Associate Professor of "English" at JYU; Academy of Finland Research Fellow (2020-2025); PI of WhoKnows and KnowledgesInTransition; she/her 🌈; views my own
Oct 10, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Thrilled to share that the special issue on language ed and social justice i edited with @sari_sulkunen and J. Saario, one outcome of @SocialJusticeJY conference is out and open access! Some highlights:
In the editorial, we talk about our grappling with terms - equity, equality, justice, and the problems of translating those to Finnish. apples.journal.fi/article/view/1…
Dec 10, 2020 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Why should a language scholar from Finland care about decolonization? “All I wanna do is study languages, and Finland never had any colonies. Why should I care?” I’m glad you asked. #thread#coloniality#decolonization? #language#Finland/
Let’s start with the innocent-Finland discourse. Finland has participated in and benefited from the colonial enterprise in many ways, which other scholars have said more eloquently than me (eg Keskinen et al., 2009).../
