Johanna Turunen
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General description
Dr Johanna Turunen (she/her) works as a post-doctoral researcher in Contemporary Culture Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is the leader of the Uncomfortable Museum project (Kone Foundation 2023-2027). She also works as a researcher in the ELABCHROM (EU 2023-2025) and HERIDI (Academy of Finland 2020-2024). For more information on the projects, see the links at the bottom of this page.
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, Postdoctoral Researcher
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
- Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Postdoctoral Researcher, Ended
- Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Project Researcher, Ended
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Jyväskylä), Doctoral Student, Ended
Research interests
My research builds on the connections between critical heritage studies and post- and decolonial theory. My work covers topics such as the decolonization of museums and heritage; heritage activism; heritage diplomacy; identity politics and belonging; heritagization of European colonialism and slavery; and EU cultural heritage politics.
Fields of science
Follow-up groups
Projects as Principal investigator
- Uncomfortable museum: towards safe, brave spaces
- Kone Foundation
Projects as Team Member
- Establishing a Laboratory of Cultural Heritage in Central Romania
- Lähdesmäki, Tuuli
- European Commission
- EU Heritage Diplomacy and the Dynamics of Inter-Heritage Dialogue
- Lähdesmäki, Tuuli
- Research Council of Finland
- EUROHERIT Legitimation of European cultural heritage and the dynamics of identity politics in the EU
- Lähdesmäki, Tuuli
- European Commission
Publications and other outputs
