Papers by Eeva Luhtakallio
Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Young people around the world have become mobilized by the urgency to tackle the climate crisis. ... more Young people around the world have become mobilized by the urgency to tackle the climate crisis. Increasingly gaining momentum, youth activist movements have been calling everyone’s attention to governmental inaction regarding the climate crisis and to the shortcomings of institutional political agreements (European Youth Forum, 2019). While for some parts of the general public (mostly in the Global-North, which has been less affected by) the consequences of climate change may still seem a somewhat distant, abstract and dystopian phenomenon, as they become more widely felt, the harder it will be to reverse the problem (Giddens, 2009). Faced with the paradox of having a problem that may seem ‘not quite severe enough’ while aiming at triggering generalized motivation for individual and collective change, young generations have been defying ‘adultist biases’ and mobilizing among themselves in new ways and dimensions.
Tiede & edistys, Apr 1, 1998
This paper looks at the public debate on climate change in five countries: India, Russia, Finland... more This paper looks at the public debate on climate change in five countries: India, Russia, Finland, France and the United States. We focus, in particular, on the role of civil society in media debates taking place during global climate summits. We use a method we call Public Justifications Analysis (PJA), based on the justification theory of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thvenot, to analyze the media debate around the UN COPs from 2007 to 2010. In addition to mapping the contents of the climate debate in different countries, using PJA to study the media-transmitted conflict over climate politics sheds light on the moral grounds of the debate. By examining the moral justifications that different actors give to their arguments on climate politics, we aim at understanding the similarities and differences in the ways in which the idea of climate justice is understood in different national contexts. These understandings, in turn, have implications on the attempts at forging global climate agr...
Ethnography
In this article, we argue that two significant shifts, namely, the blurring of lives offline and ... more In this article, we argue that two significant shifts, namely, the blurring of lives offline and online and the increasing significance of the visual character of these lives, pose new challenges to social science research methods. We propose the application of snap-along ethnography to address these challenges. Snap-along ethnography is an ethnographic method with three core features: (1) participant observation conducted simultaneously offline and online, (2) a concomitant analytical focus on the act of taking, sharing, posting and commenting on images and the content of the images taken, and (3) a research design that builds on the participants’ own, spontaneous and self-originating actions of taking images. We illustrate the application and benefits of the method with examples from an ongoing research on young people’s visual forms of political action.
Sociologies pratiques, 2021
European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
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Papers by Eeva Luhtakallio