Veikko Eranti
Biographic Data
| ID | 288495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veikko Eranti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veikko |
| FAMILY NAME | Eranti |
| SIGNATURE | ERANTI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9936-5402 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From participation to doing society via new social pragmatism
Building on pragmatic, pragmatist, and cultural sociological literature, this article presents a case for refocusing and broadening the research on participation by shifting the focus from specific ways of participating to how actors are doing society. We argue for focusing on action in participation and on how this action draws, connects, and feeds into broader cultural tools and repertoires (derived from cultural sociology). Paying attention to…
Temporalities of Closure in Urban Planning Conflicts
To understand temporality and power of citizens in urban planning and development processes, we need to understand how closure is achieved. We define closure as the moment when active contestation against a particular planning decision ends. The temporal and democratic nature of urban planning and development thus give possibilities of using temporal power over closure to the hands of social movements and citizens. To show how these ideas work in…
Interlocking institutions and elite networks in democratic organizations. Social network analysis of elected representatives in massive membership organizations in the greater Helsinki region
Participation in organizational democracy is viewed in widely different ways: both positively, as schools of democracy, and more negatively, as elite pools of democracy. However, most of the research on this topic has focused on participation in voluntary associations. This paper looks beyond the classic understanding of association democracy to explore the democratic governance in a church, a consumer cooperative, and in student organizations, a…
Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society
Conclusions: Cultures of Doing Society
Conclusions: Cultures of Doing Society
Politics of fear, culture of hope
The main contents of this issue – second-to-last of the current editorial team – consist of a special section on Jeffrey Goldfarb's work edited by Siobhan Kattago (our former book reviews editor) and Patrick Gilger, titled Small Things, Deep Resonance. The articles, range from theoretical and analytical to personal and reflective, sometimes even within the same piece. What comes clearly through in all of them, even for a reader not that well-vers…
Celebrating 10 years of the journal
marks the 10-year anniversary of the European Journal for Cultural and Political Sociology.For 10 years, we have explored the contemporary world, sociology, and social theory through combined lenses of culture and politics.In this editorial, we reflect on the past 10 years, look at some of the special issues we have published, and take a look back at the very first issuewhich set in motion many of the debates and research strands that we have had…
Context collapse in electoral times
International audience
Plurality in Urban Politics: Conflict and Commonality in Mouffe and Thévenot
In this article we introduce a pragmatist interpretation of agonistic pluralism and develop this into an analytical framework that is applied to the analysis of urban conflicts. In the article, we take stock of contemporary critical and radical urban scholarship, our aim being twofold. First, we substantiate Chantal Mouffe's notion of agonistic pluralism with tools from French pragmatic sociology. We suggest that, in a democracy, plurality emerge…
Insular or multi-level anti-Covid-19 strategies, national lenses, and the question of mobility
We are writing late summer 2021. We are more than a year into daily reports of mass loss of life due to the SARS-Covid 19 virus (across the globe), everyday experiences of lockdown and crackdown (p
Most similar Nordics
Our traditional way of organising issues of this journal is to go for a combination of resonance and difference. We usually try to have a set of papers that have something in common with each other
Power as a cultural phenomenon
Structures of political power, as well as power differentials and social inequality, are reproduced by means of culture, symbols, ideologies, and imaginaries. The material bases of power, including
Topic modeling for frame analysis: A study of media debates on climate change in India and USA
We argue that ‘topics’ of topic models can be used as a useful proxy for frames if (1) frames are operationalized as connections between concepts; (2) theme-specific data are used; and (3) topics are validated in terms of frame analysis. Demonstrating this, we analyse 12 climate change frames used by NGOs, governments and experts in Indian and US media, gathered by topic modeling. We contribute methodologically to topic modeling in the social sci…
Reconfiguring everyday eating: Vegan Challenge discussions in social media
The shift of society toward sustainable food culture requires collectively challenging meat and dairy-based diets and their role in current practices of eating. This study focuses on how discussions in social media can facilitate reconfiguration in eating. Three practice-theoretical perspectives – practices constituting of elements, eating as a compound practice, and communities of practice – afford us with analytical tools to investigate eating …
Cultural and political sociology for the new decade
The many flavours of politics
Politics is a slippery research object – for sociologists, at least. Sometimes we envy the relatively easier life of the political scientist: to observe elections, parliamentary deliberations, or p
Thinking and writing in the time of pandemic Covid-19
When we presented the early 2020 issue of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, no one comprehended what the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Wuhan province, Chin
Going Overboard: How Ironic Group Style Becomes Political on an Anonymous Imageboard
Anonymous online groups such as imageboards have increasing cultural influence. Recently, they have been connected with far-right political movements. This mixed-methods study investigates politics on Overboard, a Finnish imageboard. We use a convolutional neural network to learn linguistic features of the community's own understanding of politics, studying two large text corpora, collected in 2014-2015 and 2018-2019. This enables us to find poli…
Engagements, grammars, and the public: From the liberal grammar to individual interests
This article explores the role of individual interests within the pragmatic sociology of engagements, developed by Laurent Thévenot. He developed the idea of multiple regimes of engaging with the world – cognitive models of information-processing and what kind of good is engaged in different situations. In this article I argue that the way the sociology of engagements is currently formulated does not sufficiently allow for analysing public partic…
Up with ecology, down with economy? The consolidation of the idea of climate change mitigation in the global public sphere
Building on theories of valuation and evaluation, we develop an analytical framework that outlines six elements of the process of consolidation of an idea in the public sphere. We then use the framework to analyse the process of consolidation of the idea of climate change mitigation between 1997 and 2013, focusing on the interplay between ecological and economic evaluations. Our content analysis of 1274 articles in leading newspapers in five coun…
Re-visiting Nimby: From conflicting interests to conflicting valuations
This article presents a new way of understanding local land-use conflicts, also called NIMBY, developing from justification theory and literature from the sociology of engagements. The article builds on the multiple systems of valuation used by people to perceive local land-use cases as conflicts, following the pragmatic sociology of Boltanski and Thévenot. The conflicts are shown to be not only about conflicting interests of the residents, but a…
The social significance of the Facebook Like button
In this paper we study social aspects of using the Like button for purposes of impression management, identity construction, and maintenance of social ties online. On the theoretical level our investigation combines Goffman’s notion of face-work with concepts of social network analysis, shedding light on what we dub ‘nano-level’ interaction and sociality on social networking sites. Our data come from a 2013 classroom survey in which 26 Finnish un…
Re-visiting Nimby: From conflicting interests to conflicting valuations
This article presents a new way of understanding local land-use conflicts, also called NIMBY, developing from justification theory and literature from the sociology of engagements. The article builds on the multiple systems of valuation used by people to perceive local land-use cases as conflicts, following the pragmatic sociology of Boltanski and Thévenot. The conflicts are shown to be not only about conflicting interests of the residents, but a…
Reconfiguring everyday eating: Vegan Challenge discussions in social media
The shift of society toward sustainable food culture requires collectively challenging meat and dairy-based diets and their role in current practices of eating. This study focuses on how discussions in social media can facilitate reconfiguration in eating. Three practice-theoretical perspectives – practices constituting of elements, eating as a compound practice, and communities of practice – afford us with analytical tools to investigate eating …
Topic modeling for frame analysis: A study of media debates on climate change in India and USA
We argue that ‘topics’ of topic models can be used as a useful proxy for frames if (1) frames are operationalized as connections between concepts; (2) theme-specific data are used; and (3) topics are validated in terms of frame analysis. Demonstrating this, we analyse 12 climate change frames used by NGOs, governments and experts in Indian and US media, gathered by topic modeling. We contribute methodologically to topic modeling in the social sci…
Engagements, grammars, and the public: From the liberal grammar to individual interests
This article explores the role of individual interests within the pragmatic sociology of engagements, developed by Laurent Thévenot. He developed the idea of multiple regimes of engaging with the world – cognitive models of information-processing and what kind of good is engaged in different situations. In this article I argue that the way the sociology of engagements is currently formulated does not sufficiently allow for analysing public partic…
Up with ecology, down with economy? The consolidation of the idea of climate change mitigation in the global public sphere
Building on theories of valuation and evaluation, we develop an analytical framework that outlines six elements of the process of consolidation of an idea in the public sphere. We then use the framework to analyse the process of consolidation of the idea of climate change mitigation between 1997 and 2013, focusing on the interplay between ecological and economic evaluations. Our content analysis of 1274 articles in leading newspapers in five coun…
Plurality in Urban Politics: Conflict and Commonality in Mouffe and Thévenot
In this article we introduce a pragmatist interpretation of agonistic pluralism and develop this into an analytical framework that is applied to the analysis of urban conflicts. In the article, we take stock of contemporary critical and radical urban scholarship, our aim being twofold. First, we substantiate Chantal Mouffe's notion of agonistic pluralism with tools from French pragmatic sociology. We suggest that, in a democracy, plurality emerge…
Thinking and writing in the time of pandemic Covid-19
When we presented the early 2020 issue of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, no one comprehended what the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Wuhan province, Chin
Going Overboard: How Ironic Group Style Becomes Political on an Anonymous Imageboard
Anonymous online groups such as imageboards have increasing cultural influence. Recently, they have been connected with far-right political movements. This mixed-methods study investigates politics on Overboard, a Finnish imageboard. We use a convolutional neural network to learn linguistic features of the community's own understanding of politics, studying two large text corpora, collected in 2014-2015 and 2018-2019. This enables us to find poli…
The social significance of the Facebook Like button
In this paper we study social aspects of using the Like button for purposes of impression management, identity construction, and maintenance of social ties online. On the theoretical level our investigation combines Goffman’s notion of face-work with concepts of social network analysis, shedding light on what we dub ‘nano-level’ interaction and sociality on social networking sites. Our data come from a 2013 classroom survey in which 26 Finnish un…
Re-visiting Nimby: From conflicting interests to conflicting valuations
This article presents a new way of understanding local land-use conflicts, also called NIMBY, developing from justification theory and literature from the sociology of engagements. The article builds on the multiple systems of valuation used by people to perceive local land-use cases as conflicts, following the pragmatic sociology of Boltanski and Thévenot. The conflicts are shown to be not only about conflicting interests of the residents, but a…
Engagements, grammars, and the public: From the liberal grammar to individual interests
This article explores the role of individual interests within the pragmatic sociology of engagements, developed by Laurent Thévenot. He developed the idea of multiple regimes of engaging with the world – cognitive models of information-processing and what kind of good is engaged in different situations. In this article I argue that the way the sociology of engagements is currently formulated does not sufficiently allow for analysing public partic…
Up with ecology, down with economy? The consolidation of the idea of climate change mitigation in the global public sphere
Building on theories of valuation and evaluation, we develop an analytical framework that outlines six elements of the process of consolidation of an idea in the public sphere. We then use the framework to analyse the process of consolidation of the idea of climate change mitigation between 1997 and 2013, focusing on the interplay between ecological and economic evaluations. Our content analysis of 1274 articles in leading newspapers in five coun…
Cultural and political sociology for the new decade
The many flavours of politics
Politics is a slippery research object – for sociologists, at least. Sometimes we envy the relatively easier life of the political scientist: to observe elections, parliamentary deliberations, or p
Thinking and writing in the time of pandemic Covid-19
When we presented the early 2020 issue of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, no one comprehended what the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Wuhan province, Chin
Going Overboard: How Ironic Group Style Becomes Political on an Anonymous Imageboard
Anonymous online groups such as imageboards have increasing cultural influence. Recently, they have been connected with far-right political movements. This mixed-methods study investigates politics on Overboard, a Finnish imageboard. We use a convolutional neural network to learn linguistic features of the community's own understanding of politics, studying two large text corpora, collected in 2014-2015 and 2018-2019. This enables us to find poli…
Insular or multi-level anti-Covid-19 strategies, national lenses, and the question of mobility
We are writing late summer 2021. We are more than a year into daily reports of mass loss of life due to the SARS-Covid 19 virus (across the globe), everyday experiences of lockdown and crackdown (p
Most similar Nordics
Our traditional way of organising issues of this journal is to go for a combination of resonance and difference. We usually try to have a set of papers that have something in common with each other
Power as a cultural phenomenon
Structures of political power, as well as power differentials and social inequality, are reproduced by means of culture, symbols, ideologies, and imaginaries. The material bases of power, including
Topic modeling for frame analysis: A study of media debates on climate change in India and USA
We argue that ‘topics’ of topic models can be used as a useful proxy for frames if (1) frames are operationalized as connections between concepts; (2) theme-specific data are used; and (3) topics are validated in terms of frame analysis. Demonstrating this, we analyse 12 climate change frames used by NGOs, governments and experts in Indian and US media, gathered by topic modeling. We contribute methodologically to topic modeling in the social sci…
Reconfiguring everyday eating: Vegan Challenge discussions in social media
The shift of society toward sustainable food culture requires collectively challenging meat and dairy-based diets and their role in current practices of eating. This study focuses on how discussions in social media can facilitate reconfiguration in eating. Three practice-theoretical perspectives – practices constituting of elements, eating as a compound practice, and communities of practice – afford us with analytical tools to investigate eating …
Context collapse in electoral times
International audience
Plurality in Urban Politics: Conflict and Commonality in Mouffe and Thévenot
In this article we introduce a pragmatist interpretation of agonistic pluralism and develop this into an analytical framework that is applied to the analysis of urban conflicts. In the article, we take stock of contemporary critical and radical urban scholarship, our aim being twofold. First, we substantiate Chantal Mouffe's notion of agonistic pluralism with tools from French pragmatic sociology. We suggest that, in a democracy, plurality emerge…
Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society
Conclusions: Cultures of Doing Society
Conclusions: Cultures of Doing Society
Politics of fear, culture of hope
The main contents of this issue – second-to-last of the current editorial team – consist of a special section on Jeffrey Goldfarb's work edited by Siobhan Kattago (our former book reviews editor) and Patrick Gilger, titled Small Things, Deep Resonance. The articles, range from theoretical and analytical to personal and reflective, sometimes even within the same piece. What comes clearly through in all of them, even for a reader not that well-vers…
Celebrating 10 years of the journal
marks the 10-year anniversary of the European Journal for Cultural and Political Sociology.For 10 years, we have explored the contemporary world, sociology, and social theory through combined lenses of culture and politics.In this editorial, we reflect on the past 10 years, look at some of the special issues we have published, and take a look back at the very first issuewhich set in motion many of the debates and research strands that we have had…
Temporalities of Closure in Urban Planning Conflicts
To understand temporality and power of citizens in urban planning and development processes, we need to understand how closure is achieved. We define closure as the moment when active contestation against a particular planning decision ends. The temporal and democratic nature of urban planning and development thus give possibilities of using temporal power over closure to the hands of social movements and citizens. To show how these ideas work in…
Interlocking institutions and elite networks in democratic organizations. Social network analysis of elected representatives in massive membership organizations in the greater Helsinki region
Participation in organizational democracy is viewed in widely different ways: both positively, as schools of democracy, and more negatively, as elite pools of democracy. However, most of the research on this topic has focused on participation in voluntary associations. This paper looks beyond the classic understanding of association democracy to explore the democratic governance in a church, a consumer cooperative, and in student organizations, a…
From participation to doing society via new social pragmatism
Building on pragmatic, pragmatist, and cultural sociological literature, this article presents a case for refocusing and broadening the research on participation by shifting the focus from specific ways of participating to how actors are doing society. We argue for focusing on action in participation and on how this action draws, connects, and feeds into broader cultural tools and repertoires (derived from cultural sociology). Paying attention to…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)