Anne Häkkinen is currently working as postdoctoral researcher in the multidisciplinary research project People as keepers of intangible industrial heritage (2020-2022) at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of History and Ethnology (ethnology and anthropology), in Finland. Her research interests are diverse ranging from industrial and cultural heritage to migration. Häkkinen has previously studied translocality, transnational marriages, gender, couple formation, arranged marriages, online courtship, and sexuality in the Kurdish diaspora (PhD 2020). She has also worked on several research projects related to migration and integration conducted by the Migration institute of Finland. She has long-standing experience of carrying out different types of interviews, such as oral history and ethnographic interviews as well as survey inquires. She is especially experienced in using qualitative narrative methods and analysis. Pasi
Saarimäki is currently working as project leader and postdoctoral researcher in the multidisciplinary project People as keepers of intangible industrial heritage (Kone Foundation 2020-2022) at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of History and Ethnology (Finnish history), in Finland. Saarimäki is a gender historian, who has studied sexual behaviour and norms, marriage, and divorces in Finland in the late 19th century and early 20th century. In recent years, Saarimäki has carried out commissioned research, which has related to significant social phenomena in Finland in the late 19th century and in 20th century. This research includes one biography, one local history, and a study, which concern the life of karelian people immigrants in southern Finland after the WWII, will be published in spring 2021. Saarimäki has a wide-ranging experience of archival sources, newspapers and interviewing.
Sessions in which Pasi Saarimäki participates
Monday 29 August, 2022
Sessions in which Pasi Saarimäki attends
Tuesday 30 August, 2022
Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being preserved and for whom? And, relatedly, what is the relationship between industrial heritage sites and the deindustrialized working-class communities that often adjoin them? The keynote will consider the ways that the preservation of Montreal’s Lachine Canal, Canada’s premier industrial heritage site, has enabled gentrification processes that have forc...
Thursday 1 September, 2022
Friday 2 September, 2022
In the refusal of people in communities abandoned by industrial capital to abandon their own places, we can read an implicit critique of the mobility and unaccountability of capital, raised by those who were once inside (however tenuously or uncomfortably) and now find themselves marginalized, “left behind.” The desire to catch up again, whether through attracting new investment or transvaluing abandoned sites as tourist attractions, makes this an essentially conservative critique that is ...
