Celebrity, Confession, and Performance in Pentti Saarikoski's I Look Out Over Stalin's Head

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Hawk-kite as a scaring method for avian pests in Kenyan rice fields

The human population is increasing globally, and so are the human-wildlife interactions and conservation conflicts. One source of conservation conflict is the crop damage caused by wildlife. Crop damage is negatively affecting farmers, but also the wildlife due to lethal methods used to reduce the damage. In Kenya, birds are a great threat to the rice production and chemical spraying is used to reduce the damage. To decrease the use of chemicals, other less harmful methods, such as scaring, are needed. In this study, the efficiency of a scaring kite, mimicking a bird of prey (hawk-kite), was tested in south-central Kenya. Rice was used as a bait and the number of birds visiting bait stations at sites with and without hawk-kites were compared. Also, to get a better understanding of the current situation and the challenges with damaging birds, farmers producing rice were interviewed. The hawk-kite almost halved the number of birds visiting the bait stations. Also, the birds did not seem to habituate to the kites, at least not over a 4-day period. Moreover, the interview confirmed that grain-eating birds is the major threat to the rice production and that many farmers are positive to the chemical sprays due to lack of better options. However, it seems like the hawk-kite has potential to be used as a scaring method in rice fields in Kenya, but the efficiency is likely dependent on the kite-type, weather conditions, bird species and food availability. Moreover, when scaring birds for periods longer than four days, habituation may still be a challenge. Since the hawk-kite was found to decrease the number of birds in bait stations, they could provide a better alternative to the chemical sprays in the rice fields, which in turn would lead to more sustainable food production for the increasing human population

"Kuin pätsissä mä seisoisin" : Sankarikuolema ja ristiriitaiset tunteet talvi- ja jatkosotarunoudessa

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Urwindin ja Bahtinin kohtaaminen

Brian Kennedy (ed.): Voicing Bo Carpelan: Urwind’s Dialogic Possibilities. Nykykulttuurin tutkimuskeskuksen julkaisuja, 126. Jyväskylä: Nykykulttuurin tutkimuskeskus, 2020, 206 s

Sata vuotta Stockmannin historiaa

Hulluja päiviä, huikeita vuosia : Stockmann 1862-2012 / Markku Kuisma, Anna Finnilä, Teemu Keskisarja & Minna Sarantola-Weiss. Helsinki : Siltala, 2012

Puhetta kuolleelle: Puhuttelu ja kiintymyssuhteen jatkuminen Paavo Haavikon, Aale Tynnin ja Anja Vammelvuon elegioissa

Speaking to the Dead: Poetic Address and Continuing Attachment in Elegies by Paavo Haavikko, Aale Tynni, and Anja Vammelvuo This article focuses on the addressment of the deceased in Finnish elegies from the late 1960s and the early 70s written by Paavo Haavikko, Aale Tynni and Anja Vammelvuo to commemorate their spouses. Until recently, the psychoanalytical theory of grief has been in uential among scholars of elegy. This article, however, aims to revise this dominant paradigm by applying a more up-to-date understanding of grief – the continuing bonds model – to the study of elegiac poetry. In contrast to the psychoanalytical theory of grief, the continuing bonds model emphasizes that relationships with the deceased are continued rather than abandoned; people do not recover from experience of loss, rather, the mourner renegotiates his or her relationship to the deceased. In the elegies analysed in this article, addressing the deceased is used to express the mourning speaker’s experiences of presence as well as the absence of the person passed. The differences in coping with and expressing grief are partly connected to gender in the analysed poems; Haavikko’s male speaker is more reluctant to openly grieve than Tynni’s and Vammelvuo’s female speakers, who beg their spouses to come back and who can feel the presence – and in Vammelvuo’s case, even the touch of the deceased. However, in all these cases the speakers try to make sense of their continuing relationship to the dead person in their present life

Karibian historiaa ja kulttuuria

Arvosteltu teos: Karibian historia / Pekka Valtonen. [Helsinki] : Gaudeamus, [2017]

Stenberg-seminaari Turussa

Historiska samfundet i Åbo järjestivät seminaarin, jossa joukko eri alojen tutkijoita valotti Pehr Stenbergin (1758–1824) elämänvaiheita eri näkökulmista