Teija Rantala
PhD (Title of Docent)
School of History, Culture and Arts Studies teija.rantala@utu.fi ORCID-tunniste: 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.
- Tangible t/hereness and affective middles in memory work (2025) New Materialism and Intersectionality Making Middles Matter Rantala, Teija
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa) - Gendered and Embodied Un/learning among Women Disengaging from Faith in the UK and Finland (2024)
- Approaching Religion
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Concepts as light seductions (2022)
- Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - 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 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Special issue title: Mattering seductions in undisciplined qualitative inquiry (2022)
- Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
(C2 Toimitustyö tieteelliselle kokoomateokselle) - 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 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa) - Sketching Schizoid Narratives (2021) Knowledge Production in Material Spaces. Disturbing Conferences and Composing Events Benozzo Angelo, Koro Mirka, Rantala Teija
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa) - Conferencing Otherwise: A Feminist New Materialist Writing Experiment (2020)
- Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Creating response-able futures? Discussing the Conservative Laestadian desire to mother within reproductive justice (2020)
- Genealogy
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Mucous Bodies, Messy Affects, and Leaky-Writing in Academia. (2020)
- Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Reading Storylines of Religious Motherhood with Ethics of Joy (2020)
- Genealogy
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Exploring Data Production in Motion: Fluidity and Feminist Poststructuralism (2019) Teija Rantala
(C1 Vertaisarvioitu tieteellinen erillisteos) - Artist Statement: Maternal Attunements (2018)
- Studies in the Maternal
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Beyond sisters and mothers –women’s aspirations within the Conservative Laestadian movement (2018) Rantala Teija
(G4 Monografiaväitöskirja) - A Glimpse of Becoming (2017)
- Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Darkness Matters (2017)
- Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Maternal Mo(ve)ments in Memorywork. Post-Qualitative Mo(ve)ments I: Curations. (2017)
- Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - 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 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa) - Expanding uses of building information modeling in life-cycle construction projects (2012)
- Work: a journal of prevention assessment and rehabilitation
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )