Noora Katariina Kotilainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noora Katariina Kotilainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noora Katariina |
| FAMILY NAME | Kotilainen |
| SIGNATURE | KOTILAINEN N K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7047-754X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making feminist sense of militarisation of the mind
Non peer reviewed
Forum: The Self-Realising Soldier: Post-Heroic Reflections from Norwegian Afghanistan Veterans by Heidi Mogstad
In western media and politics, Afghanistan is usually depicted as a place of scarcity and hardship. This article attends to a different western representation of the country, that is, Afghanistan, as a site of self-fulfilment and growth. In doing so, I outline a mode of soldiering that emerged from my ethnographic interviews with Norwegian Afghanistan veterans: the self-realising soldier seeking combat, adventure and personal development in a dis…
Resisting Deportation Live: Affective Witnessing and Recognition of Airplane Deportation Protests
The article examines mediated videos of three Nordic airplane-based anti-deportation protests, by Elin Ersson (July 2018, Sweden), Aino Pennanen (July 2018, Finland), and 'Ahmed' (August 2017, Finland). Visual and multimodal analysis reveals how mediated spectators beyond the immediate location are addressed and how the videos' visual arrangements produce affective witnessing, identification, and thus attention among the intended viewers. Recordi…
(Not) Looking Like A Refugee: Symbolic Borders of Habitus in Media Representations of Refugees
Political debate about refugees is heavily influenced by how media images depict them. Centering on the victim/threat dichotomy in relation to the visual construction of the refugee figure, scholarship on media representations of refugees fails to acknowledge the historical layers of how refugees are visually conceptualized. Through scrutiny of historical Finnish media representations of refugees from the late 1930s through to contemporary discus…
(Not) Looking Like A Refugee: Symbolic Borders of Habitus in Media Representations of Refugees
Political debate about refugees is heavily influenced by how media images depict them. Centering on the victim/threat dichotomy in relation to the visual construction of the refugee figure, scholarship on media representations of refugees fails to acknowledge the historical layers of how refugees are visually conceptualized. Through scrutiny of historical Finnish media representations of refugees from the late 1930s through to contemporary discus…
Forum: The Self-Realising Soldier: Post-Heroic Reflections from Norwegian Afghanistan Veterans by Heidi Mogstad
In western media and politics, Afghanistan is usually depicted as a place of scarcity and hardship. This article attends to a different western representation of the country, that is, Afghanistan, as a site of self-fulfilment and growth. In doing so, I outline a mode of soldiering that emerged from my ethnographic interviews with Norwegian Afghanistan veterans: the self-realising soldier seeking combat, adventure and personal development in a dis…
Making feminist sense of militarisation of the mind
Non peer reviewed
(Not) Looking Like A Refugee: Symbolic Borders of Habitus in Media Representations of Refugees
Political debate about refugees is heavily influenced by how media images depict them. Centering on the victim/threat dichotomy in relation to the visual construction of the refugee figure, scholarship on media representations of refugees fails to acknowledge the historical layers of how refugees are visually conceptualized. Through scrutiny of historical Finnish media representations of refugees from the late 1930s through to contemporary discus…
Resisting Deportation Live: Affective Witnessing and Recognition of Airplane Deportation Protests
The article examines mediated videos of three Nordic airplane-based anti-deportation protests, by Elin Ersson (July 2018, Sweden), Aino Pennanen (July 2018, Finland), and 'Ahmed' (August 2017, Finland). Visual and multimodal analysis reveals how mediated spectators beyond the immediate location are addressed and how the videos' visual arrangements produce affective witnessing, identification, and thus attention among the intended viewers. Recordi…
Making feminist sense of militarisation of the mind
Non peer reviewed
Forum: The Self-Realising Soldier: Post-Heroic Reflections from Norwegian Afghanistan Veterans by Heidi Mogstad
In western media and politics, Afghanistan is usually depicted as a place of scarcity and hardship. This article attends to a different western representation of the country, that is, Afghanistan, as a site of self-fulfilment and growth. In doing so, I outline a mode of soldiering that emerged from my ethnographic interviews with Norwegian Afghanistan veterans: the self-realising soldier seeking combat, adventure and personal development in a dis…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Criminology (1 works)