Anne Hakkinen
Anne Häkkinen is currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow 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 (Ph.D. 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 inquiries. She is especially experienced in using qualitative narrative methods and analysis.
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Sessions in which Anne Hakkinen participates
Monday 29 August, 2022
Sessions in which Anne Hakkinen 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...
Wednesday 31 August, 2022
In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-wing populism. Drawing on studies of memory and heritage, I argue that right-wing populists have cornered the market on talking about the past of deindustrialised communities. They have successfully misrepresented this rich and complex history to fuel rage, resentment, fear and reactionary nostalgia. Indeed, ‘the past’, and in particular the industr...
Thursday 1 September, 2022
This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world are directly related to the place-specific trajectories of deindustrialization. In other words: the different ways in which deindustrialization impacts on local communities has a direct bearing on the emergence of forms of industrial heritage. I will differentialte between deindustrialization paths and related industrial heritage regimes in a) Anglo-...
