Helena Ruotsala
Biographic Data
| ID | 672728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helena Ruotsala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helena |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruotsala |
| SIGNATURE | RUOTSALA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4352-3421 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Professor Emeritus of Ethnology Pekka Leimu (5.12.1943–7.8.2025)
Antologi om samisk mytologi
Recension av: Sami Folkloristics. Ed. by Juha Pentikäinen in cooperation with Harald Gaski, Vuokko Hirvonen, Jelena Sergejeva & Krister Stoor. NNF: Turku 2000. (NNF Publications 6.)
Vardagliga gränspraktiker
HELENA RUOTSALA Att synliggöra eller osynliggöra gränser i Tornedalen?Det transnationella vardagslivet i Torneå-Haparanda har varit mitt tema nu i några år.Denna artikel baserar sig på mitt föredrag vid Svenska Litteratursällskapets seminarium om gränser i maj 2017.Artikeln handlar om vardagliga gränspraktiker bland gränsmänniskor eller regionauter, som jag hellre kallar ortsborna här.Hur synliggörs eller osynliggörs gränserna i Tornedalen och hu…
Folkets upplevelser av modernisering av Finland
Recension av: Hilkka Helsti, Laura Stark & Saara Tuomaala (red.) 2006: Modernisaatio ja kansan kokemus Suomessa 1860–1960. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura: Helsinki. 336 s.
Living on the both sides of an invisible border – the impacts of Covid-19 in the Tornio River Valley
In her article “Living on the both sides of an invisible border – the impacts of Covid-19 in the Tornio River Valley” Helena Ruotsala discusses what impacts the Covid-19 had in the cross-border region between Finland and Sweden. She uses concepts of transnationalism and multilocality when studying local everyday life. The area is divided by a national border, which has been invisible until March 2020, but when Covid-19 spread over the nations, Fi…
Heritage across Borders – Conference on Critical Heritage
The fourth biennial conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies gathered over 800 participants in Hangzhou, China, last August.Earlier, the conference has been organized in Canberra in 2014, in Montreal in 2016, and in Gothenburg in 2012, where the preliminary manifesto of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies was launched.The next conference will be held in London in 2020 with a future-oriented theme.The recent and broad gl…
Th Anniversary of Professor Ilmar Talve ́s (1919-2008) Birth
Transnational everyday life in the twin-city of Tornio-Haparanda
This article concentrates on everyday life in the twin-city of Tornio-Haparanda, which is situated in the cross-border region of the Tornio River Valley between Finland and Sweden. The Tornio River Valley was divided after the Finnish War of 1809 and, until then, people spoke the same language and shared the same culture and religion. Today, the Tornio River Valley area is a frontier district where the political — or national — boundaries do not …
Religious landscape in the cross-border region of Tornio River Valley
The aim of my paper is to discuss the cross-border region of the Tornio River Valley between Finland and Sweden as a religious landscape. The present state border between the two countries was defined in1809, at a time when the border was not between Finland and Sweden, but between Sweden and Russia, and it dramatically severed the Finnish-speaking area in the river valley. First I will discuss the shared religious heritage in this area, the Laes…
‘Nature Has Its Own Soul and Speaks Its Own Language’
Nature and environment are important for the people earning their living from natural sources of livelihood. This article concentrates on the local perspective of the landscape in the Pallastunturi Fells, which are situated in Pallas-Ylläs National Park in Finnish Lapland. The Fells are both important pastures for reindeer and an old tourism area. The Pallastunturi Tourist Hotel is situated inside the national park because the hotel was built bef…
From Crime to Cultural Heritage
This article concentrates on one particular local cross-border activity carried on after the Second World War. This was a type of smuggling called joppaus in the local dialect, a practice which was enabled by the post-war economic recession and the scarcity of goods from which Finland suffered. This form of unauthorised economy is said to have been responsible for the rapid revival of the region and its inhabitants after the destruction inflicted…
Gendered Rural Spaces
While Pia Olsson's questionnaire material depicts a quite stable and unchanging rural society, at least on the surface, Katariina Heikkilä's article gives a fairly different picture of Finnish gendered space.Rural areas, especially those connected with agriculture, have encountered big structural changes in recent years in Finland, and the process is continuing.The number of farms in the countryside has fallen by 28 per cent since 1995 and member…
Heritage across Borders – Conference on Critical Heritage
The fourth biennial conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies gathered over 800 participants in Hangzhou, China, last August.Earlier, the conference has been organized in Canberra in 2014, in Montreal in 2016, and in Gothenburg in 2012, where the preliminary manifesto of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies was launched.The next conference will be held in London in 2020 with a future-oriented theme.The recent and broad gl…
From Crime to Cultural Heritage
This article concentrates on one particular local cross-border activity carried on after the Second World War. This was a type of smuggling called joppaus in the local dialect, a practice which was enabled by the post-war economic recession and the scarcity of goods from which Finland suffered. This form of unauthorised economy is said to have been responsible for the rapid revival of the region and its inhabitants after the destruction inflicted…
Gendered Rural Spaces
While Pia Olsson's questionnaire material depicts a quite stable and unchanging rural society, at least on the surface, Katariina Heikkilä's article gives a fairly different picture of Finnish gendered space.Rural areas, especially those connected with agriculture, have encountered big structural changes in recent years in Finland, and the process is continuing.The number of farms in the countryside has fallen by 28 per cent since 1995 and member…
‘Nature Has Its Own Soul and Speaks Its Own Language’
Nature and environment are important for the people earning their living from natural sources of livelihood. This article concentrates on the local perspective of the landscape in the Pallastunturi Fells, which are situated in Pallas-Ylläs National Park in Finnish Lapland. The Fells are both important pastures for reindeer and an old tourism area. The Pallastunturi Tourist Hotel is situated inside the national park because the hotel was built bef…
Religious landscape in the cross-border region of Tornio River Valley
The aim of my paper is to discuss the cross-border region of the Tornio River Valley between Finland and Sweden as a religious landscape. The present state border between the two countries was defined in1809, at a time when the border was not between Finland and Sweden, but between Sweden and Russia, and it dramatically severed the Finnish-speaking area in the river valley. First I will discuss the shared religious heritage in this area, the Laes…
Transnational everyday life in the twin-city of Tornio-Haparanda
This article concentrates on everyday life in the twin-city of Tornio-Haparanda, which is situated in the cross-border region of the Tornio River Valley between Finland and Sweden. The Tornio River Valley was divided after the Finnish War of 1809 and, until then, people spoke the same language and shared the same culture and religion. Today, the Tornio River Valley area is a frontier district where the political — or national — boundaries do not …
Heritage across Borders – Conference on Critical Heritage
The fourth biennial conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies gathered over 800 participants in Hangzhou, China, last August.Earlier, the conference has been organized in Canberra in 2014, in Montreal in 2016, and in Gothenburg in 2012, where the preliminary manifesto of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies was launched.The next conference will be held in London in 2020 with a future-oriented theme.The recent and broad gl…
Th Anniversary of Professor Ilmar Talve ́s (1919-2008) Birth
Living on the both sides of an invisible border – the impacts of Covid-19 in the Tornio River Valley
In her article “Living on the both sides of an invisible border – the impacts of Covid-19 in the Tornio River Valley” Helena Ruotsala discusses what impacts the Covid-19 had in the cross-border region between Finland and Sweden. She uses concepts of transnationalism and multilocality when studying local everyday life. The area is divided by a national border, which has been invisible until March 2020, but when Covid-19 spread over the nations, Fi…
Antologi om samisk mytologi
Recension av: Sami Folkloristics. Ed. by Juha Pentikäinen in cooperation with Harald Gaski, Vuokko Hirvonen, Jelena Sergejeva & Krister Stoor. NNF: Turku 2000. (NNF Publications 6.)
Vardagliga gränspraktiker
HELENA RUOTSALA Att synliggöra eller osynliggöra gränser i Tornedalen?Det transnationella vardagslivet i Torneå-Haparanda har varit mitt tema nu i några år.Denna artikel baserar sig på mitt föredrag vid Svenska Litteratursällskapets seminarium om gränser i maj 2017.Artikeln handlar om vardagliga gränspraktiker bland gränsmänniskor eller regionauter, som jag hellre kallar ortsborna här.Hur synliggörs eller osynliggörs gränserna i Tornedalen och hu…
Folkets upplevelser av modernisering av Finland
Recension av: Hilkka Helsti, Laura Stark & Saara Tuomaala (red.) 2006: Modernisaatio ja kansan kokemus Suomessa 1860–1960. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura: Helsinki. 336 s.
Professor Emeritus of Ethnology Pekka Leimu (5.12.1943–7.8.2025)
Geography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Art (2 works)