Raita
Merivirta
Faculty of Humanities
PhD, Docent

Contact

Arcanuminkuja 1
20500
Turku

Areas of expertise

Colonialism
postcolonial literature
Indian English literature
modern Indian history
historical film
Irish cinema
twentieth-century Irish history
Finns and colonialism

Biography

I'm a doctoral researcher at the Department of European and World History. My research project examines colonial discourse in Finnish children's literature in the twentieth century. I am also more broadly interested in Finnish encounters with colonialism.

Research

I examine colonial discourse and racialization in Finnish children's literature in 1890-1970. I'm also working more broadly on themes related to Finns' encounters with colonialism.

I'm also working on a number of articles on the depictions of the Irish revolutionary years (1916-1923) on screen.


Publications

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A Fine Balance (2023)

Merivirta Raita
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))

Nayantara Sahgal (2023)

Merivirta Raita
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))

Rohinton Mistry (2023)

Merivirta Raita
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)

Mukul Kesavan (2023)

Merivirta Raita
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)