The 'positivity of power' is a crucial concept for contemporary critique. 'Positive power' is, however, poorly defined at present with much confusion between normative and empiricist uses of the term 'positive'. We propose to explore the 'positive power problematic' by (re)turning to the concept of authority - a concept through which positive power has been addressed in classical sociological and political theory. We want to reinvent the concept of authority such that it is adequate to the concerns and realities of the present. This means making sense of authority production in the context of radical contingency, creativity and finitude. Far from accepting that authority is dead in post-modernity, we suggest that authority is produced through present networks of capacities and potentialities, rather than the ancient past or some transcendent act of foundation. We are particularly interested in the role of experience and structures of experience in the formation of possibilities of authority production.

We welcome empirical or theoretical papers on any of the following areas:
• Authority and the production of knowledge
• Techniques and technologies of authority
• Deconstructing the authoritative relation
• The authority of resistance movements
• Biotechnologies, structures of experience and the politics of truth
• Authority and affect or embodiment
• Authority and space and/or time
• Power and experience
• Authority and life (in testimony or science)
• Authority and modernity, or post-modernity
• Biopolitics and authority or experience
• Authority, community and sovereignty
• Authority and creativity
• Authority and the theories of Arendt, Benjamin, Deleuze, Foucault, Nancy, Simmel, Stiegler or Weber

Organizer: The Authority Research Network (Aecio Amaral, Claire Blencowe, Leila Dawney, Sam Kirwan, Naomi Millner & Tehseen Noorani), Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bristol, tehs.noorani@googlemail.com

Mon, 15.20-17.00 Authority & Experience I: Community, Communication and the Creation of Authority in Discourse and Beyond
Chair: Claire Blencowe, University of Bristol

Samuel Francis Kirwan
Power, experience and place; assessing the impact of the active community

Naomi Millner
Authority and temporal experience in political activism

Leila Alexandra Dawney
Authority, foundation, testimony

Tue, 13.10-14.50 Authority & Experience II: Life, Knowledge, Time & Formations of Authority
Chair: Leila Dawney, University of Exeter

Claire Blencowe
Knowledge, life and limit-experience in the creation of authority

Tehseen Noorani
Self help Empowerment and the Meaning of User Involvement in Mental Healthcare

Tue, 17.20-19.00 Authority & Experience III: Producing and Performing Authority in Context
Chair: Tehseen Noorani, University of Bristol

Mark Haugaard
The creation of power, authority and truth through the performance of social life

Hanna Rautajoki
Managing epistemic authority in socio-political television discussions

Mark Brakken
Who's to say, anyway?: constructing a complementary perspective of power

Christina Hee Pedersen
Producing insights by doing the unthinkable

Bourdieuan elaborations of power, knowledge, body and emotions

How can the special presence, knowledge and powers of body be grasped by social theory and research? According to Pierre Bourdieu, social agents are feeling, knowing and sensuous beings whose knowledge appears in their practical abilities for skilful behavior. At the same time, emotions project our habitual tendency to frame and adjust our knowledge of probable and possible futures. In this session we ask what conceptual and empirical approaches might be conducive to a better understanding of the embodied nature of knowledge and agency. The aim of the session is to put together papers outlining different approaches to everyday knowledge, body and emotions. We invite presentations that relate to the concepts of Bourdieu's theory, focusing on empirical analysis as well as theoretical and methodological elaborations. Papers inspired by the conceptual framework of Bourdieu and applying Bourdieu’s concepts to empirical materials will be prioritized.

Organizers: Marita Husso, University of Jyväskylä, marita.husso@jyu.fi and Helena Hirvonen, University of Jyväskylä, helena.hirvonen@yfi.jyu.fi

Tue, 17.20-19.00
Chair: Marita Husso , University of Jyväskylä, Helena Hirvonen, University of Jyväskylä

Susanna Maria Hannus
Foucault, Bourdieu, relationality and emotions – New forms of care, symbolic capital and charisma

Judith O’Connell
The power of pedagogy. The Socialisation of Nationalism

Capitalizing culture. Articulations of culture, knowledge and economy

If culture in previous forms of modernity was largely seen as a value in and for itself, it is today increasingly understood as a value and a tool for gaining, directly and indirectly, economic profit. The same applies to knowledge production. Artistic creativity and academic innovativeness are both considered as tools, and success factors in the global competition. In this competition, national states race against each other for competitiveness, among other things.

Although the idea of a time when culture, arts and knowledge production would only have been valuable for themselves is fantastic and nostalgic, it can nevertheless be seen that the articulations of culture, knowledge and economy have dramatically changed in past thirty years. Although economy and culture have always been intertwined, the relationship is now articulated and made visible in new ways. Meanings of "culture", "arts" and "popular" are in flux. These meanings circulate around the world with translocal variations.

The panel invites emprical and/or theoretical papers that describe and/or discuss the mechanisms of these changes. Where and how are the meanings of culture produced? Who are the actors taking part in their meaning making? How do the shifts in values happen? How has the belief in the bliss of creativity and innovation come to be? In general: How do perceptions of culture and knowledge or culture and economy get formulated in the social processes of knowledge production?

Organizer: Dr. Katja Valaskivi, University of Tampere, katja.valaskivi@uta.fi and Dr. Tarja Rautiainen-Keskustalo, University of Tampere, tarja.rautiainen@uta.fi

Wed, 13.00-14.40
Chair: Katja Valaskivi, Tarja Rautiainen-Keskustalo

Katariina Mäkinen
Producing promotional selves

Jani Vuolteenaho, Sami Kolamo
Spectacularizing texts in commodified landscapes

Liina Puustinen
Promotional Yoga. The Old Indian Tradition of Yoga in the Western Market

Dynamics of Knowledge Creation in Wikis

The collective knowledge creation on various wiki-sites, including the massively popular Wikipedia, is having a profound effect on the social and epistemological conditions of public information. Distributed collaboration, possible anonymity, radical equality and global reach of wikified information lead to a situation that at the same time democratizes knowledge production by levelling hierarchies of expertise and increases the postmodern condition of reflective uncertainty. Everybody knows that the Wikipedia can not be trusted in the same way as, say, the Encyclopedia Britannica, yet over 100 million people utilize the Wikipedia daily. The 'edit' and 'history' buttons ever present on wiki pages are already starting to exert pressure on information presented elsewhere. For instance, the negotiations on what information to include and how the information should be presented in various Wikipedia entries constitute a huge experiment in the use of public reason à la Kant. Consequently, the dynamics of collective collaboration also bring out questions on the nature of rationality and plurality of knowledge. Wikis provide ready made windows into the dialectical interplay between knowledge creation and issues of identity, social inclusion, authority, and the interface between information and politics.
The session invites contributions discussing these themes through theoretical reflection and/or empirical case studies.

Organizers: Tere Vadén, University of Tampere, tere.vaden@uta.fi , Teemu Mikkonen, University of Tampere, teemu.mikkonen@uta.fi, Juha Suoranta, University of Tampere, juha.suoranta@uta.fi

Wed, 13.00-14.40

Eero Sormunen, Leeni Lehtiö, Heidi Hongisto
Collective authoring of Wikipedia articles in schools

Teemu Mikkonen
Wikipedia and the Foucault-Habermas Debate

Tere Vadén, Juha Suoranta
Notes on 'wikistemology' (wiki-epistemology)

From Inequality to Resistance and Freedom: Debates on Academia and Academic Thought

Organizer: Kirsti Lempiäinen, University of Tampere, kirsti.lempiainen@uta.fi

Mon, 13.10-14.50
Chair: Kirsti Lempiäinen

Karmo Kroos
The role of university (faculty) in transforming society

Anna Sugiyama & Hiro Sasaki
Is Logic Free in relation to Ideology? – A Case of Lvov-Warsaw School in Poland

Vinod Kumar Rawat
Knowledge/Power and Resistance in Three Indian Academic Novels

Knowledge about the economy

Description: Philosophers of science understand by knowledge an explicit and justified belief. Economists, such as Hayek, again believe about the rationality of the market and therefore see economics as the discipline studying the market as the privileged source of knowledge about the economy. However, both of these premises can be questioned (or, more accurately, shown to be valid only in restricted contexts): Firstly, sociologists of knowledge such as Berger & Luckmann in their The Social Construction of Reality maintain that with the term knowledge one should refer to “the certainty that phenomena and their qualities are real” and, consequently, sociology of knowledge “must concern itself with whatever passes for ‘knowledge’ in a society, regardless of the ultimate validity or invalidity (by whatever criteria) of such ‘knowledge’”. Secondly, scholars (such as Akerlof & Shiller or Krugman) attempting to explain the current financial crisis and other types of malfunctioning of the economy are willing to drop “the myth of the rational market” (Fox) and emphasize instead the role of “animal spirits” (as Keynes called those sociological and psychological factors which affect market behavior) in the workings of the price mechanism. Both of these currents point towards the need to understand economics as only one among many interpretative frames for making sense of the economy. This again points toward the need of a more versatile and covering study of our knowledge about the economy. How do we know that such thing as the economy even exists? What is it like? How do we know what happens in the economy? What is the relationship of the economy to the rest of society? How can we influence the development of the economy? What kinds of performative qualities different conceptualizations of the economy have? What are the factors behind the reproduction of certain conceptualizations of the economy instead of their alternatives? These are some of the questions of which papers are called for to set up a session which moves in the field of economic sociology in its broadest sense.

Organizer: Risto Heiskala, University of Tampere, email: risto.heiskala@uta.fi

Mon, 13.10-14.50
Chair: Risto Heiskala

Moushumi Basu
Neo-liberal Developmentalism and the Hegemonic Discourse of the Market

Toni Ahlqvist
Knowledge and transnational analytical governance: space-time management, economic intelligence and ‘evidence-based policies’

Otto Auranen
Role of expert knowledge in the construction of economy in the EU

Ajeet N. Mathur
The invocation of passions and powerbases in mindful knowing of economics

Knowledge production and the power of the academic profession

The core academic work has been said to be no less than the seeking of the truth. When scientists are doing their work and defining the basic assumptions of their disciplines they are creating current norms of truth and normality. This together with limited access of laypersons to academic discourse, information asymmetry, has ensured the power position of academic profession.

The monopoly of academics in knowledge production is challenged by market oriented changes in the university. New forms of steering and market base funding have had an enormous effect to the power of the academics. The limits between science and product have become fuzzier than before. The relevancy claims have grown and the marked oriented research and teaching is seen as a legitimate and necessary source of funding and also direction of academic work.

In the new mode of knowledge production the academic profession is not the one and only actor to make the decision about the quality and relevance of knowledge. In free markets information and knowledge are strategic resources for competitiveness and survival not, even in rhetorical level, for common good. The knowledge is protected by immaterial rights and the availability of knowledge is restricted.

The session calls all scholars interested in the power dynamics in academic knowledge production to contribute in formulating the questions on balance of power and values of markets and academic profession in directing the knowledge formation and to seek theoretical and practical alternatives for knowledge production that could be beneficial for entire society not only for academic oligarchy or market driven capital production i.e. in creating space in which the knowledge is accessible and available for all.

Organizer: Elias Pekkola, elias.pekkola@uta.fi
University of Tampere
Department of Management Studies, Higher Education Group

Tue, 13.10-14.50 Knowledge Production and the Power of the Academic Profession I: Whose Knowledge?

Elias Pekkola
The Two Dysfunctions of Free Academic Communication

David Hoffman, Jussi Välimaa, Terhi Nokkala
Whose Power? Whose Knowledge?

Kari Kuoppala
Lower-Level Academics in Knowledge Production

Tuomo Peltonen, Hanna Lehtimäki
Knowledge Production in Institutional Actor Networks of Management and Business Studies: Mapping the Changes in the Finnish Net

Tue, 17.20-19.00 Knowledge Production and the Power of the Academic Profession II: Changing Science – Changing Power

Oili-Helena Ylijoki
Back to the basics? The role of basic research at the entrepreneurial university

Thonette Myking
Are we the organic intellectuals of European Capitalism?

Ronald Bisaso
Changing patterns in academic management and the academic profession: A Ugandan-based case study

Knowledge, Power and the Environment

Human activities have led to transformations of earth systems of such a magnitude that the present era has been called the Anthropocene. Any understanding of environmental change, from the local to the planetary scales, must take into account the key attributes of unequal power relations and asymmetric knowledge creation through which human-environmental interactions are mediated. All human interactions with the environment are based upon a mental construction of that environment; regardless of whether a material reality is seen to exist beyond these mental constructs. The process through which our knowledge of the environment is constructed is clearly influenced by the unequal power relations within human societies. This is reflected, for instance, in the relative importance given to expert knowledge. Additionally, not just the form, but even the content of environmental knowledge, is often a contested and negotiated outcome, even when its legitimacy is derived from an appearance of an apolitical, objective ‘truth’. The recent furore over the hacked “Global warming emails”, highlights this process of negotiation, at the same time pointing to the unsettling effects that a discovery of the political nature of environmental knowledge can have.

The mental construction of the environment thus arrived at after being mediated by Power/Knowledge, in turn affects the material interactions with the environment. As an example, the pursuit of controlled, even flowing rivers as the ideal, led to the construction of 45,000 large dams over the last half-century. This discursive association of large dams with modernity, and of controlled rivers with civilization, has thus had a massive material impact on the planetary scale. However, this discourse of ‘modernization and development’, and ‘expert knowledge’ associated with large dams, has been challenged and contested vehemently. This raises a new understanding of politicized environmental knowledge, as well as gives rise to new and intriguing forms of resistance.

This session therefore, will explore how the three elements of power, knowledge and the environment interact with each other; and the implications these interactions have for the future of humanity. The complexity of these interactions calls for innovative research approaches that are both transdisciplinary and transcultural in nature.

Organizer: Ravi Baghel, University of Heidelberg, baghel@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Mon, 13.10-14.50 Knowledge, Power and the Environment I: Deconstructing Environmental Knowledge

Aaron Leopold
(De)Constructing a Sustainable Agrofuel

Achim Brunnengräber & Alexander Brand
Conflictive Knowledge Constructions on Climate Change through Mainstream and Alternative Media? The United States and Germany Compared

Miriam Seeger
Water Diversion Between Official Rhetoric and the Aspiration of Dominating Nature

Hanna Marika Kaisti
Politics of Energy and Development: The Discursive Turns in the Energy Policies of the World Bank and ADB¨

Mon, 15.20-17.00 Knowledge, Power and the Environment II: Knowledge of the Commons
Annukka Valkeapää
Citizens' knowledge of forest issues and acceptance of power relations
Eveliina Asikainen
Urban commons in a Finnish suburb – matters of power, knowledge and practices.
Ari Jokinen
Power and knowledge in the regimes of forestry and urban development

Tue, 13.10-14.50 Knowledge, Power and the Environment III: Expert Knowledge

Olivier Ejderyan
Interdisciplinarity as a power-knowledge arrangement in river management: An ecology of expert practices in Swiss and Japanese river restorations

Minna Santaoja
Volunteers in Knowing Biodiversity

Mira Käkönen
Dams, Mekong and Politics of Knowledge Production

Daniel Otto
A theory about expert knowledge. The influence of mental constructions of political decision makers in international climate change negotiations.

Tue, 17.20-19.00 Knowledge, Power and the Environment IV: Theoretical perspectives

Ilona Mettiäinen
Knowledge in Environmental and Strategic Planning as seen from Actor-Network Theory’s viewpoint

Guy-Serge Côté
Deliberative Ecological Democracy and the Challenge of the Facts and Values Dichotomy: A Latournian Analysis

Mat Cashmore & Tim Richardson
Power, knowledge and environment assessment: Towards a research agenda?

Ravi Baghel
Speech of thanks and concluding remarks

Language & Power

This session invites researchers and scholars who wish to present papers on knowledge of language(s) and power. The general framework of this theme was set by work such as Norman Fairclough’s Language and Power, 2nd edition, 2001, Longman, as how language functioning to preserve, enhance and change power relations in the constantly changing local and global society. Role of language in mass media and the Internet has been studied and discussed extensively in this context. It is becoming more evident that role of language and the process through which it exerts its power on a wide spectrum of phenomena ranging from personal identity to ‘a new world order’, have been changing in nature drastically as ‘globalization’ spreads like wildfire. One of the main foci of this session is to reveal and discuss phenomena observable in such a transitional phase, which exemplify shifts from the traditional framework to a new paradigm in regards to language and power relations. While the traditional paradigm still persists in maintaining status quo and its hegemony, many areas require new concepts and approaches to understand the process and interaction between language and power for conflict resolution, peaceful coexistence and sustainable cooperation in the world.

Organizer: Norio Ota, York University, nota@yorku.ca

Mon, 13.10-14.50 Language & Power I

Jani Vuolteenaho
Places, languages, intellectuals: spatial knowledge-production and the politics of toponymic research in nation-building

Jennifer Louise Dagg
Governmentality and Immigration from an Irish perspective

Heli Katajamäki
Ideology supported through appraisal devices in the Editorials of two Finnish Business Newspapers

Mon, 15.20-17.00 Language & Power II

Noriko Yabuki-Soh
Prevalence of English as a second language: An analysis of advertisements of English conversation schools in Japan

Tsuneko Iwai
Reexaming keigo : the "technologization" of Japanese honorific discourse

Maria Mihaela Grajdian
“The Media Is the Message”: The poetics and politics of knowledge in Japanese modern encyclopedias

Norio Ota
Textbook dominance in foreign language teaching and learning

Meaning and the Power/Knowledge of the Social Sciences

There are several contemporary currents that see the constitution of meaning as the most fundamental problem for understanding the social world. For those approaches the central theme is meaning as constituted (that is, not given) through discourse or communication. Mainstream social scientists on the other hand are interested in “objective” studies of societies and how people as parts of them behave. They do not usually start from the problem of meaning and take meaning more or less as given in terms of ‘values’ (sometimes referred to as ‘culture’), ‘preferences’ or ‘interests’. But for disciplines like semiotics, cultural studies and discourse theory ‘meaning’ is always a problem, not a solution for making sense of the social. A fruitful combination of both insights could render some new directions for social research. However due to current power relations (in terms of institutional resources, careers, funding, prestige, status, discipline’s public relevance and “impact factors”) the meaning-centered approaches have been pretty much relegated from the mainstream social sciences into the humanities. Therefore, the session welcomes papers dealing with the problem of bringing mainstream social scientific and the meaning-centered approaches into a dialogue, and analyzing the political as well as theoretical difficulties with these attempts.

Organizer: Peeter Selg
Researcher at the Department of Public Administration (Tallinn University of Technology)
pselg@tlu.ee

Tue, 13.10-14.50 Meaning and the Power/Knowledge of the Social Sciences I

Peeter Selg
Current politics of ‘theory’ and the constitution of meaning

Jarmila Rajas
Power/Knowledge, Governmentality, Immigration and Resistance

Tue, 17.20-19.00 Meaning and the Power/Knowledge of the Social Sciences II

Tatjana Jackel
A Phenomenological History of Power in International Relations

Rui Coimbra Gonçalves
Sovereignty and theological literature among the Spanish Second Scholasticism

Sandra Coe
Re-producing a social problem: Researchers, single parenthood, and the knowledge/power nexus

Motives and Powerbases in Group Relations, Strategies and International Economic Relations

Groups coalesce around boundaries of sentience and task for complex undertakings that require scale, scope, logic and continuity. Authority, Organisation, Strategies and Politics of Relatedness in Group Relations are pervaded by power in social reality as an outcome of how motives are pursued through powerbases. Motives signify purposes of value to individuals, groups, and large collectivities and may be conscious or unconscious. Plurality in sets of motives coagulate into articulated and tacit agendas. In elemental forms, motives arise from the pursuit of the psychologically more satisfying or less dissatisfying states sought at both individual and group level. Some group-level phenomena are manifestly observable or inferable but much of group phenomena is always invisible or latent about which only working hypotheses can be formulated to be confirmed, rejected or modified. The dynamics of intra-group and inter-group relations are always in a state of evolving flux.

Powerbases may facilitate or impede or obscure or distort fair, accurate and adequate discovery of motives and also their actualization regardless of whether motives are just or unjust, lawful or unlawful, legal or illegal. The controversy over doctoring of multilateral inquiries into the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the inability or unwillingness of the governance system both nationally and globally to anticipate through inquiries, prevent or quickly solve systemic crises like the financial meltdown of 2008, the magnification of the environmental threat from Himalayan Glacier melting are all examples that point to considerable collusion among academic, business and government interests. Such happenings also point to the need to understand how motives and power bases come together to tilt the balance of inquiries into various kinds of social, economic, political and environmental phenomena and how hidden agendas may prevail over research inquiries and inquiry frames.

The session would invite attention to the following:

Q.1 How do motives and powerbases come together to facilitate or impede inquiries into social, economic, cultural, social, political and environmental phenomena?

Q.2 What kinds of data belong to public domain and right to be informed about nationally and internationally?

Q.3 What role and impact do powerbases have on knowledge creation, knowledge taxonomies in disciplinary domains, statistical classifications, research agenda and researchability?

4. Case Studies of experiences where motives and powerbases have promoted discovery and where they have produced unacceptable outcomes.

Organizer: Ajeet N. Mathur, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, anmathur@iimahd.ernet.in

Mon, 15.20-17.00

Irina Jormanainen, Snejina Michailova
Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: Whose absorptive capacity is in question?

Sari S. A. Mattila
The Power of Value in Group Dynamics: Whose value and where?

Policing Regions and Organizations

Organizer: Markku Sotarauta, University of Tampere, markku.sotarauta@uta.fi

Wed, 13.00-14.40

Sari Kuusela
Power and interaction in leadership

Paula Saikkonen
Case Study: Polluted soil as a challenge for decision-making in the city of Helsinki

Markku Sotarauta
Institutional Entrepreneurship for Knowledge-based Development of Regions

Anja Yli-Viikari
Indicators as tools to process policy relevant information

Post-colonial theory, power and the uses of knowledge

The aim of the session is to focus on the ways in which post-colonial theory engages with and/or challenges structures of power and knowledge. Forms of resistance, challenging hegemonies and forming critical
pedagogies have been of great importance in developing post-colonial theory and practice. Does the empowerment mean as well that knowledge used in taking particular sides in a conflict of interest? What does analytics of power have to offer for critical post-colonial theory, are the forms of resistance in a sense either positive or negative freedom distinctively different to productivity of power suggested by Foucault? What kind of post-colonial theories are needed for taking into account present world order where flows of people and capital are constantly changing, and when many different groups of people are moving across borders? Are there particular political utilities and urges for political mobilization that post-colonial theory should promote? How should post-colonial theory take into account other differences such as nationality, religion, class, gender, ethnicity and individuality in the networks of power and in the dynamics of the moving world? There may be new forms of power configurations developing in our current situation, and if so, how should post-colonial theory tackle these issues? We invite theoretical and empirical papers that explore new dimensions of post-colonial theory and knowledge production and their implications for analyzing power relations.

Session organizers:

Pekka Rantanen, University of Tampere, pekka.j.rantanen@uta.fi
Joel Kuortti, University of Turku, joel.kuortti@utu.fi

Mon, 13.10-14.50 Post-Colonial Theory, Power and the Uses of Knowledge I: Theory, knowledge, emancipation

Ali Qadir
The West in the Mind – Coloniality and Criticisms of Edward Said’s Orientalism

Jaakko Ailio
Politicizing the Governance of the Third World: The Clash Between the Sub-Saharan HIV/AIDS Governance and the Management of Migration

Pekka Rantanen
Colonialism, Russian empire and emerging Finnish province

Tue, 17.20-19.00 Post-Colonial Theory, Power and the Uses of Knowledge II: Uses of knowledge in transcultural and status mobility

Aranzazu Garcia Piriz
The Role of Non-Formal Education in Transforming Power Relations and Challenging Gender: A Critical Case Study of an Alternative Basic Education Programme in Alaba Kulito, Ethiopia

Ilona Tikka
Is Decolonising Knowledge and Power in Finland Possible? A Case of Power Struggles of Academic Immigrants

Hanna Alasuutari
Critical Development Education and Intercultural Learning

Power & Knowledge in Social Work

Social work is both a profession and a discipline involved with social and political practices among poor and marginalized people who might belong to different social and generational positions. Consequently, both professional social work knowledge production and academic research are embedded in complex vertical and horizontal relations of power. Presently there are various approaches dealing with the role of knowledge production in constituting power and power relationships. In today’s transforming social conditions the conceptualization of power and power – knowledge relations is the key issue and reason to call for more research and novel approaches on the often subtle uses of power. The aim of this session is to invite together researchers who are working with various power – knowledge related themes by applying different theoretical and philosophical approaches. The papers of the session might include, for instance
1) various theoretical or methodological approaches to investigate power – knowledge relationships in social work,
2) various empirical issues related to mechanisms of professional or generational power and knowledge production,
3) power relations in social worker’s or client’s practices or everyday life,
4) long-term transformations in power – knowledge relations.

Organizer: Mirja Satka, University of Jyväskylä, mirja.satka@jyu.fi

Mon, 13.10-14.50 Power & Knowledge in Social Work I: Reconstructions in power and knowing
Chair: Mirja Satka

Tillie Curran
A Foucauldian analysis of social work with disabled children

Ian Walmsley
Bringing the outside inside: Power, substance misuse and recovery capital

Anthony Martin Schaffarczyk
Reconstructing discourse on power in social work

Mon, 15.20-17.00 Power & Knowledge in Social Work II: Professional practices
Chair: Timo Harrikari

Rosi Enroos
Moral reasoning of prisoners’ family relationships in the criminal sanction’s assessment work

Helene Durlinger
Effects of “doing power” and “doing knowledge” on “doing gender” and “doing ethinicity/race” of early childhood teachers

Mirja Satka
Exploring the relations of ruling in child welfare documents

Tue, 13.10-14.50 Power & Knowledge in Social Work III: Local and global excursions
Chair: Mirja Satka

Frances Ota
Church, power and knowledge

Terry T.F. Leung
Professionalization of social work in China from the power perspective

Louise Dorothy Vincent
The politics of abortion counseling – lessons from South Africa

The fall and rise of efficiency as a (restored) politics of truth

In its normalized form, neoliberalism was driven by a logic of financialization. The key role played by financial markets reflected in the hegemony of efficiency as a metric for assessing activity in an increasing number of public policy domains, from government spending to banking regulation to international food policy. The global crisis of capitalism temporarily challenged the role of efficiency as a structuring concept: financial markets suddenly became the monster to be civilized. Nevertheless, two years later efficiency appears to have regained its discursive primacy: for instance, the single most pressing issue identified in public policy discussions is the ‘sustainability’ of public debt - framed again through ‘efficient markets’ to which governments have to be accountable. This panel seeks to explore how and why has efficiency endured as a governing principle throughout the crisis? What changes in meaning were necessary to rearticulate its hegemony? Do these changes work similarly in different policy domains or are we witnessing divergent operations of 'efficiency' as a (restored) politics of truth? We will address these questions in the domains of financial reform and international food policy, and invite further contributions to complement our multidisciplinary approach.

Organizers: Daniela Gabor* (Daniela.Gabor@uwe.ac.uk) and Sally Brooks** (s.brooks@ids.ac.uk)
*Daniela Gabor is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England. ** Sally Brooks is a research officer with the STEPS Centre at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

Mon, 15.20-17.00

Daniela Gabor
Narratives of crisis and financial markets: from efficiency to speculation and back

Hannu Antero Kauppi
Contradiction between efficiency and effectiveness

Sally Brooks
Towards ‘impact at scale’? Current trends in international agricultural research

The local-global interfaces and domestication of transnational models

The papers invited to this session discuss how world polity as a loose institutional structure works and contributes to the formation of transnational models and isomorphic change. The standard assumption that transnational models emerge at the top, global level, and are adopted or rejected at the bottom by national states is too simple. World polity theory has shed light on this question but insufficient attention has been paid both to the ways in which transnational models are formed and to the processes triggered by their introduction and use in different local sites. The papers in this session make a contribution to existing knowledge by scrutinizing different transnational sites or interfaces. Papers may also analyze domestication of transnational models. In this instance domestication refers to the field battles in which actors do their best to use the opportunities or minimize the threats related to the effects that turning a transnational model into actual practices may have on their positions in the site in question.

Organizer: Pertti Alasuutari, University of Tampere, pertti.alasuutari@uta.fi

Mon, 13.10-14.50 The local-global interfaces and domestication of transnational models I: Dynamics in Political Fields I

Daniel Maman, Zeev Rosenhek
Inserting Global Logics in Local Political Fields: The Struggle over the Legal Status of the Israeli Central Bank

Anu Kantola & Hannele Seeck
Creative Consultocracy: The Packaging of a Global Guru for National Politics

Sami Moisio
Communicating Transnationalism through State Space

Stefan Bernhard
Symbolic Enactment as a “Cultural Other” – The Definition of World Polity Scripts in the Field of European Social Inclusion Policy

Mon, 15.20-17.00 The local-global interfaces and domestication of transnational models II: Dynamics in Political Fields II

Sebastian Büttner
The World-cultural Make-up of Regions: Macro-phenomenological Insights into Region-building and Regional Mobilization in the New Europe

Selina Gallo-Cruz
Culture, Diffusion and Power: How INGOs “Build Capacity” in the Globalizing World

Elina Mikola
Environmental NGOs Domesticating Carbon Markets

Antti Tietäväinen
The Birth of the NGO. A Case Study on Policy Change at the OECD Investment Committee

Petri Ruuska
Domestication of a Nation Form: Finland and Revolutionary 1905

Tue, 13.10-14.50 The local-global interfaces and domestication of transnational models III: Challenging Policies

Eeva Jokinen
Borderless Cross-border Care

Leena Tervonen-Goncalves
Evidence-based Policy-making and Trans/national Agendas of Public Health Policy

Ali Qadir
Enactment and Culture: World Culture Theory and Higher Education Reform in Pakistan

Laura Valkeasuo
Towards Knowledge Based Economy

Tue, 17.20-19.00 The local-global interfaces and domestication of transnational models IV: Controlling the Diversities

Mikko Lagerspetz, Tanel Vallimäe
Estonian Elite Discources on Diversity and Minority Representation.

Kati Elina Rantala
Better Regulation and Democracy

Jukka Syväterä
Domesticating the Transnational Model of Policy Advising on Ethical Issues

Ari Rasimus
Public Management Reform Coordination: The Case of Programme Management Reform in Finland

The politics of higher education and research

Higher education and the research sector have been subject to many substantial changes in most European countries during the last few years. There has been a shift towards deregulation and privatization of universities, with the aim of making them more autonomous organizations responsible for their own funding. State control has been gradually replaced by market-type mechanisms and new types of governance, while the pressure to produce economically useful and marketable knowledge has been increasing. There have also been efforts to introduce new styles of managerial expertise to the field of research. In the same way, sectoral research organizations or “PROs”, conducting research to support decision-making and service production, have undergone significant changes in funding, organization and governance. The aim has been to facilitate co-operation over disciplinary, organizational and sectoral boundaries, to create more effective steering mechanisms and to increase efficiency and productivity. In both cases market mechanisms, external funding, productivity measurements, accountability, effectiveness, networking and demand-orientation have become key words in governing and steering of research.

This workshop invites papers from researchers and students interested in studying the government of higher education and research and the effects of ongoing reforms on a national or transnational level.

Organizer: Valtteri Vähä-Savo, University of Tampere, valtteri.vaha-savo@uta.fi

Wed 13.00-14.40

Otto Auranen, Reetta Muhonen & Nina Talola
Funding competition and research performance among Finnish universities

Yuzhuo Cai
Chinese traditional reform philosophy and higher education reform

Ilkka Arminen
Domestication and performativity of a time management system in the Finnish universities

The Power of Visual Discourse. Theoretical and empirical developments after postmodernity

This panel invites theoretical and empirical contributions on the application of Critical Discourse Analysis to visual communication. Our main purpose is to discuss the nature of constraints and opportunities associated to the use of this method in the analysis of the way in which relations of power are established, reproduced and challenged in visual discourse.

We welcome participation in form of papers (about 8000 words) or research notes (2000 words) that seek to give an original contribution through theoretical discussion of and/or empirical engagements with the role of visual communication in contemporary societies

Questions of special interest include (but are not limited to):
- What is the distinctive contribution of CDA to visual analysis?
- How is CDA possible for visual communication?
- How does CDA address the intellectual challenges of postmodernity, such as the elusive or ‘liquid’ nature of power and the crisis of truth which postmodern thinkers posit? In how far can CDA offer a stable stock of knowledge and thus goes beyond the postmodern notion of (academic) knowledge as language games (cp. Lyotard) ?
- How does CDA relate to “contemplative” and “critical” approaches within the broad field of Visual Studies?
- Can CDA have a palpable political impact by unveiling the restraints of discourse in visual communication? - Can CDA be considered an emancipatory practice?”]
- How is CDA ‘critical’ in today’s world? What stance does CDA allow us to take in the face of the neoliberalism of visual communication with its commercialization of public imagery and visuality? What stance does CDA allow us to take in the face to the cultural diversity, globalization and cosmopolitanism?

Organizer: Matteo Stocchetti (PhD), Arcada (Finland)
matteo.stocchetti@arcada.fi

Tue, 13.10-14.50

Brendan Humphreys
Atrocity, Image, Action: How images of alien violence begin or end intervention

Katarzyna Kociolek
The power of the visual – media photographs of Polish female politicians

Rune Saugmann Andersen
IranElection, visual discourse, and the mass mediated fight for cyberspace. Representations of the 2009 Iranian post-election crisis

Matteo Stocchetti
Who gets What, When and How with Images? Critical Discourse Analysis and visual communication