Postdoctoral Researcher (History of Everyday Nationalism, CoE NARS) / Tutkijatohtori
About this role
Postdoctoral Researcher (History of Everyday Nationalism, CoE NARS) / Tutkijatohtori
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Tampere University invites applications for one fixed-term position as Postdoctoral Researcher in the History of Everyday Nationalismfor the period 1 September 2026-28 February 2029. This position is part of the Everyday Affordances of Nationalism sub-project in the Research Council of Finland Centre of Excellence in Nationalism Research in the Humanities (NARS).
The appointment is full-time and located in the Unit of History, Philosophy and Literary Studies at Tampere University. The location of work is in Tampere, Finland.
The NARS Centre of Excellence is a collaboration among four research institutions: Finnish Literature Society, Tampere University, University of Helsinki and Åbo Akademi University, combining history and cultural memory studies.The aim of NARS is to renew nationalism research in the humanities by studying how people's experiences, emotions, and memories interact with national systems of meaning-making and how nations are constructed in human action.
The Tampere University sub-project focuses on Everyday Affordances of Nationalism. We examine how the everyday shaped, negotiated, legitimized, and challenged nationalisms of the twentieth century. Our contribution lies in developing a historically grounded and materially oriented approach that emphasizes how national meanings were afforded and contested in people's encounters with institutions, practices and spaces of welfare, childhood, care, and consumer culture. We aim to show how nationalism was not only lived but also experienced, re-evaluated and, at times, resisted across the life course and between generations by combining historical anal