Research at the Department of Cultural Heritage Studies
A cultural heritage researcher examines the historical culture of the institutions and communities that produce and preserve cultural heritage. We are studying the practices of cultural heritage institutes and other heritage communities with respect to memory and history, and the production and conservation of cultural heritage.
Typical research questions in the Department of Cultural Heritage Studies include:
- What is cultural heritage and what is it not?
- What is the value of cultural heritage and what is its significance?
- How does cultural heritage emerge, change and endure?
- How is cultural heritage transferred from generation to generation?
- What are cultural heritage institutions and how do they work?
- Who will receive our cultural heritage in the future?
- Who is cultural heritage meant for?
- How is cultural heritage protected, preserved and conserved?
- How do we adopt cultural heritage?
- Who participate in the process of cultural heritage?
- How is historical identity constructed?
- To whom does cultural heritage belong?
- Who uses histories and how are they used?
- How is the cultural environment formed?
- Where do the memories of place or landscape come from?
- How and why is cultural heritage destroyed or lost?
Recent publications of the Degree Programme in Digital Culture, Landscape and Cultural Heritage
Operationalizing the biocultural perspective part II: A review of biocultural action principles since The Declaration of Belém (2023)
Environmental Science and Policy
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2))
Strength Over Gender? Discussing and Presenting the Ambivalent Female Strength in the CrossFit Games 2019 (2023)
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3))Three soldiers in a dugout: the modern conflict archaeology of a burnt down Second World War underground structure on the Hanko Front (2023)
Monographs of the Archaeological Society of Finland
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
Legitimizing the game: how gamers' personal experiences shape the emergence of grassroots collective action in esports (2023)
Internet Research
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))