Reetta Toivanen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5184615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reetta Toivanen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reetta |
| FAMILY NAME | Toivanen |
| SIGNATURE | TOIVANEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1441-6272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reproducing inequality through ambivalence, ignorance, and innocence – Revisiting practices of equality and human rights in Finnish teacher education
Finland has repeatedly been presented as a “success story” of equality and education, promoter of human rights and included equality and human rights as part of national curricula. However, research has shown the slow progress of integrating topics of equality and human rights in teacher education despite hundreds of project-based interventions during the past 50 years. We used historically informed discursive reading drawing from the existent li…
Protecting indigenous identities? An example of cultural expertise on sámi identity
The national law of Finland identify criteria of belonging to the Indigenous Sámi in order to protect their cultural heritage and identity. In Finland, the electoral committee of the representative organ of Sámi Indigenous Peoples, the Sámi Parliament, decides who fulfills the criteria for being Sámi and thus is included in the electoral roll. Since its establishment, the Sámi Parliament has rejected hundreds of applications by persons not recogn…
Young People, Wellbeing and Placemaking in the Arctic
In this chapter, we explore accounts and challenges of ‘independence’ of young adults, aged 18-24, who have sought support from the Youth Shelters (YS) run by the Finnish Red Cross. Many of these young adults have been customers of various welfare services, and their trajectories to adulthood diverge from the normative model of life course that expects smooth and timely transitions from education to work and from childhood nuclear family to indep…
Perils of an open Arctic
Bridge over troubled water: Managing compatibility and conflict among thought collectives in sustainability science
Sustainability transformations call forth new forms and systems of knowledge across society. However, few tools and processes exist for promoting dialogue among different interests and normative stances in knowledge co-creation. In this article, we build on the notion of thought collectives to argue that understanding and moderating normative tensions are necessary if sustainability science is to provide successful solutions. Drawing on an analys…
Arctic youth transcending notions of ‘culture’ and ‘nature’: Emancipative discourses of place for cultural sustainability
This article presents research on contradictory representations of the Arctic and its inhabitants from the point of view of sustainable development. Indigenous peoples are repeatedly presented as connected to nature but outside politics, while business and state stakeholders portray the Arctic as uninhabited and utilizable for extractivism. These depictions diminish the agency of indigenous Sámi in political decision-making, agency that is integr…
Counterterrorism and expert regimes: Some human rights concerns
This article focuses on authoritative knowledge on terrorism and counterterrorism: its production, application, and legitimation. The question is as follows: What are the possible consequences for the application of internationally agreed human rights standards when democratic governments (are forced to) rely on expert knowledge in the planning and execution of their counterterrorism strategies? The specialty of the expert knowledge discussed in …
Counterterrorism and expert regimes: Some human rights concerns
This article focuses on authoritative knowledge on terrorism and counterterrorism: its production, application, and legitimation. The question is as follows: What are the possible consequences for the application of internationally agreed human rights standards when democratic governments (are forced to) rely on expert knowledge in the planning and execution of their counterterrorism strategies? The specialty of the expert knowledge discussed in …
Bridge over troubled water: Managing compatibility and conflict among thought collectives in sustainability science
Sustainability transformations call forth new forms and systems of knowledge across society. However, few tools and processes exist for promoting dialogue among different interests and normative stances in knowledge co-creation. In this article, we build on the notion of thought collectives to argue that understanding and moderating normative tensions are necessary if sustainability science is to provide successful solutions. Drawing on an analys…
Protecting indigenous identities? An example of cultural expertise on sámi identity
The national law of Finland identify criteria of belonging to the Indigenous Sámi in order to protect their cultural heritage and identity. In Finland, the electoral committee of the representative organ of Sámi Indigenous Peoples, the Sámi Parliament, decides who fulfills the criteria for being Sámi and thus is included in the electoral roll. Since its establishment, the Sámi Parliament has rejected hundreds of applications by persons not recogn…
Counterterrorism and expert regimes: Some human rights concerns
This article focuses on authoritative knowledge on terrorism and counterterrorism: its production, application, and legitimation. The question is as follows: What are the possible consequences for the application of internationally agreed human rights standards when democratic governments (are forced to) rely on expert knowledge in the planning and execution of their counterterrorism strategies? The specialty of the expert knowledge discussed in …
Arctic youth transcending notions of ‘culture’ and ‘nature’: Emancipative discourses of place for cultural sustainability
This article presents research on contradictory representations of the Arctic and its inhabitants from the point of view of sustainable development. Indigenous peoples are repeatedly presented as connected to nature but outside politics, while business and state stakeholders portray the Arctic as uninhabited and utilizable for extractivism. These depictions diminish the agency of indigenous Sámi in political decision-making, agency that is integr…
Young People, Wellbeing and Placemaking in the Arctic
In this chapter, we explore accounts and challenges of ‘independence’ of young adults, aged 18-24, who have sought support from the Youth Shelters (YS) run by the Finnish Red Cross. Many of these young adults have been customers of various welfare services, and their trajectories to adulthood diverge from the normative model of life course that expects smooth and timely transitions from education to work and from childhood nuclear family to indep…
Perils of an open Arctic
Bridge over troubled water: Managing compatibility and conflict among thought collectives in sustainability science
Sustainability transformations call forth new forms and systems of knowledge across society. However, few tools and processes exist for promoting dialogue among different interests and normative stances in knowledge co-creation. In this article, we build on the notion of thought collectives to argue that understanding and moderating normative tensions are necessary if sustainability science is to provide successful solutions. Drawing on an analys…
Protecting indigenous identities? An example of cultural expertise on sámi identity
The national law of Finland identify criteria of belonging to the Indigenous Sámi in order to protect their cultural heritage and identity. In Finland, the electoral committee of the representative organ of Sámi Indigenous Peoples, the Sámi Parliament, decides who fulfills the criteria for being Sámi and thus is included in the electoral roll. Since its establishment, the Sámi Parliament has rejected hundreds of applications by persons not recogn…
Reproducing inequality through ambivalence, ignorance, and innocence – Revisiting practices of equality and human rights in Finnish teacher education
Finland has repeatedly been presented as a “success story” of equality and education, promoter of human rights and included equality and human rights as part of national curricula. However, research has shown the slow progress of integrating topics of equality and human rights in teacher education despite hundreds of project-based interventions during the past 50 years. We used historically informed discursive reading drawing from the existent li…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (3 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Arctic (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works)