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List of Contributors
Heidi Grönstrand, PhD, is Adjunct Professor of Finnish Literature at the Univesity of Turku. Her research interests include the history of multilingual authors and multilingual literature in Finland as well as issues of multilingualism in institutional context. At the moment, she is interested in looking at autobiographical writings in contemporary literature and the ways in which language, remembering and forgetting are intertwined into each other in them. She is the leader of the research project “Multilingualism in contemporary literature in Finland”, funded by the Kone Foundation (2014–2016). The project analyses multilingual practices in literature and comics, as well as their aesthetical, ethical and political implications. Author’s email address for correspondence: heigro(at)utu.fi
Henna Jousmäki is preparing her doctoral dissertation at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Languages, on the discursive construction of Christian metal identity and culture online. She is currently affiliated with the project “Language and Superdiversity:
(Dis)identification in Social Media”, funded by the Academy of Finland (2012–2016).
Her work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Religion and Popular Culture and Journal of Multicultural Discourses. Author’s email address for correspondence: henna.jousmaki(at)jyu.fi
Leena Kaunonen, PhD, is Adjunct professor of Finnish literature and a research fellow in the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki. She has taught literature in Helsinki, Vienna, and Stockholm. She is a former Fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She has conducted research funded by Finnish foundations and the Academy of Finland. Her areas of research interest include modernist studies, word and music studies, and literature’s (fiction and non-fiction) function in contemporary society. She is interested in multidisciplinary collaboration and research and she has cooperated with researchers with backgrounds in the Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences. Author’s email address for correspondence: leena.
kaunonen(at)helsinki.fi
Mari Korpela is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tampere. Her anthropological PhD dissertation (2009) was an ethnographic research investigating Westerners in Varanasi, India. In 2011–2013, she conducted a research titled “Mobile Childhood. Children of Lifestyle Migrants in Goa, India”. She has also worked as an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Tampere, and she has been a visiting scholar at the University of Goa, India, and at the University of Sussex, UK. Author’s email address for correspondence: mari.korpela(at)uta.fi
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Johanna Leinius is a research associate at the chair for Gender and Postcolonial Studies in the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” at Goethe-University Frankfurt. She holds a Master of Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki and is currently working on her doctoral thesis, which scrutinises the politics of difference in the global justice movement from a postcolonial feminist perspective. She cooperates with the Programa Democracia y Transformación Social in Lima, Peru. Her research interests include: postcolonial feminist theory, social movement studies, as well as decolonial approaches to international solidarity and activism. Author’s email address for correspondence: johanna.leinius(at)normativeorders.net
Jonathan Mair is lecturer in Buddhism in the Department of Religions & Theology, Manchester University. He has taught social anthropology in Manchester and held research fellowships at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, and at St John’s College, Cambridge. His recent research addresses the way Fo Guang Shan, a transnational Buddhist movement, reflexively adapts its ethical teachings for consumption by those its members consider cultural others. Previous research focused on the revival of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolian areas of northern China. Recent publications include articles on religious belief, and religion and authority in China. He is co-editor of Anthropology of Ignorance: an ethnographic approach, published by Palgrave.
Author’s email address for correspondence: jonathan.mair(at)manchester.ac.uk
Elisa Pieri is a social scientist with a background of interdisciplinary research in science, technology and policy. Her research interests and publications are in the areas of sociology of science and technology, ethical, legal and social aspects of new technologies, biopolitics, power and surveillance. Through a series of ESRC funded projects Elisa has researched public and practitioners’ views around the development and uptake of new technologies, their policy impacts, and their public and media debates. Her current PhD research investigates securitisation of urban space and takes Manchester city centre as a case study. This research explores the visions and values of different stakeholders and problematises the dynamics maintained through imagined futures. Author’s email address for correspondence: elisa.pieri(at)postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
