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Indigenous Studies staff and associated researchers.
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen

Professor, coordinator of the program

Amazonia, temporality, biodiversity, relational onto-epistemologies, Indigenous research methodologies, research ethics, Indigenous sustainability, biocultural heritage, Indigenous knowledge

Phone: +358294140020

Svetlana Edygarova

University lecturer

Finno-Ugric languages, writing in Indigenous languages, Indigenous and minority languages, sociolinguistics, Udmurt language, language transmission

Victoria Peemot

Postdoctoral researcher, Kone Foundation fellow

human-nonhuman relationships, memory politics, Indigenous methodologies, environmental humanities

+358401202164

 

Outi Laiti

Postdoctoral researcher

Sámi games, Indigenous games, Game jamming, Indigenous Game Design, Indigenous worldview, Indigenous research methodologies, Intangible heritage, Ethnoprogramming, Indigenous programming, Indigenous ICT, Human-Computer Interaction

Francisco Moura Cândido Apurinã

Postdoctoral researcher, Indigenous Studies

Human-environment interactions, Indigenous sacred places and their protection

Maria Fedina

Postdoctoral researcher, Indigenous Studies

Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia, Indigenous peoples of the North, the Arctic, self-determination

Hanna Guttorm

Senior Researcher, Kone Foundation fellow.

Indigenous research methodologies, Indigenous cosmologies, Sámi ontologies, Indigenous sustainability, traditional ecological knowledge, post qualitative research methods, research writing

Phone: +358294140043

Jelena Porsanger

 

 

Associated Senior researcher

Indigenous research methodologies, Sámi epistemology

 

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Nicola Renzi

Postdoctoral researcher

Indigenous acoustemology; Sámi joik; Mosquito; More-than-music; Soundscape conservation; Multimodal field recording; Acoustic ecology; More-than-human musicking; Anthropology of sound; Arctic

 

Tuija Veintie

Senior Researcher (Kone Fellow)

Indigenous knowledge, sustainability and education; collective resilience and polycrises; interculturality and pluriversality; minoritized youth; Amazonia

 

Eleonora Lundell

Postdoctoral Researcher

Decolonial and participatory research methodologies, relational onto-epistemologies, climate justice and youth in Senegal, Afro-Brazilian and West African religions 

Jimena Bigá

PhD Researcher, Indigenous-led land-based pedagogies, body–territory method, multispecies intra-actions, time and multi-temporalities, more-than-human ethics, ethico-onto-epistemological pluralism, Brazilian North-east

 

Sinituuli Korja

PhD Researcher, Amazonian Indigenous education

 

Irja Seurujärvi-Kari

 

Affiliated Senior researcher

Indigenous Studies, Sámi languages, language revitalization, Indigenous movement, language policy, indigeneity, Sámi movement, indigenous women's leadership

 

Phone: +358400876222

 

Reetta Toivanen

 

Associated Researcher, HELSUS Professor in Sustainability Science (Indigenous Sustainabilities)

Critical narratives on Europe, the Arctic, human rights, Indigenous sustainabilities, youth, equality, human rights education

Phone:  

Dorothee Cambou

 

Associated associate professor in Sustainability science

Indigenous peoples' rights, land and resource governance, self-determinaton issues, energy justice

Phone: +358294123271