Centre of Excellence in Nationalism Research in the Humanities

Kivimäki, Ville FLS; Savolainen, Ulla UH; Vahtikari, Tanja TU; Östman, Ann-Catrin ÅAU

The Centre of Excellence in Nationalism Research in the Humanities studies nationalism particularly from the perspectives of historical scholarship and cultural memory studies. Its research task is to explore how people’s experiences, emotions and memories interact with national systems of meaning-making, and how nations are constructed in human action.

The unit uses and develops approaches and concepts of everyday and personal nationalism, minority nationalism, memory studies, national indifference and critical archival studies. The aim of the CoE is to explain how nationalism works in practice, how it influences the lives of different groups of people, and to expand our understanding of nationalism’s various manifestations and functions.