Mikko Laamanen

About

Mikko Laamanen is Senior Researcher with the Technology and Sustainability research group at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO). He received his PhD from Hanken School of Economics (Finland). Mikko has held academic positions in Finland, France, Germany and United Kingdom.

Mikko’s research programme is situated at the intersection of sociologies of consumption, organization and social movements. He is expert in the everyday politics of technology, inclusion and social change. His current projects investigate

• the organising of local production and consumption practices in urban areas as well as developing and conflict economies
• the platformisation of sharing
• resistance to digitalisation and digital surveillance
• sustainability in the consumption of arts

Mikko’s research has been published in leading journals and edited volumes in marketing and management, organizational sociology, sociology of consumption, social movement and environmental studies. He is an editorial board member of Consumption and Society and Journal of Macromarketing.

Mikko is the co-coordinator of the European Sociological Association's research network on the Sociology of Consumption (RN05). He is research fellow at the Sustainable Europe Research Institute SERI (Germany), the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (Germany) and the Center for Organizational Research COR at the University of California, Irvine (USA).