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Hanna Kuusela

@hannakuu.bsky.social
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Sociology and Cultural Studies of elites, inequality, private wealth, dynasties, higher education, university democracy etc. Associate Professor of Sociology. orcid.org/0000-0003-3845-8140

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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ensi tiistaina 29.9. klo 17.30 Helsingissa kirjan julkkarien hengessä pohdintaa siitä, miksi rikkaat ovat vallanneet televisioruutumme. Mukana keskustelemassa tv-kulttuurin rautaiset tuntijat @anukoivunen.bsky.social ja Laura Saarenmaa. Paikka: Antikvariaatti Sofia, Vuorikatu 5. Tervetuloa!
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Our book, Rich Radicals. New Nordic Elites of Wealth and Power, is now out! It brings together our work on the Finnish top earners, taking further the analysis Kantola and me have previously developed in articles. Available as OA. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Streaming privilege discussed in the German radio, Deutschlandfunk. Great to learn that books are also reviewed this way in radio. @manchesterup.bsky.social www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/streaming-pr...
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Streaming Privilege: Wie TV-Serien das Publikum auf Ungleichheit vorbereiten
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An interesting research position open at @mpifg.bsky.social in the research group on Technology and Statehood. The group’s research focus is not only extremely important and timely, but its leader Regine Paul is also a very amiable person, a thing I have learned to value in the academia. Do apply!
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My book, Streaming privilege. How television teaches us to accept inequality, is now out! Mixing elite sociology and cultural studies, I aim at unpacking our desire for luxury topics. The book is OA, so you may read it at @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526190055/
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Manchester University Press - Streaming privilege
Streaming privilege - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Streaming privilege by Hanna Kuusela
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
An interview on my soon-to-be-released book, Streaming Privilege, in the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. For those of you who read Finnish :) www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/ar...
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Puheenvuoro | Succession ja Downton Abbey naamioivat itsekkyyden perheestä välittämiseksi, väittää Hanna Kuusela
Apulaisprofessorin mukaan menestyssarjat vahvistavat konservatiivisia arvoja sen sijaan, että kuvittelisivat nykytilanteelle vaihtoehtoja.
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Several recent series portray inheritance as emotionally fraught while rarely questioning hereditary rights themselves. Our book of the week shows how television dramas shape how audiences understand inequality. By @hannakuu.bsky.social on @manchesterup.bsky.social buff.ly/u5KVbAB
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
”Der Menschheit würde ist in eure Hand gegeben, behwahret sie!” says Schiller on the fascade of the Hessisches Staatstheater. Starting the last week of my Scholar in Residence visit at @mpifg.bsky.social with these wise words.
Schiller’s sentence ”Der Menschheit würde ist in eure Hand gegeben, behwahret sie!” says Schiller on the fascade of the Hessisches Staatstheater.
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
ICYMI: Hanna Kuusela’s three-part Scholar in Residence lecture series is now available in full on our website: www.mpifg.de/1184468/audi...
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Die Mitschnitte der MPIfG Lectures, Institutstagsbeiträge und weiterer Podcasts und Videos bieten umfassende Informationen zu wichtigen wissenschaftlichen Diskussionen.
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My scholar in residence lectures at @mpifg.bsky.social start tomorrow Tuesday. The title of the series is ”The Redistributive Ethos in Crisis: Three Imaginaries Dismantling the Welfare State” in which I try to analyse the decline of the Nordic welfare model. Chainsaws and scissors will be mentioned.
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Pretty much done with the last corrections and very happy about it. Out in July! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526190055/
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Manchester University Press - Streaming privilege
Streaming privilege - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Streaming privilege by Hanna Kuusela
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Oli ilo olla jokin aika sitten uuden Miljonäärien tasavalta -podcastin vieraana. Kannattaa laittaa seurantaan.
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Patrizio Lainà @patriziolaina.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"Liberaalien demokratioiden eetos on perustunut yksilöiden yhtäläisin mahdollisuuksiin. Ellei perintöjä suitsita, ylisukupolvinen eriarvoisuus syvenee ja sosiaalinen liikkuvuus vähenee." @hannakuu.bsky.social HS-vieraskynä: www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...
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Vieraskynä | Toistuvat hyökkäykset perintöveroa vastaan edustavat menneen maailman ihanteita
Vaatimus perintöveron poistosta sopii huonosti yksilöiden yhtäläisiä mahdollisuuksia ja tasa-arvoa korostavaan yhteiskuntaan.
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Olli Herranen @olliherranen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@hannakuu.bsky.social puhuu järkeviä #perintovero sta: Keskustelu siitä on tunneperäistä, pelottelevaa ja soveltuu anti-meritokraattisiin feodaaliyhteiskuntiin, ei nykyaikaisiin hyvinvointivaltioihin, joissa yritetään pitää edes joistain tasavertaisuuden rippeistä kiinni. www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...
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Vieraskynä | Toistuvat hyökkäykset perintöveroa vastaan edustavat menneen maailman ihanteita
Vaatimus perintöveron poistosta sopii huonosti yksilöiden yhtäläisiä mahdollisuuksia ja tasa-arvoa korostavaan yhteiskuntaan.
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Three days in Hannover in the symposium ”Unlocking Private Wealth as a Resource for Solving Global Crises”, bringing together family business scholars, practitioners and some sociologists.
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
On the boat to Germany, where I will spend the next three months as a visiting scholar at @mpifg.bsky.social. Plenty of time to read the proofs of my forthcoming book ’Streaming privilege. How television teaches us to accept inequality’, by @manchesterup.bsky.social
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
”Universalism in flux – Welfare profit-makers’ views towards the institution of welfare universalism” How economic elites of the care sector, who provide services funded by the welfare state, understand the Nordic model. Our article w Laura Tarkiainen is out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Rebecca Bramall @rfbramall.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Join us for an online seminar to celebrate the end of our project, Redistributive Imaginaries, and the launch of our report. 18.03.26 12.00-13.30 CET With @mrtzg.bsky.social, Mercè Oliva, Milana Čergić, John Clarke, @hannakuu.bsky.social & Eva Frade ema.uzh.ch/RXNMK
A neon green square with the words: Redistributive Imaginaries: How do didigtla platforms shape meanings and practices of redistribution in Europe's mixed economies of welfare?
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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 04/02/2026
🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Onko konsensuksen aika ohi? Voiko kannattavaa bisnestä tehdä pohjoismaiset arvot edellä, vai löytävätkö meilläkin trumpilaisuus ja elinkeinoelämä toisensa? Vedän sunnuntaina paneelin aiheesta ”Onko elinkeinoelämä radikalisoitumassa?” Käänne-festareilla. kaannefestival.fi/conference-e...
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A new book just out, focusing on the social acceptance of inequality, edited by Francesco Duina and Luca Storti. I wrote about the abolition of the wealth tax in Finland and how the parliamentary discussions around it reflect a new acceptance of wealth accumulation in the Nordic context.
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
My article on the tv hit Succession and its media reception finally out. Keywords Schadenfreude, fantasy, dynasties. My argument being that it is a fantasy-driven construct appealing to a middle class desire to see the rich as miserable people destined to fall. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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From the figure of the obscene rich to the fantasy of its destruction: on Succession, schadenfreude and the godlike power of the super-rich on screen
A significant part of contemporary popular culture portrays the rich as obscene, self-destructive, addicted and deranged. This article analyses the affective intensities circulating around this tro...
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Cassandra Cotton @cassandracotton.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This paper is part of a forthcoming special issue on Families & Wealth edited by @hannakuu.bsky.social @celinebessiere.bsky.social @katiehiggins.bsky.social. They threw a fabulous workshop in Finland last year where I received invaluable advice about how to move this paper forward.
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Cassandra Cotton @cassandracotton.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Excited to finally share my new paper (w/Raphaël Charron-Chénier) out in BJS! Staying Apart for the Kids looks at how older adults consider preserving family wealth in their new relationships. Drawing on my interviews with mid/late-life daters, we show how accumulated wealth shapes dating decisions.
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Staying Apart for the Kids? Older American Daters and the Preservation of Family Wealth
Romantic repartnering in later life has received substantial scholarly and public attention in light of population aging and changes in family dynamics. In the United States, the importance of househ...
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Kutsuhuutoni Suomen elinkeinoelämälle.
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Avatkaa suunne. Tutkija Hanna Kuuselaa huolettaa, että rikkaat kääntävät demokratialle selkänsä.
Björn Wahlroos sanoo ihailevansa Donald Trumpin tehokkuusutopiaa, eikä häntä haasta kukaan.
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Something new and exciting ahead! After 6 years of continuous criticisim against the compositions and actions of university boards in Finland, I was now nominated to sit in one of those boards at the wonderful Uniarts. Not only universities but also art needs our tireless support in these times!
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Hanna Kuusela, Leena Niemistö and Alf Rehn selected to the Uniarts Helsinki Board | Uniarts Helsinki
The University Collegium has appointed three new members from outside the Uniarts Helsinki community for a four-year term from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2029. The newly selected members are Hanna…
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Tervetuloa torstaina klo 17-21 Kapitalismin yöhön Antikvariaatti Sofiaan Helsinkiin. Ruodittavana tuoretta kapitalismiaiheista kirjallisuutta ja tuoreita suomennoksia Milliltä, Adornolta, Eribonilta ja Tanskasen Tympeiltä tytöiltä. Vapaa pääsy! helsinkifestival.fi/taiteidenyo/...
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Kapitalismin yö | Taiteiden yö
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Shay O’Brien @shayobrien.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I wrote this piece for the upcoming @bjsociology.bsky.social special issue on Families and Wealth, edited by @celinebessiere.bsky.social , @katiehiggins.bsky.social, & @hannakuu.bsky.social . There are going to be so many fantastic articles in it and I can’t wait to read them in their final forms.
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Shay O’Brien @shayobrien.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various t...
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A new article just out in which we introduce the concept of welfare profit-makers and describe how private profit-making from publicly funded health and care services gets legitimised by those benefitting from marketization. Co-written with Laura Tarkiainen. 1/2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The winners of marketisation: Welfare profit-makers legitimising private profits in publicly funded welfare services - Hanna Kuusela, Laura Tarkiainen, 2025
Recent decades have witnessed the expansion of market mechanisms and private service providers in publicly funded care sectors. In this article, we examine how ...
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
First draft of a new book sent to the publisher. (And already noticed two typos in the table of contents!)
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Kalle Kansanen @kallekansanen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Nyt kun Tampereen yliopistolla lakkoillaan, on hyvä aika kehua Hanna Kuuselan (@hannakuu.bsky.social) mainiota kirjaa TAUn ja TTYn yhdistymisestä säätiöyliopistoksi, jonka hallinnossa ei tutkijoiden ja opiskelijoiden mielipiteistä ei oltu niin kiinnostuneita. #kirjallisuus #yliopisto
Hanna Kuuselan kirjan "Syytös" kansi
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Isabell Stamm @isabellstamm.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
📢 Here is an exciting job opportunity at the TU Berlin. Please spread the word and apply! Post-Doc, 5yrs, work on your independent research on ownership and / or wealth inequality, teach 2 courses per semester, collaborate with me and in a supportive team. www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...
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Stellenausschreibung VI-153/25: Research Associate (PostDoc) - salary grade E13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen - 2nd qualifi... – Stellenausschreibungen der Technischen Universität Berlin
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Checking the proofs of my chapter for the book ’The Social Acceptance of Inequality’, by Francesco Duina & Luca Storti. It will be an interesting collection that highlights the social and cultural dimensions of inequality. Here an interview with the editors: ralphbuncheinstitute.org/2024/05/the-...
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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
5. Adding to this, the type of skills elite have obtained through their education varies (but not always along the level fof credentials described above). Engineers and natural scientists still constitute a substantial part of economic elites in China, France or Finland.
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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
4. The credentials also differ. In sic of the countries, at least around a fifth have a doctoral degree. However this is very rare, for instance in the Scandinavian countries
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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
3. The degree of international recruitment and recruitment from the economic capital of the country and other key functional urban areas varies substantially. Economic elites in Argentina, Italy, Portugal and France are born in the countries largest urban centres.
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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
2. When looking at the very apex of the economic elites, the lack of gender diversity becomes even stronger. However, the gender gap in WED is strongly correlated with the WEF Gender Gap Index.
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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Some highlights: 1. Economic elites vary a lot. However, they are varieties of pale, stale and male. Here is the age distribution across gender. Note that in particular the US is very much a gerontocracy, also when it comes to economic elites
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
So happy that the first paper of our very big collaborative and comparative effort on elites, called World Elite Database, is now out in @bjsociology.bsky.social Finland is included in this project that offers standardised data about the economic elites of 16 countries.
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Interested in the use of consultants and public reforms? A Special Issue edited by me and my great colleagues @mattiylonen.bsky.social and Ringa Raudla for Public Money and Management is now out as a collection. You may want to start with the editorial. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Editorial: Consultants and public management reforms
Published in Public Money & Management (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Why has the market for climate consulting grown so much in the past decade? At what cost? V happy to see our paper @phdskat.org on this brave new world alongside so many great contributions in an SI by @mattiylonen.bsky.social @hannakuu.bsky.social & Ringa Raudla www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New development: Climate consulting and the transformation of climate governance
External consultancies’ involvement in climate governance has grown substantially in recent years. Public sector managers encounter them in government tasks from policy research and design to clima...
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Markku Norvasuo @markkuno.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Erityisesti pidin monista kulttuuriviittauksista ja, yhtenä yksityiskohtana, Taikavuori-allegoriasta, se sopii tähän aikaan hyvin! Lisään vielä, että Taikavuoressa kiinnostava on myös Mannin esipuhe. Se käsittelee aikaa ja etäisyyttä tapahtumiin, jotka ovat Syytöksessäkin keskeisiä.
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Markku Norvasuo @markkuno.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Luin @hannakuu.bsky.social teoksen Syytös, joka käsittelee Tampereen yliopiston yhdistymisprosessia ja sen yhteydessä käytyjä valtapelejä. Tarinan piinaavuus välittyy lukijalle hyvin. Silti Syytös laajenee henkevästi myös isommaksi pohdinnaksi demokratian puolustamisesta. #kirjataivas >
Syytös-teoksen kansi
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Antti Sorri @anttisorri.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
#Syytös on kertomus #yliopistouudistus 'sta, sen seurauksista sekä ahdistava kuvaus #demokratia 'n, #sivistys 'n ja #työelämä 'n rappiosta, jossa vastuussa olevat (lue: me) luovuttavat vallan koijareille, mahdollistaen kurjuuden ja kiusaamisen. Kiitos, @hannakuu.bsky.social! 😍🙏❤📚 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #Kirjataivas
Hanna Kuusela: Syytös. Muuan akateeminen komitragedia.
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
My new article out in Economy and Society, analysing the rise of the rich and the figure of the wealthy private owner in Finnish business media. I suggest we are moving towards a neo-accumulationist regime characterised by new admiration of private accumulation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The rise of the owners and the neo-accumulationist imaginary: Changing perceptions of private wealth in Finnish business media, 1981–2021
The rise of the super-rich has been a defining characteristic of recent decades. This paper analyses the cultural underpinnings of contemporary private wealth accumulation, by exploring the changes...
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Olli Herranen @olliherranen.bsky.social · 27/04/2024
Vastapaino on yli 800 kirjaa julkaissut, riippumaton 43-vuotias tiede- ja tietokirjakustantamo. Kaikki sen tuotot käytetään lyhentämättömänä kirjallisuuden hyväksi, ei sen omistajien. Vuosi 2023 oli kustantamolle tappiollinen ja siksi tämä tukikampanja: kirja-ale 25,5% ! Vastapaino.fi
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
One day left to send your abstracts for the special issue on Families and wealth.
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