This is a blog by Johanna Skurnik, a historian fascinated with human ways of knowing the globe and the worlds that these knowledges have enabled building in the past. I am currently working as an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Turku. I write here about my explorations with the histories of different types of knowledges, currently with a heavy focus on geographical knowledge via my own and past peoples’ encounters with maps, globes and geographical texts. The purpose of the blog is to function as a platform for thinking about the histories of knowledge and science as approaches to studying the past. I also write about the findings of my different research projects. Posts both in Finnish and in English.
New publication: History of knowledge in Finnish
Together with my colleagues, we have for several years worked on this anthology on the history of knowledge and it is now finished and published. Tiedonhistoria (Vastapaino 2023) introduces the field of the history of knowledge to the Finnish audiences. The volume contemplates what it means to study knowledge historically, how the history of knowledge…
Arkistojen äärellä
Sain taannoin mahdollisuuden kirjoittaa arkistojen käyttämisestä ja järjestetyn arkiston tärkeydestä tutkijalle arkistoalan asiantuntijan, MetaManagerin, Asiakirjatyypit-blogiin. Kirjoitukseni “Järjestetty arkisto on tutkijan onni” on luettavissa täällä.
New publication on Finnish geohistorical imaginations
Hot off the press is my contribution to an edited collection entitled Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America: Rethinking Finnish Experiences in Transnational Spaces (Helsinki University Press 2022), edited by Rani-Henrik Andersson and Janne Lahti. The book and its contributions seek to reexamine Finns in North America by situating them in the context of global…
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