The book presents the biographies and work lists of 126 Finnish women composers born between 1784 and 1909. Based on large-scale archival research, it is the first comprehensive historical account of Finnish women composers and their cultural heritage. The authors draw on feminist music history and the sociohistorical approach to find out who these women were, what kind of music they wrote, and how their careers reflected European cultural and social history. The treatise highlights the influence of girls' schools, women's suffrage movements and other socio-political developments on the musical culture of women. Concepts such as "composer", "woman" and "Finnish" were assumed to be open and inclusive throughout the research, in terms of both musical style and diversity in cultural background. In concentrating on music-making by women, the book opens up radically new vistas on Finland's music and cultural history, and it rectifies previous erroneous conceptions about women's composership and their artistic work. In short, it exposes the richness in the sonic and intellectual heritage of Finnish women composers, as well as its significance in society today.
Kirjan tavoitteena on antaa kattava ja johdonmukainen kuva yksilön oikeusasemasta ja oikeuksista Euroopan unionissa. Teoksessa tarkastellaan perusoikeuksien asemaa ja merkitystä unionissa sekä yksilön oikeuksia sisämarkkinoilla ja hänen mahdollisuuksiaan vaikuttaa päätöksentekoon. Siinä valotetaan myös niitä keinoja, joita yksilöllä on yhteisön oikeudesta johtuvien oikeuksiensa turvaamiseksi. -- Sisällys: -- I Perusoikeudet Euroopan unionissa / De grundläggande rättigheterna inom Europeiska unionen -- EU:s stadga om de grundläggande rättigheterna: från politisk deklaration till rättsligt bindande normer och extern kontroll / Holger Rotkirch -- Euroopan ihmisoikeustuomioistuimen oikeuskäytäntö EU-oikeuden lähteenä / Matti Pellonpää -- Syrjintäkielto: sisämarkkinoiden reunoilta perusoikeuksien ytimeen / Mikko Puumalainen -- Sukupuolten välisen tasa-arvon sääntely Euroopan unionissa / Anja Nummijärvi & Päivi Romanov -- Muslimisiirtolaisten uskontopohjaiset oikeudet Länsi-Euroopan maissa: rajoitetaanko niitä liiaksi? / Lauri Hannikainen -- Kieliä koskevat oikeudet / Kari Liiri -- Henkilötietojen suoja / Petri Helander & Joni Heliskoski -- Virkamiesten sananvapaus / Heikki Kulla -- Oikeus diplomaatti- ja konsuliviranomaisten antamaan suojeluun / Ora Meres-Wuori -- En högre nivå på miljöskyddet: en jämförelse mellan EG:s miljöskadedirektiv och den finska miljöskadelagen / Peter Wetterstein -- Kohti perusoikeusherkempää tavaroiden vapaata liikkuvuutta / Tuomas Ojanen -- Euroopan unionin perusoikeusvirasto / Martin Scheinin -- EU:n ihmisoikeuspolitiikka: ulkosuhteet ja sisäpolitiikka johdonmukaisuuden näkökulmasta / Johanna Suurpää -- II Yksilön oikeudet ja oikeusasema sisämarkkinoilla / Individens rättigheter och rättsställning på den inre marknaden -- Euroopan unionin kansalaisuus / Heidi Kaila -- Perhe-elämä ja Euroopan unioni / Suvi Sankari -- Ammattiurheilijan oikeudet sisämarkkinoilla / Mikko Huttunen -- Arbetstagarens rätt till fackliga stridsåtgärder på EU:s inre marknad / Niklas Bruun -- Tjänsteleverantörens ställning i EG-rätten / Nina Nordström -- Itsenäinen ammatinharjoittaja Euroopan yhteisön taloudellisen perustuslaillisuuden ytimessä / Markku Kiikeri -- Opiskelijoiden oikeudet ja oikeusasema sisämarkkinoilla / Veli-Pekka Paukku -- Eläkeläisenä Euroopan unionissa / Juha Raitio -- Turistin oikeudellinen asema Euroopan unionissa / Päivi Saarinen -- Potilaan oikeus hakeutua sairaanhoitoon valitsemaansa jäsenvaltioon: EY:n tuomioistuimen tulkintakannanotoista unionin ja jäsenvaltioiden oikeudeksi / Maija Sakslin -- Brottsoffrets ställning inom Europeiska unionen / Elina Pirjatanniemi -- Ajankohtaista kuluttajansuojalainsäädännöstä Euroopan unionin sisämarkkinoilla / Elena Savia -- Likabehandlingsprincipen och andra principer vid tillämpning av EG-rätten på skatteområdet / Stig von Bahr -- Sijoittajat ja Suomi / Kauko Wikström -- Laiton maahanmuutto ja Euroopan unionissa laittomasti oleskelevat kolmansien maiden kansalaiset / Eero Koskenniemi -- III Demokratia, osallistuminen ja informaatio / Demokrati, deltagande och information -- Euroopan unioni ja demokratian palapeli / Kirsi Pimiä -- Rösträtt och valbarhet vid val till Europaparlamentet / Markku Suksi -- Yleisön oikeus osallistua päätöksentekoon ympäristöasioissa / Anne Kumpula -- Hyvä hallinto oikeutena ja yleisenä oikeusperiaatteena / Olli Mäenpää -- Euroopan unioni kansalaisten palveluksessa: tiedotus, neuvonta ja ongelmanratkaisumekanismit / Salla Saastamoinen -- IV Yksilön pääsy oikeuksiinsa / Individens möjligheter att utnyttja sina rättigheter -- Om framställningar till Europaparlamentet / Henrik Lax -- Oikeus kannella Euroopan oikeusasiamiehelle / Benita Broms -- Kanteleminen Euroopan komissiolle / Molla Mäkilaine & Antti Peltomäki -- Toimivallan- ja vastuunjaon perusteista toteutettaessa yksityisen oikeus tehokkaaseen oikeussuojaan EY:n oikeuden alalla / Heikki Kanninen -- Yksilön oikeus nostaa kanne Euroopan yhteisöjen ensimmäisen oikeusasteen tuomioistuimessa / Virpi Tiili & Nina Korjus -- Oikeudenkäyntikulut ja oikeuksiin pääsy EY:n tuomioistuimissa / Sari Haukka -- Direktiivien oikeusvaikutukset kansallisissa tuomioistuimissa: oireet, diagnoosi ja hoitokeinot / Antti Maunu -- Tuomarin ja asianajajan tehtävät ja vastuu EY-oikeuden huomioon ottamisessa kansallisessa lainkäytössä / Pauliine Koskelo -- Förhandsavgörandena: en kronjuvel? / Leif Sevón -- Valtion korvausvastuu yksilölle unionin oikeuden rikkomisesta / Pekka Aalto -- V Euroopan oikeusalue / Det europeiska rättsområdet -- Kohti Euroopan oikeusaluetta / Kirsti Rissanen -- Om forum solutionis enligt artikel 5.1 i Bryssel I-förordningen särskilt i ljuset av rättsfallet Color Drack / Gustaf Möller -- Några observationer om jurisdiktion i transportförhållanden / Hannu Honka -- Eurooppalaisen pidätysmääräyksen (EAW) täytäntöönpano Suomessa: vastavuoroisen tunnustamisen periaate käytännössä / Risto Eerola -- Euroopan unionin jäsenvaltioiden kansallisten tuomioistuinten välinen yhteistyö / Pekka Hallberg -- Individen och Lissabonfördraget / Astrid Thors & Päivi Kaukoranta.
The Centre Party of Finland was represented in almost all cabinets for decades, and it often held the post of prime minister during the reign of President Urho Kekkonen. When Kekkonen's deteriorating health forced him to resign in 1981, the Centre Party, formerly the Agrarian Union, was in front of the crisis. The party was deeply divided along the lines of who would be the best candidate to succeed Kekkonen. The schism had prevailed for years, and contemporaries suspected the party would split up or at least lose its dominant position in Finnish politics. Besides, the numbers of core supporters making up the party, agrarians, were constantly diminishing. In addition, the Finnish party system was in a state of flux. The Finnish People's Democratic League was in a deep downward spiral, while the Conservative Party's support was ascendant. The power struggle between the three 'big' parties, the Centre Party, the Social Democratic Party and the Conservative Party, was fierce. The study describes and analyses how the Center Party survived the challenges it faced. How was the cohesion of the party rebuilt and maintained? How did the Centre Party manage to survive the inter-party contests and end up being the strongest party in the elections of 1991? The study is firmly based on source material from the party organization of the Centre Party and other relevant political actors, such as President Mauno Koivisto. The book provides new information on both Finnish domestic and foreign politics and the power struggles among the parties and leading political figures.
The great change in European relations with Russia took place in 1478 when Muscovy replaced the trading Republic of Novgorod as a neighbor of Sweden, Livonia and Lithuania. Western Europe was since that year bordering to a bellicose great power with large resources causing dread. The feelings of dread caused by Russia with Czars like Ivan the Terrible became a standing theme in printed matter as well as politics and the image of Russia became very much similar to the image of Turkey, which threatened Europe from South-East. Various, usually rather negative, stereotype expressions characterized the vocabulary of the 16th century. The Peace of Stolbova in 1617 started a period of successive change. The era of Sweden as a Great Power led to growing knowledge about Russia in almost every respect, but it was still based on the already accepted stereotypes. They started, however, typically to seem more diluted and thin with time. The image of Russia as a threat was to a growing extent replaced by an image of a possibility. The perhaps most remarkable but rather unoriginal printed Swedish description of Russia of the era was Regni Muschovotici Sciographia, published by Petrus Petrejus. At the final stage of Sweden's era as a great power there was a substantial widening but also polarization of the information on Russia. The Russian reform process during Tsar Peter I also began to influence the minds after the turn of the century in 1700. One of the principal describers of this process was Lars Johan Malm (Ehrenmalm), whose large manuscript about the power of the Russian Empire of that time, Några Anmärkningar Angående det Ryska Rijkets Nuvarande Macht from 1714, never reached the printers due to intervention from censors.
"Matthias Alexander Castrén's (1813–1852) Luentoja suomalaisesta mytologiasta ('Lectures on Finnish Mythology', originally Swedish 'Föreläsningar i finsk mytologi') is a key work in the research history of Finnish mythology. This is the first Finnish translation of it. Despite 'Lectures' in the label, the work is a coherent book. It makes a systematic approach to ancient Finnish religion on the basis of earlier mythographers, Castrén's fieldwork among Finnic peoples and the latest European research trends of the first half of the 19th century. Even though Castrén's Lectures significantly developed Finnish mythography and it served as a standard work for half a century, its significance was largely forgotten when new research paradigms were introduced in the course of the 20th century. The work is an important part of the history of Finnish research in religions, linguistics and ethnography and it also reflects the state of the study of mythology in Europe in the middle of the 19th century. The book is lively written and therefore, it meets the taste of the general public in addition to researchers. This edition includes a concise introduction to Lectures' historical context, a scientific commentary and exhaustive indexes.
M. A. Castrén is renown especially as a linguist and explorer who worked among Siberian peoples but his work was marked also by interest in Finnishness at a time when the idea of a Finnish nation was developing. Lectures was Castrén's last work. He finished the book in his deathbed, and it was published posthumously in 1853.
The translator and editor of the Lectures, Joonas Ahola, PhD, is an expert in Old Norse language and mythology as well as kalevala-meter poetry. The other author of the introduction, Karina Lukin, PhD, is an expert of North Siberian cultures and 19th century expeditions among them. "
Finland was an autonomous Grand Duchy in the Russian Empire during the years 1808–1917. At this time nationalism as well as other ideologies reached Finland from Europe, which strengthened the willingness to change both in society and on a governmental level. The Fennoman movement, which was a movement focusing both on language and on nationalism, became the core of the Finnish self-perception. The goal was to define Finland as a coherent and separate country in relation to its neighbouring countries. Collecting folk poems and learning to know one's home country became essential. People saw the Kalevala poems as a way to understand and define the Finnish identity and the history of the Finnish people. Especially young people with a background in academia were intrigued by these ideas. University students collected poems all over the Grand Duchy of Finland as well as in the Russian part of Carelia, in Sweden, Norway and in Ingria. Students who collected these folk poems also wrote travelogues about their travels and all this material was handed over to The Finnish Literature Society. These documents are unique and there has not been much research done on them, especially with the focus on how the young academic generation during the age of autonomy defined their home country, their national self-perception, themselves and the commoners living in the rural parts of the country. This book reviews travelogues written by one hundred university students who travelled in the country collecting folk poems during 1836–1917. The book offers insight into how the students described Finland and what it meant to be Finnish. Travelogues can be defined as a sort of hybrid of texts. They consist of a mixture of letters, journals, biographical texts and travel books. Consequently, the image that the students depict of Finland is in this study based upon research perspectives and methods used in textual research, oral history and travel literature. The travelogues written by students previously evoked the interest of researchers who mainly studied certain traits of poem collectors, tradition bearers or poems. However, the travelogues contain plenty of information about the lives of the people who lived in the areas where the poems were collected. The descriptions of Finland in the travelogues do not represent the "real" 19th century Finland, but instead it is a story written and created by university students. The characteristics that are presented in The Land of Hope are based on how the intelligentsia perceived "real" Finnishness as opposed to the uneducated commoners living in the rural parts of the country. The most notable themes in the travelogues are the state and the future of the society and of being Finnish. Another theme is the otherization of those who were uneducated commoners. These themes describe the fears and hopes that university students had about Finland. They also show us that the travelogues were ideological texts about Finland and Finnishness that united the collectors of folk poetry. This book studies the collection of folk poetry in the context of the ideologies during the age of autonomy and it explains what the collection of poems meant and who were involved in it. Furthermore, the book gives an insight into the possibilities to pursue academic studies and it also presents the most essential sources of students' knowledge about Finland at that point of time.
