Publications

Peer-reviewed articles:

  • Koivunen, Leila. “The ‘First Fruit’ of Owambo: The Public Story of Nanguroshi/Eva Maria in the Promotion of Finnish Mission Work.” In Koivunen, Leila & Raita Merivirta (eds.), Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870-1990. Cultural Change, Endurance and Resistance. Finnish Literature Society, Studia Fennica Historica 28, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21435/sfh.28 [Open Access]
  • Merivirta, Raita. “Colonising Young Minds? Imagining Owambo in Finnish Missionary Magazines for Children at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.” In Koivunen, Leila & Raita Merivirta (eds.), Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870-1990. Cultural Change, Endurance and Resistance. Finnish Literature Society, Studia Fennica Historica 28, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21435/sfh.28 [Open Access]
  • Shiweda, Napandulwe & Lovisa Tegelela Nampala. “Traditional Aawambo Healing Practices that have Survived the Influence of Finnish Missionaries in Northern Namibia” In Koivunen, Leila & Raita Merivirta (eds.), Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870-1990. Cultural Change, Endurance and Resistance. Finnish Literature Society, Studia Fennica Historica 28, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21435/sfh.28 [Open Access]
  • Caley, Maria. “Cultural Identity Formation: Exploring the Yihiho Traditional Headdress of Vakwangali Women through Textile Designs.” In Koivunen, Leila & Raita Merivirta (eds.), Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870-1990. Cultural Change, Endurance and Resistance. Finnish Literature Society, Studia Fennica Historica 28, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21435/sfh.28 [Open Access]
  • Iizyenda, Loini. “Narratives of Uuputu Artefacts: An Intrusion of Finnish Missionaries on the Cultural and Technological Development of the Aawambo People.” In Koivunen, Leila & Raita Merivirta (eds.), Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870-1990. Cultural Change, Endurance and Resistance. Finnish Literature Society, Studia Fennica Historica 28, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21435/sfh.28 [Open Access]
  • Holmi, Jerkko. “Outlining the Finnish Stance towards Namibia through Finnish Foreign Policy Publications: The Case of 1985.” In Koivunen, Leila & Raita Merivirta (eds.), Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870-1990. Cultural Change, Endurance and Resistance. Finnish Literature Society, Studia Fennica Historica 28, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21435/sfh.28 [Open Access]

Peer-reviewed anthologies

  • Koivunen, Leila & Raita Merivirta (eds.), Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870-1990. Cultural Change, Endurance and Resistance. Finnish Literature Society, Studia Fennica Historica 28, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21435/sfh.28 [Open Access]

Other:

  • Huuhka, Essi. Kaukaiselle lähimmäiselle. Humanitaarisuus Suomen lähetysseuran Lounais-Afrikan-toiminnassa 1890-luvulta 1910-luvulle [For distant neighbours: Humanitarianism in the Finnish Missionary Society’s work in South West Africa from the 1890s to the 1910s]. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Turku, 2024. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-29-9968-2 [Open Access]
  • Merivirta, Raita. Kolonialismia ilman siirtomaita?: Kulttuurinen kolonialismi ja ”rotu” suomalaisessa lasten- ja nuortenkirjallisuudessa ja lapsille suunnatuissa lehdissä, 1900–1960 [Colonialism without Colonies? Cultural Colonialism and Race in Finnish Children’s and Youth Literature and Children’s Periodicals, 1900–1960]. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Turku, 2024. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-29-9827-2 [Open Access]
  • Koivunen, Leila & Raita Merivirta: Uutta tutkimustietoa Suomi-Namibia-suhteen kolonialistisista piirteistä. Suomi-Namibia-Seuran jäsentiedote 3/2024, 10-11.
  • Merivirta, Raita: Liittyikö suomalaisten lähetystyöhön Owambossa koloniaalisia piirteitä? Vähäisiä lisiä –blogi, SKS 6.9.2024. https://www.finlit.fi/ajankohtaista/blogi/liittyiko-suomalaisten-lahetystyohon-owambossa-koloniaalisia-piirteita/

Previously published:

  • Shiweda, Napandulwe. “Photography and the Religious Encounter: Finnish Missionaries’ Representations of the Owambo, Namibia”. In Finnish Colonial Encounters: From Anti-Imperialism to Cultural Colonialism and Complicity, Raita Merivirta, Leila Koivunen &Timo Särkkä (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 249-276. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80610-1_10 [Peer-reviewed]
  • Kaartinen, Marjo, Leila Koivunen & Napandulwe Shiweda (eds.). Intertwined histories: 150 years of Finnish-Namibian relations. University of Turku, 2019. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-29-7829-8 [Open Access, peer-reviwed]