Senior Research Fellow, 1 August 2013-31 July 2014, Kone Foundation Fellowship
Postdoctoral Research Fellow 1 August 2014-31 July 2015

Office: Atalpa 213
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Email: peeter.selg@uta.fi

My formal educational background is in philosophy and political science, but I have also published in the fields of semiotics and sociology. The title of my PhD thesis in political science was An Outline for a Theory of Political Semiotics (Tallinn University, Institute of Political Science and Governance, 2011). My current research interests include theories of power, governance networks and democracy, and relational approaches in the social sciences. In the University of Tampere the title of my Kone Foundation project proposal was “A Political Semiotic Approach to Governance Networks.” During the period of 2013-2014 I will develop the ideas outlined in my PhD thesis and recent publications into a more coherent framework of political semiotics and widen the scope of my previous research by including new topics such as political learning and epistemic governance.

Recent publications

Selg, Peeter. “The Politics of Theory and the Constitution of Meaning.” Sociological Theory 31.1 (2013): 1-23.

Selg, Peeter. “A political-semiotic introduction to the Estonian bronze-night discourse.” Journal of Language and Politics 12.1 (2013): 80-100.

Selg, Peeter. “Justice and Liberal Strategy.” Social Theory and Practice 38.1 (2012): 83-114.

Selg, Peeter, and Andreas Ventsel. “An outline for a semiotic theory of hegemony.” Semiotica 2010. 182 (2010): 443-474.