Pauliina Raento
Biographic Data
| ID | 826465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pauliina Raento |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pauliina |
| FAMILY NAME | Raento |
| SIGNATURE | RAENTO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6273-9036 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 234 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Yi-Fu Tuan’s Legacy: Impacts on the Geographical Review , Disciplines, Scholarship, and Teaching
Yi-Fu Tuan published extensively in a number of outlets throughout his long career, including in the Geographical Review between 1968 and 2002. While Tuan’s influence on research and teaching in geography was far reaching, he also inspired scholars in other disciplines, such as education and environmental psychology. This retrospective essay commemorates Tuan’s relationship with the Geographical Review and brings together a diverse group of schol…
‘A great [Nordic] city is full of stories!’ Persuasive techniques in urban development videos
Literature on planning as storytelling says little about the techniques of this persuasive practice. An analysis of six urban development videos in three Nordic cities clarifies how futures are envisioned and audiences seduced in the visual digital era. Variables related to space, time, and power demonstrate how meaning is created, the positive is accentuated, and hierarchies are established between places and groups of people. The discussion add…
The Changing Place of Non-human Animals in Finnish Society: A Visual Account
Postage stamp imagery reveals how humans see other animals in their society; how this relationship changes over time; and in particular political, economic, and cultural contexts; and what the stamp-issuing state wishes to communicate to its citizens. A qualitative mixed-methods exploration of this overlooked, easily accessible visual data identifies trends and representative examples of human-animal relations in Finnish society during the countr…
A Geopolitics of the Horse in Finland
The disregard of animal subjectivity in geopolitics is challenged as outdated and arrogant in light of the growing interdisciplinary understanding of the relational, dispersed, and co-evolving nature of agency. First, the war horse is examined by joining the instrumental approach of military history with the emphasis on emotion in animal studies. Knowledge about animal subjectivity is expanded by demonstrating how the horse itself has co-produced…
Data ethics: Pluralism, replication, conflicts of interest, and standards in Political Geography
Predators, sanctions and Political Geography
Political Geography in the age of electronic information
Celebrating thirty years of Political Geography
Casino State: Legalized Gambling in Canada edited by James F. Cosgrave and Thomas R. Klassen
Academic re-territorializations: Gate-keeping, power and responsibility
Introducing Popular Icons Of Political Identity
A few years back a colleague laughed at the topic of my conference presentation: What, you study postage stamps? Are you professionally self-destructive, or high? He clearly saw little intellectual value in these pieces of paper but listened carefully and asked questions. He then concluded that a change of opinion was needed: I never understood how serious everyday can be. And your students must love it! Sure enough, not only postage stamps but a…
The Value of Gambling and its Research: An introduction
Gambling today is a multi-billion-dollar industry with global influence. It is a prominent part of culture and a major financial contributor to society in Finland nd many other countries where governments own, license and regulate gambling enterprises. Most people in Western societies have some experience of ambling, and many buy a lottery ticket, play slot machines, or bet on sports as a regular part of their leisure. Over the past decades the g…
Stomaching change: Finns, food, and boundaries in the european union
The relationship between boundaries, national identity, and food in the European Union is examined empirically in relation to social trust, banal nationalism, and scale. 212 articles published in 2002 in Finland's leading newspaper are examined as deep texts, addressing five juxtapositions: openness/closure; exports/imports; collectives/individuals; fear/opportunity; and defence/promotion. These articles, about food safety and changes in manufact…
Interventions in teaching political geography in the USA
Re-presenting information: Reviews, interventions, and guest editorials
Tourism, nation, and the postage stamp
Political Geography expands: Both the medium and the message
Introduction: Nation, state and identity in Finland
Finland, a country of 5.3 million people in northern Europe, is an illustrative case study of territorial identity formation and nation-building. Its past and present highlight several characterist
Picturing a nation: Finland on postage stamps, 1917–2000
Imagery on postage stamps contributes to the construction of national narratives, collective memory and a nation's self-image because stamps are products of the state and constantly present in quotidian situations. An examination of 1,457 Finnish stamps issued during the country's independence in the twentieth century is based on a mix of visual method(ologie)s. The stamps are read as multilayered, identity-political texts in their time- and spac…
Teaching European Identities
Where the tradition meets its challengers
Communicating Geopolitics through Postage Stamps: The Case of Finland
Visualizing finland: Postage stamps as political messengers
Postage stamps are a very political, territorially grounded and yet overlooked part of visual culture. We argue that the mundane omnipresence of stamps gives them considerable nation‐building power and makes them exemplary tools of what Michael Billig calls ‘banal nationalism.’ By focusing on the socially constructed visual qualities of stamps, we argue that their ‘reading’ as political, socioculturally and territorially specific texts offers val…
Ahead, A Bright but Challenging Future
It is good that cultural geography is thriving. Together with other positive trends, this can help to strengthen the field's foundation and identity in the new millennium. This will, however, require hard work and continuous questioning of approaches. It is good that boundaries between subfields and disciplines are weakening. Over the past few decades cultural geographers have formed happy unions with other geographers and explored opportunities …
The Tradition of Invention
Visualizing finland: Postage stamps as political messengers
Postage stamps are a very political, territorially grounded and yet overlooked part of visual culture. We argue that the mundane omnipresence of stamps gives them considerable nation‐building power and makes them exemplary tools of what Michael Billig calls ‘banal nationalism.’ By focusing on the socially constructed visual qualities of stamps, we argue that their ‘reading’ as political, socioculturally and territorially specific texts offers val…
Striking stories: A Political Geography of Euro Coinage
Communicating Geopolitics through Postage Stamps: The Case of Finland
Picturing a nation: Finland on postage stamps, 1917–2000
Imagery on postage stamps contributes to the construction of national narratives, collective memory and a nation's self-image because stamps are products of the state and constantly present in quotidian situations. An examination of 1,457 Finnish stamps issued during the country's independence in the twentieth century is based on a mix of visual method(ologie)s. The stamps are read as multilayered, identity-political texts in their time- and spac…
Gernika, Guernica, Guernica
Academic re-territorializations: Gate-keeping, power and responsibility
Where the tradition meets its challengers
The Grit beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas
Tourism, nation, and the postage stamp
The Tradition of Invention
Political mobilisation and place‐specificity: Radical nationalist street campaigning in the Spanish Basque country
The political context of Spanish Basque nationalism has changed dramatically during the last decades. As a consequence, moderate and radical nationalist groups have turned bitterly against one another. The internal power struggle is fought most visibly in the street, which is traditionally the central place of Basque political mobilisation. Particularly the radical nationalists use graffiti and mass demonstrations to question the legitimacy of th…
A Geopolitics of the Horse in Finland
The disregard of animal subjectivity in geopolitics is challenged as outdated and arrogant in light of the growing interdisciplinary understanding of the relational, dispersed, and co-evolving nature of agency. First, the war horse is examined by joining the instrumental approach of military history with the emphasis on emotion in animal studies. Knowledge about animal subjectivity is expanded by demonstrating how the horse itself has co-produced…
The Naming of Gaming
The naming of casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada, is an essential ingredient in the design of the city's entertainment landscape. More than 300 names have been used in the naming of gaming in Las Vegas since 1955. They occur in seven dominant patterns: 1) luck and good fortune, 2) wealth and opulence, 3) action, adventure, excitement and fantasy, 4) geography, 5) a certain moment, era, or season, 6) intimacy and informality, and 7) “power words” common…
Introducing Popular Icons Of Political Identity
A few years back a colleague laughed at the topic of my conference presentation: What, you study postage stamps? Are you professionally self-destructive, or high? He clearly saw little intellectual value in these pieces of paper but listened carefully and asked questions. He then concluded that a change of opinion was needed: I never understood how serious everyday can be. And your students must love it! Sure enough, not only postage stamps but a…
Geography's Spin at the Wheel of American Gambling
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPauliina RaentoDr. Raento is a research fellow at the Academy of Finland and a visiting scholar in the Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557–0048Kate A. BerryDr. Berry is an associate professor of geography
Data ethics: Pluralism, replication, conflicts of interest, and standards in Political Geography
Political Geography in the age of electronic information
Interventions in teaching political geography in the USA
Political Geography expands: Both the medium and the message
Predators, sanctions and Political Geography
Celebrating thirty years of Political Geography
The Value of Gambling and its Research: An introduction
Gambling today is a multi-billion-dollar industry with global influence. It is a prominent part of culture and a major financial contributor to society in Finland nd many other countries where governments own, license and regulate gambling enterprises. Most people in Western societies have some experience of ambling, and many buy a lottery ticket, play slot machines, or bet on sports as a regular part of their leisure. Over the past decades the g…
Stomaching change: Finns, food, and boundaries in the european union
The relationship between boundaries, national identity, and food in the European Union is examined empirically in relation to social trust, banal nationalism, and scale. 212 articles published in 2002 in Finland's leading newspaper are examined as deep texts, addressing five juxtapositions: openness/closure; exports/imports; collectives/individuals; fear/opportunity; and defence/promotion. These articles, about food safety and changes in manufact…
Re-presenting information: Reviews, interventions, and guest editorials
Teaching European Identities
Political mobilisation and place‐specificity: Radical nationalist street campaigning in the Spanish Basque country
The political context of Spanish Basque nationalism has changed dramatically during the last decades. As a consequence, moderate and radical nationalist groups have turned bitterly against one another. The internal power struggle is fought most visibly in the street, which is traditionally the central place of Basque political mobilisation. Particularly the radical nationalists use graffiti and mass demonstrations to question the legitimacy of th…
Geography's Spin at the Wheel of American Gambling
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPauliina RaentoDr. Raento is a research fellow at the Academy of Finland and a visiting scholar in the Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557–0048Kate A. BerryDr. Berry is an associate professor of geography
Casino Gaming in the United States: Issues, Concerns and Recent Research(1)
In the 1990s, gaming or gambling2 -has been one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States. Its spread across the country and a dramatic increase of gaming revenue have changed the way both ordinary Americans and policy-makers assess economic and social issues. In regional planning and development, gaming has transformed the role of public authorities, who tend to see particularly casinos as a quick solution to economic problems in de…
Gernika, Guernica, Guernica
The Naming of Gaming
The naming of casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada, is an essential ingredient in the design of the city's entertainment landscape. More than 300 names have been used in the naming of gaming in Las Vegas since 1955. They occur in seven dominant patterns: 1) luck and good fortune, 2) wealth and opulence, 3) action, adventure, excitement and fantasy, 4) geography, 5) a certain moment, era, or season, 6) intimacy and informality, and 7) “power words” common…
The Grit beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas
Ahead, A Bright but Challenging Future
It is good that cultural geography is thriving. Together with other positive trends, this can help to strengthen the field's foundation and identity in the new millennium. This will, however, require hard work and continuous questioning of approaches. It is good that boundaries between subfields and disciplines are weakening. Over the past few decades cultural geographers have formed happy unions with other geographers and explored opportunities …
The Tradition of Invention
Striking stories: A Political Geography of Euro Coinage
Visualizing finland: Postage stamps as political messengers
Postage stamps are a very political, territorially grounded and yet overlooked part of visual culture. We argue that the mundane omnipresence of stamps gives them considerable nation‐building power and makes them exemplary tools of what Michael Billig calls ‘banal nationalism.’ By focusing on the socially constructed visual qualities of stamps, we argue that their ‘reading’ as political, socioculturally and territorially specific texts offers val…
Communicating Geopolitics through Postage Stamps: The Case of Finland
Introduction: Nation, state and identity in Finland
Finland, a country of 5.3 million people in northern Europe, is an illustrative case study of territorial identity formation and nation-building. Its past and present highlight several characterist
Picturing a nation: Finland on postage stamps, 1917–2000
Imagery on postage stamps contributes to the construction of national narratives, collective memory and a nation's self-image because stamps are products of the state and constantly present in quotidian situations. An examination of 1,457 Finnish stamps issued during the country's independence in the twentieth century is based on a mix of visual method(ologie)s. The stamps are read as multilayered, identity-political texts in their time- and spac…
Teaching European Identities
Where the tradition meets its challengers
Re-presenting information: Reviews, interventions, and guest editorials
Tourism, nation, and the postage stamp
Political Geography expands: Both the medium and the message
Stomaching change: Finns, food, and boundaries in the european union
The relationship between boundaries, national identity, and food in the European Union is examined empirically in relation to social trust, banal nationalism, and scale. 212 articles published in 2002 in Finland's leading newspaper are examined as deep texts, addressing five juxtapositions: openness/closure; exports/imports; collectives/individuals; fear/opportunity; and defence/promotion. These articles, about food safety and changes in manufact…
Interventions in teaching political geography in the USA
Casino State: Legalized Gambling in Canada edited by James F. Cosgrave and Thomas R. Klassen
Academic re-territorializations: Gate-keeping, power and responsibility
Introducing Popular Icons Of Political Identity
A few years back a colleague laughed at the topic of my conference presentation: What, you study postage stamps? Are you professionally self-destructive, or high? He clearly saw little intellectual value in these pieces of paper but listened carefully and asked questions. He then concluded that a change of opinion was needed: I never understood how serious everyday can be. And your students must love it! Sure enough, not only postage stamps but a…
The Value of Gambling and its Research: An introduction
Gambling today is a multi-billion-dollar industry with global influence. It is a prominent part of culture and a major financial contributor to society in Finland nd many other countries where governments own, license and regulate gambling enterprises. Most people in Western societies have some experience of ambling, and many buy a lottery ticket, play slot machines, or bet on sports as a regular part of their leisure. Over the past decades the g…
Celebrating thirty years of Political Geography
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Law (19 works) · Politics (18 works) · History (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Media studies (11 works) · National Identity and Symbolism (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Geography (9 works)