2024. Saemaul Undong: Harbinger or mirage of hope for a rural community in Uganda? Community Development. 10.1080/15575330.2024.2438010.

2025. H. Alava, J. Lindroos, & A. Pihlman. Finland’s New Children’s Hospital and resurgent charity in a Nordic post-welfare state. Med Humanit. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013128. 

2023. Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis. Journal of Eastern African Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2023.2238376.

2023. Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350301986. Honourable mention, 2023 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion.

2019. Henni Alava & Catrine Shroff. Unravelling Church Land: Transformations in the relations between church, state, and community in Uganda. Development and Change, 50(5), 1288-1309

2017. “There is Confusion”: The Politics of Silence, Fear and Hope in Catholic and Protestant Northern Uganda. PhD Dissertation: University of Helsinki. Donner Institute Prize for Outstanding Research into Religion

Marie-Louise Karttunen read through every word of my thesis, twice, and kept me laughing through the weeks of frantic wrapping up.

2018. Evaluation of school tasks in the light of sustainability education: textbook research in science education in Luxembourgish primary schools. Environmental Education Research, 24 (9) 1301-1319.

2018. Humanitarian militarism and the production of humanity. Social Anthropology (6^th April, online)

2017. The absence of freedom. Debt, bondage and desire among Pakistani brick kiln workers. Journal of Global Slavery 2, 122-138

2025. S. W. Düring, D. M. Sivertsen, & K. S. Johansen. Non-Pharmacological Components in Integrated Treatment for Patients with Dual Diagnosis: A Scoping Review. Journal of  Dual Diagnosis, 21(2):120-141. doi: 10.1080/15504263.2025.2478900.

2016. Walking on the Pages of the Word of God: Self, Land, and Text among Evangelical Volunteers in Jerusalem. PhD Dissertation, Lund University.

I am also grateful to Marie-Louise Karttunen whose editing skills and patience with my language mistakes were very important to the final manuscript.

2018. Evil or the Lack of Meaning. Rivista di filosofia, Journal of Philosophy, IV(11), 34-48.

2018. Health-seeking Nomads and Religious Belonging: Church as a Healing Option in a Medically Pluralistic Context in Mbeya, Tanzania. Mission Studies 35 (2), 245-264

2014. Navigating between Ideas of Democracy and Gendered Local Practices in Vietnam: A Bakhtinian reading of development aid practice (PhD Dissertation).

Marie-Louise was recommended to me by a colleague as a competent and quick English language editor. She proved very flexible and cooperative, and worked effectively within a very tight schedule. Moreover, her suggestions and comments helped me to sharpen my arguments in significant ways. Despite the physical distance between us, the entire process was very smooth. I could contact her any time by e-mail and always had a prompt reply. I can warmly recommend Marie-Louise to anybody looking for a high level academic language editor.

2014. Ubuntu, Migration and Ministry: Being Human in a Johannesburg Church. BRILL

2013. Challenging Ubuntu: Open doors and exclusionary boundaries at the Central Methodist Mission in Johannesburg. PhD Dissertation, Donner Institute Prize for Outstanding Research into Religion.

Dr Marie-Louise Karttunen’s meticulous work as language editor in the thesis phase and later contribution towards editing the text for publication has been invaluable.

2018. Faith-based development of World Vision Tanzania. Journal of Contemporary Religion 33(3), 389–406. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2018.1535361

2007. Roulette Anthropology: The whole beyond holism. Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 32(2).

I am grateful to the two anonymous readers for JFAS for their helpful suggestions, as well as to Marie-Louise Karttunen for her tireless editorial advice and support.

2024. Digital Threads, Interwoven Scenes: An Ethnography of Sustainable Fashion Production in Ghana and Finland. PhD Dissertation. ISBN 978-952-84-0052-3. http://hdl.handle.net/10138/577963

I want to thank Marie-Louise Karttunen for the excellent language revision—your supportive comments were much needed at times.

2014. Prolepticism: The Futurist Theology of Ted Peters. PhD Dissertation.

I gladly recommend Dr Karttunen to anyone who is in need of editing an academic text. I enjoyed the co-operation and her thoroughness and commitment.

2018. Treatment of Dual Diagnosis in Denmark: Models for Cooperation and Positions of Power. Qualitative Studies, 5(2), 125–139. https://doi.org/10.7146/qs.v5i2.104500

2024. Self-Optimisation and the Technologically Mediated Self: Balancing Self-Care and Self-Control. Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, 49(3), 77–101. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27331436

2025. A. Nygren & A. V. Rabelo Avalos. Oil extraction and indirect dispossession: responsibility and resistance in southern sacrifice zones. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2480200

2025. Grace & Poise: A Muslim ballet school in the UK. Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies, 18(1), 38–59. https://doi.org/10.7146/tifo.v19i1.156998

2024. “The Celebration of Islamic Consumer Goods in London: Design, Production, and Consumption”. In B. Krawietz & F. Gauthier (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Global Islam and Consumer Culture. ISBN 9780367715830.

2024. “Al-ṣalāt: The Ritual of Rituals in Islam”. In I. Brissman, P. Linjamaa, & T. T. Makeeff (eds), Handbook of Rituals in Contemporary Studies of Religion. Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-54292-1

2023. M. Nordin & J. Otterbeck. Migration and Religion. IMISCOE Short Reader. DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-30766-9

2023. “Dialogic art: Photographer Peter Sanders on promoting understanding”. In J. Winkler, L. Haddad, J. Martínez-Ariño, & G. Mezzetti (eds), Interreligious Encounters in Europe. Sites, Materialities and Practices. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003228448

2021. The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music. Edinburgh University Press. IBSN 9781474490429. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-awakening-of-islamic-pop-music.html

2021. Finding the Object of Study: Islamic Studies in Practice. International Journal of Religion, 2, 47-60. 10.33182/ijor.v2i1.1474. 

2019. J. Otterbeck & J. F. Skjelbo. “Music Version” versus “Vocals-Only”: Islamic Pop Music, Aesthetics, and Ethics. Popular Music and Society, 43(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2019.1581335

2018. J. Otterbeck, D. Mattsson, & O. Pastene. “I am Satan!” black metal, Islam and blasphemy in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Contemporary Islam 12, 267–286. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-018-0418-x

2023. P. Paajanen, E. Finell, R. Riikonen, & C. Stevenson. ‘Hey, teach these kids to eat their own food!’: Institutional intergroup contact in immigrant mothers’ talk. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 33(6), 1426–1439. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2746

2022. P. Paajanen, T. Seppälä, C. Stevenson, R. Riikonen, & E. Finell. Keeping Apart on the Playground: Construction of Informal Segregation on Public Playgrounds in Multiethnic Neighborhoods. Social Psychology Quarterly, 86(1), 53-73. https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725221116632

2014.  M. Pantzar & M. Ruckenstein. The heart of everyday analytics: emotional, material and practical extensions in the self-tracking market. Consumption Markets & Culture,18(1), 92–109. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2014.899213

2013. “What are we to do with our new affluence?” Anticipating, framing and managing the putative plenty of post-war Finland. In Barbara Czarniawska and Orvar Löfgren, eds. Coping with Excess: How Organizations, Communities and Individuals Manage Overflows. Edward Elgar Publishing.

One of Marie-Louise’s strengths lies in the help she offers in formulating appropriate scientific articulation, instead of simply language checking.

2025. The Islamic Juridical Vacuum: An Ethnographic Study of How Parallel Legal Institutions Emerged in Denmark. Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-70025-3. https://brill.com/display/title/70420?srsltid=AfmBOop1Mcq-MWapMWJr81pdbitcXaXx34Ch4mazyuS5f0kinpDGKHrz 

2024. Mining and Development in Sierra Leone. Negotiating Change and Navigating Uncertainty. Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003391043

2024. Global corporations and local dependencies: Resource redistribution and the reconfiguration of dependency relations in Sierra Leone. World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 33(C). DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100569

2021. R. J. Pijpers & S. Luning. “We have so many challenges”: Small-scale mining, COVID-19 and constant interruptions in West Africa. Anthropology Today 37 (2): 10-14.

2014. In the Name of ‘Vivir Bien’: Indigeneity, State Formation and Politics in Evo Morales’ Bolivia. PhD dissertation.

When you are finishing your Ph.D. dissertation, you don’t want any extra hassle! Dr Marie-Louise Karttunen’s superb work as the language editor of my thesis made the process much smoother. Even with very tight schedules, her work was of top quality and she proved to be a professional one can truly rely on. Additional editing tips that she provided due to her solid anthropological expertise and long-term experience as a journal editor were also highly useful.

2024. Collaborative explorations as breathing spaces for digital futures. Dialogues on Digital Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768640241308332

2024. Sonja Trifuljesko & Minna Ruckenstein. Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements. Big Data & Society, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241299726

2023. Minna Ruckenstein & Tuukka Lehtiniemi. Friction and Promise in Data Labor. https://algorithms.dk/2023/10/27/public-add-lecture-friction-and-promise-in-data-labor/

2023. The Feel of Algorithms. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520394551

2022. Minna Ruckenstein & Sonja Trifuljesko. Algorithmic Futures and the Unsettled Sense of Care. In An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies. Débora Lanzeni, Karen Waltorp, Sarah Pink, Rachel C. Smith (eds). Routledge https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003084471

2020. M. Tanninen, T.K. Lehtonen, & M. Ruckenstein. Tracking lives, forging markets. Journal of Cultural Economy, 14(4), 449–463. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2020.1852949

2019. Minna Ruckenstein & Linda Lisa Maria Turunen. Re-humanizing the platform: Content moderators and the logic of care. New Media and Society, 22(6) https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819875990

2019. Tracing medicinal agencies: Antidepressants and life-effects. Social Science & Medicine, 235, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953619303533)

2014.Visualized and Interacted Life: Personal Analytics and Engagements with Data Doubles.  Societies 4(1).

2013. Playing Nintendogs: Desire, distributed agency and potentials of prosumption. Journal of Consumer Culture. 1469540513499225

2013. Spatial extensions of childhood: from toy worlds to online communities. Children’s Geographies 11(4) 476–489. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2013.812309

2013. Temporalities of addiction. In Making Sense of Consumption. Selections from the 2nd Nordic Conference on Consumer Research 2012. Göteborg: University of Gothenburg.

2011. Children in Creationist Capitalism: The corporate value of sociality. Information, Communication & Society 14(7) 1060–1076. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2011.565781

2010. Toying with the world: Children, virtual pets and the value of mobility. Childhood 17(4).

2010. Time scales of consumption: Children, money and transactional orders.  Journal of Consumer Culture 10(3).

Marie-Louise and I have worked together on numerous projects that range from co-editing a volume of essays and conference organization to her attention to articles I have personally published. Her skills as a language editor are invaluable but she has also contributed to refining the arguments and the structure of the papers with which she has helped me. Collaboration has always been rewarding, smooth and very swift. I thoroughly recommend her to anyone requiring services in this field.

2015. Developing the Dead: Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo, University Press of Florida

I can say Marie-Louise really saved my work (by editing, re-ordering, cutting) and ensured that it was actually accepted by the publishing house. Sometimes as authors we don’t have the distance to do this ourselves. I am extremely grateful to her!

2007. The Political Economy of Enchantment: Formations in the anthropology of tourism. Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 32(2).

I owe a great debt of gratitude to Marie-Louise Karttunen and her team at Suomen Antropologi for the professionalism and care they have taken over the publication of the paper.

2012. S. Tenhunen & M. Saavala. An introduction to changing India: culture, politics and development. Anthem Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1gxpc5m

2011. Culture, conflict, and translocal communication: mobile technology and politics in Rural West Bengal, India. Ethnos 76(3) 398–420. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2011.580356

2008. Mobile technology in the village: ICTs, culture, and social logistics in India. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14(3) 515-534. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2008.00515.x

Marie-Louise’s thorough command of the English language combined with her understanding of academic writing style makes her a superb language editor. As an anthropologist I value her vast expertise in anthropology which makes it possible for her to grasp anthropological arguments and polish them.

2015. Babu wa Loliondo – Healing the tensions between Tanzanian worlds. Journal of Religion in Africa 45(1), 3-36. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340029

2014. Gender, narratives, and religious competition among the Sonjo of Tanzania. Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 41(1), 66.

Marie-Louise Karttunen has provided me and several of my doctoral students language consultancy and correction services over several years. She is quick, prompt and precise and has a strong background in the humanities which clearly contributes to the quality of her work. Highly recommended.

2025. C. A. Salling & B. R. Winthereik. Inventorying data: circumvented investment conditions by Big Tech’s supply chain capitalism. Journal of Cultural Economy, 18(2), 266–283. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2024.2436873