Miikka is a PhD candidate in Philosophy. His research concerns different modes of economic domination — forms of social power enshrined in relations of ownership and control. In contemporary political theory, his research focuses on different forms and sites of economic power characterizing capitalist economies. In the history of political thought, he researches G.W.F. Hegel’s writings on slavery and their reception, especially among post-colonial theorists.
Miikka’s dissertation project examines how the power of investors, domestic and international, affect the politics of ostensibly democratic capitalist states. His work engages with Marxist theories of the state and contemporary neo-republican accounts of domination to theorize how the realm of “feasible” politics within capitalist states is circumscribed by the political preferences of investors.You can find his website here.