I am an anthropologist and a senior university lecturer. My current research deals with the sustainability transition of the Finnish forest sector as well as climate change and digital technologies. My most recent book is “A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation and Social Change in Rural India,” published by Oxford University Press in 2018.
My current research deals with the sustainability transition of the Finnish forest sector as well as climate change and digital technologies. My previous long-term ethnographic fieldwork in rural India sought to understand how mobile phone use contributed to social changes. My research interests also include development, gender, and kinship. My latest book, “A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation and Social Change in Rural India,” was published by the Oxford University Press in 2018. In addition to eight books, I have published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Ethnos, Modern Asian Studies, and Contemporary South Asia. My books, Introduction to Changing India: Culture, Politics, and Development (Anthem Press 2012) and Muuttuva Intia (in Finnish, Edita 2007), which I wrote with Minna Säävälä, give a general idea of contemporary India as well as my research. I have been a visiting scholar at Brown University and the University of Western Ontario.
