Marja-Liisa Honkasalo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marja-Liisa Honkasalo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marja-Liisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Honkasalo |
| SIGNATURE | HONKASALO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition
Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection i…
Mielenterveys, hallinta ja ihmisoikeudet
Arvioitu teos: Karoliina Ahonen: Suomalainen mielenterveyspolitiikka. Julkisen vallan ohjaus mielenterveyden häiriöön sairastuneiden ihmisoikeuksien turvaamiseksi. Helsingin yliopisto 2020. 284 s. http://urn.fi/URN: ISBN:978-951-51-5671-6
New Practices of Cultural Truth Making
This article looks at negotiations with state authorities and the evidentiary criteria they create in culturally contrasting contexts when phenomena deal with elements that for the dominant society are conceptualized as "supernatural." We draw from the level of experiences of other-than-human beings, especially spirits and "ungraspable" presences, associal practicesin and of themselves as well as acts of mobilizing those which are meaningful for …
Losing fear, getting peace
Interview with Tanya Luhrmann
Professor Tanya Luhrmann visited Finland in September 2016 as the keynote speaker of the conference ‘Wild or Domesticated: Uncanny in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives to Mind’ organized by the Academy of Finland Project ‘Mind and Other’. As one of the founders of the anthropology of mind, Professor Luhrmann has made a remarkable contribution to the creation of this significant field of research. In addition to her contribution to anthropo…
Introduction
‘Landscape’ and ‘ritual’ have been largely discussed in the social and human sciences, although their inter-relatedness has gained little scholarly attention. Drawing on earlier studies of ritual and landscape, as well as the authors′ own ethnographic works, ‘ritual landscape’ is suggested here as a useful analytical tool with which to understand how landscapes are produced, and how they, in their turn, produce certain types of being. ‘Ritual lan…
Causal attributions of mental health problems and depressive symptoms among older Somali refugees in Finland
Causal attributions of mental health problems play a crucial role in shaping and differentiating illness experience in different sociocultural and ethnic groups. The aims of this study were (a) to analyze older Somali refugees' causal attributions of mental health problems; (b) to examine the associations between demographic and diagnostic characteristics, proxy indicators of acculturation, and causal attributions; and (c) to analyze the connecti…
If the Mother of God Does Not Listen
Finnish Orthodox women's ambiguous situation of interfaith marriages in Lutheran, secular Finland is marked by a peculiar triple sense of otherness, causing elements of deep crisis among many. Employing Ernesto de Martino's concept of "dehistoricizing," the author claims that domestic religious rituals restore women's agency and give them metahistorical solace. The ritual presence of the Mother of God binds together separate elements of domestic …
Mental and somatic health and pre- and post-migration factors among older Somali refugees in Finland
Mental and somatic health was compared between older Somali refugees and their pair-matched Finnish natives, and the role of pre-migration trauma and post-migration stressors among the refugees. One hundred and twenty-eight Somalis between 50-80 years of age were selected from the Somali older adult population living in the Helsinki area ( N = 307). Participants were matched with native Finns by gender, age, education, and civic status. The BDI-2…
Depressive Symptoms and Their Psychosocial Correlates Among Older Somali Refugees and Native Finns
In this study, we analyzed the manifestation of somatic-affective and cognitive depressive symptoms among older Somali refugees and native Finns. Second, we explored how depressive symptoms, alexithymia, and somatization are associated in the two groups. Finally, we analyzed how two psychosocial factors, sense of coherence (SOC) and social support, are connected to depressive symptoms among Somalis and Finns. The participants were examined with t…
Enduring as a mode of living with uncertainty
In addition to management and control, which in risk research have been studied extensively, there is a diversity and heterogeneity in people's responses to uncertainty that has mostly remained hidden. The aim of my article is to discuss some of the variation in people's ways of ‘living with uncertainty,’ an expression that is widely applied among many anthropologists and sociologists dealing with research into issues of risk and chronic illness.…
Fragilities in life and death
In health research, the concept of risk is used in several domains. It features in epidemiology and health promotion as well as in the sociology and anthropology of health and illness. Important problems are embedded in risk as an analytic category, and some of these are widely discussed within the discipline. First, risk cuts out the experience of illness and replaces it with problematic objectifications. Second, there are a multitude of differe…
Brutalités de l'Histoire et mémoire du corps
Dans cet article, sont analysés les récits de maladies cardiaques et de dépression à partir d'un séjour de terrain d'un an en Carélie du Nord. Depuis des siècles, cette région frontalière connaît guerre sur guerre, ce qui entraîne traumatismes, séparation, abandon, etc. De plus, depuis les années 1960, la politique rurale du gouvernement a peu à peu vidé la région de ses sources de revenu. Pour des milliers de personnes, la région est devenue un …
Space and Embodied Experience
In this article I discuss the problem of embodied subjectivity, viewed from the perspective of spatiality. The questions I address arise from my ethnographic study on chronic pain. My main argument is that, in contrast to philosophical understanding of space as an a priori, or as a container, space and spatiality are shaped and reshaped through the body in pain. What characterizes most patients' experiences of space is movement. This can be under…
Women writing their death and dying
Les As. s'interessent a l'aspect semiotique du suicide et plus precisement du suicide en tant qu'action signifiante des femmes en ce qui concerne leur vie, leur mort, leur personnalite telles qu'elles apparaissent dans leurs dernieres notes. Ils tentent ainsi de decrire les relations entre la femme et la mort, de problematiser la subjectivite textuelle feminine du point de vue de la mort, et finalement d'explorer quelques particularites dans les …
Interpersonal conflicts at work and psychosocial characteristics of employees
Kvinnors symptom - lidandets och njutningens språk
Kvinnor använder ofta kroppsliga symptom för att kommunicera otillfredsställelse med privatlivet och dåliga arbetsförhållanden, menar Marja-Liisa Honkasalo. Att kvinnor använder symptom som språk har att göra med kvinnors speciella relation till den egna kroppen som, enligt Julia Kristeva, är källan till både liv och död
Space and Embodied Experience
In this article I discuss the problem of embodied subjectivity, viewed from the perspective of spatiality. The questions I address arise from my ethnographic study on chronic pain. My main argument is that, in contrast to philosophical understanding of space as an a priori, or as a container, space and spatiality are shaped and reshaped through the body in pain. What characterizes most patients' experiences of space is movement. This can be under…
Mental and somatic health and pre- and post-migration factors among older Somali refugees in Finland
Mental and somatic health was compared between older Somali refugees and their pair-matched Finnish natives, and the role of pre-migration trauma and post-migration stressors among the refugees. One hundred and twenty-eight Somalis between 50-80 years of age were selected from the Somali older adult population living in the Helsinki area ( N = 307). Participants were matched with native Finns by gender, age, education, and civic status. The BDI-2…
Interpersonal conflicts at work and psychosocial characteristics of employees
New Practices of Cultural Truth Making
This article looks at negotiations with state authorities and the evidentiary criteria they create in culturally contrasting contexts when phenomena deal with elements that for the dominant society are conceptualized as "supernatural." We draw from the level of experiences of other-than-human beings, especially spirits and "ungraspable" presences, associal practicesin and of themselves as well as acts of mobilizing those which are meaningful for …
If the Mother of God Does Not Listen
Finnish Orthodox women's ambiguous situation of interfaith marriages in Lutheran, secular Finland is marked by a peculiar triple sense of otherness, causing elements of deep crisis among many. Employing Ernesto de Martino's concept of "dehistoricizing," the author claims that domestic religious rituals restore women's agency and give them metahistorical solace. The ritual presence of the Mother of God binds together separate elements of domestic …
Causal attributions of mental health problems and depressive symptoms among older Somali refugees in Finland
Causal attributions of mental health problems play a crucial role in shaping and differentiating illness experience in different sociocultural and ethnic groups. The aims of this study were (a) to analyze older Somali refugees' causal attributions of mental health problems; (b) to examine the associations between demographic and diagnostic characteristics, proxy indicators of acculturation, and causal attributions; and (c) to analyze the connecti…
Depressive Symptoms and Their Psychosocial Correlates Among Older Somali Refugees and Native Finns
In this study, we analyzed the manifestation of somatic-affective and cognitive depressive symptoms among older Somali refugees and native Finns. Second, we explored how depressive symptoms, alexithymia, and somatization are associated in the two groups. Finally, we analyzed how two psychosocial factors, sense of coherence (SOC) and social support, are connected to depressive symptoms among Somalis and Finns. The participants were examined with t…
Brutalités de l'Histoire et mémoire du corps
Dans cet article, sont analysés les récits de maladies cardiaques et de dépression à partir d'un séjour de terrain d'un an en Carélie du Nord. Depuis des siècles, cette région frontalière connaît guerre sur guerre, ce qui entraîne traumatismes, séparation, abandon, etc. De plus, depuis les années 1960, la politique rurale du gouvernement a peu à peu vidé la région de ses sources de revenu. Pour des milliers de personnes, la région est devenue un …
Women writing their death and dying
Les As. s'interessent a l'aspect semiotique du suicide et plus precisement du suicide en tant qu'action signifiante des femmes en ce qui concerne leur vie, leur mort, leur personnalite telles qu'elles apparaissent dans leurs dernieres notes. Ils tentent ainsi de decrire les relations entre la femme et la mort, de problematiser la subjectivite textuelle feminine du point de vue de la mort, et finalement d'explorer quelques particularites dans les …
Kvinnors symptom - lidandets och njutningens språk
Kvinnor använder ofta kroppsliga symptom för att kommunicera otillfredsställelse med privatlivet och dåliga arbetsförhållanden, menar Marja-Liisa Honkasalo. Att kvinnor använder symptom som språk har att göra med kvinnors speciella relation till den egna kroppen som, enligt Julia Kristeva, är källan till både liv och död
Interpersonal conflicts at work and psychosocial characteristics of employees
Women writing their death and dying
Les As. s'interessent a l'aspect semiotique du suicide et plus precisement du suicide en tant qu'action signifiante des femmes en ce qui concerne leur vie, leur mort, leur personnalite telles qu'elles apparaissent dans leurs dernieres notes. Ils tentent ainsi de decrire les relations entre la femme et la mort, de problematiser la subjectivite textuelle feminine du point de vue de la mort, et finalement d'explorer quelques particularites dans les …
Space and Embodied Experience
In this article I discuss the problem of embodied subjectivity, viewed from the perspective of spatiality. The questions I address arise from my ethnographic study on chronic pain. My main argument is that, in contrast to philosophical understanding of space as an a priori, or as a container, space and spatiality are shaped and reshaped through the body in pain. What characterizes most patients' experiences of space is movement. This can be under…
Brutalités de l'Histoire et mémoire du corps
Dans cet article, sont analysés les récits de maladies cardiaques et de dépression à partir d'un séjour de terrain d'un an en Carélie du Nord. Depuis des siècles, cette région frontalière connaît guerre sur guerre, ce qui entraîne traumatismes, séparation, abandon, etc. De plus, depuis les années 1960, la politique rurale du gouvernement a peu à peu vidé la région de ses sources de revenu. Pour des milliers de personnes, la région est devenue un …
Fragilities in life and death
In health research, the concept of risk is used in several domains. It features in epidemiology and health promotion as well as in the sociology and anthropology of health and illness. Important problems are embedded in risk as an analytic category, and some of these are widely discussed within the discipline. First, risk cuts out the experience of illness and replaces it with problematic objectifications. Second, there are a multitude of differe…
Enduring as a mode of living with uncertainty
In addition to management and control, which in risk research have been studied extensively, there is a diversity and heterogeneity in people's responses to uncertainty that has mostly remained hidden. The aim of my article is to discuss some of the variation in people's ways of ‘living with uncertainty,’ an expression that is widely applied among many anthropologists and sociologists dealing with research into issues of risk and chronic illness.…
Mental and somatic health and pre- and post-migration factors among older Somali refugees in Finland
Mental and somatic health was compared between older Somali refugees and their pair-matched Finnish natives, and the role of pre-migration trauma and post-migration stressors among the refugees. One hundred and twenty-eight Somalis between 50-80 years of age were selected from the Somali older adult population living in the Helsinki area ( N = 307). Participants were matched with native Finns by gender, age, education, and civic status. The BDI-2…
Depressive Symptoms and Their Psychosocial Correlates Among Older Somali Refugees and Native Finns
In this study, we analyzed the manifestation of somatic-affective and cognitive depressive symptoms among older Somali refugees and native Finns. Second, we explored how depressive symptoms, alexithymia, and somatization are associated in the two groups. Finally, we analyzed how two psychosocial factors, sense of coherence (SOC) and social support, are connected to depressive symptoms among Somalis and Finns. The participants were examined with t…
If the Mother of God Does Not Listen
Finnish Orthodox women's ambiguous situation of interfaith marriages in Lutheran, secular Finland is marked by a peculiar triple sense of otherness, causing elements of deep crisis among many. Employing Ernesto de Martino's concept of "dehistoricizing," the author claims that domestic religious rituals restore women's agency and give them metahistorical solace. The ritual presence of the Mother of God binds together separate elements of domestic …
Introduction
‘Landscape’ and ‘ritual’ have been largely discussed in the social and human sciences, although their inter-relatedness has gained little scholarly attention. Drawing on earlier studies of ritual and landscape, as well as the authors′ own ethnographic works, ‘ritual landscape’ is suggested here as a useful analytical tool with which to understand how landscapes are produced, and how they, in their turn, produce certain types of being. ‘Ritual lan…
Causal attributions of mental health problems and depressive symptoms among older Somali refugees in Finland
Causal attributions of mental health problems play a crucial role in shaping and differentiating illness experience in different sociocultural and ethnic groups. The aims of this study were (a) to analyze older Somali refugees' causal attributions of mental health problems; (b) to examine the associations between demographic and diagnostic characteristics, proxy indicators of acculturation, and causal attributions; and (c) to analyze the connecti…
Losing fear, getting peace
Interview with Tanya Luhrmann
Professor Tanya Luhrmann visited Finland in September 2016 as the keynote speaker of the conference ‘Wild or Domesticated: Uncanny in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives to Mind’ organized by the Academy of Finland Project ‘Mind and Other’. As one of the founders of the anthropology of mind, Professor Luhrmann has made a remarkable contribution to the creation of this significant field of research. In addition to her contribution to anthropo…
New Practices of Cultural Truth Making
This article looks at negotiations with state authorities and the evidentiary criteria they create in culturally contrasting contexts when phenomena deal with elements that for the dominant society are conceptualized as "supernatural." We draw from the level of experiences of other-than-human beings, especially spirits and "ungraspable" presences, associal practicesin and of themselves as well as acts of mobilizing those which are meaningful for …
Mielenterveys, hallinta ja ihmisoikeudet
Arvioitu teos: Karoliina Ahonen: Suomalainen mielenterveyspolitiikka. Julkisen vallan ohjaus mielenterveyden häiriöön sairastuneiden ihmisoikeuksien turvaamiseksi. Helsingin yliopisto 2020. 284 s. http://urn.fi/URN: ISBN:978-951-51-5671-6
Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition
Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection i…
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works)