Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters
“Complexity and materiality in representations of reality,” Rethinking History 27:1 (2023) 93–123. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2151231
“The time of the outcome: Por qué la temporalidad es marginal a la escritura de la historia,” in Las categorías de la historia: Pasado, presente, futuro, edited by Paola Corti, Rodrigo Moreno and José Luis Widow (Gijón: Ediciones Trea, 2021), 37–52. [Why temporality is marginal to the writing of history.]
“‘History culture’ and the continuing crisis of history,” Faravid: Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies 52 (2021), 17–35. Full text here.
“The ethics of fictionality in history writing,” Prometeica: Revista de Filosofía y Ciencias 22 (2021), 50–64. DOI: 10.34024/prometeica.2021.22.11549
“论历史学家的责任：海登·怀特从虚构到伦理的路径” (translated by Zhang Zuocheng), The World History Review 7:3 (2020), 106–124. [On historians’ responsibilities: The path from fiction to ethics in Hayden White].
“The possibilities of ‘materiality’ in writing and reading history,” História da Historiografia 12:31 (2019), 44–81. DOI: 10.15848/hh.v12i31.1527
“Experience, materiality and the rules of past writing: Interrogating reference,” Life Writing 16:4 (2019), 617–635. DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2019.1633251
“Committed writing: History and narrative communication revisited,” in The Engaged Historian: Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession, edited by Stefan Berger (New York: Berghahn, 2019), 63–78.
(with Valtteri Arstila) “Mimesis psykologiassa,” in Mimesis: Filosofia, taide, yhteiskunta, edited by Jukka Mikkonen and Antti Salminen (University of Jyväskylä: SoPhi, 2017), 173–188. [Mimesis in psychology.]
“Messing with Mr In-Between: Or, how being second-rate can rescue history,” Rethinking History 21:4 (2017), 618–636. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2017.1332819
(with Arja Virta and Marjaana Puurtinen) “Monitieteinen näkökulma historian asiantuntijuuteen,” Historiallinen Aikakauskirja 114:3 (2016), 306–315. [A multidisciplinary perspective on historians’ expertise.]
“Jean-Paul Sartre and the post-1968 ethic of anti-representationalism,” in Dissent! Refracted: Histories, Aesthetics and Cultures of Dissent, edited by Ben Dorfman (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016), 209–228. Full text here.
“The distinction of history: On valuing the insularity of the historical past,” Rethinking History 20:3 (2016), 414–432. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2016.1208951
“The distinction of history: On valuing the insularity of the historical past,” Futures for the Past, edited by Kalle Pihlainen (London: Routledge, 2018), 100−118.
“The view from the fence,” Rethinking History 19:2 (2015), 310–321. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2015.999431
“Realist histories? When form clashes with function,” Rethinking History 19:2 (2015), 177–192. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2014.973713
“Realist histories? When form clashes with function,” in Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Jaume Aurell (London: Routledge, 2017), 33–48.
“Historical representation unchained: History, fiction and Quentin Tarantino,” in The Fiction of History, edited by Alexander Lyon Mcfie (London: Routledge, 2015), 130–146.
“La representación histórica sin cadenas: historia, ficción y Quentin Tarantino,” in El futuro práctico de la nueva filosofía de la historia, edited by Verónica Tozzi Thompson (Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2022), 33–55.
“There’s just no talking with the past,” Rethinking History 18:4 (2014), 575–582. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2014.893668
“Narrative truth,” Metatheoria: Revista de filosofía e historia de la ciencia 4:1 (2014), 37–53.
“The eternal return of reality: On constructivism and current historical desires,” Storia della Storiografia 65 (2014), 103–115.
“O eterno retorno da realidade: a respeito do construtivismo e dos desejos históricos atuais” (translated by Rüsley Biasutti), in Do Passado Histórico Ao Passado Prático: 40 anos de Meta-História, edited by Julio Bentivoglio and Verónica Tozzi (Serra, ES: Editora Milfontes, 2017), 165–185.
“El eterno retorno de la realidad: sobre constructivismo y los deseos históricos actuales” (translated by María Inés La Greca), in Hayden White: Cuarenta años de Metahistoria: Del “pasado histórico” al “pasado práctico,” edited by Verónica Tozzi and Julio Bentivoglio (Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2016), 129–143.
“実在の果てしない回帰―構築論と最近の歴史の欲求について” (translated by Michihiro Okamoto), in 歴史を射つ : 言語論的転回・文化史・パブリックヒストリー・ナショナルヒストリー [Shooting History: The Linguistic Turn, Cultural History, Public History and National History], edited by Michihiro Okamoto, Toru Kashima, Takahiko Hasegawa and Ken’ichiro Watanabe (Tokyo: Ochanomizu Shobo, 2015), 186–209.
“The work of Hayden White II: Defamiliarizing narrative,” in The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory, edited by Nancy Partner and Sarah Foot (Los Angeles: SAGE, 2013), 119–135.
“Rereading narrative constructivism,” Rethinking History 17:4 (2013), 509–527. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2013.825085
“Konstruktivistinen historiateoria fiktiivisyys-keskustelun jälkeen,” in Historian teoria: Lingvistisestä käänteestä mahdolliseen historiaan, edited by Kari Väyrynen and Jarmo Pulkkinen (Tampere: Vastapaino, 2016), 85–113.
“Mulholland Drive and the surrender of representation,” Storia della Storiografia 63 (2013), 71–90.
“Escaping the confines of history: Keith Jenkins,” Rethinking History 17:2 (2013), 235–252. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2013.778126
“Escapando dos limites da história: Keith Jenkins” (translated by João R. M. Ohara), in Da Explicação A Narrativa: Teoria e Filosofia da História no Mundo Anglo-Saxônico, edited by João Rodolfo Munhoz Ohara (Vitória: Editora Milfontes, 2021), 175–199.
“Cultural history and the entertainment age,” Cultural History 1:2 (2012), 168–179. DOI: 10.3366/cult.2012.0019
“What if the past were accessible after all?” Rethinking History 16:3 (2012), 323–339. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2012.695042
“Historia, historiatietoisuus ja menneisyyden käyttö,” Kasvatus & Aika 5:3 (2011), 5–17.
“On historical consciousness and popular pasts,” História da Historiografia 7:15 (2014), 10–26. DOI: 10.15848/hh.v0i15.685
“The end of oppositional history?” Rethinking History 15:4 (2011), 463–488. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2011.616408
“Critical historiography in the entertainment age,” Historein 10 (2010), 106–116.
“On history as communication and constraint,” Ideas in History 4:2 (2009), 63–90.
“Historia jako komunikacja i zobowiązanie” (translated by Karina Jarzyńska), Historyka: Studia Metodologiczne 50 (2020), 173–197. DOI: 10.24425/hsm.2020.134802
(with Valtteri Arstila) “The causal theory of perception revisited,” Erkenntnis 70:3 (2009), 397–417. DOI: 10.1007/s10670-008-9153-7
“History in the world: Hayden White and the consumer of history,” Rethinking History 12:1 (2008), 23–39. DOI: 10.1080/13642520701838769
“Performance and the reformulation of historical representation,” Storia della Storiografia 51 (2007), 3–16″The confines of the form: Historical writing and the desire that it be what it is not,” in Tropes for the Past: Hayden White and the History/Literature Debate, edited by Kuisma Korhonen (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006), 55–67.
“Understanding and commitment: Narrative representation in Sartre’s L’Idiot de la Famille,” Clio 34:1–2 (2005), 59–82.
“Ympäri mennään… Sanataide ja historiankirjoituksen rajat,” in Laji, tekijä, instituutio: Kirjallisuudentutkijain Seuran Vuosikirja 2003 (2004), 234–245. [Round and round we go… Literature and the limits of historical writing. Yearbook of the Literary Research Society of Finland.]
“From embodiedness to community,” Human Affairs 14:2 (2004), 126–134.
“Representing identities: Transforming acts into gestures?” Rethinking History 7:3 (2003), 307–313. DOI: 10.1080/1364252032000135274
“Of closure and convention: Surpassing representation through performance and the referential,” Rethinking History 6:2 (2002), 179–200. DOI: 10.1080/13642520210145635
“The moral of the historical story: Textual differences in fact and fiction,” New Literary History 33:1 (2002), 39–60. DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2002.0008
“Kaunokirjallisen tiedon käyttö historiantutkimuksessa: esimerkkinä Josef Skvoreckyn Ihmismielten insinööri,” in Hetkiä historiassa, edited by Henri Terho, Cultural History/Kulttuurihistoria 2 (University of Turku, 2002), 345–371.
“Literary knowledge in historical study: The case of Josef Škvorecký’s The Engineer of Human Souls,” Ideas in History 7:1–2 (2013), 121–145.
“Kaunokirjallisuus ja totuudellisuuskysymysten ylittäminen historiantutkimuksessa,” in Kulttuurihistoria: Johdatus tutkimukseen, edited by Kari Immonen and Maarit Leskelä, SKS Tietolipas 175 (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2001), 303–317. [Literature and the overcoming of truth-questions in historical research.]
“Crossing the public–private divide: Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Rorty on the function of literature,” in The New Europe at the Crossroads: Europe’s Classical Heritage in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Ursula E. Beitter (New York: Peter Lang, 2001), 281–299.
“The liberalist ‘esprit analytique’ as a hindrance to social justice,” in Liberalism and Social Justice: International Perspectives, edited by Gideon Calder, Edward Garrett, Jess Shannon, Avebury Series in Philosophy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), 100–112.
“Narrative objectivity versus fiction: On the ontology of historical narratives,” Rethinking History 2:1 (1998), 7–22. DOI: 10.1080/13642529809408759
“Akseli Gallen-Kallelan Kalman kukka,” Sananjalka: Suomen Kielen Seuran Vuosikirja 38 (1996), 153–172. DOI: 10.30673/sja.86582. [Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s Flower of Death. Yearbook of the Finnish Language Society.]
Non-refereed articles and other interventions
(with Tomasz Wiśniewski) “Continuing Crisis of History: New Iterations, Tomasz Wiśniewski in conversation with Kalle Pihlainen,” One More Thing… (blog), History and Theory, October 2023, https://historyandtheory.org/omt-poznan/wisniewski-pihlainen.
(with Pedro Spinola Pereira Caldas) “‘Some kind of empathy’: Introduction to What makes history personal?” História da Historiografia 12:31 (2019), 17–23. DOI: 10.15848/hh.v12i31.1568
(with Ewa Domanska, María Inés La Greca [editors], Paul A. Roth, Xin Chen and Verónica Tozzi Thompson) “Globalizing Hayden White,” Rethinking History 23:4 (2019), 533–581. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2019.1679432
“On the ethics and politics of historical representation,” in The New Development of Historical Studies and Global Citizenship, edited by Ichiro Michishige and Michihiro Okamoto (Tokyo: IHS Books [Institute of Human Sciences, Toyo University], 2017), 55–62.
“Historians and ‘the current situation’,” Rethinking History 20:2 (2016), 143–153. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2016.1161263. Full text here.
“Historians and ‘the current situation,'” History in the World, edited by Kalle Pihlainen (London: Routledge, 2018), 1–11.
“Auttaisiko aikakone menneisyyden merkityksen etsinnässä?” in Historian aikakoneessa: Onnittelukirja Hannu Salmelle, edited by Silja Laine, Maarit Leskelä-Kärki, Kari Kallioniemi, Harri Kiiskinen, Petri Paju, Heli Rantala (Turku: K&H-kustannus, 2011), 41–49. [Would a time machine be useful in our search for the meaning of the past?]
“Constructivism and the institutionalization of oppositional history,” in Reescrituras de la memoria social/Rewriting Social Memory, II Congreso Internacional de Filosofía de la Historia, October 11–13, 2006, Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires (2006), CD-ROM.
“‘Liveness’ and the realities of historical representation,” European Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism, edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, 8th International Conference of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas), July 22–27, 2002, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (2002), CD-ROM.
“Historiankirjoitus ja kerronta fakta–fiktio -keskustelun jälkeen,” in Dialogus: Historian taito, edited by Meri Heinonen, Leila Koivunen, Sakari Ollitervo, Heli Paalumäki, Hannu Salmi, Janne Tunturi (Turku: Kirja-Aurora, 2002), 165–178. [Historical writing and narration after the fact–fiction debate.]
“Representational strategies in Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’idiot de la famille,” in Approaching a New Millennium: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future, edited by Daniel Apollon, Odd-Bjørn Fure and Lars Svåsand, 7th International Conference of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas), 14–18 August 2000, University of Bergen (2000), CD-ROM.
“Symbolism vs. modernism in visual arts applications of the Kalevala,” Approaching a New Millennium: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future, edited by Daniel Apollon, Odd-Bjørn Fure and Lars Svåsand, 7th International Conference of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas), 14–18 August 2000, University of Bergen (2000), CD-ROM.
“‘Me historiateoreetikot olemme aivan vaarattomia’: keskustelua Frank Ankersmitin kanssa,” Historiallinen Aikakauskirja 95:4 (1997), 362–369. [“We historical theorists are quite harmless”: A conversation with Frank Ankersmit.]
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