Atte Arffman
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General description
I am a PhD candidate of environmental history at the department of History and Ethnology in the University of Jyväskylä. I have build my expertise especially in environmental history; my primary interest is the role of environment, nature and their phenomena as forces, even agents, of historical change. Furthermore I am interested in the history of the United States as well as the history of the media, particularly the press.
Active JYU affiliations
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Doctoral Student
- Department of History and Ethnology, Grant Researcher
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
- Department of History and Ethnology (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher (JYU funding), Ended
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Jyväskylä), Research Assistant, Ended
- Department of History and Ethnology (University of Jyväskylä), Part-Time Teacher, Ended
Research interests
Tutkin väitöskirjassani luonnonilmiöiden politisoitumista ja sen mekanismeja. Käytän esimerkkitapauksena yhdysvaltalaisia hurrikaanikatastrofeja ja keskityn niistä käytyihin sanomalehtikeskusteluihin. Väitöstutkimuksellani osoitan, että luonnonilmiöiden, tässä tapauksessa hurrikaanien, rooli ja toimijuus politiikassa on merkittävämpi sekä aktiivisempi, kuin perinteisesti on ajateltu.
Fields of science
Personal keywords
Environmental History; Political History; History of the United States; Politicisation of Natural Phenomena; Environment in History
Projects as Principal investigator
- Americans and the Politics of Nature: Mechanisms of Politicization of Natural Phenomena in the United States
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
