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Discussant: Professor Pertti Alasuutari, University of Tampere, Finland.

After the lecture, 15 minutes have been reserved for questions and discussion.

Focusing on the notions of habit and embodied knowledge, this talk proposes the view that cultural cosmopolitanism is inscribed in everyday life of individuals around the world through trivial and mundane activities such as eating, getting dressed and musicking. The paper suggest that current cultural cosmopolitanism proliferates through habitual and routine enactments of myriad forms of embodied knowledge, acquired by individuals around the world through engagement with globally circulating cultural objects from multiple origins. Put differently, this talk aims at an understanding of cultural cosmopolitanism through a lens inspired by practice theory.

Motti Regev is a cultural sociologist. He has worked primarily on popular music, specializing in pop-rock music and cultural globalization. He currently expands his focus to a general look at cultural cosmopolitanism and embodied knowledge. His work combines a Bourdieusian perspective with cultural globalization theory. His books include Popular Music and National Culture in Israel (with Edwin Seroussi; University of California Press, 2004), Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity (Polity, 2013) and Sociology of Culture: A General Introduction (in Hebrew. Open University of Israel, 2013). His work on pop-rock and cultural globalization has appeared in the journals Theory, Culture and Society, Poetics, Popular Music, European Journal of Social Theory, Cultural Sociology, American Behavioral Scientist, Journal of World Popular Music and Youth and Globalization, as well as in numerous edited volumes. He is Professor of Sociology at the Open University of Israel.

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Chair: Marjaana Rautalin

Papers: 

Juozas Valenčius: Fivefold implementation of the electronic signature infrastructure in the public sector: a case of Lithuania 

Gwenaëlle Bauvois: The Yellowsphere Glocalisation of the Yellow Vests movement in Finland 

Henri Koskinen: Startup Entrepreneurship as a Global Form 

Olga Olybina: Transnational Policy Shift towards Childcare Deinstitutionalization, or When Institutions and Human Development Don’t Really Matter?

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Chair: Tiina Kontinen

Papers: 

Peter Holley: Humanist and Social Constructionist? The location of the individual in global sociology 

Tobias Pötzsch: Critical Social Inclusion: An Alternative to Integration Discourses 

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Chair: Eetu Vento

Papers: 

Anna-Mari Almila: The transnational wardrobe: analysing the global politics of dress 

Helin Kontulainen: Between the Grand and the Minute: Nation-ness as Performance 

Hanna Rautajoki: Populating ‘solidarity’ in political argumentation: Debating the future in the European Parliament after the Brexit referendum 

Marja Sivonen: Politics in the energy-security nexus: An epistemic governance approach to low-carbon energy transition in Finland, Estonia and Norway 

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Chair: Peter Holley

Papers: 

David Inglis: Making Worlds of Making Wine: The Construction and Re-Construction of Global Classifications 

Lisa Gaupp & Johan Kolsteeg: Beyond Diversity – the Quest for Cultural Democracy in Global and Local Cultural Practices and Policies  

Milica Resanovic: Novels from periphery in the contexts of literary globalisation:  How Serbian novelists enter the centre of the global literary filed? 

Pierluca Birindelli: Home-worlds and Abroad: Media Images of Florence (Tuscany, Italy) 

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Discussant: Professor Pertti Alasuutari, University of Tampere, Finland.

After the lecture, 15 minutes have been reserved for questions and discussion.

Sociological studies of welfare expenditure tend to emphasize the procedural aspects of culture, thereby focusing on how social institutions should operate. This study instead, develops an approach where the focus lies on the evaluative aspects of culture. It does so by considering four cultural traits, which many would refer to as values, that capture different orientations towards self, society, and the relation between the two. These include social trust, gender attitudes, family ties and attitudes towards redistribution. Empirically, we use an epidemiological approach that circumvents obvious endogeneity issues and show local values to be a critical determinant of welfare expenditure across developed countries. As there has been limited focus on what cultural traits may matter for patterns of welfare expenditure, our work contributes to the study of culture and values, social welfare differences across countries, and the origins and operations of contemporary nation state systems.

Arnstein Aassve is a professor in demography, current director of the PhD program in Social and Political Science and former dean of the Undergraduate School at Bocconi University. He is an honorary fellow at University of Wisconsin – Madison and chair of the ERC panel for the social sciences and humanities starting grant SH3. His research lies in the intersection of sociology, demography and economics and is currently focused on studying the effects of globalisation and culture on demographic outcomes. He is the holder of an advanced ERC grant entitled Institutional Family Demography (www.ifamid.com).

 

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Chair: Marco Caselli

Papers: 

Gwenaëlle Bauvois & Niko Pyrhönen: Soldiers of Odin as Peril or Protection? Hybrid Mediatization of Oppositional Framings on Anti-Immigration Responses to the ‘Refugee Crisis’ 

Eetu Vento: Crisis of the (Neo)liberal World Culture and Human Rights: A Corpus-based Analysis of the Post-Cold War United Nations General Debates CANCELLED

Heba Sigurdardottir: Social movements in the digital age – persuasion and authority in transnational mobilization discourse. A case study of #MeToo as appearing in online newspapers. 

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Chair: Jukka Syväterä

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Sylvain Beck & Benedicte Brahic: “French migrants, the global social question and colonial memory”.  A case study of French nationals in Brexit Britain” 

Mari Toivanen: Second-generation activism – diasporic or something else? 

Gul Ince Beqo: Between dreams and memories: Understanding of homeland across generations 

Veronica Riniolo: ‘Granted’ and ‘claimed’ spaces of citizenship: the political activism of youth with migrant background in Italy 

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Chair: Hanna Rautajoki

Papers: 

Tiina Kontinen: Africanizing institutional logics: Towards a research agenda on hybrid organizing 

Marjaana Rautalin, Jukka Syväterä & Eetu Vento: International organizations as sources of common models: Shifts in the OECD policy recommendations, 1965-2015   

Valtteri Vähä-Savo, Jari Luomanen & Pertti Alasuutari: Between rationalism and romantics: Metaphors in managing conflicting institutional logics within a global organizational field 

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Chair: Gwenaëlle Bauvois

Papers:  

Victor Roudometof: Translocality and glocalization 

Mari Toivanen: Digital nomadism: Life-style mobilities, nation-state and the mobile subject 

Irene Skovgaard-Smith: ‘Citizen of nowhere’: The historical origins and contemporary use of the rootless cosmopolitan trope 

Jelena Petrovic & Ivko Nikolic: Social life of young people in Serbia after the abolition of the state of emergency  

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David Inglis: Short introduction to the sociology of wine

David Inglis is Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki. He was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter and the University of Aberdeen. He holds degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and York. He writes in the areas of cultural sociology, globalization studies, historical sociology, food and drink studies, and social theory, modern and classical. He has written and edited various books in these areas, such as Confronting Culture (Polity), Culture and Everyday Life (Routledge), The Sociology of Art: Ways of Seeing (Palgrave), An Invitation to Social Theory (2^nd edition), The Sage Handbook of Cultural Sociology, The Routledge International Handbook of Veils and Veiling Practices, and The Globalization of Wine (Bloomsbury). He is founding editor of the Sage journal Cultural Sociology. His main current research concerns wine worlds and globalization processes, considered in long-term historical perspective and in the contemporary Nordic context.

Farewell words:
ESA RN 15 Coordinator, Marco Caselli
ESA RN 15 Co-coordinator, Marjaana Rautalin

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