CURRICULUM VITAE Date: 21.9.2011 Name: Olli Rosenqvist Address: University of Jyväskylä Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius P. O. Box 567 FIN-67701 Kokkola Tel. +358 6 829 4256 E-mail: olli.rosenqvist@chydenius.fi Internet: http://www.chydenius.fi/ Personal details Year and place of birth: 1961, Pori, Finland. Family status: married, three children. Present position Professor of Rural Studies, especially Cultural Research (maaseutututkimuksen professori, erityisalana kulttuuritutkimus), University of Jyväskylä, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, Kokkola, Finland, 15.9.2011. Director of the Unit for Social Sciences (yhteiskuntatieteiden yksikön johtaja), University of Jyväskylä, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, Kokkola, Finland, 15.9.2011. Director of the Social Research Team (yhteiskuntatutkimuksen tiimin johtaja), University of Jyväskylä, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, Kokkola, Finland, 15.9.2011. Adjunct professorships Adjunct Professor of Social Geography, especially Theoretical Rural Research (yhteiskuntamaantieteen, erityisesti teoreettisen maaseutututkimuksen dosentti) 19.11.2007, University of Eastern Finland, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies (Finland). Degrees PhD (filosofian tohtori) 24.9.2004, University of Vaasa (Finland), Regional Studies, Doctoral Thesis Positioning of the rural in the late modern society.
LicSc (Econ. & Bus. Adm.) (kauppatieteiden lisensiaatti) 12.12.1997, University of Vaasa (Finland), Economic Geography, Licentiate Thesis Regional specialisation of agriculture in Finland. MA (filosofian kandidaatti) 11.6.1987, University of Turku (Finland), Degree Programme in Human Geography. Other work experience Research Fellow (tutkija), University of Jyväskylä, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius (Kokkola, Finland): 16 years and 11 ½ months altogether, 1.11.1992 30.4.1993, 1.3.1994 31.10.1994, 1.5.1995 14.9.2011. Grant researcher (apurahatutkija), grant awarded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation s Central Ostrobothnian Fund (Toholampi and Kokkola, Finland): 2 months altogether, 1995 1996 and 2004. Grant researcher (apurahatutkija), grant awarded by the Chydenius Institute Foundation (Kokkola, Finland): 6 months altogether, 1994, 1997 and 2000. Researcher (tutkija), Academy of Finland (University of Jyväskylä, Chydenius Institute, Kokkola, Finland): 1 year and 8 months, 1.3.1991 31.10.1992. Researcher (tutkija), Pyhäjärvi Institute (Eura, Finland): 7 months, 1.8.1990 28.2.1991. Researcher (tutkija), Chydenius Institute, the Chydenius Institute Foundation (Kokkola, Finland): 3 years, 20.7.1987 31.7.1990. Doctoral dissertations and other academic theses supervised Supervisor (ohjaaja) of about 5 doctoral students of Social Sciences at the Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, University of Jyväskylä, 15.9.2011. Supervisor (ohjaaja) of Pirkko Järvelä s master's degree thesis Oman aikansa oltermannit. Etnologinen tutkimus ikääntyvien aktiivisuudesta maaseudun voimavarana ( Aldermen of their times. Ethnological study of the activeness of the aged as a resource of the countryside ). Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, 2008. Pre-examiner (esitarkastaja) of Kaj Zimmerbauer's doctoral dissertation Alueellinen imago ja identiteetti liikkeessä ( Regional image and identity on the move ). Department of Geography, University of Helsinki, 2008. Pre-examiner (esitarkastaja) of Kaj Zimmerbauer's doctoral dissertation Alueellisen imagon ja identiteetin muotoutuminen aluejärjestelmän muutoksessa ( Shaping of regional image and identity in the change of regional system ). Department of Geography, University of Helsinki, 2007. 2
Most important duties as scientific expert Co-ordinator of a workshop on "Rural in the urban and urban in the rural" in the Conference of Urban Research 2011, with the theme of On the boundaries of the urban, in Tampere, Finland, 5. 6.5.2011, together with Juha Peltomaa (University of Tampere). Chair of the pre-conference symposium Rurality as a Cultural Product, in Kokkola, Finland, 16. 17.8.2009, together with Ilkka Luoto and Pauli Tapani Karjalainen. Member of the symposium committee of the pre-conference symposium Rurality as a Cultural Product in Kokkola, Finland, 16. 17.8.2009. Co-ordinator of a workshop on "Possible countrysides and cultural research on rurality" in the Rural researcher meeting in Vantaa, Finland, 16. 17.8.2007, together with Ilkka Luoto. Visiting co-editor of a special issue of Terra 118: 3 4 (2006) on the theme of countryside, together with Toivo Muilu. Co-ordinator of a workshop on "On the margins of the countryside" in the Rural researcher meeting in Kokkola, Finland, 24. 25.8.2006. Referee of Maaseudun uusi aika, 2005 ; Terra, 2009 ; Alue ja Ympäristö, 2009 ; the Finnish Cultural Foundation, 2011. Most important scientific positions of trust Member of the editorial board of Terra, 25.2.2008. Member of the editorial board of Maaseudun uusi aika, 17.1.2006. Member of the publication committee of Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius (University of Jyväskylä), 22.1.1999 8.2.2011, 15.9.2011. Most important foreign visits Research, visit and conference trip to England (Huddersfield, Bedford, London), 19.8. 3.9.2011. Research trip to New Zealand (Taihape, Wellington), 13.3. 26.3.2010. Coming important speeches and performances Rosenqvist, Olli (2012). Rural at the edge of modernity. Keynote speech in the Rural at the Edge - The Nordic Conference for Rural Research, 21.5.2012, Finnish Society for Rural Research and Development, in co-operation with the Finnish Rural Network, University of Joensuu, Joensuu. (In English, coming) 3
Recent important speeches and performances Rosenqvist, Olli (2011). Rural cultural event as a vehicle for empowerment the case of Gumboot Day in Taihape, New Zealand. A presentation in the Annual International Conference 2011 of the RGB-IBG (Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)), 1.9.2011, London, UK. (In English) Rosenqvist, Olli (2011). Mitä jää jäljelle maaseudun ja kaupungin dekonstruktiosta: johdatus työryhmätyöhön. (What will remain after the deconstruction of the rural and the urban.) A presentation in the Conference of Urban Research 2011, with the theme of On the boundaries of the urban, 5.5.2011, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland. (In Finnish) Rosenqvist, Olli (2010). Vakavaa ja leikkimielistä vapaa-aikaa kulttuurisen maaseudun rajapinnoilla. (Serious and playful leisure at the interfaces of the cultural rural.) A presentation in the conference Dialoques in Geography Vuoropuhelu maantieteessä. XLIII Annual Meeting of Finnish Geographers Maantieteen päivät, 29.10.2010, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland. (In Finnish) Rosenqvist, Olli (2009). Näkökulmia kilpailukykyisten maaseutujen kehittämiseen. (Viewpoints to development of competitive ruralities.) Presentation in the MUA Forum 2009: Competiveness of the countryside, 17.9.2009, Tammela, Finland. (In Finnish) Rosenqvist, Olli (2009). Rurality of mind as a cultural export product. Presentation in the XXIII ESRS Congress 17-21 August 2009, 18.8.2009, Vaasa, Finland. (In English) Rosenqvist, Olli (2009). Utilization of rurality: from cultural product to cultural process and back again. Presentation in the pre-conference symposium Rurality as a Cultural Product, in Kokkola, Finland, 17.8.2009. (In English) Rosenqvist, Olli (2009). Metaphorical rurality as a mode of otherness. Presentation in the NGM 2009 Nordic Geographers Meeting 2009: Change society, environment and science in transition, 10.6.2009, Turku, Finland. (In English) Most important publications (the all-inclusive list of publications can be found in a separate file) (A) Peer-reviewed scientific articles (51) Rosenqvist, Olli (2011a). Kohti yhteiskäyttöisiä kulttuurisia paikkatietoja. (Towards shared culturo-spatial data.) Maaseudun uusi aika. Maaseutututkimuksen ja -politiikan aikakauslehti 19: 1, 71 80. (In Finnish) (31) Rosenqvist, Olli (2005b). Maalaisten ja kaupunkilaisten arvoeroista Suomessa. (On the differences in values between rural and urban people in Finland.) Terra 117: 4, 247 264. (In Finnish, abstract in English) 4
(B) Non-refereed scientific articles (53) Rosenqvist, Olli (2011c). Kohti globaalia maaseutumaantiedettä (Towards global rural geography). Book review: Woods, Michael (2011). Rural. 350 p. Routledge, London. Terra 123: 2, 58 59. (In Finnish) (38) Rosenqvist, Olli (2007). The Cultural Turn and Finnish Rural Research. University of Jyväskylä. Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, Kokkola. 9 p. <http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:978-951-39-2977-0> (In English) (C) Scientific books (monographs) (49) Ilmonen, Kari, Ilkka Luoto & Olli Rosenqvist (2010). Maaseutumaisen kulttuuritapahtuman olemus, kehitys ja menestys. Kymmenen kehityskertomusta Suomesta, Skotlannista, Norjasta ja Uudesta-Seelannista. (The essence, development and success of rural cultural events. Ten narratives from Finland, Scotland, Norway and New Zealand.) Maaseutupolitiikan yhteistyöryhmän julkaisuja 4/2010. 115 p. (In Finnish, abstract in Swedish and in English). (46) Luoto, Ilkka & Olli Rosenqvist (2009, eds.). Perspectives on cultural rural. Abstract book. Rurality as a cultural product Pre conference symposium in Kokkola, Finland, 16th 17 th of August 2009, organized with the cooperation of the XXIII ESRS congress in Vaasa, Finland, 17th 21st of August 2009. University of Jyväskylä. Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, Kokkola. 28 p. <http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:978-951-39-3779-9> (In English) (34) Vuolteenaho, Jani & Toivo Muilu & Olli Rosenqvist (eds.) (2006). Terran maaseututeemanumero. (Theme number of the geographical journal Terra on countryside.) Terra 118: 3 4, 141 295. (In Finnish) (29) Rosenqvist, Olli (2004). Maaseudun asemoituminen myöhäismodernissa yhteiskunnassa. (Positioning of the rural in the late modern society.) Acta Wasaensia 129. 173 p. (Doctoral dissertation, article-based.) (In Finnish, abstract in English) (D) Publications intended for professional communities (45) Rosenqvist, Olli & Jouni Kaipainen (2009d). Vanhassa vara parempi ja pussillinen uusia. Kokkolan maaseutuohjelma 2020. (The old good and a bag full of something new. Rural programme of Kokkola 2020.) University of Jyväskylä. Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, Kokkola. 75 p. <http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:978-951-39-3715-7> (In Finnish) (42) Rosenqvist, Olli & Jouni Kaipainen (2009a). Pirityisten ja Rieska-Leaderin hanketoiminnan vaikuttavuus. (The impact of the projects of the Central Ostrobothnian Local Action Groups Pirityiset and Rieska-Leader.) University of Jyväskylä. Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, Kokkola. 84 p. <http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:978-951-39-3451- 4> (In Finnish) 5
(33) Rosenqvist, Olli (2006b). Keski-Pohjanmaan maaseutustrategia 2007 2013. Kilpailukyky johtotähtenä. (Rural strategy 2007 2013 for Central Ostrobothnia. Competitiveness as a guiding star.) University of Jyväskylä. Chyden ius Institute Kokkola University Consortium. Working papers 1. 65 p. <http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:951-39-2547-1> (In Finnish) (E) Publications intended for the general public, linked to scientific research (52) Rosenqvist, Olli (2011b). Maaseutukulttuuria Kiwi-tyylillä tutkimusmatka Uuteen- Seelantiin. (Rural culture in Kiwi style a research trip to New Zealand.) Universitas Chydenius 1/2011, 10 11. (In Finnish) (47) Rosenqvist, Olli & Jouni Kaipainen (2010) Visio moniarvoisesta maaseudusta (A vision of a pluralistic countryside.) Keskipohjanmaa (newspaper) 2.1.2010. 1 p. (In Finnish) 6