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The aim of this study was to examine community and individual approaches in responses to mass violence after the school shooting incidents in Jokela (November 2007) and Kauhajoki (September 2008), Finland. In considering ...

Citizen participation in urban planning has been a topic of academic and practical interest since the 1960s. The adoption of information and communication technologies for civic participation, electronic participation, ...

ABSTRACT According to the Global Waste Management Outlook 2024, householders across the world generate over two billion tons of municipal solid waste every year. One of the most immediate negative consequences of human ...

The digital environment is increasingly organised to transform aspects of people’s lives into data in order to make use of those data in the production of economic value. Data activism has emerged as one response to the ...

The present study investigates the significance of political party preferences in Finland by drawing upon two perspectives. Firstly, the research engages in the tradition of economic sociology, as one of its critical ...

This dissertation examines the social norms concerning physical appearance and gender in Finland, and the variations among these norms in different contexts. This study elaborates on the importance of appearance and ...

This dissertation focuses on the European Union’s development partnerships, and particularly on the differentiated approach to development which was introduced as an operational principle in the Multiannual Financial ...

This study examines appearance-related consumption in Finland. The theoretical portion discusses appearance-related consumption, on one hand from a consumer culture perspective, as both a possibility and responsibility for ...

In this dissertation, I assess interaction in social media as a novel mode of political participation and ask how are party politics extended within the social media public sphere in Finland during the 2010s. In this ...

The topic of this dissertation is to examine the influential factors on citizens’ climate policy attitudes from the comparative perspective. The study is based on four articles published between 2020 and 2023. The research ...