Jaana Kouri

Åbo Akademi University · Department of Political Science

Winters in the Turku archipelago have become milder. During the last few decades, inhabitants have witnessed a relatively sudden loss of permanent ice cover during the winter months. In our chapter, we use ethnographic tools to conceptualise local skills, experience-based knowledge and tacit knowledge concerning ice as an environmental heritage – a...

Ethnographic writing Open Access: https://doi.org/10.21435/tl.274

This chapter is based on an ethnography of dance improvisation. It analyses instances of handling unpredictability and fragility in ordinary life. It shows that such situations are common and that people are well-skilled in dealing with them without recourse to the idea of a clearly defined order. While the imperatives of modernity seem to lead to...

The history of Lypyrtti, an old pilot village in the southwestern coast of Finland, is for many villagers a story of depopulation of a vital community during the last fifty years. In 2005 the villagers of Lypyrtti expressed their interest in collecting the oral history of their village. This material is gathered, edited and released in the context...