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.
- Creating response-able futures? Discussing the Conservative Laestadian desire to mother within reproductive justice (2020)
- Genealogy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mucous Bodies, Messy Affects, and Leaky-Writing in Academia. (2020)
- Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Reading Storylines of Religious Motherhood with Ethics of Joy (2020)
- Genealogy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Exploring Data Production in Motion: Fluidity and Feminist Poststructuralism (2019) Teija Rantala
(C1 Refereed scientific book) - Artist Statement: Maternal Attunements (2018)
- Studies in the Maternal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Beyond sisters and mothers –women’s aspirations within the Conservative Laestadian movement (2018) Rantala Teija
(G4 Monograph dissertation) - A Glimpse of Becoming (2017)
- Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Darkness Matters (2017)
- Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Maternal Mo(ve)ments in Memorywork. Post-Qualitative Mo(ve)ments I: Curations. (2017)
- Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Examining researcher’s position through its interaction with methodological and ethical particularities of religion and gender (2013) Interaction in Educational Domains Rantala Teija, Kuusisto Arniika
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)



