Examples of research coming out of the Academy of Finland Research Fellow Project (2012-2018) Gender, Power and Party Politics in Finland

Scientific Publications:

  • Monograph Gender and Political Analysis (with Emanuela Lombardo, Palgrave Macmillan Political Analysis Series, 2017)
  • Special issue titled “Regendering party politics” for Party Politics co-edited with Karen Celis and Sarah Childs, 2016
  • Edited volume: Gender and the Economic Crisis in Europe: Politics, Institutions and Intersectionalities (with Emanuela Lombardo,  Palgrave, 2017)
  •  Johanna Kantola and Lise Rolandsen Agustin (2017) ‘Gendering transnational party politics: The case of European Union’, Party Politics. Special issue on Re-gendering party politics. Accepted for publication.
  • Karen Celis, Sarah Childs and Johanna Kantola (2017) ‘Re-gendering Party Politics: An Introduction’, Party Politics. Special issue on Re-gendering party politics. Accepted for publication.
  • Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo (2017) ‘Feminist political analysis: exploring hegemonies, silences, and novelties’, Feminist Theory 18 (3), forthcoming.
  • ”Kamppailu tasa-arvosta: tunne, asiantuntijuus ja vastarinta strategisessa valtiossa”, yhdessä Anna Elomäen, Anu Koivusen ja Hanna Ylöstalon kanssa, Sosiologia,2016/4
  • Karen Celis, Sarah Childs, Johanna Kantola and Mona Lena Krook (2014) ‘Constituting women’s interests through representative claims’, Politics & Gender, 10 (2), 149–170.
  • Elomäki, Anna and Johanna Kantola (2017) ‘Austerity and feminist resistance in Finland: Between established women’s organisations and new movements’, in Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo (eds.) Gender and the Economic Crisis in Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
  • Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo (2017) ‘Gender and the Politics of the Economic Crisis in Europe’ in Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo (eds.) Gender and the Economic Crisis in Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
  • Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo (2017) ‘Conclusions: Understanding Gender and the Politics of the Economic Crisis in Europe’ in Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo (eds.) Gender and the Economic Crisis in Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
    Marjaana Jauhola and Johanna Kantola (2016) ‘Globaali sukupuolikysymys Suomessa’ in Marita Husso and Risto Heiskala (eds.) Sukupuolikysymys (Helsinki: Gaudeamus).
  • Johanna Kantola and Milja Saari (2014) ’Conservative Women MP’s Constructions of Gender Equality in Finland’ in Karen Celis and Sarah Childs (eds.) Gender, Conservatism and Political Representation (Colchester: ECPR Press), 183–205)

Articles popularising the findings:

  • Johanna Kantola (2015) ’”Resistir es existir” – Feministinen poliittinen toiminta Espanjan talouskriisissä’, Sukupuolentutkimus-Genusforskning 28 (2), 43–48.
  • Johanna Kantola (2015) ‘Gender equality governance and tools: the need for renewed focus and a clear vision’ in Francesca Bettio (ed.) Vision of Gender Equality (European Commission).
  • Anna Elomäki, Johanna Kantola, Anu Koivunen and Hanna Ylöstalo (2016) Tasa-arvo tyhjenee sukupuolesta suomalaisessa politiikassa. Politiikasta.fi. 8.3.2016.
  • Johanna Kantola and Johanna Sumuvuori (2016) ‘From Guns to Babies – Making Parliaments more gender sensitive in Finland and the UK’. Blog post published by the Finnish Institute in London. 28.1.2016.

Other publications:

  • Elina Ikävalko and Johanna Kantola (2017) ’Feminist resistance and resistance to feminism in gender equality planning in Finland’, European Journal of Women’s Studies. E-pub. ahead of print.
  • Kirsi Eräranta and Johanna Kantola (2016) ‘The Europeanization of Nordic Gender Equality: A Foucauldian Analysis of Reconciling Work and Family’.  Gender, Work & Organization.
  • Johanna Kantola (2015) ‘Political Science as a Gendered Discipline in Finland’ in European Political Science (EPS), 14 (2), 79-86.
  • Johanna Kantola (2014) ‘The Paradoxical Gendered Consequences of the EU Policy on Multiple Discrimination: The Nordic Case’, European Integration Online Papers, 18 (1), 1-19.
  • Johanna Kantola (2016) ‘State/Nation’ in Mary Hawkesworth and Lisa Disch (eds.) Oxford Handbook on Feminist Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 915-933.
  • Johanna Kantola (2016) ’The Gendered State in International Relations’, in Jill Steans and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage (eds.) Handbook of Gender in World Politics, Oxford: Edgar Elgar. Forthcoming.

Unpublished manuscripts:

  • Article ‘Gender and the economic crisis: Political parties as sites of feminist struggles’, submitted to Social Politics in September 2016 (Revise and resubmit).
  • Article : “Feminist Party Politics” looking at women’s sections of Finnish political parties submitted to Political Studies in October 2016.
  • Article : “Institutional practices for gender equality of the European Parliament’s party groups” with Lise Rolandsen Agustin (submitted to West European Politics, in February 2017)