Publications

Peer-reviewed publications:

Pyyhtinen, O., Zavos, S., Onali, A., Sutinen, U.-M. & Uusitalo, N. (accepted for publication) Haunting and Decay: Exploring Contemporary Trashscapes through Ruination. Digithum (Special Issue ‘Thinking through ruination: theoretical and empirical approaches to the ruins of the Anthropocene’).

Pyyhtinen, O. (forthcoming) 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:

Uusitalo, N. (2023) Knowing Styrofoam: The epistemology of a hyperobject. Presentation at Opening the Bin 2023 -conference, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, 15 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 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.