Raita Merivirta
PhD, title of Docent
European and World History raimer@utu.fi Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku |
Areas of expertise
Colonialism, postcolonial literature, Indian English literature, modern Indian history, historical film, Irish cinema, twentieth-century Irish history, Finns and colonialism, Nordic colonialism
Colonialism, postcolonial literature, Indian English literature, modern Indian history, historical film, Irish cinema, twentieth-century Irish history, Finns and colonialism, Nordic colonialism
Biography
Research
I work as researcher in the Department of European and World History. I am employed in the project "Decolonizing History-Writing: Transcultural Production, Mobilization and Transformation of Knowledge in Finnish-Namibian relations, 1870-1990". My research focuses especially on children's experiences as well as on materials produced for children.
Publications 
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- Finnish Colonial Encounters. From Anti-Imperialism to Cultural Colonialism and Complicity (2021) Merivirta Raita, Koivunen Leila, Särkkä Timo
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Finns in the Colonial World (2021) Finnish Colonial Encounters. From Anti-Imperialism to Cultural Colonialism and Complicity Merivirta Raita, Koivunen Leila, Särkkä Timo
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Colonialism, Finnish Exceptionalism and the Sámi in Early 1960s’ Youth Novels (2020)
- Clio: a journal of literature, history, and the philosophy of history
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Shikarilla brittiläisessa Intiassa ja Nepalissa: C.G.E. Mannerheimin tiikerinmetsästysmatkat ja kolonialismi (2020)
- Historiallinen Aikakauskirja
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Valkoisen linssin läpi. Imperialismi, rodullistaminen ja media elokuvassa Gandhi. (2020)
- Lähikuva
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Säilöttyjä muistoja "unohtajien kansakunnalle": Intian historian muistaminen ja unohtaminen romaaneissa Keskiyön lapset ja The Way Things Were (2019)
- Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Stories from South West Africa for Young Finnish Readers (2019) Intertwined histories : 150 years of Finnish-Namibian relations Merivirta Raita
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - The Emergency and the Indian English Novel: Memory, Culture and Politics (2019) Raita Merivirta
(C1 Refereed scientific book) - Book review of 'Hybrid Heritage on Screen: the "Raj Revival" in the Thatcher Era, Elena Oliete-Aldea (2015)' (2017)
- Journal of European Popular Culture
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Historical Film and Hindu-Muslim Relations in Post-Hindutva India: The Case of Jodhaa Akbar (2016)
- Quarterly Review of Film and Video
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Topographies of Poverty: Imagining Calcutta in City of Joy (2016) Topographies of Popular Culture Raita Merivirta
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - The Suffering Male Body in Steve McQueen’s Hunger (2015) Ireland and Cinema: Culture and Contexts Merivirta Raita
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - A Collective Fiction – The (De)construction of Nehruvian India in Midnight's Children (2014) Critical Insights Midnight's Children Merivirta Raita
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Pakkosterilointeja ja slummien hävityksiä – Köyhä väestö ja kansalaisoikeuksien rajat poikkeustilan (1975-1977) Delhissä (2014)
- Historiallinen Aikakauskirja
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Frontiers of Screen History – Imagining European Borders in Cinema, 1945-2010 (2013)
- Studies on Popular Culture
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Gendered Conflicts in Northern Ireland – Motherhood, the Male Body and Borders in Some Mother’s Son and Hunger (2013) Frontiers of Screen History: Imagining European Borders in Cinema, 1945-2010 Merivirta Raita
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Introduction: Encounters with Borders (2013) Frontiers of Screen History: Imagining European Borders in Cinema, 1945-2010 Ahonen Kimmo, Merivirta Raita, Mulari Heta, Mähkä Rami
(Other publication) - Salman Rushdien Keskiyön lapset ja sen kirjalliset perilliset länsimaisen historiankirjoituksen haastajina ja Intian historian uudelleenkirjoittajina (2013)
- Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Gun and Irish Politics. Examining National History in Neil Jordan's Michael Collins Collection (2009)
- Reimagining Ireland
(C1 Refereed scientific book)
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