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Tommi Kotonen

Tommi Kotonen

Docent (Adjunt Professor)

Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Contact
tommi.kotonen@jyu.fi

Webpage
https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Person/5310445?lang=en_GB

Bio

Tommi Kotonen is a political scientist and researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Between 2018 and 2021 he worked as a research coordinator of the Academy of Finland profiling area Crises Redefined: Historical Continuity and Societal Change. Kotonen is one of the leading experts on radical nationalist movements in Finland, widely used by the media, and has also worked as a consultant and country expert in several government and NGO projects both in Finland and abroad. His publications include works on the history of radical nationalist movements, far-right subculture, political violence, and vigilantism. Kotonen’s latest monograph, The Trenches of Politics: Far-right Movements in Finland During the Cold War (Atena, 2018), analyses the development of radical nationalism in Finland during the Cold War, drawing from hitherto unemployed archival material from the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service.

Research interests

  • Political violence
  • Political language and rhetoric
  • Far-right culture
  • Far-right movements
  • Crises

Featured publications

Kotonen, Tommi; Andersson Malmros, Robin; Sivenbring, Jennie, Bundgård Christensen; Claus; Emberland, Terje; Karcher, Nicola; Lööw, Heléne; Malkki, Leena; Mattsson, Christer; Ravik Jupskås, Anders; Ritola, Venla; Sallamaa, Daniel & Silvennoinen, Oula. 2023. “When neo-Nazis march on Norwegian streets, you hear a lot of Swedish” : Pan-Nordic and transnational dimensions of right-wing extremism. Nordic Council of Ministers. TemaNord, 2023:503.
Kotonen, T. 2022. “Window to Europe : Finland and Nordic Fascist Networks during the Cold War. Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History, Nicola Karcher and Markus Lundström, eds. Abingdon: Routledge:  166-187.
Kotonen, Tommi. 2020. “Terminological Games: The Finnish Security Police Monitoring the Far-Right Movements in Finland During the Cold War.” Redescriptions 23 (1).
Kotonen, Tommi. 2019. “The Soldiers of Odin Finland: From a local movement to an international franchise.” In Tore Bjørgo and Miroslav Mareš, eds., Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities. Abingdon: Routledge. 241-256.
Kotonen, Tommi. 2017. “Kampen för den europeiska livsstilen: drag inom den finlandssvenska högerextrema tankevärlden efter andra världskriget.” In A. Biström and J. Thylin-Klaus, eds., Historiska och litteraturhistoriska studier 92. Helsingfors: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. 179-209.