Johanna Nurmi
Biographic Data
| ID | 375390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanna Nurmi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Nurmi |
| SIGNATURE | NURMI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9782-8733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Politicisation and polarisation of health during Covid-19: A digital ethnography of alternative health influencers
This article explores how public health information was contested on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through digital ethnography of four Finnish alternative health influencers, we examine their role in politicising and polarising health attitudes and pandemic governance, and how these dynamics evolved from the early to later stages of the crisis. Drawing on social media content from three key periods – early pandemic (January–June 2020…
Losing trust: Processes of vaccine hesitancy in parents' narratives
Reconfiguring health knowledges? Contemporary modes of self-care as ‘everyday fringe medicine’
The contestation of expertise is perhaps nowhere more pronounced than in the field of health and well-being, on which this article focuses. A multitude of practices and communities that stand in contentious relationships with established forms of medical expertise and promote personalised modes of self-care have proliferated across Euro-American societies. Drawing on multi-sited ethnography in three domains – body–mind–spirit therapies, vaccine h…
Coping with Tragedy, Reacting to an Event: The Case of the Jokela School Shooting in Finland
This article analyzes the unexpected nature and the consequences of the school shooting in Jokela, Finland in 2007. The study is based on interviews with professionals who participated in the relief efforts after the shooting incident. The analysis focuses on the role of the local youth workers during the days following the crisis. Reactions to the shootings and the consequences of the incident in the local community of Jokela are also considered…
Affected or Detached? Gendered Emotional Reactions to School Shootings
This article explores whether gendered norms and beliefs about emotions persist, as people relive and recount unexpected incidents of mass violence. The emotional expressions of men and women after two school shootings in Finland are examined and compared, based on qualitative interviews with local residents and crisis workers. Two emotional orientations in relation to school shootings were identified: being affected and being detached. Women wer…
Expressions and Projections of Evil in Mass Violence
This article examines two recent school shooting cases in Finland, and the use of the concept of evil as a tool to discern the violence and cruelty of the incidents. The analysis is based on qualitative, focused interviews with local residents. Participants used the notion of evil to describe and understand school shootings and their perpetrators. Evil was mostly associated with the act of violence and with the perpetrators. Processing the experi…
How do adolescents see their future? A review of the development of future orientation and planning
Losing trust: Processes of vaccine hesitancy in parents' narratives
Expressions and Projections of Evil in Mass Violence
This article examines two recent school shooting cases in Finland, and the use of the concept of evil as a tool to discern the violence and cruelty of the incidents. The analysis is based on qualitative, focused interviews with local residents. Participants used the notion of evil to describe and understand school shootings and their perpetrators. Evil was mostly associated with the act of violence and with the perpetrators. Processing the experi…
How do adolescents see their future? A review of the development of future orientation and planning
Expressions and Projections of Evil in Mass Violence
This article examines two recent school shooting cases in Finland, and the use of the concept of evil as a tool to discern the violence and cruelty of the incidents. The analysis is based on qualitative, focused interviews with local residents. Participants used the notion of evil to describe and understand school shootings and their perpetrators. Evil was mostly associated with the act of violence and with the perpetrators. Processing the experi…
Coping with Tragedy, Reacting to an Event: The Case of the Jokela School Shooting in Finland
This article analyzes the unexpected nature and the consequences of the school shooting in Jokela, Finland in 2007. The study is based on interviews with professionals who participated in the relief efforts after the shooting incident. The analysis focuses on the role of the local youth workers during the days following the crisis. Reactions to the shootings and the consequences of the incident in the local community of Jokela are also considered…
Affected or Detached? Gendered Emotional Reactions to School Shootings
This article explores whether gendered norms and beliefs about emotions persist, as people relive and recount unexpected incidents of mass violence. The emotional expressions of men and women after two school shootings in Finland are examined and compared, based on qualitative interviews with local residents and crisis workers. Two emotional orientations in relation to school shootings were identified: being affected and being detached. Women wer…
Reconfiguring health knowledges? Contemporary modes of self-care as ‘everyday fringe medicine’
The contestation of expertise is perhaps nowhere more pronounced than in the field of health and well-being, on which this article focuses. A multitude of practices and communities that stand in contentious relationships with established forms of medical expertise and promote personalised modes of self-care have proliferated across Euro-American societies. Drawing on multi-sited ethnography in three domains – body–mind–spirit therapies, vaccine h…
Losing trust: Processes of vaccine hesitancy in parents' narratives
Politicisation and polarisation of health during Covid-19: A digital ethnography of alternative health influencers
This article explores how public health information was contested on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through digital ethnography of four Finnish alternative health influencers, we examine their role in politicising and polarising health attitudes and pandemic governance, and how these dynamics evolved from the early to later stages of the crisis. Drawing on social media content from three key periods – early pandemic (January–June 2020…
Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (2 works) · Gun Ownership and Violence Research (2 works) · Political science (2 works)