Jussi Kurunmäki

Senior Researcher
Unit
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department / Division
Department of History and Ethnology

Biography

I am a senior researcher, focusing on the conceptual histories and theories of political representation, democracy, and ideologies. I hold the title of Docent in political science (Stockholm University, 2011) and in political history (University of Helsinki, 2018). I received my PhD in political science at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ in 2000.

I am an active scholar in an international conceptual history community, currently a board member of The History of Concepts Group as well as Concepta. My co-edited books include Käsitteet liikkeessä: Suomen poliittisen kulttuurin käsitehistoria (2003), Time, History and Politics (2003), Rhetorics of Nordic Democracy (2010), and Democracy in Modern Europe: A Conceptual History (2018). I have also coedited the special issue on the political rhetoric of isms in the Journal of Political Ideologies (2018).

Research interests

I am a senior researcher, focusing on the conceptual histories and theories of political representation, democracy, and ideologies. I hold the title of Docent in political science (Stockholm University, 2011) and in political history (University of Helsinki, 2018). I received my PhD in political science at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ in 2000.

I am an active scholar in an international conceptual history community, currently a board member of The History of Concepts Group as well as Concepta. My co-edited books include Käsitteet liikkeessä: Suomen poliittisen kulttuurin käsitehistoria (2003), Time, History and Politics (2003), Rhetorics of Nordic Democracy (2010), and Democracy in Modern Europe: A Conceptual History (2018). I have also coedited the special issue on the political rhetoric of isms in the Journal of Political Ideologies (2018).

Publications

Publication
2024
Available through Open Access

Analyzing Text and Discourse : Nine Approaches for the Social Sciences
Kurunmäki, Jussi
Marjanen, Jani
Publication
2024
Available through Open Access

Historisk tidskrift för Finland
Kurunmäki, Jussi
Ihalainen, Pasi
Publication
2024
Available through Open Access

Parliaments, Estates and Representation
Kurunmäki, Jussi
Publication
2023
Available through Open Access

Redescriptions
Hyvärinen, Matti
Kurunmäki, Jussi
Turunen, Risto
Teräs, Kari
Andrushchenko, Mykola
Peltonen, Jaakko