Juho Aalto
juho.j.aalto@utu.fi Caloniankuja 3 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6508-4108 |
Human rights, legal theory, feminist perspectives on law, post-structuralism, new materialisms
My research interests situates in sexualities and how the legal system constructs its sexed/gendered subjects. For the moment I am theoretically engaging with (feminist) new materialisms for investigating how dualisms are foundational in paradigmatic Western thought.
Currently the focus of my doctoral dissertation lies in the centrality of sex/gender binary in relation to law and how societies and law construct different sexes/genders and sexual orientations - both discursively and materially. Furthermore, law is thought to be abstract according to paradigmatic legal thinking. This abstraction of law can be questioned by investigating whether law might have material effects and itself be materializing in reality. The dissertation approaches this issue through binaries such as sex/gender and heterosexual/homosexual and how the binary thinking, (that feminist scholars would argue is also a hierarchy, where masculine>feminine, and queer theorists would supplement with another: heterosexuality>homosexuality) in addition to its discursive power to regulate sexed/gendered behaviour, could also manifest itself in and through bodies themselves.
I have been guest lecturer on the course Law and Gender in 2020 and 2021 on the topic of Post-feminist theories, furthermore I am occupying a supportive task in procedural law which covers inter alia evaluating master’s theses.
- Jos ei halua isäksi, miehen tulee käyttää kondomia (2022)
- Helsingin Sanomat
(Other (O2)) - Muovi aineellisen yhdenvertaisen kohtelun ilmentäjänä (2022)
- Oikeus
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Dianne Otto (ed), Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks (2021)
- Finnish Yearbook of International Law
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Nordic Feminist Perspectives on Law, New Materialist Insights, and the Renewal of the Finnish Personal Identification Code (2021)
- Retfaerd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Oikeuteen pääsy on ihmisoikeus (2021)
- Demokraatti
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Sexuality & Transsexuality under the European Convention on Human Rights: A Queer Reading of Human Rights Law by Damien Gonzalez-Salzberg, Hart, 2019, xviii + 229 pp, (hardback), ISBN 978-1-50991-493-7 (2021)
- Nordic Journal of Human Rights / Nordisk Tidsskrift for Menneskerettigheter
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Miksi sateenkaari-ihmiset pitää ottaa mukaan koronapandemian vastaiseen globaaliin kamppailuun? (2020) Matti Pihlajamaa, Pauliina Lukinmaa, Tuula Tiitto, Juho Aalto, Elina Korhonen, Johanna Kilgren, Austin Sears
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Tiede ja koulutus on säilytettävä ilmaisina ja avoimina kaikille – lukukausimaksuista on ikäviä esimerkkejä maailmalla (2020)
- Turun Sanomat
(Other (O2)) - Vem skall finansiera rätten till utbildning: studenten eller samhället? (2020)
- Hufvudstadsbladet
(Other (O2)) - Lesbians, Gays, Bi-Sexuals and Transpersons in Strasbourg : The Non-Heterosexual Legal Subject under the Scope of Heterosexual European Convention on Human Rights (2019) Aalto, Juho
(Master’s thesis, polytechnic Master’s thesis (G2))