
MAARIT SIRENI
Senior Researcher
DSocSc, Adjunct Professor; Senior Researcher, Regional and Rural Studies
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
Contact info
Organization
Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Karelian Institute
maarit.sireni@uef.fi
Phone
+358 50 442 3661
Keywords
Societal Activities
Expert in the Rural Policy Committee Networks, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
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 and Rasimäki in eastern Finland
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LYY Institute for Natural resources, environment and society
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Rurality, welfare and everyday life
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Network of Researchers in Human-Environment Research
Publications
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Sireni, Maarit; Davydova-Minguet, Olga; Pöllänen, Pirjo. 2021. Russian immigrant women as agents of development in the Finnish border region Frontiers in sociology provisionalle accepted: -. 2021
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Rajakarjalaisten lähtöpaikat uudelleentulkittuina. Sireni, Maarit / Karjalankieliset rajalla. 2021. 2021
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Czarnecki, Adam; Sireni, Maarit; Dacko, Mariusz. 2020. Second-home owners as consumers of local food International journal of consumer studies 2021; 45 2: 175-187. 2020
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Kattilakoski, Mari; Sireni, Maarit. 2020. Koettu arjen hyvinvointi ja sen murtumat maaseudun naisten kertomuksissa Maaseutututkimus 28 1: 7-28. 2020
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Sireni, Maarit. 2020. Kirjoita Terraan Terra: maantieteellinen aikakauskirja 132 1: 1-2. 2020
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Sireni, Maarit. 2020. Koronan valossa ja varjossa Terra: maantieteellinen aikakauskirja 132 2: 49-50. 2020
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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
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Kattilakoski, Mari; Sireni, Maarit. 2019. Maaseutupolitiikan 30-vuotista taivalta juhlittiin Säätytalolla Maaseudun uusi aika 27 1: 47-48. 2019
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Sireni, Maarit. 2019. Kokemuksia opiskeluhuollon palveluiden integroimisesta Etelä- ja Pohjois-Karjalassa Focus localis 47 1: 64-82. 2019
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Sireni, Maarit; Kattilakoski, Mari. 2019. Visioita älyliikenteestä ja kertomuksia liikkumisen arjesta harvaan asutulla maaseudulla Terra: maantieteellinen aikakauskirja 131 3: 153-163. 2019