Katarina Leppänen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katarina Leppänen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katarina |
| FAMILY NAME | Leppänen |
| SIGNATURE | LEPPÄNEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com
Sven Backlund in Search of Small State Internationalism in the Interwar Years
Sven Backlund (1887–1953) was a Swedish journalist who worked for the Social Democratic Party leader and Prime Minister Hjalmar Branting, and wrote for several left-wing newspapers. In the interwar years, he published a number of handbooks in internationalism, and his engagement in workers’ education combined experiences from journalism with his work as a correspondent and interpreter at the League of Nations and the International Labour Organiza…
Memory of Water
The fact that dystopian literature has a great potential for envisioning alternative futures is elaborated in this article in relation to the Finnish/British author Emmi Itäranta’s Memory of Water (2013). Itäranta’s gloomy low-fi novel is read alongside contemporary ecocritical theory with a focus on issues of vernacular cultures and knowledges versus ideas of cosmopolitan planetary citizenship. Reflections are made about the profound nature of t…
The Swedish journal Morgonbris on political violence in Finland 1917–1918
Women participated actively in the Finnish Civil War in January 1918–April 1918. The radicalization of the Finnish Social Democratic Party and the embracing of a revolutionary discourse sent tremors also to Sweden. In this article, I investigate how the Swedish Social Democratic women’s journal Morgonbris addresses women’s political violence in the period surrounding the Russian Revolution in March 1917, the October 1917 Bolshevik takeover and th…
Gender and Vernaculars in Digital Humanities and World Literature
This article discusses the large-scale and world-encompassing aspirations of digital humanities and world literature and their methodological accordance with the analysis of literature in smaller languages and of texts understood in social, transnational, and gendered contexts. Are Digital Humanities and World Literature establishing themselves as fields utilizing analytical tools that are at odds with the aims and perspectives of feminist litera…
Om naturupplevelser hos Elin Wägner och Hagar Olsson. Lästa i eko- och vithetskritisk belysning
The starting point of our article is that Western thought is based on hierarchical dichotomies which are difficult to deconstruct, such as for example male-female, whiteness-blackness, culture-nature. The article combines feminist ecocriticism with critical whiteness studies in a wish to highlight the ways in which questions concerning the environment, gender and race have been present in feminist discussion since, at least, the 1920s. We discuss…
The Politics of Hella Wuolijoki’s Autobiography
This article approaches the Finnish-Estonian Jill-of-all-trades, Hella Wuolijoki (1886–1954), through her autobiographical writings. She was active in business, politics, science and culture during a turbulent time in Finnish history, and her radical political stance and unorthodox methods made her a controversial person. The article revisits the concept of persona, as it has been used in history of science, in order to analyse how Wuolijoki used…
Political Dimensions In Aino Kallas’s Texts
This article focuses on how the Finnish-Estonian literary author Aino Kallas (1878–1956) worked with fact and fiction in order to activate a political dimension in her works. I offer an interpretation inspired by the literary theorist Jacques Rancière, whereby the short story Bernhard Riives is discussed in terms of the creation of new political subjects. When Kallas toured the USA and Canada in 1926 she opened her recitals by giving a historical…
Religion and Female Sexuality
The Conflicting Interests of Women's Organizations and the League of Nations on the Question of Married Women's Nationality in the 1930s
This article investigates the question of legal equality in citizenship and nationality in the inter-war years. The first conference for the codification of international law was hosted by the League of Nations in The Hague in 1930. One of the topics of the conference was married women's nationality, and international women's organizations did everything in their power to persuade the conference that married women deserved to be treated equally t…
Movement of women
Från redaktionen
Från redaktionen
At peace with earth - connecting ecological destruction and patriarchal civilisation
At Peace with Earth-Connecting Ecological Destruction and Patriarchal Civilisation
Elin Wägner, feminist, author, journalist, teacher and ecologist, published her book Alarm Clock in 1941. Alarm Clock connects the destruction of earth with the subjugation of women in a systematic analysis of Western civilisation. In Alarm Clock Wägner re-evaluates the question of women’s history and matriarchy in order to build a platform from which to re-launch political activism. Wägner argues that the exploitation of nature is connected to t…
Movement of women
The Conflicting Interests of Women's Organizations and the League of Nations on the Question of Married Women's Nationality in the 1930s
This article investigates the question of legal equality in citizenship and nationality in the inter-war years. The first conference for the codification of international law was hosted by the League of Nations in The Hague in 1930. One of the topics of the conference was married women's nationality, and international women's organizations did everything in their power to persuade the conference that married women deserved to be treated equally t…
Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com
Memory of Water
The fact that dystopian literature has a great potential for envisioning alternative futures is elaborated in this article in relation to the Finnish/British author Emmi Itäranta’s Memory of Water (2013). Itäranta’s gloomy low-fi novel is read alongside contemporary ecocritical theory with a focus on issues of vernacular cultures and knowledges versus ideas of cosmopolitan planetary citizenship. Reflections are made about the profound nature of t…
Om naturupplevelser hos Elin Wägner och Hagar Olsson. Lästa i eko- och vithetskritisk belysning
The starting point of our article is that Western thought is based on hierarchical dichotomies which are difficult to deconstruct, such as for example male-female, whiteness-blackness, culture-nature. The article combines feminist ecocriticism with critical whiteness studies in a wish to highlight the ways in which questions concerning the environment, gender and race have been present in feminist discussion since, at least, the 1920s. We discuss…
At Peace with Earth-Connecting Ecological Destruction and Patriarchal Civilisation
Elin Wägner, feminist, author, journalist, teacher and ecologist, published her book Alarm Clock in 1941. Alarm Clock connects the destruction of earth with the subjugation of women in a systematic analysis of Western civilisation. In Alarm Clock Wägner re-evaluates the question of women’s history and matriarchy in order to build a platform from which to re-launch political activism. Wägner argues that the exploitation of nature is connected to t…
At peace with earth - connecting ecological destruction and patriarchal civilisation
At Peace with Earth-Connecting Ecological Destruction and Patriarchal Civilisation
Elin Wägner, feminist, author, journalist, teacher and ecologist, published her book Alarm Clock in 1941. Alarm Clock connects the destruction of earth with the subjugation of women in a systematic analysis of Western civilisation. In Alarm Clock Wägner re-evaluates the question of women’s history and matriarchy in order to build a platform from which to re-launch political activism. Wägner argues that the exploitation of nature is connected to t…
Från redaktionen
Från redaktionen
Movement of women
The Conflicting Interests of Women's Organizations and the League of Nations on the Question of Married Women's Nationality in the 1930s
This article investigates the question of legal equality in citizenship and nationality in the inter-war years. The first conference for the codification of international law was hosted by the League of Nations in The Hague in 1930. One of the topics of the conference was married women's nationality, and international women's organizations did everything in their power to persuade the conference that married women deserved to be treated equally t…
Political Dimensions In Aino Kallas’s Texts
This article focuses on how the Finnish-Estonian literary author Aino Kallas (1878–1956) worked with fact and fiction in order to activate a political dimension in her works. I offer an interpretation inspired by the literary theorist Jacques Rancière, whereby the short story Bernhard Riives is discussed in terms of the creation of new political subjects. When Kallas toured the USA and Canada in 1926 she opened her recitals by giving a historical…
Religion and Female Sexuality
The Politics of Hella Wuolijoki’s Autobiography
This article approaches the Finnish-Estonian Jill-of-all-trades, Hella Wuolijoki (1886–1954), through her autobiographical writings. She was active in business, politics, science and culture during a turbulent time in Finnish history, and her radical political stance and unorthodox methods made her a controversial person. The article revisits the concept of persona, as it has been used in history of science, in order to analyse how Wuolijoki used…
Om naturupplevelser hos Elin Wägner och Hagar Olsson. Lästa i eko- och vithetskritisk belysning
The starting point of our article is that Western thought is based on hierarchical dichotomies which are difficult to deconstruct, such as for example male-female, whiteness-blackness, culture-nature. The article combines feminist ecocriticism with critical whiteness studies in a wish to highlight the ways in which questions concerning the environment, gender and race have been present in feminist discussion since, at least, the 1920s. We discuss…
Gender and Vernaculars in Digital Humanities and World Literature
This article discusses the large-scale and world-encompassing aspirations of digital humanities and world literature and their methodological accordance with the analysis of literature in smaller languages and of texts understood in social, transnational, and gendered contexts. Are Digital Humanities and World Literature establishing themselves as fields utilizing analytical tools that are at odds with the aims and perspectives of feminist litera…
The Swedish journal Morgonbris on political violence in Finland 1917–1918
Women participated actively in the Finnish Civil War in January 1918–April 1918. The radicalization of the Finnish Social Democratic Party and the embracing of a revolutionary discourse sent tremors also to Sweden. In this article, I investigate how the Swedish Social Democratic women’s journal Morgonbris addresses women’s political violence in the period surrounding the Russian Revolution in March 1917, the October 1917 Bolshevik takeover and th…
Sven Backlund in Search of Small State Internationalism in the Interwar Years
Sven Backlund (1887–1953) was a Swedish journalist who worked for the Social Democratic Party leader and Prime Minister Hjalmar Branting, and wrote for several left-wing newspapers. In the interwar years, he published a number of handbooks in internationalism, and his engagement in workers’ education combined experiences from journalism with his work as a correspondent and interpreter at the League of Nations and the International Labour Organiza…
Memory of Water
The fact that dystopian literature has a great potential for envisioning alternative futures is elaborated in this article in relation to the Finnish/British author Emmi Itäranta’s Memory of Water (2013). Itäranta’s gloomy low-fi novel is read alongside contemporary ecocritical theory with a focus on issues of vernacular cultures and knowledges versus ideas of cosmopolitan planetary citizenship. Reflections are made about the profound nature of t…
Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works)