Reviewing Kenny, Fotaki and Vandekerckhove’s article called ‘Whistleblower subjectivities: organization and passionate attachment’
Introduction As a genre, review articles ‘document the state of knowledge in a given field, primarily for the purpose of fixing existing understandings, or maintaining a record of what we know’ (Patriotta 2020, p. 1273). Corruption literature includes a wide range of disciplines, and ‘review articles play an important role in promoting collective reflections about […]
How to Govern the Process of Change in Communities with the Help of a Search-Conference
Anja Salmi When change happens at present speed in our social, political, economical and ecological environment, it creates uncertainty, stress and fear to the ones who are influenced by it. Passive withdrawal conducts stagnation at the same time as our social environment is chaotic. Often individuals feel the situation irrelevant and estranger if the adaptation […]
Developing new understandings about the National Dynamics of Finland
This article is the result of the work of six members of the Finnish Think Tank: Dynamics of Groups and Societies (RYD). It is the continuation of a workshop led by Dr Mannie Sher of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in 2019. The authors of this article are Aki-Mauri Huhtinen, Sinikka Torkkola, Pertti Ahonen, […]
Elitism and self-importance are embarrassing cultural remnants and customs of past times
Finland has a small population and, in most important tasks, everybody knows each other. It is considered that the strength of Finland is equality and how we share joys and sorrows together without the cultural heritage of a class society. This is why it is weird that every important event has separate sections for VIPs […]
Portraying humans: roles in everyday life and in theatre
The roles individuals play in life are essential building blocks for their identities, and new kinds of roles may even at best increase their quality of life and their possibilities to make a difference in society. The research project Art as work and as a working tool has studied how one grows into the roles […]