{"id":482,"date":"2026-07-01T08:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.utu.fi\/corporate-forest\/?page_id=482"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:45:00","slug":"about-corporate-forest-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.utu.fi\/corporate-forest\/en\/about-corporate-forest-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Project Corporate Forest II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">Regimes of Permission and Posthuman Harm: Corporate Exploitation in Finnish Forests<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kadence-column482_8497b5-85 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column482_8497b5-85 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column482_8497b5-85 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column482_8497b5-85 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column482_8497b5-85 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column482_8497b5-85 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column482_8497b5-85{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column482_8497b5-85 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column482_8497b5-85 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column482_8497b5-85\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.kadence-column482_f698fc-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column482_f698fc-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column482_f698fc-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column482_f698fc-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column482_f698fc-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column482_f698fc-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column482_f698fc-b0{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column482_f698fc-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column482_f698fc-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column482_f698fc-b0\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is Corporate Forest II <\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Corporate Forest II in an interdisciplinary research project funded by Research Council of Finland. CF bridges a critical gap in Finnish and international studies on human-forest relations by integrating state-corporate crime scholarship with posthuman legal theory and related approaches to more-than-human world. Employing mixed qualitative-computational methods to analyse legislative and thick case study data, CF empirically explores and theorizes if and how legal and governance frameworks influence the asymmetries between powerful and powerless bodies, exploited and exploitative spaces, and divergent temporalities of law, nature, and corporate practices. <\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kadence-column482_9e18ff-39 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column482_9e18ff-39 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column482_9e18ff-39 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column482_9e18ff-39 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column482_9e18ff-39 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column482_9e18ff-39 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column482_9e18ff-39{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 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#444444;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-accordion alignnone\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-wrap kt-accordion-id482_db61a2-3f kt-accordion-has-3-panes kt-active-pane-0 kt-accordion-block kt-pane-header-alignment-left kt-accodion-icon-style-basic kt-accodion-icon-side-left\" style=\"max-width:none\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-inner-wrap\" data-allow-multiple-open=\"false\" data-start-open=\"none\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-1 kt-pane482_e217bc-7f\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\"><strong>Objectives and research questions<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p><strong>CF&nbsp;aims<\/strong>&nbsp;to undertake a critical, posthuman analysis of Finnish forest&nbsp;governance, moving beyond normative legal&nbsp;prescriptions&nbsp;and law in context&nbsp;framing&nbsp;to challenge the dominant&nbsp;narratives and enable new possibilities.&nbsp;To meet this aim,&nbsp;<strong>specific&nbsp;objectives&nbsp;of CF are<\/strong>, to:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>O1:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Illuminate<\/strong>&nbsp;corporeal,&nbsp;spatial&nbsp;and temporal&nbsp;<strong>harms<\/strong>&nbsp;experienced by human and&nbsp;nonhuman&nbsp;agents in selected&nbsp;<strong>MoR<\/strong>&nbsp;(WP2).&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>O2:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Map and deconstruct legal and policy mechanisms<\/strong>&nbsp;that underpin state corporate symbiosis and privilege extractive bodies,&nbsp;timelines&nbsp;and spaces (WP3).&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>O3:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Co-create<\/strong>&nbsp;policy, educational and public engagement outputs that disrupt dominant narratives and enable alternative legal futures (WP4).&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The work of&nbsp;CF&nbsp;is conducted in five interconnected Work Packages&nbsp;guided by three interconnected&nbsp;<strong>research questions:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>RQ1 (Harms)<\/strong>&nbsp;What corporeal,&nbsp;spatial&nbsp;and temporal harms do human and&nbsp;non\u2011human&nbsp;agents and spaces experienced in the selected cases?&nbsp;(WP2)&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>RQ2 (Law)<\/strong>&nbsp;How do legal and regulatory frameworks shape vulnerabilities, privileging some bodies\/spaces\/timelines related to forests over others?&nbsp;(WP3)&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>RQ3 (Law<\/strong>\u2011<strong>making)<\/strong>&nbsp;Which framings of bodies, times and spaces related to forests feature in dominant policy narratives, and which are neglected during policy and&nbsp;law\u2011making?&nbsp;(WP4)&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-2 kt-pane482_8b411f-e7\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\"><strong>State-Corporate Crime Scholarship<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p>Building on the tradition of state-corporate crime scholarship (Kramer&nbsp;et al., 2002; Michalowski et al., 2006), Building on the tradition of state-corporate crime scholarship <strong>examining four emblematic cases<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 (1)&nbsp;Repovesi, (2) Angeli, (3)&nbsp;P\u00f6llyvaara&nbsp;and (4)&nbsp;Kaupinvaara&nbsp;\u2013 of corporate harms to forests and their broader context, spanning three decades of regulatory development (WP2). Importantly, <strong>CF situates<\/strong>&nbsp;the four \u2018moments of rupture\u2019&nbsp;(MoR)&nbsp;within broader legal,&nbsp;economic,&nbsp;and political&nbsp;contexts&nbsp;to examine&nbsp;the development of&nbsp;context-dependent&nbsp;\u2018regimes of permission\u2019&nbsp;(RoP), focusing&nbsp;on Finnish and Nordic&nbsp;boreal forest&nbsp;regulation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-3 kt-pane482_785072-6c\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\"><strong>Posthuman, computational legal analysis<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p><strong>CF broadens the power dynamics<\/strong>&nbsp;central to state-corporate crime scholarship\u2014typically considered through race, gender, space, and class\u2014by drawing on critical posthumanism (Braidotti, 2019). WP1-2 examine how&nbsp;MoRs&nbsp;reveal corporeal, spatial, and temporal harms often hidden by dominant state-corporate narratives. WP3 investigates how legal concepts and interpretations prioritize or marginalize different bodies, spaces, and temporalities across both human and more-than-human worlds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditionally, these complexities have been explored through qualitative methods like multispecies ethnographies (Hamilton &amp; Taylor, 2017). CF expands this by integrating computational policy and lawmaking analysis with thick-case studies. Prior forest governance research has focused on content, thematic, or discourse analysis&nbsp;of policy and legal frameworks\u2014e.g., the constructed nature of \u2018nature\u2019 in policy (Hajer &amp; Versteeg, 2005)\u2014while lawmaking processes are less explored. In Finland,&nbsp;tensions in policy and lawmaking have been examines through&nbsp;network analysis (Sara, 2019) and the advocacy coalition framework (Rantala &amp; Primmer, 2003; Pietarinen et al., 2023;&nbsp;Harrinkari, 2024).&nbsp;Building on these methods, CF will use topic modelling and cluster analysis to reveal power dynamics in the reform process and to examine the mutual shaping of policy, lawmaking, and the&nbsp;endangered species, spaces, and&nbsp;timelines&nbsp;(WP4).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.kadence-column482_54a003-7b > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column482_54a003-7b > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column482_54a003-7b > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column482_54a003-7b > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column482_54a003-7b > 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