« The Finnish settler colonial imagination: Raita Merivirta, ‘Colonialism, Race, and White Innocence in Finnish Children’s Literature: Anni Swan’s 1920s’ Serial “Uutisasukkaana Austraaliassa”’, in Raita Merivirta, Leila Koivunen, Timo Särkkä (eds), Finnish Colonial Encounters: From Anti-Imperialism to Cultural Colonialism and Complicity, Palgrave, 2021, pp. 171-197
The settler imperial-republican complex: Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, Between Empire and Republic: America in the Colonial Canadian Imagination, Lexington Books, 2022 »

More on the Finnish settler colonial imagination: Janne Lahti, ‘Settler Colonial Eyes: Finnish Travel Writers and the Colonization of Petsamo’, in Raita Merivirta, Leila Koivunen, Timo Särkkä (eds), Finnish Colonial Encounters: From Anti-Imperialism to Cultural Colonialism and Complicity, Palgrave, 2021, pp. 95-120

06Jan22

Abstract: Connecting Finnish Petsamo to histories of settler colonialism and colonial travel writings, this chapter look at four Finnish travelogues through the settler colonial lens. It argues that these Finnish travel writers looked at Petsamo through settler colonial eyes: in other words, they made claims for Finnish settler colonization, promoted the idea, and assessed its feasibility. They commented on the nature of the region and its potential riches; described the villages, homes, and domestic customs; and commented on the outlook and habits of the people. The travelogues made the colonized land familiar to their Finnish audience and occupied it, in language that combined views of its past with its new reality as a Finnish space.


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