Senior Research Fellow, 1 August 2014 – 31 July 2016
Office: Atalpa 212
Tel. +358 (0)40 1909845
Email: anna.rastas@tuni.fi
Homepage at School of Social Sciences and Humanities (YKY)
My background is in sociology, social anthropology and cultural studies. My on-going ethnographic action research project on African diaspora communities and cultures examines possibilities for more inclusive narratives of European societies as multi-ethnic, transnational spaces.
Research interests
- racism, racialised relations and identities
- African diasporas, dynamics of diaspora formations
- the role of museums in multi-ethnic societies
- transnational subjectivities, transnational families
- childhood and youth
- ethnographic and participatory research methodologies
- epistemological challenges in knowledge production on minorities