Tanja Riekkinen
MA
PhD student
Biography
Tanja Riekkinen is a PhD researcher in Human Sciences Doctoral Programme and a teacher in the Scandinavian Studies Programme at the University of Oulu. She is conducting research on petroleum-related ideas, visions and sociotechnical imaginaries in the context of Post-World War II Finland in a research project "Hopes and Fears: Envisioning Oil and Oil Technologies as Components in a Sociotechnical Imaginary of Modernization in Finland, 1949-1973" that has received funding from Kone Foundation (2019-2022). Riekkinen holds a Master's degree in History from the University of Oulu (2016).
Research interests
- Sociotechnical imaginaries (STS)
- History of petroleum
- Environmental history
- History of technology
Research Funding
- Kone Foundation, 9/2022 - 10/2022
- Kone Foundation, 2 / 2019 - 8 / 2022
- Otto A. Malm Foundation, 8 / 2018 - 1/ 2019
- Kerttu Saalasti Foundation, 7 / 2018
Teaching and other activities
- Arctic and Nordic Perspectives on Sustainable Development, The Scandinavian Studies Programme, spring 2022 (upcoming) (course language: English)
- Environmental Histories of the Baltic Sea, The Scandinavian Studies Programme, spring 2021 (course language: English)
- Öljykulttuurin tutkimuksen lukupiiri [Petrocultures Reading Course], Humanistiset ympäristöopinnot [Environmental Humanities], spring 2020 (course language: Finnish)
- Master's thesis supervisor since September 2020
Blog posts
- "Summer Learning: New Knowledge and Networks". Environmental History Now, May 28, 2020
- "Öljyä horisontissa - Katse menneisiin tulevaisuuksiin". The blog of Kone Foundation, November 11, 2019
Databases
Professional and community activities
- Board member, The Society for Regional and Environmental Studies (AYS)
- Member of editorial board, Versus
- Member of grant working group
- Member of health and wellbeing working group
