Peer-reviewed publications:
Pyyhtinen, O. (accepted for publication) Against Common Sense: On the Utopian Aspect of Concepts. Human Studies.
Zavos, S. & Pyyhtinen, O. (2024) The Limits of Waste as a Resource: A Critique and a Proposition Towards a New Scalar Imagination for the Circular Economy Model. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.
Zavos, S, Lehtokunnas, T., & Pyyhtinen, O. (2024) The (Missing) Social Aspect of the Circular Economy: A Review of Social Scientific Articles. Sustainable Earth Reviews.
Pyyhtinen, O., Zavos, S., Onali, A., Sutinen, U.-M. & Uusitalo, N. (2023) The decaying stuff of the Anthropocene: exploring contemporary trashscapes through ruination. Digithum (Special Issue ‘Thinking through ruination: theoretical and empirical approaches to the ruins of the Anthropocene’).
Pyyhtinen, O. (2023) Living with Unruly Waste: On More-than-Human Relations. In A. Franklin (ed) The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies. Routledge.
Lehtokunnas, T. (2023) The circular economy futures in the making: Transformativity and object ontologies in food waste practices in Finnish households, supermarkets and biogas plants. Futures, 153, 103241.
Olsson, T.; Pyyhtinen, O.; Rantasila, A.; Laaksonen, S.-M.; Vigren, M.; Ylipulli, J. & Shawney, N. (2023) A User-Centered Lens into Digital Excess: Exploring the Superfluity and Environmental Burden of the Digital World. LIMITS, Ninth Computing within Limits 2023.
Lehtokunnas, T. & Pyyhtinen, O. (2023) Biowaste as Fluid Matter: Valuing Biogas and Biofertilisers as Assets in the Finnish Biogas Sector. Journal of Cultural Economy. https://projects.tuni.fi/decay/wp-admin
Non-refereed publications:
Pyyhtinen, O. (2022) Sosiologian vieraanvaraisuus ja ulossuljettu kolmas [The Hospitality of Sociology and the Excluded Third]. Sosiologia 59(4): 317-322.
Pyyhtinen, O.; N. Uusitalo; U.-M. Sutinen; S. Zavos & A.Onali (2022). Jätteen jäljillä [On the traces of waste). Politiikasta, 8.11.2022.
Talks and conference presentations:
Pyyhtinen, O. (2024) Leaky realities of waste management: notes on containment as a apatio-temporal technology. A talk at the University of Edinburgh, 24 April.
Zavos, S. & Pyyhtinen, O. (2024). Leaky re(lation)alities: Containment, leakage, interiority and exteriority. Leakage – Inaugural Conference of stsing, TU Dresden, 22 March.
Lehtokunnas, T., Onali, A., Sutinen, U.-M., Uusitalo, N., & Väisänen, M. (2024) Getting our hands dirty: A journey to bodily ways of knowing waste. Presentation at 7th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Conference, Helsinki University, Finland, 10 Jan.
Pyyhtinen, O. (2023) Displacements between gift, poison, and waste: bringing art and scholarship into dialogue. Displaced gifts, Tampere University, 30 Nov.
Pyyhtinen, O. (2023) Object Lessons: Knowing with Waste. A talk in the Department talks series of the Sociology unit, University of Helsinki, 14 Nov.
Zavos, S. & Pyyhtinen, O. (2023) Containment and leakage: towards a general Containerology. 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science), Honolulu, 9 Nov.
Pyyhtinen, O.; Onali, A.; Sutinen, U.-M.; Uusitalo, N. & Zavos, S. (2023) Waste as posthuman critique. Presentation at the Opening the Bin 3 Conference, Lancaster University, UK, 16 June 2023.
Zavos, S. & Pyyhtinen O. (2023) Beyond micro & macro: a multi-scalar approach to studying waste. Presentation at the Opening the Bin 3 Conference, Lancaster University, UK, 16 June 2023.
Uusitalo, N. (2023) Knowing Styrofoam: The epistemology of a hyperobject. Presentation at Opening the Bin 2023 -conference, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, 15 June, 2023.
Zavos, S. & Pyyhtinen, O. (2023) Containment and leakage: towards a general containerology. Invited talk at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 14 June 2023.
Onali, A.; Pyyhtinen, O.; Sutinen, U.-M.; Uusitalo, N. & Zavos, S. (2023) Waste as New Materialist Critique. Presentation at the annual sociology conference of the Westermarck Society, Tampere University, Finland, 24 March, 2023.
Lehtonen, T.-K. & Pyyhtinen, O. (2023) Why study voluntary dumpster diving? Presentation at the annual sociology conference of the Westermarck Society, Tampere University, Finland, 24 March, 2023.
Uusitalo, N. (2023) Sensing waste with dogs: Inter-species learning with canine companions. Presentation at the Biennal Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society organised in Rovaniemi, Finland, 22 March.
Pyyhtinen, O. & Zavos, S. (2023) Garbography: knowing with waste. Presentation at the Biennal Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society organised in Rovaniemi, Finland, 22 March.
Pyyhtinen, O. (2023) The Waste Paradox: On Conflicting Modes of Valuing Waste. Keynote at the 11th annual Responsible Business Research Seminar organised at Tampere University, Finland, 16 March.
Pyyhtinen, O. (2022): Acquiring the Scavenger Gaze: Active Passion in Dumpster Diving. Presentation at the Finnish Association of Consumer Research autumn seminar, organised in Helsinki, Finland, 18th Nov.
Uusitalo, N. (2022): Sensing waste with dogs: Inter-species learning with canine companions. Presentation at the Finnish Association of Consumer Research autumn seminar, organised in Helsinki, Finland, 18th Nov.
Pyyntinen, O. (2022). Ontology of Waste: How Does Waste Make the Social? Guest lecture at Yuanpei College, Beijing University, China. 3 Nov. (Online)
Pyyhtinen, O. (2022): Leaky Realities of Waste: A Broken World Perspective on the Circular Economy. Online presentation at the Re-opening the circle: an interdisciplinary perspective into the Circular Economy workshop organized in Milan, Italy. 15 Sept.
Panels and workshops organised
Sociology of Waste. A panel organised by Taru Lehtokunnas and Alma Onali at the annual sociology conference of the Westermarck Society, Tampere University, Finland, 21 March, 2024.
Wasteful Entanglements – More-than-Human Methodologies in Relation with Waste Studies. A Dream Team session organised at ECQI2024, 7th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Helsinki, Finland, 11 Jan 2024.
Following waste flows: On more-than-human methodologies. An event organised by the WasteMatters and DECAY projects at Tampere University, Finland, 21 Sept 2023.
Sociology of Waste. A panel organised by Olli Pyyhtinen, Niina Uusitalo, and Stylianos Zavos at the annual sociology conference of the Westermarck Society, Tampere University, Finland, 24 March, 2023.
Artistic works
Pyyhtinen, O. (2023) Jätettyä. [A selection of poems in Finnish.] Jalokiviä & kiikareita, No. 1: pp. 3-8.