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Everyday Life and Insecurity
Social Relations after Jokela and Kauhajoki School Shootings
Funding: Emil Aaltonen Foundation 2009-2011, 200 000 euros.
Everyday life and Insecurity (2008-2011) project analyses social relations and management of risks after two dramatic school shootings in Finland, Jokela (November 2007) and Kauhajoki (September 2008). The research focus is in the interconnections between community-level resources and mass violence experiences as the project is looking to establish how the local communities return to normal everyday life and interaction after a school shooting tragedy.
The project is part of an international research consortium Social Relations and Community Solidarity together with an American partner project led by professors John Ryan and James Hawdon from Department of Sociology at Virginia Tech (VT). The consortium is working on a comparative research on the coping process of local communities after an act of mass violence. Research is based on four mass shooting cases: Virginia Tech (USA), Jokela (Finland), Omaha (USA) and Kauhajoki (Finland) with focus on the cultural differences between American and Finnish societies in the frame of violence.
Research Team
Everyday Life and Insecurity project is led by Dr. Atte Oksanen (Dr.Soc.Sc., M.A.) and professor Pekka Räsänen (Dr.Soc.Sc.). Research team includes postgraduate students Johanna Nurmi (M.Soc.Sc.) and Miika Vuori (M.Soc.Sc). The project also accommodates undergraduate students writing their master’s thesis on a related topic.
Co-operation
The project collaborates internationally with various experts from different disciplines. Main contacts include John Ryan and James Hawdon from Department of Sociology at VT. In Europe we co-operate with Professor Herbert Scheithauer from Freie-Universität Berlin's Department of Education and Psychology. In Finland we collaborate with the Finnish Youth Research network and various researchers from the Universities of Helsinki, Tampere, Turku and Jyväskylä. We have also worked together with the coordination committees that were set up by the Finnish Government after the shootings in Jokela and Kauhajoki.