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Tapahtuma siirtyy järjestettäväksi myöhemmin.
The event has been postponed. The new date and venue will be announced later.
Countermedia are partisan media that oppose conventional media and the establishment.
Tutkija-kirjailija Lotta Junnilaisen kirjassa kuvataan kahden vuokratalolähiön arkea. Teos on tutkimus suomalaisen yhteiskunnan eriarvoistumisesta ja kaupunkien eriytymisestä. Se on kuvaus niukkuudesta, epävarmuudesta ja turhautumisesta, mutta myös yhteisöllisyydestä ja solidaarisuudesta.
In her article, published in the British Journal of Sociology in 2018, Eeva Luhtakallio argues that in order to analyse democracy as a pattern constantly processed in a given society, it is useful to look at activist groups’ agenda setting and recruitment principles, group bonds and boundaries, and how these actions direct and influence ways of creating the common. Based on an ethnographic study on bicycle activism in Helsinki, Finland, the article describes a local critical mass movement that was successful in promoting a bicycle friendly and sustainable city, yet dissolved due to lack of people involved, and the bicycle demonstrations stopped at a moment of high public interest.
Two-day seminar, Tampere University
Veikko Eranti’s article in European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 5(1-2), 2018 argues that the way the sociology of engagements is currently formulated does not sufficiently allow for analysing public participation and disputes in situations where individual interests play a crucial role in public debates. The article presents a slight reformulation of what Thévenot calls the grammar of individuals in a liberal public (sic), based on a) an understanding of how individual interests relate to the common good and general will, b) the constitution of legitimate actors within polities, and c) the separation between the levels of generality and publicity. This reformulation might be called the grammar of individual interests, clarifying and simplifying earlier terminology.
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Visual politicization and youth challenges to an unequal public sphere: conceptual and methodological perspectives
By discussing current youth's democratic practices and introducing the concept of visual politicization, Eeva Luhtakallio, Taina Meriluoto and Carla Malafaia argue for a reconsideration of what we understand as political action and propose new methodological tools for analyzing it.
The public sphere of today’s youth is increasingly dominated by visual content, as their political practices are becoming firmly anchored in repertoires of visual participation. However, research on political participation has thus far concentrated more on textual and verbal modes of argumentation.
In this chapter, Luhtakallio, Meriluoto and Malafaia propose the concept of visual politicization to describe and make sense of the visual forms of politicization the youth increasingly engage in. Additionally, to understand how political engagement is changing, the authors introduce two innovative methodological approaches that are designed to capture visual politicization. The method of snap-along ethnography and supervised machine learning together enable a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the role and content of the youth’s visual participation as well as a representative macro-level picturing of it.
This chapter can be found from The Handbook on Youth Activism, edited by Jerusha Conner. The book can be purchased for example from here.
