Colonialism and Finland – Suomi ja kolonialismi. Edited by Rinna Kullaa and Janne Lahti.

27th November 2020

In Finnish language, Historical Journal Collected Issue 4/2020

Historiallinen aikakauskirja 4/ 2020

Inside the issue you will find:

Leila Koivunen ja Anna Rastas: A New Turn in Finnish History? The Integration of Discussions on Colonialism into Finnish Research. Keywords: historical research, colonialism, postcolonial theory, decolonization, marginalization, inclusion.

Sami Lakomäki, Sirpa Aalto ja Ritva Kylli: Unseen and Unheard? Sámis and Colonial Archives. Keywords: Sámis, colonialism, colonial archives, Finland.

Raita Merivirta: On Shikar in British India and Nepal: C. G. E. Mannerheim’s Tiger-Hunting Trips and Colonialism. Keywords: C. G. E. Mannerheim, tiger, hunting, British India, Nepal, colonialism.

Johanna Turunen ja Mari Viita-aho: Changing Interpretations of the Gallen-Kallela Museum’s Africa Collection. Keywords: exhibition history, artefact review, exoticism, colonialism, the Gallen-Kallela Museum, Africa.

Elina Arminen: Adventure on the Arctic Ocean: Kaarlo Hänninen’s Jäämeren sankari and Finnish Colonialism. Keywords: colonial complicity, exceptionalism, border, Kaarlo Hänninen, Pechenga, Arctic Ocean.

Laura Hollsten ja Salla Tuori: Free and Open to All, Especially Europeans: Finnish Utopian Community in the Dominican Republic, 1929-1944. Keywords: settler colonialism, migration, utopian communities, vegetarianism.

Liisa-Maija Korhonen “Flaming American Fever”: Emotions and Coloniality in Anna and Edvard Skogman’s Letters from Argentina 1906–1907. Keywords: coloniality, settler colonialism, emotions, contact zone, Colonia Finlandesa, Argentina.

Timo Särkkä: Colonial Otherness and the Camera: C. T. Eriksson’s Photographs and the Finnish Pioneers of the Katanga Copperbelt, 1901–1906. Keywords: C.T. Eriksson (1874–1940); photography; colonialism; mining; Copperbelt.