Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
In my current research project ("Multiscalar gendered temporalities in southeastern African history: Oral voices, lived and inherited pasts, and the deep testimony of time in language"), I study the relation between individual lived time and the longterm and large-scale time of conceptual history.
My focus is specifically on the deeper gendered histories of power among the Yaawo language communities in the cross-border region of present-day Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania in southeastern Africa.
This project proposes that examining different timescales side by side allows for more complex narratives about gender and power in African pasts and presents.
Education/Academic qualification
African Studies, PhD, University of Helsinki
1 Aug 2011 → 14 Mar 2017
Award Date: 14 Mar 2017
External positions
Research Affiliate, Ghent Univ, Ghent, Belgium
1 Feb 2021 → 31 Dec 2022
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Ghent University
1 Feb 2019 → 31 Jan 2021
Fields of Science
- 615 History and Archaeology
- Gender and Women’s History in Africa
- History of Mozambique
- Oral History Research
- Oral Traditions
- Life History
- Sensory Aesthetics
- War and Peace
- Past in the Present
- Precolonial Women of Spiritual and Political Authority
- Mozambican Liberation Struggle
- History of Cultural Memory
- 6160 Other humanities
- African Cultural Studies
- Gender Studies
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
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Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique: Bodily Memory and the Gendered Aesthetics of Belonging
Katto, J., 15 Nov 2019, Routledge. 266 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
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Times Told, Lived, and Remembered: The Multitemporality of the Present in Yaawo Oral Histories of Gendered Power in Northern Mozambique
Katto, J., 2023, In: Nordic Journal of African Studies. 32, 3, p. 326–348 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Chiefs and Other Great Female Ancestors: Voice, Authority, and the Politics of Gendered Temporality in Northern Mozambique
Katto, J., 29 Sep 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: History in Africa : a journal of method. p. 1-33Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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'The rainha is the boss!': On Masculinities, Time and Precolonial Women of Authority in Northern Mozambique
Katto, J., Jul 2023, In: Gender & History. 35, 2, p. 429-451 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Liberating Taste: Memories of War, Food and Cooking in Northern Mozambique
Katto, J., 2 Sep 2020, In: Journal of Southern African Studies. 46, 5, p. 965-984 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open AccessFile
Projects
- 1 Active
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Multiscalar gendered temporalities in southeastern African history: Oral voices, lived and inherited pasts, and the deep testimony of time in language
Suomen Akatemia Projektilaskutus
01/09/2023 → 31/08/2027
Project: Academy of Finland: Academy Research Fellow
Activities
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'A Avó foi Guerrilheira': Naissotilaiden muistoja Mosambikin itsenäisyyssodasta
Jonna Katto (Speaker)
27 Nov 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Libertando o Paladar: Memórias de Guerra, Comida e Culinária no Norte de Moçambique
Jonna Katto (Speaker)
31 Oct 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
Jonna Katto (Visiting researcher)
29 Sep 2018 → 11 Nov 2018Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
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Liberating Taste: Food memories and the legacy of the revolutionary war (1964-1974) in northern Mozambique
Jonna Katto (Speaker)
17 Aug 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Emotions in protest: unsettling the past in excombatants’ personal accounts in northern Mozambique
Jonna Katto (Speaker)
19 Jun 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation