Finishing my book on the birth and death of liberal democracy in Hungary. Twenty years in the making but this time it seems to be really coming together.

Went to a local high school talk about Europe, "populist right" or illiberalism, neo-New Right... AfD, Trump, Milei, Putin. There is no "European Populism". Everyone had seen clips from Trump's inauguration and it starts to sound like more of the same transnational hegemony. Sotungin lukio.

We are celebrating. Days are getting longer. Happy holidays! Hyvää joulua!

Kansalainen kaipaili kommentoimaan Riikka Purran demonisointia. Mainitsin tästä jo Ylellä, jos kuuntelitte. Samoin edelleen oli päähänpiston taustalla mitä oli, on väärin lyödä ihmisiä naamaan. Tutkijana mun pääasialliset hommat on johtaa tutkimusryhmää, ei notkua mediassa. Kiitos ja hyvää joulua! 🎄

Continuous construction of the social contract, CO3 project in Paris, AUP. Been presenting papers on Polarisation, even toxic polarisation - and hegemony - with #HEPPsters Alex and Szilvia, and Bilgi colleagues Pınar Ulyan and Emre Erdoğan aka @urbanhobbit.bsky.social

Vihdoin on genetiivit kohdallaan.
Tervehdys itsenäiseen Suomeen Istanbulista. 🇫🇮

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Pelkkää retoriikkaa osallisuudesta? Olen tänään aamulla
TEM:in aluekehittämispäivillä kertonut demokratian ja demografian eroista. Korostin välittäjätahojen rooli järjestökentästä mediaan. Esimerkkinä mulla oli Maunula-talon yhteissuunnitteluprosessi Helsingistä. Miten välittäjätahoja tuetaan?

I have been commenting today for yle.fi (from my own coach) Finnish politics, where the Finns Party leader, Finance Minister Riikka Purra has defended her MPs rights to take part in a 612 march organised by the far right on the national day. Why? An anti-elitist, anti-liberal, double-speak strategy.

CO3 project workshop on the social contract theme to kicked of our doctoral course on Pateman in gender studies. Nathanael Colin-Jaeger (AUP) set the basis of SC theories. Annika Teppo's (UU) talk on South Africa fits the course theme feminist critics of the social contract. #HorizonEuropeDemocracy

Tomorrow on the social contract: I so wanted to re-read the Sexual Contract by Pateman that I organised a whole course on it. Discussion with Jenny Gunnarsson Payne & Paul-Erik Korvela and CO3 colleagues Anna Björk & Szilvia Horváth. Presentations by Nathanael Collin-Jaeger (AUP) & Annika Teppo (UU)

Today our visiting scholar @giorgosvenizelos.bsky.social was presenting at HEPP: What an inspiring paper on anti-populist pro-vaxers!

Happy 2024! End of 2023 was quite intensive: the 3-day #HEPP4 conference had 200+ participants. It became a reunion with some of my oldest academic friends. With colleagues from North & South we continued to U.ofLapland & Pyhä to discuss ethnonationalism colonialism.
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This week an amazing visit of Mercedes Barros from Patagonia, Argentina in HEPPsinki: Talk on South American populism with Kleber Carrilho and @vsalojarvi.bsky.social . Dirty Words course at SKY doctoral school that Tuija Pulkkinen leads. Tomorrow Mercedes keynotes at #HEPP4. Go #HEPPsters!

Other highlights: AI in visual analysis. (No wonder I got quite excited about the next comparison between image-annotating software - and repeated "also" in that previous post.) Matti Nelimarkka introduces their paper: use it wisely (researcher shows AI is pretty "dumb" here).

Showcasing TikTok research on this "depressing app" @nuppu.bsky.social @vsalojarvi.bsky.social
TikTok: increasingly used also in political communication.
This is also our research plans for #EP2024 elections #ENDUREproject. Will our brain also melt?
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen sums up.
#Rajapintapäivät

Hoping our neighbouring country would stop its attack war in its neighbouring country. Also so we would not need to fly those extra thousands of air miles. But, indeed, passed by the North Pole - as the Finnair used to in the old days of the USSR 🙄

Yesterday we met with the president of the Seoul National University, who is a very nice political scientist! Some pictures from the campus which (used to be a golf course) offers great opportunities for hiking. My kind of place! I would love to come back.🍂

While preparing for the IPSA World Congress in Seoul July 2025, at the IPSA Executive Committee, I am making my first post here. Thanks for the code @theresareidy.bsky.social - the programme co-Chair WC2023 Buenos Aires! Can WC2025 in Soul match it? 💜 Get ready for this, the CfP opens July 2024!