Her Own Worth: Negotiations of Subjectivity in the Life Narrative of a Female Labourer

Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika

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“…esim. Hänninen 1999, 50-51;Illouz 2008, 173;Koskinen-Koivisto [2014] 2016, 51-52; Koskinen-Koivisto ja Marander-Eklund 2016). Tarkastelen seuraavassa Rowéuksen kerronnan suhdetta kulttuurisesti jaettuihin kertomuksiin ja nykyajalle tyypillisiin eletyn elämän merkityksellistämisen tapoihin.…”

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Stalinin roskat

Potinkara

2023

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Tarkastelen tässä artikkelissa Ruotsiin 1940-luvulla pakolaisena saapuneen inkerinsuomalaistaustaisen Jalo Rowéuksen elämänkerrontaa, jossa keskeiseksi nousee eletyn elämän ja oman persoonan reflektointi Inkerinmaalle sijoittuvaa varhaislapsuutta ja inkerinsuomalaisten historiaa vasten. Kerronta heijastaa kulttuurisesti jaettua kärsimyskertomusta ja asettuu samalla osaksi yksilöllisen refleksiivisyyden normiin pohjaavaa terapeuttista diskurssia. Vaikean menneisyyden käsittely näyttäytyy henkisenä työskentelynä, jonka tavoitteena on itsensä löytäminen, psyykkinen eheytyminen ja ylisukupolvisen kärsimyshistorian taakasta vapautuminen. [Artikkelin tunnuskuva: Yksityiskohta Axel Ebben veistoksesta "Mannen som bryter sig ut ur klippan". Kuva: Wikipedia / Jorchr. CC BY-SA 3.0]

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Potinkara

2023

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“…War things tell remarkable stories: broadly speaking, war mementoes may embody both an absence and a presence – a survival or a loss. Both presences and absences animate, in different ways, memories and mementoes of the Italian resistance and civil war (see also Koskinen-Koivisto, 2014; Meyers and Woodthorpe, 2008). Absences and presences coexist in memories of the war beyond objects, such as stories, place-based recollections and performances; in a way, stories form war things’ most meaningful and powerful iteration, so much so that Ricoeur (1991: 115) argues that, through telling stories, we may ‘give “shape” to what remains chaotic, obscure and mute’.…”

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The materiality of conflict memory: Reflections from contemporary Italy

Nardi

2020

Journal of Material Culture

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The process and project of rememory (after Toni Morrison’s Beloved, 1987) may be linked with a politics of hope – to exorcise, to move on, to empower; rememories are emergent ‘sites of feeling’ capable of triggering bodily reactions and emotional responses. This article takes stock of some emergent traces of post-conflict materialities that can be explored through storytelling, in this case, of the civil war between fascists and anti-fascists in Italy during the Second World War (1943–1945). The author reflects on the cathartic capacity of rememory through two wartime storytelling ‘experiments’. In a town square, the Surviving Thing is the handed-down memory of two executions, one on each side, haunting the place but without physical in situ traces of those acts. In 2014, veteran fascists and anti-fascists and their descendants re-enacted violent episodes on both sides that had left no visible or tangible traces. They used spatial clues in archival photographs, triangulating the traces to conjure up spectral geographies of death on both political sides, to ‘get closure’. In another example, a Surviving Thing is present as a physical object (a letter) without mnemonic trace. In 2012, an ex-partisan paid tribute to unsung heroes of the local resistance by writing an open letter that commemorated their bravery. While also looking for closure (or perhaps an opening up?), she wrote to dispel the oblivion to which history banished the boys’ actions – to fill an absence with an affectual presence. The well-thumbed sheet is thus animated in the moment of witnessing through a loving act of rememory. The two post-conflict sites reveal something of the affectual and cathartic capacity of traces that survive and those that do not. Overall, rememories perform intangible affects that frame the nuanced social legacies of conflict, while the ‘experiments’ embody the centrality of storytelling to the material culture of post-conflict societies.

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Landscapes of Loss and Destruction: Sámi Elders’ Childhood Memories of the Second World War Sámi Elders’ Childhood Memories of the Second World War

Koskinen-Koivisto

Seitsonen

2019

Ethnologia Europaea

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Her Own Worth: Negotiations of Subjectivity in the Life Narrative of a Female Labourer

Cited by 3 publications

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The materiality of conflict memory: Reflections from contemporary Italy

Landscapes of Loss and Destruction: Sámi Elders’ Childhood Memories of the Second World War Sámi Elders’ Childhood Memories of the Second World War

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