Sanna Ojalammi- Ph.d Geography
- Researcher at University of Oulu
Sanna Ojalammi
- Ph.d Geography
- Researcher at University of Oulu
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Introduction
I am an independent ethnographic researcher. Conducted studies on biodiversity, environmental education, land and wildlife conflicts, land resource management, and voluntary cultural activism in suburbs.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
January 2012 - September 2015
Natural Resources Institute
Position
- PostDoc Position
January 2012 - September 2015
Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute/Natural Resources Institute
Position
- PostDoc Position
Publications
Publications (14)
Zoos aim to enhance zoo visitors' knowledge of biodiversity, conservation and sustainability and responsible consumer consumption, encouraging visitors to form positive connections to wildlife. To analyse how this is achieved in Korkeasaari Zoo after changes to their conservation education, we conducted a follow-up study in 2023 by interviewing zoo...
This article describes varied place attachments manifested in public (communal) places in the two socioeconomically weakest suburbs of the city of Jyväskylä in central Finland. We conducted ethnographic research and observations, interviewed local experts on their views of the suburbs, and analysed discourses from various places where residents’ ex...
These days zoos often claim that their main objective is the promotion of nature conservation and that they strive to educate their visitors about animals and nature conservation. But how do zoo visitors themselves perceive this emphasis on conservation education? In order to determine how Helsinki Zoo visitors perceive nature conservation during t...
Zoos nowadays often claim that their main objective is nature conservation and that they strive to educate the visitors on this subject. A considerable amount of research has been undertaken on conservation education in zoos. This overview performs a qualitative meta-analysis of the methodology, concepts and results of research articles on zoo visi...
Journal name: Lo Squaderno (not peer reviewed)
Link to full issue: http://www.losquaderno.professionaldreamers.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/losquaderno42.pdf
The reappearance of the grey wolf (Canis lupus) in 2005 after a one-hundred-year absence surprised rural communities in Southwest Finland. Various social emotions emerged and began to shape how people thought about wolves and reoriented their daily practices. In this paper, we examine how emotional reactions and actions functioned in the presence o...
As human codings of animals are often simultaneously legal and spatial, it may be useful to bring together the animal geographies literature and scholarship on legal geography. Through a case study set in southwest Finland, we explore the emergent and fraught entanglements of wolves, humans and sheep, characterizing the attempts at the regulation o...
Artikkelissani olen tarkastellut, miten susi on Varsinais-Suomessa vaaran ja uhkan kokemusten kautta muuttanut paikallisten ihmisten elinpiirissä spatiaalisia käytäntöjä ja vaikuttanut ihmisten tunteisiin. Relationaalisessa tilassa susi ja susikokemukset ovat vaikuttaneet paikallisten ihmisten arkisiin toimintatapoihin. Erityisesti susireviireillä...
This book contributes to the research and debates on the nexus of environment and development in the field of development studies by focusing on the social dynamics and outcomes of state and/or donor-led initiatives and on “local” efforts to manage the natural resources at stake. Although the authors draw on diverse methodological and conceptual ba...
Tiivistelmä. Diss. -- Helsingin yliopisto.
This study Contested Lands: Land disputes in semi-arid parts of northern Tanzania. Case Studies of the Loliondo and Sale Division in the Ngorongoro District concentrates on describing the specific land disputes which took place in the 1990s in the Loliondo and Sale Divisions of the Ngorongoro District in northern Tanzania. The study shows the terri...
