Saara Jäntti
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Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Language and Communication Studies, Senior Researcher
Research interests
The treatment, description, definition and naming of mental health problems are culturally and historically shifting. They affect everyone part-taking in any given culture - and have direct impact on the embodied and social lives of everyone affected by them. Thereby it is important to examine and analyse the impact and affect of the cultural representations, practices and processes involved in naming and care. According to many pathographies, stories of illness, however, experiences of mental suffering escape language, whereby it is necessary to develop creative methodologies to convey these experiences.
Fields of science
Projects as Principal investigator
- Crafting a Universe, A Corner in the World. An Ethnographic Study on Finnish Mental Health Care Service Users' Drama Project on "Home"
- Academy of Finland
- Monitieteinen tutkimus suomalaisten mielisairaalamuistoista ja -kokemuksista
- Kone Foundation
- Theatre as a Tool to Recovery (THEATRE). Developing Theatre by and for Mental Health Care Service Users in the Context of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Housing Services
- Academy of Finland
Projects as Team Member
- Crossing Borders - Artistic Practices in Performing and Narrating Belonging
- Pöyhönen, Sari
- Academy of Finland
Publications
