Taina Meriluoto welcomes Jean-Paul Gagnon’s project to build a democracy data mountain. But she remains troubled by methodological issues pertaining to context, values and the everyday world. If we want to advance towards the total texture of democracy, these are problems we have to resolve
Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Sociology of Democracy, University of Helsinki
Taina specialises in experience-based political participation, and is intrigued by the self as a form of activism.
She is currently studying visual forms of politicisation among marginalised youth at the research project Imagi(ni)ng Democracy, where she explores and theorises democracy in everyday actions.
