Risto Nurmi
Biographic Data
| ID | 72148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Risto Nurmi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Risto |
| FAMILY NAME | Nurmi |
| SIGNATURE | NURMI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8436-8416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Weird quantities
Modern mining operates on enormous scales and quantities that go beyond everyday comprehension, which in turn has existential and metaphysical implications, and this article is an experiment in characterising ‘existentially disturbing’ aspects of extraction landscapes. We attempt to characterise and make sense of the Hannukainen mining landscape with regard to its deeply contradictory and dissonant - effectively monstrous - nature as an experienc…
Jonas M. Nordin
Jonas M. Nordin: The Scandinavian Early Modern World, a Global Historical Archaeology. Routledge, London and New York 2020. ISBN 978-0-367-34807-6
Consumption, Archaeology of
Swedenization of the North – the early medieval Swedish northern expansion and the emergence of the Birkarls
The State of Sweden expanded its domains successfully towards the north during the medieval period – particularly during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This expansion north from Norrland over the Bothnian coast and further into Lapland has traditionally been discussed within the classical colonial framework. In this paper, however, we argue that the Swedish northern expansion was actually more a result of successful negotiations between…
Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden
The First Century of the Town of Tornio
The town of Tornio, on the border of present-day Finland and Sweden, was founded in 1621, on the order of the King of Sweden, to replace the old medieval marketplace on the estuary of the Tornio river. It was the northernmost urban site in Europe at the time. The founding and early development of the town was part of the broader trade-political process in the emerging Kingdom of Sweden during the early modern age. The original town was a small, w…
Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden
Indigeneity, Locality, Modernity
Unhierarchical and Hierarchical Core-Periphery Relations
This article studies the medieval northern Fennoscandian trade network utilizing a macro-scale perspective-namely, the world-systems analysis-while still maintaining a decidedly local approach to the analysis. It is argued that local factors, formed of a synergy between social and natural components, created a situation where the trade network of northern Fennoscandia remained an unhierarchical peer network despite a seeming power asymmetry betwe…
Co-existence and Colonisation
This article re-interprets the historical colonisation of the Bothnian Bay coastlands between approximately the 13th and 15th centuries AD. It is argued that this colonisation was a complex process because the archaeological evidence in the coastal area demonstrates a strong continuity of local customs far into the historical period, indicating a strong influence of local societies. With local cemeteries and other archaeological sites showing a s…
Time, Seasonality, and Trade
Becoming Modern
Borderlands as spaces
Cultural anthropologists and historians have successfully adopted a borderlands perspective to investigate interaction, power, and identity between emerging or expanding state societies. This article develops an archaeological approach to such interstitial landscapes. It conceptualizes borderlands as spaces where people engage the material world under very specific geopolitical circumstances and create very specific materialities and subjectiviti…
Street mirrors, surveillance, and urban communities in early modern Finland
This article discusses street mirrors or 'gossip mirrors', in terms of urban social relations and surveillance. Street mirrors were introduced to coastal towns in Sweden and Finland in the 18th and early 19th centuries and may still be found in well-preserved towns with historic wooden centres. The authors argue that the introduction of monitoring and spying devices, such as street mirrors, occurred in the 18th century due to increased urban popu…
British Ceramics on the Northern European Periphery
Engaging with money in a northern periphery of early modern Europe
While contextual and interpretive approaches to money have recently emerged in archaeology, coins have attracted little serious attention in the post-medieval archaeology of the western world. The relative neglect of coins as archaeological finds probably derives from an (implicit) assumption that the function and meaning of coins is readily apparent. A close study of coin finds, however, combined with various sources of contextual data, can prov…
Beyond Consumption
Beyond Consumption
Unhierarchical and Hierarchical Core-Periphery Relations
This article studies the medieval northern Fennoscandian trade network utilizing a macro-scale perspective-namely, the world-systems analysis-while still maintaining a decidedly local approach to the analysis. It is argued that local factors, formed of a synergy between social and natural components, created a situation where the trade network of northern Fennoscandia remained an unhierarchical peer network despite a seeming power asymmetry betwe…
Borderlands as spaces
Cultural anthropologists and historians have successfully adopted a borderlands perspective to investigate interaction, power, and identity between emerging or expanding state societies. This article develops an archaeological approach to such interstitial landscapes. It conceptualizes borderlands as spaces where people engage the material world under very specific geopolitical circumstances and create very specific materialities and subjectiviti…
British Ceramics on the Northern European Periphery
Co-existence and Colonisation
This article re-interprets the historical colonisation of the Bothnian Bay coastlands between approximately the 13th and 15th centuries AD. It is argued that this colonisation was a complex process because the archaeological evidence in the coastal area demonstrates a strong continuity of local customs far into the historical period, indicating a strong influence of local societies. With local cemeteries and other archaeological sites showing a s…
Time, Seasonality, and Trade
Street mirrors, surveillance, and urban communities in early modern Finland
This article discusses street mirrors or 'gossip mirrors', in terms of urban social relations and surveillance. Street mirrors were introduced to coastal towns in Sweden and Finland in the 18th and early 19th centuries and may still be found in well-preserved towns with historic wooden centres. The authors argue that the introduction of monitoring and spying devices, such as street mirrors, occurred in the 18th century due to increased urban popu…
Weird quantities
Modern mining operates on enormous scales and quantities that go beyond everyday comprehension, which in turn has existential and metaphysical implications, and this article is an experiment in characterising ‘existentially disturbing’ aspects of extraction landscapes. We attempt to characterise and make sense of the Hannukainen mining landscape with regard to its deeply contradictory and dissonant - effectively monstrous - nature as an experienc…
Swedenization of the North – the early medieval Swedish northern expansion and the emergence of the Birkarls
The State of Sweden expanded its domains successfully towards the north during the medieval period – particularly during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This expansion north from Norrland over the Bothnian coast and further into Lapland has traditionally been discussed within the classical colonial framework. In this paper, however, we argue that the Swedish northern expansion was actually more a result of successful negotiations between…
Becoming Modern
Engaging with money in a northern periphery of early modern Europe
While contextual and interpretive approaches to money have recently emerged in archaeology, coins have attracted little serious attention in the post-medieval archaeology of the western world. The relative neglect of coins as archaeological finds probably derives from an (implicit) assumption that the function and meaning of coins is readily apparent. A close study of coin finds, however, combined with various sources of contextual data, can prov…
Beyond Consumption
Engaging with money in a northern periphery of early modern Europe
While contextual and interpretive approaches to money have recently emerged in archaeology, coins have attracted little serious attention in the post-medieval archaeology of the western world. The relative neglect of coins as archaeological finds probably derives from an (implicit) assumption that the function and meaning of coins is readily apparent. A close study of coin finds, however, combined with various sources of contextual data, can prov…
British Ceramics on the Northern European Periphery
Becoming Modern
Borderlands as spaces
Cultural anthropologists and historians have successfully adopted a borderlands perspective to investigate interaction, power, and identity between emerging or expanding state societies. This article develops an archaeological approach to such interstitial landscapes. It conceptualizes borderlands as spaces where people engage the material world under very specific geopolitical circumstances and create very specific materialities and subjectiviti…
Street mirrors, surveillance, and urban communities in early modern Finland
This article discusses street mirrors or 'gossip mirrors', in terms of urban social relations and surveillance. Street mirrors were introduced to coastal towns in Sweden and Finland in the 18th and early 19th centuries and may still be found in well-preserved towns with historic wooden centres. The authors argue that the introduction of monitoring and spying devices, such as street mirrors, occurred in the 18th century due to increased urban popu…
Time, Seasonality, and Trade
Co-existence and Colonisation
This article re-interprets the historical colonisation of the Bothnian Bay coastlands between approximately the 13th and 15th centuries AD. It is argued that this colonisation was a complex process because the archaeological evidence in the coastal area demonstrates a strong continuity of local customs far into the historical period, indicating a strong influence of local societies. With local cemeteries and other archaeological sites showing a s…
Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden
The First Century of the Town of Tornio
The town of Tornio, on the border of present-day Finland and Sweden, was founded in 1621, on the order of the King of Sweden, to replace the old medieval marketplace on the estuary of the Tornio river. It was the northernmost urban site in Europe at the time. The founding and early development of the town was part of the broader trade-political process in the emerging Kingdom of Sweden during the early modern age. The original town was a small, w…
Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden
Indigeneity, Locality, Modernity
Unhierarchical and Hierarchical Core-Periphery Relations
This article studies the medieval northern Fennoscandian trade network utilizing a macro-scale perspective-namely, the world-systems analysis-while still maintaining a decidedly local approach to the analysis. It is argued that local factors, formed of a synergy between social and natural components, created a situation where the trade network of northern Fennoscandia remained an unhierarchical peer network despite a seeming power asymmetry betwe…
Consumption, Archaeology of
Swedenization of the North – the early medieval Swedish northern expansion and the emergence of the Birkarls
The State of Sweden expanded its domains successfully towards the north during the medieval period – particularly during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This expansion north from Norrland over the Bothnian coast and further into Lapland has traditionally been discussed within the classical colonial framework. In this paper, however, we argue that the Swedish northern expansion was actually more a result of successful negotiations between…
Jonas M. Nordin
Jonas M. Nordin: The Scandinavian Early Modern World, a Global Historical Archaeology. Routledge, London and New York 2020. ISBN 978-0-367-34807-6
Weird quantities
Modern mining operates on enormous scales and quantities that go beyond everyday comprehension, which in turn has existential and metaphysical implications, and this article is an experiment in characterising ‘existentially disturbing’ aspects of extraction landscapes. We attempt to characterise and make sense of the Hannukainen mining landscape with regard to its deeply contradictory and dissonant - effectively monstrous - nature as an experienc…
History (15 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works)