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CfP Ethnologia Fennica 1/2026: Words and Concepts

2025-05-05

In this call for papers, we invite researchers to reflect on conceptual work in their studies. We call for research and review articles that explore the choices and practices of finding, defining and using concepts. We are also interested in examples of how creative writing practices can enhance the research process or the communication of its results.

Please submit your article abstracts by June 23rd. The issue will be published in June 2026.

Ethnologia Fennica is an English language online journal that publishes original scholarly articles, review articles, congress reports and book reviews that promote ethnological research. The articles undergo double-blind peer review.

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Vol. 51 No. 2 (2024): Sensing the Urban
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This special issue of Ethnologia Fennica, “Sensing the Urban”, began to take shape in the discussions of the research group at the University of Turku. The group, consisting of ethnologists, a museologist, and a cultural historian, together studied the designed, experienced, and perceived socio-material well-being in a newly built residential area near the medieval castle of Turku in southwestern Finland. The aim of the research was, on the one hand, to understand the everyday mobility of people living and working in this area and how they engage sensorily with its different kinds of places, materialities and temporalities, and, on the other hand, what sensory experiences could contribute to urban design and planning. So, we decided to invite other scholars to reflect on the importance of sensory urban studies in ethnology and our related disciplines. You can read the results in this special issue.

This issue presents articles that discuss different ways of doing sensory research in urban settings, especially sensory perceptions, knowledge and practices related to the urban environment in the present and through time. This is an important collection of articles, each contributing in its own way to the ongoing discussion about the method and its application in the field of urban research.

In addition to the four thematic articles, this issue also includes an article contributing to the anthropology of dance (still very fitting to the methodological framework of the theme), and lastly; four dissertation reviews and two conference reports.

Published: 2025-02-04

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