Sari Pietikäinen

Professor
Unit
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department / Division
Department of Language and Communication Studies
Room number
Mobile
+358408053220
Postal address
Seminaarinkatu 15
Fields of science
520 Other social sciences
518 Media and communications
6121 Languages

Biography


I am an interdisciplinary scholar working at the nexus of Discourse Studies, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, and Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences. I work as a professor of Discourse Studies at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥. 

Research interests

My research interests include critical assemblage analysis of climate change and multispecies interaction in the Arctic, the power of discourse in revaluing natural resources, and the politics of language and identity in unequal multilingual situations. Applying multiple approaches, including assemblage ontology, nexus analysis, critical discourse analysis, and ethnography, I have led several international research projects examining shifts in ecological, political and cultural discourses and practices in the heating Arctic. In collaboration with stakeholders and colleagues, I have co-developed various knowledge designs, such as science postcards, collaborative photograph exhibitions and art-based conversation pieces. My recent book is Cold Rush: A Critical Assemblage Analysis of a Heating Arctic (2024, Palgrave Macmillan).

Publications

Publication
2024

Language and Globalization
Pietikäinen, Sari
Publication
2024

Heller, Monica
Pietikäinen, Sari
Pujolar, Joan
Publication
2024

Critical Sociolinguistics : Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments
Duchêne, Alexandre
Martin Rojo, Luisa
McLaughlin, Mireille
Phyak, Prem
Pietikäinen, Sari
Publication
2024

International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Pietikäinen, Sari
Zavala, Virginia
Publication
2022
Available through Open Access

Journal of Sociolinguistics
Pietikäinen, Sari
Publication
2021

Language, Global Mobilities, Blue-Collar Workers and Blue-Collar Workplaces
Pietikäinen, Sari
Allan, Kori
Publication
2021

Anthropology of Work Review
Pietikäinen, Sari
Hegel, Christine
Publication
2021
Available through Open Access

International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Pietikäinen, Sari
Publication
2021

Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age
Pietikäinen, Sari
Ojala, Anna-Liisa
Publication
2019
Available through Open Access

International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Pietikäinen, Sari