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Professional communicative repertoires and trajectories of socialization into global working life
2013
Learning and maintaining languages in the workplace: migrant NGO practitioners in Finland
2017
This article reports on a linguistic ethnographic study exploring migrant NGO practitioners’ language learning and maintenance at work. The findings suggest that the migrants learnt not only the language of the receiving society, in this case Finnish, but also English as an additional language through work. The narratives also show that the workplace supported migrants in maintaining both their home language and additional languages. Overall, the study highlights the importance of language learning and maintenance, which promote the linguistic integration and social inclusion of migrant NGO practitioners in the workplace. L’article rend compte d’une étude ethnographique sur l’apprentissage …
An In-between Reader : Situatedness and Belonging in Tove Jansson’s Helsinki
2021
Finnish-Swedish artist and writer Tove Jansson (1914–2001), widely known as the author of the Moomin books, was born in Helsinki and resided there for the greater part of her life. The city features as a setting for her adult-oriented fiction – notably, semi-autobiographical fix-up novels Sculptor’s Daughter (1968/2015) and Fair Play (1989/2011). This article adopts a situated approach to literary geography, examining the researcher’s own position as a Helsinki resident and a ‘situated’ reader. Using autoethnography as a method, I analyze how the city and Jansson’s life narrative are co-produced by the writer, her texts, texts about her (such as biographies and press articles) and myself as…
The discursive construction of authenticity : resources, scales and polycentricity in Finnish hip hop culture
2014
Razza, genere e sessualità nelle arene del sex working maschile. Implicazioni auto-etnografiche
2013
Appare interessante, per concludere questa sezione, considerare come il sex work possa muoversi oltre che sui confini tra gli orientamenti sessuali anche su quanto definisco linea etno-sessuale del sex working. Nei paesi meta di turismo sessuale i rapporti tra i generi e la definizione identitaria assume caratteristiche precise che si riflettono sulla struttura e sulla organizzazione del sex work maschile. Per l'ipotetico turista sessuale bianco e di classe media il sex worker “esotico” è desiderabile, pratiche sessuali come la penetrazione e l’eiaculazione diventano componenti fondamentali della esperienza sessuale maschile ma anche rappresentative del potere e di un piacere (esclusivament…
Maschilità "sacrificate", maschilità "esibite" e maschilità "revansciste" nel sex work di strada
2022
Il presente articolo, approfondendo dei dati etnografici sul sex work maschile di strada raccolti dall'autore tra il 2011 e il 2018, intende evidenziare i significati attribuiti allo scambio sessuo-economico e delineare le relazioni gerarchiche che si definiscono per via della costruzione egemonica di genere e sessuale ma anche, inevitabilmente, per la corresponsione di una paga a seguito di una prestazione con l'obiettivo di identificare le modalità attraverso le quali si costruiscono modelli di maschilità situazionali e negoziate. L'analisi prova che la reputazione maschile deve essere costantemente preservata e dal momento che determina una sorta di rendita da posizionamento, essa è cost…
The sociologist as cruiser. (Auto-)ethnographic selves, masculinities and race in male sex work arenas
2014
Toddlers as ignorant citizens: An explorative study of conflicts and negotiations involving toys in kindergarten
2020
This article explores conflicts among toddlers in kindergarten and the impact of toys in these conflicts. The author describes these interactions as part of how children develop and express their citizenship, and argues that staff members should hesitate before interfering with rules in order to prevent such conflicts. This is based on Mouffe’s theory of democracy as agonistic pluralism and the way Biesta argues for the term ‘ignorant citizen’. The child is an ignorant citizen due to their lack of predefined ways to behave when obstructions and agonisms occur during play. Hence, children’s non-verbal negotiations about toys can be interpreted as political experiments.
Ways to Promoting Rural, Cultural and Gastronomical Tourism in Mărginimea Sibiului
2016
In 2009, the touristic potential of Marginimea Sibiului is recognised both nationally and internationally for its unique ethnographic, cultural, architectural and historical heritage and it has also won the Golden Apple Award of World Federation of Travel Journalists and Writers. In 2015, this area with rich traditions won a price for promoting local gastronomy. Cheeses of Marginimea Sibiului are an important part of this region's culinary and cultural tradition, and its diversity comes from specific production techniques. The Sheep Cheese Route provides an excellent opportunity for discovering the pastoral world of Marginimea Sibiului, with its picturesque settlements and calm lifestyle. D…
Performing the national territory: The geography of national-day celebrations
2017
The nation is a relatively abstract imagined community that is visualised through a variety of symbols as well as communicative and performative practices. In this paper, we explore how the national territory, one of the foundations of the nation-state, is performed on national-day celebrations and brings the nation into being. Drawing on ethnographic research on national days in Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, we show how the state's internal administrative divisions and ethnic differences are at once made explicit but also subordinated to the nation. Moreover, we show how in such celebrations, potentially disruptive or competing affiliations such as ethnicity and regional loyalties…