Päivi Korvajärvi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4174776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Päivi Korvajärvi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Päivi |
| FAMILY NAME | Korvajärvi |
| SIGNATURE | KORVAJÄRVI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9954-8022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Relational Reflecting and Redoing of Gender Identity Through Migration
The article considers Finnish “techno wives”: female migrants who had settled in San Diego and Silicon Valley following their husbands’ recruitment by US-based technology companies, such as Nokia, for fixed-term or permanent jobs. We discuss how the women consciously reflected on their culturally internalized ways of “doing gender,” and how they had reoriented their aims, values, practices, and hopes through migration. The study was based on ethn…
Making choices but few changes
Based on the identification of the discourse of choice in debates on neoliberalism, meritocracy and post-feminism, this article analyses how highly educated mothers position themselves within the discourse of choice and use choice as their discursive resource when reflecting on how their demanding careers combine with motherhood. The data come from 26 interviews with mothers employed in research and innovation in Finland. The analysis reveals fiv…
Doing/Undoing Gender in Research and Innovation – Practicing Downplaying and Doubt
The aim of this article is to analyse the ways in which highly educated women ‘do’ and ‘undo’ gender when they reflect on their work and careers in research and innovation (R&I). The broader research task is to identify the gendering effects that ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ gender achieve in R&I work. The findings indicate a constant uncertainty among interviewees about whether gender is significant at work. There are few signs of interviewees ‘undoing…
Being positive, being hopeful, being happy
The aim of this article is to analyse the ways in which young adults reflect on their futures. We are particularly interested in how they expect to organize their lives in conditions that seem to offer pessimistic rather than hopeful prospects. How does this happen under social conditions where the major public and individual concerns are with how young adults organize their material lives and how they earn sufficient livelihoods to become good c…
Separated by common methods? Researchers and journalists doing expertise
In this article, we address emerging tensions between researchers and journalists in our research project on formations of new divisions among young adults in Finland. We focus on interviewing as a method of data gathering, and on framing as a method of presenting research results. Writing from the point of view of academic researchers, our analysis shows that journalists' and researchers' ways of doing expertise, such as techniques for asking qu…
A classroom of our own
This article analyses interdisciplinary practices produced and reproduced in Women's/Gender Studies teaching and curricula at the local level. In particular, the focus is on the role of communities of practice. The analysis shows that the interaction patterns in the WS/GS communities of practice have undergone fundamental transformations from informal networking within an emergent feminist academic community to diverse institutionally driven inte…
Power and pedagogy II
In this issue we present the second part of the Open forum thematic section on ‘Power and pedagogy’, which continues the debates initiated with the set of papers published in Vol. 18, No. 3 of the European Journal of Women’s Studies.1 In this two-part thematic section a group of European feminist scholars who jointly developed and taught a 10-day interdisciplinary graduate-level course on ‘Practising Interdisciplinarity in European Gender Studies…
Attracting customers through practising gender in call-centre work
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate and analyse various ways in which gender is used as a resource when call-centre firms and their employees create customer relationships. Drawing on interviews in a case study call centre it argues that men and women are understood to work differently from the point of view of attracting customers. Men are found important as individuals and through technology-related services, whereas women are conceived as …
Women in Non‐Traditional Occupations. Challenging Men
Reproducing Gendered Hierarchies in Everyday Work
This paper is concerned with the dynamics of producing gendered hierarchies in the workplace. While the focus is on the present day, developments over the past ten years are also examined. The term ‘doing gender’ is adopted as a method of outlining these dynamics within seemingly static gendered hierarchies. Within the case study organization, a Finnish employment office, the ways of doing gender have shifted from maintaining gendered hierarchic …
Women in Non‐Traditional Occupations. Challenging Men
Reproducing Gendered Hierarchies in Everyday Work
This paper is concerned with the dynamics of producing gendered hierarchies in the workplace. While the focus is on the present day, developments over the past ten years are also examined. The term ‘doing gender’ is adopted as a method of outlining these dynamics within seemingly static gendered hierarchies. Within the case study organization, a Finnish employment office, the ways of doing gender have shifted from maintaining gendered hierarchic …
Being positive, being hopeful, being happy
The aim of this article is to analyse the ways in which young adults reflect on their futures. We are particularly interested in how they expect to organize their lives in conditions that seem to offer pessimistic rather than hopeful prospects. How does this happen under social conditions where the major public and individual concerns are with how young adults organize their material lives and how they earn sufficient livelihoods to become good c…
A classroom of our own
This article analyses interdisciplinary practices produced and reproduced in Women's/Gender Studies teaching and curricula at the local level. In particular, the focus is on the role of communities of practice. The analysis shows that the interaction patterns in the WS/GS communities of practice have undergone fundamental transformations from informal networking within an emergent feminist academic community to diverse institutionally driven inte…
Making choices but few changes
Based on the identification of the discourse of choice in debates on neoliberalism, meritocracy and post-feminism, this article analyses how highly educated mothers position themselves within the discourse of choice and use choice as their discursive resource when reflecting on how their demanding careers combine with motherhood. The data come from 26 interviews with mothers employed in research and innovation in Finland. The analysis reveals fiv…
Separated by common methods? Researchers and journalists doing expertise
In this article, we address emerging tensions between researchers and journalists in our research project on formations of new divisions among young adults in Finland. We focus on interviewing as a method of data gathering, and on framing as a method of presenting research results. Writing from the point of view of academic researchers, our analysis shows that journalists' and researchers' ways of doing expertise, such as techniques for asking qu…
Reproducing Gendered Hierarchies in Everyday Work
This paper is concerned with the dynamics of producing gendered hierarchies in the workplace. While the focus is on the present day, developments over the past ten years are also examined. The term ‘doing gender’ is adopted as a method of outlining these dynamics within seemingly static gendered hierarchies. Within the case study organization, a Finnish employment office, the ways of doing gender have shifted from maintaining gendered hierarchic …
Women in Non‐Traditional Occupations. Challenging Men
Attracting customers through practising gender in call-centre work
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate and analyse various ways in which gender is used as a resource when call-centre firms and their employees create customer relationships. Drawing on interviews in a case study call centre it argues that men and women are understood to work differently from the point of view of attracting customers. Men are found important as individuals and through technology-related services, whereas women are conceived as …
Power and pedagogy II
In this issue we present the second part of the Open forum thematic section on ‘Power and pedagogy’, which continues the debates initiated with the set of papers published in Vol. 18, No. 3 of the European Journal of Women’s Studies.1 In this two-part thematic section a group of European feminist scholars who jointly developed and taught a 10-day interdisciplinary graduate-level course on ‘Practising Interdisciplinarity in European Gender Studies…
A classroom of our own
This article analyses interdisciplinary practices produced and reproduced in Women's/Gender Studies teaching and curricula at the local level. In particular, the focus is on the role of communities of practice. The analysis shows that the interaction patterns in the WS/GS communities of practice have undergone fundamental transformations from informal networking within an emergent feminist academic community to diverse institutionally driven inte…
Separated by common methods? Researchers and journalists doing expertise
In this article, we address emerging tensions between researchers and journalists in our research project on formations of new divisions among young adults in Finland. We focus on interviewing as a method of data gathering, and on framing as a method of presenting research results. Writing from the point of view of academic researchers, our analysis shows that journalists' and researchers' ways of doing expertise, such as techniques for asking qu…
Being positive, being hopeful, being happy
The aim of this article is to analyse the ways in which young adults reflect on their futures. We are particularly interested in how they expect to organize their lives in conditions that seem to offer pessimistic rather than hopeful prospects. How does this happen under social conditions where the major public and individual concerns are with how young adults organize their material lives and how they earn sufficient livelihoods to become good c…
Doing/Undoing Gender in Research and Innovation – Practicing Downplaying and Doubt
The aim of this article is to analyse the ways in which highly educated women ‘do’ and ‘undo’ gender when they reflect on their work and careers in research and innovation (R&I). The broader research task is to identify the gendering effects that ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ gender achieve in R&I work. The findings indicate a constant uncertainty among interviewees about whether gender is significant at work. There are few signs of interviewees ‘undoing…
Making choices but few changes
Based on the identification of the discourse of choice in debates on neoliberalism, meritocracy and post-feminism, this article analyses how highly educated mothers position themselves within the discourse of choice and use choice as their discursive resource when reflecting on how their demanding careers combine with motherhood. The data come from 26 interviews with mothers employed in research and innovation in Finland. The analysis reveals fiv…
Relational Reflecting and Redoing of Gender Identity Through Migration
The article considers Finnish “techno wives”: female migrants who had settled in San Diego and Silicon Valley following their husbands’ recruitment by US-based technology companies, such as Nokia, for fixed-term or permanent jobs. We discuss how the women consciously reflected on their culturally internalized ways of “doing gender,” and how they had reoriented their aims, values, practices, and hopes through migration. The study was based on ethn…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Doing gender (2 works)