11.06.2019 Ali Qadir and Amir Reza Barjasteh

De-centering the global: NSR hosts critical, multidisciplinary studies of globalization

Is the global truly as universal as the photograph of the earth from space would suggest? Five, leading, international scholars — from departments of sociology, education, geography, law, and history — visited Tampere in April and May to discuss how […]

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06.05.2019 Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir, Paula Nissilä, Fernando Oliveira Di Prinzio

Revisiting the science-religion interface: Glocal, bottom-up, multi-disciplinary

Philosophical and theological discussions on science and religion must be complemented by grounded, ethnographic bottom-up research, as well as critical research on science, religion and secularism in social sciences and humanities. An intensive, two-day colloquium on April 9 and 10 […]

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18.04.2019 Rob Boddice

What Is the History of Experience?

Revolution, modernity, bourgeois society, our own era of globalization – these cannot just be imposed by an economic system, a political structure, or a discursive web of representations, whether textual or, for that matter, visual. They must be […]

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22.03.2019 Jo Shaw

Why would any academic EU lawyer write about Brexit?

It might also be said that it’s a crowded field, and there’s not too much new that can be said about it, even though there seems to be a fresh political car crash each day. This seems like a […]