Sanna Karkulehto
Biographic Data
| ID | 4461084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanna Karkulehto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Karkulehto |
| SIGNATURE | KARKULEHTO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7267-9612 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Release the Dogs
US hip-hop culture has cherished pitbulls and dogfighting and highlighted the aggressive image of pitbulls. As hip-hop has spread across the world, pitbulls and the cultural imagery and meanings they carry have traveled as part of globalized culture. This article studies pitbulls’ intra-active agency in Finnish rap music videos with the method of diffractive reading. The videos are categorized into two types: In one type of video, the dogs are ma…
Planetary activism at the end of the world
We are currently experiencing a planetary crisis that will lead, if worst comes to worst, to the end of the entire world as we know it. Several feminist scholars have suggested that if the Earth is to stay livable for humans and nonhumans alike, the ways in which many human beings – particularly in the wealthy parts of the world, infested with Eurocentrism, (neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, and capitalism – inhabit this planet requires radical, et…
Planetary well-being
Tensions between the well-being of present humans, future humans, and nonhuman nature manifest in social protests and political and academic debates over the future of Earth. The increasing consumption of natural resources no longer increases, let alone equalises, human well-being, but has led to the current ecological crisis and harms both human and nonhuman well-being. While the crisis has been acknowledged, the existing conceptual frameworks a…
Violence, Gender and Affect
Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture
The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture tackles this severe matter within the framework of literary and cultural studies. The emphasis of the inquiry is on the various ways actual and fictiona…
In-Between
This article discusses intersections of genres and genders and their theorization in the contemporary literary scene and suggests a queer reading of a short-listed contemporary Finnish novel, written by the well-known author and theatre figure Pirkko Saisio. The aim of the article is to present feminist genre theories, influenced by Bakhtinian conception of genres, Foucauldian and Butlerian theorizations of genders and sexualities, and the critic…
In-Between
This article discusses intersections of genres and genders and their theorization in the contemporary literary scene and suggests a queer reading of a short-listed contemporary Finnish novel, written by the well-known author and theatre figure Pirkko Saisio. The aim of the article is to present feminist genre theories, influenced by Bakhtinian conception of genres, Foucauldian and Butlerian theorizations of genders and sexualities, and the critic…
Planetary activism at the end of the world
We are currently experiencing a planetary crisis that will lead, if worst comes to worst, to the end of the entire world as we know it. Several feminist scholars have suggested that if the Earth is to stay livable for humans and nonhumans alike, the ways in which many human beings – particularly in the wealthy parts of the world, infested with Eurocentrism, (neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, and capitalism – inhabit this planet requires radical, et…
In-Between
This article discusses intersections of genres and genders and their theorization in the contemporary literary scene and suggests a queer reading of a short-listed contemporary Finnish novel, written by the well-known author and theatre figure Pirkko Saisio. The aim of the article is to present feminist genre theories, influenced by Bakhtinian conception of genres, Foucauldian and Butlerian theorizations of genders and sexualities, and the critic…
Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture
The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture tackles this severe matter within the framework of literary and cultural studies. The emphasis of the inquiry is on the various ways actual and fictiona…
Planetary well-being
Tensions between the well-being of present humans, future humans, and nonhuman nature manifest in social protests and political and academic debates over the future of Earth. The increasing consumption of natural resources no longer increases, let alone equalises, human well-being, but has led to the current ecological crisis and harms both human and nonhuman well-being. While the crisis has been acknowledged, the existing conceptual frameworks a…
Violence, Gender and Affect
Planetary activism at the end of the world
We are currently experiencing a planetary crisis that will lead, if worst comes to worst, to the end of the entire world as we know it. Several feminist scholars have suggested that if the Earth is to stay livable for humans and nonhumans alike, the ways in which many human beings – particularly in the wealthy parts of the world, infested with Eurocentrism, (neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, and capitalism – inhabit this planet requires radical, et…
Release the Dogs
US hip-hop culture has cherished pitbulls and dogfighting and highlighted the aggressive image of pitbulls. As hip-hop has spread across the world, pitbulls and the cultural imagery and meanings they carry have traveled as part of globalized culture. This article studies pitbulls’ intra-active agency in Finnish rap music videos with the method of diffractive reading. The videos are categorized into two types: In one type of video, the dogs are ma…
Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)