Teija Rantala
PhD (Title of Docent)
School of History, Culture and Arts Studies teija.rantala@utu.fi |
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.
- ‘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
- Tangible t/hereness and affective middles in memory work (2025) New Materialism and Intersectionality Making Middles Matter Rantala, Teija
- Gendered and Embodied Un/learning among Women Disengaging from Faith in the UK and Finland (2024)
- Approaching ReligionReconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
- Concepts as light seductions (2022)
- Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
- 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
- Special issue title: Mattering seductions in undisciplined qualitative inquiry (2022)
- Playful Cuts and Cartographic Mapping: Gender-in-the-Making (2021) Knowledge Production in Material Spaces. Disturbing Conferences and Composing Events Fairchild Nikki, Rantala Teija
- Sketching Schizoid Narratives (2021) Knowledge Production in Material Spaces. Disturbing Conferences and Composing Events Benozzo Angelo, Koro Mirka, Rantala Teija
- Conferencing Otherwise: A Feminist New Materialist Writing Experiment (2020)
- Cultural Studies - Critical MethodologiesStudies in the Maternal
- Creating response-able futures? Discussing the Conservative Laestadian desire to mother within reproductive justice (2020)
- Genealogy
- Mucous Bodies, Messy Affects, and Leaky-Writing in Academia.A Glimpse of Becoming (2020)
- Taboo: The Journal of Culture and EducationReconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
- Reading Storylines of Religious Motherhood with Ethics of Joy (2020)
- Genealogy
- Exploring Data Production in Motion: Fluidity and Feminist PoststructuralismMaternal Mo(ve)ments in Memorywork. Post-Qualitative Mo(ve)ments I: Curations. (2019) Teija Rantala
- Artist Statement: Maternal Attunements (2018)
- Beyond sisters and mothers –women’s aspirations within the Conservative Laestadian movement (2018) Rantala Teija
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- Darkness Matters (2017)
- Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
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- Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
- Examining researcher’s position through its interaction with methodological and ethical particularities of religion and gender2013Interaction in Educational Domains Rantala Teija, Kuusisto Arniika
- Expanding uses of building information modeling in life-cycle construction projects (2012)
- Work: a journal of prevention assessment and rehabilitation