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Teija
Rantala
Degree Programme in Digital Culture, Landscape and Cultural Heritage
PhD (Title of Docent)

Areas of expertise

Feminist studies
social studies
feminist methodology
creative and experimental qualitative research methods
poststructuralist
posthuman and new materialist philosophy
creative analysis
ethnography
participatory research

Biography


My current research focuses on developing ethnographic and participatory feminist methods to study human-nature relations and gendered conservation care labour.

Until the end of 2023 I was working on a postdoctoral project titled 'Embodied reproductive politics, arts-based methods and former Conservative Laestadian women' (2021-2023) at the Turku Institute of Advanced Studies (TIAS). I was also a Visiting Scholar at the ReproSoc research group, University of Cambridge, UK, during Winter-Spring (Lent Term) 2022.

I have published widely on feminist research methodology, e.g. my book 'Exploring data production in motion: Fluidity and Feminist Poststructuralism' was published by Myers Education Press in 2019.


Research

I co-write and publish within several international and interdisciplinary feminist research communities.

As a feminist scholar, I am passionate about research ethics, open-ended and collaborative ways of inquiry and questions concerning ecological crises and sustainable care ethics. 

Publications

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Concepts as light seductions (2022)

Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
Rantala Teija, Koro Mirka
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Conferencing Otherwise: A Feminist New Materialist Writing Experiment (2020)

Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
Jayne Osgood, Carol A Taylor, Camilla Eline Andersen, Angelo Benozzo, Neil Carey, Constance Elmenhorst, Nikki Fairchild, Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, Anna Moxnes, Ann Merete Otterstad, Teija Rantala, Karen Tobias-Green
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))