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Tiina Jääskeläinen

Tiina Jääskeläinen

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Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies

[email protected] | +358 50 592 2133

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I approach environmental governance as encounters between actors who are located and situated in multiple partially connected sociomaterial networks. Each network reproduces and regenerates its own ontology and epistemology about sustainability and its own conceptions of moral (values and conceptions of responsibility). I apply theories founded on decolonial and posthumanist relational approaches, combining political ontology, decoloniality and STS with environmental politics.

My PhD contributed to critical management studies and focused on recognition in land use, natural resource and development governance as well as the economic motives behind conflicts on Indigeneity in Sápmi, during contemporary decolonisation processes of the Sámi people as an Indigenous people of Northern Europe.

In my post.doctoral stage I study intergenerational knowledge and environmental relations.

I use qualitative methods, such as ethnography, action research, interviews and policy analysis in my research.

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Scientific publications

Mustalahti, I., Jääskeläinen, T., Athuman, A. & Ubaldus, T. (accepted to publication in 19.12.2025). Intergenerational knowledge sharing in biodiversity conservation: Lessons from Biosphere Reserves in Finland and Tanzania, in an edited volume: Catalyzing Biodiversity Conservation and Social Transformation: Insights from UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. Springer Nature.

Jääskeläinen, T. (accepted to publication in 25.3.2026). Openness to research ethical dilemmas as a means to engage with decolonizing agendas. Scientific Journal: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management.

Jääskeläinen, T. 2026. Strategic Production of Conflicts on Indigeneity to Reassemble the Sámi Homeland: Dynamics between Land Use Intensification, Indigenisation, and Self-Indigenisation. Hanken School of Economics, Economics and Society – Ekonomi och samhälle, 406. http://hdl.handle.net/10138/626308

Jääskeläinen, T. 2024. Purification as a tactic of marginalisation in business-community relations: Epistemic dimensions in the exclusion of Indigeneity in Arctic development strategy. Organization, 31(8), 1167–1192. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231180478

Ehrnström-Fuentes, M. & Jääskeläinen, T. (2022). Responsibility is not only about humans, in Tienari, J. & Sandberg, M. (eds.): Transformative Action for Sustainable Outcomes: Responsible Organising, 22-27. Routledge Advances in Sociology. Routledge.

Ehrnström-Fuentes, M. & Jääskeläinen, T. (2022). Ontological multiplicity: Responsible organising in defence of life, in Tienari, J. & Sandberg, M. (eds.): Transformative Action for Sustainable Outcomes: Responsible Organising, 134-140. Routledge Advances in Sociology. Routledge.

Jääskeläinen, T. 2020. The Sámi reindeer herders’ conceptualizations of sustainability in the permitting of mineral extraction – Contradictions related to sustainability criteria. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 43, pp. 49-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.02.002

Antikainen, R., Alhola, K. & Jääskeläinen, T. 2017. Experiments as a means towards sustainable societies – Lessons learnt and future outlooks from a Finnish perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production, 169, pp. 16-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.184

Primmer, E., Termansen, M., Bredin, Y.K., Blicharska, M., Garcia-Llorente, M., Berry, P., Jääskeläinen, T., Bela, G., Fabók, V., Geamana, N., Harrison, P.A., Haslett, J., Cosor, G., Holst Andersen, A. 2017. Caught between personal and collective values: biodiversity conservation in European decision-making. Environmental Policy and Governance, 27, 6, pp. 588-604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eet.1763

Berry, P., Fabók, V., Bilcharska, M., Bredin, Y., Llorente, M. G., Kovács, M., Geamana, N., Stanciu, A., Termansen, M, Jääskeläinen, T., Haslett, J. R. & Harrison, P. A. 2016. Why conserve biodiversity? A multi-national exploration of stakeholders’ views on the arguments for biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation, 25, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-016-1173-z

Policy-oriented publications

Antikainen, R.; Dalhammar, C.; Hildén, M.; Judl, J.; Jääskeläinen, T.; Kautto, P.; Koskela, S.; Kuisma, M.; Lazarevic, D.; Mäenpää, I.; Ovaska, J-P.; Peck, P.; Rodhe, H.; Temmes, A.; Thidell, Å., 2017. Renewal of forest based manufacturing towards a sustainable circular bioeconomy. Reports of the Finnish Environment Institute 13/2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10138/186080

Termansen, P.A. Harrison, P.M. Berry, E. Primmer, A.H. Andersen, M. Blicharska, Y.K. Bredin, M. Bucur, G. Cosor, V.M.M. de Neergaard, V.M. Fabók, M. García-Llorente, N. Geamănă, J.R. Haslett, T. Jääskeläinen, A. Stanciu and C.N. Thisted (2014). Final report on relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem services and values in case studies. http://www.besafe-project.net/deliverables.php?P=4&SP=32

 

 

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