Articles, papers and chapters by Jani Vuolteenaho
Names and Their Environment: Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 25-29 August 2014 (ed. by Carole Hough and Daria Izdebska), 2016
Papers by Jani Vuolteenaho
Eurasian Geography and Economics, Oct 12, 2022
Routledge eBooks, Aug 25, 2022
Encountering Toponymic Geopolitics
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2021
Recent critical scholarship has theorized the urban commons in terms of value regimes and practic... more Recent critical scholarship has theorized the urban commons in terms of value regimes and practices not reducible to market logic. Specifically, it views the urban commons as a counter force to greediness, poverty, and other ills of the neoliberal urban era, but it neglects the centrality of “land.” We offer a corrective. Based on a study of the commons that is embedded in religious land, this article interrogates the tradition‐rooted ethical maintenance and mundane uses of religious land in the context of urban Thailand. Buddhist temples (wats) show that monastic landlords are aware of religious land’s revenue‐generating possibilities, but they resist the temptation to treat it speculatively. Instead, religious land is leased for housing, vending, and farming at a nominal rent, alongside its use for a range of religious and communal purposes. As a faith‐based, non‐Western, and pro‐poor form of urban commons, the wats provide an understudied type of flourishing alternative to the pr...
Urban History, 2016
The Dyos Prize has been awarded annually since 1992 for the best article submitted to the Urban H... more The Dyos Prize has been awarded annually since 1992 for the best article submitted to the Urban History Journal in each calendar year. The articles are judged by the journal editors and two independent adjudicators. The prize is named after H.J. Dyos (1921–78) to commemorate his innovative contribution to the development of the field of urban history. To reflect the catholicity and interdisciplinarity which Dyos encouraged, no temporal, geographical or thematic restrictions exist, except that the paper must make a significant contribution to the study of urban history. The prize consists of a cash sum and the publication of the paper in Urban History.
Routledge eBooks, Apr 27, 2021
Politiques des noms de lieux, Mar 1, 2023
Routledge eBooks, Sep 28, 2022
English abstract: "New words, new worlds": textuality, socially constructed space and g... more English abstract: "New words, new worlds": textuality, socially constructed space and geography`s cultural turn
In the article, we compare spatial branding strategiesrelated to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, held in... more In the article, we compare spatial branding strategiesrelated to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, held in SouthAfrica, and the Barclays Premier League, England’stop football division. On the basis of evidence drawnfrom fieldwork in South African and English cities, itis shown that trademarks and symbols designated as“official” play a crucial role in demarcating and signifyingfootball spaces in both contexts. Due to the blatantlycommodified nature of ambiences such as FIFAFan Fests™ (co-branded semi-public spaces dedicatedto game-watching), the owners and marketers havebeen simultaneously at pains to authenticate footballevents and spaces via allegedly non-commercial values.In the case of the World Cup, the carnivalisation ofspace and references to aspects of culture and geographyof the hosting nation (in 2010, both South- andpan-African icons) are key strategies in this respect.By contrast, evocations of community and club historyare pervasive at the Premier League stadiumsand related media...
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Articles, papers and chapters by Jani Vuolteenaho
Papers by Jani Vuolteenaho
This introductory review article develops an analytic-conceptual distinction between spectacular, ordinary and contested facets of the present-day digitized urban condition. We reject a scholarly techno-optimism versus techno-pessimism dichotomy and argue that this triadic conceptualization can pave the way for a better understanding of the multiple, often contradictory and unpredictable implications of the fast-proceeding digitalization on cities and people who inhabit them. First, we discuss the intensified spectacularization from the perspective of labeling of cities as technologically advanced “smart” spaces and endeavors to enhance the attractiveness and ICT-glamour of urban public spaces. Next, we highlight two acute “ordinary sides” of living in digitally-mediated cities: the contributions of code-based software and digital media infrastructures to the routinized practices of urban life, and the escalation of the perceived standards of what constitutes “the ordinary” in the face of rapid technological change. Thirdly, we shed light on attempts at re-igniting street-level political agency, and the creation of outside-the-mainstream public spheres, via the aid of digital technology. In the end of the article, we consider how variable spectacular, ordinary and contested facets of the media city are co-present in the following articles of this Special Issue.