Seppo Poutanen
Senior Research Fellow, Associate Professor (Docent)
seppou@utu.fi +358 29 450 2633 +358 40 723 8993 Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku |
sociology of science, research policy and innovations, sociology of work and professions, economic sociology, sociology of health and illness, methodology of social sciences, social theory, social epistemology, metaethics
I am affiliated with Turku Centre for Labour Studies (TCLS)
Seppo Poutanen is Senior Research Fellow and Docent of sociology (Associate Professor) at the University of Turku’s School of Economics, Finland. He is affiliated with Turku Centre for Labour Studies (TCLS). Poutanen has published in the areas of epistemology, sociology of health and illness, social theory, science and technology studies, gender studies and sociology of work & economy (e.g., in addition to several book chapters, in Social Epistemology, Critical Public Health, Journal of Critical Realism, Sociological Research Online, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, Heliyon, Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, Cogent Education, Journal of Access Services, Työelämän tutkimus). His main research projects in the recent years (with several colleagues) have dealt with gendered nature of innovation policies, and forms of work, professions and entrepreneurialism in the new digitalised platform economy. The results of these projects are summarised in three books:
Poutanen, S. & Kovalainen, A. (2017) Gender and Innovation in the New Economy - Women, Identity, and Creative Work. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Poutanen, S., Kovalainen, A. & Rouvinen, P. (eds.) (2020) Digital Work and the Platform Economy: Understanding Tasks, Skills and Capabilities in the New Era. New York & Abingdon: Routledge.
Poutanen, S. & Kovalainen, A. (2023) Skills, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Platform Era: Analyzing the New Reality of Professions and Entrepreneurship. New York & Abingdon: Routledge.
Currently Poutanen is especially interested in how logics and practises of digital platformisation are taking different sectors of public government in Finland – potentially to the extent that a new form of social order can be seen to be emerging.
platform economy, digitalisation, gendered science
new forms of work and professions in platform economy, qualitative research methods of social sciences
- Third Spirit of Capitalism and Gendered Mediatization of Work (2015) WORK 2015 New Meanings of Work Poutanen Seppo, Kovalainen Anne, Jännäri Jatta
- What Is New in the New Economy? – Care as Critical Nexus Challenging Rigid Conceptualisations (2015) Seppo Poutanen
- Words and Money – Ethnography of Science Evaluation in Austere Times (2015) Rosemary Deem, Anne Kovalainen, Seppo Poutanen
- Gender, start-ups and innovations (2014) Kovalainen Anne, Poutanen Seppo
- What Is New in the ‘New Economy’? – Care as Critical Nexus Challenging Rigid Conceptualizations (2014) Transnationale Räume und Geschlecht Seppo Poutanen, Anne Kovalainen
- From Gendered Research Interview toward Ontologized Co-creativity – Reformulating the Methodological Underpinnings of the Well-worn Practice with Metaphorizing (2013)
- International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies
- Gendering Innovation Process in an Industrial Plant - Revisiting Tokenism, Gender and Innovation – Revisiting Tokenism, Gender and Innovation (2013)
- International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
- Inorganic Agency on the Move – Titanium Dioxide, Gender and Object Categories in Actor-Network Theory (2013) Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science Poutanen Seppo
- New hope for the dead? – Whiteheadian takes on some stubborn problems in social theory (2013) Proceedings of ”Engaging Sociology”, Annual Conference of British Sociological Association Poutanen Seppo
- Six Ways of Saving the Future of Finland – On Epistemic Governance in Science-Industry –Relationship (2013) Proceedings of ”Crisis, Critique and Change”, 11th European Sociological Association Conference Poutanen Seppo
- Kieli, valta ja toimijuus - episteemiset yhteisöt ja tiedepolitiikka (2011) Kieli työssä: asiantuntijatyön kielelliset käytännöt Kovalainen, Anne;Poutanen, Seppo
- New research landscape redefining new boundaries for knowledge creation (2011) Anne Kovalainen, Seppo Poutanen
- Critical Theory (2010) Encyclopedia of Case Study Research Poutanen Seppo, Kovalainen Anne
- Epistemic Communities Facing a New Type of Agora? Centres of Science, Technology and Innovation as Defining the New Research Landscape in Finland (2010)
- Sociological Research
- Critical Theory (2009) Encyclopedia of Case Study Poutanen Seppo, Kovalainen Anne
- Embedded in Fluid Networks: Spaces, Times and Conditions of Biosciences and Social Sciences in Contemporary Finland (2008) Ahlbeck-Rehn Jutta, Poutanen Seppo, Kovalainen Anne, Kantola Ismo
- Critical Realism and Poststructuralist Feminism – The Difficult Path to Mutual Understanding (2007)
- Journal of Critical Realism
- Review of Kristiina Rolin's (et al.) "Soveltava yhteiskuntatiede ja filosofia" (2007)
- Sosiologia
- The Revitalised Whiteheadian Process Philosophy, the Difficulty in Making Some Moral and Political Difference in the World (2007)
- International Journal of the Humanities
- The Natural and Social Sciences – Gendered epistemic environments at two university departments in Finland. An Introduction. (2006) Ahlbeck-Rehn Jutta, Kovalainen Anne, Poutanen Seppo
