Miten taide vaikuttaa? Kulttuurisia näkökulmia hyvinvointiin ja terveyteen

• Taiteen ja kulttuurin terveys- ja hyvinvointivaikutuksista on saatu runsaasti laadullista ­ja ­määrällistä tutkimusnäyttöä. • Taide voi lievittää kipua ja vähentää lääkehoidon tarvetta. • Hyvinvoinnin merkitykset ja määritelmät ovat kulttuurisesti ehdollistuneita; ­nykyisin myös kulttuuripolitiikkaa ja taiteen taloutta on alettu arvioida hyvinvointivaikutusten perusteella. • Pahoinvointia, kärsimystä ja kipua käsittelevä taide voi tuottaa hyvinvointia ja laajentaa ­käsitystämme normaalista. • Taidetta voidaan hyödyntää potilastyössä, lääkärien työhyvinvoinnin tukemisessa ja lääkärinkoulutuksessa. peerReviewed

Does Finland Need Raciolinguistics?

A growing number of applied linguists and language educators in the US/North American context advocate for and from a scholarly perspective which views language issues in relation to racial issues and vice versa. The emergent field of raciolinguistics highlights the relationships between language and race/racism and has brought about research that investigates their intersections. Should scholars in Finland adopt (and adapt) such an approach to scholarly work? Three Finland-based scholars explore this question in a question ("prompt") - response format.

Tulkintojen tiheikössä : tilojen ja ihmisten kaikuja mielisairaalamuistoissa

Hulluus kulttuurisena kysymyksenä

Telling and Retelling Stories of Women, Madness and Feminism

Lisa Appignanesi, Virago, London, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84408-233-9, (540 pp.) Kirsi Tuohela, SKS, Helsinki, 2008, ISBN 978-951-746-980-7, (373 pp.) The topic of women and madness continues to intrigue ...

Home and mental ill-health: Twenty dimensions

In the context of psychiatric rehabilitation and care, home is often associated with health. In the context of deinstitutionalization, however, home has increasingly become the primary site of psychiatric suffering. Drawing on a two-year ethnographic research project with a drama group for young adult mental healthcare service users living in supported housing facilities, this paper presents twenty dimensions of home through which mental ill-health can be approached as a bodily experienced, and discursively and medically structured form of being in the world. These dimensions are here offered as a framework for further exploration of the social, spatial, temporal, structural and embodied as…

Yhteisö, taide ja tutkimus : keskustelu eettisistä mahdollisuuksista tietämättömyyden tilassa

Engraved in the Body: Ways of Reading Finnish People’s Memories of Mental Hospitals

AbstractFinnish psychiatric practice has been heavily based on institutionalization. Mental hospitals have thus been part of Finns’ lives in many ways. Our multidisciplinary research group has investigated how experiences in these institutions are remembered today by analysing writings by patients, relatives, personnel and their children, collected in 2014–2015 with the Finnish Literature Society. The memories cover phases of psychiatric care from the 1930s to the mid-2010s. This article presents multiple ways in which experiences that are often difficult verbalize can be interpreted, e.g. by drawing on perspectives from creative, artistic and cultural studies. Collecting and archiving the …

Ristiinvalotuksia : mielisairaala muistojen kuviteltuna ja elettynä tilana

Children and Childhoods in Women’s Madness Narratives

Kodittomuuksia nuorten mielenterveyskuntoutujien draamaryhmässä

Anchoring Belonging Through Material Practices in Participatory Arts-Based Research

How do people understand belonging and what kinds of stances toward belonging do they take? What kind of knowledge or ways of knowing (EISNER, 2008) does artistic practice yield about belonging? We ask these questions in this article, which is based on the research project Crossing Borders, in which we used participatory arts-based methods to study belonging. We invited participants to explore the notion of belonging in three parallel workshops drawing on different art forms, film, writing and visual arts. The goal of the workshops was for each participant to produce an artwork that deals with belonging. In the article, we identify four stances that the participants expressed toward the con…

Kotona, sairaalassa : kodin ja mielisairaalan jännitteisiä suhteita

Mapping the Concept(s) of Belonging

Various epistemological changes – such as the linguistic, narrative, and cultural turns that have influenced humanistic and social scientific studies since the 1980s – have contributed to the increased academic interest in politics, discourses, processes, and practices of belonging. During the recent decades, the idea of belonging or notbelonging have been discussed and theorized in various fields with diverse parallel and/or overlapping conceptualizations. These include, for example, identity, placemaking, displacement, and their representational, intersectional, and fluid nature. In recent years, several scholars have aimed to discuss the topics framed by the above mentioned concepts and …

Girls strike back : the politics of parody in an indigenous TV comedy

The diversification of the media has opened up new spaces for performances that seek not only to evoke laughter but also to voice social critique. One example of this development is the TV comedy show Märät säpikkäät/Njuoska bittut, created by two young women belonging to the indigenous Sámi people living in Finland. This paper focuses on one particularly critical sketch in the show: a counter-parody of a popular parody of the Sámi presented by two Finnish male comedians. The original sketch was a parody of ethnicity. As they strike back, however, the female presenters consciously foreground the categories of gender and class, thereby introducing a completely new figure: a white, urban, und…

Koti ja hulluus, koditon hulluus

Muistoja keräämässä ja tutkimassa

Bringing madness home : the multiple meanings of home in Janet Frame's Faces in the water, Bessie Head's A question of power and Lauren Slater's Prozac diary

Maisemassa : sukupuoli suomalaisuuden kuvastoissa

Maisemalla on merkittävä tehtävä kansallisuutta koskevien käsitysten luomisessa ja ylläpitämisessä. Mutta maisema ei ole vain paikka, vaan paikasta tulee maisema rajaamisen kautta. Rajaus ohjaa katseen maiseman reunoille, kehyksiin ja kehystämiseen. Se näyttää, kenen maisema on, kuka maiseman tekee ja mitä varten. Maiseman rajaaminen on valtaa. Maiseman käsite viittaa yhtäältä luonnonmaisemaan, toisaalta sen kuvalliseen esittämiseen. Monitieteisessä artikkelikokoelmassa Maisemassa – Sukupuoli suomalaisuuden kuvastoissa analysoidaan kansallisuuden kulttuurisia esityksiä rajattuina maisemina. Visuaalisen kulttuurin, kirjallisuuden, kulttuurimaantieteen ja sukupuolen tutkijat tarkastelevat art…

Homing blogs as ambivalent spaces for feminine agency

This article discusses a form of lifestyle blogging where women blog about their homes and everyday lives. In these homing blogs, selfrepresentations are characteristically spatially demarcated within the private sphere of the home. As these repeated representations of women in their homes take place in the public space of the internet, homing blogs work towards naturalizing the home as a women’s sphere. Written and commented on mostly by other women, homing blogs represent a feminine form of self-expression and communication that functions as a discursive expression of ongoing social, economic, and cultural changes in affluent Western societies. In this article, Finnish versions of these h…

Reading, interventions : States of interpersonal and intrapersonal violence in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power

Rajatut maisemat

Muistot mielisairaalasta kulkevat ihmisten mukana

"""Fluidity and flexibility of """"belonging"""": Uses of the concept in contemporary research"""

Studies framing “belonging” as a key focus and a central concept of research have increased significantly in the 2000s. This article explores the dimensions of belonging as a scholarly concept. The investigation is based on a qualitative content analysis of articles published in academic journals covering a large number of different disciplines. The article poses and answers the following research questions: How is belonging understood and used in contemporary research? What added value does the concept bring to scholarly discussions? In the analysis, five topoi of conceptualizing belonging – spatiality, intersectionality, multiplicity, materiality, and non-belonging – were identified. Afte…

Home and mental ill-health: twenty dimensions

In the context of psychiatric rehabilitation and care, home is often associated with health. In the context of deinstitutionalization, however, home has increasingly become the primary site of psychiatric suffering. Drawing on a two-year ethnographic research project with a drama group for young adult mental healthcare service users living in supported housing facilities, this paper presents twenty dimensions of home through which mental ill-health can be approached as a bodily experienced, and discursively and medically structured form of being in the world. These dimensions are here offered as a framework for further exploration of the social, spatial, temporal, structural and embodied as…

Kotiblogien julkiset käpertymisen maisemat

Tarkastelemme tässä artikkelissa naisten kirjoittamien blogien joukkoa, jota nimitämme kotiblogeiksi. Analysoimme sitä, miten kodista tulee maisema ja millaisista maisemista blogien kuvasto koostuu. Osoitamme, että koti elettynä paikkana ja julkisesti kotiblogeissa representoituna kuvastona ovat jännitteisessä suhteessa toisiinsa. Lisäksi kysymme, mitkä ovat kotiblogien maisemien modaliteetit ja miten niiden kautta tuotetaan sukupuolta peerReviewed