Publications

Publications:

2024:

• Otto Latva. ‘From Harmless Nuisance to Frightening Enemy: The Perceptions of Ticks in Finland before the Beginning of the Tick Hysteria in the 1990s’. In Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks, edited by Laura Hollsten, Otto Latva, Sanna Lillbroända-Annala, Suvi Rytty, and Tuomas Räsänen, 147–66. Leiden: Brill, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004715448_009.
• Hollsten, Laura, Suvi Rytty, Otto Latva, Sanna Lillbroända-Annala, and Tuomas Räsänen. ‘Introduction’. In Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks, edited by Laura Hollsten, Otto Latva, Sanna Lillbroända-Annala, Suvi Rytty, and Tuomas Räsänen. Leiden: Brill, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004715448_002.
• Hollsten, Laura, Otto Latva, Sanna Lillbroända-Annala, Suvi Rytty, and Tuomas Räsänen, eds. Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks. Leiden: Brill, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004715448.
• Heta Lähdesmäki & Tuomas Räsänen. ‘Humans, Ticks, and the Conflict over the Cervids’. In Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks, edited by Laura Hollsten, Otto Latva, Sanna Lillbroända-Annala, Suvi Rytty, and Tuomas Räsänen, 289–305. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004715448_016
• Heta Lähdesmäki. ‘Wolf research as Multispecies Knowledge Production in Finland’. In Sharing Spaces. Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships, edited by Finn Arne Jørgensen and Dolly Jørgensen, 88-100. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024.
• Otto Latva, Heta Lähdesmäki, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, and Harri Uusitalo, eds. Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111215273.
• Otto Latva, Heta Lähdesmäki, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, and Harri Uusitalo. ‘Introduction – The Human Relationship with the Changing Biodiversity’. Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity, edited by Otto Latva, Heta Lähdesmäki, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, and Harri Uusitalo, 1–16. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111215273-001.
• Otto Latva, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, and Aino Jämsä. ‘“It Is Like Diving in a Pea Soup”: The Development of the Relationship between Humans and Blue-Green Algae in Finland in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries’. In Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity, edited by Otto Latva, Heta Lähdesmäki, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, and Harri Uusitalo, 19–42. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111215273-002.
• Otto Latva.  Coming to terms with fish farming and fish consciousness. In Animal Industries: Nordic Perspectives on the Exploitation of Animals since 1860, edited by Taina Syrjämaa, Marja Jalava, Taija Kaarlenkaski, Otto Latva, Eeva Nikkilä, and Tuomas Räsänen, 153–172. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787337-011
• Hannu Salmi, “The White-Tailed Eagle on the Brink of Extinction in Twentieth-Century Finland: A Digital Approach to Emotional Responses in the Media”. Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity, edited by Otto Latva, Heta Lähdesmäki, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio & Harri Uusitalo. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111215273-007
• Hannu Salmi. ‘Textuality as Amplification: Reconsidering close reading and distant reading in cultural history’. Rethinking History, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2024.2360318
• Harri Uusitalo, Heta Lähdesmäki, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, Otto Latva, Hannu Salmi, and Teija Alenius. ‘Alien Plants between Practices and Representations: The Cases of European Spruce and Beach Rose in Finland’. Plant Perspectives, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3197/whppp.63845494909721.
• Heta Lähdesmäki. ‘Negotiating Belonging in Multispecies Cities: Rats, Birds and Humans as Neighbours in the City of Helsinki’. In Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity, edited by Otto Latva, Heta Lähdesmäki, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, and Harri Uusitalo, 85–106. De Gruyter, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111215273-005.
• Timo Vuorisalo & Hannu Salmi: Suoneniskentää ja iilimatoja 1800-luvun Turussa. [Bloodletting and leeches in 19th-century Turku] Turun Sanomat 1.9.2024.

2023:

• Diogo de Carvalh Cabral and Heta Lähdesmäki. ‘Multispecies Cultures and Environmental Change: The Animal (Agency) Turn’. In The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History, edited by Emily O’Gorman, William San Martín, Mark Carey, and Sandra Swart, 91–105. London: Routledge, 2023.
• Otto Latva. The Giant Squid in Transatlantic Culture: The Monsterization of Molluscs. London: Routledge, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003311775.
• Heta Lähdesmäki. Wolves and the Finnish Wilderness: Changing Forests and the Proper Place for Wolves in Twentieth-Century Finland. In Green Development or Greenwashing?: Environmental Histories of Finland, eds. Viktor Pál, Tuomas Räsänen & Mikko Saikku, 154-170, Winwick: White Horse Press 2023.
• Nina Tynkkynen, Jaana Kouri, Silja Laine, Otto Latva, Tuomas Räsänen, and Kirsi Sonck-Rautio. ‘Environmental Heritage for Sustainability’. In Understanding Marine Changes, edited by Jetoo Savitri, Jaana Kouri, Silja Laine, Nina Tynkkynen, and Anna Törnroos, 67–85. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035311118.00011.
• Harri Uusitalo. Carl von Linné ja suomen kieli [Carl von Linné and the Finnish Language]. AURAICA. Scripta a Societate Porthan edita, 14 (2023).
• Harri Uusitalo and Karita Suomalainen. ‘Ecolinguistic Approach to Online Finnish Discourse on Invasive Alien Species’. Language@Internet 21, no. 3 (2023).
• Timo Vuorisalo & Hannu Salmi: Ludeongelma muutti kaupunkiin. [The problem with bedbudgs moved to town] Turun Sanomat 21.11.2023.
• Timo Vuorisalo, Heta Lähdesmäki & Martin Seltman: Outo otus Salossa – Mikä osuus makeistehtailija Karl Fazerilla oli rusakkojen leviämiseen Turun seudulle. [A strange creature in Salo – What role did confectioner Karl Fazer play in the spread of the brown hare to the Turku region?] Turun Sanomat 5.1.2023

2022:

• Otto Latva and Nina Tynkkynen. ‘The Problem of Plastic and the Arctic’. In Cold Waters: Tangible and Symbolic Seascapes of the North, edited by Markku Lehtimäki, Arja Rosenhom, Elena Trubina, and Nina Tynkkynen, 3–17. Springer Polar Sciences. Cham: Springer. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10149-6_1.
• Otto Latva ja Heta Lähdesmäki. ‘Eläimet, kasvit ja kulttuurihistoria’. [Animals, Plants and Cultural History] In Kulttuurihistorian tutkimus. Lähteistä menetelmiin ja tulkintaan, edited by Rami Mähkä, Marika Ahonen, Niko Heikkilä, Sakari Ollitervo and Marika Räsänen. 469–484. Turku: k&h, 2022. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369595021_Elaimet_kasvit_ja_kulttuurihistoria.
• Otto Latva and Maarit Leskelä-Käri. Meri ja Tove. Elämää Saaristossa [In English: Sea and Tove Jansson. Life in the Arcipelago]. Helsinki: John Nurminen Foundation, 2022.
• Otto Latva. ‘Muiden lajien elinkaari ja keski-ikä’. [Life cycle and midlife of non-human species] In Keski-iän kulttuurihistoria, edited by Marjo Kaartinen and Hannu Salmi, 68–69. Helsinki: SKS, 2022.
• Otto Latva. ‘Iku-Turso asiantuntijan silmin’. [Iku-Turso through the eyes of an expert] In Veenkoirasta vaakalintuun: Kalevalan eläimiä, edited by Mari Martikainen and Mervi Kunnasranta, 125–127. Kuhmo: Juminkeko, 2022.
• Otto Latva, Teija Alenius, Heta Lähdesmäki, Hannu Salmi, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, Harri Uusitalo: HumBio – Tutkimushanke Itämeren eläinten ja kasvien pitkän aikavälin vuorovaikutuksesta ihmisten kanssa. [In English: HumBio – A Research Project on Long-Term Interaction of Animals and Plants in the Baltic Sea with Humans].  Historia nyt! 5 (2022): 7–12.
• Harri Uusitalo. Les appellations de la Zoarces viviparus et de la Lumpenus lampretaeformis dans les dialectes et la langue écrite du finnois [The Finnish Names for Viviparous Eelpout and Snakeblenny in Written Finnish and Dialects]. Études finno-ougriennes, 54 (2022).
• Timo Vuorisalo & Hannu Salmi: Tuomenkehrääjäkoin tuhot herättivät huomiota jo yli sata vuotta sitten. [In English: The destruction caused by the bird-cherry ermine attracted attention more than a hundred years ago] Turun Sanomat 6.7.2022.
• Jaap Verheul, Hannu Salmi, Martin Riedl, Asko Nivala, Lorella Viola Lorella, Jana Keck, Emily Bell: Using word vector models to trace conceptual change over time and space in historical newspapers, 1840–1914. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 16, 2 (2022).

2021:

• Hannu Salmi: Tuomiokirkon naakat. [In English: The Western jackdaws of the Turku Cathedral]. Turun Sanomat, 23.12.2021.
• Otto Latva: Ihmisten muuttunut suhde merieläimiin – Människors förändre relation till havslevande djur – The changing human attitude to marine animals. In The Approaching Horizon. Perspectives on the Relationship between Sean and Humans, ed. Sari Mäenpää, 18–61. Turku: Forum Marinum, 2021.
• Kirsi Sonck-Rautio: The Human-Nature Interface in Ethnologia Scandinavica 1970-2020. Ethnologia Scandinavica 51 (2021): 26-33.
• Harri Uusitalo 2021: Ihmisen suhde Itämeren muuttuvaan lajistoon kiinnostaa yli tieteenalarajojen. [In English: The human relationship to the changing biodiversity of the Baltic Sea interests scholars across scientific boundaries] Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti. Turun yliopisto, Turku.
• Otto Latva: Elonkirjon muutosten ymmärtämiseen tarvitaan myös humanistista tutkimustietoa. [In English: Understanding the Changes in Biodiversity Requires Humanistic Research]  Turun yliopiston blogi, 14.9.2021.