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Heikki Wilenius : Curriculum Vitae

Peer-reviewed publications

Carlson, Rebecca, Heikki Wilenius, and Jonathan Corliss. “On Algorithmic Divination.” Platypus, October 31, 2023. https://blog.castac.org/2023/10/on-algorithmic-divination.
Karel, Ernst, Jonathan Larcher, and Heikki Wilenius. “A Conversation on Discarded Recordings.” Journal of Sonic Studies, no. 25 (2024). https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/2d3cd7c8-f8c2-4418-a95f-c87e4dc1ec1c/content.
Larcher, Jonathan, and Heikki Wilenius. “Introduction to the Special Issue: Exploring the Phenomenon of Sonic Waste in Anthropology.” Journal of Sonic Studies, no. 25 (2024). https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/publications/introduction-to-the-special-issue-exploring-the-phenomenon-of-son.
Lounela, Anu, and Heikki Wilenius. “Haunting the Factory: Indonesian Modernity and the Spiritual Landscape of Central Kalimantan.” Ethnos 90, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2227773.
Siikala, Jukka, Tuomas Tammisto, and Heikki Wilenius, eds. Culture and History in the Pacific. Second edition. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, in press.
Tammisto, Tuomas, and Heikki Wilenius. “Johdanto: Uusi Valtion Antropologia.” In Valtion Antropologiaa – Tutkimuksia Ihmisten Hallitsemisesta Ja Vastarinnasta, edited by Tuomas Tammisto and Heikki Wilenius. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran Toimituksia 1470. Helsinki: SKS, 2021.
———. “Preface to the Second Edition.” In Culture and History in the Pacific, edited by Jukka Siikala, Tuomas Tammisto, and Heikki Wilenius, Second edition. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2021.
———. “Software Scaling the State: Translocal Road and Bridge Asset Management in Papua New Guinea,” submitted.
———, eds. Valtion Antropologiaa – Tutkimuksia Ihmisten Hallitsemisesta Ja Vastarinnasta. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran Toimituksia 1470. Helsinki: SKS, 2021.
Voima. “Politiikan teatteria,” June 13, 2018. https://voima.fi/artikkeli/2018/politiikan-teatteria/.
Wilenius, Heikki. “Authoring Noise, Noising Authority: Loudness and Oratory in an East Javanese Family Gathering.” Journal of Sonic Studies, no. 25 (2024). https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/files/782017796/Wilenius.pdf.
———. “Counterpublics and Haunted Publics: Media Imaginaries of Landscape Transformation in Central  Kalimantan.” In Making and Unmaking Frontiers in Borneo: Interrogating Volatility in Human and More-than-Human Landscapes, edited by Anu Lounela, Michaela Haug, Christian Oesterheld, and Kenneth Sillander. London: Routledge, in press. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/sn6vt_v1.
———. “Digital Ethnography.” Network for Contemporary Anthropological Theory (blog), August 18, 2020. https://anthrotheory.com/reading-lists/digital-ethnography-wilenius/.
———. “Huonosti Sulavaa? Sulautuvan Oppimisen Ratkaisut HY:N Valtiotieteellisen Tiedekunnan Tieto- Ja Viestintätekniikan Opetuksessa (”Ill-Blended? Blended Learning Solutions of the ICT Teaching at the Faculty of Social Sciences”).” In Sulautuva Opetus: Uusi Tapa Opiskella Ja Opettaa (“Blended Learning: A New Way of Studying and Teaching”), edited by Taina Joutsenvirta and Arja Kukkonen. Tampere: Gaudeamus, 2009.
———. “Lectio Praecursoria.” Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 45, no. 2 (2020): 35–40.
———. “Mass-Mediated Frontiers: Discursive Production of Commodities in Central Kalimantan.” Paper presented at the EuroSEAS 2021 conference, September 6, 2021.
———. “Pancasilan Pakko? Sekularismin Ja Uskonnon Niveltymisen Historiaa Indonesiassa.” In Sekularismit: Uskonnollisen Ja Maallisen Rajankäyntejä, 168–88. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2025. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/files/798112972/Sekularismit_169.pdf.
———. Routine Work : Authorizing Representation in East Javanese Regional Politics. Research Series in Anthropology 31. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2020. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-51-5891-8.
———. “Yhdessä Pellolla Ja Yksin Metsässä : Toimeentulostrategiat Kalimantanlaisessa Kaskiviljelytaloudessa,” 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10138/16287.
———. “Yhdessä Pellolla Ja Yksin Metsässä: Toimeentulostrategiat Kalimantanlaisessa Kaskiviljelytaloudessa.” In Ympäristö Ja Kulttuuri, edited by Timo Kallinen, Anja Nygren, and Tuomas Tammisto. Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto, sosiaalitieteiden laitos, 2012.
Wilenius, Heikki, and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila. “Työllistyminen, Itsensä Työllistäminen Ja Kotoutuminen. Kolme Tarinaa Maahanmuuttajien Yrittäjyydestä (‘Employment Opportunities, Self-Employment and Integration. Three Stories on Immigrant Entrepreneurship’).” Yhteiskuntasuunnittelu 38, no. 4 (2000): 38–56.

Book reviews

Wilenius, Heikki. “KEANE, WEBB. Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories.” Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 41, no. 2 (2016): 75–77.
———. “LAIDLAW, JAMES. The Subject of Virtue: An Anthropology of Ethics and Freedom.” Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 40, no. 3 (2015): 56–58.

Conference Papers and Panels

Wilenius, Heikki. “Gifts and Promises. Representational Economies of East Javanese Election Campaigning.” Helsinki, 2016.
———. “Institutionalized Patronage Plays. Justifications in Indonesian Islamic Parties’ <i>Reses</> Meetings.” Helsinki, 2017.
———. “Justifying Development in the Parliamentary Recess.” Amsterdam, 2014.
———. “Performing Transparency and Generosity: Managing Conflicting Ideals in Javanese Local Politics.” Tallinn, 2014.
———. “Public Justifications and Religion in East Javanese Local Politics.” Salatiga, 2013.
———. “Purified Pageantry: Performing Arts in Javanese Provincial Politics.” London, 2018.
———. “Slametanesque Soundscapes: On the Ritual Aspects of Javanese Regional Council Plenary Meetings,” 2015.
———. “Studying Public Accountability in East Java: Some Notes and Reflections.” Copenhagen, 2015.
———. “Together on the Field and Alone in the Forest. Livelihood Strategies in a Kalimantan Swidden Economy.” Helsinki, 2010.
———. “Trajectories of Democracy: Ritual Abeyance in the Plenary Meetings of Javanese Regional Councils.” University of Helsinki, 2015.
———. “Unvoiced Legacies and Misrecognized Ideologies in East Javanese Political Campaigns,” 2017.