Raita Merivirta
PhD, title of Docent
European and World History raimer@utu.fi Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku |
Colonialism, postcolonial literature, Indian English literature, modern Indian history, historical film, Irish cinema, twentieth-century Irish history, Finns and colonialism, Nordic colonialism
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.
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- Liittyikö suomalaisten lähetystyöhön Owambossa koloniaalisia piirteitä? (2024)
- Vähäisiä lisiä: Kirjoituksia kulttuurista, tutkimuksesta ja kulttuuriperinnöstä
- The Story of the Most Popular Fruit in the World: Banana (2024) Merivirta, Raita
- Uutta tutkimustietoa Suomi-Namibia-suhteen koloniaalisista piirteistä (2024)
- Namibia : Suomi-Namibia-seuran tiedote.
- A Fine Balance (2023) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English Merivirta Raita
- Mukul Kesavan (2023) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English Merivirta Raita
- Nayantara Sahgal (2023) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English Merivirta Raita
- Nordic Settler Identities in Colonial Kenya: Class, Nationality and Race in Bror and Karen Blixen's Transimperial Lives (2023)
- Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
- Remembering otherwise: media memory, gender and Margaret Thatcher in Irish hunger strike films (2023)
- Irish Studies Review
- Rohinton Mistry (2023) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English Merivirta Raita
- Kirja-arvio: Janne Lahti ja Rebecca Weaver-Hightower: Cinematic Settlers – The Settler Colonial World in Film. 2020. ISBN 978-0-36-750383-3 (2022)
- Historiallinen Aikakauskirja
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