Playing with the present in Pyhä Text: Daijiro Yamagishi, Juulia Tikkanen & Anna-Emilia Haapakoski *This blog post is based on the One By Walking network’s workshop in Finnish Lapland, hosted by the Intra-Living in the Anthropocene research group. It’s written by PhD students Anna-Emilia Haapakoski, Juulia Tikkanen, and Daijiro Yamagishi, and takes inspiration from three…
Read moreKosketuksissa metsän kanssa Teksti: Outi Rantala Kuva: Piotr Damski Rantala, O. (2025). Kosketuksissa metsän kanssa. Kleio (Historian ja yhteiskuntaopin opettajien liitto HYOL ry:n jäsenlehti) 2/2025,16-17. Kirjoitan tätä artikkelia Pyhä-Luoston kansallispuiston reunalla, Lapin yliopiston tutkimustukikohdassa Keropirtillä. Olemme juuri päättäneet neljäpäiväisen työpajan, jonka aikana pohdimme erilaisia tapoja vierailla kansallispuiston metsäpoluilla. Metsän humina soi minussa, jalkapohjani kihelmöivät kevään viimeisessä…
Read moreVisiting researcher Monica Nadegger from the University of Innsbruck has written a blog post on the webpage of Tirol Tourism Research based on her experiences and interviews among the colleagues of the ILA research group. Monica asks “Can we rethink tourism without mass tourism, carbon emissions, and the hunt for far-off places?” touching upon the…
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Text: Veera Kinnunen Photos: Birgitta Vinkka Scientific as well as popular and commercial interest in the complex relations between humans and microbes has grown exponentially during the past few decades. The steadily increasing scientific research showing connections between human wellbeing and the microbial diversity of the gut has grown into a full-blown ‘microbiomania’ (Eisen 2014):…
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Exploring the potential of proximity at the Tunturiaapa mire in Pyhä Text: Outi Rantala* * This blog-writing is based on field work conducted together with Piotr Damski, Katja Karjalainen, Kaisa Kotkajärvi, Jaana Liukkonen-Karvosenoja, Senni Malila, Taija Mäkelä, Doriana Plesa, Elina Puhakka, Shizuka Tanaka, Kaarina Tervo-Kankare and Juulia Tikkanen – and on the discussions and presentations…
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SLOW TOURISM: Not a trend, but a reflection of tourism transformation Text: Anna-Emilia Haapakoski Tourism speaks in the media by the voice of many. Although language isn’t an objective representator of the truth, it constitutes a reality that is interrelated with the life we are living. When media says tourism is undergoing a transformation,…
Read moreReinvigorating Tourism in the Era of Changes Text by Henna Nevala Our modernized world seems to offer us endless opportunities to design a life filled with wealth, adventures, new experiences, comfort, safety and connections – granting us all the components of a happy and content life. Yet, as we are living on a planet with…
Read moreInto a crowded air again Text: Outi Rantala After a long brake in flying, I flied to Iceland this September to attend the 29th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research[i] and to participate in a field work gathering organised by the Mobilities in Margins project run by professors Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson and Katrín…
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Re-thinking tourism with our proximate surroundings Outi Rantala’s Keynote 29th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research Shaping mobile futures: Challenges and possibilities in precarious times Watch the dialogue with Aksana Kurola, Husky & Yoga Nature (www.yoganature.fi) and Outi Rantala, ILA research group, University of Lapland (www.ilarctic.com): In the sparsely populated areas in the Nordic…
Read moreWhat will happen to tourism in the future? This question has been asked so many times that it has lost its appeal. It’s a question without an answer. A question without a specific person, or a group of experts, to answer it. Still, the question sticks with us at the beginning of the year 2021,…
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