Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Gendering violence in the school shootings in Finland

Kantola, Johanna ; Norocel, Ov Cristian LU orcid and Repo, Jemima (2011) In European Journal of Women's Studies 18(2). p.183-197
Abstract

Within barely a year, two school shootings shook Finland. The school shootings shocked Finnish society, forcing media, academics and experts, police and politicians alike to search for reasons behind the violent incidents. Focusing their analysis on the two main Finnish newspapers, Helsingin Sanomat and Hufvudstadsbladet, authoritative sources of information for Finland's two language communities, the authors maintain that the Finnish case contributes to research on school shootings by evidencing the intimate linkages between the state, gender and violence. The authors argue that violence is to be understood through different discourses about the Finnish state. In particular, they discern three discourses about the state that produce... (More)

Within barely a year, two school shootings shook Finland. The school shootings shocked Finnish society, forcing media, academics and experts, police and politicians alike to search for reasons behind the violent incidents. Focusing their analysis on the two main Finnish newspapers, Helsingin Sanomat and Hufvudstadsbladet, authoritative sources of information for Finland's two language communities, the authors maintain that the Finnish case contributes to research on school shootings by evidencing the intimate linkages between the state, gender and violence. The authors argue that violence is to be understood through different discourses about the Finnish state. In particular, they discern three discourses about the state that produce gendered discourses of violence: the welfare state, the realist state and the neoliberal state. The authors conclude that these discourses produce different notions of rational and irrational violence thereby providing different legitimizations for male-embodied/masculine violence.

(Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
; and
publishing date
type
Contribution to journal
publication status
published
subject
keywords
Finland, gender, masculinities, school shootings, state, violence
in
European Journal of Women's Studies
volume
18
issue
2
pages
15 pages
publisher
SAGE Publications
external identifiers
  • scopus:79956043713
ISSN
1350-5068
DOI
10.1177/1350506810394614
language
English
LU publication?
no
id
08697ab2-d88b-4d58-a763-45857c2bff90
date added to LUP
2019-06-02 11:10:09
date last changed
2022-03-02 23:43:30
@article{08697ab2-d88b-4d58-a763-45857c2bff90,
  abstract     = {{<p>Within barely a year, two school shootings shook Finland. The school shootings shocked Finnish society, forcing media, academics and experts, police and politicians alike to search for reasons behind the violent incidents. Focusing their analysis on the two main Finnish newspapers, Helsingin Sanomat and Hufvudstadsbladet, authoritative sources of information for Finland's two language communities, the authors maintain that the Finnish case contributes to research on school shootings by evidencing the intimate linkages between the state, gender and violence. The authors argue that violence is to be understood through different discourses about the Finnish state. In particular, they discern three discourses about the state that produce gendered discourses of violence: the welfare state, the realist state and the neoliberal state. The authors conclude that these discourses produce different notions of rational and irrational violence thereby providing different legitimizations for male-embodied/masculine violence.</p>}},
  author       = {{Kantola, Johanna and Norocel, Ov Cristian and Repo, Jemima}},
  issn         = {{1350-5068}},
  keywords     = {{Finland; gender; masculinities; school shootings; state; violence}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{05}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{183--197}},
  publisher    = {{SAGE Publications}},
  series       = {{European Journal of Women's Studies}},
  title        = {{Gendering violence in the school shootings in Finland}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350506810394614}},
  doi          = {{10.1177/1350506810394614}},
  volume       = {{18}},
  year         = {{2011}},
}