Mona Mannevuo
Biographic Data
| ID | 332954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mona Mannevuo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mona |
| FAMILY NAME | Mannevuo |
| SIGNATURE | MANNEVUO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2275-3233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Disseminated Knowledge
This article focuses on the advancement of Finnish occupational medicine in the immediate post-war period, situating its development within a transnational context. Its objective is to offer insight into Finnish post-war industrial medicine and particularly developments in mental health care. The empirical methodology addresses a previously unexplored case study: the connections between the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) and Roff…
The Circulation of Feelings on Politicised Instagram
In recent years a growing number of Finnish social media influencers have started to discuss political questions and even actors known for light lifestyle content have become vocal about social justice issues. In this paper, we explore how popular Finnish influencers experience the new expectations set for them and how they handle the mixture of intimate and algorithmic logics of Instagram. Our analysis draws from online observations of a wide ra…
‘People tell me quite intimate things’
In recent years, Instagram has become an increasingly politicised platform. Even those who have become popular for producing lifestyle content have begun to merge societal issues with personal and commercial posts. In this article, we explore how popular Finnish influencers experience the new expectations set for them and how they handle the mixture of intimate and algorithmic logics of Instagram. Our analysis draws from eight semi-structured, in…
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience
This article examines Finnish politicians’ ambivalent attachments to social media – specifically Facebook and Twitter – in candidate-centred, personalised politics. The analysis draws on 20 semi-structured interviews with members of parliament (MPs) to investigate the tactics of adaptation and adjustment politicians develop in a work setting that precludes digital detox. To investigate the MPs’ contradictory feelings, the analysis builds on cultu…
Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university
In this article, we discuss affective time management discourses in academia. Drawing on our experiences of time management and brain fitness trainings at a Finnish university, we examine how the use and control of time are increasingly pressing societal and political matters affecting academic work globally. Time management training resources, such as guidebooks, websites and neuroscience-inspired staff training sessions, are seen as potentially…
Long Hours, Uneasy Feelings
Politicians’ work pressure is gaining more attention in parliamentary studies. To participate in the discussion about governing under pressure, this article offers an interdisciplinary approach to investigate how representatives navigate within a flexible, limitless work culture. This article presents a new inquiry to re-examine contemporary political agency by combining cultural studies theories with empirical insights in Nordic countries. By an…
Konfliktien pyörteissä
Anxious politicians
This paper offers new perspectives on work cultures in politics by exploring the ambivalent connections among productivity imperatives and affirmative sociality within an under-researched group: Finnish members of Parliament (MPs). The study aim is to locate the MPs within the landscape of cultural sociology and theory, particularly in relation to the growing interest in the affective infrastructures of on-call work cultures. Drawing on 20 semi-s…
Affect in governmentality
This article explores the role of affect in governmentality and develops the concept of the ‘affective milieu’ to better understand liberal forms of managerial control in market environments. Taking Foucault’s writings on consent, security and technologies of self as a vantage point, we suggest that the regimes of governmentality are both rational and affective milieus and propose that the Spinozan–Deleuzian affect theory provides an entry point …
Experimenting with Price
This article is concerned with price and pricing in the context of finance led neoliberal reform. It considers the sentiment often encountered in accounts of such reform that price instability is the outcome of the retreat of the state from the regulation of price and its externalization in the competitive play of the market. Drawing on the case of contemporary Finland, and especially a major round of government reform, we show how unstable price…
Neuroliberalism in Action
This article considers the entanglements of neuroscience, economics and behaviourism in a two-year experiment (2017-18) with basic income in Finland. The participants in this mandatory, state-led experiment are unemployed individuals (25-58 years old) recruited by the National Social Insurance Institution. The experiment is a randomised controlled trial intended to provide useful information about the impacts of basic income on employment and wel…
Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship
Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship: An Ethnography of Academia." NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 26(3), pp. 244–247
The riddle of adaptation
This article explores the Hawthorne studies, an industrial research programme conducted at Western Electric Company from 1924 to 1933. The analysis focuses on the longest-running experiment, in which female workers in their twenties operated a relay assembly in a room specially designed for the experiment and were monitored by a group of engineers and industrial researchers. Based on the authoritarian setting, this research situates the experimen…
Caught in a Bad Romance? Affective Attachments in Contemporary Academia
In contemporary management theory, as well as in popular discussions of work, love is often used as an affect that describes a fulfilling relationship with one’s job. In his famous talk at Stanford University in 2005, for instance, Steve Jobs encouraged students to keep looking for a job that they love, because, in his view, the only way to do great work ‘is to love what you do’. In cultural studies, however, there has been a growing interest in …
Reading the faces of hunger
This article explores the images of starving children through a case study, the annual World Press Photo competition. The figure of a child in need is familiar from humanitarian discourses, but despite its familiar trope, it bears powerful affective meanings, especially in relation to the notions of innocence, vulnerability and futurity. In this study, the notions are discussed in the framework of five photographs of child malnutrition that were …
Accountability and the Politics of Affinity—Nomadic Ethics against Profit‐minded Cynicism
Long Hours, Uneasy Feelings
Politicians’ work pressure is gaining more attention in parliamentary studies. To participate in the discussion about governing under pressure, this article offers an interdisciplinary approach to investigate how representatives navigate within a flexible, limitless work culture. This article presents a new inquiry to re-examine contemporary political agency by combining cultural studies theories with empirical insights in Nordic countries. By an…
Neuroliberalism in Action
This article considers the entanglements of neuroscience, economics and behaviourism in a two-year experiment (2017-18) with basic income in Finland. The participants in this mandatory, state-led experiment are unemployed individuals (25-58 years old) recruited by the National Social Insurance Institution. The experiment is a randomised controlled trial intended to provide useful information about the impacts of basic income on employment and wel…
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience
This article examines Finnish politicians’ ambivalent attachments to social media – specifically Facebook and Twitter – in candidate-centred, personalised politics. The analysis draws on 20 semi-structured interviews with members of parliament (MPs) to investigate the tactics of adaptation and adjustment politicians develop in a work setting that precludes digital detox. To investigate the MPs’ contradictory feelings, the analysis builds on cultu…
Experimenting with Price
This article is concerned with price and pricing in the context of finance led neoliberal reform. It considers the sentiment often encountered in accounts of such reform that price instability is the outcome of the retreat of the state from the regulation of price and its externalization in the competitive play of the market. Drawing on the case of contemporary Finland, and especially a major round of government reform, we show how unstable price…
Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university
In this article, we discuss affective time management discourses in academia. Drawing on our experiences of time management and brain fitness trainings at a Finnish university, we examine how the use and control of time are increasingly pressing societal and political matters affecting academic work globally. Time management training resources, such as guidebooks, websites and neuroscience-inspired staff training sessions, are seen as potentially…
Anxious politicians
This paper offers new perspectives on work cultures in politics by exploring the ambivalent connections among productivity imperatives and affirmative sociality within an under-researched group: Finnish members of Parliament (MPs). The study aim is to locate the MPs within the landscape of cultural sociology and theory, particularly in relation to the growing interest in the affective infrastructures of on-call work cultures. Drawing on 20 semi-s…
Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship
Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship: An Ethnography of Academia." NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 26(3), pp. 244–247
The riddle of adaptation
This article explores the Hawthorne studies, an industrial research programme conducted at Western Electric Company from 1924 to 1933. The analysis focuses on the longest-running experiment, in which female workers in their twenties operated a relay assembly in a room specially designed for the experiment and were monitored by a group of engineers and industrial researchers. Based on the authoritarian setting, this research situates the experimen…
Reading the faces of hunger
This article explores the images of starving children through a case study, the annual World Press Photo competition. The figure of a child in need is familiar from humanitarian discourses, but despite its familiar trope, it bears powerful affective meanings, especially in relation to the notions of innocence, vulnerability and futurity. In this study, the notions are discussed in the framework of five photographs of child malnutrition that were …
Accountability and the Politics of Affinity—Nomadic Ethics against Profit‐minded Cynicism
Reading the faces of hunger
This article explores the images of starving children through a case study, the annual World Press Photo competition. The figure of a child in need is familiar from humanitarian discourses, but despite its familiar trope, it bears powerful affective meanings, especially in relation to the notions of innocence, vulnerability and futurity. In this study, the notions are discussed in the framework of five photographs of child malnutrition that were …
Caught in a Bad Romance? Affective Attachments in Contemporary Academia
In contemporary management theory, as well as in popular discussions of work, love is often used as an affect that describes a fulfilling relationship with one’s job. In his famous talk at Stanford University in 2005, for instance, Steve Jobs encouraged students to keep looking for a job that they love, because, in his view, the only way to do great work ‘is to love what you do’. In cultural studies, however, there has been a growing interest in …
Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship
Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship: An Ethnography of Academia." NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 26(3), pp. 244–247
The riddle of adaptation
This article explores the Hawthorne studies, an industrial research programme conducted at Western Electric Company from 1924 to 1933. The analysis focuses on the longest-running experiment, in which female workers in their twenties operated a relay assembly in a room specially designed for the experiment and were monitored by a group of engineers and industrial researchers. Based on the authoritarian setting, this research situates the experimen…
Affect in governmentality
This article explores the role of affect in governmentality and develops the concept of the ‘affective milieu’ to better understand liberal forms of managerial control in market environments. Taking Foucault’s writings on consent, security and technologies of self as a vantage point, we suggest that the regimes of governmentality are both rational and affective milieus and propose that the Spinozan–Deleuzian affect theory provides an entry point …
Experimenting with Price
This article is concerned with price and pricing in the context of finance led neoliberal reform. It considers the sentiment often encountered in accounts of such reform that price instability is the outcome of the retreat of the state from the regulation of price and its externalization in the competitive play of the market. Drawing on the case of contemporary Finland, and especially a major round of government reform, we show how unstable price…
Neuroliberalism in Action
This article considers the entanglements of neuroscience, economics and behaviourism in a two-year experiment (2017-18) with basic income in Finland. The participants in this mandatory, state-led experiment are unemployed individuals (25-58 years old) recruited by the National Social Insurance Institution. The experiment is a randomised controlled trial intended to provide useful information about the impacts of basic income on employment and wel…
Anxious politicians
This paper offers new perspectives on work cultures in politics by exploring the ambivalent connections among productivity imperatives and affirmative sociality within an under-researched group: Finnish members of Parliament (MPs). The study aim is to locate the MPs within the landscape of cultural sociology and theory, particularly in relation to the growing interest in the affective infrastructures of on-call work cultures. Drawing on 20 semi-s…
Konfliktien pyörteissä
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience
This article examines Finnish politicians’ ambivalent attachments to social media – specifically Facebook and Twitter – in candidate-centred, personalised politics. The analysis draws on 20 semi-structured interviews with members of parliament (MPs) to investigate the tactics of adaptation and adjustment politicians develop in a work setting that precludes digital detox. To investigate the MPs’ contradictory feelings, the analysis builds on cultu…
Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university
In this article, we discuss affective time management discourses in academia. Drawing on our experiences of time management and brain fitness trainings at a Finnish university, we examine how the use and control of time are increasingly pressing societal and political matters affecting academic work globally. Time management training resources, such as guidebooks, websites and neuroscience-inspired staff training sessions, are seen as potentially…
Long Hours, Uneasy Feelings
Politicians’ work pressure is gaining more attention in parliamentary studies. To participate in the discussion about governing under pressure, this article offers an interdisciplinary approach to investigate how representatives navigate within a flexible, limitless work culture. This article presents a new inquiry to re-examine contemporary political agency by combining cultural studies theories with empirical insights in Nordic countries. By an…
The Circulation of Feelings on Politicised Instagram
In recent years a growing number of Finnish social media influencers have started to discuss political questions and even actors known for light lifestyle content have become vocal about social justice issues. In this paper, we explore how popular Finnish influencers experience the new expectations set for them and how they handle the mixture of intimate and algorithmic logics of Instagram. Our analysis draws from online observations of a wide ra…
‘People tell me quite intimate things’
In recent years, Instagram has become an increasingly politicised platform. Even those who have become popular for producing lifestyle content have begun to merge societal issues with personal and commercial posts. In this article, we explore how popular Finnish influencers experience the new expectations set for them and how they handle the mixture of intimate and algorithmic logics of Instagram. Our analysis draws from eight semi-structured, in…
Disseminated Knowledge
This article focuses on the advancement of Finnish occupational medicine in the immediate post-war period, situating its development within a transnational context. Its objective is to offer insight into Finnish post-war industrial medicine and particularly developments in mental health care. The empirical methodology addresses a previously unexplored case study: the connections between the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) and Roff…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Public relations (7 works)