Johanna Vuorelma
Biographic Data
| ID | 607409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanna Vuorelma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Vuorelma |
| SIGNATURE | VUORELMA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1291-6430 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Performing Authority in Times of Crisis: Six Frames of Contested Authority During the Pandemic Era in Finland
The question of how authority is performed and gained is one of the classical puzzles in the study of politics. It is a particular salient question during crises when there are various types of societal reactions to the crisis. In this article, we study how public performances by pandemic authorities were evaluated during the intensive pandemic years 2020–2022 in Finland. We examine how unsuccessful pandemic authority was framed, focusing on inst…
An existential threat in the North: Ontological insecurity and the Nordic path to Nato
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine in 2022 unleashed a series of foreign and security policy changes in Europe. One of the most notable ruptures was the decision by Finland and Sweden to apply for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership in May 2022 after a long tradition of military non-alignment, which has deeply characterised their state identities. This article focuses on this foreign and security rupture from the perspect…
The Role of Expert Networks in Pandemic Governance and Recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic era witnessed an intense competition for knowledge, which was essentially a contest over whose knowledge becomes authoritative. In this article, we focus on the role of expert networks in contesting the official pandemic policy. We study specifically an expert network in Finland, consisting of researchers from different disciplines ranging from law to economics and medicine. What makes the case so intriguing is that the netw…
Framing the pandemic: From information to outformation in the Covid-19 era
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most mediatised health crisis in human history, involving a rapid circulation of knowledge in global networks and a continuous flow of spectacular images and narratives that have rendered the pandemic graspable in cultural, political, and moral terms. This article proposes that the intertwined nature of two opposite trends of knowledge production – scientific reasoning and affective storytelling – can be analyti…
Trust and authority in the age of mediatised politics
This article examines the role of trust in the age of mediatised politics. Authority, we suggest, can be successfully enacted despite the disrupted nature of the public sphere if both rational and moral trust are utilised to formulate validity claims. Drawing from Maarten A. Hajer's theorisation of authority in contemporary politics, we develop a model of how political actors and institutions as well as the media employ both rational and moral tr…
Trust in International Relations: Rationalist, Constructivist, and Psychological Approaches
Trust is a core concept in International Relations (IR), representing a key ingredient in state relations. It was only relatively recently that IR scholars began to probe what trust really is, how it can be studied, and how it affects state relations. In the process three distinct ways of theorising trust in IR have emerged: trust as a rational choice calculation, as a social phenomenon or as a psychological dimension. Trust in International Rela…
The Ironic Western Self: Radical and Conservative Irony in the ‘Losing Turkey’ Narrative
This article focuses on ironic narrative forms in international media and policy debates concerning political developments in Turkey during the era of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) in the 2000s. More specifically, the article examines the narrative of ‘losing’ Turkey, which has grown in significance during the AKP era, and argues that the metaphor also contains an ironic, self-critical reading that contribute…
Britain, Europe and national identity. Self and other in international relations
Britain, Europe and national identity. Self and other in international relations." National Identities, 19(2), pp. 289–290
A narrative battle: Debating Finland's EU policy during the economic crisis
The economic crisis in Europe has resulted in an unprecedented narrative battle in the traditionally consensus-driven Finland. National stereotypes and prejudices have been employed to situate Finland on the shifting political and moral map of Europe with the North–South division taking an important role in the narrative battle. Using a narrative approach to policy debates and following Erik Ringmar's work, this article analyses how Finland's Eur…
Trust in international relations – A useful tool
Trust and authority in the age of mediatised politics
This article examines the role of trust in the age of mediatised politics. Authority, we suggest, can be successfully enacted despite the disrupted nature of the public sphere if both rational and moral trust are utilised to formulate validity claims. Drawing from Maarten A. Hajer's theorisation of authority in contemporary politics, we develop a model of how political actors and institutions as well as the media employ both rational and moral tr…
The Role of Expert Networks in Pandemic Governance and Recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic era witnessed an intense competition for knowledge, which was essentially a contest over whose knowledge becomes authoritative. In this article, we focus on the role of expert networks in contesting the official pandemic policy. We study specifically an expert network in Finland, consisting of researchers from different disciplines ranging from law to economics and medicine. What makes the case so intriguing is that the netw…
The Ironic Western Self: Radical and Conservative Irony in the ‘Losing Turkey’ Narrative
This article focuses on ironic narrative forms in international media and policy debates concerning political developments in Turkey during the era of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) in the 2000s. More specifically, the article examines the narrative of ‘losing’ Turkey, which has grown in significance during the AKP era, and argues that the metaphor also contains an ironic, self-critical reading that contribute…
Trust in international relations – A useful tool
A narrative battle: Debating Finland's EU policy during the economic crisis
The economic crisis in Europe has resulted in an unprecedented narrative battle in the traditionally consensus-driven Finland. National stereotypes and prejudices have been employed to situate Finland on the shifting political and moral map of Europe with the North–South division taking an important role in the narrative battle. Using a narrative approach to policy debates and following Erik Ringmar's work, this article analyses how Finland's Eur…
Britain, Europe and national identity. Self and other in international relations
Britain, Europe and national identity. Self and other in international relations." National Identities, 19(2), pp. 289–290
Trust in International Relations: Rationalist, Constructivist, and Psychological Approaches
Trust is a core concept in International Relations (IR), representing a key ingredient in state relations. It was only relatively recently that IR scholars began to probe what trust really is, how it can be studied, and how it affects state relations. In the process three distinct ways of theorising trust in IR have emerged: trust as a rational choice calculation, as a social phenomenon or as a psychological dimension. Trust in International Rela…
The Ironic Western Self: Radical and Conservative Irony in the ‘Losing Turkey’ Narrative
This article focuses on ironic narrative forms in international media and policy debates concerning political developments in Turkey during the era of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) in the 2000s. More specifically, the article examines the narrative of ‘losing’ Turkey, which has grown in significance during the AKP era, and argues that the metaphor also contains an ironic, self-critical reading that contribute…
Framing the pandemic: From information to outformation in the Covid-19 era
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most mediatised health crisis in human history, involving a rapid circulation of knowledge in global networks and a continuous flow of spectacular images and narratives that have rendered the pandemic graspable in cultural, political, and moral terms. This article proposes that the intertwined nature of two opposite trends of knowledge production – scientific reasoning and affective storytelling – can be analyti…
Trust and authority in the age of mediatised politics
This article examines the role of trust in the age of mediatised politics. Authority, we suggest, can be successfully enacted despite the disrupted nature of the public sphere if both rational and moral trust are utilised to formulate validity claims. Drawing from Maarten A. Hajer's theorisation of authority in contemporary politics, we develop a model of how political actors and institutions as well as the media employ both rational and moral tr…
The Role of Expert Networks in Pandemic Governance and Recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic era witnessed an intense competition for knowledge, which was essentially a contest over whose knowledge becomes authoritative. In this article, we focus on the role of expert networks in contesting the official pandemic policy. We study specifically an expert network in Finland, consisting of researchers from different disciplines ranging from law to economics and medicine. What makes the case so intriguing is that the netw…
Performing Authority in Times of Crisis: Six Frames of Contested Authority During the Pandemic Era in Finland
The question of how authority is performed and gained is one of the classical puzzles in the study of politics. It is a particular salient question during crises when there are various types of societal reactions to the crisis. In this article, we study how public performances by pandemic authorities were evaluated during the intensive pandemic years 2020–2022 in Finland. We examine how unsuccessful pandemic authority was framed, focusing on inst…
An existential threat in the North: Ontological insecurity and the Nordic path to Nato
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine in 2022 unleashed a series of foreign and security policy changes in Europe. One of the most notable ruptures was the decision by Finland and Sweden to apply for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership in May 2022 after a long tradition of military non-alignment, which has deeply characterised their state identities. This article focuses on this foreign and security rupture from the perspect…
Political science (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Pandemic (3 works)