Contact
Principal Investigator
Laura Huttunen
- Professor
- sosiaaliantropologia
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Tampere University
- +358503186092
- laura.huttunen@tuni.fi
About me
I am a social anthropologist, interested in transnational anthropology, migration issues, and ways of living with violent pasts. I have worked with the Bosnian diaspora since early 2000s, carrying out ethnographic research both in Finland and in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Currently I am working with the politics of disappearances in various contexts, ranging from wartime Bosnia-Herzegovina to current flows of global migration.
I am currently leading research project “Governance and grieving: Disappearing migrants and emergent politics” (DiMig) (Academy of Finland, project funding 2018 – 2022)
Field of expertise
Ethnographic approaches to migration
Diaspora and transnational studies
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian diaspora
Missing persons, forcibly disappeared persons
Alternate description
Reserach projects
• Governance and grieving: Disappearing migrants and emergent politics (DiMig) (Academy of Finland, project funding 2018 – 2022)
• Absence and liminality: Missing persons and the social order (Institute for Advanced Social Research, University of Tampere 2012-2014)
• Between Nation States and Transnational Networks: Renegotiating Communities in Bosnian Diaspora (Academy of Finland, 2005-2007
Research unit
Social sciences, social anthropology
Huttunen, Laura & Marko Juntunen (2018) Suburban encounters: superdiversity, diasporic relationality and everyday practices in the Nordic context. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1531695
Huttunen, Laura (2017) Troubled conjunctures: Ethnography, psychotherapy and transnational social fields. In Grønseth A. S. and Josephides, L. (eds) The ethics of (relations of) knowledge-creation: Transactions, Relations and Persons. Oxford: berghahan Books.
Huttunen, Laura (2016) Liminality and Contested Communitas: The Missing Persons in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Conflict and Society: Advances in Research 2 (2016): 201–218. doi:10.3167/arcs.2016.020117
Huttunen, Laura (2016) Protective Barriers and Entrapping Walls: Perceptions of Borders in the Post-Yugoslav Bosnian Diaspora. Journal of Borderland Studies. DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1202775
Huttunen, Laura (2016) Remembering, Wittnessing, Bringing Closure: Srebrenica Burial Ceremonies on YouTube. In Andrea Hajek, Christine Lohmeier & Christian Pentzold (eds.) Social Memory in a Mediated World: Remembering in Troubled Times. Palgrave MacMillan.
Huttunen, Laura (2014) Srebrenica burial ceremonies on YouTube: remembering the dead and the missing in a contested political situation. Thanatos vol. 3:1 theme issue ‘Death, mourning and the internet´, 141-148.
Huttunen, Laura (2014) From individual grief to a shared history of the Bosnian war: Voice, audience and the political in psychotherapeutic practices with refugees. Focaal vol. 68, 2014:1.
Huttunen, Laura (2010) Sedentary Policies and Transnational Relations: A ‘Non-sustainable’ Case of Return to Bosnia. Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 23: 1, 41-61.
Huttunen, Laura (2010) Emplacement through Family Life: Transformation of Intimate Relations. In Faist, Thomas; Pitkänen, Pirkko; Gerdes, Jürgen and Reisenauer, Eveline (eds): Transnationalisation and Institutional Transformations. Collected Working Papers from the TRANS-NET Project. Working Paper 87/2010, COMCAD - Center on Migration. Citizenship and Development. Bielefeld, ss. 236-255.
Huttunen, Laura (2009) Historical Legacies and Neo-colonial Forms of Power?: A Postcolonial Reading of the Bosnian Diaspora. In Irni, Sari, Keskinen, Suvi, Mulinari, Diana & Tuori, Salla (eds.) Complying with Colonialism. Gender, 'Race' and Ethnicity in the Nordic Region. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Huttunen, Laura (2009) Undoing and Redoing Homes: The Bosnian War and Diasporic Home-making. In Saarikangas Kirsi & Johansson Hanna (eds.) Homes in Transformation: Dwelling, Moving, Belonging. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura.
Huttunen, Laura (2005) ’Home’ and ethnicity in the context of war: Hesitant diasporas of Bosnian refugees. European Journal of Cultural Studies vol. 8 (2), 177 – 195.
Researchers
Mari Korpela
- Academy Research Fellow
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Tampere University
- +358503186131
- mari.korpela@tuni.fi
About me
Mari is a social anthropologist, currently working as an Academy Research Fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences in Tampere University, Finland. Her research project is titled "Expatriate Childhood: Children's Experiences of Temporary Migration. " The project is funded by the Academy of Finland (2019-2024).
Earlier, she has worked as a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences in the Tampere University. She has also worked as a researcher in the project "Governance and Grieving: Disappearing Migrants and Emergent Politics" in Tampere University.
Mari is the director of the research network Mobile Professionals and families. She is also a member in t he Visual Studies Lab . In addition, Mari is a docent (adjunct professor) of social and cultural anthropology in the University of Helsinki. During 2022-2023, she is a visiting associate professor at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology in the University of Manchester.
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Field of expertise
anthropology of childhood, 'third culture kids', expatriates, lifestyle migration, transnational communities, countercultures, gender and travel, temporary migration, missing tourists, ethnographic and visual research methods, ethnographic films
Research career
Academy Research Fellow 2019-2024
Senior researcher 2014-2017
Postdoctoral researcher 2011-2013
PhD researcher 2002-2010
PhD dissertation:
Korpela, M. 2009. More Vibes in India. Westerners in Search of a Better Life in Varanasi. Tampere: Tampere University Press.
Journal articles:
Korpela, Mari (2023). International lives and Finnish rhythms: Mobile professionals’ children, time and agency. Global Studies of Childhood.
Korpela. Mari. 2022. ”Then we decided not to tell the adults.” Fieldwork among children in an international school. Ethnography.
Korpela, M. 2020. Avointa ja ilmaista korkeakoulutusta kaikille? : Moocien mahdollisuudet ja rajoitteet. Aikuiskasvatus 40 (2), 140-146.
Korpela, M. 2019. Searching for a countercultural life abroad: neo-nomadism, lifestyle mobility or bohemian lifestyle migration? Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1569505
Korpela, M. 2018. Moving to Paradise for the Children's Sake. Migration Letters 15:1. 55-65.
Korpela, M. 2017. “India has got it!”: lifestyle migrants constructing “Incredible Indias” in Varanasi and Goa. Etnográfica 21:1. 153-173.
Korpela, M., Hirvi L, & Tawah, S. 2016. Not Alone. Doing Fieldwork in the Company of Family Members. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. 41:3, 4-20.
Korpela, M. 2016. A (Sub)Culture of Their Own: Children of Lifestyle Migrants in Goa, India. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. 25:4. 470-488.
Korpela, M. 2016. Interrogating child migrants or ‘Third Culture Kids’ in Asia: An introduction. Together with Anne-Meike Fechter. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. 25:4. 422-428.
Korpela, M. 2014. Growing up cosmopolitan? Children of Western Lifestyle Migrants in Goa, India. COLLeGIUM. Studies across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Vol. 15, 90-115.
Korpela, M. 2013. Marginally Mobile? The Vulnerable Lifestyle of the Westerners in Goa. Two Homelands 38, 63-72.
Korpela, M. 2010. A Postcolonial Imagination? Westerners Searching for Authenticity in India . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 36:6. 1299-1315
Articles in books:
Korpela Mari (2022) Vapauden valtakunta vai mystisen viisauden koti? Elämäntapamuuttajat ihmeellisessä Intiassa. In Mikko Autere & Hanna Mannila (eds.) Etelä-Aasian yhteiskunta, kulttuuri ja politiikka: Intia, Pakistan ja Bangladesh. Turku: University of Turku. 237-255.
Korpela, M. 2020. “We must stay for the exams!” Pacing mobilities and immobilities among lifestyle migrant families in Goa, India. In Vered Amit & Noel B. Salazar. Pacing mobilities: a consideration of shifts in the timing, intensity, tempo and duration of mobility. Berghahn Publishers.
Korpela, M. , Hyytiä, J. & Pitkänen, P. 2017. Navigating bureaucracies, intentions and relationships: Temporary transnational migration between Finland and Asia. In Pirkko Pitkänen, Mari Korpela, Mustafa Aksakal, Kerstin Schmidt (eds.) Characteristics of Temporary Migration in European-Asian Transnational Social Spaces.Dordrecht: Springer. 213-232.
Korpela, M. 2016. Infrastructure. In Noel Salazar & Kiran Jayaram (eds.) Keywords of Mobility: Critical Anthropological Engagements. Oxford: Berghahn Publishers. 117-136.
Korpela, M. 2014. Lifestyle of Freedom? Individualism and Lifestyle Migration. In Michaela Benson & Nick Osbaldiston (eds.) Understanding Lifestyle Migration. Theoretical Approaches to Migration and the Quest for a Better Way of Life. Palgrave Mcmillan. 27-46.
Korpela, M. 2009. When a Trip to Adulthood Becomes a Lifestyle: The Community of Westerners in Varanasi, India. In Karen O'Reilly & Michaela Benson (eds.) A New Life? Expectations, aspirations, and experiences of lifestyle migration. Ashgate: Aldershot. 15-30.
Books:
Pitkänen Pirkko, & Korpela, Mari & Aksaka, Mustagal & Schmidt, Kerstin (eds.). 2017. Characteristics of Temporary Migration in European-Asian Transnational Social Spaces. Dordrecht: Springer.
Korpela, Mari & Dervin Fred (eds.). 2013. Cocoon Communities. Togetherness in the 21st Century. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Korpela Mari, Hirsiaho Anu, Rantalaiho Liisa (eds.). 2005. Kohtaamisia rajoilla. Helsinki: SKS.
Blogs:
Kylmästä lämpimään. Suomalaiset eläkeläiset talvipakolaisina Thaimaassa. AntroBlogi. 22.6.2016
A drawing on mobile childhood by Goa kids. Allegra Lab: Anthropology, Law, Art & World. 15.5.2015.
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