Verkosto, skaala ja korkeakoulujen perustaminen 1960-luvun alun Suomessa

Abstract

The establishment of universities is a layered and multi-scalar process. Depending on the time and place, it both reflects currently prevailing socio-spatial phenomena and produces meanings to different scales (local, regional, national, supranational). This article compares the establishment projects of four different state universities in Finland in the early 1960s. Firstly, the actors behind these projects and the pressure networks they created are mapped. Secondly, the study analyses the territorial, symbolic, discursive, and institutional norms, practices, and structures the actors leaned on while justifying their rhetoric and actions to state bureaucrats and representatives of governmental power.