102 research outputs found
Hallinnan ja osallistamisen politiikat
No full textHallinnon käytännöt ovat olleet viimeisten vuosikymmenien aikana jatkuvan innovoinnin ja muutosten kohteena. Uusista hallinnan käytännöistä, kuten kansalaisosallistumisesta, etsitään nykyään ratkaisuja mitä moninaisimpiin poliittisiin ja sosiaalisiin ongelmiin. Tämä kirja käsittelee uusia hallinnan ja osallistamisen tekniikoita poliittisen toiminnan ja demokratian näkökulmista. Kriittisen tarkastelun kohteina ovat mm. seuraavat kysymykset: Miten kapitalismin muutokset ovat vaikuttaneet nykyaikaiseen hallintaan julkisella sektorilla? Mitä on kokemusasiantuntijuus? Mitä osallistaminen merkitsee Euroopan unionin politiikkaohjelmissa? Millainen on osallistavan hallinnan historia? Teos pyrkii edistämään sellaista poliittista lukutaitoa, joka mahdollistaa hallinnan uusien käytäntöjen syvemmän ymmärtämisen.<ul>
<li>1. JOHDANTO: UUDEN HALLINNAN MONET KASVOT,
Kari Kulovaara & Marko Nousiainen – 7 </li>
<li>2. UUSI HALLINTA MANAGERIALISMINA,
Kari Kulovaara – 22
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<li>3. KOKEMUSASIANTUNTIJUUS OHJAAVANA JA
VOIMAANNUTTAVANA HALLINTANA,
Taina Meriluoto – 65 </li>
<li>4. OSALLISTUMINEN LÄHENTÄMISEN
JA YHTEISÖNRAKENTAMISEN VÄYLÄNÄ EU:N
KANSALAISUUSPOLITIIKASSA,
Katja Mäkinen – 97 </li>
<li>5. HANKEPERUSTAINEN KAUPUNKIPOLITIIKKA JA
KANSALAISOSALLISTUMINEN,
Kanerva Kuokkanen –125 </li>
<li>6. OSALLISTAVAN KÄÄNTEEN LYHYT HISTORIA,
Marko Nousiainen – 158 </li>
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Neutral Experts or Passionate Participants? : Renegotiating Expertise and the Right to Act in Finnish Participatory Social Policy
No full textThis article examines a case of participatory social policy in which former beneficiaries were invited as ‘experts-by-experience’ into Finnish social welfare organisations. It combines a governmentality perspective with the analytical tools of the sociology of engagements to explore as what the projects’ participants are engaged, and how the differing demands made on their ways of being are made to appear as legitimate. The article shows how different definitions of expertise are used to steer the participants’ forms of engagement, and how these definitions appear valid only within a specific frame of justifying civic participation. It concludes that the participants’ expertise is defined in terms of their ability to ‘projectify themselves’ according to the projects’ specific objectives: rehabilitation, co-production, or the exercise of civic rights. The article suggests that this demand to align one’s way of being with project purposes is what makes it possible to evaluate and select participants.peerReviewe
‘The will to not be empowered (according to your rules)’ : Resistance in Finnish participatory social policy
No full textParticipation has increasingly become a means and an end for successful and ‘empowering’ social policy. Building on previous governmentality critiques of participatory initiatives, this article investigates practices of resistance in the context of Finnish participatory social policy. I adopt a Foucauldian counter-conducts approach as my lens to study critical speech as a form of resistance in initiatives that invite marginalised people as ‘experts-by-experience’ in social welfare organisations. I illustrate how practices of governing and resistance are intertwined and mutually dependent in a much subtler and more practical manner than allows the often-used analytical dichotomy between dominance and empowerment. As an example, I show how the projects’ attempts to co-opt the participants’ critical speech may also serve as the basis for their subversive self-making and means of ‘being differently’.peerReviewe
Case Study—Experts-by-Experience in Finnish Social Welfare
No full textFinland—a Nordic welfare state with a history of strong public service provision and tight collaborative ties with the public and the third sector—adopted a strong participatory emphasis in its public governance outlines when entering the 21st century. Resulting from this participatory norm, public and third sector social welfare organisations were tasked with finding 'new and innovative ways' to include citizens in the design and production of social services. One of the most popular innovations was a new concept of expertise-by-experience. Drawing on examples from the UK and Denmark, mental health Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) started to recruit former service users as new experts, performing varying co-creation and co-production tasks in social services. Expertise-by-experience is a practice that has been employed and developed in projects carried out by both NGOs and public sector organisations. The experiences of experts-by-experience show how co-production schemes have a potential to select their participants.peerReviewe
Turning experience into expertise : technologies of the self in Finnish participatory social policy
No full textThis article investigates the micro-level practices of subject-construction in Finnish participatory social policy. Through a governmental ethnography on projects that invite former beneficiaries to become ‘experts-by-experience’ in social welfare organizations, I discern the possibilities for freedom in the participants’ self-construction. By making use of Michel Foucault’s conceptual tools of care of the self and confession, I illustrate how, contrary to the projects’ emancipatory promise of providing the service users the freedom to reconstruct themselves, the projects entail practices that curb the participants’ way of ‘knowing themselves’. They require the service users to reframe their raw experiences as neutral and objective knowledge, making alternative ways of knowing appear ‘irrational’, and hence easily discountable. I conclude that despite the user involvement initiatives’ promise of incorporating different forms of knowledge, the participants are in practice required to realign their way of knowing with the dominant knowledge paradigm in order to be accepted as participants.peerReviewe
The self in selfies—Conceptualizing the selfie‐coordination of marginalized youth with sociology of engagements
No full textThis article develops a theory of selfies as reflexive practices of self-coordination. Building on pragmatist sociology of engagements, I conceptualize selfies as digital practices of coordinating with the self in formats that are recognizable for others. This framework allows approaching the self as an act of coordination, simultaneously shaped by, and equipped to subvert the cultural conditions of how we ought to be. As these conditions are increasingly enforced and negotiated in the socio-technological arrangements of digital platforms, the article proposes an approach for making sense of selfies as key contemporary tools of self-making. Based on ethnographic work among activists with marginalizing experiences, I ask how the self is coordinated in the activists' selfies. I identify four ways of coordinating with the self in selfies: the self in a plan, the self in exploration, the affirmed self, and the self as public critique. The article contributes to our understanding on how practices of self-making evolve in an increasingly visual-digital society, and provides an approach for conceptualising the self as plural. By approaching the selfie as different formats of relating to the self, the framework proposed accounts for the possibility of multiple selves now afforded by digital technologies and enables analysing their politicizing potential.This article develops a theory of selfies as reflexive practices of self-coordination. Building on pragmatist sociology of engagements, I conceptualize selfies as digital practices of coordinating with the self in formats that are recognizable for others. This framework allows approaching the self as an act of coordination, simultaneously shaped by, and equipped to subvert the cultural conditions of how we ought to be. As these conditions are increasingly enforced and negotiated in the socio-technological arrangements of digital platforms, the article proposes an approach for making sense of selfies as key contemporary tools of self-making. Based on ethnographic work among activists with marginalizing experiences, I ask how the self is coordinated in the activists' selfies. I identify four ways of coordinating with the self in selfies: the self in a plan, the self in exploration, the affirmed self, and the self as public critique. The article contributes to our understanding on how practices of self-making evolve in an increasingly visual-digital society, and provides an approach for conceptualising the self as plural. By approaching the selfie as different formats of relating to the self, the framework proposed accounts for the possibility of multiple selves now afforded by digital technologies and enables analysing their politicizing potential.Peer reviewe
Kutsu Karjasi Koolle: Karjaperinteestä
No full textKarjankutsunta eli kyylaus on osa suomalaista kansanmusiikkia. Opin savolaisen karjankutsumahuudon mummoltani Elsa Marialta. Kyylaus on muinainen äänenkäytön tekniikka ajalta ennen kuin laitumet aidattiin. Lehmiä on kutsuttu metsälaitumilta, ahoilta lypsylle kyylaamalla. Karjaan kohdistuvaan huhuiluun liittyy omaperäisellä tekniikalla esitettyjä tehosteita. Sen ominaisuuksia ovat efektit, voimakkaat huutomaiset äänet. Sävyltään se on terävää ja metallista. Kutsut ovat sisältäneet runsaasti erilaisia tyylipiirteitä. Juuri musiikillisesti rikkaat, runsaasti ornamentteja eli koristeita sisältävät kutsut ovat Pohjolan vanhinta ja kehittyneintä työmusiikkia. Singnaalit laulettiin ja kaiku kiiri yli metsämaan. Siitä on syntynyt oma musiikin lajinsa. Oma taiteensa, joka on tehnyt minuun suuren vaikutuksen.
Työmuodoksi päädyin valitsemaan monimuoto-opinnäytetyön tausta-ajatuksena portfolio eli ansiokansio. Portfoliossa pohditaan omaa osaamista ja teoreettisesti jäsennellään omaa luovaa toimintaa.
Tavoitteena oli tallentaa savolaista karjankutsuntaa eli kyylausta ja lehmilauluja digitaaliseen muotoon esteettisesti ottaen huomioon kokonaisuuden ja pyrkien hienoon taiteelliseen vaikutelmaan kaikki yksityiskohdat pyrittiin ottamaan huomioon. Videot kuvattiin Keski-Suomen museossa Pienmäessä, Ruokoharjun- ja Hyyrysen tiloilla. Aineisto editoitiin ja miksattiin Jamkin musiikkikampuksen studiossa. Kuvauksista syntyi kuusi videota. Ne muodostavat taiteellisen työn kokonaisuuden. Halusin myös rakentaa itselleni tietoista ammatti-identiteettiä karjan kutsujana ja esiintyvänä taiteilijana.
Videoissa hyödynnettiin maaseudun elävää kulttuuriperintöä ja haluttiin saada se kaikkien ulottuville. Aineistosta voidaan luoda erilaisia esityskokonaisuuksia. Sitä voidaan käyttää esimerkiksi opetuksessa.Calling cattle is a part of Finnish folk music. I learned to call cattle with Savolax herd-calling from my grandmother Elsa Maria. Kyylaus is an ancient Finnish high pitch voice technique which was used to call home the cows when they walked around free in unfenced pastures.
The cows were called from the forest pastures and the open fields to be milked. The calling of the herd involves effects performed with a unique technique. Its features include effects, strong shouting sounds. It is sharp and metallic in tone. The callings have included a wide variety of different styles. The musically rich, richly ornamented or ornamental cattle callings are the oldest and most advanced work music in the Nordic region. The signals were sang and the echo wandered over the woodlands. It has created its own music genre, it`s own art, which has impressed me deeply.
As a form of work, Portofio was chosen as the form of this study. In it I reflect on my own skills and theoretically outline my own creativity.
The aim was to record Savolax cattle calling, i.e. kyylaus and cow songs in a digital form aesthetically, taking into account the whole entity and striving for a fine artistic impression with all the details. It was filmed at the Museum of Central Finland in Pienmäki and farms Ruokoharju and Hyyrynen. The material was edited and mixed at the music campus of JAMK University of Applied Sciences.
Six videos were created. They can be used in different kind of performances. The objective was also to build a knowledgeable professional identity for the author as an artist.6 videota1
Plurality in urban politics. Conflict and Commonality in Mouffe and Thévenot
No full textVeikko Eranti & Taina Meriluoto (2023) International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Online first, open access Abstract. In this article we introduce a pragmatist interpretation of agonistic pluralism and develop this into an analytical framework that is applied to the analysis of urban conflicts. In the article, we take stock of contemporary critical and radical urban scholarship, our aim being twofold. First, we substantiate Chantal Mouffe's notion of agonistic pluralism with..
Making a deal with the devil? Portuguese and Finnish activists’ everyday negotiations on the value of social media
No full textCarla Malafaia & Taina Meriluoto (2024) Social Movement Studies, 23(2), pp. 190-206 Abstract. This article explores how young activists in Portugal and Finland negotiate the value of social media in their practices. Considering the near ubiquitous intertwinement of online-offline environments, and its contradictory promises for social movements, we look at these negotiations through the moral principles drawn upon to critique and justify social media practices. Based on ethnographic data fro..
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