Niilo Kauppi
Biographic Data
| ID | 246064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niilo Kauppi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niilo |
| FAMILY NAME | Kauppi |
| SIGNATURE | KAUPPI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9323-0387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Intellectuals and Fields of Power: Towards a Reflexive Sociology of Academics’ Interventions
This collective paper launches a running theme on scholarly interventions in fields of power, proposing a reflexive sociology of the “grey zone” between scholarship, expertise, and activism, and illustrating through two contrasting cases—Georgakakis’s patient insider strategy in the Horizon Europe process and Vauchez’s high-profile outsider intervention through the T-Dem—the structurally different pathways, capitals, and limits that characterize …
Les universitaires trumpistes: Entretien avec David SWARTZ, par Niilo Kauppi
Dans cet entretien réalisé par Niilo Kauppi, le sociologue David Swartz présente son ouvrage The Academic Trumpists (2025), consacré aux intellectuels américains soutenant Donald Trump. Il retrace l’origine de sa recherche, initiée après l’élection de 2016, et décrit un groupe d’universitaires souvent spécialisés en droit, histoire ou science politique et ayant réussi à compenser une reconnaissance scientifique relativement faible par des positio…
Pierre Bourdieu as I Remember Him
This portrait of Bourdieu's laboratory in the early days describes the impact of the bourdieusian «tribe» on the author's social destiny, especially to his attempt to develop a reflexive political sociology that explores the intertwinement of culture, power, and knowledge. Repeatedly, he depicts himself as an outsider suspended between several (geographical, disciplinary, and intellectual) worlds. Without directly addressing the issue of self-obj…
Waiting for Godot? On some of the obstacles for developing counter-forces in higher education
In the name of the imperatives of the knowledge-economy, the European public university has been under attack since the beginning of the 2000s. Everywhere in Europe, budgets have been cut and departments considered as being useless eliminated. Reactions have been weak. How can this be explained? How can one challenge the dominant discourse on higher education? This article explores some of the power dynamics that prevent alternative visions from …
Rethinking Politicisation
Politicisation, in a broad and basic understanding, means to turn something – an issue, an institution, a policy – that previously was not a subject to political action into something that now is subject to political action. So far, most definitions of the concept would agree. But besides this basic approach, there is much discussion: Politicisation is a concept that is currently much used in the social sciences, and also a concept that is contes…
Exit politics, enter politicization
A growing number of recent empirical studies such as the four contributions discussed here examine the politicization of the European Union, Europe, European integration or European governance. Two general research questions mark this emerging research field. A first one is how to theorize and conceptualize the politicization of the European Union (EU) and the reasons behind it. Does politicization have to do with a decline in EU support or Euros…
Radicalism in French Culture: A Sociology of French Theory in The 1960s
The Politification and Politicisation of the EU
In this article, we suggest a novel conceptual framework for understanding and analysing EU politicisation. Recent studies on EU politicisation argue that the post-Maastricht era led to the politicisation of EU integration via an increasing citizens’ dissatisfaction. Contrary to this account, we argue that European integration has been from the beginning linked to politicisation, but in an unusual way. To capture its uniqueness we introduce the c…
Global Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was a prolific scholar whose multifaceted work inspired research in a wide variety of areas. Beyond sociology we find his influence in anthropology, history, cultural studies, political science, and international relations. Particularly after 1995, when he engaged in a fight against neo-liberalism, he became the pre-eminent public intellectual. Bourdieu clearly stands in the pantheon of the greatest contemporary social scientists.…
Knowledge Warfare: Social Scientists as Operators of Global Governance
Journal Article Knowledge Warfare: Social Scientists as Operators of Global Governance Get access Niilo Kauppi Niilo Kauppi CNRS Strasbourg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 330–332, https://doi.org/10.1111/ips.12062 Published: 26 August 2014
Fields of Global Governance: How Transnational Power Elites Can Make Global Governance Intelligible
Journal Article Fields of Global Governance: How Transnational Power Elites Can Make Global Governance Intelligible Get access Niilo Kauppi, Niilo Kauppi CNRS Strasbourg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mikael R. Madsen Mikael R. Madsen University of Copenhagen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages…
Transnational Power Elites: The New Professionals of Governance, Law and Security
Transnational Power Elites: The New Professionals of Governance, Law and Security
The Struggle Over Global Higher Education: Actors, Institutions, and Practices
This article examines the intensification, since the creation of the so-called Shanghai list of world universities in June 2003, of a political struggle in which a variety of actors, universities, national governments, and, more recently, supranational institutions have sought to define global higher education. This competition over global higher education has highlighted issues such as the internationalization and denationalization of higher edu…
The political ontology of European integration
Radicalism in French culture: A sociology of French theory in the 1960s
Institutions et acteurs: Rationalité, réflexivité et analyse de l'UE
La recherche sociologique sur l’Union européenne offer une alternative indispensable aux habituelles approches de l’UE dominées par l’économie, le droit, les relations internationales et les sciences politiques. Toutefois, jusqu’à présent, cette alternative sociologique a surtout consisté en l’adaptation de la terminologie sociologique telle que « construction sociale » ou « identité » et en l’introduction de nouveaux objets de recherche, telles …
Bourdieu’s political sociology and the politics of European integration
La construction de l'Europe: Le Cas Des Élections Européennes Finlandaises en 1999
Province du royaume suédois pendant près de sept cents ans et grand-duché de l’empire russe pendant cent ans, la Finlande indépendante naît au moment de la guerre civile russe. L’adhésion à l’Union européenne en 1995 en même temps que la Suède et l’Autriche peut être considérée comme l’événement politique le plus important depuis cette indépendance. Quels en ont été les effets politiques ? Il n’est pas exagéré de dire que l’adhésion à l’Union eur…
The Sociologist as Moraliste: Pierre Bourdieu's Practice of Theory and the French Intellectual Tradition
Niilo Kauppi, The Sociologist as Moraliste: Pierre Bourdieu's Practice of Theory and the French Intellectual Tradition, SubStance, Vol. 29, No. 3, Issue 93: Special Issue: Pierre Bourdieu (2000), pp. 7-21
Power or Subjection: French Women Politicians in the European Parliament
In the majority of European Union countries, women are far better represented in the European Parliament than in the lower house of their respective national parliaments. This article examines the political signicance of this imbalance through a case study of French women members of the European Parliament (MEPs). The marginality of the European Parliament in French politics has meant that women have succeeded in getting elected there and that th…
French Intellectual Nobility: Institutional and Symbolic Transformations in the Post-Sartean Era
European Union Institutions and French Political Careers
This article examines one aspect of the relationship between European Union institutions and the French political field: politicians' careers. What is the value of positions in the Commission and the European Parliament for French politicians in terms of career mobility? This study shows that the value of the Commission as a source of domestic political capital has risen since the 1950s, whereas the value of the European Parliament has remained r…
Approach or discipline? The field of semiology/semiotics in France in the 1960s and 1970s
(1996). Approach or discipline? The field of semiology/semiotics in France in the 1960s and 1970s. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 1484-1489
Bourdieu’s political sociology and the politics of European integration
Rethinking Politicisation
Politicisation, in a broad and basic understanding, means to turn something – an issue, an institution, a policy – that previously was not a subject to political action into something that now is subject to political action. So far, most definitions of the concept would agree. But besides this basic approach, there is much discussion: Politicisation is a concept that is currently much used in the social sciences, and also a concept that is contes…
The political ontology of European integration
Exit politics, enter politicization
A growing number of recent empirical studies such as the four contributions discussed here examine the politicization of the European Union, Europe, European integration or European governance. Two general research questions mark this emerging research field. A first one is how to theorize and conceptualize the politicization of the European Union (EU) and the reasons behind it. Does politicization have to do with a decline in EU support or Euros…
European Union Institutions and French Political Careers
This article examines one aspect of the relationship between European Union institutions and the French political field: politicians' careers. What is the value of positions in the Commission and the European Parliament for French politicians in terms of career mobility? This study shows that the value of the Commission as a source of domestic political capital has risen since the 1950s, whereas the value of the European Parliament has remained r…
Fields of Global Governance: How Transnational Power Elites Can Make Global Governance Intelligible
Journal Article Fields of Global Governance: How Transnational Power Elites Can Make Global Governance Intelligible Get access Niilo Kauppi, Niilo Kauppi CNRS Strasbourg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mikael R. Madsen Mikael R. Madsen University of Copenhagen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages…
Power or Subjection: French Women Politicians in the European Parliament
In the majority of European Union countries, women are far better represented in the European Parliament than in the lower house of their respective national parliaments. This article examines the political signicance of this imbalance through a case study of French women members of the European Parliament (MEPs). The marginality of the European Parliament in French politics has meant that women have succeeded in getting elected there and that th…
Institutions et acteurs: Rationalité, réflexivité et analyse de l'UE
La recherche sociologique sur l’Union européenne offer une alternative indispensable aux habituelles approches de l’UE dominées par l’économie, le droit, les relations internationales et les sciences politiques. Toutefois, jusqu’à présent, cette alternative sociologique a surtout consisté en l’adaptation de la terminologie sociologique telle que « construction sociale » ou « identité » et en l’introduction de nouveaux objets de recherche, telles …
The Struggle Over Global Higher Education: Actors, Institutions, and Practices
This article examines the intensification, since the creation of the so-called Shanghai list of world universities in June 2003, of a political struggle in which a variety of actors, universities, national governments, and, more recently, supranational institutions have sought to define global higher education. This competition over global higher education has highlighted issues such as the internationalization and denationalization of higher edu…
Global Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was a prolific scholar whose multifaceted work inspired research in a wide variety of areas. Beyond sociology we find his influence in anthropology, history, cultural studies, political science, and international relations. Particularly after 1995, when he engaged in a fight against neo-liberalism, he became the pre-eminent public intellectual. Bourdieu clearly stands in the pantheon of the greatest contemporary social scientists.…
The Politification and Politicisation of the EU
In this article, we suggest a novel conceptual framework for understanding and analysing EU politicisation. Recent studies on EU politicisation argue that the post-Maastricht era led to the politicisation of EU integration via an increasing citizens’ dissatisfaction. Contrary to this account, we argue that European integration has been from the beginning linked to politicisation, but in an unusual way. To capture its uniqueness we introduce the c…
Knowledge Warfare: Social Scientists as Operators of Global Governance
Journal Article Knowledge Warfare: Social Scientists as Operators of Global Governance Get access Niilo Kauppi Niilo Kauppi CNRS Strasbourg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 330–332, https://doi.org/10.1111/ips.12062 Published: 26 August 2014
Approach or discipline? The field of semiology/semiotics in France in the 1960s and 1970s
(1996). Approach or discipline? The field of semiology/semiotics in France in the 1960s and 1970s. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 1484-1489
European Union Institutions and French Political Careers
This article examines one aspect of the relationship between European Union institutions and the French political field: politicians' careers. What is the value of positions in the Commission and the European Parliament for French politicians in terms of career mobility? This study shows that the value of the Commission as a source of domestic political capital has risen since the 1950s, whereas the value of the European Parliament has remained r…
Approach or discipline? The field of semiology/semiotics in France in the 1960s and 1970s
(1996). Approach or discipline? The field of semiology/semiotics in France in the 1960s and 1970s. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 1484-1489
French Intellectual Nobility: Institutional and Symbolic Transformations in the Post-Sartean Era
Power or Subjection: French Women Politicians in the European Parliament
In the majority of European Union countries, women are far better represented in the European Parliament than in the lower house of their respective national parliaments. This article examines the political signicance of this imbalance through a case study of French women members of the European Parliament (MEPs). The marginality of the European Parliament in French politics has meant that women have succeeded in getting elected there and that th…
La construction de l'Europe: Le Cas Des Élections Européennes Finlandaises en 1999
Province du royaume suédois pendant près de sept cents ans et grand-duché de l’empire russe pendant cent ans, la Finlande indépendante naît au moment de la guerre civile russe. L’adhésion à l’Union européenne en 1995 en même temps que la Suède et l’Autriche peut être considérée comme l’événement politique le plus important depuis cette indépendance. Quels en ont été les effets politiques ? Il n’est pas exagéré de dire que l’adhésion à l’Union eur…
The Sociologist as Moraliste: Pierre Bourdieu's Practice of Theory and the French Intellectual Tradition
Niilo Kauppi, The Sociologist as Moraliste: Pierre Bourdieu's Practice of Theory and the French Intellectual Tradition, SubStance, Vol. 29, No. 3, Issue 93: Special Issue: Pierre Bourdieu (2000), pp. 7-21
Bourdieu’s political sociology and the politics of European integration
Institutions et acteurs: Rationalité, réflexivité et analyse de l'UE
La recherche sociologique sur l’Union européenne offer une alternative indispensable aux habituelles approches de l’UE dominées par l’économie, le droit, les relations internationales et les sciences politiques. Toutefois, jusqu’à présent, cette alternative sociologique a surtout consisté en l’adaptation de la terminologie sociologique telle que « construction sociale » ou « identité » et en l’introduction de nouveaux objets de recherche, telles …
The political ontology of European integration
Radicalism in French culture: A sociology of French theory in the 1960s
The Struggle Over Global Higher Education: Actors, Institutions, and Practices
This article examines the intensification, since the creation of the so-called Shanghai list of world universities in June 2003, of a political struggle in which a variety of actors, universities, national governments, and, more recently, supranational institutions have sought to define global higher education. This competition over global higher education has highlighted issues such as the internationalization and denationalization of higher edu…
Transnational Power Elites: The New Professionals of Governance, Law and Security
Transnational Power Elites: The New Professionals of Governance, Law and Security
Knowledge Warfare: Social Scientists as Operators of Global Governance
Journal Article Knowledge Warfare: Social Scientists as Operators of Global Governance Get access Niilo Kauppi Niilo Kauppi CNRS Strasbourg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 330–332, https://doi.org/10.1111/ips.12062 Published: 26 August 2014
Fields of Global Governance: How Transnational Power Elites Can Make Global Governance Intelligible
Journal Article Fields of Global Governance: How Transnational Power Elites Can Make Global Governance Intelligible Get access Niilo Kauppi, Niilo Kauppi CNRS Strasbourg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mikael R. Madsen Mikael R. Madsen University of Copenhagen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages…
Global Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was a prolific scholar whose multifaceted work inspired research in a wide variety of areas. Beyond sociology we find his influence in anthropology, history, cultural studies, political science, and international relations. Particularly after 1995, when he engaged in a fight against neo-liberalism, he became the pre-eminent public intellectual. Bourdieu clearly stands in the pantheon of the greatest contemporary social scientists.…
Radicalism in French Culture: A Sociology of French Theory in The 1960s
The Politification and Politicisation of the EU
In this article, we suggest a novel conceptual framework for understanding and analysing EU politicisation. Recent studies on EU politicisation argue that the post-Maastricht era led to the politicisation of EU integration via an increasing citizens’ dissatisfaction. Contrary to this account, we argue that European integration has been from the beginning linked to politicisation, but in an unusual way. To capture its uniqueness we introduce the c…
Exit politics, enter politicization
A growing number of recent empirical studies such as the four contributions discussed here examine the politicization of the European Union, Europe, European integration or European governance. Two general research questions mark this emerging research field. A first one is how to theorize and conceptualize the politicization of the European Union (EU) and the reasons behind it. Does politicization have to do with a decline in EU support or Euros…
Waiting for Godot? On some of the obstacles for developing counter-forces in higher education
In the name of the imperatives of the knowledge-economy, the European public university has been under attack since the beginning of the 2000s. Everywhere in Europe, budgets have been cut and departments considered as being useless eliminated. Reactions have been weak. How can this be explained? How can one challenge the dominant discourse on higher education? This article explores some of the power dynamics that prevent alternative visions from …
Rethinking Politicisation
Politicisation, in a broad and basic understanding, means to turn something – an issue, an institution, a policy – that previously was not a subject to political action into something that now is subject to political action. So far, most definitions of the concept would agree. But besides this basic approach, there is much discussion: Politicisation is a concept that is currently much used in the social sciences, and also a concept that is contes…
Pierre Bourdieu as I Remember Him
This portrait of Bourdieu's laboratory in the early days describes the impact of the bourdieusian «tribe» on the author's social destiny, especially to his attempt to develop a reflexive political sociology that explores the intertwinement of culture, power, and knowledge. Repeatedly, he depicts himself as an outsider suspended between several (geographical, disciplinary, and intellectual) worlds. Without directly addressing the issue of self-obj…
Les universitaires trumpistes: Entretien avec David SWARTZ, par Niilo Kauppi
Dans cet entretien réalisé par Niilo Kauppi, le sociologue David Swartz présente son ouvrage The Academic Trumpists (2025), consacré aux intellectuels américains soutenant Donald Trump. Il retrace l’origine de sa recherche, initiée après l’élection de 2016, et décrit un groupe d’universitaires souvent spécialisés en droit, histoire ou science politique et ayant réussi à compenser une reconnaissance scientifique relativement faible par des positio…
Intellectuals and Fields of Power: Towards a Reflexive Sociology of Academics’ Interventions
This collective paper launches a running theme on scholarly interventions in fields of power, proposing a reflexive sociology of the “grey zone” between scholarship, expertise, and activism, and illustrating through two contrasting cases—Georgakakis’s patient insider strategy in the Horizon Europe process and Vauchez’s high-profile outsider intervention through the T-Dem—the structurally different pathways, capitals, and limits that characterize …
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