Title Finnish colonial encounters : from anti-imperialism to cultural colonialism and complicity / edited by Raita Merivirta, Leila Koivunen, Timo Särkkä

Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. Contents 1. Finns in the Colonial World; Raita Merivirta, Leila Koivunen & Timo Sarkka -- Part I: State, Nation and Colonialism in Finland -- 2. Wisdom of the Oppressed: Finnish Colonial Complicities in the Age of the Russian Empire; Pekka Rantanen, Petri Ruuska & Timo Sarkka -- 3. Finnish Parliamentarians Conceptions of Imperialism and Colonialism, 1917-1995; Mika Suonpaa & Matti Valimaki -- 4. Settler Colonial Eyes: Finnish Travel Writers and the Colonization of Petsamo; Janne Lahti -- 5. Nation-building and Colonialism: The Early Skolt Sami Research of Vaino Tanner; Jukka Nyyssonen -- Part II: Colonial Encounters in Finland -- 6. Queensland Cannibals : Encountered in Finland (1886): Locally Rooted Visions of Exhibitions of Colonized People; Leila Koivunen -- 7. Colonialism, Race and White Innocence in Finnish Childrens Literature: Anni Swans 1920s Serial Uutisasukkaana Austraaliassa ; Raita Merivirta -- 8. Encountering Colonial Worlds through Missionary Maps in the Late Nineteenth-Century Grand Duchy of Finland; Johanna Skurnik -- Part III: Finns Colonial Encounters Abroad -- 9. From the Eastern Front to the Western Frontier: The Transimperial Life of a Finnish Worker during the First World War; Aleksi Huhta -- 10. Photography and the Religious Encounter: Finnish Missionaries Representations of the Owambo, Namibia; Napandulwe Shiweda -- 11. Did you really have a place in the Boer War? : Colonial Conflict and the Contested Production of Finnish Nationality, 1899-1908; Wm. Matthew Kennedy & Chris Holdridge -- 12. The Pioneer Men : Making of Finnish Settler Identity in Southern Africa pre-1914; Timo Sarkka Summary Breaking new ground in the study of European colonialism, this book focuses on a nation historically positioned between the Western and Eastern Empires of Europe Finland. Although Finland never had overseas colonies, the authors argue that the country was undeniably involved in the colonial world, with Finns adopting ideologies and identities that cannot easily be disentangled from colonialism. This book explores the concepts of colonial complicity and colonialism without colonies in relation to Finland, a nation that was oppressed, but also itself complicit in colonialism. It offers insights into European colonialism on the margins of the continent and within a nation that has traditionally declared its innocence and exceptionalism. The book shows that Finns were active participants in various colonial contexts, including Southern Africa and Sapmi in the North. Demonstrating that colonialism was a common practice shared by all European nations, with or without formal colonies, this book provides essential reading for anyone interested in European colonial history. Raita Merivirta is an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of European and World History at the University of Turku, Finland. She is a specialist in postcolonial history, literature and cultural studies, and the author of The Emergency and the Indian English Novel: Memory, Culture and Politics (Routledge, 2019). Leila Koivunen is a Professor of global history and intercultural interaction in the Department of European and World History at the University of Turku, Finland. She is a specialist in the history of cultural encounters and the processes of intercultural knowledge formation, especially between Africa and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Timo Sarkka is a Docent in economic history in the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland and in 20212022 a Visiting Professor in Global History Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI) at Osaka University in Japan. He specialises in global economic history with an emphasis on economic imperialism. Chapters 1, 7 and 8 are available open access under a via link.springer.com Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Janurary 10, 2022) Subject Imperialism. Diplomatic relations Imperialism SUBJECT Finland -- Foreign relations -- Europe Europe -- Foreign relations -- Finland Europe -- Colonies -- History Subject Europe Finland Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Merivirta, Raita, 1975- editor. Koivunen, Leila, editor. Särkkä, Timo, editor. ISBN 9783030806101 3030806103

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