Kaisa Kuurne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4273213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kaisa Kuurne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kaisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuurne |
| SIGNATURE | KUURNE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5854-4308 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Intimate Moments on the Block
Neighbours are typically not intimates, but “intimate moments” sometimes emerge among neighbours. While doing cross-cultural ethnography in active neighbourhoods of New York City (NYC) and Helsinki, I testified many significant intimate encounters and care bred by times of rupture, such as 9/11, loss and illness. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, this article makes sense of such moments of closeness on four different blocks in Brookl…
Developing the Concept of Belonging Work for Social Research
This article continues the conceptual work of developing a process-oriented perspective on belonging by taking up the active engagement of affiliation (and disaffiliation) as an undertheorised yet necessary aspect of accomplishing belonging. In developing the concept we draw on Marx's notion of work as material activity in forms of life and the sociological concepts of face-work and emotion work. We conceptualise belonging work as relational work…
Feeling at Home in the Neighborhood
Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork in two historic, attractive, and socially mixed neighborhoods, Kumpula in Helsinki and Malasaña in Madrid, this paper examines what makes people feel at home (or not) in their neighborhood. Marrying the literatures on social belonging and materiality, we analyze the interactions through which local places, people, and materials become familiar and personal. We identify the house in Kumpula and the plaz…
Feeling at Home in the Neighborhood
Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork in two historic, attractive, and socially mixed neighborhoods, Kumpula in Helsinki and Malasaña in Madrid, this paper examines what makes people feel at home (or not) in their neighborhood. Marrying the literatures on social belonging and materiality, we analyze the interactions through which local places, people, and materials become familiar and personal. We identify the house in Kumpula and the plaz…
Developing the Concept of Belonging Work for Social Research
This article continues the conceptual work of developing a process-oriented perspective on belonging by taking up the active engagement of affiliation (and disaffiliation) as an undertheorised yet necessary aspect of accomplishing belonging. In developing the concept we draw on Marx's notion of work as material activity in forms of life and the sociological concepts of face-work and emotion work. We conceptualise belonging work as relational work…
Feeling at Home in the Neighborhood
Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork in two historic, attractive, and socially mixed neighborhoods, Kumpula in Helsinki and Malasaña in Madrid, this paper examines what makes people feel at home (or not) in their neighborhood. Marrying the literatures on social belonging and materiality, we analyze the interactions through which local places, people, and materials become familiar and personal. We identify the house in Kumpula and the plaz…
Developing the Concept of Belonging Work for Social Research
This article continues the conceptual work of developing a process-oriented perspective on belonging by taking up the active engagement of affiliation (and disaffiliation) as an undertheorised yet necessary aspect of accomplishing belonging. In developing the concept we draw on Marx's notion of work as material activity in forms of life and the sociological concepts of face-work and emotion work. We conceptualise belonging work as relational work…
Intimate Moments on the Block
Neighbours are typically not intimates, but “intimate moments” sometimes emerge among neighbours. While doing cross-cultural ethnography in active neighbourhoods of New York City (NYC) and Helsinki, I testified many significant intimate encounters and care bred by times of rupture, such as 9/11, loss and illness. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, this article makes sense of such moments of closeness on four different blocks in Brookl…
Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Affect (linguistics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Emotional Labor in Professions (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)