The book approaches the history of Finnish development cooperation through the experiences of development aid workers. At its core is a small group of Finns (experts and officials from different ...fields) who have worked with international development aid in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Their memories and experiences, together with diverse archival material offer an interesting window into the world of development (cooperation), or “Aidland”, from the 1960s to the turn of the millennium. The research focuses on the personal motives and experiences of Finnish aid workers from the 1960s to the 2000s. The book offers perspectives on the historical construction of Aidland since the 1940s and on the gradual integration of Finland and the Finns into its structures. It describes the mindset of the first two generations of aid workers and the factors that made them interested in developing countries. The book follows their education, their first contacts with Aidland, adaptation to work and conditions, returning home and the challenges that come with it. The study gives the reader a view of the power positions, hierarchies and contradictions in Aidland and development cooperation, which at times led Finns to reassess their motives and justify to themselves the meaningfulness of the entire undertaking. Through their experiences, the book also deals with the less-known side of development cooperation, such as corruption, prejudices, and opposition to development projects, as well as their occasionally unwanted consequences in partner/recipient countries. It also sheds light on the effects of the Aidland experience on an individual’s worldview and identity. The book is an academic study suitable for a wide audience, from university students to ordinary readers interested in development cooperation. The book helps to understand both the history of development and the construction of multi-level connections of Finnish society with the countries of the Global South. It is therefore also ideally suited for readers interested in the development of Finland’s internationalization in the late twentieth century. For its part, the book contributes to wider public debates on development cooperation.
In this article, fixed-time projective synchronization (FTPS) and predefined-time projective synchronization (PTPS) for a class of discontinuous fuzzy inertial neural networks (FINNs) with ...distributed delays are considered. To this end, regarding differential inclusion theories and the Lyapunov stability method, more precise and improved setting times of FTPS are systematically constructed. Furthermore, a more general and novel predefined-time stability lemma is established to make the synchronized time more flexible and can be an accurate value in advance. Meanwhile, some effective feedback controllers and new criteria are established to guarantee the proposed FINNs achieve FTPS and PTPS, respectively. Finally, the corresponding numerical simulations and image encryption application are offered to confirm the obtained results.
•A class of neurodynamic model with fuzziness, inertial terms, discontinuous feedback functions and distributed delays is proposed.•The fixed-time synchronization and predefined-time synchronization ...results for proposed delayed drive-response inertial neural networks are established directly without variables substitution method.•Two new effective feedback controllers were, respectively, designed to get new criteria on fixed-time synchronization and predefined-time synchronization of drive-response inertial neural networks with distributed delays.•The predefined-time synchronization criteria for the proposed neurodynamic model are established in this paper, which convergence rate is more faster and settling time do not depend on initial values of drive response systems.
This paper focuses on the fixed/predefined-time synchronization control of drive-response fuzzy inertial discontinuous neural networks(FIDNNs) with distributed delays. By using non-smooth analysis, fixed/predefined-time stability lemmas and designing two new fixed/predefined-time feedback controllers, several novel results are given to get fixed-time synchronization(FTS) and predefined-time synchronization(PTS) for the proposed FIDNNs. The fixed/predefined-time results of this paper are derived directly from FIDNNs themselves without variables substitution method. Up until now, very few results are reported on non-reduced order approach to achieve FTS and PTS of FIDNNs with distributed delays. Finally, some simulations and applications are, respectively, carried out to expound the efficacy of the obtained new FTS and PTS criteria.
What role does storytelling play in right-wing populist parties? With a focus on the Finns Party and its leaders Timo Soini (1995–2017) and Jussi Halla-aho (2017–2021), this article depicts the ...narrative struggle that ensued when the Finns Party joined government in 2015 and exposes the challenges populist storytellers face when engaged in governing coalitions. Whereas Soini argued in favour of joining government and actively participating in broad, consensus-based policymaking, Halla-aho focused on directly challenging government by targeting migration as a key concern for party voters. These tensions culminated in the breakup of the party, where a small faction continued in government until 2019 while the mother party returned to the opposition. A storytelling perspective shows the importance of a credible truth-telling narrative in understanding far-right populist electoral success and demonstrates the challenges government responsibility presents for populist narrative credibility.
This paper investigates the anti-synchronization in predefined-time for fuzzy inertial neural networks (FINNs) with mixed delays. In the light of predefined-time stability theorems, the FINNs can ...reach anti-synchronization by employing two distinctive bilayer predefined-time control inputs which the setting-time is a explicit value without considering on initial values that has a great improvement over other settlement times in previous researches. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, sufficient conditions are converted to a type of algebraic inequalities which are very concise and avoid complicated calculations. In the end, some numerical examples and applications are illustrated to validate reliability of proposed results here.
This volume looks at the Finnish-German military alliance (1941–1944) as a translation zone – a multilingual network of military, administrative and civilian encounters that was held together by ...linguistically versed soldiers and civilians acting as interpreters and translators. It focuses on interpreters and liaison officers of the Finnish Liaison Staff in Rovaniemi, who were assigned to the staffs of the German army units with the task of maintaining communication between the two armies and assisting German troops in their daily matters. Furthermore, attention is paid to Finnish civilians, especially women whose language skills made them candidates for a range of mediation tasks in the German units. The reconstruction of military interpreters’ and liaison officers’ tasks and mediation agency between the two military cultures is based on their war-time weekly reports, whereas the civilian interpreters’ experiences are drawn from a variety of autobiographical accounts, including interviews.
In the 21st century, populist leaders have created and shaped narratives of threatened nations to foster a sense of shared victimhood and increase electoral appeal. However, an intriguing question ...has emerged: What roles do these outlined populist discourses of a threatened nation and shared victimhood play in the identity work of populist supporters? This study employs a narrative–discursive approach to analyse 25 in‐depth interviews with radical right populist Finns Party supporters. We investigate how the supporters construct and utilize populist discourses and narratives of lived experiences to legitimize their political support for the Finns Party. Furthermore, we illustrate how the related subject positions enable populist supporters to reproduce and enhance the populist discourse of ‘people's’ victimhood through the actions of ‘others’. This study contributes to the field by demonstrating how populist discourses and narratives of lived experiences can be mobilized into political support for the Finns Party.
Статья посвящена таким актуальным вопросам этнополитической истории как раскулачивание советских финнов и немцев и депортация по этническому признаку. Благодаря спецпереселенцам власти решили ...проблему нехватки рабочей силы на стройках первых пятилеток в отдаленных регионах, в том числе и в Мурманской области. Отмечается, что раскулаченные крестьяне составляли самую многочисленную группу спецпереселенцев в районе апатитовых разработок. Решение об отправке семьи на спецпоселение принималось местными органами власти, а решение о депортации целых народов по этническому признаку - верховной властью. В отличие от депортации финнов и немцев в 1940-е гг., процесс раскулачивания проходил по социальному признаку (ликвидация кулачества как класса), а не по этническому. В статье обращается внимание на то, что депортации носили превентивный характер, так как советские финны и немцы были в этническом родстве с народами, ведущими войну против СССР. Также в статье приводятся примеры мобилизации немцев и финнов в трудовую армию. Отмечаются случаи отправки в трудовую армию женщин с немецкой родословной. Депортация советских финнов и немцев по распоряжению властей имела пагубные последствия для сохранности их этносов и национальных культур. В статье рассматриваются этапы депортации в зависимости от места проживания. Основываясь на полученных интервью, автор делает вывод о том, что пребывание на территории Финляндии или Германии в годы войны крайне негативно отразилось на дальнейшей жизни репатриантов. В статье анализируется трансформация этнической самоидентичности под влиянием политики государства в отношении советских финнов и немцев. Основными материалами послужили интервью, полученные у представителей семей с финской и немецкой родословной, а также их семейные архивы.
The article is devoted to such topical issues of ethnopolitical history as dekulakization of Soviet Finns and Germans and deportation on ethnic grounds. With the help of special settlers, the authorities solved the problem of labor shortage at the construction sites of the first five-year plans in remote regions, including Murmansk Oblast. It is noted that the dispossessed peasants constituted the largest group of special settlers in the area of apatite mining. The decision to send a family to special settlement was made by local authorities, and the decision to deport entire nations on ethnic grounds was made by the supreme power. Unlike the deportation of Finns and Germans in the 1940s, the process of dekulakization was performed according to the social criterion (liquidation of the kulaks as a class) rather than ethnic one. The article draws attention to the fact that the deportations were of a preventive nature, since the Soviet Finns and Germans were ethnically related to the nations that were waging war against the USSR. The article also provides examples of mobilization of Germans and Finns into the labor army. The instances of sending women with German ancestry to the Labor Army are pointed out. The deportation of Finns and Germans by order of the authorities had disastrous consequences for the preservation of those ethnic groups and their national culture. The article discusses the stages of deportation depending on the place of residence. Based on the interviews conducted by the author, it can be concluded that staying in Finland or Germany during the war years had an extremely negative impact on the future life of repatriates. The article analyzes the transformation of ethnic self-identity under the influence of state policy towards Soviet Finns and Germans. The main materials were interviews with the representatives of families with Finnish and German ancestry as well as their family archives.
The article is devoted to such topical issues of ethnopolitical history as dekulakization of Soviet Finns and Germans and deportation on ethnic grounds. With the help of special settlers, the ...authorities solved the problem of labor shortage at the construction sites of the first five-year plans in remote regions, including Murmansk Oblast. It is noted that the dispossessed peasants constituted the largest group of special settlers in the area of apatite mining. The decision to send a family to special settlement was made by local authorities, and the decision to deport entire nations on ethnic grounds was made by the supreme power. Unlike the deportation of Finns and Germans in the 1940s, the process of dekulakization was performed according to the social criterion (liquidation of the kulaks as a class) rather than ethnic one. The article draws attention to the fact that the deportations were of a preventive nature, since the Soviet Finns and Germans were ethnically related to the nations that were waging war against the USSR. The article also provides examples of mobilization of Germans and Finns into the labor army. The instances of sending women with German ancestry to the Labor Army are pointed out. The deportation of Finns and Germans by order of the authorities had disastrous consequences for the preservation of those ethnic groups and their national culture. The article discusses the stages of deportation depending on the place of residence. Based on the interviews conducted by the author, it can be concluded that staying in Finland or Germany during the war years had an extremely negative impact on the future life of repatriates. The article analyzes the transformation of ethnic self-identity under the influence of state policy towards Soviet Finns and Germans. The main materials were interviews with the representatives of families with Finnish and German ancestry as well as their family archives.
