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Tuire Liimatainen, Ph.D.

Migration Institute of Finland, Finland — Research Fellow

Department of Cultures · University of Helsinki, Finland — Visiting scholar

Research Areas

  • Cultural Analysis
  • Media, Information and Communication Technology
  • Popular Culture
  • Social Media

Ongoing Projects

Highlighted publications

Liimatainen, T. (2022). Finnishnesses in Sweden: The Discursive Construction of Ethnicity in the Landscape of Social Media. PhD diss., University of Helsinki.

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Liimatainen, T. & Carlsson, N. (2022). Våga finska! Sverigefinsk språkaktivism på sociala medier. Teoksessa: Milani, T. M. & Salö, L. (toim.) Sveriges nationella minoritetsspråk – nya språkpolitiska perspektiv. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 67–96.

Liimatainen, T. (2022). In/visible Finnishness – Representations of Finnishness and Whiteness in the Sweden-Finnish Social Media Landscape. Teoksessa: Hoegaerts, J., Liimatainen, T., Hekanaho, L. & Peterson, E. (toim.) Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 181–205.

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Liimatainen, T., & Carlsson, N. (2021). “Kyss mig, jag är en sverigefinne!”: Gränsdragningar mellan invandrarskap och minoritetsskap i den sverigefinska etnopolitiska mobiliseringen 1980-2020. Tidskrift för genusvetenskap, 42(4), 75–99.

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Liimatainen, T. (2019). From In-Betweenness to Invisibility: Changing Representations of Sweden Finnish Authors. Journal of Finnish Studies, 23(1), 41–66.

Hoegaerts, J., Peterson, E., Liimatainen, T., & Hekanaho, L. (2022). Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality: An Introduction. Teoksessa: Hoegaerts, J., Liimatainen, T., Hekanaho, L. & Peterson, E. (toim.) Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1–16.

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About

My research focuses on a broad range of themes related to ethnicity, belonging and identity. I am particularly interested in how these issues manifest and evolve in the digital era. I have previously studied representations of Sweden-Finnishness in social media campaigns and activism in my doctoral dissertation. In my current project, funded by Kone Foundation for 2023-2026, I examine the nexus of expatriate Finnishness and digitalization. My research involves the use of a critical and comparative framework derived from cultural studies, with a keen interest in exploring phenomena from a multidimensional perspective. I primarily utilize qualitative methods, with a special focus on discourse analysis.