Miikka Pyykkönen
Biographic Data
| ID | 369178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miikka Pyykkönen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miikka |
| FAMILY NAME | Pyykkönen |
| SIGNATURE | PYYKKÖNEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7479-8201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What is the role of creative industries in the Anthropocene? An argument for planetary cultural policy
Many artistic expressions call for cultural, social and political change. Though the policy environments in which they emerge remain predominantly wedded to a consumption-driven creative economy. In doing so, they tacitly endorse a methodologically nationalist perspective on artistic expression, trade in creative goods and services, and cultural identity. By using the United Nations resolution on the International Year of Creative Economy for Sus…
Naturalizing culture—time for an ecological understanding of “culture” in international culture and sustainability policies
The current hegemonic understanding of culture and sustainability leans strongly on the conceptualization of ‘culture’ as profoundly anthropocentric. ‘Sustainability’ in cultural policies again means often the potential of creative industries in contributing to economic growth. This approach can be seen as very problematic in the era of extending the environmental crisis, which urgently calls for not only new kinds of policies on sustainability b…
Cosmopolitan internationalism
This article addresses the ways in which UNESCO’s ideological engagements are negotiated in the difference/diversity discourse as they are transferred from the international standard-setting level to the national and local contexts. It proposes the discursive construction of cosmopolitan internationalism as a framework for analysing the intersections of difference, located in the practicalities of internationalism, and diversity, tied to the idea…
Artrepreneurs and the autonomy paradox
In this article, we examine the views that young (under 35 years) freelancers and entrepreneurs who work as professional artists in Finland have of their work. We refer to them as artrepreneurs. Our data sample is composed of the responses of entrepreneurs and freelancers (n = 209) from a survey data on young artists (n = 565) collected in 2017. By using a set of quantitative methods we study the impact of different factors on the job satisfactio…
Enterprising Culture
The sphere of arts and culture has been going through a process of economic reevaluation during the last few decades. Parallel to the rise of a creative economy discourse, which both in its political and scientific forms has highlighted the economic significance of culture and arts, entrepreneurship has become a feature in the cultural policy of many countries. In this article, we compare how entrepreneurship is established and used as a concept …
Globalization, Culture, and Development
This edited collection outlines the accomplishments, shortcomings, and future policy prospects of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, a
Ethically ethnic
Although there was no focused administration of ethnic minorities in Finland until the last decades of the twentieth century, there was a variety of rationalities, techniques and practices of governance used for their conduct. In this article, I analyse how the governance of the Roma and the Sámi – the two biggest minorities at the time – changed after the mid-1800s, when the new ethno-cultural understanding of population spread throughout admini…
Introductory Note
Liberalism, Governmentality and Counter-Conduct; An Introduction to Foucauldian Analytics of Liberal Civil Society Notions
This article gives an analysis of Foucault's studies of civil society and the various liberalist critiques of government. It follows from Foucault's genealogical approach that "civil society" does not in itself possess any form of transcendental existence; its historical reality must be seen as the result of the productive nature of the power-knowledge-matrices. Foucault emphasizes that modern governmentality-and more specifically the procedures …
New Challenges for Nordic Welfare Services
This article summarises the results of a two-phase research project, which concentrated on leisure practices of ethnic minority youth and their expectations on multicultural youth services. The question is how youth work as 'cultureless' principles of Nordic welfare universalism function in contemporary social conditions. Have youth workers and administrative authorities adopted multicultural demands of increasing ethnic diversity? The case of Fi…
Unesco and cultural diversity
The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) was first adopted by its member states in October 2005. The document defines UNESCO's general principles and conceptualisations regarding culture, cultural diversity and expressions. In order to better manage culture, cultural expressions refer above all to goods and services of t…
Contesting Family in Finnish and Canadian Immigration and Refugee Policy
Adopting a governmentality perspective, this article explores the multiconceptuality of family in Finnish and Canadian immigration and refugee policy domains by analyzing official and political discourse. Contestation is found to typically manifest as conflict between Western 'nuclear' and non-Western 'extended' understandings of family. We argue that family is persistent in immigration and refugee policies of both countries because it continues …
Freedom, Civility and Activeness
This article explores the leisure time and civic activities of 'multicultural youth' in Finland. The theoretic-conceptual framework is the Foucauldian governmentality approach and Foucault's four step model of the ethical selfformation of the moral subject. This toolkit exposes how the subjectivation of the multicultural youth takes place in their leisure time activities and civic action, and connects and disconnects with the desires and expectat…
Introduction
nonPeerReviewed
Becoming Europeans
by Monica Sassatelli, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 248 pp., £52.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780230537422 In her introduction, Monica Sassatelli remarks that her book concentrates on the explicit i
Globalization and Power ‐ Governmentalization of Europe? An Interview with William Walters
William Walters is one of the leading researchers of governmentality in the globalising world. His recent works, Global Governmentality (edited with Wendy Larner, 2004) and Governing Europe (with Jens Henrik Haahr, 2005), concern the different kinds, forms and rationalities of international governance. Walters and his associates refuse to take international institutions and forms of power as given, but carefully follow the development of differen…
Cultural policy and cultural diversity in Finland
Post‐war immigration has produced new ethnic and cultural diversity in European societies. The issues of multiculturalism and interculturalism have also gradually entered the agendas of local and national cultural policy makers. In this article, we explore the development of the relationships between cultural diversity, immigration policy, and cultural policy in Finland. Special attention is given to the capital city of Helsinki. The analysis of …
Integrating Governmentality
From the first half of the 1990s, and especially after the accession to European Union in 1995, immigrant authorities and administration have emphasized the significance of immigrant associations in integration of immigrants in Finland. The purpose of the associations from the administrative perspective is to socialize and activate immigrant communities and individuals according to basic political rationalities, such as security of the society, h…
Deportation vs. Sanctuary
Evangelical Lutheran parishes and their representatives have provided sanctuaries for asylum seekers for forty years in Finland.Yet this activity became widely publicly recognized only after the Finnish Ecumenical Council released the “Church as Sanctuary” document in 2007.The parishes are assisted by many civic organizations (e.g.women’s organizations, Free Movement Network, Amnesty International, and Finnish Refugee Council) in providing sanctu…
Unesco and cultural diversity
The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) was first adopted by its member states in October 2005. The document defines UNESCO's general principles and conceptualisations regarding culture, cultural diversity and expressions. In order to better manage culture, cultural expressions refer above all to goods and services of t…
Liberalism, Governmentality and Counter-Conduct; An Introduction to Foucauldian Analytics of Liberal Civil Society Notions
This article gives an analysis of Foucault's studies of civil society and the various liberalist critiques of government. It follows from Foucault's genealogical approach that "civil society" does not in itself possess any form of transcendental existence; its historical reality must be seen as the result of the productive nature of the power-knowledge-matrices. Foucault emphasizes that modern governmentality-and more specifically the procedures …
Cultural policy and cultural diversity in Finland
Post‐war immigration has produced new ethnic and cultural diversity in European societies. The issues of multiculturalism and interculturalism have also gradually entered the agendas of local and national cultural policy makers. In this article, we explore the development of the relationships between cultural diversity, immigration policy, and cultural policy in Finland. Special attention is given to the capital city of Helsinki. The analysis of …
Integrating Governmentality
From the first half of the 1990s, and especially after the accession to European Union in 1995, immigrant authorities and administration have emphasized the significance of immigrant associations in integration of immigrants in Finland. The purpose of the associations from the administrative perspective is to socialize and activate immigrant communities and individuals according to basic political rationalities, such as security of the society, h…
Contesting Family in Finnish and Canadian Immigration and Refugee Policy
Adopting a governmentality perspective, this article explores the multiconceptuality of family in Finnish and Canadian immigration and refugee policy domains by analyzing official and political discourse. Contestation is found to typically manifest as conflict between Western 'nuclear' and non-Western 'extended' understandings of family. We argue that family is persistent in immigration and refugee policies of both countries because it continues …
What is the role of creative industries in the Anthropocene? An argument for planetary cultural policy
Many artistic expressions call for cultural, social and political change. Though the policy environments in which they emerge remain predominantly wedded to a consumption-driven creative economy. In doing so, they tacitly endorse a methodologically nationalist perspective on artistic expression, trade in creative goods and services, and cultural identity. By using the United Nations resolution on the International Year of Creative Economy for Sus…
Naturalizing culture—time for an ecological understanding of “culture” in international culture and sustainability policies
The current hegemonic understanding of culture and sustainability leans strongly on the conceptualization of ‘culture’ as profoundly anthropocentric. ‘Sustainability’ in cultural policies again means often the potential of creative industries in contributing to economic growth. This approach can be seen as very problematic in the era of extending the environmental crisis, which urgently calls for not only new kinds of policies on sustainability b…
Artrepreneurs and the autonomy paradox
In this article, we examine the views that young (under 35 years) freelancers and entrepreneurs who work as professional artists in Finland have of their work. We refer to them as artrepreneurs. Our data sample is composed of the responses of entrepreneurs and freelancers (n = 209) from a survey data on young artists (n = 565) collected in 2017. By using a set of quantitative methods we study the impact of different factors on the job satisfactio…
Ethically ethnic
Although there was no focused administration of ethnic minorities in Finland until the last decades of the twentieth century, there was a variety of rationalities, techniques and practices of governance used for their conduct. In this article, I analyse how the governance of the Roma and the Sámi – the two biggest minorities at the time – changed after the mid-1800s, when the new ethno-cultural understanding of population spread throughout admini…
New Challenges for Nordic Welfare Services
This article summarises the results of a two-phase research project, which concentrated on leisure practices of ethnic minority youth and their expectations on multicultural youth services. The question is how youth work as 'cultureless' principles of Nordic welfare universalism function in contemporary social conditions. Have youth workers and administrative authorities adopted multicultural demands of increasing ethnic diversity? The case of Fi…
Introduction
nonPeerReviewed
Globalization and Power ‐ Governmentalization of Europe? An Interview with William Walters
William Walters is one of the leading researchers of governmentality in the globalising world. His recent works, Global Governmentality (edited with Wendy Larner, 2004) and Governing Europe (with Jens Henrik Haahr, 2005), concern the different kinds, forms and rationalities of international governance. Walters and his associates refuse to take international institutions and forms of power as given, but carefully follow the development of differen…
Deportation vs. Sanctuary
Evangelical Lutheran parishes and their representatives have provided sanctuaries for asylum seekers for forty years in Finland.Yet this activity became widely publicly recognized only after the Finnish Ecumenical Council released the “Church as Sanctuary” document in 2007.The parishes are assisted by many civic organizations (e.g.women’s organizations, Free Movement Network, Amnesty International, and Finnish Refugee Council) in providing sanctu…
Deportation vs. Sanctuary
Evangelical Lutheran parishes and their representatives have provided sanctuaries for asylum seekers for forty years in Finland.Yet this activity became widely publicly recognized only after the Finnish Ecumenical Council released the “Church as Sanctuary” document in 2007.The parishes are assisted by many civic organizations (e.g.women’s organizations, Free Movement Network, Amnesty International, and Finnish Refugee Council) in providing sanctu…
Integrating Governmentality
From the first half of the 1990s, and especially after the accession to European Union in 1995, immigrant authorities and administration have emphasized the significance of immigrant associations in integration of immigrants in Finland. The purpose of the associations from the administrative perspective is to socialize and activate immigrant communities and individuals according to basic political rationalities, such as security of the society, h…
Globalization and Power ‐ Governmentalization of Europe? An Interview with William Walters
William Walters is one of the leading researchers of governmentality in the globalising world. His recent works, Global Governmentality (edited with Wendy Larner, 2004) and Governing Europe (with Jens Henrik Haahr, 2005), concern the different kinds, forms and rationalities of international governance. Walters and his associates refuse to take international institutions and forms of power as given, but carefully follow the development of differen…
Cultural policy and cultural diversity in Finland
Post‐war immigration has produced new ethnic and cultural diversity in European societies. The issues of multiculturalism and interculturalism have also gradually entered the agendas of local and national cultural policy makers. In this article, we explore the development of the relationships between cultural diversity, immigration policy, and cultural policy in Finland. Special attention is given to the capital city of Helsinki. The analysis of …
Becoming Europeans
by Monica Sassatelli, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 248 pp., £52.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780230537422 In her introduction, Monica Sassatelli remarks that her book concentrates on the explicit i
Unesco and cultural diversity
The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) was first adopted by its member states in October 2005. The document defines UNESCO's general principles and conceptualisations regarding culture, cultural diversity and expressions. In order to better manage culture, cultural expressions refer above all to goods and services of t…
Contesting Family in Finnish and Canadian Immigration and Refugee Policy
Adopting a governmentality perspective, this article explores the multiconceptuality of family in Finnish and Canadian immigration and refugee policy domains by analyzing official and political discourse. Contestation is found to typically manifest as conflict between Western 'nuclear' and non-Western 'extended' understandings of family. We argue that family is persistent in immigration and refugee policies of both countries because it continues …
Freedom, Civility and Activeness
This article explores the leisure time and civic activities of 'multicultural youth' in Finland. The theoretic-conceptual framework is the Foucauldian governmentality approach and Foucault's four step model of the ethical selfformation of the moral subject. This toolkit exposes how the subjectivation of the multicultural youth takes place in their leisure time activities and civic action, and connects and disconnects with the desires and expectat…
Introduction
nonPeerReviewed
New Challenges for Nordic Welfare Services
This article summarises the results of a two-phase research project, which concentrated on leisure practices of ethnic minority youth and their expectations on multicultural youth services. The question is how youth work as 'cultureless' principles of Nordic welfare universalism function in contemporary social conditions. Have youth workers and administrative authorities adopted multicultural demands of increasing ethnic diversity? The case of Fi…
Globalization, Culture, and Development
This edited collection outlines the accomplishments, shortcomings, and future policy prospects of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, a
Ethically ethnic
Although there was no focused administration of ethnic minorities in Finland until the last decades of the twentieth century, there was a variety of rationalities, techniques and practices of governance used for their conduct. In this article, I analyse how the governance of the Roma and the Sámi – the two biggest minorities at the time – changed after the mid-1800s, when the new ethno-cultural understanding of population spread throughout admini…
Introductory Note
Liberalism, Governmentality and Counter-Conduct; An Introduction to Foucauldian Analytics of Liberal Civil Society Notions
This article gives an analysis of Foucault's studies of civil society and the various liberalist critiques of government. It follows from Foucault's genealogical approach that "civil society" does not in itself possess any form of transcendental existence; its historical reality must be seen as the result of the productive nature of the power-knowledge-matrices. Foucault emphasizes that modern governmentality-and more specifically the procedures …
Enterprising Culture
The sphere of arts and culture has been going through a process of economic reevaluation during the last few decades. Parallel to the rise of a creative economy discourse, which both in its political and scientific forms has highlighted the economic significance of culture and arts, entrepreneurship has become a feature in the cultural policy of many countries. In this article, we compare how entrepreneurship is established and used as a concept …
Cosmopolitan internationalism
This article addresses the ways in which UNESCO’s ideological engagements are negotiated in the difference/diversity discourse as they are transferred from the international standard-setting level to the national and local contexts. It proposes the discursive construction of cosmopolitan internationalism as a framework for analysing the intersections of difference, located in the practicalities of internationalism, and diversity, tied to the idea…
Artrepreneurs and the autonomy paradox
In this article, we examine the views that young (under 35 years) freelancers and entrepreneurs who work as professional artists in Finland have of their work. We refer to them as artrepreneurs. Our data sample is composed of the responses of entrepreneurs and freelancers (n = 209) from a survey data on young artists (n = 565) collected in 2017. By using a set of quantitative methods we study the impact of different factors on the job satisfactio…
Naturalizing culture—time for an ecological understanding of “culture” in international culture and sustainability policies
The current hegemonic understanding of culture and sustainability leans strongly on the conceptualization of ‘culture’ as profoundly anthropocentric. ‘Sustainability’ in cultural policies again means often the potential of creative industries in contributing to economic growth. This approach can be seen as very problematic in the era of extending the environmental crisis, which urgently calls for not only new kinds of policies on sustainability b…
What is the role of creative industries in the Anthropocene? An argument for planetary cultural policy
Many artistic expressions call for cultural, social and political change. Though the policy environments in which they emerge remain predominantly wedded to a consumption-driven creative economy. In doing so, they tacitly endorse a methodologically nationalist perspective on artistic expression, trade in creative goods and services, and cultural identity. By using the United Nations resolution on the International Year of Creative Economy for Sus…
Law (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · Cultural policy (5 works) · Economics (5 works)