“Let’s Play! Children’s Peer Relations in 20th Century Finland” - Kanava Prize Nominee

“Let’s Play! Children’s Peer Relations in 20th Century Finland”, by Academy of Finland post-doctoral researcher Antti Malinen (HEX) and Tuomo Tamminen has been chosen as a finalist for the Kanava Prize. The Kanava Prize is awarded each year to the “best non-fiction book in the fields of social science, politics, history, culture and economics” in Finland.

The Prize panel commends authors for their application of child perspective together with the history of society approach, a combination which paints an impressive picture on the historical development of Finnish society.