Markku Kivinen
Markku Jalmari Kivinen (born June 5, 1951 in Helsinki, Finland)[1] is a professor of sociology and a director of the Aleksanteri Institute since 1996. His academic career began in the early 1980s when Kivinen joined Erik Olin Wright's Comparative Project on Class Structure and Class Consciousness. Since then, he has more than 300 publications on key sociological topics. His expertise is social theory, Russian domestic and foreign policy, transition studies in comparative perspective, social inequality, power and democracy, cultural structures and macro processes. He is director of the Finnish Graduate School for Russian and East European Studies, as well as many research projects funded by the Academy of Finland, EU and NordFors.[2]
In 2012, Kivinen will lead Aleksanteri Institute’s Choices of Russian Modernisation, one of the 15 new Centres of Excellence (CoE) in Research funded by the Academy of Finland.[3]
Education
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Publications
- Aalto P., Dusseault D., Kivinen M. and Kennedy M. D.: How Are Russian Energy Policies Formulated? Linking Actors and Structures of Energy Policy. In: Pami Aalto (ed) Russia's Energy Policies. Edward Elgar Publishing 2012. Forthcoming.
- Public and Business Actors in Russia's Energy Policy. In: Pami Aalto (ed) Russia's Energy Policies. Edward Elgar Publishing 2012. Forthcoming.
- Kivinen M. and Chunling L.: Socioeconomic Systems – Comparative Analysis of Russia and China. In: Christer Pursiainen (ed.): The Dragon and the Bear: Strategic Choices of China and Russia. Palgrave 2012. Forthcoming.
- Perestroika and Left-Wing Fundamentalism – Model Variables of Previous Russian Modernisation. Article manuscript accepted by New interpretations Russian history. Contemporary History Foundation. Moscow 2011. Forthcoming.
- Russian Societal Development: Challenges Open. In: Hiski Haukkala and Sinikukka Saari (eds.): Russia Lost or Found? Patterns and Trajectories. Edita. Helsinki 2009. pp. 112–144.
- Puoli vuosisataa isänmaallista sosiologiaa. Tieteessä tapahtuu 1/2009, ss. 38-40.
- Russia After the Cold War: Threat and Potential. Framework No 8/April 2008, pp. 24–25.
- Frames of Russian Energy Policy in Transition. In: David Dusseault (ed.): The Dynamics of Energy in the Eurasian Context. Aleksanteri Series 3/2007. Helsinki 2007. pp. 7–29.
- Classes in the Making? The Russian Social Structure in Transition. In: Göran Therborn (ed.): Inequalities of the World. London and New York: Verso, 2006, pp. 239–286.
- Kivinen M. and Nikula J.: Issleduja perehodnyi period. Mir Rossii. Tom XV, 2006/1, pp. 50–75.
- Srednii klass v sovremennoi Rossii. Mir Rossii, Tom XIII, 2004/4, pp. 143–170.
- Progress and Chaos in Contemporary Russia. In: Egle Ridgeviudze (ed.) Contemporary Russia. Stockholm 2004, pp. 7–30.
- Progress and Chaos. Russia as a Challenge for Sociological Imagination. Kikimora Publications. Helsinki 2002, 272 p. (Separate editions published in Russian and in Finnish).
- Kivinen, Markku: Betonijumalia, 2009. ISBN 978-951-851-184-0
- Kivinen, Markku: Sosiologia ja Venäjä (English: Sociology and Russia), 1998. ISBN 951-31-1047-8
Previous positions
- Professor (Sociology), University of Lapland 01.01.1997-31.12.2004
- Professor (Sociology), University of Lapland, 01.09.1995-31.05.1996
- Senior Research Fellow, Academy of Finland, 01.08.1992-31.07.1995
- Professor (Sociology), University of Lapland, 01.01.1990-31.08.1992
- Associated Professor (Sociology), University of Tampere, 01.07.1989-31.12.1989
- Research Fellow, Academy of Finland, 16.10.1982-31.12.1988
Academic honors and rewards
- The Silver Medal of the University of Helsinki, 2011
- Honorary doctor Russian Institute of Sociology, 2011
- Decoration of the Finnish White Rose knighthood, 2009
- Academician: International Academy of Pedagogical Science, Moscow, 2001
- Doctor Primus: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, 1990
Scientific positions of trust and administrative positions
- Member of CBEES (Centre for Baltic and East European Studies) Academic Advisory Board, Södertörns högskola, Huddinge, 2011-
- National Defence University Advisory Board, 2010-
- Nordi Advisory board, 2009-
- Editorial Board Member of Nordisk Östforum 2009- (Norway/Nordic)
- Member of the International Advisory Committee. University College London/Oxford/Birmingham Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS), 2008-
- Editorial Board Member of Ekonomisheskie i Sotsialnye Peremeni 2008-
- Editorial Board Member of Mir Rossii (Universe of Russia) 2006-
- Editorial Board Member of Sovershenno sekretno 2005-
- Member of the International Advisory Board, European University at St. Petersburg 2004-2006
- CEMAT Advisory board, 2004-
- Editorial Board Member of Finnish Journal on Russian and East European Studies 1996-2000
- Chair of the Kikimora Publications 1996-
- Acta Sociologica, Journal of the Scandinavian Sociological Association, Editor 1.1.1985-31.12.1987
References
News, media
Research Database Tuhat
External links
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