
Maarit Sireni
Senior Researcher
DSocSc, Adjunct Professor; Senior Researcher, Regional and Rural Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Karelian Institute
maarit.sireni@uef.fi | +358 50 442 3661
Main research interests: 1. Gender and Space: feminist rural studies, farm women, entrepreneurship, motherhood and childcare in the countryside; 2. Imagined and Lived Rural Space: changing rural communities, sense of place, everyday life and mobility patterns in rural areas; 3. Cultural Geographies of Home: domestic material cultures of Karelian people; 4. Land Use Planning in the Countryside: sparsity, living in low density areas; 5. Geographies of Food: local food and second home owners; 6. Rural Services: integration of services.
Courses: Feminist Geography, 5116378, 5 cr; Rural Geography, 5116228, 5 cr (lectures in Finnish).
Editor of TERRA, Geographical journal
Research groups
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Economic impacts of second home tourism
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Gender and Rurality
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The longitudinal study of the villages of Sivakka…
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Rurality, welfare and everyday life
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Researchers’ Network of Environmental Culture 01.08.2008 - 31.07.2050
Projects
Publications
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Pala Viipuria uuteen kotiin
Sireni, Maarit / Diasporan Viipuri: Muistojen kaupunki sotien jälkeen. 2021. 2021 -
Rajakarjalaisten lähtöpaikat uudelleentulkittuina
Sireni, Maarit / Karjalankieliset rajalla. 2021. 2021 -
Feminististä aluepolitiikkaa?
Sireni, Maarit. Maaseutututkimus 29 2: 70-76. 2021 -
Koronan maantiedettä
Sireni, Maarit. Terra: maantieteellinen aikakauskirja 133 1: 1-2. 2021 -
"Invisible" Agents of Rural Development. Russian Immigrant Women in the Finnish Border Region
Sireni, Maarit; Pöllänen, Pirjo; Davydova-Minguet, Olga. Frontiers in sociology 6: 601726. 2021 -
Second-home owners as consumers of local food
Czarnecki, Adam; Sireni, Maarit; Dacko, Mariusz. International journal of consumer studies 2021; 45 2: 175-187. 2020 -
Koettu arjen hyvinvointi ja sen murtumat maaseudun naisten kertomuksissa
Kattilakoski, Mari; Sireni, Maarit. Maaseutututkimus 28 1: 7-28. 2020 -
Kirjoita Terraan
Sireni, Maarit. Terra: maantieteellinen aikakauskirja 132 1: 1-2. 2020 -
Koronan valossa ja varjossa
Sireni, Maarit. Terra: maantieteellinen aikakauskirja 132 2: 49-50. 2020 -
Everyday life and mobility in the sparsely populated rural Finland
Sireni, Maarit; Kattilakoski, Mari / Book of Abstracts. XXVIII European Society for Rural Sociology Congress"Rural Futures in a Complex World" Trondheim, Norway. 2019. 2019