Maarit Sireni
Senior Researcher
DSocSc, Adjunct Professor; Senior Researcher, Regional and Rural Studies
Karelian Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
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 - 31.07.2030