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PALJAS is looking for a doctoral candidate

We invite applications for a Doctoral Researcher to join the project “Bare activism: Politics of authenticity and exposure in the margins” (PALJAS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. More info and how to apply

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Group formation, styles, and grammars of commonality in local activism

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.

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