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I work as a Professor of Comparative European History, concentrating especially on the history of political and social discourse in the long term from comparative and transnational perspectives. I cooperate with political historians, political theorists and language policy researchers to produce multidisciplinary, comparative and transnational analyses of past political discourses and cultures in Finland, Sweden and major European powers.
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Historical scholarship is currently undergoing a digital turn. All historians have experienced this change in one way or another, by writing on word processors, applying quantitative methods on digitalized source materials, or using internet resources and digital tools. Digital Histories showcases this emerging wave of digital history research. It...
The Finnish case is in many ways illustrative of the complexities of democratisation after World War I. Finland found itself at the nexus of a Swedish constitutional tradition, legalism and ideological controversies adopted from Imperial Germany, the radicalised Russian Revolution, and Western parliamentary democracy. After having been a model for...
Historians of political discourse and language policy researchers should join forces to develop methods of textual analysis that help to integrate political and intellectual history. They could do so by focusing their analysis on interconnections between material realities, human physical action, practices and structures, as well as institutions an...
The carnage of World War I gave rise to liberal visions for a new world order with democratized foreign policy and informed international public opinion. Conservatives emphasized continuity in national sovereignty, while socialists focused on the interests of the working class. While British diplomacy in the construction of the League of Nations ha...
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In this article, we analyse the construction of Finnish constitutional bilingualism in the af...
The articles in this special issue, entitled Reform and Revolution in Scandinavia, 1917–1919: Entangled Histories and Visions of the Future, deal with the political turmoil in Scandinavia in the late 1910s, accelerated by the First World War and the revolutions in Russia in February/March and October/November 1917 and eventually in Germany in the a...
During the First World War, the legitimacy of established polities was challenged everywhere in Europe. Not only the combatant great powers but also smaller states witnessed a resurgence of constitutional disputes and competing ideological conceptualizations of revolution and reform, the will of the people, democracy, and parliamentarism. While the...
In the aftermath of the First World War, constitutions of European states were widely democratized and parliamentarized, and similar turns were expected in international relations as a consequence of the creation of the League of Nations. This comparative analysis of Swedish and Finnish parliamentary debates on the League membership focusing on con...
During the First World War, conflicts between the people’s sacrifices and their political participation led to crises of parliamentary legitimacy. This volume compares British, German, Swedish and Finnish debates on revolution, rule by the people, democracy and parliamentarism and their transnational links. The British reform, although more about w...
This article demonstrates the complexity of the foreign policy involvement of the British parliament during the 20th century. Parliamentary government as such provides some procedural means for involvement in foreign policy debate, in Britain as well as in other countries. Researchers have, nevertheless, often argued that parliaments play a limited...
Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects-deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignt...
In Debate with Kari Palonen is a collection of 48 essays written by scholars from a great variety of research fields. All essays discuss the scientific contributions of the Finnish political scientist Kari Palonen, from his views on political thought to the understanding of conceptual change and the study of politics as an activity. The essays crit...
What happened to shared historical experiences in the discursive processes of constitutional reform in Sweden and Finland? This article examines the use of 18th-century history in early 20th-century politics. Building on a long-term survey of Swedish and Finnish estate and parliamentary debates, it analyses the political implications of differing n...
In this volume, authors from four disciplines join forces to develop an analysis of political discourse on a comparative and multidisciplinary basis. Language policy is often based on the political use of history, where the remembrance of past experiences by communities, individuals and historical bodies play a fundamental role. These authors see p...
The 'Age of Revolution' is a term seldom used in Scandinavian historiography, despite the fact that Scandinavia was far from untouched by the late eighteenth-century revolutions in Europe and America. Scandinavia did experience its outbursts of radical thought, its assassinations and radical reforms, but these occurred within reasonably stable poli...
Vertaileva Euroopan historian tutkimus − poik-kikansallisen vuorovaikutuksen analysoinnilla täydennettynä − haastaa historiantutkimukses-sa perinnäisesti vallinnutta metodologista nationalismia mutta tukee myös kansallisten ilmiöiden ymmärtämistä. Esimerkiksi kansallisissa parlamenteissa käytyä poliittista keskustelua voidaan digitaalisten lähteide...
Historiantutkimuksessa on viime vuosikymmeninä tapahtunut mittavia muutoksia sekä tutkimuskohteiden, tutkittavien aineistojen että menetelmien osalta. Yliopistollinen historianopetus on kuitenkin uudistunut tänä aikana vähemmän, erityisesti jos muutosta verrataan tutkimustyössä ja ympäröivässä yhteiskunnassa tapahtuneeseen kehitykseen. Nämä muutoks...
Scholarly interest in the early modern sermon has flourished in recent years, driven by belated recognition of the crucial importance of preaching to religious, cultural, and political life in early modern Britain. This book surveys this new field. It is divided into sections devoted to sermon composition, delivery, and reception; sermons in Scotla...
Analysoimme tässä historiantutkijan, koulutustutkijan, kielentutkijan ja kielikoulutuspolitiikan tutkijan yhteistyönä syntyneessä artikkelissa ruotsinopetuksen pakollisuuteen ja vapaaehtoisuuteen liittyviä argumentteja Helsingin Sanomien, Hufvudstadsbladetin ja Vasabladetin verkkokeskustelupalstoilla ajalla 8.-14.10. 2011 käydyissä keskusteluissa....
The importance of bodily and mechanical analogies in everyday political argumentation has been seldom discussed in the academic literature. This article is based on a contextual analysis of the uses of bodily and mechanical analogies in parliamentary and public debates in eighteenth-century
England, as they can be retrieved from full-text databases...
This article proposes that historians and political theorists should exploit parliamentary sources to move from the writing of national histories to the comparative study of the conceptual history of European political cultures. Complementing the German lexicographical approach to conceptual history, the authors argue that parliamentary debates in...
This article discusses the study of modernization in the conceptions of political identities and loyalties in Scandinavia in the late 18th century. Opening with a review of recent Scandinavian research on political cultures, the language of politics and emerging nationalism in the 18th century, it locates the ensuing case studies in this burgeoning...
This paper suggests that the study of the modernisation of European political cultures in the eighteenth century would greatly benefit from a comparative conceptual historical approach. is approach would effect the reconstruction of a variety of meanings attached to chosen political
concepts in different national contexts through the side-by-side a...
This paper discusses the methodology of conceptual history, a branch of the study of the history of political thought which focuses on the changing meanings of political concepts over the course of time. It is suggested here that methodological disputes among historians of political thought frequently arise out of differing theories of language and...
In early modern Europe, the contemporary concepts of "nation" and "fatherland," as used in official state propaganda, were still frequent-ly constructed with language that we would easily categorize as "re-ligious". National churches retained their status as formulators and educators of the official values and identity of each state for much of the...
Swedish parliamentary sermons provide a series of sources on the basis of which alternative meanings attached by the governing elites to the key concepts in the early discourse on fatherland and nation can be reconstructed. Through an analysis of parliamentary sermons, the Swedish concepts can also be compared with their equivalents in other Protes...
