I am an interdisciplinary scholar working at the nexus of Discourse Studies, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, and Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences. I work as a professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Jyväskylä.
My research interests include critical assemblage analysis of climate change and multispecies interaction in the Arctic, the power of discourse in revaluing natural resources, and the politics of language and identity in unequal multilingual situations. Applying multiple approaches, including assemblage ontology, nexus analysis, critical discourse analysis, and ethnography, I have led several international research projects examining shifts in ecological, political and cultural discourses and practices in the heating Arctic. In collaboration with stakeholders and colleagues, I have co-developed various knowledge designs, such as science postcards, collaborative photograph exhibitions and art-based conversation pieces. My recent book is Cold Rush: A Critical Assemblage Analysis of a Heating Arctic (2024, Palgrave Macmillan).