Jenny Rinkinen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 384937 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jenny Rinkinen |
| NOMBRES | Jenny |
| APELLIDO | Rinkinen |
| FIRMA | RINKINEN J |
| AFILIACIONES | Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0160-6886 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
What goes in, must come out
Maps in the service of sociotechnical imaginaries of energy transition
Maps are mediums that serve the construction and stabilisation of STIs. • Maps highlight energy transition as a technical and linear, expert-driven process. • Maps reveal the spatial distribution of energy infrastructure and idealised spaces. • Maps fail to address relational spatial and justice aspects of energy transition. • More mappings of alternative energy futures are needed. Maps are widely used in planning and guiding energy systems towar…
Evolving practice bundles and the dynamics of adequacy in summer cottage living
Summer cottages are a long-standing yet evolving part of Finnish culture, traditionally associated with less resource-intensive living than primary homes. Over time, these secondary rural spaces have increasingly incorporated infrastructures and practices associated with primary home convenience. This study investigates how resource use in cottage life evolves through changing bundles of social practices. Using archived writings of cottage memori…
Air travel in everyday life
The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the aviation sector has sparked discussions on relevant technological innovations, market-based measures and behavioural changes. However, these conversations often overlook the fundamental aspect of demand. Rather than treating flying as an isolated activity, this study examines how the demand for flying is deeply embedded in everyday life and interconnected with other social practices. Throu…
Disruptions and energy demand
Europe faced an energy crisis in 2022 because of the Russian war in Ukraine. Households throughout Europe were expected to show solidarity and reduce and shift their energy use. Rapidly rising energy prices threatened the economic survival of many households. Relying on a social practice–theoretical approach, our research empirically examines the experiences of households across Finland during the energy-crisis winter of 2022–2023. Based on focus…
Already at the minimum? Narratives of energy-use reduction in Finnish households
To combat the global problem of unsustainability, absolute reductions in energy use are needed, particularly in the Global North. There is an urgent need for a better understanding of the possible routes for reduction that go beyond abstracted technological solutions or efficiency improvements, as well as a need for a deeper insight into how the potential for reduction is currently framed. We use a citizen survey on perceptions of energy-use redu…
Taking the car out of the countryside
There is an urgent need to decarbonize mobility. Yet, the necessary policies risk compounding existing vulnerabilities and controversies and creating new ones, potentially leading to political polarization. One affected population consists of people living in rural peripheries. Drawing from a Finnish public consultation survey ( n = 18,378), we explore how rural participants ( n = 4995) experience policies and proposals to decarbonize mobility: h…
Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis
The energy crisis that began in late 2021 and escalated after the war in Ukraine in early 2022 was seen as a disruption accelerating the energy transition in Europe. It forced households to save energy and change their patterns of energy use in a struggle to cut dependency on Russian energy, and in public discussions, various kinds of agency were required from and allocated to households. In this article, we analyze a total of 220 articles on ene…
Valuing energy solutions in the housing markets
New energy technologies present opportunities for low-carbon housing but also significant upfront costs for house owners. Due to the long service life of such technologies, market valuation impacts on the feasibility of such investments. Yet, existing evidence on the market valuation of energy investments in private housing is inconclusive. Furthermore, despite significant policy efforts, energy performance certificates remain ineffective. This p…
Conceptualising urban density, energy demand and social practice
In urban studies and in energy policy there is much debate about the relationship between energy demand and the density of residential areas, measured in units such as those of population/ha or population/km 2 . A different approach is presented in this paper. Rather than evaluating the relative merits of compact or sprawling urban forms, the focus is on the spatial configuration of the infrastructures, appliances and systems of provision on whic…
Conceptualising Demand
This book addresses fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how is it constituted, how does it change and how might it be steered
Seeing Wood for the Trees
Becoming academics
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how global and local changes in higher education impact upon writing practices through which doctoral students become academics. The study explores how norms and values of academic writing practice are learned, negotiated and resisted and elucidates how competences related to writing come to determine the academic selves. Design/methodology/approach The study uses memory work, which is a group metho…
Cold chains in Hanoi and Bangkok
We know that patterns of domestic consumption are situated within broader systems of provision and that home appliances like the fridge freezer bridge between practices of cooking, shopping and eating, on one hand, and increasingly global systems of food production, distribution and diet on the other. In analysing the uses of fridge freezers in Hanoi and Bangkok as expressions, in microcosm, of complex and evolving processes of urbanisation and f…
The rhythms of infrastructure
Technology organizes social life in different ways. This article focuses on the temporal ordering brought about by household energy technologies and the broader infrastructures upon which they depend. Such technology saves time, and the energy services so provided allow for comfort, flexibility and the independence from natural rhythms. While many such services are produced by distant infrastructures, the technology is neither invisible nor imper…
The local community as a “low-carbon lab
Object Relations in Accounts of Everyday Life
Theories of social practice routinely acknowledge the significance of the material world, arguing that objects have a constitutive role in shaping and reproducing the practices of which daily life is made. Objects are also important for those who approach 'everyday life' as an ontology, a tradition in which scholarly interest in the material reaches beyond the somewhat pragmatic concerns of practice theory. In this article we identify traces of b…
The Emergence of Niche Protection through Policies
The literature of Strategic Niche Management has rarely discussed how the SNM policies come to amend the existing policies. Through an in-depth study on the development of electric vehicles field in Finland, we show, fi rstly, how niche actors mobilize protection by policies for their technology through systematic expectations work, and, secondly, how the politicians strategically select technologies to be protected. By zooming in on the emergenc…
Stacking wood and staying warm
This paper presents a study of the socio-technical ordering of time around wood-fuelled heating systems of detached houses. It analyses the sequences and rhythms that organize the work of domestic heating, its synchronization with other daily activities, and tempo as the subjective experience of time in these activities. The study is based on a large, pre-existing Finnish free-form diary collection. We suggest that domestic energy technologies be…
The local community as a “low-carbon lab
Stacking wood and staying warm
This paper presents a study of the socio-technical ordering of time around wood-fuelled heating systems of detached houses. It analyses the sequences and rhythms that organize the work of domestic heating, its synchronization with other daily activities, and tempo as the subjective experience of time in these activities. The study is based on a large, pre-existing Finnish free-form diary collection. We suggest that domestic energy technologies be…
Object Relations in Accounts of Everyday Life
Theories of social practice routinely acknowledge the significance of the material world, arguing that objects have a constitutive role in shaping and reproducing the practices of which daily life is made. Objects are also important for those who approach 'everyday life' as an ontology, a tradition in which scholarly interest in the material reaches beyond the somewhat pragmatic concerns of practice theory. In this article we identify traces of b…
The rhythms of infrastructure
Technology organizes social life in different ways. This article focuses on the temporal ordering brought about by household energy technologies and the broader infrastructures upon which they depend. Such technology saves time, and the energy services so provided allow for comfort, flexibility and the independence from natural rhythms. While many such services are produced by distant infrastructures, the technology is neither invisible nor imper…
Cold chains in Hanoi and Bangkok
We know that patterns of domestic consumption are situated within broader systems of provision and that home appliances like the fridge freezer bridge between practices of cooking, shopping and eating, on one hand, and increasingly global systems of food production, distribution and diet on the other. In analysing the uses of fridge freezers in Hanoi and Bangkok as expressions, in microcosm, of complex and evolving processes of urbanisation and f…
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis
The energy crisis that began in late 2021 and escalated after the war in Ukraine in early 2022 was seen as a disruption accelerating the energy transition in Europe. It forced households to save energy and change their patterns of energy use in a struggle to cut dependency on Russian energy, and in public discussions, various kinds of agency were required from and allocated to households. In this article, we analyze a total of 220 articles on ene…
Taking the car out of the countryside
There is an urgent need to decarbonize mobility. Yet, the necessary policies risk compounding existing vulnerabilities and controversies and creating new ones, potentially leading to political polarization. One affected population consists of people living in rural peripheries. Drawing from a Finnish public consultation survey ( n = 18,378), we explore how rural participants ( n = 4995) experience policies and proposals to decarbonize mobility: h…
Disruptions and energy demand
Europe faced an energy crisis in 2022 because of the Russian war in Ukraine. Households throughout Europe were expected to show solidarity and reduce and shift their energy use. Rapidly rising energy prices threatened the economic survival of many households. Relying on a social practice–theoretical approach, our research empirically examines the experiences of households across Finland during the energy-crisis winter of 2022–2023. Based on focus…
Conceptualising urban density, energy demand and social practice
In urban studies and in energy policy there is much debate about the relationship between energy demand and the density of residential areas, measured in units such as those of population/ha or population/km 2 . A different approach is presented in this paper. Rather than evaluating the relative merits of compact or sprawling urban forms, the focus is on the spatial configuration of the infrastructures, appliances and systems of provision on whic…
Valuing energy solutions in the housing markets
New energy technologies present opportunities for low-carbon housing but also significant upfront costs for house owners. Due to the long service life of such technologies, market valuation impacts on the feasibility of such investments. Yet, existing evidence on the market valuation of energy investments in private housing is inconclusive. Furthermore, despite significant policy efforts, energy performance certificates remain ineffective. This p…
The Emergence of Niche Protection through Policies
The literature of Strategic Niche Management has rarely discussed how the SNM policies come to amend the existing policies. Through an in-depth study on the development of electric vehicles field in Finland, we show, fi rstly, how niche actors mobilize protection by policies for their technology through systematic expectations work, and, secondly, how the politicians strategically select technologies to be protected. By zooming in on the emergenc…
Stacking wood and staying warm
This paper presents a study of the socio-technical ordering of time around wood-fuelled heating systems of detached houses. It analyses the sequences and rhythms that organize the work of domestic heating, its synchronization with other daily activities, and tempo as the subjective experience of time in these activities. The study is based on a large, pre-existing Finnish free-form diary collection. We suggest that domestic energy technologies be…
The local community as a “low-carbon lab
Object Relations in Accounts of Everyday Life
Theories of social practice routinely acknowledge the significance of the material world, arguing that objects have a constitutive role in shaping and reproducing the practices of which daily life is made. Objects are also important for those who approach 'everyday life' as an ontology, a tradition in which scholarly interest in the material reaches beyond the somewhat pragmatic concerns of practice theory. In this article we identify traces of b…
The rhythms of infrastructure
Technology organizes social life in different ways. This article focuses on the temporal ordering brought about by household energy technologies and the broader infrastructures upon which they depend. Such technology saves time, and the energy services so provided allow for comfort, flexibility and the independence from natural rhythms. While many such services are produced by distant infrastructures, the technology is neither invisible nor imper…
Cold chains in Hanoi and Bangkok
We know that patterns of domestic consumption are situated within broader systems of provision and that home appliances like the fridge freezer bridge between practices of cooking, shopping and eating, on one hand, and increasingly global systems of food production, distribution and diet on the other. In analysing the uses of fridge freezers in Hanoi and Bangkok as expressions, in microcosm, of complex and evolving processes of urbanisation and f…
Seeing Wood for the Trees
Becoming academics
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how global and local changes in higher education impact upon writing practices through which doctoral students become academics. The study explores how norms and values of academic writing practice are learned, negotiated and resisted and elucidates how competences related to writing come to determine the academic selves. Design/methodology/approach The study uses memory work, which is a group metho…
Conceptualising Demand
This book addresses fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how is it constituted, how does it change and how might it be steered
Conceptualising urban density, energy demand and social practice
In urban studies and in energy policy there is much debate about the relationship between energy demand and the density of residential areas, measured in units such as those of population/ha or population/km 2 . A different approach is presented in this paper. Rather than evaluating the relative merits of compact or sprawling urban forms, the focus is on the spatial configuration of the infrastructures, appliances and systems of provision on whic…
Valuing energy solutions in the housing markets
New energy technologies present opportunities for low-carbon housing but also significant upfront costs for house owners. Due to the long service life of such technologies, market valuation impacts on the feasibility of such investments. Yet, existing evidence on the market valuation of energy investments in private housing is inconclusive. Furthermore, despite significant policy efforts, energy performance certificates remain ineffective. This p…
Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis
The energy crisis that began in late 2021 and escalated after the war in Ukraine in early 2022 was seen as a disruption accelerating the energy transition in Europe. It forced households to save energy and change their patterns of energy use in a struggle to cut dependency on Russian energy, and in public discussions, various kinds of agency were required from and allocated to households. In this article, we analyze a total of 220 articles on ene…
Already at the minimum? Narratives of energy-use reduction in Finnish households
To combat the global problem of unsustainability, absolute reductions in energy use are needed, particularly in the Global North. There is an urgent need for a better understanding of the possible routes for reduction that go beyond abstracted technological solutions or efficiency improvements, as well as a need for a deeper insight into how the potential for reduction is currently framed. We use a citizen survey on perceptions of energy-use redu…
Taking the car out of the countryside
There is an urgent need to decarbonize mobility. Yet, the necessary policies risk compounding existing vulnerabilities and controversies and creating new ones, potentially leading to political polarization. One affected population consists of people living in rural peripheries. Drawing from a Finnish public consultation survey ( n = 18,378), we explore how rural participants ( n = 4995) experience policies and proposals to decarbonize mobility: h…
Evolving practice bundles and the dynamics of adequacy in summer cottage living
Summer cottages are a long-standing yet evolving part of Finnish culture, traditionally associated with less resource-intensive living than primary homes. Over time, these secondary rural spaces have increasingly incorporated infrastructures and practices associated with primary home convenience. This study investigates how resource use in cottage life evolves through changing bundles of social practices. Using archived writings of cottage memori…
Air travel in everyday life
The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the aviation sector has sparked discussions on relevant technological innovations, market-based measures and behavioural changes. However, these conversations often overlook the fundamental aspect of demand. Rather than treating flying as an isolated activity, this study examines how the demand for flying is deeply embedded in everyday life and interconnected with other social practices. Throu…
Disruptions and energy demand
Europe faced an energy crisis in 2022 because of the Russian war in Ukraine. Households throughout Europe were expected to show solidarity and reduce and shift their energy use. Rapidly rising energy prices threatened the economic survival of many households. Relying on a social practice–theoretical approach, our research empirically examines the experiences of households across Finland during the energy-crisis winter of 2022–2023. Based on focus…
What goes in, must come out
Maps in the service of sociotechnical imaginaries of energy transition
Maps are mediums that serve the construction and stabilisation of STIs. • Maps highlight energy transition as a technical and linear, expert-driven process. • Maps reveal the spatial distribution of energy infrastructure and idealised spaces. • Maps fail to address relational spatial and justice aspects of energy transition. • More mappings of alternative energy futures are needed. Maps are widely used in planning and guiding energy systems towar…
Business (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (7 obras) · Engineering (6 obras) · Everyday life (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Energy (signal processing (5 obras) · Social science (5 obras)