Elina Penttinen

University Lecturer (International Relations), D.Soc.Sc.
Pinni A4047
tel. +358 (0)50 318 6023
email: firstname.lastname@uta.fi
Office hour: Mon 12–13 o'clock.

Research interests

Crisis management and security agency
Healing and recovery from war and extreme violence
Methodology and philosophy of science
Creative analytic writing
Posthumanism
Positive psychology
Feminist theory and gender studies
Post-Western International Relations

Teaching

- S2 Methods course
- Creative analytic writing

Publications

Work in progress

Penttinen Elina (forthcoming 2012) Joy and International Relations: a new methodology. in Christine Sylvester ed. series War, Politics and Experience. Routledge: London

Monographs

Penttinen Elina (2008) Globalization, prostitution and sex-trafficking: a Corporeal Politics. Routledge: London

Recent articles

Elina Penttinen (2011) Nordic women and international crisis management. The politics of hope? in Erika Svedberg and Annica Kronsell (eds) Making Gender: Making war. Routledge:UK

Elina Penttinen (forthcoming 2012) "Heartfealt positivity as an orthogonal approach to gender, agency and political violence" in Laura Shepherd and Linda Ahall (eds) Gender, Agency and Political violence, Palgrave.

Penttinen Elina (2010) Enhancement of expertise in civilian crisis management: positivity as a key toward personal dedication for comprehensive approach. Crisis Management Studies: CMC Finland Yearbook: CMC Finland

Penttinen Elina (2008) Imagined and Embodied Spaces in Global Sex Industry, in Special Issue of Sexual Spaces of Gender Work and Organization. Edited by Alison Linstead and Torkild Thanem.

Penttinen Elina (2006) Power and Hegemony in Saving 'Other' Women in Power and Hegemony (ed.) Mark Haugaard and Howard Lentner. Lexington Books:UK.

Penttinen Elina (2010) Poliisinaiset maailmalla: Mistä naisten lisäämisessä on kyse? (Female police officers in crisis management: What the politics of increasing women is all about?) Pirjo Jukarainen and Sirkku Terävä (eds.) Tasa-arvoinen turvallisuutemme? (Equality of our security?) Minerva: Helsinki.

Penttinen Elina (2010) Asiantuntijuus ja eettinen toimintakyky siviilikriisinhallinnassa: Helena Rannan kokemuksia. (Expertise and Action Competence in  Civilian Crisis Management: Experiences of Prof. Helena Ranta) in Pirjo Jukarainen and Sirkku Terävä (eds) Tasa-arvoinen turvallisuutemme? (Equality of our security?)  Minerva: Helsinki.