Katariina Mäkinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 378598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katariina Mäkinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katariina |
| FAMILY NAME | Mäkinen |
| SIGNATURE | MÄKINEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1107-4801 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Huomautus kansikuvasta: Jos keho: Riva ja Zora keski-iässä
Maalaus kirjan kannessa on Riva Lehrerin teos Jos keho: Riva ja Zora keski-iässä (If Body: Riva and Zora in Middle Age). Siinä Zora-koira, jonka toinen silmä on sokea ja jonka kauluri estää sitä koskemasta hellää kohtaansa, katsoo tyhjyyteen ja näyttää onnelliselta. Miten niin? Zora näyttää onnelliselta, koska se on paikallaan, katse käännettynä yläviistoon, ja koska sen häntä näyttää intiimisti silittävän taustalla lattialla makaavaa Rivaa. Riva…
Jälkisanat: Optimismin performanssi ja tilannetragedia
Maailman moninaiset näyttämöt ovat Lauren Berlantin kirjoittamisen lähtökohta. Hän tutkii niiden tuottamia ja ylläpitämiä muotoja, tapoja, kaavoja ja rytmejä. Berlant vaikuttaa poimivan katsottavakseen tapauksia, objekteja ja ilmiöitä, jotka usein ovat pikemminkin arkisia, pieniä ja hänen sanoillaan ”tyhmiä” kuin yleisesti merkittäviä, suuria ja tunnustettuja, ja jotka silti ovat koko teoreettisen työn tausta ja pohja. Eikä tämä ole mitään ajatte…
Using or producing: The roles of citizens’ participation in cultural heritage
The question of participation is at the core of cultural heritage when heritage is understood as a social and discursive construct constantly created and shaped by individual and collective actors. Since cultural heritage is often used to produce stories about ‘us’ and ‘them’, it is not insignificant who can participate in it and how. This article therefore examines conceptions of citizens’ participation in the context of the European Heritage La…
Male Bodies on Social Media: Colliding Representations, Subjectivities and Digital Technologies
This article traces the ways in which men account for their embodied experience as they engage in the digital practices of visibility within the current sphere of social media. Building on empirical research on social media influencer men, the article theorizes the complexities of representation in the making of male bodies with digital technologies. Considering first representation as an event and second the space-off of representation, this art…
Tiedejulkaisemisen voimat ja voimattomuudet
Tiedejulkaisemisen suhteen on hyvin ymmärrettävää puhua voimattomuudesta. Jaettu ymmärrys tilanteesta on, että voimattomuus kytkeytyy tiedejulkaisemisen instituutioihin. Tiedejulkaisemisen maailma on siis institutionalisoitunut sellaisella tavalla, että sen voima ja valta vaikuttaa väistämättä pakenevan niitä inhimillisiä toimijoita, joita me kaikki tieteellistä julkaisemista tekevät olemme. Mitä tässä sitten olisi tehtävä
Poly-spatial experiences of the past at European cultural heritage sites
This article explores ways in which visitors both feel and reflect on the past as part of their affective and interpretive practices of meaning-making in, of, and within heritage spaces. We aim to describe a form of subjective and affective experience that links to moments of reflection, which can create a new understanding of the site’s multi-layered past and change visitors’ understanding of the pasts the heritage sites represent. Our examples …
Mothers in Eroding Welfare State Welfare Reforms, Citizenship and Autonomy in 2000s and 2010s Finland
Kuka kustannustoimittaja? Tiedejulkaisemisen rakenteista ja toimijoista
Toimittamisen ja kustantamisen roolia tieteellisessä julkaisemisessa voi lähestyä (ja usein lähestytään) kysymyksenä julkaisupäätöksistä ja kurinpidosta. Tällaisia päätösvallan käyttämisen prosesseja voi suhteellisen helposti jäljittää ja kyseenalaistaa, ja niistä jää myös dokumentteja. Tieteellisessä toimittamisessa ei ole kuitenkaan kyse vain päätöksistä ja julkaisukynnyksen säätelystä. Pikemminkin porttien vartiointi on vain pieni osa siitä ty…
Eettiset käänteet ja kontrollit: Tutkimusetiikka ja tieteellinen julkaiseminen
Tutkimuseettinen sääntely ja siihen liittyvien dokumenttien ja ohjeistusten tuotanto on laajennut ja kiihtynyt Suomessa koko 2000-luvun ajan. Humanistisen ja yhteiskuntatieteellisen tutkimuksen kohdalla tämä on merkinnyt eettisen ohjeiston ja ennakkoarvioinnin käytäntöjen institutionalisoitumista. Ennen 2000-lukua tällaisia käytäntöjä ei Suomessa ihmistieteiden kohdalla ollut, mutta 2000-luvun alussa ilmeni sekä kotimaista että kansainvälistä pai…
Tieteen kieli ja käsitteellinen työ
Keskustelu tieteen kielestä on ollut jo ainakin parinkymmenen vuoden ajan jonkinlainen helppo keino tarttua tieteen ajankohtaisiin ilmiöihin. Koneen säätiö on jakanut viidentoista vuoden ajan Tiedekynä-palkintoa, jonka ajatuksena on tukea tieteellistä kirjoittamista, jossa “suomen kieltä on käytetty erityisen ansiokkaasti”. Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunta puolestaan kampanjoi ahkerasti kotimaisen tiedejulkaisemisen puolesta kärkenään ajatus, e…
Tieteen ulkopuolisen rahoituksen vallasta
Tieteen rahoitus suuntaa tiedettä sekä ilmeisin että vähemmän ilmeisin tavoin, mutta rahoituksen materiaalisista ja käytännöllisistä ehdoista ja seurauksista on yllättävän vähän keskustelua – etenkin suhteessa säätiöiden kaltaisiin omaehtoisiin tutkimuksen rahoittajiin. Millaista paikkaa tieteen ulkopuolisiksi sanotut rahoittajat pelaavat, millaista valtaa ne käyttävät tai oikeastaan – jos näin voi sanoa – mitä ne oikeastaan haluavat? Seuraavassa…
Tiedeviestinnän ajat ja paikat
Kysymys siitä, miten tieteestä ja tutkimuksesta viestitään, on saanut viime vuosina yhä suuremman painon. Tiedeviestinnän merkitys kytkeytyy laajempaan keskusteluun tutkimuksen yhteiskunnallisesta vaikuttavuudesta. Sekä tiedeinstituutioiden että rahoittajien tuottama paine ohjaa tutkijoita ja muita tieteen toimijoita keskittymään siihen, miten tieto tutkimuksesta saavuttaisi akateemista yhteisöä laajemman yleisön. Pohdimme tässä tiedeviestintää j…
Struggle and banality of belonging to Europe. Cultural Europeanization from the perspective of the Central and East European citizens
The European Union (EU) has developed cultural policy initiatives that seek to promote cultural Europeanization with the purpose of constructing European identity narratives and facilitating citizens' sense of belonging to Europe and the EU. The article focuses on the citizens' perspective to cultural Europeanization through ethnographic research on one central action in the EU cultural policy, European Heritage Label (EHL). We analyse the interv…
Vertaisarviointi – Kuria vai hoivaa
Vertaisarviointijärjestelmä on yksi tieteen ja tutkimuksen tämän hetken keskeisimmistä periaatteista ja toimintamekanismeista. Vertaisarvioinnin avulla määritellään käsikirjoitusten julkaisukelpoisuus ja arvioidaan rahoitushakemuksia. Samalla vertaisarviointijärjestelmällä on merkittävä paikka tieteen legitimoijana: vertaisarvioinnin käytännöt takaavat tieteen luotettavuuden ja tiedon pätevyyden. Vertaisarviointi, johon myös Tiede & edistyksen ju…
Prekaarit äidit palkkatyön reunoilla ja kotien kynnyksillä
Lilli Aini Rokkonen: Prekaari äitiys. Kertomuksia palkkatyön reunamilta. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu 2020. 327 s. Äitiyden maisemassa on aina ollut paljon epävarmuutta ja ennustamattomuutta, mutta nykyäitiyteen liittyy erityistä haurautta. Äitiyden kulttuuriset odotukset ovat yhä intensiivisempiä, ja samanaikaisesti yhteiskunnallisten instituutioiden haurastuminen ja hapertuminen nakertaa äitien elämän perustuksia. Tätä ilmiötä Lilli A…
Worrying about Migrant Mothers in Finnish News Journalism
This article investigates the framing of migrant mothers and migrant families in family policy journalism over a 20-year period between 1998 and 2018 in Finland. Using computational word-based searches and qualitative methods, we explore the ways in which journalistic media in Finland took part in the production of societal worries and worrisome subjectivities about families, family policy and migration. Tracing the category of ‘migrant mothers’ …
Ethnographic approach to participation in EU policy: Developing polyspatial agency
This article uses an ethnographic approach to study citizens’ participation in the context of participatory practices organized in the framework of cultural policy of the European Union. It focuses on one EU policy action, European Heritage Label (EHL) and one cultural heritage site that has received this label. The research data was collected through participant observation and interviews with young people who participated in the activities orga…
EU heritage diplomacy: Entangled external and internal cultural relations
Cultural heritage is an expanding yet contested area of EU policymaking, which has recently been identified as an instrument for EU international cultural relations. In this article, drawing from critical heritage studies and recent scholarship on heritage diplomacy, we see external and internal cultural relations as blurred and deeply entangled in EU heritage policies. Empirically, we focus on the European Heritage Label (EHL), a central EU heri…
Conclusions: Europe’s Lived Space
In this book we explored how the participants in EU cultural initiatives construct notions of Europe and the 'European' , what concrete meanings they give to them, and how they build their own relations to Europe. Hence, the focus was the construction of Europe and belonging to it from below. The analysis of our three cases, the European Capital of Culture (ECOC), the European Citizen Campus (ECC), and the European Heritage Label (EHL), clearly s…
Cross Analysis of the Case Studies
Our methodological innovation, ethnography of Europeanization, offers a multi-dimensional and intersectional approach to how people construct Europe and their notion of belonging to it at different social and cultural locations. We explore this in data sets from three EU cultural initiatives -the European Capital of Culture (ECOC), the European Citizen Campus (ECC), and the European Heritage Label (EHL). In our three case studies, various social …
Politics of Belonging: Concepts and Method
We focus on studying citizens' subjective sense of belonging as well as how their construction of belonging interacts with agendas to enhance it in and through EU cultural initiatives, which we consider as politics of belonging. We understand politics of belonging in EU cultural policy as constructing and conveying notions about Europe and the 'European' to a wider public through diverse discursive, narrative, and cultural resources, which help t…
Case 2: The European Citizen Campus
In this chapter, we focus on the implementation of the EU's cultural programmes and explore what kinds of conceptions of Europe are constructed in the framework of an individual EU project. The European Citizen Campus (ECC) received funding from the Culture programme between 2013 and 2015. EU projects are used as channels to engage participants in the Union's activities, and as such, they can be seen as core elements of the EU's politics of belon…
Case 1: The European Capital of Culture
The European Capital of Culture (ECOC) is the longest running EU cultural initiative with a strong emphasis on foregrounding common culture in Europe, promoting European cultural narratives, supporting the cooperation of European cultural actors, and activating Europeans to participate in cultural creation and reception. This action forms our first case study. As discussed in Chapter 3, the macro-level policy discourse of the action seeks to cons…
Case 3: The European Heritage Label
The EU's most recent flagship heritage action, the European Heritage Label (EHL), contributes to the politics of belonging in EU cultural policy by seeking to form 'a community of Europeans' with an emphasis on common values and a shared past in Europe. As the EHL was developed with the aim to strengthen "European citizens' belonging to the Union", heritage sites have been awarded the Label on grounds of their "European significance" and contribu…
EU Cultural Policy: Europe from Above
Focus on Two Agendas
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created, communicated, and governed via the European Heritage Label scheme.Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted across ten countries at sites that have been awarded with the European Heritage Label, the authors of the book approach heritage as an entang…
Affective labour of creating atmospheres
In this article, we suggest that the production of atmospheres is a significant form of the capitalisation of affect – the ongoing cultural shift that encompasses diverse ways in which affect itself has become a selling point. We further the discussion of this capitalisation of affect by offering insights into forms of capitalisation that mobilise atmospheres rather than single, individual or clearly identified affects. Through two ethnographic c…
Europe from Below: Notions of Europe and the European among Participants in EU Cultural Initiatives
In this book, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Katja Mäkinen, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinize how people who participate in cultural initiatives funded and governed by the European Union understand the idea of Europe. The book focuses on three cultural initiatives: the European Capital of Culture, the European Heritage Label, and a European Citizen Campus project funded through the Creative Europe programme. These initiatives ar…
Resilience and vulnerability: Emotional and affective labour in mom blogging
This article investigates the empirical case of commercial mom blogging as indicative of the particular ways in which the digital economy invites and exploits women’s affective and emotional labour. Based on Finnish mom bloggers’ interviews, the article explores the ways in which emotional labour is needed to tackle the mean and degrading comments that most bloggers have to come to terms with, and the ways in which their affective involvement is …
Genealogy of the Concept of Heritage in the European Commission’s Policy Discourse
Th is article investigates the genealogy of the concept of heritage in the European Commission’s (EC) policy discourse from 1973 to 2016. Based on conceptual analysis of 2,412 documents gathered from the EUR-Lex database, the uses of the concept in the EC’s policy discourse were categorized into seven thematic areas: nature, environment, and biodiversity; human habitats; economy and employment; agricultural products and foodstuffs; promotion of s…
Struggles of citizenship and class: Anti-immigration activism in Finland
This article investigates contemporary struggles of class and citizenship in the context of the emergence of right-wing anti-immigrant politics and activism in Finland. The specific aim of the article is to dissect anti-immigrant activism from the perspective of classificatory struggles concerning the 'biopolitics of disposability' within the current regime of neoliberal citizenship. Relying on qualitative research of online activism, the article…
The Individualization of Class: A Case of Working Life Coaching
This article employs empirical analysis on working life coaching in order to offer a complimentary perspective on debates concerning individualization and class. Instead of viewing individualization as a process which erodes or radically shapes structures of class, this article interrogates individualization as a process which individualizes the relation between capital and labour in such a way that it appears in an individualized form. Examining…
Valuable selves: Potentiality and temporality in work-related coaching
This article contributes to the discussions concerning immaterial labour and temporality in post-Fordism by examining how accounts of individuality intertwine with accounts of potential in the newly emerged field of work-related coaching. In producing potential individuals, coaching responds to the needs of the anticipatory economy that produces value in terms of future expectations and potentialities. In this sense, coaching is an example of imm…
EU heritage diplomacy: Entangled external and internal cultural relations
Cultural heritage is an expanding yet contested area of EU policymaking, which has recently been identified as an instrument for EU international cultural relations. In this article, drawing from critical heritage studies and recent scholarship on heritage diplomacy, we see external and internal cultural relations as blurred and deeply entangled in EU heritage policies. Empirically, we focus on the European Heritage Label (EHL), a central EU heri…
Uneasy laughter: Encountering the Anti-Immigration Debate
This article interrogates instances of laughter in doing research from a methodological and ethical perspective. Both the theoretical insights of the 'turn to affect' and the methodological discussions concerning emotional reflexivity in social sciences are combined in order to explore the ambiguities unravelled by 'uneasy laughter' in the particular context of researching the Finnish anti-immigration debate. Through careful reflection, laughter …
Multilevel Governance and Participation: Interpreting Democracy in EU-programmes
This article offers an ethnographically oriented, interpretive approach for the research into the democratic qualities of multilevel governance (MLG). The complex and networked MLG arrangements, such as the European Union's (EU) participatory policy practices, are changing the traditional roles of public administration and politics in ways we cannot yet fully foresee. Especially, the impact on democracy is subject to debate. With two case studies…
Scales of participation and multi-scalar citizenship in EU participatory governance
The EU still has a democratic deficit and its legitimacy is strongly questioned. This reveals the importance of citizenship and participation in the context of the challenges the EU faces today. The article contributes to the current discussions on the shifting frameworks of participation and citizenship through empirical research into the EU’s participatory governance. It asks how participation is framed in terms of scale and how these scalar fr…
Struggle and banality of belonging to Europe. Cultural Europeanization from the perspective of the Central and East European citizens
The European Union (EU) has developed cultural policy initiatives that seek to promote cultural Europeanization with the purpose of constructing European identity narratives and facilitating citizens' sense of belonging to Europe and the EU. The article focuses on the citizens' perspective to cultural Europeanization through ethnographic research on one central action in the EU cultural policy, European Heritage Label (EHL). We analyse the interv…
Ethnographic approach to participation in EU policy: Developing polyspatial agency
This article uses an ethnographic approach to study citizens’ participation in the context of participatory practices organized in the framework of cultural policy of the European Union. It focuses on one EU policy action, European Heritage Label (EHL) and one cultural heritage site that has received this label. The research data was collected through participant observation and interviews with young people who participated in the activities orga…
Constructing social Europe through European cultural heritage
The political and economic crises of the recent decades as well as the new changes brought on by globalization and digitalization have contributed to exacerbate social inequalities and injustice and revealed different social realities in Europe. The EU increasingly deals with social issues in its cultural and heritage policy. In this article, we explore the construction of this social dimension and advance the concept of 'social Europe' by explor…
Multilevel Governance and Participation: Interpreting Democracy in EU-programmes
This article offers an ethnographically oriented, interpretive approach for the research into the democratic qualities of multilevel governance (MLG). The complex and networked MLG arrangements, such as the European Union's (EU) participatory policy practices, are changing the traditional roles of public administration and politics in ways we cannot yet fully foresee. Especially, the impact on democracy is subject to debate. With two case studies…
Union Citizenship Representing Conceptual (Dis)continuities in EU Documents on Citizenship and Culture
The question in this article is how citizenship is reinvented and recontextualized in a newly founded European Union after the launching of Union Citizenship. What kind of conceptions of citizenship are produced in this new and evolving organization? The research material consists of documents presented by EU organs from 1994 to 2007 concerning eight EU programs on citizenship and culture. I will analyze conceptual similarities (continuities) and…
The Individualization of Class: A Case of Working Life Coaching
This article employs empirical analysis on working life coaching in order to offer a complimentary perspective on debates concerning individualization and class. Instead of viewing individualization as a process which erodes or radically shapes structures of class, this article interrogates individualization as a process which individualizes the relation between capital and labour in such a way that it appears in an individualized form. Examining…
Valuable selves: Potentiality and temporality in work-related coaching
This article contributes to the discussions concerning immaterial labour and temporality in post-Fordism by examining how accounts of individuality intertwine with accounts of potential in the newly emerged field of work-related coaching. In producing potential individuals, coaching responds to the needs of the anticipatory economy that produces value in terms of future expectations and potentialities. In this sense, coaching is an example of imm…
Uneasy laughter: Encountering the Anti-Immigration Debate
This article interrogates instances of laughter in doing research from a methodological and ethical perspective. Both the theoretical insights of the 'turn to affect' and the methodological discussions concerning emotional reflexivity in social sciences are combined in order to explore the ambiguities unravelled by 'uneasy laughter' in the particular context of researching the Finnish anti-immigration debate. Through careful reflection, laughter …
Struggles of citizenship and class: Anti-immigration activism in Finland
This article investigates contemporary struggles of class and citizenship in the context of the emergence of right-wing anti-immigrant politics and activism in Finland. The specific aim of the article is to dissect anti-immigrant activism from the perspective of classificatory struggles concerning the 'biopolitics of disposability' within the current regime of neoliberal citizenship. Relying on qualitative research of online activism, the article…
Affective labour of creating atmospheres
In this article, we suggest that the production of atmospheres is a significant form of the capitalisation of affect – the ongoing cultural shift that encompasses diverse ways in which affect itself has become a selling point. We further the discussion of this capitalisation of affect by offering insights into forms of capitalisation that mobilise atmospheres rather than single, individual or clearly identified affects. Through two ethnographic c…
Genealogy of the Concept of Heritage in the European Commission’s Policy Discourse
Th is article investigates the genealogy of the concept of heritage in the European Commission’s (EC) policy discourse from 1973 to 2016. Based on conceptual analysis of 2,412 documents gathered from the EUR-Lex database, the uses of the concept in the EC’s policy discourse were categorized into seven thematic areas: nature, environment, and biodiversity; human habitats; economy and employment; agricultural products and foodstuffs; promotion of s…
Constructing communities through heritage participation
Several collectivities use cultural heritage in their attempts to construct communities and produce identity and a sense of belonging. Since both participation and community have become core concepts in heritage making, in this chapter we explore what kind of heritage communities are constructed through the notions of participation in the context of the European Heritage Label. We analyse community building and the meanings given to communities i…
Multilevel and participatory governance of European cultural heritage in the EU
In this chapter, we examine power dynamics in the governance of European cultural heritage in the European Union, with an empirical focus on the European Heritage Label. We discuss the complex power relations inherent in the European Heritage Label by examining how the decision- and policy-making, governance, interaction, and (hierarchical) positions of different actors are manifested and dealt with in our field research data. The chapter starts …
Heritage and bordering
EUropean borders play a prominent role in the framework of European heritage. For instance, the decision of the European Heritage Label action specifies that the candidate sites have to show their cross-border or pan-European nature that goes beyond the national borders. In this chapter, we approach the European Heritage Label as a geopolitical discourse where bordering is constituted by a mixture of drawing, erasing, and crossing borders on vari…
Europe’s gendered heritage
In this chapter, we expligore the representation of gender and gendered narratives, and the ways in which they are (re)produced at the European Heritage Label sites. This European Union action still focuses on the mediation of grand European narratives that prioritize a white, male perspective, but a stronger representation of women and their perspectives is necessary in order to constitute a more inclusive and diverse conception of Europe’s past…
Economics and branding European cultural heritage
The European Union funds diverse heritage conservation and promotion activities, but its core heritage initiatives, such as the European Heritage Label, are not funding instruments. However, the European Heritage Label is intertwined with the logic of economy in diverse ways. The focus of this chapter is the economic conditions of the European Heritage Label action and how these conditions impact its implementation and power dynamic between diffe…
Heritage sites as poly-space
Based on our fieldwork experiences, we have developed the concept of poly-space to describe the co-existence of multiple moments and the interplay of different, overlapping, and intersecting spatial, temporal, affective, sensory, and cognitive experiences at a heritage site. Poly-space is not necessarily a phenomenon solely connected with heritage sites, but we became aware of it while reflectively discussing and writing about our experiences and…
Bodies in European cultural heritage
Heritage sites play an important role in generating and transmitting heritage. Human bodies featuring in the exhibitions of the European Heritage Label sites can be understood as emotionally charged sticky objects in this process. While bodies as sticky objects evoke emotions in audiences, the emotive quality of an object can also create stickiness during and long after a heritage visit. The bodies of visitors can also be understood as resonating…
Participation
For a number of decades, participation in heritage processes and practices has been increasingly addressed at various levels in cultural heritage policies and research. It has been emphasized that citizens should have a say in decisions about constructing, defining, interpreting, and representing cultural heritage. In this chapter, we analyse the dynamics of participation in the framework of the European Heritage Label and the ways in which it pr…
Geo-graphing European cultural heritage
In this chapter, we analyse the European Heritage Label as a geopolitical discourse in which perceptions of both European heritage and European scale are formed in relation to other spatial scales. To scrutinize these scalar relations and related hierarchies we combine critical geopolitics and critical heritage studies. Based on the practitioner interviews, we form three interlinked subject positions - EHL participant, EHL observer, and EHL creat…
Conclusions
In the conclusions, we bring together central insights of the book. Focusing on the narrative production of EUropean heritage, we discuss the nature of heritage narratives and the relationship between their inherent normative ‘smoothing’ tendency and the need to bring more diverse voices into their definition. Building on this narrative approach, we summarize key findings from the four thematic parts of the book – multilevel and participatory gov…
Scales of participation and multi-scalar citizenship in EU participatory governance
The EU still has a democratic deficit and its legitimacy is strongly questioned. This reveals the importance of citizenship and participation in the context of the challenges the EU faces today. The article contributes to the current discussions on the shifting frameworks of participation and citizenship through empirical research into the EU’s participatory governance. It asks how participation is framed in terms of scale and how these scalar fr…
Resilience and vulnerability: Emotional and affective labour in mom blogging
This article investigates the empirical case of commercial mom blogging as indicative of the particular ways in which the digital economy invites and exploits women’s affective and emotional labour. Based on Finnish mom bloggers’ interviews, the article explores the ways in which emotional labour is needed to tackle the mean and degrading comments that most bloggers have to come to terms with, and the ways in which their affective involvement is …
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created, communicated, and governed via the European Heritage Label scheme.Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted across ten countries at sites that have been awarded with the European Heritage Label, the authors of the book approach heritage as an entang…
Europe from Below: Notions of Europe and the European among Participants in EU Cultural Initiatives
In this book, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Katja Mäkinen, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinize how people who participate in cultural initiatives funded and governed by the European Union understand the idea of Europe. The book focuses on three cultural initiatives: the European Capital of Culture, the European Heritage Label, and a European Citizen Campus project funded through the Creative Europe programme. These initiatives ar…
Conclusions: Europe’s Lived Space
In this book we explored how the participants in EU cultural initiatives construct notions of Europe and the 'European' , what concrete meanings they give to them, and how they build their own relations to Europe. Hence, the focus was the construction of Europe and belonging to it from below. The analysis of our three cases, the European Capital of Culture (ECOC), the European Citizen Campus (ECC), and the European Heritage Label (EHL), clearly s…
Cross Analysis of the Case Studies
Our methodological innovation, ethnography of Europeanization, offers a multi-dimensional and intersectional approach to how people construct Europe and their notion of belonging to it at different social and cultural locations. We explore this in data sets from three EU cultural initiatives -the European Capital of Culture (ECOC), the European Citizen Campus (ECC), and the European Heritage Label (EHL). In our three case studies, various social …
Politics of Belonging: Concepts and Method
We focus on studying citizens' subjective sense of belonging as well as how their construction of belonging interacts with agendas to enhance it in and through EU cultural initiatives, which we consider as politics of belonging. We understand politics of belonging in EU cultural policy as constructing and conveying notions about Europe and the 'European' to a wider public through diverse discursive, narrative, and cultural resources, which help t…
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