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This multidisciplinary volume reflects the shifting experiences and framings of Finnishness and its relation to race and coloniality. The authors centre their investigations on whiteness and unravel the cultural myth of a normative Finnish (white) ethnicity. Rather than presenting a unified definition for whiteness, the book gives space to the different understandings and analyses of its authors. This collection of case-studies illuminates how Indigenous and ethnic minorities have participated in defining notions of Finnishness, how historical and recent processes of migration have challenged the traditional conceptualisations of the nation-state and its population, and how imperial relationships have contributed to a complex set of discourses on Finnish compliance and identity.
Book DetailsLocating the Mediterranean brings together ethnographic examinations of processes that make locations and render them meaningful. The volume’s contributions illustrate how historical, legal, religious, economic, political, and social connections and separations shape the experience of being located in the geographical space around the Mediterranean. Theoretically novel and empirically rich, the volume stimulates anthropological debates on the interplay between location and region-making.
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Nuancing Young Masculinities tells a complex story about the plurality of young masculinities. It draws on the narratives of young Finnish boys of different social classes and ethnicities. Boys’ accounts of relations with peers, parents, and teachers give insights into their world.
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This book draws a unique and detailed picture of developments in human interpersonal violence and presents new findings on rates, patterns and long-term changes of lethal violence in the Nordic. Conducted by an interdisciplinary team of criminologists and historians, the book analyses homicide and lethal violence in northern Europe in two eras – the 17th century and early 21st century. The book is also a methodological experiment that seeks to assess the feasibility of long-duration standardized homicide analysis and to better understand the logic of long-duration homicide variation across space and over time.
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Arendt, Eichmann and the Politics of the Past is one of the first political readings of Hannah Arendt’s report of the trial of Adolf Eichmann and the controversies caused by it. Originally published in 2008, the book offers a critical account of the reception of Arendt’s book. Tuija Parvikko argues that most readers were unable to grasp that Arendt’s book was not only a trial report, but also an austere and sharp political judgement of the European political elite’s incapacity to understand the unprecedented political evil of the Nazi crimes. Parvikko has written a new prologue to this edition, where she engages with recent interpretations of the political value of Arendt’s pamphlet.
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For generations of Indigenous peoples, national parks and other preserved spaces of nature have meant dispossession, treaty violations of hunting and fishing rights, and the loss of sacred places. Drawing on case studies from Scandinavia to Latin America and from North America to New Zealand, Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature challenges the old paradigm where Indigenous peoples are not included in the conservation and protection of natural areas and instead calls for the incorporation of Indigenous voices into this debate.
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The devilish has long been integral to myths, legends, and folklore, firmly located in the relationships between good and evil, and selves and others. But how are ideas of evil constructed in current times and framed by contemporary social discourses? Modern Folk Devils builds on and works with Stanley Cohen’s theory on folk devils and moral panics to discuss the constructions of evil. The authors present an array of case-studies that illustrate how the notion of folk devils nowadays comes into play and animates ideas of otherness and evil throughout the world.
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Situating Sustainability reframes our understanding of sustainability through related concepts, practices, and case studies. The differing geographic scope of this volume is joined by the disciplinary diversity of the contributors, bringing together researchers from cultural studies, anthropology, literature, law, behavioral science, urban studies, design, and development. The work of researchers and artists enables readers to better understand what sustainability means in their own locations, and how work in one place might support the efforts of others in other places.
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Culture and History in the Pacific is a collection of essays by eminent anthropologists originally published in 1990. The authors represent several academic traditions and different areal discussions during the Cold War era. The texts explore from different perspectives the question of culture as a repository of historical information. They also address broader questions of anthropological writing at the time. This republication aims to make the book accessible to a wider audience, and in the region it discusses, Oceania. A new introductory essay has been included to contextualize the volume in relation to its historical setting and to the present study of the Pacific and indigenous scholarship.
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The Kobane Generation examines the mobilisation of Kurdish diaspora communities in France in the context of the Syrian civil war and political unrest in Turkey and Iraq in the 2010s. It pays particular attention to how the second generation – the descendants of Kurdish migrants – mobilised in an unprecedented manner in the recent history of Kurdish mobilisations in Europe. The book offers important insights on the generational dynamics of diasporic mobilisations and more broadly of second-generation political activism beyond the diaspora context.
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