Kari Mikko Vesala
Biographic Data
| ID | 129811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kari Mikko Vesala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kari Mikko |
| FAMILY NAME | Vesala |
| SIGNATURE | VESALA K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1764-9052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How can organic farmers be good farmers? A study of categorisation in organic farmers' talk
Conversion from conventional to organic farming is considered to indicate changes in farmers' professional identities-more specifically, in their perceptions of the idea of a 'good farmer'. In this study, we focus on this theme by analysing how 'good farmer' ideals appear when farmers who have converted to organic agriculture make sense of the differences between conventional and organic farming. Through the discursive analysis of interviews with…
Reframing Patient’s Autonomy in End-of-Life Care Decision-Making: Constructions of Agency in Interviews with Physicians
In the research literature, critical viewpoints question the idea of patient autonomy as a robust basis for approaching end-of-life treatments. Yet physicians express distinctly positive attitudes towards patient autonomy and advance directives in questionnaire studies. In this article, we unravel taken-for-granted assumptions about the agency that physicians use when evaluating patient autonomy in end-of-life care. We use Goffmanian frame analys…
Exploring the link between farmers’ entrepreneurial identities and work wellbeing
Using the critical incident technique for qualitative process evaluation of interventions: The example of the "Let's Move It" trial
The CIT seems a promising approach for directing analysis towards potentially crucial intervention elements as described by the participants themselves, helping in focusing and limiting the text corpus to accounts relevant to change. Qualitative evaluations in trials may add valuable understanding to complement quantitative assessments
The Use of Social Psychology in Rural Development? Two Readings of Rural Business Owners' Values
Rural development refers to diverse attempts being made to address the problems of rural communities. In Finland, rural development leans heavily on entrepreneurship and small business development. Rural development processes have a strong social psychological component that entails that psychological knowledge is crucial for rural development agents. Nevertheless, psychological knowledge has also been criticised for simplifying highly complex de…
SME policy implementation as a relational challenge
The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between actors, who implement the small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) policy, and entrepreneurs, who are the targets of the policy, by focusing on the question who is serving whose interests. The paper presents a case study conducted in one of the sub-regions in Finland. The data include individual interviews with 10 policy implementers and 19 small business entrepreneurs and two group d…
Attitudes of Dairy Farmers toward Cow Welfare in Relation to Housing, Management and Productivity
The quality of stockmanship contributes to the human–animal relationship, animal welfare and productivity. Attitudes can affect the way farmers treat their animals, the environment they provide the animals with, and even their own job satisfaction through the feedback received from the animals. Farmers' perceptions of animals have also been shown to have an impact on productivity. We investigated 161 Finnish dairy farmers' attitudes toward improv…
Peasantry and Entrepreneurship As Frames for Farming: Reflections on Farmers' Values and Agricultural Policy Discourses
This article takes a frame analytic approach to the popular peasant-entrepreneur typology and focuses on the much-studied topic of farmers' values. Peasantry is often thought to represent traditional or 'indigenous' style of farming, while entrepreneurship is associated with values injected and promoted by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In this article, peasantry and entrepreneurship are approached as frames for farming, i.e., social const…
Entrepreneurs and producers: Identities of Finnish farmers in 2001 and 2006
Attributions And Emotional Well-Being: Giving Up Farming In Finland
The structural change in agriculture has contributed to the closing down of a large number of farms in Finland. In this article, we examine how ex-farmers attribute the reasons for quitting farming and whether the causal attributions for quitting farming are related to the emotional painfulness of the event and the current emotional well-being of the exfarmers. Contrary to expectations, self-blaming attributions for giving up farming were not pro…
Exploring Men’s Perpetrator Programs In Small Rural Communities
The structural change in agriculture has contributed to the closing down of a large number of farms in Finland. In this article, we examine how ex-farmers attribute the reasons for quitting farming and whether the causal attributions for quitting farming are related to the emotional painfulness of the event and the current emotional well-being of the exfarmers. Contrary to expectations, self-blaming attributions for giving up farming were not pro…
Rural Development as a Frame Analytic Challenge for Religious Communities: The Case of Rural Parishes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
English In many parts of the European countryside religious communities are facing serious challenges caused by changing social structures. This is also the case with the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran parishes that are in many ways affected by migration from the countryside to city areas. This development has increased pressures on the Church and its parishes to take a stand in favour of rural development policies and to contribute to the attempts…
Entrepreneurs and producers: Identities of Finnish farmers in 2001 and 2006
Peasantry and Entrepreneurship As Frames for Farming: Reflections on Farmers' Values and Agricultural Policy Discourses
This article takes a frame analytic approach to the popular peasant-entrepreneur typology and focuses on the much-studied topic of farmers' values. Peasantry is often thought to represent traditional or 'indigenous' style of farming, while entrepreneurship is associated with values injected and promoted by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In this article, peasantry and entrepreneurship are approached as frames for farming, i.e., social const…
Exploring the link between farmers’ entrepreneurial identities and work wellbeing
How can organic farmers be good farmers? A study of categorisation in organic farmers' talk
Conversion from conventional to organic farming is considered to indicate changes in farmers' professional identities-more specifically, in their perceptions of the idea of a 'good farmer'. In this study, we focus on this theme by analysing how 'good farmer' ideals appear when farmers who have converted to organic agriculture make sense of the differences between conventional and organic farming. Through the discursive analysis of interviews with…
Using the critical incident technique for qualitative process evaluation of interventions: The example of the "Let's Move It" trial
The CIT seems a promising approach for directing analysis towards potentially crucial intervention elements as described by the participants themselves, helping in focusing and limiting the text corpus to accounts relevant to change. Qualitative evaluations in trials may add valuable understanding to complement quantitative assessments
Attitudes of Dairy Farmers toward Cow Welfare in Relation to Housing, Management and Productivity
The quality of stockmanship contributes to the human–animal relationship, animal welfare and productivity. Attitudes can affect the way farmers treat their animals, the environment they provide the animals with, and even their own job satisfaction through the feedback received from the animals. Farmers' perceptions of animals have also been shown to have an impact on productivity. We investigated 161 Finnish dairy farmers' attitudes toward improv…
Attributions And Emotional Well-Being: Giving Up Farming In Finland
The structural change in agriculture has contributed to the closing down of a large number of farms in Finland. In this article, we examine how ex-farmers attribute the reasons for quitting farming and whether the causal attributions for quitting farming are related to the emotional painfulness of the event and the current emotional well-being of the exfarmers. Contrary to expectations, self-blaming attributions for giving up farming were not pro…
Rural Development as a Frame Analytic Challenge for Religious Communities: The Case of Rural Parishes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
English In many parts of the European countryside religious communities are facing serious challenges caused by changing social structures. This is also the case with the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran parishes that are in many ways affected by migration from the countryside to city areas. This development has increased pressures on the Church and its parishes to take a stand in favour of rural development policies and to contribute to the attempts…
Attributions And Emotional Well-Being: Giving Up Farming In Finland
The structural change in agriculture has contributed to the closing down of a large number of farms in Finland. In this article, we examine how ex-farmers attribute the reasons for quitting farming and whether the causal attributions for quitting farming are related to the emotional painfulness of the event and the current emotional well-being of the exfarmers. Contrary to expectations, self-blaming attributions for giving up farming were not pro…
Exploring Men’s Perpetrator Programs In Small Rural Communities
The structural change in agriculture has contributed to the closing down of a large number of farms in Finland. In this article, we examine how ex-farmers attribute the reasons for quitting farming and whether the causal attributions for quitting farming are related to the emotional painfulness of the event and the current emotional well-being of the exfarmers. Contrary to expectations, self-blaming attributions for giving up farming were not pro…
Entrepreneurs and producers: Identities of Finnish farmers in 2001 and 2006
Peasantry and Entrepreneurship As Frames for Farming: Reflections on Farmers' Values and Agricultural Policy Discourses
This article takes a frame analytic approach to the popular peasant-entrepreneur typology and focuses on the much-studied topic of farmers' values. Peasantry is often thought to represent traditional or 'indigenous' style of farming, while entrepreneurship is associated with values injected and promoted by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In this article, peasantry and entrepreneurship are approached as frames for farming, i.e., social const…
SME policy implementation as a relational challenge
The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between actors, who implement the small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) policy, and entrepreneurs, who are the targets of the policy, by focusing on the question who is serving whose interests. The paper presents a case study conducted in one of the sub-regions in Finland. The data include individual interviews with 10 policy implementers and 19 small business entrepreneurs and two group d…
Attitudes of Dairy Farmers toward Cow Welfare in Relation to Housing, Management and Productivity
The quality of stockmanship contributes to the human–animal relationship, animal welfare and productivity. Attitudes can affect the way farmers treat their animals, the environment they provide the animals with, and even their own job satisfaction through the feedback received from the animals. Farmers' perceptions of animals have also been shown to have an impact on productivity. We investigated 161 Finnish dairy farmers' attitudes toward improv…
The Use of Social Psychology in Rural Development? Two Readings of Rural Business Owners' Values
Rural development refers to diverse attempts being made to address the problems of rural communities. In Finland, rural development leans heavily on entrepreneurship and small business development. Rural development processes have a strong social psychological component that entails that psychological knowledge is crucial for rural development agents. Nevertheless, psychological knowledge has also been criticised for simplifying highly complex de…
Using the critical incident technique for qualitative process evaluation of interventions: The example of the "Let's Move It" trial
The CIT seems a promising approach for directing analysis towards potentially crucial intervention elements as described by the participants themselves, helping in focusing and limiting the text corpus to accounts relevant to change. Qualitative evaluations in trials may add valuable understanding to complement quantitative assessments
Reframing Patient’s Autonomy in End-of-Life Care Decision-Making: Constructions of Agency in Interviews with Physicians
In the research literature, critical viewpoints question the idea of patient autonomy as a robust basis for approaching end-of-life treatments. Yet physicians express distinctly positive attitudes towards patient autonomy and advance directives in questionnaire studies. In this article, we unravel taken-for-granted assumptions about the agency that physicians use when evaluating patient autonomy in end-of-life care. We use Goffmanian frame analys…
Exploring the link between farmers’ entrepreneurial identities and work wellbeing
How can organic farmers be good farmers? A study of categorisation in organic farmers' talk
Conversion from conventional to organic farming is considered to indicate changes in farmers' professional identities-more specifically, in their perceptions of the idea of a 'good farmer'. In this study, we focus on this theme by analysing how 'good farmer' ideals appear when farmers who have converted to organic agriculture make sense of the differences between conventional and organic farming. Through the discursive analysis of interviews with…
Political science (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Business (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Marketing (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Entrepreneurship (4 works)