Anna Kontula
Anna Kontula | |
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![]() Kontula in 2018. | |
Member of theFinnish ParliamentforPirkanmaa | |
Assumed office April 20, 2011 | |
Parliamentary group | Left Alliance |
Personal details | |
Born | Anna Liisa Kontula 30 March 1977 Pori,Turku and Pori Province,Finland |
Political party | Left Alliance |
Alma mater | University of Tampere(Master of Political Science) |
Occupation | Researcher |
Website | http://annakontula.fi/ |
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Anna Liisa Kontula(born 1977) is a Finnishsociologistand anMPsince 2011. Until 2017, she was also a member of the city council ofTampere.In 2019, Kontula declared herself the onlycommunistin the currentFinnish parliamentand predicted that the economic system would collapse.[2]
Biography
[edit]Anna Kontula was born on 30 March 1977 inPori,Satakunta,Finland.[3]She completed her master's thesis in 2002 concerning the student movement of the 1970's.[4]She has completed multiple research projects on prostitution in Finland, such as a 2008 report published by theUniversity of Tampere.[3]Her work has also included evaluating the criminalization of prostitution and violence toward women.[5]She has researched many subjects, evaluating work restrictions, cultural norms and perceptions including attitudes towards public breast-feeding,[6]aging construction workers,[7]the impact of racism in the workplace and in housing[8]among other topics.
She has served as the vice chairman of the Sex Industry Association,[5]and was involved in many organizations dealing with social activism during her school years.[3]In 2004, Kontula was elected in the municipal elections to the Tampere City Council.[9]In 2008, she was elected again,[10]and on both the 2008 and the 2012 elections, Kontula had the second-largest number of votes of anyLeft Alliancecandidate.[11]
Kontula was first elected to the Finnish Parliament in 2011, representing the Pirkanmaa constituency from the Left Alliance.[12]She is a member of the Committee for the Future and the Employment and Equality Committee, having previously served on the Constitutional Law Committee and the Employment and Equality Committee.[1]
On Monday 13 January 2020, She was arrested along with other members of an international group of human rights activists near the Gaza Strip in Israel for trying to pass through a border fence. She said the group's aim was to bring attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza by crossing the border between Israel and Gaza. Taneli Hämäläinen, Kontula's Parliamentary Assistant, said on the next day that Kontula had been released after more than ten hours in custody and that the Israeli authorities had tried to press her to sign a statement that acknowledged the charges against her, such as obstructing the investigation and jeopardizing public safety. However, she refused to sign the document.[13]
Selected works
[edit]- Prostituutio SuomessaHelsinki: Sexpo-säätiö (2005) (ISBN951-95548-4-X) (in Finnish)
- "The Sex Worker and Her Pleasure"Current Sociology,Vol. 56, no. 4 (2008): pp 605–620 (doi:10.1177/0011392108090944)(in English)
- Punainen eksodus: tutkimus seksityöstä SuomessaHelsinki: Like (2008) (ISBN978-952-01-0212-8) (in Finnish)
- Tästä äiti varoittiHelsinki: Like (2009)(ISBN978-952-01-0299-9) (in Finnish)
- Countering Trafficking in MoldovaChisinau: International Organization for Migration (2009)
- Näkymätön kylä: Siirtotyöläisten asemasta SuomessaHelsinki: Like: Into (2010) (ISBN978-952-01-0522-8) (in Finnish)
- Mistä ei voi puhuaHelsinki: Like (2012) (ISBN978-952-264-183-0) (in Finnish)
- Kirjeitä oikealleHelsinki: Into (2014) (ISBN978-952-264-271-4) (in Finnish)
References
[edit]- ^ab"Anna Kontula Vasemmistoliiton eduskuntaryhmä".Eduskunta Riksdagen(in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Eduskunta Riksdagen.Retrieved26 July2015.
- ^Anna Kontula on kommunisti ja nyt hän kertoo, miksi termiä ei pidä välttää –” Itse olen valinnut tämän strategian”–Kansan Uutiset(in Finnish)
- ^abc"Anna Kontula".Like Finland(in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Like Finland.Retrieved26 July2015.
- ^Kontula, Anna (2002)."Kuollut muttei kuopattu: taistolaisuus ja miten sitä muistetaan".TamPub(in Finnish). Tampere, Finland: ampereen yliopisto.Retrieved26 July2015.
- ^abRoth, Venla (2012).Defining human trafficking and identifying its victims a study on the impact and future challenges of international, European and Finnish legal responses to prostitution-related trafficking in human beings.Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 235.ISBN978-9-004-22587-9.Retrieved26 July2015.
- ^Kovanen, Inka (28 February 2015)."Ranska pohtii rintojen poliittisuutta"(in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Helsingin Sanomat.Retrieved26 July2015.
- ^"Rakennusalan harmaa työ".Suomen Akatemia(in Finnish). Finland: Suomen Akatemia. 24 September 2010. Archived fromthe originalon 3 February 2019.Retrieved26 July2015.
- ^"Näkymätön kylä".Into Kustannus(in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Into Kustannus. 2010.Retrieved26 July2015.
- ^"Kunnallisvaalit2004".Helsingin Sanomat(in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Helsingin Sanomat. Archived fromthe originalon 26 July 2015.Retrieved26 July2015.
- ^"Puolueiden paikkaluvut".Vaalikone(in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Helsingin Sonomat. 2008. Archived fromthe originalon 30 October 2008.Retrieved26 July2015.
- ^"Kunnan suurimmat puolueet".Vaalikone(in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Helsingin Sanomat. 2012. Archived fromthe originalon 4 December 2013.Retrieved26 July2015.
- ^"Valitut ehdokkaat Pirkanmaan vaalipiiri".Vaalit(in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Eduskuntavaalit. 2011.Retrieved26 July2015.
- ^"Anna Kontula, a Finnish left-wing lawmaker, held for over 10 hours in Israel".www.helsinkitimes.fi.Retrieved2020-01-20.
External links
[edit]- 1977 births
- Living people
- People from Pori
- Left Alliance (Finland) politicians
- Members of the Parliament of Finland (2011–2015)
- Members of the Parliament of Finland (2015–2019)
- Members of the Parliament of Finland (2019–2023)
- Members of the Parliament of Finland (2023–2027)
- 21st-century Finnish women politicians
- Finnish sociologists
- Finnish women sociologists
- Finnish feminists