Elina Penttinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3047511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elina Penttinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elina |
| FAMILY NAME | Penttinen |
| SIGNATURE | PENTTINEN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6003-8356 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What Community Felt Like
Stories of Zubaida and Lisa in dialogue
The harm of normalized violence
In this article, I draw on the work of radical feminist legal scholars, who have argued for using the terminology of torture in international law as a means to take intimate partner violence (IPV) seriously and to recognize the harm of normalized violence. I explore lived experiences of IPV based on my feminist activist research, which has included co-moderating online support groups and conducting follow-up interviews with women who have been su…
Understanding the experience of emotional abuse
Emotional abuse and psychological violence refer to patterned maltreatment used to break down the personal integrity and sense of self-worth of the target. In this article, I address the experiences of emotional abuse and psychological violence of women in long-term heterosexual relationships based on my feminist activist research in collaboration with Women’s Line, an anti-violence, women’s rights non-governmental organisation in Finland. The re…
Collective gaslighting” and emotional workplace abuse in feminist academic spaces
High Heels and High Expectations
This study aims to examine the suitability of feminist student-centred active learning pedagogy in large-scale classroom settings in a contemporary neoliberalist university context. In the current individualist culture in the academia where students implicitly have adopted a customer-like mind-set, they need to be rational in terms of what they study and how they use their time. Weargue that feminist values are what makes student-centred active l…
Gender and Mobility
Harmless moments in peace-keeping
I offer a fractured narrative of a funny, certainly harmless, but most importantly, non-dramatic moment of interaction with KFOR, EULEX and Serb monks and myself in the midst of doing fieldwork in Kosovo. The open-ended narrative operates as a practice of representing the complexity of how the many stories of the self are enacted, come alive and are transformed in research encounters in line with postmodern qualitative inquiry. The paper proposes…
Compassionate witnessing of trauma as a potential practice for security studies scholarship
Compassion emerges when love meets suffering [...] Suffering is a prerequisite for compassion.(Germer and Neff 2015, 47)What would it mean to have practice of compassion as the starting point in our
“A ‘sucking chest wound’ is nature's way of telling you to slow down….”
In his critique of the new wars thesis, Stephen Chan (2011) argues that we, as students of war, are often so captivated by the spectacle of violence that we forget to see how people are able to liv
Innovating International Relations Pedagogy
But excitement about ideas [is] not sufficient to create an exciting learning process. As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one anothe
Joy and International Relations
Posthumanism and Feminist International Relations
Hudson, Bowen, and Nielsen (2011) seek to use evolutionary biology as a form of metafeminism, or as an ultimate cause to understand the roots of patriarchy. Patriarchy as a system that ontologically creates women's discrimination and legitimates violence is widely accepted within a range of feminisms and has been the foundational argument of feminist scholarship. The concern that is raised here in regard to Hudson, Bowen, and Nielsen's article is…
Imagined and Embodied Spaces in the Global Sex Industry
This article investigates the space of a sex bar in Finland as a global conjuncture in which new forms of gendered and ethnicized subjectivity and agency emerge. The commercial sex culture in Finland is seen as an effect of the globalization of the world economy and culture. The subjectivities formed in a sex bar are analysed according to Irigaray's formulation of a heterosexual matrix in which women embody a specular function that enables the fo…
Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
1. Introduction: Silent Point of Globalization 2. Bio-power and Subjectivation in the Globalized World-economy of Sex 3. Sexscapes of Globalization: Constructions of Subject and Abject Positions in Landscapes of Globalization 4. Narratives of Embodied Globalization of Russian Prostitutes Working in the Erotic Clubs in Helsinki: Reflections on One Night in Helsinki from the Position of a Whore, a Client and a Researcher 5. Sounds of Silence in Lap…
Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
Globalization has been traditionally interpreted as a phenomenon that takes place at the macro level and is determined by states and markets. This volume takes a different approach to understanding globalization, showing how through the global sex trade, globalization is embodied and enacted by individuals. Elina Penttinen illustrates how the global sex industry feeds on complex global flows. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on the trafficking of R…
Innovating International Relations Pedagogy
But excitement about ideas [is] not sufficient to create an exciting learning process. As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one anothe
Imagined and Embodied Spaces in the Global Sex Industry
This article investigates the space of a sex bar in Finland as a global conjuncture in which new forms of gendered and ethnicized subjectivity and agency emerge. The commercial sex culture in Finland is seen as an effect of the globalization of the world economy and culture. The subjectivities formed in a sex bar are analysed according to Irigaray's formulation of a heterosexual matrix in which women embody a specular function that enables the fo…
The harm of normalized violence
In this article, I draw on the work of radical feminist legal scholars, who have argued for using the terminology of torture in international law as a means to take intimate partner violence (IPV) seriously and to recognize the harm of normalized violence. I explore lived experiences of IPV based on my feminist activist research, which has included co-moderating online support groups and conducting follow-up interviews with women who have been su…
Harmless moments in peace-keeping
I offer a fractured narrative of a funny, certainly harmless, but most importantly, non-dramatic moment of interaction with KFOR, EULEX and Serb monks and myself in the midst of doing fieldwork in Kosovo. The open-ended narrative operates as a practice of representing the complexity of how the many stories of the self are enacted, come alive and are transformed in research encounters in line with postmodern qualitative inquiry. The paper proposes…
Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
1. Introduction: Silent Point of Globalization 2. Bio-power and Subjectivation in the Globalized World-economy of Sex 3. Sexscapes of Globalization: Constructions of Subject and Abject Positions in Landscapes of Globalization 4. Narratives of Embodied Globalization of Russian Prostitutes Working in the Erotic Clubs in Helsinki: Reflections on One Night in Helsinki from the Position of a Whore, a Client and a Researcher 5. Sounds of Silence in Lap…
Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
Globalization has been traditionally interpreted as a phenomenon that takes place at the macro level and is determined by states and markets. This volume takes a different approach to understanding globalization, showing how through the global sex trade, globalization is embodied and enacted by individuals. Elina Penttinen illustrates how the global sex industry feeds on complex global flows. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on the trafficking of R…
Imagined and Embodied Spaces in the Global Sex Industry
This article investigates the space of a sex bar in Finland as a global conjuncture in which new forms of gendered and ethnicized subjectivity and agency emerge. The commercial sex culture in Finland is seen as an effect of the globalization of the world economy and culture. The subjectivities formed in a sex bar are analysed according to Irigaray's formulation of a heterosexual matrix in which women embody a specular function that enables the fo…
“A ‘sucking chest wound’ is nature's way of telling you to slow down….”
In his critique of the new wars thesis, Stephen Chan (2011) argues that we, as students of war, are often so captivated by the spectacle of violence that we forget to see how people are able to liv
Innovating International Relations Pedagogy
But excitement about ideas [is] not sufficient to create an exciting learning process. As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one anothe
Joy and International Relations
Posthumanism and Feminist International Relations
Hudson, Bowen, and Nielsen (2011) seek to use evolutionary biology as a form of metafeminism, or as an ultimate cause to understand the roots of patriarchy. Patriarchy as a system that ontologically creates women's discrimination and legitimates violence is widely accepted within a range of feminisms and has been the foundational argument of feminist scholarship. The concern that is raised here in regard to Hudson, Bowen, and Nielsen's article is…
Compassionate witnessing of trauma as a potential practice for security studies scholarship
Compassion emerges when love meets suffering [...] Suffering is a prerequisite for compassion.(Germer and Neff 2015, 47)What would it mean to have practice of compassion as the starting point in our
High Heels and High Expectations
This study aims to examine the suitability of feminist student-centred active learning pedagogy in large-scale classroom settings in a contemporary neoliberalist university context. In the current individualist culture in the academia where students implicitly have adopted a customer-like mind-set, they need to be rational in terms of what they study and how they use their time. Weargue that feminist values are what makes student-centred active l…
Gender and Mobility
Harmless moments in peace-keeping
I offer a fractured narrative of a funny, certainly harmless, but most importantly, non-dramatic moment of interaction with KFOR, EULEX and Serb monks and myself in the midst of doing fieldwork in Kosovo. The open-ended narrative operates as a practice of representing the complexity of how the many stories of the self are enacted, come alive and are transformed in research encounters in line with postmodern qualitative inquiry. The paper proposes…
Understanding the experience of emotional abuse
Emotional abuse and psychological violence refer to patterned maltreatment used to break down the personal integrity and sense of self-worth of the target. In this article, I address the experiences of emotional abuse and psychological violence of women in long-term heterosexual relationships based on my feminist activist research in collaboration with Women’s Line, an anti-violence, women’s rights non-governmental organisation in Finland. The re…
Collective gaslighting” and emotional workplace abuse in feminist academic spaces
The harm of normalized violence
In this article, I draw on the work of radical feminist legal scholars, who have argued for using the terminology of torture in international law as a means to take intimate partner violence (IPV) seriously and to recognize the harm of normalized violence. I explore lived experiences of IPV based on my feminist activist research, which has included co-moderating online support groups and conducting follow-up interviews with women who have been su…
What Community Felt Like
Stories of Zubaida and Lisa in dialogue
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)