Publications
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Kirjailijapoetiikat
(2024)
Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870–1990
(2024)
This edited collection re-examines the long history of Finnish-Namibian relations through the lens of colonialism without colonies as well as anti-colonialism. The book argues that although Finland never acquired colonies, ...
Nationalismi ja kieli
(2024)
This book looks at the relationship between nationalism and language through a theoretical introduction and case studies focusing on Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. It encourages readers to reflect on ...
Miten luemme?
(2024)
This collection of articles examines literature education in Finnish upper secondary schools. The authors of the articles are literary scholars who present current perspectives on the study of literature. The central ...
Lapsenkielen uudissanat
(2024)
This book examines innovative derived words and compounds used by Finnish-speaking children.
The first derivational type of verbs has the productive and transparent TTA-suffix (e.g. kaatua ‘fall over’ → kaaduttaa ‘overturn’), ...
Passages Westward
(2006)
"The West has always been a resource for the Finns. Scholars, artists and other professionals have sought contacts from Europe throughout the centuries. The Finnish experience in Western Europe and the New World is a story ...
Mythic Discourses
(2012)
"Mythic discourses in the present day show how vernacular heritage continues to function and be valuable through emergent interpretations and revaluations. At the same time, continuities in mythic images, motifs, myths and ...
Ympäristö, estetiikka ja hyvinvointi
(2015)
This collection of essays looks at the issue of human well-being from the point of view of environmental aesthetics. Questions addressed include: What role do aesthetic values have in advancing well-being? Are there ...
Talk in interaction: Comparative dimensions
(2009)
"During the recent decades Conversation Analysis has developed into a distinctive method for analyzing talk in interaction. The method is utilized in several disciplines sharing an interest in social interaction, like ...
Kalevipoeg Studies: The Creation and Reception of an Epic
(2016)
"The poem Kalevipoeg, over 19,000 lines in length, was composed by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882) on the basis on folklore material. It was published in an Estonian-German bilingual edition in six instalments ...
Continued Violence and Troublesome Pasts: Post-war Europe between the Victors after the Second World War
(2017)
In most European countries, the horrific legacy of 1939–45 has made it quite difficult to remember the war with much glory. Despite the Anglo-American memory narrative of saving democracy from totalitarianism and the Soviet ...
Responsibility and Language Practices in Place
(2020)
This volume includes chapters by junior and senior scholars hailing from Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania, all of whom sought to understand the social and cultural implications surrounding how people take responsibility ...
Kansankirkko ristipaineessa
(2014)
As the highest internal decision-making body within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, the General Synod began, from 1876, congregating in Turku every tenth, and then eventually, every fifth year. By the 1960s, ...
Fibula, Fabula, Fact
(2014)
"The chapters of Fibula, Fabula, Fact – The Viking Age in Finland are intended to provide essential foundations for approaching the important topic of the Viking Age in Finland. These chapters are oriented to provide ...
Identities in Practice: A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh immigrants in Finland and in California
(2013)
"Identities in Practice draws a nuanced picture of how the experience of migration affects the process through which Sikhs in Finland and California negotiate their identities. What makes this study innovative with regard ...
Kaupunki tapahtumien näyttämönä
(2016)
City as a Stage explores the diverse ways in which modern cities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries presented and projected themselves, especially by staging major urban events, which have often been interpreted as ...
The emergence of Finnish book and reading culture in the 1700s
(2011)
"Book culture has emerged as an extremely dynamic and border-crossing field of research, internationally and in Finland. The editors and most of the writers of this book were members of the organizing and program committees ...
Elää, kokea, ymmärtää
(2023)
Alex Matson (1888–1972) is an important Finnish literary critic and essayist, whose literary reviews and collections of essays have made a vital contribution to the development of Finland's postwar literary generation. ...
Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740–1790)
(2009)
"Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740–1790) is a study of how the Swedish nobility articulated its political ideals, self-images and loyalties during the Age of Liberty and under the rule of ...