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.
- Expanding uses of building information modeling in life-cycle construction projects (2012)
- Work: a journal of prevention assessment and rehabilitation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



