Riikka HohtiUniversity of Oulu
Riikka Hohti
Doctor of Philosophy
Postdoc In the University of Oulu and University of Helsinki. Adjunct professor, University of Tampere.
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Introduction
Riikka Hohti has written about multispecies childhoods, atmospheres, materiality and temporality. She has developed participatory and post-qualitative methodologies at the intersections of childhood studies and human-animal studies and education. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the AniMate research group (University of Oulu), and leads the project Children of the Anthropocene – Environmental atmospheres and multispecies collaborations (2022-2025, Kone Foundation, University of Helsinki).
Additional affiliations
August 2019 - April 2022
August 2018 - present
August 2017 - May 2018
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- Part of the AniMate research team (led by Doc. Pauliina Rautio)
Education
September 2010 - May 2016
September 2003 - May 2007
September 1985 - June 1994
Publications
Publications (42)
This article examines the relations between human children and other than human animals in a multispecies ethnographic study conducted in an unofficial educational zoo established in a greenhouse in a lower secondary school. The specific focus is on the practices in which the students become responsible carers of animals. The analysis employs the t...
In this paper, we seek to unsettle and extend understandings of what constitutes the contemporary family in Western minority world society and consider the material politics that follow from such a reconceptualization. We do this by offering a situated exploration into the caring relations and shared biographies that routinely evolve between childr...
This paper follows young people’s shifting sense of inheritance in the context of the environmental and ontological crises of the epoch named the Anthropocene. It discusses a research project in which young people were invited to work critically and creatively with a British university museum to explore its storerooms and exhibits. The ethnographic...
This article discusses the “more-than-human” turn in qualitative inquiry and education, engaging with the critiques presented by philosophers, animal studies scholars, and educational scholars toward the “too easy” adoption of an inclusive relational ontology. Based on Barad’s concept of re-turning, the article develops a methodology of insect-thin...
In this paper, we discuss the tacit agreement to use English as lingua franca in global academia. Our interest is in how Anglocentrism manifests within academic practices-seminars, conferences, and academic publishing-all of which are marked by neoliberal assumptions of mastery, quality, and efficacy. Drawing on autobiographical narratives, social...
This collective piece explores the philosophical, ontological, and epistemic potentials of analyzing the relations between childhood and time, proposing thought experiments and fieldwork analyses that release childhood from a linear temporality toward (modern) adulthood. Each experiment originating from the authors’ distinct scholarly positionings...
Kollektiivinen artikkelimme on sommitelma, jonka tarkoitus on tutkia antroposee-niksi nimetyn hetken kulttuuriperintöä ja antikolonialistisen taidepedagogiikanmahdollisuuksia taidemuseossa. Olemme joukko kuvataidekasvatuksen opiskelijoi-ta, tutkijoita ja taidemuseon pedagogeja. Kerromme toteuttamastamme puolen vuo-den mittaisesta opinto- ja tutkimu...
Pääkirjoitus numeroon 3/2022.
This paper is a search for common ground between two natural scientists, two childhood studies and education scholars and two human–animal studies or critical animal studies scholars all working within a shared citizen science project. The search takes the form of a thematic mapping of existing literature on ecological citizen science, with two que...
In this article, we discuss a series of artistic interventions in a university museum co-created by young people, researchers, and museum curators. We focus on the co-development of techniques for disrupting and re-imagining museological spaces and times, while exploring young people’s shifting sense of inheritance in relation to the “Anthropocene”...
In this article we analyze the phenomenon of touch to discuss care and knowing within child-animal relations. The empirical part was conducted as a multispecies ethnography in a comprehensive school with an educational zoo built in a huge greenhouse. Storytelling, Despret’s idea of “versions,” and insights drawn from dance are used to take a close...
Childhood scholars have for some time worked toward the idea that instead of being situated in their own micro worlds, waiting rooms, or margins, children should be viewed and accounted for as full participants of society. This special issue aligns with this aspiration, while broadening the notion of what counts as society. It asks how to live and...
Arvosteltu teos: Värri, Veli-Matti 2018. Kasvatus ekokriisin aikakaudella. Tampere: Vastapaino. 186 s.
In this interview, Riikka traces how thinking with concepts informed by Deleuze and Barad have taken her work into different directions, asking different questions and making new inquiries possible with children. We discussed her more recent shift to child–animal relations through her postdoctoral research, which has unveiled new kinds of questions...
Mikä on marsujen mielestä romanttista? Miksi eläinten tappamisesta ei joudu vankilaan? Keneltä ratsastamiseen pitää kysyä lupa? Onko limasieni älykäs?
Lasten ja eläinten suhteet on tarinallinen, kysymysten ympärille kietoutuva tietokirja lasten eläinsuhteista. Sen kertomukset kumpuavat viiden tutkijan ja lukuisten suomalaisten lasten ja heille tä...
Hohti, Riikka-Paananen, Maiju. 2019. MITEN PITKÄ ON "KOHTA"? AJAN VIRTA JA KIETOUMAT KOULUSSA JA PÄIVÄKODISSA. Kasvatus 50 (1), 34-46. Aika ja ajallisuus ovat moninaisia ilmiöitä, joiden olemuksesta ei nykykäsityksen mukaan ole olemassa yksittäistä oikeaa tulkintaa. Tämän artikkelin tavoitteena on tutkia kasvatus-ympäristöjä moninaisuuden näkökulma...
This chapter explores children’s and young people’s engagements and attachments with digitality in Finnish school context. School research (e.g. Simola 2015) has brought out how classroom practice and routine seems to be surprisingly resistant to change to the extent that to an observer’s eyes, much of it looks practically unchanged during decades....
Osallistuminen lukeutuu lapsuudentutkimuksen isoihin aiheisiin. Osallistumisella saatetaan kuitenkin tarkoittaa monia eri asioita, kuten yksilön kyvykkyyttä tai yhtei-sön käytänteiden muotoutumista. Se voi olla sekä emansipatorinen prosessi että itsehallinnan tuottamisen strategia. Analysoimme artikkelissamme kahta alakou-luun sijoittuvaa empiirist...
We begin this special issue by relating to two affective events situated in academia and education. These moments, and many similar, have stayed with us and kept us thinking about what kind of research we want to advance. These moments are laden with ambivalence. On the one hand, there was the joy of learning about power: being able to distract wha...
In this article I discuss educational practices and policies relating to special needs, and I also address the assumptions about teacher professionalism in doing so. At the same time I consider the ontological premise of materiality and relationality as something that urges and opens up new possibilities for how qualitative analysis is done. I expe...
While there have been several attempts to account for relationships between
humans and nonhuman animals in the social sciences and humanities, the discipline
of education has, until recently, steered clear from the so-called animal turn.
Drawing on post-anthropocentric theorizations, we introduce a concept of
withling(s) and develop it empirically...
The worry over urban children having lost their connection to nature is most often addressed with either initiatives of reinserting the ‘child back to nature’ or with evidence aiming to prove that the worry is unfounded to begin with. Neither approach furthers our understanding of child–nature relations as continuing transformation of both ‘child’...
This article presents an empirical study of everyday life in school and a methodological attempt to emphasise children’s views and to find ways other than representation to analyse them. The empirical portion took place in a Finnish elementary school in which the author was the class teacher. The ten-year-olds in the class engaged in an unstructure...
This Lectio was presented in the public doctoral defense at the University of Helsinki, the 3.5.2016.
Tämä lektio esitettiin tohtorinväitöksessä 3.5.2016.
The subject of this thesis is everyday life in the school classroom with a focus on
what matters to the children. The classroom is understood as a more-than-human
context consisting of combinations and gatherings of material things, bodies, time,
space and ideas. The study is located at the intersection of education,
interdisciplinary childhood stu...
This study examines time and children in the classroom based on free-flowing observations written in class by 10-year-old pupils. The concept of entanglement is activated to consider time together with space and matter and explore the dynamics in which these elements interact. The analysis unsettles the notion of time as a separate, ‘outside’ param...
Professor Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre’s work focuses on critical and poststructural theories of language and the subject and what she has called post qualitative inquiry or post inquiry. She asks what might come after conventional humanist qualitative research methodology. She’s especially interested in the new empiricisms/new materialisms as well a...
This article makes a connection between narrative ethnography, childhood studies and new materialist theories in studying children's perspective on school. It presents ‘children writing ethnography’ as an approach based on complexity and involving participatory research. The question of ‘what is happening in the classroom’ is explored through writi...
This article offers a methodological contribution to the concept of children’s voices and the ways of listening to them. Children’s voices are studied in a narrative ethnographical research project in a school classroom. The authors follow children’s voices from the level of classroom observation to an analysis on narrative data produced by the Sto...
Tämän artikkelin aiheena on koulussa eletty ja koettu lapsuus. Kysymme, miten koululaisena toimimisen tilat muovautuvat ja rajautuvat koulun arjen sisältämissä vuorovaikutuksissa. Tutkimme narratiivisen etnografian keinoin erästä suomalaista peruskoulun ensimmäistä luokkaa tämän valmistautuessa kevätjuhliin. Näemme koululaisen toiminnan kouluinstit...
Projects
Projects (2)
Children of the Anthropocene - Atmospheres of the environmental crisis and new forms of multispecies collaboration
We are a research group focusing on the question, what is it like to grow up in the atmospheres of so called Anthropocene and the shifting human-animal-nature relations therein. The goal is also to advance attentiveness towards multispecies relationality in society. The research project is funded by Kone Foundation (2022-2025).
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