Hanna Ylöstalo

University of Helsinki | HY · Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

Artikkeli tarkastelee kvantifiointia eli numeroiden tuottamista ja käyttöä feministisen talousvaikuttamisen käytäntönä. Kvantifioinnista on tullut keskeinen yhteiskuntaelämää kuvaava ja tuottava käytäntö, ja sillä on keskeinen rooli myös poliittisessa päätöksenteossa. Artikkeli tutkii kvantifiointia feministisessä talouspoliittisessa vaikuttamisess...

Viime vuosina mediassa, politiikassa, kansalaisjärjestöissä ja tutkimuksessa on enenevästi esitetty feministisiä näkökulmia talouteen ja talouspolitiikkaan. Tämä artikkeli täydentää keskustelua feminismin ja talouden jännitteistä lähestyen feminististä taloustoimijuutta yhteiskunnallisena liikehdintänä, joka tarjoaa vaihtoehtoisia näkökulmia talout...

Utopiat ja toisenlaisten maailmojen kuvittelu ovat tärkeitä yhteiskuntakritiikin välineitä. Kuvittelu ei kuitenkaan synny itsestään, vaan se on taito, joka vaatii harjoittelua. Tässä käytäntökuvauksessa tarkastellaan sitä, miten kuvittelua voi opettaa yliopistossa. Kuvaus pohjautuu sosiologian maisteriopiskelijoille suunnattuun "Harjoituksia poliit...

This article analyzes the convergences of neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and feminism in the context of Nordic welfare state reform. Using Finland’s ongoing family leave reform as an illustrative example, the article shows that neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and feminism find common ground in welfare state reform where workfare policies are inten...

IMPACT Finland has been using gender budgets (GB) for over 10 years; however, very little is known internationally about the Finnish GB experience. Finland’s experience provides several lessons for GB practitioners in other countries. It highlights the importance of clear national gender equality goals for effective GB implementation, as well as th...

This article analyzes the depoliticizing effects of managerial public governance reforms on gender equality policy. It combines two dimensions of depoliticization: the denial of gendered power relations and the denial of political interests, ideologies, and related conflicts. The article focuses on a recent strategic governance reform in Finland, c...

Taloustieteen, talouspolitiikan ja taloutta koskevan julkisen keskustelun tavoin myös poliittisen talouden tutkimus on Suomessa ollut varsin miehistä, eivätkä feministiset näkökulmat ole olleet sen keskiössä. Puheenvuorossaan Poliittinen talous -lehden uudet päätoimittajat Anna Elomäki ja Hanna Ylöstalo esittelevät feministisiä näkökulmia poliittis...

The chapter analyses the shifting relationship between feminist politics and the state in Finland in the 2010s, with the aim of providing new insights into this relationship in a changing political context. The chapter focuses on a particular form of neoliberal and managerial governance that aims to make government decision-making processes more st...

This article is concerned with the recent (2017–2018) basic income experiment in Finland. This experiment attracted global attention, not least because of its break from the conditionalities and sanctions associated with social security payments in workfare states. This article stresses, however, that it is critical to understand how the Finnish ba...

The focus of this article is a recent round of workfare reform in Finland. Departing from many existing analyses of workfare, it focuses on issues of governance. Drawing on policy documents and interviews with key policy actors, it shows how this reform and attempts at implementation took place along the lines of a specific form of managerial gover...

Knowledge has a growing role in contemporary politics and policy-making. As a response to new forms of governance and evidence-based policy-making, feminist knowledge has become an important device of gender equality policy. This article analyses the role, form, and producers of feminist knowledge in contemporary policy-making. It focuses on the de...

This article explores the possibilities and constraints for feminist knowledge production and diffusion, and its influence over policy making and public debate in the context of austerity and neoliberal governance. By analysing the process in which a group of Finnish academic feminists used their expert position to influence government policy in 20...

There is increasing recognition that the experiment has emerged as a preferred mode of policy making in advanced liberal states and that policy experiments are operating at the frontier of neoliberal reform processes. In this article, by considering Finland’s recent turn to the experiment, we highlight how this non-conventional mode of policy makin...

Artikkelissa tarkastellaan ruumiillisuutta uudessa työssä. Uusi työ kiinnittyy tekijänsä persoonaan, ruumiillisuuteen ja tunteisiin sekä edellyttää itsen markkinoimista. Artikkelissa ymmärretään uuden työn vaatimuksineen, luokitteluineen ja erontekoineen kaivertuvan uuden työn tekijöiden ruumiisiin, kun he muokkaavat ruumistaan näihin vaatimuksiin...

This article is concerned with price and pricing in the context of finance led neoliberal reform. It considers the sentiment often encountered in accounts of such reform that price instability is the outcome of the retreat of the state from the regulation of price and its externalization in the competitive play of the market. Drawing on the case of...

In this article, we research and revisit our own experiences of gender equality work to determine the societal and discursive power relations that have shaped gender equality. We conducted our study in Finland, a ‘Nordic model of gender equality’, but we argue that these results have worldwide relevance, especially since Nordic models of gender equ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss how equality and diversity are experienced in everyday work within Finnish work organizations and how equality policy and diversity management participate in maintaining the inequality regimes of the organizations. Design/methodology/approach The empirical findings are based on 31 interviews, which...

Gender mainstreaming has been celebrated as a new policy strategy for change in gender relations. However, its transformative potential seems to be lost in the process of implementation. The aim of this article is to evaluate the policy effectiveness of gender mainstreaming and its ability to bring about change in gendered social structures and pra...

The global environment of work systems is changing at an accelerating pace. It is hardly an exaggeration to interpret global economic conditions and labour markets to set to an increasing extent the circumstances and demands of future work organisations and practitioners inside both the public and private sectors Global crises force people to expan...

In this article, we explore the policies and processes of selection and recruitment from the perspective of equality. Focusing on tacit ideas of the 'ideal worker, ' ideal recruitment, and selection that direct the recruitment process, we examine the ways in which implicit ideas and recruitment-related settings of daily interaction become informal...

This article investigates how intersectionalities are handled in the orientations and positions of organization members when conducting feminist action research in workplaces. The Finnish Defence Forces are used as an empirical example of a hierarchical and gendered organization. The article employs the work conference method based on democratic di...

This article deals with challenging the gender inequalities that exist in education and working life. It contemplates the kinds of discursive power relations that have led to gender equality work in Finland. In today’s conditions where equality issues are being harnessed more strongly to serve the aims of economic efficiency and productivity, it is...

In this paper, we aim to revisit research and our own experiences of gender equality work and determine the societal and discursive power relations that have shaped gender equality. Our study took place in Finland, the ‘Nordic model country of equality’ but we argue that these results should be acknowledged worldwide especially in a situation where...