Suvi Pihkala

Key publications

2023/forthcoming

• Pihkala, S.; Puutio, E.; Louhela, H. & Huuki, T. (forthcoming).  Friendship workshops: Feminist arts-based intra-activist methodology for addressing gender and power in pre-teen peer cultures. In New materialist affrimations: Creative interventions in methods and practice. Hickey-Moody, Coombs, Willcox & Pihkala (Eds.).
   
• Pihkala S & Huuki T (2023, forthcoming) Duct-taped X: Gender and the ‘ethically enabling conditions’ of creative-activism on pre-teen peer cultures. Journal of Gender Studies.
   
• Puutio, E.; Pihkala, S.; Lehtonen J. & Huuki, T. (2023, forthcoming) School, online communities, and creative workshops as spaces for non-normative pre-teen gendered and sexual cultures. YOUNG.

2022

• Puutio, E., Huuki, T., & Pihkala, S. (2022). Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children. Sexualities, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221126937
   
• Pihkala, S.; Puutio E.; Louhela, H. & Huuki, T. (2022). Taidelähtöinen tutkimusaktivismi seksuaalisen häirinnän käsittelemiseksi varhaisnuorten kanssa. [Arts-based research-activism for addresing sexual harassment with pre-teen children] In Intersektionaalinen feministinen pedagogiikka [Intersectional feminist pedagogy]. Vastapaino.
   
• Pihkala, S. & Karasti, H. (2022). Towards Response-able PD: Putting Feminist New Materialisms to Work in the Practices of Participatory Design. In Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022 - Volume 1 (PDC '22). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 98–108. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536169.3537784
   
• Pihkala, S. & Huuki, T. (2022). Safe and enabling: composing ethically sustainable crafty-activist research on gender and power in young peer cultures, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2022.2026132
   

2021

• Huuki, T.; Kyrölä, K. & Pihkala, S. (2021). What else can a crush become: working with arts-methods to address sexual harassment in pre-teen romantic relationship cultures, Gender and Education, 34:5, 577-592, https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2021.1989384
   
• Puutio, E.; Huuki, T.; Pihkala, S. & Lehmusniemi, A. (2021). Taidelähtöiset menetelmät ja queerit tyttökietoumat alakouluikäisten suhdekulttuureissa [Arts-based methods and girl-queer-entanglements in pre-teen relationship cultures] Nuorisotutkimus, 38(3), 58–74. English version from the authors by request.
   
• Heikkinen, M.; Pihkala, S.; Pääsky, L. & Harmoinen, S. (forthcoming) Intersectional Gender-Responsibility in STEM: Co-Creating Sustainable Arctic Knowledge Production. Accepted for Arctic Yearbook 2020.
   
• Pihkala, S., & Huuki, T. (2019). How A Hashtag Matters – Crafting Response(-Abilities) through Research-Activism on Sexual Harassment in Pre-Teen Peer Cultures. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, 10(2-3), 242-258. https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.3678 
   
• Pihkala, S; Huuki, T. & Sunnari, V. (2019) Moving with Touch: Entanglements of a Child, Valentine’s Day Cards and Research-Activism against Sexual Harassment in Pre-Teen Peer Cultures. Article in the Special Issue Feminist new materialisms: Activating ethico-politics through genealogies in social sciences)Social sciences 8, 226. Open Access. 
   
• Pihkala, S. & Huuki, T. (2019) How a Hashtag Matters: Reconfiguring Research-Activist Encounters to Address Sexual Harassment in Pre-Teen Peer Cultures. In Proceedings of the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2019, 13-15 February, Edinburgh, Scotland. Available online.
   
• Pihkala, S. (2018) Touchable Matters: Reconfiguring Sustainable Change through Participatory Design, Education, and Everyday Engagement for Non-Violence (Doctoral dissertation). University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. Open Access.
   
• Pihkala, S. & Karasti, H. (2018) Politics of Mattering in the Practices of Participatory Design. In Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference, Vol 2 (PDC ’18).
   
• Pihkala, S., Huuki, T., Heikkinen, M., & Sunnari, V. (2018). Reconfigurings of Non-Violence as a Matter of Sustainability and Response-ability. NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2018.1461130
• Pihkala, S., Huuki, T., Heikkinen, M., & Sunnari, V. (2017). Re-Thinking and Un/entangling Non-Violence with Response-ability. In Kinnunen, V. & Valtonen, A. (Eds.) Living Ethics in a More-Than-Human World. (pp. 46-55). Rovaniemi, Finland: Lapin yliopisto. Open Access.
   
• Pihkala, S. & Karasti, H. (2016). Reflexive Engagement – Enacting Reflexivity in Design and for ‘Participation in Plural’. In Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Full papers - Volume 1 (PDC '16), Bossen, C., Smith, R. C., Kanstrup, A.M., McDonnell, J., Teli, M. and Bødker, K. (Eds.). Available online. 
   
• Pihkala, S. & Karasti, H. (2015) .Social Media for, with and by Professionals-Participatory Design through Reflexive Engagement. In Kommers P.A.M, Issaías P, Issa T (Eds.). Perspectives on Social Media – A yearbook. (pp. 48-55.) Routledge: New York, NY.
   
• Pihkala, S. & Karasti, H. (2013). Reflexive engagement Reflexive orientation for Participatory Design. In IADIS International Conference ICT, Society and Human Beings 2013, Prague; Czech Republic; 24 July 2013-26 July 2013. Prague: International Association for Development, IADIS. (85–92.)
   
• Heikkinen, M., Pihkala, S. & Sunnari, V. (2012). A European E-learning Programme on Gendered and Sexualised Violence: Developing a Feminist Pedagogy of Non-violence. In Feminist Cyberspaces: Pedagogies in Transition. Collingwood, S., Quintana, A.E. & Smith, C.J. (Eds.).Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (176-201.)
   
• Heikkilä, J., Näkki, P., Ruuhilehto, K., Bäck, A., Pihkala, S., Huhtamäki, J., Tervakari, A. (2011). Social Media in Expert Networks handling Safety Experiences From Three Cases. In Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on WWW/Internet, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 58 November 2011. White, B., Issaías, P. & Santoro, F.M. (Eds.). IADIS Press. (437–442.)
   
• Heikkinen, M., Pihkala, S., & Sunnari, V. (2008). Constructing Pedagogical approach for an e-learning Programme on Gender and Sexual violence. In Sunnari, V., Pihkala, S., Heikkinen, M., Huuki, T., & Manninen, S. (Eds.) From Violence to Caring – Gendered and sexualized violence as the Challenge on the Life-span. Conference proceedings. (pp. 203–215.) University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. Available online.
   
• Sunnari, V., Pihkala, S., Heikkinen, M., Huuki, T., & Manninen, S. (Ed.) (2008). From violence to caring. Gendered and sexualized violence as the challenge on the lifespan. Conference proceedings. Oulu, Finland 4-5 December, 2008. University of Oulu, Finland. Retrieved from http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9789514290084/
   
• Pihkala, S., Heikkinen, M., Huuki, T., Manninen, S., & Sunnari, V. (2008). Foreword. In From Violence to Caring. Gendered and sexualized violence as the challenge on the life-span. Abstracts. Oulu, Finland 4-5 December, 2008. Pihkala et al. (Eds.). Oulun yliopiston kasvatustieteiden tiedekunnan elektronisia julkaisuja 7. Oulun, Oulun yliopisto. (pp. 10–11.) Retrieved from http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9789514289613/