EV & Social Change

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CNESS flagship project
Budget: 150,000€ (CNESS seed-funding)
Project leader, professor Pertti Alasuutari, pertti.alasuutari@tuni.fi.
Postdoctoral researcher, Ville Kumpu, ville.kumpu@tuni.fi

The Rationale of the project

Changes in society can originate in markets, technology, state regulation, or people’s ideas and practices as citizens and consumers. If successful, an innovation in one domain leads to a changed standard, which has repercussions or spillover effects in the other domains, which are constantly entwined.

The questions asked are:

· How is electrification of road transport going to proceed in the next decade or so?

· How is it going to change society at large?….

To answer or give educated guesses to those questions, we need to analyse how key players conceive of the current world, foresee the future, and adapt to it by their plans. Then, we need to theorise on what joint repercussions and spillover effects those acts will have. By drawing the big picture, we can also identify new obstacles and affordances.

Special attention will be paid to past developments in Norway, which is the leading country regarding the electrification of road transport. By getting data on related changes in different areas, one could compute a model on how different actors respond to developments at different stages and apply that to data on Finland.

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More information will follow soon.

Project leader

Pertti Alasuutari

Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Tampere University
+358504211053
pertti.alasuutari@tuni.fi

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About me

I am interested in the global system, especially in the global travel of ideas and in governance through epistemic means both in national and global contexts. I have also had a long-term interest in social research methodology, especially qualitative research.

Responsibilities

I am professor of sociology and research director of the Tampere Centre for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TaSTI). Within TaSTI, I lead the Tampere Research Group for Cultural and Political Sociology (TCuPS), an energetic group of scholars who share my interest in world society, national policymaking, global circulation of ideas, epistemic governance, and sociology of knowledge.

Field of expertise

My areas of specialization are global studies, social and cultural theory, and methodology of social research.

Research unit

Tampere Research Group for Cultural and Political Sociology (TCuPS)

Research fields

See more about my research interests in our research team's home page: Tampere Research Group for Cultural and Political Sociology (TCuPS)

Research career

2016-2020 Academy of Finland, Epistemic capital in the synchronization of national policies; large scale research project

2014-2018 Epistemic governance in policymaking; large scale research project

2014-2016 Kone Foundation: Synchronization of national policies; small scale research project

2009-2013 Academy of Finland, The Moderns; large scale research project

2009-2012 Academy of Finland, Domestication of Ubiquitous Communication

2006-2009 Academy of Finland, Knowledge Production, Power, and Global Social Change

2000-2004 Tekes, Alma Media & Stora Enso, Media and Everyday Life

2001-2002 Academy of Finland, The Cultural Unconscious

1996-2002 Academy of Finland, The Habitus Research Project

1997-1999 Sitra, National Culture and Identity; part of Sitra’s Globalization, Welfare and Employment project

Main positions of trust

Selected publications

Recent select publications

Ulybina, Olga, Laia Pi Ferrer & Pertti Alasuutari: “Intergovernmental organizations in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic: Organizational behaviour in crises and under uncertainty”. International Sociology 37(4), 2022, 415–438. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/02685809221094687

Qadir, Ali & Pertti Alasuutari: ”The Discursive Side of Sociological Institutionalism in the Study of Religion”. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 2022: 1-23, DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-bja10075

Alasuutari, Pertti & Ali Qadir: Epistemic Governance: Social change in the modern world . London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2019.

Alasuutari, Pertti & Valtteri Vähä-Savo: Owning worldwide principles: The case of American exceptionalism. Social Science Information 57 (4), 2018, 533–552.

Pi Ferrer, Laia, Pertti Alasuutari & Leena Tervonen-Gonçalves: Looking at others in national policy-making: the construction of reference groups in Portugal and Spain from 2008 to 2013. European Politics and Society 20 (3), 2018, 333–347.

Alasuutari, Pertti, Marjaana Rautalin & Jukka Tyrkkö: The rise of the idea of model in policymaking: The case of the British parliament, 1803–2005. European Journal of Sociology 59 (3), 2018, 341-363.

Alasuutari, Pertti: Authority as epistemic capital. Journal of Political Power 11 (2), 2018, 165-190.

Wang, Li & Pertti Alasuutari: Co-construction of the tourist experience in social networking sites: Two forms of authenticity intertwined. Tourist Studies 17 (4), 2017, 388–405.

Alasuutari, Pertti: The Synchronization of National Policies: Ethnography of the Global Tribe of Moderns. London: Routledge 2016.

Alasuutari, Pertti & Ali Qadir: Imageries of the social world in epistemic governance. International Sociology 31 (6), 2016, 633-652.

Alasuutari, Pertti: The Discursive Side of New Institutionalism. Cultural Sociology 9 (2) 2015, 162–184.

Alasuutari, Pertti: Following the Example of Other Countries? Policy Analysis of New Legislation in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 16 (3) 2014, 266-279.

Alasuutari, Pertti and Ali Qadir: Epistemic governance: an approach to the politics of policy-making. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 1, 2014, 67–84.

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Postdoctoral researcher

Ville Kumpu

Tampere University
Ville.kumpu@tuni.fi

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