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LIFE IN PLACE Northern villages as environments of wellbeing and growth | Place and Environment

LIFE IN PLACE Northern villages as environments of wellbeing and growth | Place and Environment in the Stories of Northern People 2006–2010 | Life in Place 2008–2011. PEOPLE, DISCIPLINES AND FUNDING. | Project leaders

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LIFE IN PLACE Northern villages as environments of wellbeing and growth | Place and Environment

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  1. LIFE IN PLACE Northern villages as environments of wellbeing and growth | Place and Environment in the Stories of Northern People 2006–2010 | Life in Place 2008–2011

  2. PEOPLE, DISCIPLINES AND FUNDING | Project leaders Prof. Leena Syrjälä and Senior Researcher Eila Estola University of Oulu, Faculty of Education Dpt. of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education | Post-doctoral researchers, doctoral students | Local research assistants and co-researchers | Education, Sociology, Geography, Gender Studies | Funding from Thule Institute and the Academy of Finland

  3. PARTICIPATING VILLAGES |SUVANTO Municipality of Sodankylä - Circa 30 inhabitants - The river Kitinen, running along the village is dammed - The school of the village has been shut down - The tourist centre of Pyhätunturi is close by | RAATTAMA Municipality of Kittilä - Circa 140 inhabitants - The river Ounas is running free - The school of the village is under constant threat of being shut down - The tourist area and National park of Pallas-Yllästunturi is close by

  4. RESEARCH THEMES | PERCEIVED HEALTH AND WELLBEING THROUGH LOCAL KNOWLEDGE | What is the everyday life like in the villages? | What is the wellbeing of the villagers composed of? (Wellbeing as ”having, loving and being” [Allardt]) | What kind of environments for growth these villages are or withhold? - home - school - the everyday | What kind of relationships to place(s) do the villagers have? - sense of place - ecosystems (river environment)

  5. Consequences of Ecosystem Change for Human Well-being

  6. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK | Place-based education (i.e. Gruenewald 2005; 2003) | Narrative and ethnographical approach - learning from the participants - emphasis on the participatory nature of research | Case studies, contexts of the lived everyday - broader view than the emphasised viewpoint of nature-based livelihoods (e.g. reindeer herding, hunting and fishing)

  7. ETHICAL ISSUES |Research FOR the villagers - research that will not just take but also gives back - results that are useful |Research ABOUT the villagers - results for those funding - the academic audience - popular communication |Research WITH the villagers - participatory methods - relationships between researchers and participants | Relations between external | researchers and the | communities researched | have been increasingly | strained by differences in | understanding and in | expectation about the | relevance of research. (Davidson-Hunt et.al. 2007)

  8. ”MICRO-SCALE” OF RESEARCH ETHICS Maija: Let’s make this into a thank-you-card to Seppo. Should we all sign our names? What should I [write]…? “Thank you for your time… Seppo”? Eila: Should it say ”Warm thank you…”? And you could write, couldn’t you, something like “Researchers from Oulu”? Maija: But shouldn’t we sign our names anyway, now that we’re all here? Do we have time? Everyone: Yes, we have time…

  9. DATA COLLECTION | INTERVIEWS (c. 45 interviews) - life-story interviews - thematic interviews - group- and individual interviews - villagers of all ages - also villagers that have already moved away | PARTICIPATORY OBSERVATION - fieldnotes, research diaries | CORRESPONDENCE (c. 50 letters) - a year long correspondence between four villagers and a researcher | DATA PRODUCED BY THE LOCALS - village association gatherings (recorded) - photo-evenings (recorded) - thematic observations - writing

  10. DATA SAMPLES |It’s just one day at a time really, nothing more, seeing how it goes with my health […] But I’m trying with this Lappish ’sisu’ to go forward, sometimes it takes tears and sweat but then you just continue […] I’m not like those with their heads in the clouds who keep moving all the time, I couldn’t do that, I want it so that if I’ve rooted to a place I’ll try to stay there. |I couldn’t live in a town. No way. I’m sure I couldn’t. I’d be there for like two days and would come hurling back to Raattama I would. I couldn’t. I hate being in town and in a row house, like, phew! It’s like […] If you’re unemployed in a city, what do you do? For fuck’s sake, you just tramp around town. |I think that a difficult employment situation is a challenge. I have a chance to either learn how to make do with less or create means of living for myself. I’m never bored, anything but, there’s so much to do I can’t do it all. It might be easier to be unemployed here than in town [...] And there’s many other unemployed or short-term employed people here. You don’t get the illusion that everyone else is working and that everyone else has got important things to do.

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