M Kolehmainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 16820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Kolehmainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolehmainen |
| SIGNATURE | KOLEHMAINEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2949-2638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Vibrant Screens: Remote therapy and counselling through the lens of digital materiality
This article analyses the digital screen as a health technology. In particular, the article asks how screens as a part of therapy settings or counselling practices materialise - or fail to materialise - care. The empirical data comprise interviews with therapy and counselling professionals, whose experiences with technology during the COVID-19 pandemic were my original interest. Adopting a sociomaterial approach to technology use, it scrutinises …
Teletherapy Matters - Mental health and materialities of care in domestic more-than-digital assemblages
Teletherapy involves the coming together of humans and nonhuman agents to accomplish a therapeutic encounter. This article presents novel insights into the ways in which the absence or presence of different creatures, spaces and objects, both digital and non-digital, contribute to psychological therapies at a distance. Building on contributions from more-than-human theory, science and technology studies (STS) and the sociology of health, we ident…
Networked Care: Worlding Mental Well-Being in a Digital Age
This article analyses mental health support through the lens of care. Drawing upon a study of various practices of teletherapy and remote counselling during the COVID-19 pandemic, it empirically analyses mental healthcare by tapping into the experiences of Finnish therapy and counselling professionals. In telecare, digital technology with its particularities brings forth particular forms of (networked) care: networked connectivity and the relatio…
Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event
This article examines start-up entrepreneurialism and provides insights into the configurations of affective capitalism. The empirical case explored in this article is the Slush Conference, which promotes start-up entrepreneurialism. The data were gathered by ethnographic methods, including on-site observations, and complemented by diverse materials such as social media content and newspaper coverage of the event. Drawing upon our detailed analys…
Embracing water, healing pine: Touch-Walking and Transcorporeal Worldings
This article considers touch as an embodied worlding practice in the context of humans intentionally seeking tactile trans-species contact. In particular, it examines three co-researchers’ tactile relations with tree(s) and water which were explored by “touch-walking,” an immersive method developed for this study. The method opened possibilities for examining transcorporeal sensory matterings and affective flows between the researcher’s body, co-…
Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity
The number of people living without a partner is growing globally, but this demographic shift has barely disrupted the tenacity of the couple norm. Researchers have identified several concrete mechanisms of singlism - practices that feed the unequal treatment of single people. Nevertheless, there is still a need to develop an understanding of how singlism operates affectively. To provide insights into the affective intensities of single lives, we…
Affective intimacies
This volume provides a novel platform to re-evaluate the notion of open-ended intimacies through the lens of affect theories. Contributors address the embodied, affective and psychic, sensorial and embodied aspects of their ongoing intimate entanglements across various timely phenomena. This fascinating collection asks how the study of affect enables us to rethink intimacies, what affect theories can do to the prevailing notion of intimacy and ho…
Postfeminist Versions of Equality? An Analysis of Relationship and Sex Counseling Practices in Finland
Relationship and sex counseling are pivotal components of the 'therapeutization of society,' which has been identified and widely examined as a key transformation of 21st-century modern Western societies. The particular understandings of gender and sexuality that circulate in those practices contribute to the wider everyday conceptions of intimate life and are thus important to investigate from a feminist perspective. Combining insights from stud…
Introduction: Affective Intimacies
This Special Issue offers a novel platform to rethink intimacies through the lens of affect theories. In particular, it introduces new ways of understanding affective intimacies, encompassing explo
Gendered Boundary-work within the Finnish Skepticism Movement
As a worldwide social movement, skepticism aims to promote science and critical thinking. However, by analyzing texts published in the magazine of the Finnish skepticism movement between 1988 and 2017, we find that the movement carries out its mission in a way that maintains and produces gendered hierarchies. We identify six forms of gendered boundary-work in the data: (1) science as masculine, (2) questioning women, (3) complementary and alterna…
LGBTIQ+ break-up assemblages: At the end of the rainbow
This article explores Finnish LGBTIQ+ people's break-ups. The long battle for equal rights has placed LGBTIQ+ people's relationships under pressure to succeed. Previous studies argue that partners in LGBTIQ+ relationships try to appear as ordinary and happy as possible, and remain silent about the challenges they face in their relationships. Consequently, they may miss out on opportunities to receive institutional and familial support. This study…
Affective labour of creating atmospheres
In this article, we suggest that the production of atmospheres is a significant form of the capitalisation of affect – the ongoing cultural shift that encompasses diverse ways in which affect itself has become a selling point. We further the discussion of this capitalisation of affect by offering insights into forms of capitalisation that mobilise atmospheres rather than single, individual or clearly identified affects. Through two ethnographic c…
Touch and Affect: Analysing the Archive of Touch Biographies
This article examines touch and its significance from an affect studies perspective. Touch makes our bodies more-than-one in a very concrete way, yet in body and affect research it has largely remained a philosophical abstraction, with few empirical explorations. Our theoretical deliberations are based on empirical material consisting of 'touch biographies' written by people of various backgrounds in the 2010s in Finland. The biographies are embo…
The material politics of stereotyping white trash: Flexible Class-Making
This article provides a detailed analysis of novel forms of class-making in Finland, with special emphasis on emerging threads on 'white trash' in a popular discussion forum. The article is based on an empirical study, the data for which were gathered by making online observations and extracting discussion threads on white trash. There is no consensus in the data on the meaning of the term white trash. While the stereotypes concerning the alleged…
Managed makeovers? Gendered and sexualized subjectivities in postfeminist media culture
Tracing ambivalent norms of sexuality: Agony columns, audience responses and parody
The article discusses the organization of sexuality in the late modern societies, with emphasis on the significance of humorous style in the doing of sexual norms. The empirical data employed in the study consists of the agony column of the Finnish magazine City and the readers’ online responses to it. The column explores sexual differences and makes a variety of desires public, but also participates in the mass-mediated regulation of sexualities…
Normalizing and Gendering Affects: How the relation to porn is constructed in young women's magazines
This article focuses on the construction of one's relation to pornography in contemporary media by examining agony columns of young adult women's magazines. The analytical approach employed is a "close reading" from the perspective of queer theory, purposing both to "queer" the portrayals of heterosexuality and to critically review representations of non-heterosexuality. The focus is especially on the role of affects and emotions in moving subjec…
Touch and Affect: Analysing the Archive of Touch Biographies
This article examines touch and its significance from an affect studies perspective. Touch makes our bodies more-than-one in a very concrete way, yet in body and affect research it has largely remained a philosophical abstraction, with few empirical explorations. Our theoretical deliberations are based on empirical material consisting of 'touch biographies' written by people of various backgrounds in the 2010s in Finland. The biographies are embo…
Affective labour of creating atmospheres
In this article, we suggest that the production of atmospheres is a significant form of the capitalisation of affect – the ongoing cultural shift that encompasses diverse ways in which affect itself has become a selling point. We further the discussion of this capitalisation of affect by offering insights into forms of capitalisation that mobilise atmospheres rather than single, individual or clearly identified affects. Through two ethnographic c…
Affective intimacies
This volume provides a novel platform to re-evaluate the notion of open-ended intimacies through the lens of affect theories. Contributors address the embodied, affective and psychic, sensorial and embodied aspects of their ongoing intimate entanglements across various timely phenomena. This fascinating collection asks how the study of affect enables us to rethink intimacies, what affect theories can do to the prevailing notion of intimacy and ho…
LGBTIQ+ break-up assemblages: At the end of the rainbow
This article explores Finnish LGBTIQ+ people's break-ups. The long battle for equal rights has placed LGBTIQ+ people's relationships under pressure to succeed. Previous studies argue that partners in LGBTIQ+ relationships try to appear as ordinary and happy as possible, and remain silent about the challenges they face in their relationships. Consequently, they may miss out on opportunities to receive institutional and familial support. This study…
Introduction: Affective Intimacies
This Special Issue offers a novel platform to rethink intimacies through the lens of affect theories. In particular, it introduces new ways of understanding affective intimacies, encompassing explo
The material politics of stereotyping white trash: Flexible Class-Making
This article provides a detailed analysis of novel forms of class-making in Finland, with special emphasis on emerging threads on 'white trash' in a popular discussion forum. The article is based on an empirical study, the data for which were gathered by making online observations and extracting discussion threads on white trash. There is no consensus in the data on the meaning of the term white trash. While the stereotypes concerning the alleged…
Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity
The number of people living without a partner is growing globally, but this demographic shift has barely disrupted the tenacity of the couple norm. Researchers have identified several concrete mechanisms of singlism - practices that feed the unequal treatment of single people. Nevertheless, there is still a need to develop an understanding of how singlism operates affectively. To provide insights into the affective intensities of single lives, we…
Vibrant Screens: Remote therapy and counselling through the lens of digital materiality
This article analyses the digital screen as a health technology. In particular, the article asks how screens as a part of therapy settings or counselling practices materialise - or fail to materialise - care. The empirical data comprise interviews with therapy and counselling professionals, whose experiences with technology during the COVID-19 pandemic were my original interest. Adopting a sociomaterial approach to technology use, it scrutinises …
Normalizing and Gendering Affects: How the relation to porn is constructed in young women's magazines
This article focuses on the construction of one's relation to pornography in contemporary media by examining agony columns of young adult women's magazines. The analytical approach employed is a "close reading" from the perspective of queer theory, purposing both to "queer" the portrayals of heterosexuality and to critically review representations of non-heterosexuality. The focus is especially on the role of affects and emotions in moving subjec…
Tracing ambivalent norms of sexuality: Agony columns, audience responses and parody
The article discusses the organization of sexuality in the late modern societies, with emphasis on the significance of humorous style in the doing of sexual norms. The empirical data employed in the study consists of the agony column of the Finnish magazine City and the readers’ online responses to it. The column explores sexual differences and makes a variety of desires public, but also participates in the mass-mediated regulation of sexualities…
Networked Care: Worlding Mental Well-Being in a Digital Age
This article analyses mental health support through the lens of care. Drawing upon a study of various practices of teletherapy and remote counselling during the COVID-19 pandemic, it empirically analyses mental healthcare by tapping into the experiences of Finnish therapy and counselling professionals. In telecare, digital technology with its particularities brings forth particular forms of (networked) care: networked connectivity and the relatio…
Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event
This article examines start-up entrepreneurialism and provides insights into the configurations of affective capitalism. The empirical case explored in this article is the Slush Conference, which promotes start-up entrepreneurialism. The data were gathered by ethnographic methods, including on-site observations, and complemented by diverse materials such as social media content and newspaper coverage of the event. Drawing upon our detailed analys…
Embracing water, healing pine: Touch-Walking and Transcorporeal Worldings
This article considers touch as an embodied worlding practice in the context of humans intentionally seeking tactile trans-species contact. In particular, it examines three co-researchers’ tactile relations with tree(s) and water which were explored by “touch-walking,” an immersive method developed for this study. The method opened possibilities for examining transcorporeal sensory matterings and affective flows between the researcher’s body, co-…
Gendered Boundary-work within the Finnish Skepticism Movement
As a worldwide social movement, skepticism aims to promote science and critical thinking. However, by analyzing texts published in the magazine of the Finnish skepticism movement between 1988 and 2017, we find that the movement carries out its mission in a way that maintains and produces gendered hierarchies. We identify six forms of gendered boundary-work in the data: (1) science as masculine, (2) questioning women, (3) complementary and alterna…
Normalizing and Gendering Affects: How the relation to porn is constructed in young women's magazines
This article focuses on the construction of one's relation to pornography in contemporary media by examining agony columns of young adult women's magazines. The analytical approach employed is a "close reading" from the perspective of queer theory, purposing both to "queer" the portrayals of heterosexuality and to critically review representations of non-heterosexuality. The focus is especially on the role of affects and emotions in moving subjec…
Managed makeovers? Gendered and sexualized subjectivities in postfeminist media culture
Tracing ambivalent norms of sexuality: Agony columns, audience responses and parody
The article discusses the organization of sexuality in the late modern societies, with emphasis on the significance of humorous style in the doing of sexual norms. The empirical data employed in the study consists of the agony column of the Finnish magazine City and the readers’ online responses to it. The column explores sexual differences and makes a variety of desires public, but also participates in the mass-mediated regulation of sexualities…
The material politics of stereotyping white trash: Flexible Class-Making
This article provides a detailed analysis of novel forms of class-making in Finland, with special emphasis on emerging threads on 'white trash' in a popular discussion forum. The article is based on an empirical study, the data for which were gathered by making online observations and extracting discussion threads on white trash. There is no consensus in the data on the meaning of the term white trash. While the stereotypes concerning the alleged…
Affective labour of creating atmospheres
In this article, we suggest that the production of atmospheres is a significant form of the capitalisation of affect – the ongoing cultural shift that encompasses diverse ways in which affect itself has become a selling point. We further the discussion of this capitalisation of affect by offering insights into forms of capitalisation that mobilise atmospheres rather than single, individual or clearly identified affects. Through two ethnographic c…
Touch and Affect: Analysing the Archive of Touch Biographies
This article examines touch and its significance from an affect studies perspective. Touch makes our bodies more-than-one in a very concrete way, yet in body and affect research it has largely remained a philosophical abstraction, with few empirical explorations. Our theoretical deliberations are based on empirical material consisting of 'touch biographies' written by people of various backgrounds in the 2010s in Finland. The biographies are embo…
LGBTIQ+ break-up assemblages: At the end of the rainbow
This article explores Finnish LGBTIQ+ people's break-ups. The long battle for equal rights has placed LGBTIQ+ people's relationships under pressure to succeed. Previous studies argue that partners in LGBTIQ+ relationships try to appear as ordinary and happy as possible, and remain silent about the challenges they face in their relationships. Consequently, they may miss out on opportunities to receive institutional and familial support. This study…
Introduction: Affective Intimacies
This Special Issue offers a novel platform to rethink intimacies through the lens of affect theories. In particular, it introduces new ways of understanding affective intimacies, encompassing explo
Gendered Boundary-work within the Finnish Skepticism Movement
As a worldwide social movement, skepticism aims to promote science and critical thinking. However, by analyzing texts published in the magazine of the Finnish skepticism movement between 1988 and 2017, we find that the movement carries out its mission in a way that maintains and produces gendered hierarchies. We identify six forms of gendered boundary-work in the data: (1) science as masculine, (2) questioning women, (3) complementary and alterna…
Affective intimacies
This volume provides a novel platform to re-evaluate the notion of open-ended intimacies through the lens of affect theories. Contributors address the embodied, affective and psychic, sensorial and embodied aspects of their ongoing intimate entanglements across various timely phenomena. This fascinating collection asks how the study of affect enables us to rethink intimacies, what affect theories can do to the prevailing notion of intimacy and ho…
Postfeminist Versions of Equality? An Analysis of Relationship and Sex Counseling Practices in Finland
Relationship and sex counseling are pivotal components of the 'therapeutization of society,' which has been identified and widely examined as a key transformation of 21st-century modern Western societies. The particular understandings of gender and sexuality that circulate in those practices contribute to the wider everyday conceptions of intimate life and are thus important to investigate from a feminist perspective. Combining insights from stud…
Embracing water, healing pine: Touch-Walking and Transcorporeal Worldings
This article considers touch as an embodied worlding practice in the context of humans intentionally seeking tactile trans-species contact. In particular, it examines three co-researchers’ tactile relations with tree(s) and water which were explored by “touch-walking,” an immersive method developed for this study. The method opened possibilities for examining transcorporeal sensory matterings and affective flows between the researcher’s body, co-…
Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity
The number of people living without a partner is growing globally, but this demographic shift has barely disrupted the tenacity of the couple norm. Researchers have identified several concrete mechanisms of singlism - practices that feed the unequal treatment of single people. Nevertheless, there is still a need to develop an understanding of how singlism operates affectively. To provide insights into the affective intensities of single lives, we…
Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event
This article examines start-up entrepreneurialism and provides insights into the configurations of affective capitalism. The empirical case explored in this article is the Slush Conference, which promotes start-up entrepreneurialism. The data were gathered by ethnographic methods, including on-site observations, and complemented by diverse materials such as social media content and newspaper coverage of the event. Drawing upon our detailed analys…
Vibrant Screens: Remote therapy and counselling through the lens of digital materiality
This article analyses the digital screen as a health technology. In particular, the article asks how screens as a part of therapy settings or counselling practices materialise - or fail to materialise - care. The empirical data comprise interviews with therapy and counselling professionals, whose experiences with technology during the COVID-19 pandemic were my original interest. Adopting a sociomaterial approach to technology use, it scrutinises …
Teletherapy Matters - Mental health and materialities of care in domestic more-than-digital assemblages
Teletherapy involves the coming together of humans and nonhuman agents to accomplish a therapeutic encounter. This article presents novel insights into the ways in which the absence or presence of different creatures, spaces and objects, both digital and non-digital, contribute to psychological therapies at a distance. Building on contributions from more-than-human theory, science and technology studies (STS) and the sociology of health, we ident…
Networked Care: Worlding Mental Well-Being in a Digital Age
This article analyses mental health support through the lens of care. Drawing upon a study of various practices of teletherapy and remote counselling during the COVID-19 pandemic, it empirically analyses mental healthcare by tapping into the experiences of Finnish therapy and counselling professionals. In telecare, digital technology with its particularities brings forth particular forms of (networked) care: networked connectivity and the relatio…
Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (5 works)