Tapio Nykänen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4244640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tapio Nykänen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tapio |
| FAMILY NAME | Nykänen |
| SIGNATURE | NYKÄNEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lapland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4956-0362 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A layered account of Sámi naturecultural resilience: Justifications, engagements and affects
Civil Disobedience from Nepal to Norway: Traditions, Extensions, and Civility
In-Between Space/Time: Affective Exceptionality during the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Northern Finland
This article analyses the ‘European refugee crisis’ in the context of Northern Finland, building on the concepts of exceptionality and affect. Conventionally, exceptionality is conceptualised from the perspective of the state that does not enable analysing exceptional situations in their broader social context. A shift in focus is required to understand how people perceive and experience exceptionality and what kinds of affects this involves. Bas…
Imagination, Hope and the Migrant Journey: Iraqi Asylum Seekers Looking for a Future in Europe
Europe received an unprecedented number of asylum seekers in 2015. This article examines Iraqi asylum seekers who journeyed through Europe in search of an idealized version of Finland , which they had imagined based on word‐of‐mouth and social media information. Through cognitive migration, the act of pre‐experiencing futures in different locations, Finland was seen to offer both subjective hope of personal growth and advancement and objective ho…
Ethnic reindeer herders: Groupness among reindeer-herding Sámi in Northwest Finnish Lapland
In the article, we examine the ethnic groupness among Sámi reindeer herders in Northwest Finnish Lapland. According to our results, reindeer herders recognize different groupnessess. Sáminess is perceived as an ethnic and often local, family-related groupness. Moreover, Sámi ethnicity is closely bound to the local herding life on the fells, in the cultural landscape of nomadism. Finnishness, on the other hand, involves meanings relating to the st…
The Aloof Election Manifesto: Radical Political Right in Finland in the Borderlines of Neoliberalism and Cultural Nativism
The rise of the populist radical political right is one of the significant phenomena in recent European party politics. In this article, I examine the ideology of the radical right in Finland by analysing the Aloof Election Manifesto, an election platform published by radical wing of the Finns Party for national parliament elections 2011. The analysis shows that the ideology challenges traditional notions of nationalism. It combines cultural nati…
The Political Trinity of Conservative Laestadianism: God, His Kingdom and Authorities
This article aims at analyzing the concept of the authority in the theology of Conservative Laestadianism, the biggest revival movement inside Finnish Lutheran Church. Author argues that the concept of the authority has a form of a political trinity, where God, the Kingdom of God and secular authorities rule the world of the believer. Furthermore, Laestadianism is a particular and seemingly somewhat functional answer to the difficult challenge of…
Imagination, Hope and the Migrant Journey: Iraqi Asylum Seekers Looking for a Future in Europe
Europe received an unprecedented number of asylum seekers in 2015. This article examines Iraqi asylum seekers who journeyed through Europe in search of an idealized version of Finland , which they had imagined based on word‐of‐mouth and social media information. Through cognitive migration, the act of pre‐experiencing futures in different locations, Finland was seen to offer both subjective hope of personal growth and advancement and objective ho…
Ethnic reindeer herders: Groupness among reindeer-herding Sámi in Northwest Finnish Lapland
In the article, we examine the ethnic groupness among Sámi reindeer herders in Northwest Finnish Lapland. According to our results, reindeer herders recognize different groupnessess. Sáminess is perceived as an ethnic and often local, family-related groupness. Moreover, Sámi ethnicity is closely bound to the local herding life on the fells, in the cultural landscape of nomadism. Finnishness, on the other hand, involves meanings relating to the st…
The Political Trinity of Conservative Laestadianism: God, His Kingdom and Authorities
This article aims at analyzing the concept of the authority in the theology of Conservative Laestadianism, the biggest revival movement inside Finnish Lutheran Church. Author argues that the concept of the authority has a form of a political trinity, where God, the Kingdom of God and secular authorities rule the world of the believer. Furthermore, Laestadianism is a particular and seemingly somewhat functional answer to the difficult challenge of…
The Aloof Election Manifesto: Radical Political Right in Finland in the Borderlines of Neoliberalism and Cultural Nativism
The rise of the populist radical political right is one of the significant phenomena in recent European party politics. In this article, I examine the ideology of the radical right in Finland by analysing the Aloof Election Manifesto, an election platform published by radical wing of the Finns Party for national parliament elections 2011. The analysis shows that the ideology challenges traditional notions of nationalism. It combines cultural nati…
Imagination, Hope and the Migrant Journey: Iraqi Asylum Seekers Looking for a Future in Europe
Europe received an unprecedented number of asylum seekers in 2015. This article examines Iraqi asylum seekers who journeyed through Europe in search of an idealized version of Finland , which they had imagined based on word‐of‐mouth and social media information. Through cognitive migration, the act of pre‐experiencing futures in different locations, Finland was seen to offer both subjective hope of personal growth and advancement and objective ho…
Ethnic reindeer herders: Groupness among reindeer-herding Sámi in Northwest Finnish Lapland
In the article, we examine the ethnic groupness among Sámi reindeer herders in Northwest Finnish Lapland. According to our results, reindeer herders recognize different groupnessess. Sáminess is perceived as an ethnic and often local, family-related groupness. Moreover, Sámi ethnicity is closely bound to the local herding life on the fells, in the cultural landscape of nomadism. Finnishness, on the other hand, involves meanings relating to the st…
In-Between Space/Time: Affective Exceptionality during the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Northern Finland
This article analyses the ‘European refugee crisis’ in the context of Northern Finland, building on the concepts of exceptionality and affect. Conventionally, exceptionality is conceptualised from the perspective of the state that does not enable analysing exceptional situations in their broader social context. A shift in focus is required to understand how people perceive and experience exceptionality and what kinds of affects this involves. Bas…
Civil Disobedience from Nepal to Norway: Traditions, Extensions, and Civility
A layered account of Sámi naturecultural resilience: Justifications, engagements and affects
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Geography (2 works) · Historical Legal Studies and Society (2 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works)