Anne Kristiina Kurjenoja
Biographic Data
| ID | 4812460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Kristiina Kurjenoja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne Kristiina |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurjenoja |
| SIGNATURE | KURJENOJA A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de las Américas Puebla |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5214-1399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Neoliberal Urban Development vs. Rural Communities: Land Management Challenges in San Andrés Cholula, Mexico
Since the 1980s, the municipality of San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, has been a territory with constant clashes between its rural population and the official land use policy. In this context, the rural community and its millenary bio-cultural traditions have collided with neoliberal political and economic interests, new urbanism, and land speculation, commodification of local culture and privatization of the public space. The above-mentioned facts re…
Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla and Monterrey
It is frequently claimed that cultural agents are necessary to sustain and strengthen the social fabric, to guarantee economic growth and social development and to consolidate knowledge economies based on innovation. These arguments tend to avoid inquiring what kind of sociality these cultural actors are enacting. To address this point, we researched three Mexican midsize cities: Puebla, Tijuana, and Monterrey, between 1984 and 2017. Sociality pr…
Building the city through culture: Puebla's cultural urban assemblage (1987-2017)
This article analyses the creation of a cultural urban assemblage in Puebla, Mexico, between 1987 and 2017. For three decades, Puebla city officials have relied on different understandings of culture to justify and implement public policies aimed at stimulating economic development and urban reorganization. New museums, parks, bike paths, multimedia projections and web applications have been created to encourage tourism and attract investment. We…
La figuración del paisaje de Cholula a través de la mirada de Alexander von Humboldt: Reflexiones sobre su transformación territorial y socio-cultural
In 1894, Alexander von Humboldt made a series of measurements from the top of the Great Tlachihualtépetl Pyramid in Cholula. Humboldt's vision of landscape inspired such “respect” in him that it was reflected in his travel chronicles through the American continent. Humboldt was a pioneer in integrating geo-botany as a visual and landscape analysis tool, understanding the unity of nature as a “whole” with different scales and levels of analysis. F…
Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla and Monterrey
It is frequently claimed that cultural agents are necessary to sustain and strengthen the social fabric, to guarantee economic growth and social development and to consolidate knowledge economies based on innovation. These arguments tend to avoid inquiring what kind of sociality these cultural actors are enacting. To address this point, we researched three Mexican midsize cities: Puebla, Tijuana, and Monterrey, between 1984 and 2017. Sociality pr…
Building the city through culture: Puebla's cultural urban assemblage (1987-2017)
This article analyses the creation of a cultural urban assemblage in Puebla, Mexico, between 1987 and 2017. For three decades, Puebla city officials have relied on different understandings of culture to justify and implement public policies aimed at stimulating economic development and urban reorganization. New museums, parks, bike paths, multimedia projections and web applications have been created to encourage tourism and attract investment. We…
La figuración del paisaje de Cholula a través de la mirada de Alexander von Humboldt: Reflexiones sobre su transformación territorial y socio-cultural
In 1894, Alexander von Humboldt made a series of measurements from the top of the Great Tlachihualtépetl Pyramid in Cholula. Humboldt's vision of landscape inspired such “respect” in him that it was reflected in his travel chronicles through the American continent. Humboldt was a pioneer in integrating geo-botany as a visual and landscape analysis tool, understanding the unity of nature as a “whole” with different scales and levels of analysis. F…
Neoliberal Urban Development vs. Rural Communities: Land Management Challenges in San Andrés Cholula, Mexico
Since the 1980s, the municipality of San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, has been a territory with constant clashes between its rural population and the official land use policy. In this context, the rural community and its millenary bio-cultural traditions have collided with neoliberal political and economic interests, new urbanism, and land speculation, commodification of local culture and privatization of the public space. The above-mentioned facts re…
Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla and Monterrey
It is frequently claimed that cultural agents are necessary to sustain and strengthen the social fabric, to guarantee economic growth and social development and to consolidate knowledge economies based on innovation. These arguments tend to avoid inquiring what kind of sociality these cultural actors are enacting. To address this point, we researched three Mexican midsize cities: Puebla, Tijuana, and Monterrey, between 1984 and 2017. Sociality pr…
Building the city through culture: Puebla's cultural urban assemblage (1987-2017)
This article analyses the creation of a cultural urban assemblage in Puebla, Mexico, between 1987 and 2017. For three decades, Puebla city officials have relied on different understandings of culture to justify and implement public policies aimed at stimulating economic development and urban reorganization. New museums, parks, bike paths, multimedia projections and web applications have been created to encourage tourism and attract investment. We…
Geography (3 works) · Latin American Urban Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Assemblage (archaeology (1 works)