T Matila
Biographic Data
| ID | 43245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Matila |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Matila |
| SIGNATURE | MATILA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7551-4626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dealing with Fear
Archaeological Explorations of Memoryscapes
In this article, we use our investigations of the remnants of the past in Northern Finland associated with sites and memorials of conflict in order to highlight the ways in which layered “memoryscapes” are at the center of both individual remembrance and collective memory. Our methodology includes material culture studies and archaeological excavations, as well as interviews of people. Archaeology can be used to tie together studies of collective…
Masculinity, military discipline and frontier mentality in the northernmost Cold War border zone in Finnish Lapland
Memory, Material Culture, and Experience of Resistance in Early Twentieth-Century Finland
Our article will consider the development of the material culture of resistance and nationalism in northern Finland in the early 20th century. Finland’s status as an autonomous grand duchy of Russia came into dispute in 1899 when Tsar Nicholas II issued the February Manifesto, asserting the Russian Empire’s right to govern Finland. This started the so-called period of Russification in Finland. One part of the population resorted to active and arm…
The Contemporary Archaeology of Emotions
Trash Pits and Building Remains
From Insult to Injury
Smokestack Nostalgia or Hypermodern Spirituality
Urban exploration is the hobby of those who want to reach the fringes of society and the abandoned and rusting traces of the past. Photography in these forgotten places is as much part of the experience in urban exploration as the actual entering of abandoned buildings. We focus especially on abandoned industrial buildings and how they are represented online. This article attempts to understand the meanings and emotions behind urban exploration a…
Class or no class? A contemporary archaeological approach to a working-class neighbourhood in northern Finland
This paper focuses on the contemporary archaeology of a former working-class neighbourhood in Oulu, Finland, and traces the changes that took place in the lifestyle of the community in the 40-year postwar era from 1947 to 1987. We examine specifically how the sometimes-conflicting material processes of the welfare state and capitalism manifest in the materials, and in the lives of working-class Finns at the time. It is important to put class expe…
Contemporary archaeological perspectives on intersectional inequality in a welfare state in twentieth-century Finland
Social inequalities and marginality often go unrecognised in the Nordic welfare states. This project examines the effects of neoliberalism and intersectional inequality in Finland from a contemporary archaeology perspective; the case study is a Second World War German military camp turned into a working-class community occupied until the 1980s
They are also victims of the war ́
This article engages with the contemporary perceptions and representations of the Finnish cooperation with Nazis during World War II. The Finnish-German relations were complicated during the war, as Finland was first an ally of Germany but later turned against the German troops in the country. Focusing primarily on the uses of photographs, personal memoirs and oral histories in museum exhibitions and related contexts, we examine how the complex F…
Empathy for the ‘Other’
This article examines a series of unsettling images from the Finnish Continuation War (1941–1944) and the memories of the war that these photographs construct for contemporary Finns. We argue that these images can be viewed through Alison Landsberg's (2004) notion of ‘prosthetic memory’, which underlines how visual media enable the acquisition of vivid memories of past events. The paper outlines how these long-ignored photographs narrate unexamin…
White death
This paper discusses Finnish war commemoration in social media where the public connects with their history through wartime photography. The focus is on one Finnish social media site that chooses images out of the official Finnish military photography collection for posting. Through social media, the public can participate in heritage work themselves and these sites are becoming increasingly important in creating views of the nation’s past. The p…
Privileged or dispossessed? Intersectional marginality in a forgotten working-class neighborhood in Finland
Nestled in a quiet part of Oulu, Finland, on an Island called Hietasaari, was a residential area called Vaakunakylä. Hietasaari was, from the 19th century onward, largely undeveloped with an oceanside beach amidst pines, small, cultivated fields and a modest number of expensive villas. Vaakunakylä was a working-class neighborhood, but city planners committed to developing the Island forced the residents to move in the 1980s. The decision to remov…
The ghosts in the archive
The Finnish wartime landscape was altered by Nazi troops who were stationed there during World War Two. This paper examines wartime sceneries through Finnish Army Information Company’s photographs from the period of the war known in Finland as the Continuation War (1941–1944). The images reveal a completely different side to the Nazi co-belligerence to what is traditionally acknowledged in Finland. I discuss the ways the Nazi troops altered the F…
Cape Valmarinniemi
CHRISTIANISATION IS A PROCESS that manifests as locally distinctive traditions and behaviours. While traditionally in Finland it has been assumed that local populations were subjected to a forced conversion, recent research has abandoned such top-down approaches and has emphasised local agency in the Christianisation process. This article contributes to the investigation of religious conversion in the Bothnian Bay coastal region of Finland, where…
White death
This paper discusses Finnish war commemoration in social media where the public connects with their history through wartime photography. The focus is on one Finnish social media site that chooses images out of the official Finnish military photography collection for posting. Through social media, the public can participate in heritage work themselves and these sites are becoming increasingly important in creating views of the nation’s past. The p…
Privileged or dispossessed? Intersectional marginality in a forgotten working-class neighborhood in Finland
Nestled in a quiet part of Oulu, Finland, on an Island called Hietasaari, was a residential area called Vaakunakylä. Hietasaari was, from the 19th century onward, largely undeveloped with an oceanside beach amidst pines, small, cultivated fields and a modest number of expensive villas. Vaakunakylä was a working-class neighborhood, but city planners committed to developing the Island forced the residents to move in the 1980s. The decision to remov…
They are also victims of the war ́
This article engages with the contemporary perceptions and representations of the Finnish cooperation with Nazis during World War II. The Finnish-German relations were complicated during the war, as Finland was first an ally of Germany but later turned against the German troops in the country. Focusing primarily on the uses of photographs, personal memoirs and oral histories in museum exhibitions and related contexts, we examine how the complex F…
The ghosts in the archive
The Finnish wartime landscape was altered by Nazi troops who were stationed there during World War Two. This paper examines wartime sceneries through Finnish Army Information Company’s photographs from the period of the war known in Finland as the Continuation War (1941–1944). The images reveal a completely different side to the Nazi co-belligerence to what is traditionally acknowledged in Finland. I discuss the ways the Nazi troops altered the F…
Cape Valmarinniemi
CHRISTIANISATION IS A PROCESS that manifests as locally distinctive traditions and behaviours. While traditionally in Finland it has been assumed that local populations were subjected to a forced conversion, recent research has abandoned such top-down approaches and has emphasised local agency in the Christianisation process. This article contributes to the investigation of religious conversion in the Bothnian Bay coastal region of Finland, where…
Empathy for the ‘Other’
This article examines a series of unsettling images from the Finnish Continuation War (1941–1944) and the memories of the war that these photographs construct for contemporary Finns. We argue that these images can be viewed through Alison Landsberg's (2004) notion of ‘prosthetic memory’, which underlines how visual media enable the acquisition of vivid memories of past events. The paper outlines how these long-ignored photographs narrate unexamin…
White death
This paper discusses Finnish war commemoration in social media where the public connects with their history through wartime photography. The focus is on one Finnish social media site that chooses images out of the official Finnish military photography collection for posting. Through social media, the public can participate in heritage work themselves and these sites are becoming increasingly important in creating views of the nation’s past. The p…
Privileged or dispossessed? Intersectional marginality in a forgotten working-class neighborhood in Finland
Nestled in a quiet part of Oulu, Finland, on an Island called Hietasaari, was a residential area called Vaakunakylä. Hietasaari was, from the 19th century onward, largely undeveloped with an oceanside beach amidst pines, small, cultivated fields and a modest number of expensive villas. Vaakunakylä was a working-class neighborhood, but city planners committed to developing the Island forced the residents to move in the 1980s. The decision to remov…
They are also victims of the war ́
This article engages with the contemporary perceptions and representations of the Finnish cooperation with Nazis during World War II. The Finnish-German relations were complicated during the war, as Finland was first an ally of Germany but later turned against the German troops in the country. Focusing primarily on the uses of photographs, personal memoirs and oral histories in museum exhibitions and related contexts, we examine how the complex F…
Contemporary archaeological perspectives on intersectional inequality in a welfare state in twentieth-century Finland
Social inequalities and marginality often go unrecognised in the Nordic welfare states. This project examines the effects of neoliberalism and intersectional inequality in Finland from a contemporary archaeology perspective; the case study is a Second World War German military camp turned into a working-class community occupied until the 1980s
The Contemporary Archaeology of Emotions
Trash Pits and Building Remains
From Insult to Injury
Smokestack Nostalgia or Hypermodern Spirituality
Urban exploration is the hobby of those who want to reach the fringes of society and the abandoned and rusting traces of the past. Photography in these forgotten places is as much part of the experience in urban exploration as the actual entering of abandoned buildings. We focus especially on abandoned industrial buildings and how they are represented online. This article attempts to understand the meanings and emotions behind urban exploration a…
Class or no class? A contemporary archaeological approach to a working-class neighbourhood in northern Finland
This paper focuses on the contemporary archaeology of a former working-class neighbourhood in Oulu, Finland, and traces the changes that took place in the lifestyle of the community in the 40-year postwar era from 1947 to 1987. We examine specifically how the sometimes-conflicting material processes of the welfare state and capitalism manifest in the materials, and in the lives of working-class Finns at the time. It is important to put class expe…
Dealing with Fear
Archaeological Explorations of Memoryscapes
In this article, we use our investigations of the remnants of the past in Northern Finland associated with sites and memorials of conflict in order to highlight the ways in which layered “memoryscapes” are at the center of both individual remembrance and collective memory. Our methodology includes material culture studies and archaeological excavations, as well as interviews of people. Archaeology can be used to tie together studies of collective…
Masculinity, military discipline and frontier mentality in the northernmost Cold War border zone in Finnish Lapland
Memory, Material Culture, and Experience of Resistance in Early Twentieth-Century Finland
Our article will consider the development of the material culture of resistance and nationalism in northern Finland in the early 20th century. Finland’s status as an autonomous grand duchy of Russia came into dispute in 1899 when Tsar Nicholas II issued the February Manifesto, asserting the Russian Empire’s right to govern Finland. This started the so-called period of Russification in Finland. One part of the population resorted to active and arm…
History (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (5 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (5 works)