Something new and exciting ahead! After 6 years of continuous criticisim against the compositions and actions of university boards in Finland, I was now nominated to sit in one of those boards at the wonderful Uniarts. Not only universities but also art needs our tireless support in these times!

Tervetuloa torstaina klo 17-21 Kapitalismin yöhön Antikvariaatti Sofiaan Helsinkiin. Ruodittavana tuoretta kapitalismiaiheista kirjallisuutta ja tuoreita suomennoksia Milliltä, Adornolta, Eribonilta ja Tanskasen Tympeiltä tytöiltä. Vapaa pääsy! helsinkifestival.fi/taiteidenyo/...

I wrote this piece for the upcoming @bjsociology.bsky.social special issue on Families and Wealth, edited by @celinebessiere.bsky.social , @katiehiggins.bsky.social, & @hannakuu.bsky.social . There are going to be so many fantastic articles in it and I can’t wait to read them in their final forms.

I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.

We show how the for-profit actors attribute the well-known discontents of marketisation almost solely to the failures of the public sector and to the wrongdoings of their competitors, creating a peculiar moral economy in which private profits have become an essential part of public services. 2/2

A new article just out in which we introduce the concept of welfare profit-makers and describe how private profit-making from publicly funded health and care services gets legitimised by those benefitting from marketization. Co-written with Laura Tarkiainen. 1/2

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Your project looks great! Happy to learn about it.

First draft of a new book sent to the publisher. (And already noticed two typos in the table of contents!)

Congratulations. Great to see this out.

Nyt kun Tampereen yliopistolla lakkoillaan, on hyvä aika kehua Hanna Kuuselan (@hannakuu.bsky.social) mainiota kirjaa TAUn ja TTYn yhdistymisestä säätiöyliopistoksi, jonka hallinnossa ei tutkijoiden ja opiskelijoiden mielipiteistä ei oltu niin kiinnostuneita.

#kirjallisuus #yliopisto

📢 Here is an exciting job opportunity at the TU Berlin. Please spread the word and apply!

Post-Doc, 5yrs, work on your independent research on ownership and / or wealth inequality, teach 2 courses per semester, collaborate with me and in a supportive team.

www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...

Checking the proofs of my chapter for the book ’The Social Acceptance of Inequality’, by Francesco Duina & Luca Storti. It will be an interesting collection that highlights the social and cultural dimensions of inequality. Here an interview with the editors: ralphbuncheinstitute.org/2024/05/the-...

Congratulations. Well deserved!

5. Adding to this, the type of skills elite have obtained through their education varies (but not always along the level fof credentials described above). Engineers and natural scientists still constitute a substantial part of economic elites in China, France or Finland.

4. The credentials also differ. In sic of the countries, at least around a fifth have a doctoral degree. However this is very rare, for instance in the Scandinavian countries

3. The degree of international recruitment and recruitment from the economic capital of the country and other key functional urban areas varies substantially. Economic elites in Argentina, Italy, Portugal and France are born in the countries largest urban centres.

2. When looking at the very apex of the economic elites, the lack of gender diversity becomes even stronger. However, the gender gap in WED is strongly correlated with the WEF Gender Gap Index.

Some highlights:

1. Economic elites vary a lot. However, they are varieties of pale, stale and male. Here is the age distribution across gender. Note that in particular the US is very much a gerontocracy, also when it comes to economic elites

So happy that the first paper of our very big collaborative and comparative effort on elites, called World Elite Database, is now out in @bjsociology.bsky.social Finland is included in this project that offers standardised data about the economic elites of 16 countries.

Interested in the use of consultants and public reforms? A Special Issue edited by me and my great colleagues
@mattiylonen.bsky.social
and Ringa Raudla
for Public Money and Management is now out as a collection. You may want to start with the editorial.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why has the market for climate consulting grown so much in the past decade? At what cost?

V happy to see our paper @phdskat.org on this brave new world alongside so many great contributions in an SI by @mattiylonen.bsky.social @hannakuu.bsky.social & Ringa Raudla www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Erityisesti pidin monista kulttuuriviittauksista ja, yhtenä yksityiskohtana, Taikavuori-allegoriasta, se sopii tähän aikaan hyvin! Lisään vielä, että Taikavuoressa kiinnostava on myös Mannin esipuhe. Se käsittelee aikaa ja etäisyyttä tapahtumiin, jotka ovat Syytöksessäkin keskeisiä.

Luin @hannakuu.bsky.social teoksen Syytös, joka käsittelee Tampereen yliopiston yhdistymisprosessia ja sen yhteydessä käytyjä valtapelejä. Tarinan piinaavuus välittyy lukijalle hyvin. Silti Syytös laajenee henkevästi myös isommaksi pohdinnaksi demokratian puolustamisesta. #kirjataivas >

#Syytös on kertomus #yliopistouudistus 'sta, sen seurauksista sekä ahdistava kuvaus #demokratia 'n, #sivistys 'n ja #työelämä 'n rappiosta, jossa vastuussa olevat (lue: me) luovuttavat vallan koijareille, mahdollistaen kurjuuden ja kiusaamisen. Kiitos, @hannakuu.bsky.social! 😍🙏❤📚

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