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Pysäyttävänä tapahtumana kuolema nostattaa esiin arjessa usein näkymättömät ja lausumattomat kulttuuriset ja yhteiskunnalliset siteet ja murtumat, jotka kiinnittävät tai erottavat ihmisiä paikkoihin ja paikoista, yhteisöihin ja yhteisöistä.

As a fundamental event, death highlights those silenced and invisible cultural and social bonds and fractures that attach or separate people to and from places and communities.

Transnational Death Project receives Academy of Finland funding

  • Minna Piipponen, Alicja Fajfer

Professor Olga Davydova-Minguet from KTL will lead an international team in the project Transnational death: practices of death and remembrance in the transnational everyday on the Finnish-Russian border. The project studies phenomena related to transnational death among Russian-speaking migrants in the Finnish-Russian borderland. Through data collected online and ‘offline’, the study addresses topical themes of human worth, belonging and conviviality in the context of close but strained neighbourhoods. 

Apart from Prof. Davydova-Minguet, the team includes Assistant Professor Pekka Metso, Senior Researchers Pirjo Pöllänen and Ismo Björn, Researcher Oleg Reut and PhD Student Teemu Oivo. The project, which received a grant of ap. €500,000, starts in September 2021 and ends in August 2025.