Latest


Historia fallida (Buenos Aires: Palinodia, 2023, translated by Rodrigo Zamorano).
Ovidiu Stanciu, “Narrative, Experience and Meaning,” History and Theory. DOI: 10.1111/hith.12355
Other books


The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past (New York: Routledge, 2017, Foreword by Hayden White).
La obra de historia: Constructivismo y política del pasado (Santiago de Chile: Palinodia, 2019, translated by Rodrigo Zamorano).
Mariana Imaz Sheinbaum, “Estética y política del pasado. En defensa del constructivismo narrativo – Aesthetics and Politics of the Past. Defending Narrative Constructivism,” Historia y Grafía 60 (2023): 385–392. DOI: 10.48102/hyg.vi60.433
Beverley Southgate, “The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past. By Kalle Pihlainen,” History 106:370 (2021): 351–352. DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13128
Marte González Ramírez, “Kalle Pihlainen, La obra de Historia. Constructivismo y política del pasado,” Oficio: Revista de historia e interdisciplina 12 (2021): 127–129. DOI: 10.15174/orhi.vi12.148
Maria Grever, “History writing without closure,” History and Theory 59:3 (2020): 490–496. DOI: 10.1111/hith.12177
Paul A. Roth, “An audience for history? Review essay of Kalle Pihlainen’s The Work of History,” Journal of the Philosophy of History 14:1 (2020): 81–92. DOI: 10.1163/18722636-12341410
Réal Fillion, “The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past,” International Network for Theory of History, 8/2019.
Dan Stone, “The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past, by Kalle Pihlainen,” Rethinking History 23:4 (2019): 582–584. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2019.1669354 (En castellano)
Matthew Kinloch, “Kalle Pihlainen | The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past,” Byzantinoslavica – Revue internationale des Etudes Byzantines 1–2 (2018): 317–319. Academia.edu


(Edited) Futures for the Past (London: Routledge, 2018).
(Edited) History in the World (London: Routledge, 2018).
(Edited with Erik Tirkkonen) Rustica Nova: The New Countryside and Transformations in Operating Environment, Publications of the Institute of History Nr 17, Cultural History (University of Turku, 2002).


Resisting History: On the Ethics of Narrative Representation (University of Turku, 1999).
Journal theme issues


(with Pedro Spinola Pereira Caldas) What makes history personal? História da Historiografia 12:31 (2019).




Futures for the Past. Rethinking History 20:3 (2016). Editorial.
History in the World. Rethinking History 20:2 (2016). Introduction.


(with Claudio Fogu) Metahistory Forty Years After. Storia della Storiografia 65:1 (2014).
Do Passado Histórico Ao Passado Prático: 40 anos de Meta-História, edited by Julio Bentivoglio and Verónica Tozzi (Serra, ES: Milfontes, 2017).
Hayden White: Cuarenta años de Metahistoria: Del “pasado histórico” al “pasado práctico,” edited by Verónica Tozzi and Julio Bentivoglio (Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2016).