Hanna-Mari Husu
Biographic Data
| ID | 90931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanna-Mari Husu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanna-Mari |
| FAMILY NAME | Husu |
| SIGNATURE | HUSU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8278-0949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Emotional Dynamics in Sustainability Transitions: Forest Machine Entrepreneurs Facing the Finnish Forestry Transition
This article explores the emotional dynamics of sustainability transitions through the case of Finnish forest machine entrepreneurs, a previously unstudied group of professionals located at the centre of the ongoing forestry transition in Finland. Drawing on 24 interviews, the article applies a typology of emotional dynamics in sustainability transitions. It identifies how forest machine entrepreneurs’ emotions—ranging from pride, trust and belon…
The Impact of Three Crises on the Hegemony of Finland's Nuclear Power Elite
Finland is a homogenous corporatist country characterised by a tight‐knit, consensus‐seeking nuclear power elite that has had a close relationship with Russia for decades. The Finnish nuclear power elite comprises state and governmental actors, political parties, large private companies, labour unions, energy producers and large‐scale industries. Using a neo‐Gramscian theorisation of power, we explore the Finnish nuclear power elite's discursive …
Framing the Future of Climate Migration in Finnish and Dutch News Media: Understanding Future Visions by Investigating Underlying Normative Judgement
In this article, we analyse the kinds of futures envisioned by Finnish and Dutch news media in relation to climate migration. We find four frames that are used to present the future: a catastrophe frame, a migrant‐positioning frame, an injustice frame and a panic‐alleviation frame. Each frame is underpinned by certain normative judgements, i.e. the frames are presented in normative ways that express values. The core normative judgements used to e…
Forest machine entrepreneurs’ emotional bonds and conflicts in the forestry transition in Finland
Sustainability transitions’ entanglements with the environment, the economy, and society can become manifest in challenges faced by groups with emotional attachments to place. This article examines how emotions contribute to conflict during sustainability transitions among forest machine entrepreneurs, a group of forest professionals whose livelihood is at the center of the ongoing forestry transition in Finland. The study is based on 24 intervie…
The Social Psychology of Framing: The Emotional Content of Finnish Anti-Wind Power Frames
Protests against wind power have become increasingly common in Western countries and in Finland. This article explores various anti-wind farm frames and their emotional dynamics and content. The framing approach highlights cognitive and constructive rather than emotional aspects. However, social-psychological understanding of emotions enables us to recognise those types of emotions that give content to a specific frame and are essential to unders…
Recognition in Targeted Youth Work: Young Adults’ Experiences of Care, Respect, and Esteem
This article develops a framework, based on recognition theory, for examining youth work services that target young Finnish adults who are not in education or employment. It complements previous research by examining targeted youth work (TYW) as an institutional context with specific ways of recognising young adults. Drawing upon Axel Honneth’s recognition theory and Randall Collins’ interaction ritual theory, it explores how the context can prov…
Rethinking incumbency: Utilising Bourdieu's field, capital, and habitus to explain energy transitions
Energy transition studies are increasingly interested in power. This article explores Pierre Bourdieu's central concepts of field, capital, and habitus considering their relevance in the context of the energy transition. Bourdieu's work on power has not been used systematically in energy transition studies to date. However, it offers advantages in describing the positions of different actors based on the possession of capital, power imbalances an…
The formation of feed-in tariffs and the emergence of wind power in Finnish routine corporatism: Favoring the Economics of Large-Scale Energy Production
We explore the role and influence of the Finnish energy elite’s inner circle in the process of transition to renewable energy. Finland is a corporatist country where economic interest groups have privileged access to government decision-making circles. These dense networks reproduce decades-long energy policy structures that have always favored centralized electricity production, a model now implemented in renewable energy production. We address …
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…
Loneliness and interaction ritual theory: Failed interaction chains among Finnish university students
This article relates loneliness to interaction ritual theory, understanding loneliness in terms of problematic microinteractional dynamics. The advantage of interaction ritual theory is that it extends our understanding of the issue of the psychologised self and related questions such as how loneliness feels or is experienced. Loneliness is here defined as a response to interaction representing relational understanding of emotions. Interaction ri…
Negative emotional consequences of labour market activation policies for long-term unemployed young adults in Finland
Purpose This article deals with the negative emotional consequences of active labour market policies (ALMPs) for long-term unemployed young adults in Finland. Although such policies may have positive effects, an exploration of their negative impacts reveals their problematic side effects. We explore various aspects of ALMP interventions that prevent individuals from gaining such positive outcomes and thus reduce their motivation to invest in the …
Becoming Politically Active: Life Courses and the Formation of Capitals among Young People of Migrant Origin in Finland
This article focuses on the life courses of young people of migrant origin who are active in civic and political fields in Finland. The aim is to analyse, from the micro-level life course perspective, the issues in their lives that have helped them to become active. The article draws on empirical data collected using participatory methods. Four young people of migrant origin participated in the research process and contributed to the data analysi…
Workers’ and volunteers’ ideas about the benefits of young people’s cultural participation: A critical capital-based approach
This article deals with non-profit sector and voluntary workers’ understandings of the benefits of young people’s participation in cultural and leisure projects in Central Finland. Active participation is highlighted on a policy level as a solution to social inequality, exclusion, and marginalisation among young people. The article focuses on the cultural, social, economic, and political dimensions of participation by exploring the advantages tha…
The formation of long-term unemployed young adults’ emotional capital during childhood: A Bourdieusian approach to emotional harm
This article focuses on the long-term formation of unemployed young adults’ emotional capital and the development of emotional dispositions during childhood. We use Bourdieu’s work and the concept of emotional capital to draw attention to the emotional dynamics of family and peer relations during childhood. Emotional capital is related to parents’ emotional involvement and investment in the child’s well-being, and it encompasses emotional skills …
Promoting neoliberal ideology in Finnish rural community development: The Creation of New Moral Actors
Today’s political ambitions are based on the neoliberal aspiration to diminish the state’s role and responsibilities, and to transfer those responsibilities to local communities and individuals in ways that idealise those communities, promising to ‘give power to the people’. Instead of highlighting individualism, neoliberalism now celebrates communities and participation. This article deals with the effects of this ideology with regard to Finnish…
Staying inside: Social withdrawal of the young, Finnish ‘Hikikomori’
This article explores socially withdrawn young Finnish people on an Internet forum who identify with the Japanese hikikomori phenomenon. We aim to overcome the dualism between sociology and psychology found in earlier research by referring to Pierre Bourdieu, who provides insights into how individual choices are constructed in accordance with wider social settings. We focus on the individual level and everyday choices, but we suggest that psychol…
Bourdieu and Social Movements: Considering Identity Movements in Terms of Field, Capital and Habitus
This article examines the explanatory capacity of Pierre Bourdieu's work in relation to social movements and, in particular, identity movements. It aims to provide a theoretical framework drawing on Bourdieu's central concepts of field, capital and habitus. These concepts are viewed as providing a theoretical toolkit that can be applied to convincingly explain aspects of social movements that social movement theories, such as political process th…
Bourdieu and Social Movements: Considering Identity Movements in Terms of Field, Capital and Habitus
This article examines the explanatory capacity of Pierre Bourdieu's work in relation to social movements and, in particular, identity movements. It aims to provide a theoretical framework drawing on Bourdieu's central concepts of field, capital and habitus. These concepts are viewed as providing a theoretical toolkit that can be applied to convincingly explain aspects of social movements that social movement theories, such as political process th…
Staying inside: Social withdrawal of the young, Finnish ‘Hikikomori’
This article explores socially withdrawn young Finnish people on an Internet forum who identify with the Japanese hikikomori phenomenon. We aim to overcome the dualism between sociology and psychology found in earlier research by referring to Pierre Bourdieu, who provides insights into how individual choices are constructed in accordance with wider social settings. We focus on the individual level and everyday choices, but we suggest that psychol…
Rethinking incumbency: Utilising Bourdieu's field, capital, and habitus to explain energy transitions
Energy transition studies are increasingly interested in power. This article explores Pierre Bourdieu's central concepts of field, capital, and habitus considering their relevance in the context of the energy transition. Bourdieu's work on power has not been used systematically in energy transition studies to date. However, it offers advantages in describing the positions of different actors based on the possession of capital, power imbalances an…
Forest machine entrepreneurs’ emotional bonds and conflicts in the forestry transition in Finland
Sustainability transitions’ entanglements with the environment, the economy, and society can become manifest in challenges faced by groups with emotional attachments to place. This article examines how emotions contribute to conflict during sustainability transitions among forest machine entrepreneurs, a group of forest professionals whose livelihood is at the center of the ongoing forestry transition in Finland. The study is based on 24 intervie…
The formation of feed-in tariffs and the emergence of wind power in Finnish routine corporatism: Favoring the Economics of Large-Scale Energy Production
We explore the role and influence of the Finnish energy elite’s inner circle in the process of transition to renewable energy. Finland is a corporatist country where economic interest groups have privileged access to government decision-making circles. These dense networks reproduce decades-long energy policy structures that have always favored centralized electricity production, a model now implemented in renewable energy production. We address …
Negative emotional consequences of labour market activation policies for long-term unemployed young adults in Finland
Purpose This article deals with the negative emotional consequences of active labour market policies (ALMPs) for long-term unemployed young adults in Finland. Although such policies may have positive effects, an exploration of their negative impacts reveals their problematic side effects. We explore various aspects of ALMP interventions that prevent individuals from gaining such positive outcomes and thus reduce their motivation to invest in the …
The Social Psychology of Framing: The Emotional Content of Finnish Anti-Wind Power Frames
Protests against wind power have become increasingly common in Western countries and in Finland. This article explores various anti-wind farm frames and their emotional dynamics and content. The framing approach highlights cognitive and constructive rather than emotional aspects. However, social-psychological understanding of emotions enables us to recognise those types of emotions that give content to a specific frame and are essential to unders…
Loneliness and interaction ritual theory: Failed interaction chains among Finnish university students
This article relates loneliness to interaction ritual theory, understanding loneliness in terms of problematic microinteractional dynamics. The advantage of interaction ritual theory is that it extends our understanding of the issue of the psychologised self and related questions such as how loneliness feels or is experienced. Loneliness is here defined as a response to interaction representing relational understanding of emotions. Interaction ri…
Workers’ and volunteers’ ideas about the benefits of young people’s cultural participation: A critical capital-based approach
This article deals with non-profit sector and voluntary workers’ understandings of the benefits of young people’s participation in cultural and leisure projects in Central Finland. Active participation is highlighted on a policy level as a solution to social inequality, exclusion, and marginalisation among young people. The article focuses on the cultural, social, economic, and political dimensions of participation by exploring the advantages tha…
Promoting neoliberal ideology in Finnish rural community development: The Creation of New Moral Actors
Today’s political ambitions are based on the neoliberal aspiration to diminish the state’s role and responsibilities, and to transfer those responsibilities to local communities and individuals in ways that idealise those communities, promising to ‘give power to the people’. Instead of highlighting individualism, neoliberalism now celebrates communities and participation. This article deals with the effects of this ideology with regard to Finnish…
Bourdieu and Social Movements: Considering Identity Movements in Terms of Field, Capital and Habitus
This article examines the explanatory capacity of Pierre Bourdieu's work in relation to social movements and, in particular, identity movements. It aims to provide a theoretical framework drawing on Bourdieu's central concepts of field, capital and habitus. These concepts are viewed as providing a theoretical toolkit that can be applied to convincingly explain aspects of social movements that social movement theories, such as political process th…
Staying inside: Social withdrawal of the young, Finnish ‘Hikikomori’
This article explores socially withdrawn young Finnish people on an Internet forum who identify with the Japanese hikikomori phenomenon. We aim to overcome the dualism between sociology and psychology found in earlier research by referring to Pierre Bourdieu, who provides insights into how individual choices are constructed in accordance with wider social settings. We focus on the individual level and everyday choices, but we suggest that psychol…
The formation of long-term unemployed young adults’ emotional capital during childhood: A Bourdieusian approach to emotional harm
This article focuses on the long-term formation of unemployed young adults’ emotional capital and the development of emotional dispositions during childhood. We use Bourdieu’s work and the concept of emotional capital to draw attention to the emotional dynamics of family and peer relations during childhood. Emotional capital is related to parents’ emotional involvement and investment in the child’s well-being, and it encompasses emotional skills …
Promoting neoliberal ideology in Finnish rural community development: The Creation of New Moral Actors
Today’s political ambitions are based on the neoliberal aspiration to diminish the state’s role and responsibilities, and to transfer those responsibilities to local communities and individuals in ways that idealise those communities, promising to ‘give power to the people’. Instead of highlighting individualism, neoliberalism now celebrates communities and participation. This article deals with the effects of this ideology with regard to Finnish…
Becoming Politically Active: Life Courses and the Formation of Capitals among Young People of Migrant Origin in Finland
This article focuses on the life courses of young people of migrant origin who are active in civic and political fields in Finland. The aim is to analyse, from the micro-level life course perspective, the issues in their lives that have helped them to become active. The article draws on empirical data collected using participatory methods. Four young people of migrant origin participated in the research process and contributed to the data analysi…
Workers’ and volunteers’ ideas about the benefits of young people’s cultural participation: A critical capital-based approach
This article deals with non-profit sector and voluntary workers’ understandings of the benefits of young people’s participation in cultural and leisure projects in Central Finland. Active participation is highlighted on a policy level as a solution to social inequality, exclusion, and marginalisation among young people. The article focuses on the cultural, social, economic, and political dimensions of participation by exploring the advantages tha…
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…
Loneliness and interaction ritual theory: Failed interaction chains among Finnish university students
This article relates loneliness to interaction ritual theory, understanding loneliness in terms of problematic microinteractional dynamics. The advantage of interaction ritual theory is that it extends our understanding of the issue of the psychologised self and related questions such as how loneliness feels or is experienced. Loneliness is here defined as a response to interaction representing relational understanding of emotions. Interaction ri…
Negative emotional consequences of labour market activation policies for long-term unemployed young adults in Finland
Purpose This article deals with the negative emotional consequences of active labour market policies (ALMPs) for long-term unemployed young adults in Finland. Although such policies may have positive effects, an exploration of their negative impacts reveals their problematic side effects. We explore various aspects of ALMP interventions that prevent individuals from gaining such positive outcomes and thus reduce their motivation to invest in the …
Rethinking incumbency: Utilising Bourdieu's field, capital, and habitus to explain energy transitions
Energy transition studies are increasingly interested in power. This article explores Pierre Bourdieu's central concepts of field, capital, and habitus considering their relevance in the context of the energy transition. Bourdieu's work on power has not been used systematically in energy transition studies to date. However, it offers advantages in describing the positions of different actors based on the possession of capital, power imbalances an…
The formation of feed-in tariffs and the emergence of wind power in Finnish routine corporatism: Favoring the Economics of Large-Scale Energy Production
We explore the role and influence of the Finnish energy elite’s inner circle in the process of transition to renewable energy. Finland is a corporatist country where economic interest groups have privileged access to government decision-making circles. These dense networks reproduce decades-long energy policy structures that have always favored centralized electricity production, a model now implemented in renewable energy production. We address …
Recognition in Targeted Youth Work: Young Adults’ Experiences of Care, Respect, and Esteem
This article develops a framework, based on recognition theory, for examining youth work services that target young Finnish adults who are not in education or employment. It complements previous research by examining targeted youth work (TYW) as an institutional context with specific ways of recognising young adults. Drawing upon Axel Honneth’s recognition theory and Randall Collins’ interaction ritual theory, it explores how the context can prov…
Forest machine entrepreneurs’ emotional bonds and conflicts in the forestry transition in Finland
Sustainability transitions’ entanglements with the environment, the economy, and society can become manifest in challenges faced by groups with emotional attachments to place. This article examines how emotions contribute to conflict during sustainability transitions among forest machine entrepreneurs, a group of forest professionals whose livelihood is at the center of the ongoing forestry transition in Finland. The study is based on 24 intervie…
The Social Psychology of Framing: The Emotional Content of Finnish Anti-Wind Power Frames
Protests against wind power have become increasingly common in Western countries and in Finland. This article explores various anti-wind farm frames and their emotional dynamics and content. The framing approach highlights cognitive and constructive rather than emotional aspects. However, social-psychological understanding of emotions enables us to recognise those types of emotions that give content to a specific frame and are essential to unders…
The Impact of Three Crises on the Hegemony of Finland's Nuclear Power Elite
Finland is a homogenous corporatist country characterised by a tight‐knit, consensus‐seeking nuclear power elite that has had a close relationship with Russia for decades. The Finnish nuclear power elite comprises state and governmental actors, political parties, large private companies, labour unions, energy producers and large‐scale industries. Using a neo‐Gramscian theorisation of power, we explore the Finnish nuclear power elite's discursive …
Framing the Future of Climate Migration in Finnish and Dutch News Media: Understanding Future Visions by Investigating Underlying Normative Judgement
In this article, we analyse the kinds of futures envisioned by Finnish and Dutch news media in relation to climate migration. We find four frames that are used to present the future: a catastrophe frame, a migrant‐positioning frame, an injustice frame and a panic‐alleviation frame. Each frame is underpinned by certain normative judgements, i.e. the frames are presented in normative ways that express values. The core normative judgements used to e…
Emotional Dynamics in Sustainability Transitions: Forest Machine Entrepreneurs Facing the Finnish Forestry Transition
This article explores the emotional dynamics of sustainability transitions through the case of Finnish forest machine entrepreneurs, a previously unstudied group of professionals located at the centre of the ongoing forestry transition in Finland. Drawing on 24 interviews, the article applies a typology of emotional dynamics in sustainability transitions. It identifies how forest machine entrepreneurs’ emotions—ranging from pride, trust and belon…
Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (5 works) · Social Capital and Networks (5 works) · Social science (5 works)