Laura Huttunen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 160084 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laura Huttunen |
| NOMBRES | Laura |
| APELLIDO | Huttunen |
| FIRMA | HUTTUNEN L |
| AFILIACIONES | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1455-9588 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices
Introduction
As a violation of rights, disappearance is unique in being defined in terms of what is not known rather than what is, and this both shapes why and how it must be approached differently from other violations and gives it a particular analytical power in understanding rights practice more broadly. Human rights practice in response to missing persons has long emphasized victims of enforced disappearance, where a legal framework that emerged from the…
Missing persons and infrastructures of search and identification
People go missing all over the world, but the reasons for disappearances are enormously diverse. Some people are intentionally disappeared by the state: totalitarian and military governments as well as various paramilitary and criminal organizations have used enforced disappearances as a tactic to control the population and create submissive citizens or subjects though fear and insecurity. Both civilians and soldiers disappear invariably in the c…
An Anthropology of Disappearance
An Anthropology of Disappearance
All over the world, people disappear from their families, communities and the state’s bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while migrating along clandestine routes. This volume brings together scholars who engage ethnographically with such disappearances in various cultural, social and political contexts. It takes an anthropological perspective on questions about human life and death, absence and presence, rituals and mourning, …
Missing Migrants and the Politics of Disappearance in Armed Conflicts and Migratory Contexts
In this article we set out to understand the issue of enforced or involuntary disappearance in two seemingly different situations: the missing persons produced by armed conflict and the missing migrants resulting from increasingly rigid migration policies focused on deterrence. Empirical examples from the Guatemalan and Bosnian genocides and from contemporary illegalised migration flows from Guatemala to North America and across the Mediterranean…
Suburban encounters
Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this paper discusses the micropolitics of diversification in Varissuo, a suburb in south-western Finland, from the point of view of three resident groups: the ‘Finns’, the ‘diasporans’ and the ‘second generation’ migrant youth. The specific character of the suburb has emerged from its rapid transition from a Finnish-populated working-class suburb to a multicultural milieu, and because of the contacts …
Protective Barriers and Entrapping Walls
This article analyzes the violently changing border regime in the ex-Yugoslavian territories, particularly in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the 1990s from the point of view of those who lived through the period of transformation. The focus is on the ways in which local people conceived of the borders during this period and how they describe them in textual form in life-stories and poetry. The impact of both violence and (forced) mobility on imaginaries …
Liminality and Missing Persons
In many armed conflicts, forced disappearances and hiding the bodies of victims of mass atrocities are used strategically. This article argues that disappearances are powerful weapons, as their consequences reach from the most intimate relations to the formation of political communities. Consequently, political projects of forced disappearances leave difficult legacies for post-conflict reconciliation, and they give rise to a need to address indi…
From individual grief to a shared history of the Bosnian war
This article explores the relationship between psychotherapeutic practices with people with refugee backgrounds and "the political". The relationship between voice and audience in psychotherapeutic practices is explored; through such an analysis the relationship between psychotherapy, history, and the political is considered. The theoretical questions are approached through a case study, a Bosnian man with refugee background living in Finland and…
Sedentary Policies and Transnational Relations
The main point of this article is to look at the tensions between many refugees’ transnational orientation on one hand, and the sedentary understanding of living and belonging in different policy practices that govern refugees’ movements on the other. The article, based on ethnographic fieldwork both in Finland and in Bosnia, provides a detailed analysis of a case study, an elderly Bosnian couple who return to Bosnia after living several years as…
Home’ and ethnicity in the context of warHesitant diasporas of Bosnian refugees
This article examines the meanings of ‘home’ in the lives of Bosnian refugees living in diaspora after the extremely destructive war in Bosnia. Through careful reading of life stories written by two refugees living in Finland, it highlights the dynamic process of negotiating belonging in diasporic situations. It pays special attention to the ambivalent role of ethnicity in the memories of these writers and their understanding of ‘good homes’. The…
Sedentary Policies and Transnational Relations
The main point of this article is to look at the tensions between many refugees’ transnational orientation on one hand, and the sedentary understanding of living and belonging in different policy practices that govern refugees’ movements on the other. The article, based on ethnographic fieldwork both in Finland and in Bosnia, provides a detailed analysis of a case study, an elderly Bosnian couple who return to Bosnia after living several years as…
Home’ and ethnicity in the context of warHesitant diasporas of Bosnian refugees
This article examines the meanings of ‘home’ in the lives of Bosnian refugees living in diaspora after the extremely destructive war in Bosnia. Through careful reading of life stories written by two refugees living in Finland, it highlights the dynamic process of negotiating belonging in diasporic situations. It pays special attention to the ambivalent role of ethnicity in the memories of these writers and their understanding of ‘good homes’. The…
Liminality and Missing Persons
In many armed conflicts, forced disappearances and hiding the bodies of victims of mass atrocities are used strategically. This article argues that disappearances are powerful weapons, as their consequences reach from the most intimate relations to the formation of political communities. Consequently, political projects of forced disappearances leave difficult legacies for post-conflict reconciliation, and they give rise to a need to address indi…
Suburban encounters
Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this paper discusses the micropolitics of diversification in Varissuo, a suburb in south-western Finland, from the point of view of three resident groups: the ‘Finns’, the ‘diasporans’ and the ‘second generation’ migrant youth. The specific character of the suburb has emerged from its rapid transition from a Finnish-populated working-class suburb to a multicultural milieu, and because of the contacts …
Missing Migrants and the Politics of Disappearance in Armed Conflicts and Migratory Contexts
In this article we set out to understand the issue of enforced or involuntary disappearance in two seemingly different situations: the missing persons produced by armed conflict and the missing migrants resulting from increasingly rigid migration policies focused on deterrence. Empirical examples from the Guatemalan and Bosnian genocides and from contemporary illegalised migration flows from Guatemala to North America and across the Mediterranean…
From individual grief to a shared history of the Bosnian war
This article explores the relationship between psychotherapeutic practices with people with refugee backgrounds and "the political". The relationship between voice and audience in psychotherapeutic practices is explored; through such an analysis the relationship between psychotherapy, history, and the political is considered. The theoretical questions are approached through a case study, a Bosnian man with refugee background living in Finland and…
Home’ and ethnicity in the context of warHesitant diasporas of Bosnian refugees
This article examines the meanings of ‘home’ in the lives of Bosnian refugees living in diaspora after the extremely destructive war in Bosnia. Through careful reading of life stories written by two refugees living in Finland, it highlights the dynamic process of negotiating belonging in diasporic situations. It pays special attention to the ambivalent role of ethnicity in the memories of these writers and their understanding of ‘good homes’. The…
Sedentary Policies and Transnational Relations
The main point of this article is to look at the tensions between many refugees’ transnational orientation on one hand, and the sedentary understanding of living and belonging in different policy practices that govern refugees’ movements on the other. The article, based on ethnographic fieldwork both in Finland and in Bosnia, provides a detailed analysis of a case study, an elderly Bosnian couple who return to Bosnia after living several years as…
From individual grief to a shared history of the Bosnian war
This article explores the relationship between psychotherapeutic practices with people with refugee backgrounds and "the political". The relationship between voice and audience in psychotherapeutic practices is explored; through such an analysis the relationship between psychotherapy, history, and the political is considered. The theoretical questions are approached through a case study, a Bosnian man with refugee background living in Finland and…
Protective Barriers and Entrapping Walls
This article analyzes the violently changing border regime in the ex-Yugoslavian territories, particularly in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the 1990s from the point of view of those who lived through the period of transformation. The focus is on the ways in which local people conceived of the borders during this period and how they describe them in textual form in life-stories and poetry. The impact of both violence and (forced) mobility on imaginaries …
Liminality and Missing Persons
In many armed conflicts, forced disappearances and hiding the bodies of victims of mass atrocities are used strategically. This article argues that disappearances are powerful weapons, as their consequences reach from the most intimate relations to the formation of political communities. Consequently, political projects of forced disappearances leave difficult legacies for post-conflict reconciliation, and they give rise to a need to address indi…
Suburban encounters
Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this paper discusses the micropolitics of diversification in Varissuo, a suburb in south-western Finland, from the point of view of three resident groups: the ‘Finns’, the ‘diasporans’ and the ‘second generation’ migrant youth. The specific character of the suburb has emerged from its rapid transition from a Finnish-populated working-class suburb to a multicultural milieu, and because of the contacts …
Missing Migrants and the Politics of Disappearance in Armed Conflicts and Migratory Contexts
In this article we set out to understand the issue of enforced or involuntary disappearance in two seemingly different situations: the missing persons produced by armed conflict and the missing migrants resulting from increasingly rigid migration policies focused on deterrence. Empirical examples from the Guatemalan and Bosnian genocides and from contemporary illegalised migration flows from Guatemala to North America and across the Mediterranean…
An Anthropology of Disappearance
An Anthropology of Disappearance
All over the world, people disappear from their families, communities and the state’s bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while migrating along clandestine routes. This volume brings together scholars who engage ethnographically with such disappearances in various cultural, social and political contexts. It takes an anthropological perspective on questions about human life and death, absence and presence, rituals and mourning, …
Missing persons and infrastructures of search and identification
People go missing all over the world, but the reasons for disappearances are enormously diverse. Some people are intentionally disappeared by the state: totalitarian and military governments as well as various paramilitary and criminal organizations have used enforced disappearances as a tactic to control the population and create submissive citizens or subjects though fear and insecurity. Both civilians and soldiers disappear invariably in the c…
Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices
Introduction
As a violation of rights, disappearance is unique in being defined in terms of what is not known rather than what is, and this both shapes why and how it must be approached differently from other violations and gives it a particular analytical power in understanding rights practice more broadly. Human rights practice in response to missing persons has long emphasized victims of enforced disappearance, where a legal framework that emerged from the…
Political science (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Anthropology (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 obras) · Bosnian (5 obras) · Ethnography (4 obras) · Law (4 obras)