Mikko J Virtanen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 170408 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mikko J Virtanen |
| NOMBRES | Mikko J |
| APELLIDO | Virtanen |
| FIRMA | VIRTANEN M J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4308-3470 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Uusi kierros sosiaalisesta konstruktionismista – kolmen eri sukupolven näkökulmasta
Miira Niskan, Satu Venäläisen, Antero Olakiven ja Jose A. Cañadan toimittama Sosiaalinen konstruktionismi esittelee lähestymistavan eri versioita ja niiden hyödyntämismahdollisuuksia yhteiskuntatutkimuksessa. Pohdimme seuraavassa teoksen antia ja merkitystä kolmea eri sukupolvea edustavalle sosiaalitieteilijälle. Robin on maisteritutkielmaansa viimeistelevä sosiologian opiskelija, joka on kiinnostunut erityisesti ympäristöä sivuavista teemoista s…
Masculinity, humour and the making of maritime infrastructure
This article contributes to scholarship on navigation, infrastructure and masculinity by examining the microculture of infrastructure-making aboard the icebreaker Frost in the Baltic Sea. We ask how a key component of Northern maritime infrastructure – upholding winter navigation routes – is enacted through the routine work of Frost ’s crew; which socio-cultural and material-structural factors organize this infrastructure-making, and how these dy…
Illuminating the grey box
This engagement piece continues the dialogue initiated by Anders Blok and Casper Bruun Jensen, re-examining Latour's work in light of the challenges and possibilities this exchange brings to the fore. I begin by asking why conversations with Latour's followers often feel laborious, addressing this through a close reading of Blok and Jensen's interpretations and emphases within Latour's oeuvre, set against the broader backdrop of Latour-inspired d…
Climate Moralities Offset
This article contributes to sociological scholarship on climate change by examining the development of the voluntary carbon offset market in Finland. While intended to address the collective challenge of climate change, voluntary carbon offsetting has faced criticism for commodifying emissions and shifting responsibility to specific actors. Enabled by voluntary carbon markets, emissions and climate impacts are attributed to companies and individu…
From social democracy towards social neoliberalism
In recent years, impact finance has sought to integrate financial rationales, actors, and novel policy instruments and impact assessment practices into policy frameworks. Initially developed in the Anglo-American liberal welfare regime, the influence of impact finance practices has expanded also into the Nordics. This article examines the development of Finnish impact finance, as spearheaded by the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra in the late 2010s.…
Infrastructures of power
This paper suggests a synthetization of three classic approaches to analyze infrastructures as interconnected compositions that subtly distribute power and governance. We draw upon conceptualizations within large technological systems (LTS), Internet governance, and information infrastructures (II), and connect them to our own extensive research in energy infrastructure and systems spanning over a decade. This combination serves as the bedrock fo…
Habits Over Routines
The evolution of computer tools has had profound impacts on many aspects of control rooms and control room studies. In this paper, we discuss some key assumptions underpinning these studies based on a new case of the electricity distribution control rooms, where the reliability of the electricity infrastructure is managed by a combination of planning and real-time maintenance. Some of these practices have changed remarkably little over the past d…
How does science and technology studies contribute to climate mitigation research? Advanced review of infrastructure as a concept and method
The objective of this paper is to review how Science and Technology Studies (STS) has contributed to climate change mitigation research. We focus on large‐scale infrastructures as a key topic of both mitigation efforts and recent STS scholarship. The paper assesses the conceptual and methodological treatments in this field, uses literature evidence to identify research gaps, and suggests potential topics for future research. Our research firstly …
Teoria-menetelmäpaketit laadullisessa sosiaalitutkimuksessa
Tekstini osallistuu sosiaalitutkimuksen painopisteistä käytävään keskusteluun ja erityisesti laadullisen tutkimuksen teorioita, menetelmiä ja tutkimustapoja koskevaan nykydebattiin. Panokseni rakentuu kolmiosaisesti. Tarjoan ensinnäkin kehittelemäni analyyttisen välineen, teoria-menetelmäpakettityökalun (TMP-työkalu) tutkijayhteisön käyttöön. TMP-työkalu auttaa tunnistamaan erilaisia teorioiden ja menetelmien yhdistelmiä ja käyttötapoja ja valmen…
Differentiating natures, connecting environments pragmatic sociology and the emergence of green justifications
As the environmental crisis gains pace, different strands of posthumanist theorizing have aimed to reshape the ecological conditions of human actions. This article examines ecological justifications in French pragmatic sociology, developed by Boltanski and Thévenot, situating it to discussions about materiality. The approach has proven useful for analyzing various controversies as it provides tools for examining how actors coordinate conflict sit…
On Theory-Methods Packages in Science and Technology Studies
Our review essay contributes to the long-standing and vibrant discussion in science and technology studies (STS) on methods, methodologies, and theory-method relationships. We aim to improve the reflexivity of research by unpacking the often implicit assumptions that imbue research conduct and by offering practical tools through which STS researchers can recognize their research designs and think through them in a new way. To achieve these aims, …
Frictional rhythms of climate work in city governance
Cities are crucially but problematically positioned to take on the climate crisis. Although local governance seems an appropriate scale for adaptation and mitigation measures, numerous barriers to implementing them effectively have been diagnosed. We argue that a focus on pinpointable barriers neglects the intrinsic organisational dynamics that often impede effective climate action. Drawing on interviews with climate specialists in Finnish munici…
Socially enacted ethics
This article addresses the need to grasp the actual processing of health ethical issues in ethics organisations by analysing the work of the Finnish National Advisory Board on Social Welfare and Health Care Ethics (ETENE). ETENE's ethics is approached ethigraphically: the advisory board enacts ethics in its social life, through its own norms and values. It is asked how this internal ethics is performed in the board practice and how ethical debate…
Minne menit, yhteiskuntateoria
Ovatko sosiologisen yhteiskuntateorian mahdollisuusehdot muuttuneet ja jos ovat niin miten, kysyy tutkija Mikko J. Virtanen puuheenvuorossaan. Virtasen kirjoitus aloittaa Tiede & edistyksen yhteiskuntateoreettisen keskustelun nykytilaa ja tulevaisuutta pohtivan puheenvuorosarjan. Tarkastelen tässä kirjoituksessa suomalaisen yhteiskuntateoreettisen keskustelun hiipumista ja siihen vaikuttavia tekijöitä viimeisten vuosikymmenten aikana. Näkökulmani…
Rihmastollinen silta yli modernin
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: Lopun aikojen sieni. Elämää kapitalismin raunioissa (The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins). Suomentanut Anna Tuomikoski. Tutkijaliitto, Helsinki 2020. 372 s. Lopun aikojen sieni on matsutake eli tuoksuvalmuska. Kalifornian yliopiston antropologianprofessori Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing seuraa matsutakea sen matkalla ekologisista mahdollisuusehdoistaan eli rihmastoista irrotetuksi ja …
Taloustieteen performatiivisuudesta moniperformatiivisuuteen
Toimijaverkostoteoreetikko Michel Callonin ajattelusta liikkeelle lähtenyt performatiivisuuden tutki-musohjelma on kahden viime vuosikymmenen aikana saavuttanut merkittävän aseman taloutta tarkastelevan yhteiskuntatieteen kentällä. Ohjelma on kohdannut viime vuosina kuitenkin myös kritiikkiä sen tavasta tarkastella taloudellisia ilmiöitä ensisijaisesti yhdestä suunnasta, talouden tiedekytkennän kautta. Osallistumme artikkelillamme tähän Callonin …
Travels and Trials of Climate Knowledge in Finnish Municipalities
We examine why implementing climate aims has proven challenging for municipalities. Recognising that climate policy research identifies ‘barriers’ to the forward motion of environmental knowledge, we use STS tools to dismantle ‘barrier thinking’ and analyse the dynamics of climate knowledge in municipal organisations. The primary data are 21 interviews with climate change and risk management experts in Finnish municipalities. We employ the idea o…
Comprehensive Security
In security and foreign policy discourse, environmental issues have been discussed increasingly as security threats that require immediate action. Yet, as the traditional security sector does not provide straightforward means to deal with climate change and other environmental issues, this has prompted concerns over undue securitisation and ill-placed extreme measures. We argue that an effective policy to address foreseeable environmental securit…
Critical infrastructure vulnerability
This research note reviews recent literature on the vulnerability of critical infrastructures caused by climate change with a focus on the Nordic countries. We integrate literature from three research areas: the role of critical infrastructures in the functioning of society, infrastructural vulnerabilities, and the long-term impacts of climate change. Focusing on climate change adaptation in the Nordic countries as a pivotal case, we discuss the …
From knowledge to a gendered event and trustful ties
In the present study, we examine socio-cultural and practical aspects of human papillomavirus vaccination (HPVV) through a multi-sited study of framings. We ask how HPVV is framed in the daily lives of vaccination-aged Finnish girls and in school nurses' everyday work. We then mirror these framings against both each other and Finland's official vaccination campaign. Based on analysis of interviews with 24 nurses and 12 girls and the campaign mate…
Shaping values and economics
What kind of 'a girls' thing'? Frictions and continuities in the framing and taming of the HPV vaccine in Finland
This article focuses on two different ways of framing and taming the uncertainties of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in the context of the Finnish welfare state: the bio-medical rationale of population-level cancer reduction based on epidemiological assessments, and the meaning formation of Finnish vaccination-aged girls. Epidemiologists run analyses estimating the cost-effectiveness and public health benefit of vaccinations, while the ad…
An assemblage of framings and tamings
The social life of methods – the idea that research methods are an important topic of inquiry in and of themselves – has been receiving increasing interest in scholarship on the organisation of the economy and social life, including Science and Technology Studies (STS). In STS, especially ethnographic methods have been important for decades. This article develops an ethnographic methodology for the study of a very new case that challenges the ass…
Energy planning of low carbon urban areas - Examples from Finland
Keeping Systems at Work
This article discusses the reliability of electricity supply and the management of its uncertainties from a systems theoretical point of view. We begin by outlining recent Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature about energy systems, infrastructures and practices concerning their use and argue that many current discussions hold promise in two directions: one concerns the brittleness and uncertainty of the electricity system that is seen a…
An assemblage of framings and tamings
The social life of methods – the idea that research methods are an important topic of inquiry in and of themselves – has been receiving increasing interest in scholarship on the organisation of the economy and social life, including Science and Technology Studies (STS). In STS, especially ethnographic methods have been important for decades. This article develops an ethnographic methodology for the study of a very new case that challenges the ass…
Shaping values and economics
What kind of 'a girls' thing'? Frictions and continuities in the framing and taming of the HPV vaccine in Finland
This article focuses on two different ways of framing and taming the uncertainties of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in the context of the Finnish welfare state: the bio-medical rationale of population-level cancer reduction based on epidemiological assessments, and the meaning formation of Finnish vaccination-aged girls. Epidemiologists run analyses estimating the cost-effectiveness and public health benefit of vaccinations, while the ad…
On Theory-Methods Packages in Science and Technology Studies
Our review essay contributes to the long-standing and vibrant discussion in science and technology studies (STS) on methods, methodologies, and theory-method relationships. We aim to improve the reflexivity of research by unpacking the often implicit assumptions that imbue research conduct and by offering practical tools through which STS researchers can recognize their research designs and think through them in a new way. To achieve these aims, …
Comprehensive Security
In security and foreign policy discourse, environmental issues have been discussed increasingly as security threats that require immediate action. Yet, as the traditional security sector does not provide straightforward means to deal with climate change and other environmental issues, this has prompted concerns over undue securitisation and ill-placed extreme measures. We argue that an effective policy to address foreseeable environmental securit…
Critical infrastructure vulnerability
This research note reviews recent literature on the vulnerability of critical infrastructures caused by climate change with a focus on the Nordic countries. We integrate literature from three research areas: the role of critical infrastructures in the functioning of society, infrastructural vulnerabilities, and the long-term impacts of climate change. Focusing on climate change adaptation in the Nordic countries as a pivotal case, we discuss the …
From social democracy towards social neoliberalism
In recent years, impact finance has sought to integrate financial rationales, actors, and novel policy instruments and impact assessment practices into policy frameworks. Initially developed in the Anglo-American liberal welfare regime, the influence of impact finance practices has expanded also into the Nordics. This article examines the development of Finnish impact finance, as spearheaded by the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra in the late 2010s.…
Differentiating natures, connecting environments pragmatic sociology and the emergence of green justifications
As the environmental crisis gains pace, different strands of posthumanist theorizing have aimed to reshape the ecological conditions of human actions. This article examines ecological justifications in French pragmatic sociology, developed by Boltanski and Thévenot, situating it to discussions about materiality. The approach has proven useful for analyzing various controversies as it provides tools for examining how actors coordinate conflict sit…
From knowledge to a gendered event and trustful ties
In the present study, we examine socio-cultural and practical aspects of human papillomavirus vaccination (HPVV) through a multi-sited study of framings. We ask how HPVV is framed in the daily lives of vaccination-aged Finnish girls and in school nurses' everyday work. We then mirror these framings against both each other and Finland's official vaccination campaign. Based on analysis of interviews with 24 nurses and 12 girls and the campaign mate…
Keeping Systems at Work
This article discusses the reliability of electricity supply and the management of its uncertainties from a systems theoretical point of view. We begin by outlining recent Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature about energy systems, infrastructures and practices concerning their use and argue that many current discussions hold promise in two directions: one concerns the brittleness and uncertainty of the electricity system that is seen a…
Energy planning of low carbon urban areas - Examples from Finland
What kind of 'a girls' thing'? Frictions and continuities in the framing and taming of the HPV vaccine in Finland
This article focuses on two different ways of framing and taming the uncertainties of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in the context of the Finnish welfare state: the bio-medical rationale of population-level cancer reduction based on epidemiological assessments, and the meaning formation of Finnish vaccination-aged girls. Epidemiologists run analyses estimating the cost-effectiveness and public health benefit of vaccinations, while the ad…
An assemblage of framings and tamings
The social life of methods – the idea that research methods are an important topic of inquiry in and of themselves – has been receiving increasing interest in scholarship on the organisation of the economy and social life, including Science and Technology Studies (STS). In STS, especially ethnographic methods have been important for decades. This article develops an ethnographic methodology for the study of a very new case that challenges the ass…
Shaping values and economics
Taloustieteen performatiivisuudesta moniperformatiivisuuteen
Toimijaverkostoteoreetikko Michel Callonin ajattelusta liikkeelle lähtenyt performatiivisuuden tutki-musohjelma on kahden viime vuosikymmenen aikana saavuttanut merkittävän aseman taloutta tarkastelevan yhteiskuntatieteen kentällä. Ohjelma on kohdannut viime vuosina kuitenkin myös kritiikkiä sen tavasta tarkastella taloudellisia ilmiöitä ensisijaisesti yhdestä suunnasta, talouden tiedekytkennän kautta. Osallistumme artikkelillamme tähän Callonin …
Travels and Trials of Climate Knowledge in Finnish Municipalities
We examine why implementing climate aims has proven challenging for municipalities. Recognising that climate policy research identifies ‘barriers’ to the forward motion of environmental knowledge, we use STS tools to dismantle ‘barrier thinking’ and analyse the dynamics of climate knowledge in municipal organisations. The primary data are 21 interviews with climate change and risk management experts in Finnish municipalities. We employ the idea o…
Comprehensive Security
In security and foreign policy discourse, environmental issues have been discussed increasingly as security threats that require immediate action. Yet, as the traditional security sector does not provide straightforward means to deal with climate change and other environmental issues, this has prompted concerns over undue securitisation and ill-placed extreme measures. We argue that an effective policy to address foreseeable environmental securit…
Critical infrastructure vulnerability
This research note reviews recent literature on the vulnerability of critical infrastructures caused by climate change with a focus on the Nordic countries. We integrate literature from three research areas: the role of critical infrastructures in the functioning of society, infrastructural vulnerabilities, and the long-term impacts of climate change. Focusing on climate change adaptation in the Nordic countries as a pivotal case, we discuss the …
From knowledge to a gendered event and trustful ties
In the present study, we examine socio-cultural and practical aspects of human papillomavirus vaccination (HPVV) through a multi-sited study of framings. We ask how HPVV is framed in the daily lives of vaccination-aged Finnish girls and in school nurses' everyday work. We then mirror these framings against both each other and Finland's official vaccination campaign. Based on analysis of interviews with 24 nurses and 12 girls and the campaign mate…
Minne menit, yhteiskuntateoria
Ovatko sosiologisen yhteiskuntateorian mahdollisuusehdot muuttuneet ja jos ovat niin miten, kysyy tutkija Mikko J. Virtanen puuheenvuorossaan. Virtasen kirjoitus aloittaa Tiede & edistyksen yhteiskuntateoreettisen keskustelun nykytilaa ja tulevaisuutta pohtivan puheenvuorosarjan. Tarkastelen tässä kirjoituksessa suomalaisen yhteiskuntateoreettisen keskustelun hiipumista ja siihen vaikuttavia tekijöitä viimeisten vuosikymmenten aikana. Näkökulmani…
Rihmastollinen silta yli modernin
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: Lopun aikojen sieni. Elämää kapitalismin raunioissa (The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins). Suomentanut Anna Tuomikoski. Tutkijaliitto, Helsinki 2020. 372 s. Lopun aikojen sieni on matsutake eli tuoksuvalmuska. Kalifornian yliopiston antropologianprofessori Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing seuraa matsutakea sen matkalla ekologisista mahdollisuusehdoistaan eli rihmastoista irrotetuksi ja …
Teoria-menetelmäpaketit laadullisessa sosiaalitutkimuksessa
Tekstini osallistuu sosiaalitutkimuksen painopisteistä käytävään keskusteluun ja erityisesti laadullisen tutkimuksen teorioita, menetelmiä ja tutkimustapoja koskevaan nykydebattiin. Panokseni rakentuu kolmiosaisesti. Tarjoan ensinnäkin kehittelemäni analyyttisen välineen, teoria-menetelmäpakettityökalun (TMP-työkalu) tutkijayhteisön käyttöön. TMP-työkalu auttaa tunnistamaan erilaisia teorioiden ja menetelmien yhdistelmiä ja käyttötapoja ja valmen…
Differentiating natures, connecting environments pragmatic sociology and the emergence of green justifications
As the environmental crisis gains pace, different strands of posthumanist theorizing have aimed to reshape the ecological conditions of human actions. This article examines ecological justifications in French pragmatic sociology, developed by Boltanski and Thévenot, situating it to discussions about materiality. The approach has proven useful for analyzing various controversies as it provides tools for examining how actors coordinate conflict sit…
On Theory-Methods Packages in Science and Technology Studies
Our review essay contributes to the long-standing and vibrant discussion in science and technology studies (STS) on methods, methodologies, and theory-method relationships. We aim to improve the reflexivity of research by unpacking the often implicit assumptions that imbue research conduct and by offering practical tools through which STS researchers can recognize their research designs and think through them in a new way. To achieve these aims, …
Frictional rhythms of climate work in city governance
Cities are crucially but problematically positioned to take on the climate crisis. Although local governance seems an appropriate scale for adaptation and mitigation measures, numerous barriers to implementing them effectively have been diagnosed. We argue that a focus on pinpointable barriers neglects the intrinsic organisational dynamics that often impede effective climate action. Drawing on interviews with climate specialists in Finnish munici…
Socially enacted ethics
This article addresses the need to grasp the actual processing of health ethical issues in ethics organisations by analysing the work of the Finnish National Advisory Board on Social Welfare and Health Care Ethics (ETENE). ETENE's ethics is approached ethigraphically: the advisory board enacts ethics in its social life, through its own norms and values. It is asked how this internal ethics is performed in the board practice and how ethical debate…
Infrastructures of power
This paper suggests a synthetization of three classic approaches to analyze infrastructures as interconnected compositions that subtly distribute power and governance. We draw upon conceptualizations within large technological systems (LTS), Internet governance, and information infrastructures (II), and connect them to our own extensive research in energy infrastructure and systems spanning over a decade. This combination serves as the bedrock fo…
Habits Over Routines
The evolution of computer tools has had profound impacts on many aspects of control rooms and control room studies. In this paper, we discuss some key assumptions underpinning these studies based on a new case of the electricity distribution control rooms, where the reliability of the electricity infrastructure is managed by a combination of planning and real-time maintenance. Some of these practices have changed remarkably little over the past d…
How does science and technology studies contribute to climate mitigation research? Advanced review of infrastructure as a concept and method
The objective of this paper is to review how Science and Technology Studies (STS) has contributed to climate change mitigation research. We focus on large‐scale infrastructures as a key topic of both mitigation efforts and recent STS scholarship. The paper assesses the conceptual and methodological treatments in this field, uses literature evidence to identify research gaps, and suggests potential topics for future research. Our research firstly …
Illuminating the grey box
This engagement piece continues the dialogue initiated by Anders Blok and Casper Bruun Jensen, re-examining Latour's work in light of the challenges and possibilities this exchange brings to the fore. I begin by asking why conversations with Latour's followers often feel laborious, addressing this through a close reading of Blok and Jensen's interpretations and emphases within Latour's oeuvre, set against the broader backdrop of Latour-inspired d…
Climate Moralities Offset
This article contributes to sociological scholarship on climate change by examining the development of the voluntary carbon offset market in Finland. While intended to address the collective challenge of climate change, voluntary carbon offsetting has faced criticism for commodifying emissions and shifting responsibility to specific actors. Enabled by voluntary carbon markets, emissions and climate impacts are attributed to companies and individu…
From social democracy towards social neoliberalism
In recent years, impact finance has sought to integrate financial rationales, actors, and novel policy instruments and impact assessment practices into policy frameworks. Initially developed in the Anglo-American liberal welfare regime, the influence of impact finance practices has expanded also into the Nordics. This article examines the development of Finnish impact finance, as spearheaded by the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra in the late 2010s.…
Uusi kierros sosiaalisesta konstruktionismista – kolmen eri sukupolven näkökulmasta
Miira Niskan, Satu Venäläisen, Antero Olakiven ja Jose A. Cañadan toimittama Sosiaalinen konstruktionismi esittelee lähestymistavan eri versioita ja niiden hyödyntämismahdollisuuksia yhteiskuntatutkimuksessa. Pohdimme seuraavassa teoksen antia ja merkitystä kolmea eri sukupolvea edustavalle sosiaalitieteilijälle. Robin on maisteritutkielmaansa viimeistelevä sosiologian opiskelija, joka on kiinnostunut erityisesti ympäristöä sivuavista teemoista s…
Masculinity, humour and the making of maritime infrastructure
This article contributes to scholarship on navigation, infrastructure and masculinity by examining the microculture of infrastructure-making aboard the icebreaker Frost in the Baltic Sea. We ask how a key component of Northern maritime infrastructure – upholding winter navigation routes – is enacted through the routine work of Frost ’s crew; which socio-cultural and material-structural factors organize this infrastructure-making, and how these dy…
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