Discover the University of Helsinki Open Access Books Collection

We are proud to work with the University of Helsinki to open research titles from researchers based at the University of Helsinki. The University has kindly funded this program to make research in the social sciences available to read for anybody around the globe.

Take a look at titles in Sociology, Politics Education and more, simply click on the subject area and book title to access.

Featured Books

Analytical Psychology in a Changing World: The search for self, identity and community

Read Chapter 2: Big Stories and Small Stories in the Psychological Relief Work after the Earthquake Disaster: Life and Death by Toshio Kawai
curriculum instruction Japan
Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Japan

Read Chapter 2: Historical Overview of Curriculum Development: National Control over Curriculum vs. School-Based Curriculum Development by Kanae Nishioka

Read Chapter 5: Read Chapter 5: Historical Overview of Lesson Study by Terumasa Ishii

Behavioral Science & Education

The Psychology of Study Success in Universities book cover
The Psychology of Study Success in Universities
Dynamics in Education
Dynamics in Education Politics : Understanding and explaining the Finnish case
ethics
A New Approach to Research Ethics : Using Guided Dialogue to Strengthen Research Communities

The Paradoxes of Interculturality
A Toolbox of Out-of-the-box Ideas for Intercultural Communication Education

Humanities & Media Arts

northern arch
Northern Archaeology and Cosmology : A Relational View
Arch, heritage
Archaeology, Heritage and Ethics in the Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem : Darkness at the End of the Tunnel
married women in legal practice
Married Women in Legal Practice : Agency and Norms in the Swedish Realm, 1350-1450
american west
The American West and the World : Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
women and politeness
Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England : Bodies, Identities, and Power
promoting heritage
Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia
making sense of bad english
Making Sense of “Bad English”: An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies
The Narratology of Comic Art
the virgin mary
The Virgin Mary across Cultures : Devotion among Costa Rican Catholic and Finnish Orthodox Women
Orthodox Christianity
Orthodox Christianity and Gender : Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice

Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction
Lived Things

Social Sciences

Women's lived landscapes
Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique : Bodily Memory and the Gendered Aesthetics of Belonging
india
Employment, Poverty and Rights in India
geopolitics
Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy
artic
Society, Environment and Human Security in the Arctic Barents Region
public
Public Participation, Science and Society : Tools for Dynamic and Responsible Governance of Research and Innovation
well-being
Reciprocal Relationships and Well-being : Implications for Social Work and Social Policy
rethinking eu
Rethinking EU Consumer Law
law
Law, Technology and Dispute Resolution : The Privatisation of Coercion
Terrorism, criminal
Terrorism, Criminal Law and Politics : The Decline of the Political Offence Exception to Extradition
disgenerative
Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy : Exits and Conflicts
Health and Political Engagement
vivir
Vivir Bien as an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization: Can Indigenous Terminologies Decolonize the State?
russia
Russia–EU Relations and the Common Neighborhood : Coercion vs. Authority
politics
Memory Politics in Contemporary Russia : Television, Cinema and the State
china and great power
China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change
russia
Federalism and Regional Policy in Contemporary Russia
russia
The Other Russia: Local experience and societal change
intergenerational
Intergenerational Family Relations : An Evolutionary Social Science Approach
online hate
Online Hate and Harmful Content : Cross-National Perspectives
recoding life
Recoding Life: Information and the Biopolitical
morality
Morality Made Visible: Edward Westermarck’s Moral and Social Theory

Law, Ecology, and the Management of Complex Systems
The Case of Water Governance

muslim
Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families: Marriage, Law and Gender

Debating the War in Ukraine
Counterfactual Histories and Future Possibilities

undoing
Undoing Homogeneity in the Nordic Region: Migration, Difference and the Politics of Solidarity
A Cultural Approach to Populism

enter culture
Enter Culture, Exit Arts? : The Transformation of Cultural Hierarchies in European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960–2010
Studying Complex Interactions and Outcomes Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis
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Featuring These Titles

The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope by Kareem Muhammad

Black Popular Culture and Social Justice: Beyond the Culture edited by Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Jonathan I. Gayles

Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality by Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald

Global Black Feminisms: Cross Border Collaboration through an Ethics of Care edited by Andrea N. Baldwin, Tonya Haynes

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