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Heikki Kokko

Visiting Researcher, Title of Docent (Associate Professor)
Tampere University
heikki.kokko [at] tuni.fi (heikki[dot]kokko[at]tuni[dot]fi)
phone number+358503186127

Fields of expertise

social history of experiences, digital history, social history, history of the self, conceptual history, media history

Research topics

Long nineteenth century, History of society, Letters to newspapers, Civil society, Nationalism

Research unit

Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX)

Selected publications

Databases

Heikki Kokko, Translocalis database. National Library of Finland’s digital data 2023. https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/collections?id=742&set_language=en=742. Read on 9 February 2023.

Selected Scientific Publications

Kokko, Heikki (2024). Village gossip or voice of the people? The culture of letters to the press in the grasp of transnational ideologies in mid-1800s Finland. In Kortti, Jukka & Kurvinen, Heidi (eds). Mediated Ideologies. Nordic Views on the History of the Press and Media Cultures. Vernon Press, 3-20.

Kokko, Heikki. (2023). The Construction of Early Social Citizenship: The Lived Institution of Poor Relief in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Finland. In: Annola, J., Lindberg, H., Markkola, P. (eds) Lived Institutions as History of Experience. Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38956-6_5 

Kokko, Heikki & Harjula, Minna. (2023). Social history of experiences: a theoretical-methodological approach. Teoksessa P. Haapala, M. Harjula & H. Kokko (toim.) Experiencing society and the lived welfare state. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21663-3_2 

Haapala, Pertti & Harjula, Minna & Kokko, Heikki (2023). Introduction. Teoksessa P. Haapala, M. Harjula & H. Kokko (toim.) Experiencing society and the lived welfare state. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21663-3_1 

Haapala, Pertti & Harjula, Minna & Kokko, Heikki eds. (2023). Experiencing Society and the Lived Welfare State. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21663-3  

Harjula, Minna & Kokko, Heikki (2022). The Scene of Experience. Digital Handbook of the History of Experience. https://doi.org/10.58077/SSXN-4N37  

Kokko, Heikki. (2021). From Local to Translocal Experience: The Nationwide Culture of Letters to the Press in Mid-1800s Finland . Media History 2021.

Kokko Heikki. (2021). Temporalization of Experiencing: First-Hand Experience of the Nation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Finland , In: Kivimäki V., Suodenjoki S., Vahtikari T. (eds) Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000. Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.