PhD, title of Docent Raita Merivirta - UTU Research Portal

Raita Merivirta
PhD, title of Docent

- Docent,
School of History, Culture and Arts Studies (Faculty of Humanities)
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History and Archaelogy (School of History, Culture and Arts Studies)

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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Salman Rushdien Keskiyön lapset ja sen kirjalliset perilliset länsimaisen historiankirjoituksen haastajina ja Intian historian uudelleenkirjoittajina (2013)
- Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain
Merivirta Raita
The Gun and Irish Politics. Examining National History in Neil Jordan's Michael Collins Collection (2009)
- Reimagining Ireland
Merivirta R