Teija Rantala
PhD (Title of Docent)
School of History, Culture and Arts Studies teija.rantala@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3325-9751 |
Feminist studies, social studies, feminist methodology, creative and experimental qualitative research methods, poststructuralist, posthuman and new materialist philosophy, creative analysis, ethnography, participatory research
My current research focuses on developing ethnographic and participatory feminist methods to study human-nature relations and gendered conservation care labour.
Until the end of 2023 I was working on a postdoctoral project titled 'Embodied reproductive politics, arts-based methods and former Conservative Laestadian women' (2021-2023) at the Turku Institute of Advanced Studies (TIAS). I was also a Visiting Scholar at the ReproSoc research group, University of Cambridge, UK, during Winter-Spring (Lent Term) 2022.
I have published widely on feminist research methodology, e.g. my book 'Exploring data production in motion: Fluidity and Feminist Poststructuralism' was published by Myers Education Press in 2019.
I co-write and publish within several international and interdisciplinary feminist research communities.
As a feminist scholar, I am passionate about research ethics, open-ended and collaborative ways of inquiry and questions concerning ecological crises and sustainable care ethics.
- Mermaid Becomings: Transition and Self-Care in a Former Religious Woman’s Embodied Relation to Nature (2026)
- Matter
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - ‘Caring about’ the world: Feminist ethics of care, reproductive freedom and ecological awareness within and beyond religious procreation. (2025) Recommitting to Reproductive Justice: Care Ethical Perspectives Rantala, Teija
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Tangible t/hereness and affective middles in memory work (2025) New Materialism and Intersectionality Making Middles Matter Rantala, Teija
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Gendered and Embodied Un/learning among Women Disengaging from Faith in the UK and Finland (2024)
- Approaching Religion
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Concepts as light seductions (2022)
- Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Following the Views of Young Former Conservative Laestadian Women on Reproductive Freedom, Procreational Ethos, and Pronatalist Politics (2022)
- NORA Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Special issue title: Mattering seductions in undisciplined qualitative inquiry (2022)
- Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Playful Cuts and Cartographic Mapping: Gender-in-the-Making (2021) Knowledge Production in Material Spaces. Disturbing Conferences and Composing Events Fairchild Nikki, Rantala Teija
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Sketching Schizoid Narratives (2021) Knowledge Production in Material Spaces. Disturbing Conferences and Composing Events Benozzo Angelo, Koro Mirka, Rantala Teija
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Conferencing Otherwise: A Feminist New Materialist Writing Experiment (2020)
- Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



