Publications
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Kokemuksia mielisairaalasta
(2022)
Finnish psychiatric practice has been heavily based on institutionalization, and mental hospitals have played important cultural and historical roles in Finland. Our multidisciplinary research focuses on the bodily, spatial, ...
Kalajoen kahakka
(2022)
Nothing exceptional happened in front of the youth association building in Kalajoki on 9 September 1953. There was a minor confrontation between regional police forces and local youth, but hundreds of similar events happened ...
Uushenkisyys
(2022)
Contrary to the secularism thesis of the 20th century, religion did not disappear from the Western experience. Rather, religiosity took on new forms, which emphasized individuality, experientiality, and corporeality, and ...
Kohtaamisia kentällä
(2021)
Arkistot ja kulttuuriperintö
(2021)
Paradigma
(2021)
Valtion antropologiaa
(2021)
Avantgarde Suomessa
(2021)
Suomi Moskovasta nähtynä
(2021)
Versification
(2021)
Versification describes the marriage of language and poetic form through which poetry is produced. Formal principles, such as metre, alliteration, rhyme, or parallelism, take precedence over syntax and prosody, resulting ...
Kalle Päätalo tutkijoiden silmin
(2022)
The Finnish novelist Kaarlo (Kalle) Alvar Päätalo’s (1919–2000) main work, the Iijoki series, consists of 26 novels (comprising ca. 17 000 pages) and was written in 1971–1998. In this book the text corpus in Kielipankki ...
Dwelling in Political Landscapes
(2019)
People all over the globe are experiencing unprecedented and often hazardous situations as environments change at speeds never before experienced. This edited collection proposes that anthropological perspectives on landscape ...
The Culture of the Finnish Roma
(2024)
This anthology ‘The Culture of the Finnish Roma’ is a highly needed collection of articles intended for a wide audience, in Finland and internationally. The editors of the anthology, when participating in many international ...
Joustavat sukupuolet – muuntuvat merkitykset
(2024)
Gender is now understood as something versatile and changing. It is seen as part of identity and as a means of expressing oneself, but it is also a product of social and cultural structures. The Kalevala Society Foundation’s ...
Kulttuuritelevision aika
(2024)
The Era of Cultural Television offers a new interpretation of the Finnish television history of the 1970s and 1980s, which has previously been interpreted as a transitional period from the politicized 1970s to the ...
Metamodernismi
(2024)
Metamodernism. The Change in Literature and Culture in 21st Century Finland maps the state and transformation of contemporary Finnish literature and culture since the postmodern era. The work highlights, from different ...
Magiaa ennen ja nyt
(2024)
Magic, Past and Present brings together the latest interdisciplinary research by Finnish scholars on magic and witchcraft. The authors come from fields such as history, art, literature, religion, and culture. Geographically, ...
Vieraita näyttämöllä
(2024)
This book is a collaborative project by a joint Finnish-Estonian research team that explores Finnish and Estonian theatre and dance from the 19th to the 21st century and the rich interactions between the scenes of both ...
Romaanin tieto
(2025)
The Novel’s Knowledge focuses on the changing functions and epistemologies of the novel in the era of commercial, digital, and social media. The volume also argues that while the functional role of the author in the ...
On the Legacy of Lutheranism in Finland
(2019)
This volume analyses the societal legacy of Lutheranism in Finland in broad terms. It contributes to the recent renewed interest in the history of religion in Finland and the Nordic countries by bringing together researchers ...
Handwritten Newspapers
(2019)
"This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. Our primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social ...
Transnational Death
(2019)
With so much of the global population living on the move, away from their homelands, and in diasporic communities, death and mourning practices are inevitably impacted. Transnational Death brings together eleven cutting-edge ...
Across the Oceans: Development of the overseas business information transmission
(2007)
"In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development ...
Names in Focus: An Introduction to Finnish Onomastics
(2012)
Names in Focus delves deep into the vast field of Finnish onomastics, covering place names, personal names, animal names, commercial names and names in literature. It provides the history and current trends in this area ...
The Limits of Patriarchy: How Female Networks of Pilfering and Gossip Sparked the First Debates on Rural Gender Rights in the 19th-Century Finnish-Language Press
(2011)
"In the mid-19th century, letters to newspapers in Finland began to condemn a practice known as home thievery, in which farm mistresses pilfered goods from their farms to sell behind the farm master’s back. Why did farm ...
The Enemy Within: Homicide and Control in Eastern Finland in the Final Years of Swedish Rule 1748-1808
(2003)
"This work explores the quantitative and qualitative development of homicide in eastern Finland in the second half of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth. The area studied comprised northern Savo ...
Tradition through Modernity: Postmodernism and the Nation-State in Folklore Scholarship
(2005)
"In their study of social practices deemed traditional, scholars tend to use the concept and idea of tradition as an element of meaning in the practices under investigation. But just whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning ...
Representations of Finnishness in Sweden
(2011)
"More than half a million Swedes – one in twenty – is of Finnish descent. This book explores Finnishness, multilingualism and identities of young people with Finnish background in Sweden. What does it mean to grow up in a ...
Riddles: Perspectives on the use, function and change in a folklore genre
(2001)
Riddles are a journey into a fascinating world rich in delightful metaphors and ambiguity. This book is based on material drawn from all over the world and analyses both traditional true riddles and contemporary joking ...
Words as Events: Cretan Mandinádes in Performance and Composition
(2011)
"Words as Events introduces the tradition of short, communicative rhyming couplets, the mantinádes, as still sung and recited in a variety of performance situations on the island of Crete. Recently, these poems have also ...
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 ...
Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises
(2002)
Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore ...
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 ...
Edhina Ekogidho – Names as Links
(2003)
"What are the most popular names of the Ambo people in Namibia? Why do so many Ambos have Finnish first names? What do the African names of these people mean? Why is the namesake so important in Ambo culture? How did the ...
Dynamic Finland
(2002)
Finland celebrated its 85th year of independence in 2002. It is one of the thirteen countries of the world that have preserved their democracy uninterrupted since the First World War. Despite its modest origins and difficult ...
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 ...
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 ...
On the Border of Language and Dialect
(2018)
"This volume considers the linguistic borders between languages and dialects, as well as the administrative, cultural and mental borders that reflect or affect linguistic ones; it comprises eight articles examining the ...
Memories of My Town
(2004)
Memories of My Town is an exploration into how town dwellers experience their environment in a complicated way. As people in urban milieus relate themselves to the environment, this takes place on many levels, where ...
Sport, Recreation and Green Space in the European City
(2009)
Green space has become a major issue in European cities in recent years as a result of enhanced environmental awareness, urban marketing, planning policy and growing population densities. Up to now, however, the subject ...
Where is the Field?
(2012)
The book sheds light on the experiences of immigrants in different parts of the world and other insightful reflections on the art of carrying out fieldwork in the present day, when the task of locating the ‘field’ seems ...
The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970: History, ideology, methodology
(2008)
"Between 1935 and 1970 the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann), under-funded and at great personal cost to its staff, assembled one of the world’s largest folklore collections. This study draws on the ...
Performative Histories, Foundational Fictions: Gender and Sexuality in Niskavuori Films
(2003)
"Films are integral to national imagination. Promotional publicity markets “domestic films” not only as entertaining, exciting, or moving, but also as topical and relevant in different ways. Reviewers assess new films with ...
Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature: Urban Experiences in Finnish Prose Fiction 1890-1940
(2014)
"Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature analyses experiences of the Finnish capital in prose fiction published in Finnish in the period 1890–
1940. It examines the relationships that are formed between Helsinki ...
Fashion Meets Socialism: Fashion industry in the Soviet Union after the Second World War
(2015)
"This book presents, above all, a study of the establishment and development of the Soviet organization and system of fashion industry and design as it gradually evolved in the years after the Second World War in the Soviet ...
Her Own Worth: Negotiations of Subjectivity in the Life Narrative of a Female Labourer
(2014)
"In this study, I examine the life narrative of a female factory labourer, Elsa Koskinen (née Kiikkala, born in 1927). I analyze her account of her experiences related to work, class and gender because I seek to gain a ...
Divine Rulers in a Secular State
(2016)
The divine kingship and chiefship of the Asante people of central Ghana have been undergoing a shift towards secularization since the start of the colonial era. Timo Kallinen maintains that a ...
Spreading the Written Word
(2015)
The Protestant Reformation began in Germany in 1517, and the adoption of Lutheranism was the decisive impetus for literary development in Finland. As the Reformation required the use of the vernacular in services and ...
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 ...
Novel Districts: Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm
(2016)
"Finland-Swedish writer Monika Fagerholm is one of the most important contemporary Nordic authors. Her experimental, puzzling and daring novels, such as Underbara kvinnor vid vatten (1994) and Den amerikanska flickan (2004), ...
Kieli ja eläin
(2021)
Aseveljien tulkit
(2023)
This volume looks at the Finnish-German military alliance (1941–1944) as a translation zone – a multilingual network of military, administrative and civilian encounters that was held together by linguistically versed ...
Väyrysen ja Kääriäisen korkean profiilin aika 1981‒1991
(2023)
The Centre Party of Finland was represented in almost all cabinets for decades, and it often held the post of prime minister during the reign of President Urho Kekkonen. When Kekkonen’s deteriorating health forced him to ...
Neuvostoliitto muistoissa ja mielikuvissa
(2022)
The volume Remembered and Imagined Soviet Union addresses memories, conceptions, and images relating to the Soviet past from the perspective of cultural memory. The book explores how the Soviet Union has been recalled and ...
Sofi Oksasen romaanitaide
(2022)
Sofi Oksanen is the most visible and widely discussed Finnish author of the 21st century, yet her novels have gained less attention than her public performances. This study shifts the focus from the author’s persona to her ...
Suomalaiset sivulliset
(2022)
This study explores the narration of existential feelings, or feelings of being in the world, in post-war Finnish prose fiction. The book presents five case studies which address modern individuals’ struggles in boundary ...
Toista ajatellen
(2022)
Human lives are crucially shaped by encounters of otherness – or, rather, various othernesses. This book explores the ethical challenge of developing an appropriate and respectful relation to other human beings by analyzing ...
Genetic Criticism in Motion
(2023)
Genetic criticism investigates creative processes by analysing manuscripts and other archival sources. It sheds light on authors’ working practices and the ways works are developed on the writer’s desk or in the artist’s ...
Kansallisesta Ylirajaiseen
(2023)
Tradition and literature are not held back by borders. Transnationality is, for example, geographic, symbolic, or linguistic movement and action. Different kinds of cultural transitions and migrant traditions are connected ...
Shattering Minds
(2023)
This study offers a new perspective on unusual and unsettling experiences that are often interpreted as “mental illnesses” and on the techniques through which literary representations invite readerly responses and engagement. ...
Tie meren yli
(2024)
Terrains of Imagination in Contemporary Finnish Literature
(2024)
This study examines experienced space in Maarit Verronen’s works of prose fiction. The study aligns itself with the contemporary approach often referred to as spatial literary studies, a movement connected to the spatial ...
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 ...
Tie meren yli
(2024)
Terrains of Imagination in Contemporary Finnish Literature
(2024)
This study examines experienced space in Maarit Verronen’s works of prose fiction. The study aligns itself with the contemporary approach often referred to as spatial literary studies, a movement connected to the spatial ...
Tutkimuspolkuja yksityisarkistoihin
(2024)
This anthology showcases a methodologically diverse range of archival research across literary studies, cultural history, folklore and memory studies, and historiography. It illuminates contemporary perspectives and ...
Suomalainen lastenelokuva
(2024)
Children’s films have been an integral part of the Finnish film industry throughout the 2000s. Several films are produced annually, attracting vast audiences among both children and adults. Despite the significant role of ...
Arctic Hysteria and Other Strange Northern Emotions
(2024)
Arctic Hysteria and Other Strange Northern Emotions: Case Studies in Finnish Literature opens a new perspective on the thriving area of research on the imagined North by studying emotions in the light of case studies in ...
Nälkä ja vilu
(2024)
This book examines a range of Arctic histories as narrative forms of telling and retelling. Most of the material – texts, images and a film – builds on the Romantic concept of the Arctic sublime. The methodological framework ...
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’), ...
Suomen nykymurteet
(2025)
Aineen ja tunteen kylät
(2025)