Saara Kekki

Publications

All publications are categorized following the Suomen Akatemia/Academy of Finland guidelines.

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A Scientific Articles (peer-reviewed)

  • “Going, but Where? The Resettlement of Japanese Americans from the Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp.” Western Historical Quarterly, 53:3 (2022): 223-244.                                                    
  • “Traditional Indigenous Knowledge and Nature Protection: Collaboration and Changing Paradigms,” with Rani-Henrik Andersson and Boyd Cothran. In Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature, edited by Rani-Henrik Andersson, Boyd Cothran, and Saara Kekki. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2021.
  •  “Sugar Island Finns: Introducing Historical Network Analysis to Study an American Immigrant Community,” with Rani-Henrik Andersson and Francis Flavin. American Studies in Scandinavia 52:1 (2020): 3-32.
  •  “Entangled Histories of Assimilation: Dillon S. Myer and the Relocation of Japanese Americans and Native Americans, 1942-1953.” American Studies in Scandinavia 51:2 (2019): 25-48.
  •  “Making Good Americans: Dillon S. Myer and the Assimilation of Japanese Americans and Native Americans.” In North American Studies Crossroads: An Anthology of Finnish Perspectives, ed. Rani-Henrik Andersson & Saara Kekki. Renvall Institute Publications, 2014.
  • “Disciplinary Crossroads: The Finnish North American Studies Approach,” with Rani-Henrik Andersson. In North American Studies Crossroads.
  • “’Jotta kansamme saisi elää’ – Intiaanikulttuurien murros Pohjois-Amerikassa 1900-2000-luvuilla,” (“’So that our people may live’ – Native American Cultural Change in North America in the 19th and 20th centuries”), with Rani-Henrik Andersson. In Alkuperäiskansat tämän päivän maailmassa (“Today’s Challenges for Indigenous Peoples”) ed. Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Lea Kantonen and Irja Seurujärvi-Kari, 85-111. Helsinki: SKS, 2013.

B Scientific Articles (research-based, unrefereed)

  • “Sota loppuu ikuisiksi ajoiksi? Pohjoisten tasankojen konfliktidynamiikkaa vuoden 1868 Fort Laramien sopimuksen jälkeen.” (“War Shall Forever Cease? Conflict Dynamics on the Northern Plains after the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty”.) In Istuva Härkä ja hänen maailmansa (“Sitting Bull and His World”), ed. Rani-Henrik Andersson and Riku Hämäläinen. Tampere: Vapriikki Museum, 2009.

C Scientific Monographs

D Articles in Professional Publications (book reviews)

  • ”Digitaalinen historia: Katsaus menneeseen, nykyisyyteen ja tulevaisuuden näkymiin.” Historiallinen aikakauskirja 2022 (forthcoming). Review of Mats Fridlund, Mila Oiva ja Petri Paju (eds.). Digital Histories: Emergent Approaches within the New Digital History. Helsinki University Press, 2020.
  • H-Net military history (2022). Review of Stephanie Hinnershitz, Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
  • American Studies in Scandinavia 1 (2016). Review of Markku Henriksson, Route 66: A Road to America’s Landscape, History, and Culture. Lubbock: University of Texas Tech Press, 2014.
  • ”Mielikuvia Kanadasta” (“Images of Canada”). Terra – Maantieteellinen aikakauskirja (“Terra – Geographical Journal”)122:2 (2010). Review of Canada. Images of a Post/National Society (Gunilla Florby, Mark Shackleton, Katri Suhonen, eds.). Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009.
  • ”Yhdysvaltain aasialaiset ja stereotypioiden koko kattaus” (”US Asians and the Full Menu of Stereotypes”). SAM Magazine, June 1, 2021.
  • Saara Kekki & Rani-Henrik Andersson. ”Elämää intiaanisotien jälkeen” (“Life After Indian Wars”). Historia-lehti (“History Journal”). 8/2013.
  • Saara Kekki. “Reservaateista kaupunkiin: Intiaanikulttuurien murros 1940-1950-luvuilla” (“From Reservations into the City: Changes in Indian Cultures in the 1940s-1950s”). KAJO’ Lehti Amerikan alkuperäiskansoista (“KAJO’ – The Finnish Magazine on American Indians”). Helsinki, 2012.
  • Saara Kekki & Rani-Henrik Andersson. “Yli sata vuotta luonnonsuojelua” (“Over a Hundred Years of Nature Preservation”). SUOMI-USA-lehti, 2011.
  • Saara Kekki & Rani-Henrik Andersson. “Kierros Intiaanimailla” (“A Tour of Indian Country”), KAJO. Helsinki: Suomen Intiaaniyhdistys, 2010.
  • Saara Kekki and Rani-Henrik Andersson. “Intiaanien monikulttuurinen Amerikka” (“Multicultural Native America”). SUOMI-USA-lehti, 2010.

G Theses and Dissertations

  • “Life at Heart Mountain: A Dynamic Network Model of a Japanese American Community during World War II.” PhD Dissertation, University of Helsinki, 2019.                                    
  • “Japanese American Internment: Spectacularization, Americanization, and the Model Minority Myth.” MA Thesis, University of Helsinki, 2009.