Helena Hirvonen
Biographic Data
| ID | 2297790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helena Hirvonen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helena |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirvonen |
| SIGNATURE | HIRVONEN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5997-4606 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Common sense put to work
This article investigates how Lean model is introduced in a management training course targeted at healthcare professionals in Finland. Lean management originated in the Japanese car industry; since the 1990s it has become a key management doctrine for healthcare reform in Western welfare states. Drawing on ethnographic research on a two-day Lean management training course in 2019, and by applying the analytical lenses of affects and sociomateria…
Group‐based instant messaging in Finnish residential elder care work
As new communication technologies become embedded in care work, there is a need to understand how they affect its temporal order. This article analyses group‐based mobile instant messaging (IM) in residential elder care work in Finland. The article asks (i) how care workers use group‐based messaging for work; and (ii) how they negotiate the rules for its use. Theoretically, the article draws on science and technology studies focusing on ‘taming’ …
Digital Transformations in Care for Older People
Digital Transformations in Care for Older People
Electronic Health Records reshaping the socio-technical practices in Long-Term Care of older persons
Interpersonal Violence
Interpersonal Violence
From Embodied to Disembodied Professionalism? Discussing the Implications of Medico‐Managerial Management in Welfare Service Work
Welfare service work is traditionally understood to comprise embodied, situational and social practices of care that are central to a worker's professional self‐image. Over the past few decades, public management reforms have called for reassessment of welfare service workers' professional accountability through practices of medico‐managerial service management. These practices promote the production of transparency and accountability in welfare …
Living on a knife's edge
This article considers the temporal variations of agency from the point of view of social and health care workers' experiences and the social structures and practices of the contemporary public service sector. It is based on an interview study of 24 Finnish welfare service workers. The results show that the public service sector increasingly operates according to market principles and an economic-rationalistic framing of time, contrary to the rel…
Gendered Agency and Emotions in the Field of Care Work
This article examines the gendered effects of the intensification of public sector care work due to neoliberal reforms. It draws on an interview study of Finnish social and healthcare workers to argue that the expectations towards men and women in the reorganized field of care work are different, especially in the case of their emotional involvement in care practices. The article develops a conceptual framework based on Bourdieu's theory of pract…
Feminism, Embodied Experience and Recognition
Lois McNay is Professor of the Theory of Politics at Oxford University, United Kingdom. In addition to many articles and book chapters her work includes Foucault and Feminism: Power, Gender and the
Gendered Agency and Emotions in the Field of Care Work
This article examines the gendered effects of the intensification of public sector care work due to neoliberal reforms. It draws on an interview study of Finnish social and healthcare workers to argue that the expectations towards men and women in the reorganized field of care work are different, especially in the case of their emotional involvement in care practices. The article develops a conceptual framework based on Bourdieu's theory of pract…
Living on a knife's edge
This article considers the temporal variations of agency from the point of view of social and health care workers' experiences and the social structures and practices of the contemporary public service sector. It is based on an interview study of 24 Finnish welfare service workers. The results show that the public service sector increasingly operates according to market principles and an economic-rationalistic framing of time, contrary to the rel…
Electronic Health Records reshaping the socio-technical practices in Long-Term Care of older persons
Group‐based instant messaging in Finnish residential elder care work
As new communication technologies become embedded in care work, there is a need to understand how they affect its temporal order. This article analyses group‐based mobile instant messaging (IM) in residential elder care work in Finland. The article asks (i) how care workers use group‐based messaging for work; and (ii) how they negotiate the rules for its use. Theoretically, the article draws on science and technology studies focusing on ‘taming’ …
From Embodied to Disembodied Professionalism? Discussing the Implications of Medico‐Managerial Management in Welfare Service Work
Welfare service work is traditionally understood to comprise embodied, situational and social practices of care that are central to a worker's professional self‐image. Over the past few decades, public management reforms have called for reassessment of welfare service workers' professional accountability through practices of medico‐managerial service management. These practices promote the production of transparency and accountability in welfare …
Feminism, Embodied Experience and Recognition
Lois McNay is Professor of the Theory of Politics at Oxford University, United Kingdom. In addition to many articles and book chapters her work includes Foucault and Feminism: Power, Gender and the
Gendered Agency and Emotions in the Field of Care Work
This article examines the gendered effects of the intensification of public sector care work due to neoliberal reforms. It draws on an interview study of Finnish social and healthcare workers to argue that the expectations towards men and women in the reorganized field of care work are different, especially in the case of their emotional involvement in care practices. The article develops a conceptual framework based on Bourdieu's theory of pract…
Living on a knife's edge
This article considers the temporal variations of agency from the point of view of social and health care workers' experiences and the social structures and practices of the contemporary public service sector. It is based on an interview study of 24 Finnish welfare service workers. The results show that the public service sector increasingly operates according to market principles and an economic-rationalistic framing of time, contrary to the rel…
From Embodied to Disembodied Professionalism? Discussing the Implications of Medico‐Managerial Management in Welfare Service Work
Welfare service work is traditionally understood to comprise embodied, situational and social practices of care that are central to a worker's professional self‐image. Over the past few decades, public management reforms have called for reassessment of welfare service workers' professional accountability through practices of medico‐managerial service management. These practices promote the production of transparency and accountability in welfare …
Interpersonal Violence
Interpersonal Violence
Electronic Health Records reshaping the socio-technical practices in Long-Term Care of older persons
Digital Transformations in Care for Older People
Digital Transformations in Care for Older People
Common sense put to work
This article investigates how Lean model is introduced in a management training course targeted at healthcare professionals in Finland. Lean management originated in the Japanese car industry; since the 1990s it has become a key management doctrine for healthcare reform in Western welfare states. Drawing on ethnographic research on a two-day Lean management training course in 2019, and by applying the analytical lenses of affects and sociomateria…
Group‐based instant messaging in Finnish residential elder care work
As new communication technologies become embedded in care work, there is a need to understand how they affect its temporal order. This article analyses group‐based mobile instant messaging (IM) in residential elder care work in Finland. The article asks (i) how care workers use group‐based messaging for work; and (ii) how they negotiate the rules for its use. Theoretically, the article draws on science and technology studies focusing on ‘taming’ …
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Science (4 works) · Agency (philosophy (3 works)