{"id":3762346,"date":"2026-04-15T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laura.fi\/vacancies\/company\/postdoctoral-researcher-history-of-everyday-nationalism-coe-nars-tutkijatohtori\/postdoctoral-researcher-history-of-everyday-nationalism-coe-nars-tutkijatohtori\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:30:26","slug":"3762346","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/laura.fi\/en\/vacancies\/tampereen-yliopisto\/postdoctoral-researcher-history-of-everyday-nationalism-coe-nars-tutkijatohtori\/3762346\/","title":{"rendered":"Postdoctoral Researcher (History of Everyday Nationalism, CoE NARS) \/ Tutkijatohtori"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences create a unique environment for multidisciplinary, inspirational and high-impact research and education. Our universities community has competitive edges in technology, health and society.\u00a0<\/em>www.tuni.fi\/en<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Tampere University invites applications forone<\/u><\/strong>fixed-term position as Postdoctoral Researcher in\u00a0<\/strong>the History of Everyday Nationalism<\/strong>for the period 1 September 2026\u201328 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).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The NARS Centre of Excellence is a collaboration among four research institutions: Finnish Literature Society, Tampere University, University of Helsinki and \u00c5bo Akademi University, combining history and cultural memory studies.The aim of NARS is to renew nationalism research in the humanities by studying how people\u2019s experiences, emotions, and memories interact with national systems of meaning-making and how nations are constructed in human action.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Tampere University sub-project focuses on\u00a0Everyday Affordances of Nationalism<\/strong><\/a><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>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\u2019s 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 analysis with the analytical concept of affordance and the theories of everyday nationalism.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Job description\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher whose expertise is in the history of the nation\/nationalism with a focus on everyday nationalism in the nineteenth and\/or twentieth centuries. We welcome applications that would bolster one or more of the above-mentioned research areas, but we will also consider other research foci within the history of everyday nationalism. Potential topics are not limited to specific geographical areas; comparative perspectives are welcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The postdoctoral researcher will primarily focus on their own research and be an active part of the in-person activities at NARS. They will also be expected to teach and organize workshops and seminars.<\/p>\n

Key tasks include:\u00a0<\/p>\n