PROGRESS OR PERISH
Progress or Perish
Northern Perspectives on Social Change
Edited by
AINI LINJAKUMPU
and
SANDRA WALLENIUS-KORKALO
University of Lapland, Finland
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Progress or perish : northern perspectives on social
change.
1. Progress. 2. Social change--Europe, Northern
3. Europe, Northern--Social conditions. 4. Social action--
Europe, Northern.
I. Linjakumpu, Aini. II. Wallenius-Korkalo, Sandra.
303.4'4'0948-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Progress or perish : Northern perspectives on social change / edited by Aini Linjakumpu and Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0424-8 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-0425-5 1. Social change--Europe, Northern--Case studies. 2. Europe, Northern--Economic conditions--Case studies. 3. Europe, Northern--Ethnic relations--Case studies. I. Linjakumpu, Aini. II. Wallenius-Korkalo, Sandra.
HM831.P786 2010
303.40948'09045--dc22
2010014660
ISBN 9781409404248 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315602356 (ebk)
Contents
Aini Linjakumpu and Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo
Marja Tuominen
Plvi Rantala
Aini Linjakumpu
Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo
Petri Koikkalainen
Lars Elenius
Mirja Hiltunen
Riitta Kontio
Mervi Autti
Aini Linjakumpu and Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Mervi Autti works at the Unit for Gender Studies at the University of Lapland, in Rovaniemi, Finland. For her doctoral thesis on art, she has developed a special method of historiography that utilizes expressions of art historical documentaries and photographic exhibitions. Her thesis is a micro-historical study of female photographers in Finnish Lapland. Mervi Autti has published several articles on the topic. Her interdisciplinary approach has its background in her previous profession as a photographer.
Lars Elenius is Associate Professor and University Lecturer of History at Lule University of Technology in Sweden. His field of research is minority policy, ethno-political mobilization and the creation of transnational identities in the context of globalization. He is coordinating the writing of a historical study and an encyclopaedia on the Barents region, and directing a research project on indigenous rights and nature conservation in the Nordic countries. His most recent book in English, with co-editor Christer Karlsson, is Cross-Cultural Communication and Ethnic Identities (Lule: Lule University of Technology, 2007).
Mirja Hiltunen is University Lecturer in Art Education in the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. She has devised a performative art strategy as part of her work in art teacher education and has been leading community-based art workshops and projects in Lapland for over 10 years. She has recently completed her PhD on community-based art education in a northern socio-cultural context. Her study combines practical cultural activities, development of these activities through art education projects, and theoretical examination of the subject area. The place-specificity, performativity and social dimensions of art are of particular interest to her, and she has published numerous papers in this field.
Petri Koikkalainen, PhD, is University Lecturer of Political Science in the Department of Social Studies at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. His broad research interests are political theory and the history of political thought. Recently, he has focused on the development of modernist social sciences after the Second World War and the implications of these forms of knowledge in public policy and governance. His publications include articles and book chapters on topics that range from the Anglo-American debate about the end of ideology during the 1950s to the modernization of Finland, especially its northern areas.
Riitta Kontio is Lecturer of Finnish in the Language Centre of the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. Her research interests are related to northern culture and literature, especially the works of the writers of northern Finland and Finnish-speaking minorities in the North Calotte. Riitta Kontio has presented a number of papers that examine multiple identities in the northern context.
Aini Linjakumpu is University Lecturer of Politics in the Department of Social Studies at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland and Adjunct Professor at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her theoretical research interests are related to communities, new political actions, network politics, and the politics of emotions. In addition, Linjakumpu has led two northern-related research projects Voluntas Polaris and TaikaLappi combining historical and contemporary approaches as well as art and science approaches. She has written three monographs, edited five books, and published more than 30 articles and book chapters nationally and internationally. Among the topics of her publications are northern politics, political Islam, and other aspects of religion and politics.
Plvi Rantala is a post-doctoral researcher and Lecturer at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. Her broad research interests are the cultural history of northern Finland and gender history. Her methodological interests are in micro-history, emotions as a methodological tool, and the ethical issues in historical research. She has been active in teaching and researching in the fields of cultural history, historical sociology and qualitative methods since the early 2000s.
Marja Tuominen is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. Her research interests vary from Byzantine history to post-war generation dynamics and the cultural history of northern societies. As researcher and teacher at the University of Lapland, she has focused on northern issues and promoted the study and research of northern cultural history. She has directed numerous research projects in the field of northern identities and mentalities and northern micro-history. She is the author and editor of several books and articles on the cultural history of northern Finland.
