Veera Kinnunen Editor

Jarno Valkonen is a professor of Sociology at the University of Lapland, Finland. His wide-ranging research interests include politics of nature, human-environment relationality, and indigenous knowledge. Recently, his research has focused on waste governance, Circular Economy, and infrastructures.

Veera Kinnunen (Ph.D.) is a sociologist and a cultural historian at the University of Oulu. She is working on a threshold of more-than-human sociology, environmental humanities, and feminist ethics. Her research interests cover material culture of everyday life, dwelling, and waste.

Heikki Huilaja (Ph.D.) is a researcher in sociology at the University of Lapland. His main research interests cover work and labor market, with a particular emphasis on recruitment and evolution of skills. In the area of waste studies, Huilaja’s focus is on waste as a source of employment and business opportunities and on the societal organization of waste in Finnish Lapland.

Teemu Loikkanen (MSocSc) is a junior researcher at the University of Lapland. In his ongoing doctoral research, he explores the position of citizens in Circular Economy waste management by developing the concept of waste citizenship.