Jani Vuolteenaho
Biographic Data
| ID | 710290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jani Vuolteenaho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jani |
| FAMILY NAME | Vuolteenaho |
| SIGNATURE | VUOLTEENAHO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2288-8333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hankkiutukaa eroon Saudi-Arabian lipuistanne!”
Englannin Valioliiga on maailman seuratuin ja rahallisesti arvokkain kansallinen jalkapallosarja. Viimeisen reilun kahdenkymmenen vuoden aikana Valioliiga on muuttunut hyperkaupalliseksi kulttuurituotteeksi. Tämän kehityksen vanavedessä liikemaailman toimintatavat hyväksyvät markkinapragmatistiset asenteet ovat normalisoituneet englantilaisseuroissa myös perinnetietoisten kannattajien keskuudessa.Tässä läpeensä markkinoituneessa ja medioituneessa…
Mobilities of toponymic place branding in an autocratic post-Soviet city
This article analyzes the spatial politics of profit-oriented place naming (toponymic commodification) in connection with two urban megaprojects in the Belarusian capital. We focus on the Mayak Minska (the Lighthouse of Minsk) and the Minsk-Mir (the Minsk-World), by far the largest residential-commercial urban developments in post-Soviet era Minsk, and actualizations of the Belarusian regime's urban growth and multi-vector foreign policies since …
Religious Land as Commons
Recent critical scholarship has theorized the urban commons in terms of value regimes and practices not reducible to market logic. Specifically, it views the urban commons as a counter force to greediness, poverty, and other ills of the neoliberal urban era, but it neglects the centrality of "land." We offer a corrective. Based on a study of the commons that is embedded in religious land, this article interrogates the tradition-rooted ethical mai…
Naming rights, place branding, and the tumultuous cultural landscapes of neoliberal urbanism
In recent decades, urban policymakers have increasingly embraced the selling of naming rights as a means of generating revenue to construct and maintain urban infrastructure. This practice of “toponymic commodification” first emerged with the commercialization of professional sports during the second half of the 20th century and has become an integral part of the policy toolkit of neoliberal urbanism more generally. As a result, the naming of eve…
A slightly slummier area? Negotiations of place-bound identities through social spatializations and unofficial toponyms
In the article, spatializations (discourses of ideal or stereotyped spaces) are conceptualized as powerful discourses of the surrounding society, providing resources for place-bound identity construction in interaction. We combine a sociolinguistic analysis with Bakhtinian dialogism to understand how such "third" voices in dialogue empower and pluralize self- and other-positionings embedded in the evocations of unofficial place names. Empirically…
“This venue is brought to you by…”
Drawing on a database of 193 football (soccer) grounds and 115 indoor arenas, as well as press releases and media reports associated with them, this study charts the diffusion of sporting and entertainment facility name sponsorship across metropolises, cities, towns, and smaller settlements in six European contexts. Our results show the emergence of naming rights deals in the 1990s, their peak in the mid-2000s, and the current situation with a st…
“Armed with an encyclopedia and an axe”
This chapter explores Antonio Gramsci's specific writings about street naming and more general ideas on hegemony to guide and inspire the study of power and street naming. As a young journalist in the late-1910s Gramsci even specifically criticized the 'evisceration of the old Turin' in honorific-odonymic terms, advocating instead for a street naming policy consistent with 'solidarity through memory'. Even if the quantitative emphasis in naming p…
Critical Toponymies
Contents: Towards critical toponymies, Jani Vuolteenaho and Lawrence D. Berg Naming as norming: 'race', gender and the identity politics of naming places in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Lawrence D. Berg and Robin A. Kearns Naming the past: the significance of commemorative street names, Maoz Azaryahu Street-naming and nation-building: toponymic inscriptions of nationhood in Singapore, Brenda S. Yeoh Naming and placing the other: power and the urban land…
The interplay of mediascapes and cityscapes in a sports mega-event
Drawing on critical literature on the neoliberal practices of event and place branding, the article addresses the interplay of mediascapes and cityscapes in the making of the South African football spectacle in 2010. In analysing the world’s biggest football mega-event, orchestrated by FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) in collaboration with the South African hosts and mainly multinational sponsors, the article first address…
Numbering the streetscape
In contrast to North American cities, numerically named streets are a very rare occurrence in Europe. This article explores the exceptions to this rule by charting the history of street numbering in 10 European countries. The medieval and early modern ‘new towns’ of New Winchelsea, Mannheim and a section of St Petersburg (Vasilievsky Island) were each designed with grid-plan layouts in which the streets were identified according to an alphanumeri…
Industrial urbanization, working-class lads and slang toponyms in early twentieth-century Helsinki
The article investigates the linkages between urban transformation and informal verbalizations of everyday spaces among male juveniles from Sörnäinen (a working-class district in Helsinki) in 1900–39. Sörkka lads' biographically and contextually varying uses of slang names mirrored their itineraries across the city in the search of earning and spare-time opportunities. As a simultaneously practical and stylistic street language, the uses of slang…
The Change in Planned Nomenclature in Vuosaari, Helsinki
Critical Toponymies
Contents: Towards critical toponymies, Jani Vuolteenaho and Lawrence D. Berg Naming as norming: 'race', gender and the identity politics of naming places in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Lawrence D. Berg and Robin A. Kearns Naming the past: the significance of commemorative street names, Maoz Azaryahu Street-naming and nation-building: toponymic inscriptions of nationhood in Singapore, Brenda S. Yeoh Naming and placing the other: power and the urban land…
Naming rights, place branding, and the tumultuous cultural landscapes of neoliberal urbanism
In recent decades, urban policymakers have increasingly embraced the selling of naming rights as a means of generating revenue to construct and maintain urban infrastructure. This practice of “toponymic commodification” first emerged with the commercialization of professional sports during the second half of the 20th century and has become an integral part of the policy toolkit of neoliberal urbanism more generally. As a result, the naming of eve…
A slightly slummier area? Negotiations of place-bound identities through social spatializations and unofficial toponyms
In the article, spatializations (discourses of ideal or stereotyped spaces) are conceptualized as powerful discourses of the surrounding society, providing resources for place-bound identity construction in interaction. We combine a sociolinguistic analysis with Bakhtinian dialogism to understand how such "third" voices in dialogue empower and pluralize self- and other-positionings embedded in the evocations of unofficial place names. Empirically…
Industrial urbanization, working-class lads and slang toponyms in early twentieth-century Helsinki
The article investigates the linkages between urban transformation and informal verbalizations of everyday spaces among male juveniles from Sörnäinen (a working-class district in Helsinki) in 1900–39. Sörkka lads' biographically and contextually varying uses of slang names mirrored their itineraries across the city in the search of earning and spare-time opportunities. As a simultaneously practical and stylistic street language, the uses of slang…
Religious Land as Commons
Recent critical scholarship has theorized the urban commons in terms of value regimes and practices not reducible to market logic. Specifically, it views the urban commons as a counter force to greediness, poverty, and other ills of the neoliberal urban era, but it neglects the centrality of "land." We offer a corrective. Based on a study of the commons that is embedded in religious land, this article interrogates the tradition-rooted ethical mai…
Numbering the streetscape
In contrast to North American cities, numerically named streets are a very rare occurrence in Europe. This article explores the exceptions to this rule by charting the history of street numbering in 10 European countries. The medieval and early modern ‘new towns’ of New Winchelsea, Mannheim and a section of St Petersburg (Vasilievsky Island) were each designed with grid-plan layouts in which the streets were identified according to an alphanumeri…
Mobilities of toponymic place branding in an autocratic post-Soviet city
This article analyzes the spatial politics of profit-oriented place naming (toponymic commodification) in connection with two urban megaprojects in the Belarusian capital. We focus on the Mayak Minska (the Lighthouse of Minsk) and the Minsk-Mir (the Minsk-World), by far the largest residential-commercial urban developments in post-Soviet era Minsk, and actualizations of the Belarusian regime's urban growth and multi-vector foreign policies since …
The interplay of mediascapes and cityscapes in a sports mega-event
Drawing on critical literature on the neoliberal practices of event and place branding, the article addresses the interplay of mediascapes and cityscapes in the making of the South African football spectacle in 2010. In analysing the world’s biggest football mega-event, orchestrated by FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) in collaboration with the South African hosts and mainly multinational sponsors, the article first address…
The Change in Planned Nomenclature in Vuosaari, Helsinki
Industrial urbanization, working-class lads and slang toponyms in early twentieth-century Helsinki
The article investigates the linkages between urban transformation and informal verbalizations of everyday spaces among male juveniles from Sörnäinen (a working-class district in Helsinki) in 1900–39. Sörkka lads' biographically and contextually varying uses of slang names mirrored their itineraries across the city in the search of earning and spare-time opportunities. As a simultaneously practical and stylistic street language, the uses of slang…
Numbering the streetscape
In contrast to North American cities, numerically named streets are a very rare occurrence in Europe. This article explores the exceptions to this rule by charting the history of street numbering in 10 European countries. The medieval and early modern ‘new towns’ of New Winchelsea, Mannheim and a section of St Petersburg (Vasilievsky Island) were each designed with grid-plan layouts in which the streets were identified according to an alphanumeri…
The interplay of mediascapes and cityscapes in a sports mega-event
Drawing on critical literature on the neoliberal practices of event and place branding, the article addresses the interplay of mediascapes and cityscapes in the making of the South African football spectacle in 2010. In analysing the world’s biggest football mega-event, orchestrated by FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) in collaboration with the South African hosts and mainly multinational sponsors, the article first address…
“Armed with an encyclopedia and an axe”
This chapter explores Antonio Gramsci's specific writings about street naming and more general ideas on hegemony to guide and inspire the study of power and street naming. As a young journalist in the late-1910s Gramsci even specifically criticized the 'evisceration of the old Turin' in honorific-odonymic terms, advocating instead for a street naming policy consistent with 'solidarity through memory'. Even if the quantitative emphasis in naming p…
Critical Toponymies
Contents: Towards critical toponymies, Jani Vuolteenaho and Lawrence D. Berg Naming as norming: 'race', gender and the identity politics of naming places in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Lawrence D. Berg and Robin A. Kearns Naming the past: the significance of commemorative street names, Maoz Azaryahu Street-naming and nation-building: toponymic inscriptions of nationhood in Singapore, Brenda S. Yeoh Naming and placing the other: power and the urban land…
“This venue is brought to you by…”
Drawing on a database of 193 football (soccer) grounds and 115 indoor arenas, as well as press releases and media reports associated with them, this study charts the diffusion of sporting and entertainment facility name sponsorship across metropolises, cities, towns, and smaller settlements in six European contexts. Our results show the emergence of naming rights deals in the 1990s, their peak in the mid-2000s, and the current situation with a st…
Naming rights, place branding, and the tumultuous cultural landscapes of neoliberal urbanism
In recent decades, urban policymakers have increasingly embraced the selling of naming rights as a means of generating revenue to construct and maintain urban infrastructure. This practice of “toponymic commodification” first emerged with the commercialization of professional sports during the second half of the 20th century and has become an integral part of the policy toolkit of neoliberal urbanism more generally. As a result, the naming of eve…
A slightly slummier area? Negotiations of place-bound identities through social spatializations and unofficial toponyms
In the article, spatializations (discourses of ideal or stereotyped spaces) are conceptualized as powerful discourses of the surrounding society, providing resources for place-bound identity construction in interaction. We combine a sociolinguistic analysis with Bakhtinian dialogism to understand how such "third" voices in dialogue empower and pluralize self- and other-positionings embedded in the evocations of unofficial place names. Empirically…
Religious Land as Commons
Recent critical scholarship has theorized the urban commons in terms of value regimes and practices not reducible to market logic. Specifically, it views the urban commons as a counter force to greediness, poverty, and other ills of the neoliberal urban era, but it neglects the centrality of "land." We offer a corrective. Based on a study of the commons that is embedded in religious land, this article interrogates the tradition-rooted ethical mai…
Mobilities of toponymic place branding in an autocratic post-Soviet city
This article analyzes the spatial politics of profit-oriented place naming (toponymic commodification) in connection with two urban megaprojects in the Belarusian capital. We focus on the Mayak Minska (the Lighthouse of Minsk) and the Minsk-Mir (the Minsk-World), by far the largest residential-commercial urban developments in post-Soviet era Minsk, and actualizations of the Belarusian regime's urban growth and multi-vector foreign policies since …
Hankkiutukaa eroon Saudi-Arabian lipuistanne!”
Englannin Valioliiga on maailman seuratuin ja rahallisesti arvokkain kansallinen jalkapallosarja. Viimeisen reilun kahdenkymmenen vuoden aikana Valioliiga on muuttunut hyperkaupalliseksi kulttuurituotteeksi. Tämän kehityksen vanavedessä liikemaailman toimintatavat hyväksyvät markkinapragmatistiset asenteet ovat normalisoituneet englantilaisseuroissa myös perinnetietoisten kannattajien keskuudessa.Tässä läpeensä markkinoituneessa ja medioituneessa…
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