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Patterns of engagement: identities and social movement organizations in Finland and Malawi
Based on interviews with climate-change activists and NGO workers in Finland and Malawi, this article reconsiders the ways in which the coordination of identity projects and action is approached in social movement scholarship. Rather than beginning with personal and collective identities, we take our cue from recent work by Laurent Thévenot and trace actors' forms of engagement—the various ways actors produce commonality. As we show, doing so in vastly different social contexts allows us to see permutations in such forms afforded by participation in a transnational social movement and to identify patterns of collective action that we would otherwise be apt to miss. Finnish activists narrated their activities by way of engaging in the forms of the common good driving the climate movement, but coordinated various situations also through engagement in familiarity, comfort, and ease. Malawian activists and NGO employees also spoke of the common good the movements worked to achieve, but principally created common ground by engaging in shared individual choices and projects, which were jointly consecrated by fellow NGO participants. Ultimately, we argue that tracing forms of engagement enables more in-depth understanding of what is at stake when people act together in social movement organizations: moving away from collective and personal identity to patterns of engagement allows a vantage point into the processes through which commonality is created and generates new hypotheses regarding the coordination of action in social movement organizations.
Journal Article
Contesting Gender Equality Politics in Finland: The Finns Party Effect
The Finns Party challenges the Finnish status quo on gender equality and creates a counter-trend to recent developments, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Firstly, the party is male-dominated: its conservative agenda mobilizes especially male voters, and inside the party men are more conservative and right wing. Secondly, the party’s equality discourse belittles gender discrimination and helps to conceal power structures that cause gender inequality. In this regard, the Finns Party represents a backlash to gender equality politics in Finland, and its electoral gains can be seen in part as the victories of a new wave of masculinist politics.
Book Chapter
Hands in the Peat, or on the Metaphors of Meaning
Interpretation and Social Knowledge is one of those books after reading which you have a wide, silly smile on your face. In the all too often competitive, hard, and lonely sphere of life that is the one inhabited by social scientists, there are these instants of connection and recognition, and these sparkles of reminders that one is not alone in the world (of inquiry), and of gratitude and amusement for this being so. Educated at the intersection of Finnish sociology, or Finnish interpretations of sociology from elsewhere (in the beginning), French sociology and social theory, and American (cultural) sociology, the author recognizes Reed's starting point as a student in the era of 'posts'. In addition to her membership in the above generation, he carries with her the strong division between 'theory' and 'empirical research' that her Finnish curriculum has been marked by, and that perhaps marks the European sociological scene even more strongly than the American one.
Journal Article