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Mervi Kaarina Elisabet Kailo (born 31st August, 1951 Helsinki) is a Finnish gender studies scholar, docent, municipal politician, self-made quilt artist and citizen activist. She defended her Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Toronto in l990, in comparative literature. After her studies of political science and literature at the University of Helsinki (B.A, l976), she moved to Switzerland where she studied Russian and American literature (Lic. es Lettres, l982). After immigrating to Canada, she spent seventeen years studying and working in Toronto, Montreal and Northern Quebec. She was lecturer in French at the University of Toronto and upon defending her thesis, moved to Chicoutimi, to work as assistant professor in the departments of English and psychology. In l992 she was appointed to the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Concordia University, Canada, where she acted as interim principal and associate professor until l999.

Although she had tenure in women’s studies, she returned back to Finland, accepting the position as first chair of women’s studies at Oulu University (l999-2004). Following this, she has held a position as senior scholar of the Finnish Academy (2005-2007). Currently she is active in local politics but continues to publish and carry out research as part of the International Network of Feminists for a Gift economy (www.gift-economy.com). Among her many activities, she has served on the board of the Kvinneuniversitet Norden, founded by Berit Ås. She is currently vice-chair of the board of the association for support of Kierikki Stone Age village, Museum of Ylikiiminki.

Main contributions (theoretical concepts): the Gift and Master Imaginary, Ecomythology, The Narrative of Women who married the Bear from the Gift perspective, the sauna, women and the Gift imaginary, ecofeminist views on Finnish haltijas, visualizing Pohjola’s goddesses (quilt art and comparative mythological research); the Golden Woman and Kalevala’s women, gender and comparative mythology.

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

Gender & Women’s/cultural and literary studies and folklore and an interdisciplinary approach combining social sciences and Indigenous theories. A focus on the gender impact of neoliberal austerity politics, modern matriarchal studies, comparative Goddess mythology, ecomythology, Finno-Ugric women, gender and Kalevala, Indigenous worldview/theory, Northern women’s culture and literature, the Gift economy/ecology, the Gift imaginary, comparative perspectives on the Bear Ceremonial in the North; gendered violence and healing from the culture of violence, ”honor” crimes, gender and sauna, societies of peace (matricultures), Jungian and Freudian theories of creativity, anti-racist theory and practices, gender and future studies.

Kailo has written her publications in Finnish, English and French, and some of her work has been translated into Spanish or Italian. She travels around the world as invited lecturer or seminar participant (Canada, Italy and Germany in most recent years).  EDUCATION AND CAREER

Doctor of Philosophy (Comparative Literature) 1982-1990 Ph.D. (June 12, 1990), Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. 1981, Licence ès lettres, University of Geneva, (Honor's M.A. in American literature, minor in Russian); 1976, Hum. Kand. (BA), University of Helsinki (English, French and political science

POSITIONS

Senior Research Fellow, the Finnish Academy: 2006-2008. Docent, Oulu University, Dept. of English, North American Studies, Women’s Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies in the North, Writings on “Otherness”. 2008-. University Of Oulu. Faculty of Educational Sciences. Professor of Women's Studies and Multiculturalism. Concordia University. Simone de Beauvoir Institute. Associate Professor with tenure since l996. Acting Principal in 1997. Assistant professor from l991-1996; Université du Québec À Chicoutimi, Assistant professor in the Département des langues moderns et département de la psychologie; 1990-1991. University Of Toronto, Canada. Instructor of French language and literature, l982-l990 Cornell University, USA: DAAD post-doctoral fellowship, l989.  ANTOLOGIES, MONOGRAPHS AND BOOKS

Finnish Goddess Mythology, the Golden Woman and Traditional Ecological Knowledge From Climate Change to Indigenous Earth Democracy and the Gift. Oulu, Juvenes Print, Lore&Loom, Irti Talousväkivallasta. Reseptejä solidaariseen hyvinvointiin. (From Economic Violence to Solidarity-based Wellness). Helsinki: Kailo, Hakapaino, 2007. Kailo, Kaarina. l982. Kailo, Kaarina ja Irma Heiskanen. Esiäitien elämänvoiman juurilla—pohjolan ekologinen perinne-tieto. (At the roots of our foremothers’ life force—on the ecological knowledge of the North). Omakustanne, 2014. Doctoral Thesis: 1990 "The Short Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Gérard de Nerval-A Study in Post-Jungian Aesthetics." Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, 335p. l982. “Saul Bellow and the American Dream”. Lic. es Lettres, MA thesis, University of Geneva. Saul Bellow and the American Dream. Lic. es Lettres, MA thesis. University of Geneva.

Edited and co-edited anthologies

2008. Wo/men and Bears. The Gifts of Nature, Culture and Gender Revisited. Toronto, Inanna Press. Heiskanen, Irma & Kailo, Kaarina, toim. 2006. Ekopsykologia ja perinnetieto. Polkuja eheyteen ( Ecopsychology and traditional Ecological Knowledge, Paths to Wholeness). Helsinki, Greenspot. Warkentin, Raija, Kailo, Kaarina & Jorma Halonen, eds. 2005. Sweating with the Finns. Sauna Stories from North America. Centre for Northern Studies, Lakehead University. l4. Helander, Elina & Kailo, Kaarina, toim. 1999. Ilman Alkua tai Loppua. Saamelaisten Puheenvuoro. Helsinki, Like. Helander, Elina & Kailo, Kaarina, eds. 1998. No Beginning, No End--The Sami (Lapps) Speak Up. Alberta: Canadian Circumpolar Institute. The Nordic Sami Institut, Kautokeino. 240p. Teräs, Leena, Vappu Sunnari & Kaarina Kailo, toim. 2005. Koulutus, sukupuolisosialisaatio ja teknologia—näkökulma segregaatioon (Education, Gender, Socialization and Technology-Perspectives on Gender-based Segregation) Women, IT and Technology. ESR, WomenIT. Oulun yliopisto, Kajaanin yliopistokeskus. My role was to head the research team funded by ESR/Equal WomenIT project. Kailo, Kaarina, Vappu Sunnari & Heli Vuori. 2004, Eds. Tasa-arvon haasteita lokaalin ja globaalin rajoilla. (Equality and Difference on the Line. The Global and Local Revisited) Northern Gender Studies. ESR/EU. Oulu University Press.

Scientific and other articles (samples)

2018. “The Golden Woman. Earthbody Warnings from Prehistory.” Ten New Threats to Mother Earth. Ed. Claudia von Werlhof. Toronto: Inanna Press. 2018. “The Demise and Appropriation of the Gifts of the Finnish Welfare Society. The Impact of Neoliberal Politics” forthcoming in The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy, ed. G. Vaughan, York University, Inanna Press. 2017. “Il decline e l’appropriazione del doni dello stato sociale finlandese. L’impatto di genere delle politiche neoliberali. Le radici materne dell’economia del dono. a cura di Genevieve Vaughan. Milano, Vanda publishing. l78-221. Italian translation of “The Demise and Appropriation of the Gifts of the Finnish Welfare Society”. 2016. “The Gender Impact of Alchemical Politics and Corporate Exchange. The Fate of the Finnish Welfare Society and Gift Labor”, Boomerang, Scientific Journal for the Critical Study of Patriarchy and Alternative Cultures (Austria). Reprinted in The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy, Proceedings of the Rome Gift economy conference, ed. G. Vaughan. Toronto, Inanna Press. 2014. “Deep Ecofeminism, Alchemical Patriarchy and the Gift Imaginary”. Universidad de Valladolid (Sukupuoli ja kestävä kehitys—solidaarisen kehityspolitiikan hyvät käytännöt ja arvot- hanke) Ecología y Género en diálogo interdisciplinar ( publicada por la editorial Plaza y Valdés en la colección Ciencia, Moral y Sociedad), la traducción en español. Coordinated by Profesor Alicia Puleo. 20l3. “Earth Democracy, Ecofeminism, Gift Paradigm and Alternatives to Patriarchy.” Towards a sustainable Ecology. Global Challenges and Local Responses in African and Asia. 55 Years after Bandung Asian African Conference 1955. Ed. Darwis Khudori and Yukio Kamino. 2012. “Ecospiritual Action and the the Gift Imaginary. A Union of Spirituality and Politics. Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme’s (CWS/cf) issue, “Feminism, Activism and Spirituality”. Vol. 29, No. 1,2. and reprinted in Woman studies: an Introductory Reader, ed. Brenda Cranney and Sheikla Molloy. Inanna Press, Toronto, 2012. 2010.“Lahja- ja vaihtotalouden sukupuolittuneet paradigmat. Ekososiaalisesti kestävän tulevaisuuden edellytyksistä. Kailo, Kaarina & Vuokko Jarva, kutsu-toimittajat. Sukupuolten tulevaisuus. Futura-tulevaisuuden tutkimuksen seuran tieteellinen lehti.3/ 46–59. 2008. “The Helga Festival. Traces of a Finno-Ugric Matriarchy and worldview?” Peaceful Societies Past and Present. Ed. Heide Göttner-Abendroth. HAGIA Institute, Germany. 2008. “Sustainable Cultures of Life and Gift Circulation—a New Model for the Green/Postcolonial Restructuring of Europe?” Sustainable Societies, Ympäristö ja kehitys ry (Environment and Development Association). Publication ordered by the Finnish Ministry of Exterior. Ed. Jarno Pasanen (Ympäristö ja kehitys ry.) 2008. ”From the Unbearable Bond between women and Bears to the Gift Imaginary. Ancient Bear Ceremonials Revisited.” in Kaarina Kailo, ed. Wo/men and Bears. The Gifts of Nature, Culture and Gender Revisited. Inanna Press & Education, York University, Toronto. 59-119. 2007. “Globalisation Revisited. Ecospiritual Movements Reviving the Gift Imaginary.” In Search of a Humanised Globalisation. The Contribution of Spirituality-based Movements. Ed. Darwis Kudori. Asia-Europe Foundation. Nanzan University, Japan 27-29.4.04. 2004. “Desde el discurso viril a los concursos fértiles: el ecofeminismo y las mujeres nordicas.” ("From the Virile Dis-Course to Fertile Concourses. Globalization, Ecofeminism and Northern Women") Mujeres y Ecologia: Historia, Pensamiento, Sociedad. Cavana, Maria Luisa, Puleo, Alicia, Segura, Cristina (cords.), Madrid: Asociación Cultural Al-Mudayna. Colección LAYA. 129-153. 2007. Pan Dora Revisited—from Patriarchal Woman-Blaming to a Feminist Gift Imaginary. Women and the Gift Economy. Another World View is Possible. Ed. Genevieve Vaughan. Scarborough, Ont. York University, Inanna Press and Education. 50-71. 2006. Cyberecofeminism and Ecosocial Sustainability. Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology. edited by Dr. Eileen M. Trauth. 2006. "Kave, Louhi ja Pandoran lipas--miesnäkökulmaisen mytologian uudelleenarviointia." Myyttien Hyrinässä. TAIDA, Oulun yliopistopaino. 79-111. 2005. ”Ekososiaalinen kestävä tulevaisuus ja kyberekofeminismi – Naisnäkökulmia segregaation purkuun globalisaation kontekstissa.” Leena Teräs, Vappu Sunnari & Kaarina Kailo (toim.) Koulutus, sukupuolisosialisaatio ja teknologia – näkökulmia segregaatioon. Oulun yliopisto, Kajaanin yliopistokeskus. 177-210.

2005. "Mythic Women of the North. Between Reality and Fantasy.” In: Heininen, Lassi, Kari Strand and Kari Taulavuori (eds). Northern Dimensions and Environments. Northern Sciences Review. Thule Institute, University of Oulu.  l73-223.

2005. ”Archaic Aspects of the Sauna and the Sweat lodge—the Gift of Bare Being.” Raija Warkentin, Kailo, Kaarina & Jorma Halonen, eds. Sweating with the Finns. Sauna Stories from North America. Lakehead University, Centre for Northern Studies no. l4. 45-76.

2006. “Eleonore Sioui et l’altérite littéraire au Quebec autochtone. Discours hybride, discours “nomade”. Le Nord Imaginaire. ed. Daniel Chartier, Univ. du Quebec,  Monreal, Canada. 2006. "Hunnutettu ja riisuttu nainen - taloudellis-uskonnollisen fundamentalismin syvätasoista.” Tuhat ja yksi askelta. Islamilaisuus maailman mosaiikissa.  (The Veiled and Stripped Woman—on the Deeper Layers of Economic and Religious Fundamentalism). Toim. Ilona Nykyri & Jouko Jokisalo. Helsinki, Tammi. 2005,”Globalisaation sukupuolivaikutukset ja prekarisaatio.” Kohti Punaista planeettaa. Työ, demokratia ja globalisaatio-hankkeen loppuraportti. Toim. Katja Syvärinen ja Tapani Kaakkuriniemi. Helsinki: KSL, 55-65. 2004. “Giving Back to the Gift Paradigm—Another Worldview is Possible.” Athanor. Il Dono, The Gift. A Feminist Analysis. (in Italian and English). Ed. Genevieve Vaughan. (8), 39-69. 2003. "Baring our Beeing: Sauna and Sweatlodge as Ritual Spaces” and in translation,  Die Entblösung unseres Seins: Sauna und Schwitzhütte als ritueller Raum". In Eberhard Conradi (ed.), Sauna Wellness Weltweit: Dokumentation des XII. Internationalen Sauna-Kongresses 5.bis 9. Mai 1999, Aachen. Bielefeld, Deutschland: Deutscher Sauna-Bund e.V. /Article published in 2 languages. 2000. "Kalevalan ja Kantelettaren tuolla puolen. Myyttinen toiseus ja naiseuden uudet synnyt." Suur-Kanteletar. Toim. Kai Linnilä. Tammi: Amanita, Turku. 2000. "Representations of Self, Woman, Other in the Finnish Kalevala--a Problem with the 'Overlap/p.'" Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism. Ed. Shahrzad Mojab, Judith Whitehead and Himani Bannerji, eds. University of Toronto Press. 1999. "The She-bear-Circumpolar Mother of Spiritual Feminism." Canadian Woman Studies/cahiers de la femme: An Introductory Reader. A re-printed article. Inanna Press, Scarboro, York. 1997. "Integrative Feminist Pedagogy, C. G. Jung and the Politics of Visualization." Learning Desire: Perspectives on Pedagogy, Culture, and the Unsaid. Ed. Sharon Todd. London: Routledge. 187-217. 1997. "Hemispheric Cross-Talk--Women Collaborating on Storytelling." Northern Parallels. 4th Circumpolar Univ.Coop. Conference Proceedings. Shauna McLarnon and Douglas Nord, eds. Prince George, the University of Northern British Columbia. 102-116. 1996. "Ecriture Migrante, écriture d'extase--le fruit de la passion de Gloria Escomel. In Multiculture, Multiécriture. Maïr Verthuy et Lucie Lequin (dir.). Paris: l'Harmattan. 199-208. 1996. "The She-bear-Circumpolar Mother of Spiritual Feminism." Canadian Woman Studies/cahiers de la femme. Vol. 17.1 (Winter): 48-52. 1994. "Trance-cultural Travel: Indigenous Women and Mainstream Feminisms." Ed. Mari Peepre. Trans-Cultural Travels: Essays in Canadian Literature and Society. Canada. 19-36. 1994 "Refusing to Hold Our Tongues: Women's Folklore, Women's Orality as Self-Recovery." Room of One's Own. Vol. 17.1 (March): 86-94. 1993. "Blanche Dubois and Salomé as `New Women', Old Lunatics in Modern Drama." Themes in Drama, vol. 15 (Cambridge UP Text Series). 120-35.Kailo, Kaarina. 1990. Robertson Davies. Interview. With Kaarina Kailo. The Other Solitudes: Multiculturalism and Canadian Literature. Eds. Linda Hutcheon and Marion Richmond. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 361-69. 8 p. 1987 "Emil Petaja's Star Mill or the Sampo's Shifted Axis." Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher/Ural-Altaic Yearbook. Vol. 59. Bloomington, Indiana: Eurolingua. 107-117. 10 p. 1985 "Lemminkainen's Demonic Quest and the Finnish Code." Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher/Ural-Altaic Yearbook. Vol 57. Bloomington: Indiana: Eurolingua.  Other writings

2017.” Irokeesien kansanvalta Ne’’Gashasde”’’sA –kaikkien demokratioiden äiti. Peruste. 2016. Jälkipuhe. Vaihdevuodet. Jokaisen naisen kirja. Finnish translation of Our Bodies, Ourselves, The Boston women's Health book. Nina Tarvainen, Anja Siimes & Kaarina Kailo. NEMO OY, Hansa Print, Helsinki, 2014. ”Lahjan sosiologia sukupuolen, kulttuuristen suhteiden ja vallankäytön rajapinnoilla.” Tieteessä tapahtuu, 5/2014. 74-79. ”Syväekologinen feminismi ja luontokansojen sielukas lahjatalous”. Elonkehä. 3/2014. 20l3. “Irokeesien sukupuolijärjestelmä ja maa-ilmankuva. Toisenlaisen kansanvallan siemeniä.” Peruste. lokakuu. October. (Iroquoian gender notions and worldview. Seeds of a radically other democracy”). 2006. ”Morsiusteollisuudesta luomuhäihin – nais- ja luontoystävällisten rituaalien elvytys” “Saunan mielenmaisema–Elämänkaarirituaalit ja suomalainen luontosuhde. Irma Heiskanen & Kailo, Kaarina, eds. Ekopsykologia ja perinnetieto. Polkuja eheyteen. Helsinki, Greenspot. 2005,”Globalisaation sukupuolivaikutukset ja prekarisaatio.” Kohti Punaista planeettaa. Työ, demokratia ja globalisaatio-hankkeen loppuraportti. Toim. Katja Syvärinen ja Tapani Kaakkuriniemi. Helsinki: KSL, 55-65. 2004. “Vaihtotalouden ja hoivaeetoksen rajapinnoilla. Globalisaation sukupuolivaikutukseet ja naisliikkeen vastarinta.” (On the Borders of the Exchange and Gift Economies. The Gender Impact of Globalization and the Resistances of the Women’s Movement) Tasa-arvon haasteita lokaalin ja globaalin rajapinnoilla. Toim. Kaarina Kailo, Vappu Sunnari & Heli Vuori. Northern Gender Studies, ESR/EU. Oulu University Press, 2004. 163-185.  DISTINCTIONS

2016, The Star Matron of Oulu, Oulu: Kalevala women’s annual prize for life work. 2011- EIGE, Women inspiring EU- nominee and participant in calendar of “women of influence”. 2007 Sara Prize for women, awarded for life time achievements related to gender equality, peace and environment by Naisunioni, Women’s Union, Oulu. 1999-2002 European President of the International Order of the Helen Prize for Women (headquarters in Montreal, Canada). 1995 Nominated as member of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), Helsinki, Finland; 28th Feb, 1987 Medal of Merit awarded by the Committee for the 150th Anniversary of the Kalevala, the Ministry of Education of Finland, for research and promotion of Finnish culture.

ART EXHIBITIONS ON TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE, SPIRIT GUARDIAN DRESS AND QUILT ART

Kailo, Kaarina. Kalevala and Kanteletar Jubileum- year exhibition. Kofeiinikompania, Oulu, 17.l-7.2.2015 Kailo, Kaarina. 2011. Quilt art exhibition: ”Elementeistä elinvoimaa. Myyttiset naishaltiat heräävät” Kiiminki library. Kailo, Kaarina. ”Lempo Soikoon! Metistä elinvoimaa – naishaltioiden myyttikestit” Galleria Colmio, Oulu. 28.2-31.3. 2010.

Team Art exhibitions

Group Exhibition of Tilkkuvakka, quilt work amateur group of Oulu-Opisto, Haukipudas Library. Sept. 2018, Kailo, “Tapiola”. Group Exhibition,”At the roots of the Life force of our Forebears—Apron Matrons and ecomythological outfits”. Lusto – Finnish Forestry Museum. 21.8.2015–10.1.2016. Mielly metsä, kostu korpi”- project on Nature and Guardian Spirits. My own quilt work on Finnish goddesses. Many team and individual exhibitions at Oulu City library, Kiiminki library, Jyväskylä, Vanha Woimala, Vaajakoski adult education college, Oulunsalo cultural Institute, Oulu art school, Pikisaari, O.J. Jauhiaisen museo, Kiiminki. 3.10. – 27.10.2012.

DVDs on ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE NORTH

DVDs, script by Kaarina Kailo and Irma Heiskanen. Finno-Ugric Guardian Spirits and Animal Mothers—Traditional Ecological Knowledge, producer Myyttikehrä (Kaarina Kailo & Irma Heiskanen), Script Kaarina Kailo & ja Irma Heiskanen. Filming by Kirre Koivunen, 2015. In Finnish and English.

Research projects and grants 2015- 16  "Mielly metsä, kostu korpi – suomalaisten ja suomensukuisten kansojen ekologinen perinnetieto ja haltiakulttuuri. Kiertävä multimedianäyttely,"  Multidimensional performance art exhibition with Irma Heiskanen and Kirre Koivunen on traditional ecological knowledge of the North and Finno-Ugric women’s mythology. Kone Foundation. Leader of project. 2010- Part of research network coordinated by Alicia Puleo Garcia of Universidad de Valladolid for the Ministry of Science and Innovation in Spain, for the international project ”La Igualdad de genero en la cultura de la sostenibilidad: Valores y buenas practics para el desarollo solidario” (Gender Equality and the Culture of Sustainability: Values and good practices for Solidarity-based Development). 2006-07 Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Academy, project: “Trauma and Healing in Native and Nordic Women’s Fiction.” 2000-2003. Finnish Academy. Gendered Violence in Educational Institutions. Gendered Power Relations, Violence and Monoacculturation in Educational Institutions

Research networks

2001-. International network of Feminists for a Gift Economy- network meetings around the globe.see www.gift-economy,com. 2000-2003. Finnish Academy. Gendered Violence in Educational Institutions. Gendered Power Relations, Violence and Monoacculturation in Educational Institutions (no. 49739), responsible leader.

SOURCES

Takkinen, Pasi. ”Sukupuoli ympäristöajattelussa: haastattelussa Kaarina Kailo. Dilemman ympäristövastaava haastatteli tunnettua ympäristöfilosofia. Minervan pöllö. 3/2013. “Sauna som terapi og helbredelse. Kaarina Kailo”, Kvinne i et nordlig landskap, ed. Sylvi Inez Liljegren. 1999, Femina Borealis publication. Kailo, Kaarina interviewed in & Christiansen-Ruffman, Linda, Melchiori, Paula Ås, Berit, eds. Portraits of Women’s Wisdom. Feminists Exploring New Paradigms of Life, Knowledge and Politics. Wise Women International Feminist University Network. Inanna Press.

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