Laura Hirvi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 643858 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Laura Hirvi |
| PRENOMES | Laura |
| SOBRENOME | Hirvi |
| ASSINATURA | HIRVI L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Jyväskylä |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia
The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena.A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices
Exploring the Domestic Homes of Sikhs in Finland as a “Cosmos of Senses”
The domestic home plays an important role in the process of socialization. In the context of migration, home becomes even more meaningful as a site for socialization, since it provides—next to the Internet, cultural events and places of religious worship—one of the few sites where young children can learn about their parent’s cultural and religious traditions in their new homelands. Grounded in data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork, this a…
About Islands and Oranges
This article explores how nostalgia is produced through the practice of reading and writing, thereby exposing some of the dynamic layers that trigger nostalgic sentiments. The analysis focuses on the work of Finnish freelance artist Juhani Seppovaara, whose books arouse in readers feelings of nostalgia. The study is based on a collaboration that has continued through the entire research process. The findings stemming from this ethnographic case s…
Rethinking Euro-anthropology
"A Suitcase Full or Art" Transnational Mobility Among Berlin-Based Visual Artists From Finland
This article examines the intra-European mobility of contemporary artists by scrutinizing the experiences of visual artists from Finland who have been living in Berlin for at least one year. Based on data that were gathered via ethnographic fieldwork including interviews with 15 artists, the paper sheds light on the role that economic and career factors, images and dreams, social networks, and the prospect of working in an inspirational urban con…
Where is the Field? The Experience of Migration Viewed through the Prism of Ethnographic Fieldwork
61 My intention in making this point is not to advertise a certain popular American company but to emphasize the diverse conditions under which modern fieldwork can and does take place.Publishing such accounts supports the idea of what Clifford (1997, 90; see also Passaro 1997) has termed 'Subway ethnographies' and aims at including them in the paradigm of accepted modes of fieldwork practices.62 Okely 1992, 16. SaaraKoikkalainen VirtualFields:Ho…
The Sikh gurdwara in Finland
As recent studies suggest, religious institutions play a crucial role in shaping immigrants' identities. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Helsinki, Finland among Sikh immigrants from Northern India, this article sets out to investigate the manner in which the gurdwara (Sikh temple) is involved in the process of negotiating, maintaining and transmitting immigrants' identities. By means of mapping out and analyzing the gurdwara's architectural as …
Steven Vertovec. Transnationalism
STEVEN VERTOVEC. Transnationalism. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 205. ISBN: 978-0-415-43298-6 (hardback); ISBN: 978-0-415-43299-3 (paperback)
Where is the Field? The Experience of Migration Viewed through the Prism of Ethnographic Fieldwork
61 My intention in making this point is not to advertise a certain popular American company but to emphasize the diverse conditions under which modern fieldwork can and does take place.Publishing such accounts supports the idea of what Clifford (1997, 90; see also Passaro 1997) has termed 'Subway ethnographies' and aims at including them in the paradigm of accepted modes of fieldwork practices.62 Okely 1992, 16. SaaraKoikkalainen VirtualFields:Ho…
Rethinking Euro-anthropology
Exploring the Domestic Homes of Sikhs in Finland as a “Cosmos of Senses”
The domestic home plays an important role in the process of socialization. In the context of migration, home becomes even more meaningful as a site for socialization, since it provides—next to the Internet, cultural events and places of religious worship—one of the few sites where young children can learn about their parent’s cultural and religious traditions in their new homelands. Grounded in data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork, this a…
"A Suitcase Full or Art" Transnational Mobility Among Berlin-Based Visual Artists From Finland
This article examines the intra-European mobility of contemporary artists by scrutinizing the experiences of visual artists from Finland who have been living in Berlin for at least one year. Based on data that were gathered via ethnographic fieldwork including interviews with 15 artists, the paper sheds light on the role that economic and career factors, images and dreams, social networks, and the prospect of working in an inspirational urban con…
Steven Vertovec. Transnationalism
STEVEN VERTOVEC. Transnationalism. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 205. ISBN: 978-0-415-43298-6 (hardback); ISBN: 978-0-415-43299-3 (paperback)
The Sikh gurdwara in Finland
As recent studies suggest, religious institutions play a crucial role in shaping immigrants' identities. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Helsinki, Finland among Sikh immigrants from Northern India, this article sets out to investigate the manner in which the gurdwara (Sikh temple) is involved in the process of negotiating, maintaining and transmitting immigrants' identities. By means of mapping out and analyzing the gurdwara's architectural as …
Where is the Field? The Experience of Migration Viewed through the Prism of Ethnographic Fieldwork
61 My intention in making this point is not to advertise a certain popular American company but to emphasize the diverse conditions under which modern fieldwork can and does take place.Publishing such accounts supports the idea of what Clifford (1997, 90; see also Passaro 1997) has termed 'Subway ethnographies' and aims at including them in the paradigm of accepted modes of fieldwork practices.62 Okely 1992, 16. SaaraKoikkalainen VirtualFields:Ho…
"A Suitcase Full or Art" Transnational Mobility Among Berlin-Based Visual Artists From Finland
This article examines the intra-European mobility of contemporary artists by scrutinizing the experiences of visual artists from Finland who have been living in Berlin for at least one year. Based on data that were gathered via ethnographic fieldwork including interviews with 15 artists, the paper sheds light on the role that economic and career factors, images and dreams, social networks, and the prospect of working in an inspirational urban con…
Exploring the Domestic Homes of Sikhs in Finland as a “Cosmos of Senses”
The domestic home plays an important role in the process of socialization. In the context of migration, home becomes even more meaningful as a site for socialization, since it provides—next to the Internet, cultural events and places of religious worship—one of the few sites where young children can learn about their parent’s cultural and religious traditions in their new homelands. Grounded in data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork, this a…
About Islands and Oranges
This article explores how nostalgia is produced through the practice of reading and writing, thereby exposing some of the dynamic layers that trigger nostalgic sentiments. The analysis focuses on the work of Finnish freelance artist Juhani Seppovaara, whose books arouse in readers feelings of nostalgia. The study is based on a collaboration that has continued through the entire research process. The findings stemming from this ethnographic case s…
Rethinking Euro-anthropology
Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia
The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena.A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices
Sociology (7 obras) · Anthropology (5 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Aesthetics (3 obras) · Ethnography (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 obras)