The Finnish Political Science Association

The aim of the Finnish Political Science Association (FPSA) is to promote political science and the public interest for political science in Finland. FPSA is also actively participating in international political science research. The most essential forms of activities of the FPSA are publishing and organizing lectures and discussions. The Early Scholars Network (ESN) is the Finnish Political Science Association’s platform that connects emerging political scientists from across Finland. 

The association was founded in 1935, which makes it one of the oldest associations in its field. FPSA is a member of both the International Political Science Association IPSA and the Nordic Political Science Association NoPSA. The association is active in The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and the Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing. It’s also a member of the UN Association of Finland and UN Women.

The FPSA is the responsible publisher of the peer reviewed Politiikka journal and the Politiikasta website as well as the peer reviewed Pro et Contra book series.

FPSA Annual Conference 2025

The main annual scientific event of the Finnish Political Science Association will be next held at the University of Lapland on April 14–16th 2025 with the theme “earth-sky worlds of politics”. More information at the conference’s webpages, see https://www.ulapland.fi/FI/Tapahtumia/Politiikan-tutkimuksen-paivat-2025

The main annual scientific event of the Finnish Political Science Association will be held at the University of Lapland on April 14–16th 2025. This year’s theme is earth-sky worlds of politics. The call for workshops is open until 22nd December 2024, see the link below!

The thematic focus of the year 2025, the earth-sky worlds of politics grounds the annual conference of the Finnish Political Science Association in a world in which the planetary boundaries and carrying capacity have already been met. In an era of extensive environmental degradation, climate change, mass extinction and pollution, political thought, theory, action and decision making can no longer be considered separate from environmental concerns. Along with the changing earth and sky, also political thought must look for new pathways: giving up anthropocentrism, recognizing our ecological interdependence, and focusing on concrete action is now more important than ever. At this point, the earth-skies do more politics than any other actor: the climate crisis is changing societies, whether they wish or not.

The theme invites scientists and researchers to challenge the basic assumptions and starting points of our discipline. We wish to explore, what central concepts and ideas such as communities, societies, agency, justice, good life and the “environment” can mean today, and in future. Besides ecosystems, multispecies, relationality and political ecology, political worlds and the earth-sky world of politics can refer to other kinds of worlds and worldlinesses, such as the ontological and epistemological worlds of political study, to social and political polarization, and to the fragmentation of what we know, of ways of knowing and of expert knowledge.

We invite working group proposals in which the earth-sky worlds of politics and political earth-skies are examined and explored from various perspectives and premises. In addition, we welcome working group proposals from all areas of our discipline. We also welcome proposals that cross disciplinaries, research projects and university boundaries. You can submit your proposal from the link below.

Call for workshops (DL 15th January 2025)