Saara Ratilainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 640515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saara Ratilainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saara |
| FAMILY NAME | Ratilainen |
| SIGNATURE | RATILAINEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘She Is Not A(lone) Warrior on the Battlefield’
This article analyses a wartime feminist publication, Zhenskaia Pravda (Women's Truth), founded by the Feminist Anti-War Resistance shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. We examine the publication as an activist do-it-yourself newspaper and a contemporary version of Soviet samizdat . We explore how, in its 41 issues, it speaks to the intended Russian female readers and, we suggest, invites them to take part in anti-war ac…
Digital media and cultural institutions in Russia
Focusing on online magazines, this article sheds light on Russian cultural institutions from the perspective of digital media. My analysis concentrates on urban lifestyle magazines, a sub-category of consumer magazines and a media genre, which emerged in Russia in the glossy magazine format and is now experiencing a powerful ‘second rising’ on the internet. My article asks how the adaptation to the digital communication environment by lifestyle p…
At the intersection of globalization and ‘civilizational originality’
This special issue originates from a transnational collaboration of scholars in philology, comparative literature, social theory, sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and media studies. The collection strives to advance a research agenda built on the nexus of three intellectual and academic domains: post-Soviet ‘Russian cultural studies’, the research paradigm put forward by Cultural Studies, as well as empirical methods developed in sociology. …
Eastern Tourist”
This article, based on discourse analysis of the daily Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, explores images of Russian tourists as consumers, which are often called in the newspaper “eastern tourists”. The purpose of the research is to study how the images of Russian tourists have been evolved over the years 1990-2013. The article demonstrates that the idea of “eastern tourists” has grown into a significant cultural phenomenon in Finland that is …
Old Title, New Traditions
This article examines Krest'ianka magazine, a former Soviet women's publication, which has been transformed into a post-Soviet glossy magazine. The analysis explores how the Soviet past is used in the magazine as a discursive tool for articulating ideals for post-Soviet femininity. Furthermore, the article discusses how the magazine negotiates the neo-traditional gender ideology of twenty-first century Russia with the legacies of the Soviet perio…
Old Title, New Traditions
This article examines Krest'ianka magazine, a former Soviet women's publication, which has been transformed into a post-Soviet glossy magazine. The analysis explores how the Soviet past is used in the magazine as a discursive tool for articulating ideals for post-Soviet femininity. Furthermore, the article discusses how the magazine negotiates the neo-traditional gender ideology of twenty-first century Russia with the legacies of the Soviet perio…
Old Title, New Traditions
This article examines Krest'ianka magazine, a former Soviet women's publication, which has been transformed into a post-Soviet glossy magazine. The analysis explores how the Soviet past is used in the magazine as a discursive tool for articulating ideals for post-Soviet femininity. Furthermore, the article discusses how the magazine negotiates the neo-traditional gender ideology of twenty-first century Russia with the legacies of the Soviet perio…
Eastern Tourist”
This article, based on discourse analysis of the daily Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, explores images of Russian tourists as consumers, which are often called in the newspaper “eastern tourists”. The purpose of the research is to study how the images of Russian tourists have been evolved over the years 1990-2013. The article demonstrates that the idea of “eastern tourists” has grown into a significant cultural phenomenon in Finland that is …
Digital media and cultural institutions in Russia
Focusing on online magazines, this article sheds light on Russian cultural institutions from the perspective of digital media. My analysis concentrates on urban lifestyle magazines, a sub-category of consumer magazines and a media genre, which emerged in Russia in the glossy magazine format and is now experiencing a powerful ‘second rising’ on the internet. My article asks how the adaptation to the digital communication environment by lifestyle p…
At the intersection of globalization and ‘civilizational originality’
This special issue originates from a transnational collaboration of scholars in philology, comparative literature, social theory, sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and media studies. The collection strives to advance a research agenda built on the nexus of three intellectual and academic domains: post-Soviet ‘Russian cultural studies’, the research paradigm put forward by Cultural Studies, as well as empirical methods developed in sociology. …
‘She Is Not A(lone) Warrior on the Battlefield’
This article analyses a wartime feminist publication, Zhenskaia Pravda (Women's Truth), founded by the Feminist Anti-War Resistance shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. We examine the publication as an activist do-it-yourself newspaper and a contemporary version of Soviet samizdat . We explore how, in its 41 issues, it speaks to the intended Russian female readers and, we suggest, invites them to take part in anti-war ac…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)