Tiina Jääskeläinen

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 contributes to critical management studies and focuses on recognition in natural resource governance and development planning in Sápmi, during contemporary decolonisation processes of the Sámi people as 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.