Johanna Ranta
Biographic Data
| ID | 4250312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanna Ranta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Ranta |
| SIGNATURE | RANTA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2064-3110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Multi‐Placed Outreach Work With People Who Use Drugs
People who use drugs (PWUD) may face problems accessing social and health service facilities, for instance, due to the fear of stigmatising encounters. This may prevent them from receiving the support they need. Outreach work has been developed to promote service accessibility by encountering PWUD in their everyday environments, such as on streets, in parks, in homes, and online. We define this as multi‐placed outreach work to understand the need…
Constructing residents’ (un)deservingness and rights in the urban housing displacement processes
This study examines four housing displacement cases in Finnish cities, based on interviews with the residents and other actors involved in the displacement processes. It integrates theories from the housing displacement and deservingness literature. It asks what kinds of discourses on the residents’ deservingness and rights to housing and housing-related services are constructed in the interviews. The results demonstrate how binary discourses, na…
The materiality of home visits at the margins of community care before, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
Home as a risk environment
This study focuses on how clients using illicit drugs are supported in managing the boundaries of their homes to avoid the risks that social relationships may have on their daily lives at home. The data consist of 14 client–worker encounters audio‐recorded in 2017 in a Finnish home‐based service for people using drugs. Discursive interaction analysis and geographies of home were applied to examine how boundaries of homes are negotiated in relatio…
Home‐ and Community‐Based Work at the Margins of Welfare
By the end of the 20th century, deinstitutionalisation had become a pervasive trend in the Western world. This thematic issue discusses how successful deinstitutionalisation has been in enabling dignified and safe living with necessary services in local communities. It contributes to an understanding of the history and phases of deinstitutionalisation and ‘home turn’ policies, and sheds light on the grassroots‐level of home‐ and community‐based w…
Relational Autonomy and Service Choices in Social Worker–Client Conversations in an Outpatient Clinic for People Using Drugs
This article focuses on how clients’ self-determination is accomplished in social worker–client conversations when discussing choices of clients’ future services in a low-threshold outpatient clinic in Finland targeted at people who use drugs. Self-determination is approached from the point of view of relational autonomy, meaning that choices are never made completely independently but within certain societal and interactional contexts. The artic…
Doing data together - affective relations and mobile ethnography in home visits
This article is concerned with the doing and production of data. We ask how data are made in intimate spaces such as the home in collaboration with the different parties involved in home-based care and services. The article builds on ethnographic field notes from 73 home visits, in the context of home-based mental health, substance abuse and social care for adults in Finland and Sweden. Drawing on affect theory, the article aims to foreground asp…
Reducing harms through interactions
Doing data together - affective relations and mobile ethnography in home visits
This article is concerned with the doing and production of data. We ask how data are made in intimate spaces such as the home in collaboration with the different parties involved in home-based care and services. The article builds on ethnographic field notes from 73 home visits, in the context of home-based mental health, substance abuse and social care for adults in Finland and Sweden. Drawing on affect theory, the article aims to foreground asp…
Relational Autonomy and Service Choices in Social Worker–Client Conversations in an Outpatient Clinic for People Using Drugs
This article focuses on how clients’ self-determination is accomplished in social worker–client conversations when discussing choices of clients’ future services in a low-threshold outpatient clinic in Finland targeted at people who use drugs. Self-determination is approached from the point of view of relational autonomy, meaning that choices are never made completely independently but within certain societal and interactional contexts. The artic…
Multi‐Placed Outreach Work With People Who Use Drugs
People who use drugs (PWUD) may face problems accessing social and health service facilities, for instance, due to the fear of stigmatising encounters. This may prevent them from receiving the support they need. Outreach work has been developed to promote service accessibility by encountering PWUD in their everyday environments, such as on streets, in parks, in homes, and online. We define this as multi‐placed outreach work to understand the need…
Home as a risk environment
This study focuses on how clients using illicit drugs are supported in managing the boundaries of their homes to avoid the risks that social relationships may have on their daily lives at home. The data consist of 14 client–worker encounters audio‐recorded in 2017 in a Finnish home‐based service for people using drugs. Discursive interaction analysis and geographies of home were applied to examine how boundaries of homes are negotiated in relatio…
Reducing harms through interactions
Home‐ and Community‐Based Work at the Margins of Welfare
By the end of the 20th century, deinstitutionalisation had become a pervasive trend in the Western world. This thematic issue discusses how successful deinstitutionalisation has been in enabling dignified and safe living with necessary services in local communities. It contributes to an understanding of the history and phases of deinstitutionalisation and ‘home turn’ policies, and sheds light on the grassroots‐level of home‐ and community‐based w…
Relational Autonomy and Service Choices in Social Worker–Client Conversations in an Outpatient Clinic for People Using Drugs
This article focuses on how clients’ self-determination is accomplished in social worker–client conversations when discussing choices of clients’ future services in a low-threshold outpatient clinic in Finland targeted at people who use drugs. Self-determination is approached from the point of view of relational autonomy, meaning that choices are never made completely independently but within certain societal and interactional contexts. The artic…
Doing data together - affective relations and mobile ethnography in home visits
This article is concerned with the doing and production of data. We ask how data are made in intimate spaces such as the home in collaboration with the different parties involved in home-based care and services. The article builds on ethnographic field notes from 73 home visits, in the context of home-based mental health, substance abuse and social care for adults in Finland and Sweden. Drawing on affect theory, the article aims to foreground asp…
Home as a risk environment
This study focuses on how clients using illicit drugs are supported in managing the boundaries of their homes to avoid the risks that social relationships may have on their daily lives at home. The data consist of 14 client–worker encounters audio‐recorded in 2017 in a Finnish home‐based service for people using drugs. Discursive interaction analysis and geographies of home were applied to examine how boundaries of homes are negotiated in relatio…
The materiality of home visits at the margins of community care before, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
Multi‐Placed Outreach Work With People Who Use Drugs
People who use drugs (PWUD) may face problems accessing social and health service facilities, for instance, due to the fear of stigmatising encounters. This may prevent them from receiving the support they need. Outreach work has been developed to promote service accessibility by encountering PWUD in their everyday environments, such as on streets, in parks, in homes, and online. We define this as multi‐placed outreach work to understand the need…
Constructing residents’ (un)deservingness and rights in the urban housing displacement processes
This study examines four housing displacement cases in Finnish cities, based on interviews with the residents and other actors involved in the displacement processes. It integrates theories from the housing displacement and deservingness literature. It asks what kinds of discourses on the residents’ deservingness and rights to housing and housing-related services are constructed in the interviews. The results demonstrate how binary discourses, na…
Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social Work (5 works) · Business (4 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)