Jaana Parviainen

• PhD
• Senior Researcher at Tampere University

This paper is motivated by the need to respond to the spread of influential misinformation and manufactured ignorance, which places pressure on the work of experts in various sectors. To meet this need, the paper discusses the conditions required for expert testimony to evolve a reconceptualisation of negative capability as a new form of epistemic...

A humanoid robot named 'Sophia' has sparked controversy since it has been given citizenship and has done media performances all over the world. The company that made the robot, Hanson Robotics, has touted Sophia as the future of artificial intelligence (AI). Robot scientists and philosophers have been more pessimistic about its capabilities, descri...

Substance-abusing women are vulnerable to specific kinds of epistemic injustice, including stigmatization and discrimination. This article examines the development of the epistemic agency of female substance abusers by asking: How does the use of a formal discussion protocol in community rehabilitation interaction alleviate epistemic injustice and...

The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has had far-reaching effects on public health around the world. Attempts to prevent the spread of the disease by quarantine have led to large-scale global socioeconomic disrup- tion. During the outbreak, public authorities and politicians have struggled with how to manage widespread ignorance regarding the...

Patient and public involvement is widely thought to be important in the improvement of health care delivery and in health equity.Purpose: The article examines the role of experiential knowledge in service co-production in order to develop opiate substitution treatment services (OST) for high-risk opioid users.Method: Drawing on social representatio...

In liberal welfare states, algorithmic decision-making systems are being increasingly deployed, impacting the citizen–state relationship in a multitude of positive and negative ways. This theoretical paper aims to develop a novel conceptual model—the institutional trust model—to analyse how the implementation of automated systems erodes or strength...

Tutkimuksessa selvitetään, miten sairaalan hoitajat ja lääkärit käyttävät sosiaalista mediaa ammatillisesti ja miten he arvioivat potilaiden internetin ja sosiaalisen median kautta hankkiman informaation vaikuttavan potilaiden hoitoon ja vuorovaikutukseen hoidon antajan ja saajan välillä. Kyselytutkimukseen vastasi 490 Pirkanmaan sairaanhoitopiirin...

Liberal democratic states have failed in their attempts to prevent the production of political disinformation, so new ways to combat disinformation are needed. In this article, I propose that EU governments could tackle disinformation by taxing platform economy companies for their information pollution. First, I will briefly examine what disinforma...

Ethical reflection concerning robots and AI, “roboethics”, has been exceptionally widespread in recent years, and has also led to pressures towards “ethics washing”. Various forms of “robo-hype” (and dystopias) have fuelled the demand for ethical reflection. After briefly introducing the topic of robotics, this entry discusses the philosophical que...

Controversy arose when a humanoid robot named “Sophia” was given citizenship and did performances all over the world. Why should some robots gain citizenship? Going beyond recent discussions in robot ethics and human–robot interaction, and drawing on phenomenological approaches to political philosophy, actor-network theory, and performance-oriented...

Tarkastelemme tässä menetelmäartikkelissa Bruno Latourin toimijaverkostoteorian (ANT) merkitystä sosiologiselle tutkimukselle ristiin valottamalla Latourin kirjoituksia muiden tutkijoiden tekemien tulkintojen kanssa. Osoitamme, että toimijaverkostoteoriassa on piirteitä niin teoriasta, menetelmästä kuin filosofiastakin. Kutsumme toimijaverkostoteor...

This chapter introduces socialisation processes through which we adopt touch practices. We address primary socialisation during early childhood and secondary socialisation as cultural learning about norms of touch. We discuss primary attachment styles and affective repertoires, which in turn reproduce certain touch patterns in later life. Attachmen...

The last chapter summarises the book’s main points. We highlight the importance of a professional’s ethical and socio-cultural competence on touch because even virtual services do not remove the professional’s responsibility to encounter clients as living embodied subjects. Additionally, we take a look into the future: how we expect professional to...

Touch dominates our everyday lives, but it is surprising that it has only recently become the subject of research. In several occupations, touch is an instrumental, assistive or emotional tool for making a connection with the client, performing necessary procedures and generating positive psychophysical outcomes. This chapter foregrounds fundamenta...

This chapter introduces new principles of professional ethics for touch-based client work by drawing on the philosophy of ethics and research on touch and affects. Our motivation for doing this is the observation that many professionals struggle with dilemmas regarding the types of touch that are ethically appropriate in interactions with clients....

‘Annika’, nursing teacher, 19.12.2017 (date of interview)

This chapter introduces (1) connecting touch, (2) procedural touch, (3) assisting and guiding touch, (4) exploratory touch, (5) caring and comforting touch, (6) therapeutic touch and (7) protective and controlling touch. The classification is necessary to encompass the whole repertoire of professional touch, although the chapter demonstrates how th...

This chapter introduces the main principles of technology-mediated touch in interactive client work. Mechanical tools and digital technologies both enable and hinder professionals’ ability to develop physical contact with clients. Drawing on critical technology studies and the phenomenology of the body, this chapter develops a novel approach to how...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate how professionals learn from varying experiences with errors in health-care digitalization and develop and use negative knowledge and digital ignorance in efforts to improve digitalized health care. Design/methodology/approach A two-year qualitative field study was conducted in the context of a p...

Social media has transformed how individuals handle their illnesses. While many patients increasingly use these online platforms to understand embodied information surrounding their conditions, healthcare professionals often frame these practices as negative and do not consider the expertise that patients generate through social media. Through a co...

As is the case in other situations of deep uncertainty, the unknowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic have aroused a great deal of attention in the media. Drawing insights both from mediatization theory and ignorance studies, we discuss the coverage of the AstraZeneca vaccine controversies to develop a new concept that we call the mediatization of...

Phenomenologies are an important dimension of Management and Organization Studies (MOS). They are particularly helpful to understand organizing processes as experiences instead of mere representations or objectivations of the world. Yet several misunderstandings still pervade discussions about what they are and what they could bring. This Handbook...

This book introduces readers to the ethical and goal-oriented functions of touch in professional practice. Touch is both an increasingly visible topic today and a core skill in many professions, especially in health, education and social work. This book combines helpful theoretical discussions and practical information, offering a balanced and cult...

During the corona pandemic, politicians have been forced to make urgent decisions under pressure while balancing between challenging options: protecting citizens' health or causing major social and economic difficulties through security measures. Part of the dilemma has been whether the chosen security measures are oversized, causing fundamental ec...

Many experts have emphasised that chatbots are not sufficiently mature to be able to technically diagnose patient conditions or replace the judgements of health professionals. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has significantly increased the utilisation of health-oriented chatbots, for instance, as a conversational interface to answer questions, reco...

This chapter is concerned with the conceptualisation of bodily knowledge and its epistemological relevancy, and it uses examples from movement and dance practices. It addresses the role of tactile-kinaesthetic sense in phenomenological epistemology to show how kinaesthesia and bodily movements can be mindful without being merely conceptual and verb...

This chapter discusses imaginary technologies that do not exist yet but are expected to be implemented in clinical work in the near future. Adopting a phenomenological view on the politics of organisational time, we illuminate how the rhetoric of futurity and protentional anticipation dominate managerial acts in healthcare organisations. This futur...

Social robotics designed to enhance anthropomorphism and zoomorphism seeks to evoke feelings of empathy and other positive emotions in humans. While it is difficult to treat these machines as mere artefacts, the simulated lifelike qualities of robots easily lead to misunderstandings that the machines could be intentional. In this post-anthropocentr...

The idea of the right to mobility has been fundamental to modern Western citizenship and is expressed in many legal and government documents. Although there is widespread acceptance regarding the importance of mobility in older adults, there have been few attempts to develop ethical and theoretical tools to portray mobility (in)equalities in old ag...

This chapter is concerned with the conceptualisation of bodily knowledge and its epistemological relevancy, and it uses examples from movement and dance practices. It addresses the role of tactile-kinaesthetic sense in phenomenological epistemology to show how kinaesthesia and bodily movements can be mindful without being merely conceptual and verb...

Our article (Parviainen, Koski, and Torkkola 2021) has sparked debate about epistemic humility in a crisis when political decision-making requires evidence-based knowledge but scientific experts have no answers. Alena Bleicher’s response to our article published in the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (SERRC), is an insightful openin...

Liikuntatieteessä on uskottu tiedon valistavaan ja motivoivaan vaikutukseen ihmisten liikuntakäyttäytymisen muuttamisessa. Entäpä jos tieto ja data eivät johdakaan toivottuun asenteiden muutokseen tai voivat jopa muuttua liikunnan esteeksi? Onko liikuntatiede keskittynyt liiaksi tietoon ja puhunut liian vähän tietämättömyydestä?

Patient and public involvement is widely thought to be important in the improvement of health care delivery and in health equity. There has been exponential growth in the employment of experts by experience in the health and social care sectors in the UK, and recently this trend has spread to the Nordic countries. Purpose: The article examines the...

Presented at the SPT2021, University of Lille, 29.6.2021.

Artikkelissa tarkastellaan ihmisen ja robotin välistä vuorovaikutustutkimusta ja siihen olennaisesti liittyvien sosiaalisten robottien tuotekehityksen taloudellisia ja poliittisia ulottuvuuksia. Sophia-robotin mediaspektaakkeli avaa mahdollisuuden pohtia, millä tavoin prototyyppivaiheessa olevien tutkimushankkeiden avulla rakennetaan mielikuvia tek...

The aim of this chapter is to shed light on the power-related infrastructural dynamic that actualises in the interrelations of big data collection and the bodily movement of urbanites in contemporary cities. By drawing from Husserl’s and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenologies of the body and combining them with recent theorisations on choreography, materi...

Keskustelu ihmisen ruumiillisuudesta alkoi lähes samanaikaisesti yhteiskuntatieteissä, filosofiassa ja kognitiotieteessä 1980-luvun tienoilla, tosin aluksi toisistaan erillään. Taustalla vaikutti pitkä keskustelu mielen ja ruumiin suhteesta, joka juontuu antiikin Kreikan filosofiaan ja ehkä vieläkin varhaisempaan hindulaiseen filosofiaan. Keskeisiä...

Twenty-five years ago, robotics guru Joseph Engelberger had a mission to motivate research teams all over the world to design the ‘Elderly Care Giver’, a multitasking personal robot assistant for everyday care needs in old age. In this article, we discuss how this vision of omnipotent care robots has influenced the design strategies of care robotic...

Effective design of care robotics refers to utilitarian principles which play a key role in assistive equipment for the care workers and for the patients themselves. Affective design of care robotics provides social and emotional support to the patients. In the paper we examined values and norms in care robot acceptance taking account both affectiv...

During the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, politicians and public authorities have struggled with how to manage widespread ignorance and insecurity regarding the virus. Non-knowing has been frequently recognized as a negative condition in politics but it can lead to a new kind of epistemic attitude in decision-making which is called here 'episte...

Tekoälypohjaisten sovellusten käyttöönoton uskotaan vähentävän inhimillisiä virheitä ja lisäävän julkisten palvelujen yhdenmukaisuutta ja tehokkuutta. Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelemme ennakoivaa analytiikkaa uudenlaisena hallintajärjestelmänä eli "regiiminä", jonka pyrkimyksenä on uusien teknologisten käytänteiden avulla ohjata kansalaisten hyvinvo...

The new generation AI applications are implemented to automate decision-making in professional work to guarantee reliability, safety and efficiency. In this paper, we discuss what kind of ethical and social challenges automated decision-making (ADM) pose for professional work in health care and social work. We are interested in tensions and challen...

Tech companies have eagerly utilised mindfulness techniques in order to increase both creativity and productivity among their managers and employees. However, while a growing number of studies within fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry suggest that mindfulness provides myriad health benefits, such literature does not critically evaluate th...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the notion of embodiment in robot technologies for eldercare, drawing on the phenomenology of the body and discussions of practical nursing ethics. Reaching beyond dualistic discourse on aging bodies, we aim to develop a new ethical framework in which lived bodies and embodied care practices play a dominant r...

San Franciscon lahden alueen teknofiilien usko teknologian ja inhimillisen suorituskyvyn rajattomuuteen on juurtunut tiukasti liberalistisesta ideologiasta ponnistavan omaehtoisen vastakulttuurin rakentamiseen. Teknoboheemisuuden ja vapaamarkkinaideologian yhdistyminen Piilaakson start-up-kulttuurissa on 1990-luvulta lähtien kaikunut lupauksena, jo...

Ammatillinen kosketus — Kuinka tunnetyötä tehdään (2019) on ensimmäinen perusteellinen teos kosketuksen etiikasta ja kosketustaidoista työssä. Toisen ihmisen kosketus herättää voimakkaita tunteita niin hyvässä kuin pahassakin. Me too -kampanja paljasti seksuaalisen häirinnän yleisyyden. Varsinkin naisiin kohdistuva häirintä ja väkivalta ovat maailm...

Touching in care work is inevitable, particularly in cases where clients depend on nurses for many activities of daily living, such as bathing, dressing, lifting and assisting. When new technologies are involved in nurse–client relationships, the significance of human touch needs special attention. Stressing the importance of practitioners’ opinion...

Viime vuosina mediassa on esitetty toinen toistaan uskomattomampia väitteitä hoivarobotiikan lähitulevaisuudesta. Mikä näistä väitteistä on totta, mikä tarua? Tarkastelen hoivarobotiikan nykytilaa ja lähitulevaisuutta palvelurobotiikan myyntitilastojen ja -ennusteiden valossa. Tilastoinnin avulla valottuu varsin toisenlainen kuva hoivarobotiikasta...

This article examines how the interactive capabilities of companion robots, particularly their materiality and animate movements, appeal to human users and generate an image of aliveness. Building on Husserl’s phenomenological notion of a ‘double body’ and theories of emotions as affective responses, we develop a new understanding of the robots’ si...

Care robots are often seen to introduce a risk to human, touch based care. In this study, we analyze care workers’ opinions on robot assistance in elderly services and reflect them to the idea of embodied relationship between a caregiver, care receiver and technology. Our empirical data consists of a survey for professional care workers (n = 3800),...

In this paper, we introduce a novel idea of kinetic values to examine challenges regarding assistive robots that are expected to support human movement in smart homes and mobility in urban environments. By problematizing the medical-engineering paradigm in care robotics for aging people, we argue that assistive robotics has been based on an idealiz...

This paper has two objectives: 1) to develop a coherent epistemological approach to clarify the concept of body knowledge and 2) to analyze the role of body knowledge in business-driven fitness environments. The epistemological analysis is built on phenomenological and feminist discussions on embodiment to clarify the power mechanisms and agency be...

Care robots are often seen to introduce a risk to human, touch based care. In this study, we analyze care workers’ opinions on robot assistance in elderly services and reflect them to the idea of embodied relationship between a caregiver, care receiver and technology. Our empirical data consists of a survey for professional care workers (n = 3800),...

In this paper, we explore issues of embodied control that relate to current and future technologies in which body movements function as an instrument of control. Instead of just seeing ourselves in control, it is time to consider how these technologies actually control our moving bodies and transform our lived spaces. By shifting the focus from dev...

Pervasive technologies not only pose new challenges for the established policies and practices of city planning but also profoundly affect how the daily movements and (inter)actions of city dwellers partake in the production of urban space. Urbanites' habitual paths with stopping points at diverse destinations form a choreography of " movement traj...

This roadmap is focused on the use of robotics in care and promoting independent living with a focus on the elderly population. Applications on robotics in care are divided into four areas: supporting workforce in care, rehabilitation and prosthetics, personal physical support, and personal cognitive/social support. Medical robots such as robotic s...

The pressure to find the ‘right’ personalities to strengthen customer service and working teams has made staffing decisions critical for organizations. Therefore, recruitment is more often outsourced and done so on a global level. By analyzing interviews with recruitment consultants, this article explores how consultants work in order to find the r...

Työntekijän kognitiivisia kykyjä, taitoja ja tietämystä on pidetty keskeisinä pätevyysvaatimuksina asiantuntijatehtävissä. Olisi kuitenkin virheellistä olettaa, että ruumiillisuudella ei olisi merkitystä asiantuntijatyössä. Ruumiillisilla eleillä ilmennettävien tunteiden ja affektien sekä vuorovaikutuksen hallinnalla on yhä keskeisempi merkitys nyk...

Biomonitoring digital devices have become popular in physical activities and are receiving intensive focus as motivational and support vehicles for health. The aim of this article is to develop a new theoretical framework to analyze biomonitoring from the two perspectives constituting the opposite ends of the big data spectrum: individual (micro) a...

Liikuntatiedossa on perinteisesti korostunut biomekaniikka ja ruumiin fysiologinen tutkimus, jotka ovat voimakkaasti ohjanneet liikunnanopetuksen, urheiluvalmennuksen ja erilaisten liikuntaohjelmien käytänteitä. Kokemuksellisella keholla on käytännöllisen tiedon muodostuksessa tärkeä merkitys, koska tietämys kehon toiminnasta ei palaudu mittareiden...

Dosenttiluentoni otsikko on varsin provokatiivinen "Kohti tietämättömyyden yhteiskuntaa?". Usko tiedon, asiantuntijuuden, osaamisen ja koulutuksen voimaan on ollut vahvaa yli 20 vuoden mittaisessa, suomalaisen tietoyhteiskunnan kehityksessä. Tarkoitukseni on tässä luennossa kysyä, jos niin millainen rooli tietämättömyydellä on jälkiteollisessa yhte...

Artikkeli tarkastelee valtion opetusteknologia strategian jalkauttamista peruskoulujen opetukseen 2010-luvulla. Strategian teknologiavisiota kutsutaan ”oppimisen elämyspuistoksi”, jonka mukaan koulun pedagogisista käytännöistä halutaan tehdä pelillisiä ja teknologiariippuvaisia. Kirjoittaja tulkitsee strategian visiota teknologiakriittisen kulttuur...

Artikkeli tarkastelee valtion opetusteknologia strategian jalkauttamista koulujen opetukseen 2010-luvulla Bruno Latourin toimijaverkostokäsitteen avulla. Strategian teknologiavisiota kutsutaan ”oppimisen elämyspuistoksi”, jossa koulun pedagogisista käytännöistä halutaan tehdä pelillisiä ja teknologiariippuvaisia. Kirjoittaja tulkitsee strategian vi...

Bodily knowledge has attracted significant attention within the humanities and other related fields over the last two decades. Although theoretical discussion on bodily knowledge in the context of physical education has been active over the past 10 years, these discussions lack clear conceptual analyses of bodily knowledge. Using a phenomenological...

Negative knowledge, unlearning, expertise

Bodily movements have traditionally had mostly instrumental value in interaction design. However, movements can also be given a central role in understanding behaviour and in designing technology for humans. This workshop is aiming at taking a fresh, movement-oriented look at the design and evaluation of technology in a wide variety of contexts.

Motivated by the troubling news on decreased exercise amount and increased obesity among children and adolescents, we investigated the possibilities of interactive lighting technology in encouraging children to participate in physical exercise in schools. We have created a story-driven physical exercise game based on light and sound utilizing a rea...

The body’s aesthetic and emotional capital in the post-industrial working life has eagerly been examined in recent years (e.g. Hassard et al. 2000; McKie & Watson 2000; Wolkowitz 2006). The discussion has brought out the role of the bodily communication skills and the ability to brand oneself in the current labour market where the CV advantage has...

In contributing to theoretical discussions of the working body, this paper explores the phenomenological distinction between the physical body (Körper) and the lived body (Leib), and its relevance for understanding the embodied interactive work and performativity that are required in contemporary service economies. To concretise this theoretical di...

Viestintä- ja mediateknologian korostunut merkitys kaupunkiympäristön rakentumisessa on herättänyt tutkijat pohtimaan, miten automatisoidut ja toimintaa ennakoivat järjestelmät kytkevät ihmiset – niin kuluttajina kuin kansalaisina – yhä tiiviimmin osaksi mediakaupunkia. Tässä artikke- lissa tarkastelen erityisesti, kuinka kehollisuus on kytkeytynyt...

Kaupunkitilan digitalisoituminen ja verkottuminen sekä kannettavien medialaitteiden yleistyminen ovat viimeisen runsaan vuosikymmenen aikana herättäneet enenevää kiinnostusta niin kaupunkitutkimuksen kuin viestintä- ja mediatutkimuksen piirissä – ja yhä useammin myös niiden rajapinnoilla. Käsillä olevan teemanumeron toimittamisessa olemme hakeneet...

Tämä muistia tarkastelevan kirjan luku käsittelee fenomenologisella tutkimusotteella traumaattista kehomuistia, erityisesti sen intersubjektiivista luonnetta ja ylisukupolvisia vaikutuksia. Kehomuistilla tarkoitetaan tässä muistin implisiittistä, ei-kielellistä osa-aluetta, joka todentuu kokemuksellisina, enemmän tai vähemmän voimakkaina aistimuksi...

The development of interactive technology is often based on the assumption of need to reduce the physical action and cognitive load of the user. However, recent conceptualizations, supported by research in various fields of science, emphasize human physical action in cognitive processes and knowledge formation. In fact, physical and closely related...

We have created story-based exercise games utilizing light and sound to encourage children to participate in physical exercise in schools. Our reasonably priced technological setup provides practical and expressive means for creating immersive and rich experiences to support physical exercise education in schools. Studies conducted in schools showe...

Liikkumisen politiikka on olennainen osa kaupunkitilaa. Kaupunkitilassa tapahtuvien vallan ja resistanssin koreografioiden pyrkimyksenä on edistää eri toimijoiden poliittisia tai taloudellisia intressejä. Väitän, että markkinoinnin ja protestoinnin rajapinta on hämärtymässä kaupunkitilassa ainakin kahdesta syystä: yritykset hyödyntävät yhä enemmän...

This article explores processes of standardizing movement in the fitness industry, using the Les Mills Fitness programmes as a case study. With licensees in 70 countries, the company has gained widespread recognition as the world’s biggest producer of branded fitness classes. Based on participant observation in fitness classes, the article examines...

Ruumiillisen työn määriteImä on muuttunut vilme vuosina radikaalisti, kun palvelutaloudessa työntekijoiltä on alettu vaatia yhä enemmän esteettistä kompetenssia, esiintymistaitoa sekä kykyä hallita ja käyttää omia tunteita yrityksen kannalta menestyksekkäällä tavalla. Tärnä tutkimus valottaa liikunnanohjaajien työtä esiintymisenä, jossa keskeistä o...

This article discusses the Embodied Generative Music (EGM) project carried out at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics IEM in Austria. In investigating a new interface that combines motion capture and sound processing software with movement improvisation and performance, I focus on dancers’ learning processes of dwelling in the virtual s...

This chapter discusses tactile-kinesthetic experiences and haptic illusions found within the context of the Embodied Generative Music (EGM) virtual sonic environment. The EGM interface combines motion capture and sound processing software with movement improvisation. In improvising in this virtual sonic environment, dancers generate sounds through...

This article investigates Edmund Husserl’s and Edith Stein’s account of kinesthesia and its methodological potentials in analyzing moving bodies in ubiquitous computing environments. The notion of Labanian kinesphere has merely addressed movements in or around bodies, ignoring the social interactions of moving bodies with other living and non-livin...

Fitness has become a dynamic global industry that produces new fitness forms in rapid succession. For instance in the U.K., fitness classes continue to represent an important and growing segment of the health and fitness market in spite of economic recession. In the past ten years, Yoga, Pilates and other mindful fitness classes have become increas...

Bodies have been used as a political tool in activism, but many scholars have ignored activists’ highly sophisticated and intelligent ways of using their moving bodies. This paper focuses on analysing three choreographies of resistance: the group crawling performance for striking nurses in Helsinki in 2007, the protest by Greenpeace at a nuclear co...

Some decades ago, commanding and threatening were regarded as executives' normal behaviour at workplaces. Due to the paradigmatic changes in the leadership culture, executives are expected to need emotional intelligence, empathy and social skills. Also, people in workplaces are able to identify and to intervene in bullying, discrimination, sexual h...

Liike on läsnä elämässämme kaiken aikaa. Etenkin viime vuosisadan teknologisen kehityksen myötä liikkuminen on saanut yhä moninaisempia merkityksiä ja ilmenemismuotoja. Arkielämässä liike ilmenee monella eri tavalla ja eri aistien välityksellä. Kinestesia, kokemus oman kehomme liikkeistä, avaa tärkeän tiedollisen, sosiaalisen ja emotionaalisen kana...

Asiantuntijatyö edellyttää nykyisin kykyä tehdä yhteistyötä sekä toisten asiantuntijoiden että ”maallikoiden” kuten asiakkaiden tai potilaiden kanssa. Kysymys asiantuntijoiden yhteistoiminnan merkityksestä on aiheellinen myös siksi, että erityisesti julkisen alan rakenteet ja instituutiot ovat haurastumassa ulkoistamisen ja pätkätöiden vuoksi. Kirj...

This paper explores the role of symmetry in conceptualising organisations and management. Symmetry is here defined as a correct proportion of the parts in a composition, those parts being either physical or conceptual. We present two cases of symmetry in management practices to demonstrate how symmetry as a combination of aesthetics and cognition c...

There has been a particular emphasis on knowledge and competence as increasingly important resources for successful enterprises. This notion of knowledge is based on 'positive knowledge', which considers knowing as merely a constructive, linear and accumulative process. We will introduce the notion of 'negative knowledge', which involves 'giving up...

This article is concerned with epistemological questions of dance, more specifically, the nature of dance knowledge. The aim is to address the question of the role of our bodily activity and the tactile-kinaesthetic sense in epistemology and to clarify the concept “bodily knowledge”, knowing in and through the body. First, it reflects on the standp...

The purpose of this paper is to narrow the gap between “dance technique" and “thinking” in and through bodily movements. Though no one is likely to deny dancing as a creative process, the production of dance technique is often understood as a laborious and mechanical process. In criticising technical attitudes and technisation in the production of...

This paper argues that leadership knowledge has a bodily dimension, especially in expert organizations. Different knowledge types in leadership research are analysed and discussed on a basis of two dimensions: the nature of knowledge (tacit and explicit) and the knowledge actors (individual and collective). Bodily leadership knowledge refers to a s...

Artikkelissa tarkastellaan tietämisen kehollista luonnetta fenomenologian ja Michael Polanyin epistemologian pohjalta. Keskeinen väite on, että kehollisen tiedon ja taidon välillä vallitsee yhteys, mutta ne ovat eri asioista.

Developing a phenomenological theory of the body which focuses on the analysis of movement, Jaana Parviainen outlines the dancing subject in contemporary dance, exploring the cognitive and ethical values of dance practice and danceworks. The present study explains the moral issues of dance art, not only as representation or symbolic presentation, b...