Sakari Sariola
Biographic Data
| ID | 107645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sakari Sariola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sakari |
| FAMILY NAME | Sariola |
| SIGNATURE | SARIOLA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3401-7727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Situating Microbes Within Complex Ecologies
The role of microbes in society has traditionally foregrounded their pathogenic character. However, this framing is being increasingly problematised as new research has shown the complex and nuanced role they have, not only in relation to humans, but also for nonhuman animals and as part of wider and complex ecologies. In the introduction to this thematic collection, we review how such shift has featured in science and technology studies (STS) re…
Mistrust: Community engagement in global health research in coastal Kenya
This article explores a case of mistrust in global health research and community engagement. It uses ethnographic material collected in 2014 and 2016 in Kenya, concerning community engagement by a HIV vaccine research group working with men who have sex with men and transgender women. In 2010, the research group was attacked by members of the wider community. Following the attack, the research group set up an engagement program to reduce mistrust…
A critical examination of research narratives ‘rumours’ and passive community resistance in medical research
Several studies in Africa have reported effects of ‘rumours, misconceptions or misinformation’ on medical research participation and uptake of health interventions. As such, community engagement has sometimes been used for instrumental purposes to enhance acceptability of research or interventions and prevent ‘rumours’. This paper seeks to highlight the value of ongoing engagement with communities to understand research narratives ‘rumours’ repro…
In critique of anthropocentrism: A more-than-human ethical framework for antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is often framed as a One Health issue, premised on the interdependence between human, animal and environmental health. Despite this framing, the focus across policymaking, implementation and the ethics of AMR remains anthropocentric in practice, with human health taking priority over the health of non-human animals and the environment, both of which mostly appear as secondary elements to be adjusted to minimise impa…
Research As Development: Book Forum
Book forum on 'Research as Development
How to make noncoherent problems more productive: Towards an AMR management plan for low resource livestock sectors
Global policy for managing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is underpinned by a standardised and coherent global framework for reducing antibiotic use in clinical health, veterinary health, and food production sectors. Within the framework, problematic antibiotic use (a significant driver of AMR) is treated as a knowledge deficit on the part of users and prescribers, which can be remedied by educating them to make better informed treatment decision…
Intellectual property rights need to be subverted to ensure global vaccine access
box A commentary by Murphy and colleagues,1 published in BMJ Global Health on the 19 February 2021, brings attention to the unprecedented efforts for COVID-19 vaccine discovery and asks if the world could learn from this example to better facilitate access to medicines in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). My response to their comment claims that though well intended and to the point, the commentary misses a crucial bottleneck in res…
Key social science priorities for long-term Covid-19 response
The COVID-19 response continues to be driven by epidemiological priorities, and yet, the epidemic and responses are situated within specific political and health system contexts. Social science brings an understanding of context and draws attention to politics, power and social difference. There are four critical social science priorities for COVID-19 research and policy in the long term. First, political-economic insights can support the design …
Fermentation in Post-antibiotic Worlds: Tuning In to Sourdough Workshops in Finland
The ethnographic focus of this paper is a group of sourdough bakers based in Finland, with a specific view on a fermentation workshop in 2019. In this workshop, emerging human-microbe relations were drawn, bringing attention to a post-antibiotic world. Studying bread making necessitates a more-than-human analysis that foregrounds microbes as central characters situated in the political climate of increasing populism and the Anthropocene. In this …
Th anniversary issue of Science & Technology Studies
‘We are the eyes and ears of researchers and community’: Understanding the role of community advisory groups in representing researchers and communities in Malawi
Community engagement to protect and empower participating individuals and communities is an ethical requirement in research. There is however limited evidence on effectiveness or relevance of some of the approaches used to improve ethical practice. We conducted a study to understand the rationale, relevance and benefits of community engagement in health research. This paper draws from this wider study and focuses on factors that shaped Community …
The ethics and politics of community engagement in global health research
Engaging religious leaders to support HIV prevention and care for gays, bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men in coastal Kenya
In Kenyan communities, religious leaders are important gatekeepers in matters of health and public morality. In a context that is generally homophobic, religious leaders may aggravate or reduce stigmatization of sexual minorities such as gay and bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). Literature indicates mixed results in efforts to encourage religious leaders to work effectively and sensitively with issues regarding HIV and se…
How Civil Society Organisations Changed the Regulation of Clinical Trials in India
In 2005 India changed its pharmaceutical and innovation policy that facilitated a dramatic increase in international clinical trials involving study sites in India. This policy shift was surrounded by controversies; civil society organisations (CSOs) criticised the Indian government for promoting the commercialisation of pharmaceutical research and development. Health social movements in India fought for social justice through collective action, …
STS and Global Health
no abstract as this is an editorial
Coffee Time at the Conference
Negotiating Collective and Individual Agency: A Qualitative Study of Young Women’s Reproductive Health in Rural India
The societal changes in India and the available variety of reproductive health services call for evidence to inform health systems how to satisfy young women's reproductive health needs. Inspired by Foucault's power idiom and Bandura's agency framework, we explore young women's opportunities to practice reproductive agency in the context of collective social expectations. We carried out in-depth interviews with 19 young women in rural Rajasthan. …
Big-pharmaceuticalisation: Clinical trials and Contract Research Organisations in India
Museum of failed HIV research
If a museum existed that contained a collection of failed artefacts related to HIV research what would that look like? How would failure be defined such that items could be representative of it and what would these definitions tell us about HIV research? These were some of the lines of enquiry which prompted the exploration of the Museum of Failed HIV Research as a conceptual space for scholars to examine these failure. This special issue is a co…
Precarious ethics: Toxicology research among self-poisoning hospital admissions in Sri Lanka
Blinding Authority: Randomized Clinical Trials and the Production of Global Scientific Knowledge in Contemporary Sri Lanka
In this article, the authors present an ethnography of biomedical knowledge production and science collaboration when they take place in developing country contexts. The authors focus on the arrival of international clinical trials to Sri Lanka and provide analysis of what was described as one of the first multisited trials in the country, a pharmaceutical company sponsored, phase 2, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial carried out …
Theorising the 'human subject' in biomedical research: International clinical trials and bioethics discourses in contemporary Sri Lanka
The global spread of clinical trials activity is accompanied by a parallel growth in research governance and human subject protection. In this paper we analyse how dominant ideas of the 'human subject' in clinical trials are played out in countries that are deemed to be scientifically under-developed. Specifically, we show how rhetorics of individualism, rationality and autonomy implicit in international ethical guidelines governing human subject…
Gender and Sexuality in India: Selling Sex in Chennai
India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world. HIV has remained associated with sex work, and large sums of money provided to fund public health interventions have come from global institutions such as UNAIDS, the World Bank and USAID. In the midst of these processes, however, sex workers and their everyday lives have been hidden behind the rhetorics of control and prevention. This book offers a detailed analysis of the experi…
Performing Global HIV Prevention: Incentives, Identities and Inequality amongst Sex Workers in Chennai
Sex workers in India are central to HIV prevention programmes, yet the relationships of sex workers with those who conduct HIV prevention have not been studied. In this article I describe and analyse the relationships between four sets of very different social actors: global funding bodies; the Indian government; non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and; sex workers who are involved in HIV prevention in Chennai, India. Using ethnographic data de…
Ethnographic Insights into Enduring Inequalities
This is a country where the poor fear tuberculosis, which kills 1,000 Indians a day, but people like me—middle-class people with access to health services that are probably better than England's—don't fear it at all. It's an unglamorous disease, like so much of the things that the poor of India endure (Adiga in Jefferies 2008)
Theorising the 'human subject' in biomedical research: International clinical trials and bioethics discourses in contemporary Sri Lanka
The global spread of clinical trials activity is accompanied by a parallel growth in research governance and human subject protection. In this paper we analyse how dominant ideas of the 'human subject' in clinical trials are played out in countries that are deemed to be scientifically under-developed. Specifically, we show how rhetorics of individualism, rationality and autonomy implicit in international ethical guidelines governing human subject…
Fermentation in Post-antibiotic Worlds: Tuning In to Sourdough Workshops in Finland
The ethnographic focus of this paper is a group of sourdough bakers based in Finland, with a specific view on a fermentation workshop in 2019. In this workshop, emerging human-microbe relations were drawn, bringing attention to a post-antibiotic world. Studying bread making necessitates a more-than-human analysis that foregrounds microbes as central characters situated in the political climate of increasing populism and the Anthropocene. In this …
Negotiating Collective and Individual Agency: A Qualitative Study of Young Women’s Reproductive Health in Rural India
The societal changes in India and the available variety of reproductive health services call for evidence to inform health systems how to satisfy young women's reproductive health needs. Inspired by Foucault's power idiom and Bandura's agency framework, we explore young women's opportunities to practice reproductive agency in the context of collective social expectations. We carried out in-depth interviews with 19 young women in rural Rajasthan. …
Big-pharmaceuticalisation: Clinical trials and Contract Research Organisations in India
Blinding Authority: Randomized Clinical Trials and the Production of Global Scientific Knowledge in Contemporary Sri Lanka
In this article, the authors present an ethnography of biomedical knowledge production and science collaboration when they take place in developing country contexts. The authors focus on the arrival of international clinical trials to Sri Lanka and provide analysis of what was described as one of the first multisited trials in the country, a pharmaceutical company sponsored, phase 2, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial carried out …
How Civil Society Organisations Changed the Regulation of Clinical Trials in India
In 2005 India changed its pharmaceutical and innovation policy that facilitated a dramatic increase in international clinical trials involving study sites in India. This policy shift was surrounded by controversies; civil society organisations (CSOs) criticised the Indian government for promoting the commercialisation of pharmaceutical research and development. Health social movements in India fought for social justice through collective action, …
Museum of failed HIV research
If a museum existed that contained a collection of failed artefacts related to HIV research what would that look like? How would failure be defined such that items could be representative of it and what would these definitions tell us about HIV research? These were some of the lines of enquiry which prompted the exploration of the Museum of Failed HIV Research as a conceptual space for scholars to examine these failure. This special issue is a co…
Performing Global HIV Prevention: Incentives, Identities and Inequality amongst Sex Workers in Chennai
Sex workers in India are central to HIV prevention programmes, yet the relationships of sex workers with those who conduct HIV prevention have not been studied. In this article I describe and analyse the relationships between four sets of very different social actors: global funding bodies; the Indian government; non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and; sex workers who are involved in HIV prevention in Chennai, India. Using ethnographic data de…
Ethnographic Insights into Enduring Inequalities
This is a country where the poor fear tuberculosis, which kills 1,000 Indians a day, but people like me—middle-class people with access to health services that are probably better than England's—don't fear it at all. It's an unglamorous disease, like so much of the things that the poor of India endure (Adiga in Jefferies 2008)
Beyond Marxism: The Faith and Works of Hendrik de Man
Social Class and Social Mobility in a Costa Rican Town
Prohibition in Finland, 1919—1932; Its Background and Consequences
Social Class and Social Mobility in a Costa Rican Town
Alcohol Sales and Experiment in Rural Finland
Fatalism and Anomie: Components of Rural~urban Differences
This paper is concerned with the possibility of applying Durkheim's all but ignored notion. on fatalism in a study of two Colombian peasant villages, in an attempt to work towards a conceptual framework useful in explaining underdevelopment, Throughout Durkheim's The Division of Labor runs the theme of the emergence of the inclividual conscience-which in the .modern, differentiated society is replacing the monolithic collective conscience. Religi…
Beyond Marxism: The Faith and Works of Hendrik de Man
Sociology of War: An Annotated Bibliography
The present bibliography, much more limited in scope than these two, is introduced in response to the needs of the increasing numbers of students who have an interest in seminal books in the field. 1
Political Development: A General Theory and a Latin American Case Study. By Helio Jaguaribe and Peasants in Revolt: A Chilean Case Study 1965-71. By James Petras and Hugo Zemelman Merino
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT: A GENERAL THEORY AND A LATIN AMERICAN CASE STUDY. By Helio Jaguaribe and PEASANTS IN REVOLT: A CHILEAN CASE STUDY 1965–71. By James Petras and Hugo Zemelman Merino Get access Sakari Sariola Sakari Sariola University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 53, Issue 2, December 1974, Pages 365–366, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/53.2.365 Published: 01 December 1974
Power and Resistance: The Colonial Heritage in Latin America
Political Development: A General Theory and a Latin American Case Study
Power and Resistance: The Colonial Heritage in Latin America
The Puerto Rican Dilemma
Social Power and Political Freedom
Power to Change: Family Case Studies in the Treatment of Alcoholism
Alcohol, Youth, and the State
Gender and Sexuality in India: Selling Sex in Chennai
India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world. HIV has remained associated with sex work, and large sums of money provided to fund public health interventions have come from global institutions such as UNAIDS, the World Bank and USAID. In the midst of these processes, however, sex workers and their everyday lives have been hidden behind the rhetorics of control and prevention. This book offers a detailed analysis of the experi…
Performing Global HIV Prevention: Incentives, Identities and Inequality amongst Sex Workers in Chennai
Sex workers in India are central to HIV prevention programmes, yet the relationships of sex workers with those who conduct HIV prevention have not been studied. In this article I describe and analyse the relationships between four sets of very different social actors: global funding bodies; the Indian government; non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and; sex workers who are involved in HIV prevention in Chennai, India. Using ethnographic data de…
Ethnographic Insights into Enduring Inequalities
This is a country where the poor fear tuberculosis, which kills 1,000 Indians a day, but people like me—middle-class people with access to health services that are probably better than England's—don't fear it at all. It's an unglamorous disease, like so much of the things that the poor of India endure (Adiga in Jefferies 2008)
Theorising the 'human subject' in biomedical research: International clinical trials and bioethics discourses in contemporary Sri Lanka
The global spread of clinical trials activity is accompanied by a parallel growth in research governance and human subject protection. In this paper we analyse how dominant ideas of the 'human subject' in clinical trials are played out in countries that are deemed to be scientifically under-developed. Specifically, we show how rhetorics of individualism, rationality and autonomy implicit in international ethical guidelines governing human subject…
Blinding Authority: Randomized Clinical Trials and the Production of Global Scientific Knowledge in Contemporary Sri Lanka
In this article, the authors present an ethnography of biomedical knowledge production and science collaboration when they take place in developing country contexts. The authors focus on the arrival of international clinical trials to Sri Lanka and provide analysis of what was described as one of the first multisited trials in the country, a pharmaceutical company sponsored, phase 2, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial carried out …
Precarious ethics: Toxicology research among self-poisoning hospital admissions in Sri Lanka
Big-pharmaceuticalisation: Clinical trials and Contract Research Organisations in India
Museum of failed HIV research
If a museum existed that contained a collection of failed artefacts related to HIV research what would that look like? How would failure be defined such that items could be representative of it and what would these definitions tell us about HIV research? These were some of the lines of enquiry which prompted the exploration of the Museum of Failed HIV Research as a conceptual space for scholars to examine these failure. This special issue is a co…
STS and Global Health
no abstract as this is an editorial
Coffee Time at the Conference
Negotiating Collective and Individual Agency: A Qualitative Study of Young Women’s Reproductive Health in Rural India
The societal changes in India and the available variety of reproductive health services call for evidence to inform health systems how to satisfy young women's reproductive health needs. Inspired by Foucault's power idiom and Bandura's agency framework, we explore young women's opportunities to practice reproductive agency in the context of collective social expectations. We carried out in-depth interviews with 19 young women in rural Rajasthan. …
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