Kinnunen, Veera
Academic degree
Doctor of Social Sciences
Title
Postdoctoral Researcher
Unit
General Education
Fields of expertise
More-than-human, multispecies home, microbial home, environmental humanities and social sciences, feminist ethics, social scientific waste studies, microbial humanities and social sciences, ethnographic imagination.
Fields of science
5141 Sociology, 999 Other
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Description of activity
Since completing her PhD in 2017, Veera Kinnunen has worked in several research projects investigating more-than-human relations and living with unwelcome beings and entities, such as clutter, waste, and microbes. She is the co-lead of HOMINGS research project. Her work examines naturecultural infrastructures and metabolisms, and engages with more-than-human ethics of care. Methodologically she develops ethnographic imaginations to inquire into more-than-human concerns. Starting from 2026, she is the chief-editor of leading Finnish social scientific journal Sosiologia published by the Westermarck Society.