Janne Lahti
Biographic Data
| ID | 683377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janne Lahti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janne |
| FAMILY NAME | Lahti |
| SIGNATURE | LAHTI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3475-1542 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Of settler colonial connections and collaborations: A book forum on Sidney Xu Lu’s Collaborative Settler Colonialism
Finns in the Congo: Opportunities and Colonial Experiences in a Foreign Empire
Shedding light on the participation of actors from small states in colonial projects in the extra-European world, this article tracks two rather ordinary Finns living increasingly, and perhaps surprisingly, colonial lives far away from home in what to them was a foreign empire: the Belgian Congo of the early twentieth century. Saga Roos, a bourgeois woman traveling to join her husband, and Akseli Leppänen, an engineer and riverboat mechanic, show…
Of settler colonial lived experiences and places: A book forum on Shannyn Palmer's Unmaking Angas Downs
Toppling Statues: Public Spaces, Heritage and Memory Cultures of European Colonialism. Introduction
To the Homeland’: Settler Monument, Memory and the Finnish Colony of Petsamo on the Finnish–Russian Borderlands
This article examines a set of entanglements between settler memory and a monument in a nation that does not acknowledge that it ever had a colonial history. It looks at the efforts of exiled Finnish settlers to keep alive the memory of Petsamo as ‘their homeland’ through a monument they set up in Ivalo, Northern Finland, in 1985. Before being forced out of Petsamo, a province on the Arctic Ocean, by the Soviet Union in 1944, Finnish settlers tri…
Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State by Kathryn Walkiewicz (review)
Reviewed by: Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State by Kathryn Walkiewicz Janne Lahti (bio) Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State. By Kathryn Walkiewicz. ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. 314. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $32.95.) "No human utterance is innocent" is one of the premises of postcolonial thinking. This notion …
Nordics in Motion: Transimperial Mobilities and Global Experiences of Nordic Colonialism
This special issue investigates Nordic individuals in transimperial spaces. It tracks Nordics on the move from the early modern period to the twentieth century, as they crossed imperial boundaries, and connected, networked, and operated in different spaces around the world within the framework of European global expansion. Though coming from countries with few or no formal colonies of their own, Nordic people were not distant observers but active…
Nordic Connectors: The Gallen-Kallela Family and Colonial Lives in East Africa and New Mexico
This article tracks the movements of Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela and his family across transimperial terrain in the early twentieth century in British East Africa and New Mexico in the United States. It shows that Nordic peoples, even from countries without colonies of their own, acted as mobile transmitters of knowledge in the world of empires, as respectable bourgeois connectors absorbing local white cultural habits and living a typic…
John Scott Reed. The US Volunteers in the Southern Philippines: Counterinsurgency, Pacification, and Collaboration, 1899–1901
Journal Article John Scott Reed. The US Volunteers in the Southern Philippines: Counterinsurgency, Pacification, and Collaboration, 1899–1901. Get access John Scott Reed. The US Volunteers in the Southern Philippines: Counterinsurgency, Pacification, and Collaboration, 1899–1901. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. Pp. xv, 302. Cloth $45.00. Janne Lahti Janne Lahti University of Helsinki, Finland Email: [email protected] Search for …
Peter Kuper. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Journal Article Peter Kuper. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Get access Peter Kuper. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. London: W. W. Norton, 2020. Pp. 160. Cloth $21.95. Janne Lahti Janne Lahti University of Helsinki, Finland Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 1545, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad316…
Hyperimperiumin globaalia ulkopolitiikkaa
Arvio teoksesta: Antero Holmila & Matti Roitto: Rooseveltista Trumpiin. Yhdysvaltain ulkopolitiikka ja kriisit 1900-luvun alusta tähän päivään. Docendo 2018. 465 s. ISBN 978-952-291-519-1
Südwester Reiter: Fear, Belonging, and Settler Colonial Violence in Namibia
This article examines the continuities between the Herero and Nama genocide and the history of the Reiterdenkmal statue in Windhoek, Namibia. It interprets the statue as an extension of the lived experience of the genocide and a contested symbol of settler belonging. The Reiterdenkmal reformulated colonial violence as white victimhood and black savagery, and advanced German settler claims over African soil. Violence and the “rider” together remad…
Looking Globally at Monuments, Violence, and Colonial Legacies
German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World: Entangled Empires
In Service of Empires: Apaches and Askaris as Colonial Soldiers
William F. Tolmie at Fort Nisqually: Letters, 1850–1853
The nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest was a nexus in the transimperial circuits connecting North America with the Pacific Islands and Asia. Scholars such as Joshua L. Reid and David Igler, among others, have led the way in tracking the multidirectional and multilayered networks and circulations making the Pacific Northwest a dynamic and diverse region of trade, intimacies, and violence. A key player in this vibrant interplay was William F. Tol…
Apache Land: Indigenous Colonialism on North America’s Borderlands
Dieser Aufsatz hinterfragt die Idee, dass es ein europäisches Monopol auf den Kolonialismus gibt, indem er die „Kolonialität“ und das Siedlungsgeschehen im nordamerikanischen Grenzland zwischen Apachen, Komantschen und Spaniern im 18. Jahrhundert thematisiert. Im Zentrum steht die Idee eines Apachenlandes als eines sich verschiebenden und umkämpften kolonialen Gebiets, eines Mosaiks vielfältiger kolonialer Bestrebungen, verwickelter Allianzen und…
Kolonialismin maailmaa hahmottamassa
Arvosteltu teos: Kivenmurskaajat : kolonialismin historia / Antti Kujala. [Jyväskylä] : Atena, 2019
Kolonialismin monikasvoisuus ja sen ymmärtäminen Suomen kontekstissa
Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film
This anthology adds to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies by examining settler colonial narratives in the underanalyzed medium of film. Cinematic Settlers discusses different cinematic genres, national traditions, and specific movies in order to expose related threads, shared circulations of knowledge, and paralleled representations. Organized into thematic groupings-conquest, settlement, natives, and space-the contributors explore …
Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film
Dierk Walter. Colonial Violence: European Empires and the Use of Force
Understanding the history of colonial violence as a global experience seems particularly pertinent amid present-day religious extremism, Western interventions, populism, migrant crises, and racism, all of which come with complex colonial baggage. While not a chronological history of colonial violence, Dierk Walter’s Colonial Violence: European Empires and the Use of Force (first published in German in 2014) presents a global synthesis of the char…
Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of dispossession around the Pacific Rim ed. by Penelope Edmonds and Amanda Nettelbeck
Book review. Reviewed book: Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of dispossession around the Pacific Rim Edited by Penelope Edmonds and Amanda Nettelbeck. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-76230-2 ; e-ISBN 978-3-319-76231-9
A Crooked River: Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861-1877
A surge of revisionist histories of borderlands violence has occurred in recent years. Juliana Barr, Ned Blackhawk, Lance R. Blyth, Brian DeLay, Andrew R. Graybill, Pekka Hämäläinen, and Natale Zappia, among others, have discussed varying shapes and temporal and geographical spaces of violence, covering ground from intimate threads among families and communities to indigenous empires and transnational raiders, while also transcending the early We…
The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and tr…
Looking Globally at Monuments, Violence, and Colonial Legacies
Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film
We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People
Book Review| July 01 2011 We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People. By Shepherd, Jeffrey P.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010. $45.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.) Janne Lahti Janne Lahti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 548–549. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1263947 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter…
The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and tr…
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
The U.S.-Apache wars in the Southwest borderlands may have constituted the longest war in U.S. history, and they certainly have captured the attention of generations of novelists, filmmakers, and historians. The eminent military historian and professor of history at the University of New Mexico, Paul Andrew Hutton, has penned not so much a revisionist account but an intense, fast-paced, and vivid retelling of a familiar story to those versed in t…
German Colonialism and the Age of Global Empires
German Colonialism and the Age of Global Empires Janne Lahti Violent Intermediaries: African soldiers, conquest, and everyday colonialism in German East Africa By Michelle R. Moyd. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. Sex and Control: Venereal disease, colonial physicians, and Indigenous agency in German Colonialism, 1884–1914 By Daniel J. Walther. New York: Berghahn, 2015. Purging the Empire: Mass expulsions in Germany, 1871–1914 By Matthew P. F…
Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas
Journal Article Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas Get access Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. xiv, 509 pp. Paper, $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 220–221, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav311 Published: 01 June 2015
Colonized Labor: Apaches and Pawnees as Army Workers
This essay discusses the Apaches and Pawnees who joined the post-Civil War U. S. Army as workers and argues that they functioned and were used as colonized labor, a special race-based colonial labor system characterized by constant negotiation and tension between integration and exclusion, valuing and othering, and indigenous freedom and colonial control.
Colonized Labor: Apaches and Pawnees as Army Workers
This essay discusses the Apaches and Pawnees who joined the post-Civil War U. S. Army as workers and argues that they functioned and were used as colonized labor, a special race-based colonial labor system characterized by constant negotiation and tension between integration and exclusion, valuing and othering, and indigenous freedom and colonial control.
Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and the Plains Cree, 1868-1885 , by Jill St. Germain
We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People
Book Review| July 01 2011 We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People. By Shepherd, Jeffrey P.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010. $45.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.) Janne Lahti Janne Lahti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 548–549. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1263947 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter…
Cultural Construction of Empire: The U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico
From 1866 through 1886, the U.S. Army occupied southern Arizona and New Mexico in an attempt to claim it for settlement by Americans. Through a postcolonial lens, Janne Lahti examines the army, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire whose mission was to serve as a group of colonizers engaged in ideological as well as military, conquest. Cultural Construction of Empire explores the cultural and social repre…
Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848-1912 , by Anthony Mora
Turmoil on the Rio Grande: History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846–1865
Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869–1933
Kenneth D. Rose. Unspeakable Awfulness: America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900
I would insist that most of us Europeans who have traveled a lot in the United States can identify with some of the stories Kenneth D. Rose raises in this volume. If travelers today are awestruck by the mightiness of the Grand Canyon or the Yellowstone, gulp at the pulse, wealth, and poverty in urban metropolises like Chicago or New York, or have difficulties understanding the seemingly work-obsessed lifestyles of most Americans, many of the same…
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A history of the Mandan people by Elizabeth A. Fenn (review)
Reviewed by: Encounters at the Heart of the World: A history of the Mandan people by Elizabeth A. Fenn Janne Lahti Encounters at the Heart of the World: A history of the Mandan people By Elizabeth A. Fenn . New York: Hill and Wang, 2014. Those concerned with Native American history already know their middle ground and native ground. We have also read of Indigenous empires in North America and many have also heard of Native new worlds. Now Elizabe…
North American borderlands
Undoubtedly borderlands history constitutes one of the rising, more fashionable, fields of scholarship today. But what exactly is borderlands history? Where and when is it? Or is the term so vague
Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas
Journal Article Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas Get access Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. xiv, 509 pp. Paper, $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 220–221, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav311 Published: 01 June 2015
German Colonialism and the Age of Global Empires
German Colonialism and the Age of Global Empires Janne Lahti Violent Intermediaries: African soldiers, conquest, and everyday colonialism in German East Africa By Michelle R. Moyd. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. Sex and Control: Venereal disease, colonial physicians, and Indigenous agency in German Colonialism, 1884–1914 By Daniel J. Walther. New York: Berghahn, 2015. Purging the Empire: Mass expulsions in Germany, 1871–1914 By Matthew P. F…
Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680–1850Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest
Comparative and transnational histories are inching towards more global understandings of history. They often place previously discrete realities on a single analytical field and uncover past transfers, connections and globalizations that operated on various scales, transcended national spaces and involved unexpected historical actors. Such research on the transatlantic slave networks already has a significant tradition, but what is not so typica…
Wars for Empire: Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
The U.S.-Apache wars in the Southwest borderlands may have constituted the longest war in U.S. history, and they certainly have captured the attention of generations of novelists, filmmakers, and historians. The eminent military historian and professor of history at the University of New Mexico, Paul Andrew Hutton, has penned not so much a revisionist account but an intense, fast-paced, and vivid retelling of a familiar story to those versed in t…
The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and tr…
Dierk Walter. Colonial Violence: European Empires and the Use of Force
Understanding the history of colonial violence as a global experience seems particularly pertinent amid present-day religious extremism, Western interventions, populism, migrant crises, and racism, all of which come with complex colonial baggage. While not a chronological history of colonial violence, Dierk Walter’s Colonial Violence: European Empires and the Use of Force (first published in German in 2014) presents a global synthesis of the char…
Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of dispossession around the Pacific Rim ed. by Penelope Edmonds and Amanda Nettelbeck
Book review. Reviewed book: Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of dispossession around the Pacific Rim Edited by Penelope Edmonds and Amanda Nettelbeck. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-76230-2 ; e-ISBN 978-3-319-76231-9
A Crooked River: Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861-1877
A surge of revisionist histories of borderlands violence has occurred in recent years. Juliana Barr, Ned Blackhawk, Lance R. Blyth, Brian DeLay, Andrew R. Graybill, Pekka Hämäläinen, and Natale Zappia, among others, have discussed varying shapes and temporal and geographical spaces of violence, covering ground from intimate threads among families and communities to indigenous empires and transnational raiders, while also transcending the early We…
Apache Land: Indigenous Colonialism on North America’s Borderlands
Dieser Aufsatz hinterfragt die Idee, dass es ein europäisches Monopol auf den Kolonialismus gibt, indem er die „Kolonialität“ und das Siedlungsgeschehen im nordamerikanischen Grenzland zwischen Apachen, Komantschen und Spaniern im 18. Jahrhundert thematisiert. Im Zentrum steht die Idee eines Apachenlandes als eines sich verschiebenden und umkämpften kolonialen Gebiets, eines Mosaiks vielfältiger kolonialer Bestrebungen, verwickelter Allianzen und…
Kolonialismin maailmaa hahmottamassa
Arvosteltu teos: Kivenmurskaajat : kolonialismin historia / Antti Kujala. [Jyväskylä] : Atena, 2019
Kolonialismin monikasvoisuus ja sen ymmärtäminen Suomen kontekstissa
Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film
This anthology adds to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies by examining settler colonial narratives in the underanalyzed medium of film. Cinematic Settlers discusses different cinematic genres, national traditions, and specific movies in order to expose related threads, shared circulations of knowledge, and paralleled representations. Organized into thematic groupings-conquest, settlement, natives, and space-the contributors explore …
Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film
German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World: Entangled Empires
History (32 works) · Political science (21 works) · History (20 works) · Archaeology (18 works) · Colonialism (17 works) · Geography (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Ethnology (12 works) · Indigenous (9 works)