About me
In my PhD research, I examine technology and nature as key concepts in the modern social imaginaries. My research is motivated by the ecological crisis, which poses a fundamental challenge to modern industrial civilization, its material and istitutional foundations and the associated social imaginaries. In my empirical work, I seek to understand these social imaginaries—their variations, transformations, and continuities—by analyzing how Finnish parliamentarians discuss two central themes: technology and nature. I explore how these concepts are embedded in broader structures of meaning in the political language, such as framings, semantic associations with other concepts, and attributions of agency and causality.
My text corpus includes the plenary debates from the establishment of the Finnish Parliament in 1907 to the present. I analyze the data using a range of computational text analysis methods that examine vocabularies, word co-occurrence structures, and syntactic relations, such as adjectival modifiers and subject-predicate-object constructions.
I aim to make two main contributions: first, a methodological contribution concerning the potential and limitations of computational methods in analyzing political language; and second, a substantive contribution to the study of sustainability transitions and the contested foundations of modernity.
I am affiliated with the Political Temporalities consortium project and TaSTI, the Tampere Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Studies.
Responsibilities
PhD researcher, sociology
Fields of expertise
sociology, environment, technology, political language, computational methods