Team

About me

I am a social scientist interested in community relations and their dynamics in diversifying urban environments. I seek to understand changing political and social landscapes by engaging with daily practices and forms of interaction. Currently, I lead the ERC funded project EmergentCommunity (2021-2025) where we work towards creating empirically grounded knowledge on coexistence and conflict. See more: https://www.tuni.fi/en/research/coexistence-and-conflict-age-complexity-emergentcommunity

Research unit

Tampere Peace Research Institute

Responsibilities

I work as a postdoctoral research fellow in the project Coexistence and conflict in the age of complexity (EmergentCommunity). The project is led by senior research fellow Eeva Puumala and funded by European Reseach Council. 

Field of expertise

I am interested in how emotions construct the power relations in urban neighbourhoods in the age of complexity. Previously, my research has concerned the power struggles inside academia. In the project Academic Affects: research strategies as emotional hotspots my interest lies in the way emotions work to produce values, norms and ideals in the current academia. In particular, I have examined the affective-discursive sense-making among the university managers. My thesis Mitä on hyvä sosiologia: poikkikulttuurinen tutkimus sosiologian itseymmärryksestä (What counts as good sociology: cross-cultural analysis of the self-understanding of sociology) concerns how the elite in sociology defines good sociology in different national and temporal contexts.  

Research fields

sosiology, urban studies, science studies