Taina Kinnunen
Biographic Data
| ID | 281744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Taina Kinnunen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Taina |
| FAMILY NAME | Kinnunen |
| SIGNATURE | KINNUNEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Relational Reflecting and Redoing of Gender Identity Through Migration
The article considers Finnish “techno wives”: female migrants who had settled in San Diego and Silicon Valley following their husbands’ recruitment by US-based technology companies, such as Nokia, for fixed-term or permanent jobs. We discuss how the women consciously reflected on their culturally internalized ways of “doing gender,” and how they had reoriented their aims, values, practices, and hopes through migration. The study was based on ethn…
The Skills and Ethics of Professional Touch
This guide introduces touch as a multifaceted skill for students and professionals in nursing, health, education and social work.
Kylmäaltistus, ruumisnostalgia ja tieteellisyyden spektaakkelit Wim Hof -metodin mediaesityksissä
Kylmäaltistus, suomalaisittain tutummin avantouinti, on noussut kausiluontoiseksi some-ilmiöksi ja kansainvälisesti näkyväksi terapeuttiseksi ruumiintekniikaksi, jota koskevalle tutkimustiedolle on populaaria kysyntää. Tarkastelemme artikkelissa, miten kylmäaltistuksen paikoin jännitteisiä merkityksiä tuotetaan ja artikuloidaan monimediaisessa aineistossamme.Analyysimme keskiössä on somealustoilla suosittu Wim Hof -metodi, jossa kylmäaltistus tuo…
Embracing water, healing pine
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-…
Touch and Affect
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…
Connecting People – Renewing Power Relations? A Research Review on the Use of Mobile Phones
The paper discusses how the power perspective has been considered and discussed in qualitative social studies on the use of mobile phones in practices at home, work and public places. Some themes relevant from the aspect of power negotiations were extrapolated from the reviewed literature: constant availability at home and work, and the mobile phone as a public status symbol in respect to its design and use in space, time, and social surroundings…
À la recherche de l'éternel sourire
L'article fondé sur des entretiens réalisés avec des patients et des chirurgiens finlandais analyse comment, dans notre culture, les signes de l'âge sont perçus comme les révélateurs d'émotions socialement indésirables telles que la fatigue ou l'irritation. La « chirurgie esthétique de l'âge », en les modifiant, les gommant ou les atténuant, dissocie les signes de l'âge des affects négatifs dont ils étaient supposés témoigner. La généralisation d…
Designing Finnish Men
The MOPO project at the University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary project concerning the physical fitness of conscription-aged men. The aims are to 1) study daily activities, such as physical training, eating and sleeping habits and use of social media and mobile technology; and 2) develop ICT-based interactive methods (games, activity monitors and models) to help encourage physical activity in young men. The academic collaborating disciplines ar…
A second youth
The paper discusses cosmetic surgery in the Finnish cultural context. It is based on interviews with 22 women and men who underwent surgical procedures, 12 plastic surgeons, and two plastic surgery consultants. The article shows that surgery consumers over 55 years old discuss cosmetic surgery as an investment in a better quality of life. Consumers use cosmetic surgery to resist ageist stereotypes of old people and as compensation for tough life …
Pin-Up Warriors
Bodybuilding et sacralisation de l'identité
Le bodybuilding « extrême » est considéré ici comme source d'un important travail sur soi-même, en décrivant les normes gymniques qui lui sont associées. L'interprétation repose sur le recours à la notion de sacré, et les approches constructivistes et phénoménologiques du corps. Pour devenir un « vrai » bodybuilder , le pratiquant sacralise en effet son identité en respectant certaines règles de pureté. Par ailleurs, ce style de vie moralement « …
Touch and Affect
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…
A second youth
The paper discusses cosmetic surgery in the Finnish cultural context. It is based on interviews with 22 women and men who underwent surgical procedures, 12 plastic surgeons, and two plastic surgery consultants. The article shows that surgery consumers over 55 years old discuss cosmetic surgery as an investment in a better quality of life. Consumers use cosmetic surgery to resist ageist stereotypes of old people and as compensation for tough life …
Bodybuilding et sacralisation de l'identité
Le bodybuilding « extrême » est considéré ici comme source d'un important travail sur soi-même, en décrivant les normes gymniques qui lui sont associées. L'interprétation repose sur le recours à la notion de sacré, et les approches constructivistes et phénoménologiques du corps. Pour devenir un « vrai » bodybuilder , le pratiquant sacralise en effet son identité en respectant certaines règles de pureté. Par ailleurs, ce style de vie moralement « …
À la recherche de l'éternel sourire
L'article fondé sur des entretiens réalisés avec des patients et des chirurgiens finlandais analyse comment, dans notre culture, les signes de l'âge sont perçus comme les révélateurs d'émotions socialement indésirables telles que la fatigue ou l'irritation. La « chirurgie esthétique de l'âge », en les modifiant, les gommant ou les atténuant, dissocie les signes de l'âge des affects négatifs dont ils étaient supposés témoigner. La généralisation d…
Embracing water, healing pine
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-…
Bodybuilding et sacralisation de l'identité
Le bodybuilding « extrême » est considéré ici comme source d'un important travail sur soi-même, en décrivant les normes gymniques qui lui sont associées. L'interprétation repose sur le recours à la notion de sacré, et les approches constructivistes et phénoménologiques du corps. Pour devenir un « vrai » bodybuilder , le pratiquant sacralise en effet son identité en respectant certaines règles de pureté. Par ailleurs, ce style de vie moralement « …
Pin-Up Warriors
À la recherche de l'éternel sourire
L'article fondé sur des entretiens réalisés avec des patients et des chirurgiens finlandais analyse comment, dans notre culture, les signes de l'âge sont perçus comme les révélateurs d'émotions socialement indésirables telles que la fatigue ou l'irritation. La « chirurgie esthétique de l'âge », en les modifiant, les gommant ou les atténuant, dissocie les signes de l'âge des affects négatifs dont ils étaient supposés témoigner. La généralisation d…
Designing Finnish Men
The MOPO project at the University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary project concerning the physical fitness of conscription-aged men. The aims are to 1) study daily activities, such as physical training, eating and sleeping habits and use of social media and mobile technology; and 2) develop ICT-based interactive methods (games, activity monitors and models) to help encourage physical activity in young men. The academic collaborating disciplines ar…
A second youth
The paper discusses cosmetic surgery in the Finnish cultural context. It is based on interviews with 22 women and men who underwent surgical procedures, 12 plastic surgeons, and two plastic surgery consultants. The article shows that surgery consumers over 55 years old discuss cosmetic surgery as an investment in a better quality of life. Consumers use cosmetic surgery to resist ageist stereotypes of old people and as compensation for tough life …
Connecting People – Renewing Power Relations? A Research Review on the Use of Mobile Phones
The paper discusses how the power perspective has been considered and discussed in qualitative social studies on the use of mobile phones in practices at home, work and public places. Some themes relevant from the aspect of power negotiations were extrapolated from the reviewed literature: constant availability at home and work, and the mobile phone as a public status symbol in respect to its design and use in space, time, and social surroundings…
Touch and Affect
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 Skills and Ethics of Professional Touch
This guide introduces touch as a multifaceted skill for students and professionals in nursing, health, education and social work.
Kylmäaltistus, ruumisnostalgia ja tieteellisyyden spektaakkelit Wim Hof -metodin mediaesityksissä
Kylmäaltistus, suomalaisittain tutummin avantouinti, on noussut kausiluontoiseksi some-ilmiöksi ja kansainvälisesti näkyväksi terapeuttiseksi ruumiintekniikaksi, jota koskevalle tutkimustiedolle on populaaria kysyntää. Tarkastelemme artikkelissa, miten kylmäaltistuksen paikoin jännitteisiä merkityksiä tuotetaan ja artikuloidaan monimediaisessa aineistossamme.Analyysimme keskiössä on somealustoilla suosittu Wim Hof -metodi, jossa kylmäaltistus tuo…
Embracing water, healing pine
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-…
Relational Reflecting and Redoing of Gender Identity Through Migration
The article considers Finnish “techno wives”: female migrants who had settled in San Diego and Silicon Valley following their husbands’ recruitment by US-based technology companies, such as Nokia, for fixed-term or permanent jobs. We discuss how the women consciously reflected on their culturally internalized ways of “doing gender,” and how they had reoriented their aims, values, practices, and hopes through migration. The study was based on ethn…
Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Affect (linguistics (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works)