Anna Kontula

Anna Kontula
Born Anna Liisa Kontula
(1977-03-30) 30 March 1977
Pori, Satakunta, Finland
Nationality Finnish
Occupation sociologist, politician
Years active 2004-present
Website annakontula.fi

Anna Kontula (born 1977) is a Finnish Doctor of Social Sciences and a MP since 2011. She was a member of the city council of Tampere until 2017.

Biography

Anna Kontula was born on 30 March 1977 in Pori, Satakunta, Finland,[1] and completed her master's thesis in 2002 on the 1970s student movement.[2] She has completed multiple research projects on prostitution in Finland, such as a 2008 report published by the University of Tampere,[1] and her work evaluating criminalization of prostitution and violence toward women.[3] She researches many areas which evaluate work restrictions, cultural norms, and perceptions, including public breast-feeding,[4] aging in construction workers,[5] racism's impact not only on where people can work, but where they can live,[6] and many other topics.

She has served as a vice Chairman of the Sex Industry Association,[3] and was involved in many organizations dealing with social activism during her education.[1] In 2004, Kontula was elected in the municipal elections for Tampere City Council.[7] In 2008, she was elected again,[8] and for both 2008 and 2012, Kontula had the second largest number of votes in the Left Alliance.[9]

Kontula was elected to the Finnish parliament in 2011 for the Pirkanmaa constituency of the Left Alliance.[10] 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.[11]

Selected works

  • Prostituutio Suomessa Helsinki: Sexpo-säätiö (2005) ( ISBN 951-95548-4-X) (in Finnish)
  • "The Sex Worker and Her Pleasure" Current Sociology, Vol. 56, no. 4 (2008): pp 605-620 (in English)
  • Punainen eksodus: tutkimus seksityöstä Suomessa Helsinki: Like (2008) ( ISBN 978-952-01-0212-8) (in Finnish)
  • Tästä äiti varoitti Helsinki: Like (2009)( ISBN 978-952-01-0299-9) (in Finnish)
  • Countering Trafficking in Moldova Chisinau: International Organization for Migration (2009)
  • Näkymätön kylä: Siirtotyöläisten asemasta Suomessa Helsinki: Like: Into (2010) ( ISBN 978-952-01-0522-8) (in Finnish)
  • Mistä ei voi puhua Helsinki: Like (2012) ( ISBN 978-952-264-183-0) (in Finnish)
  • Kirjeitä oikealle Helsinki: Into (2014) ( ISBN 978-952-264-271-4) (in Finnish)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Anna Kontula". Like Finland (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Like Finland. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Kontula, Anna (2002). "Kuollut muttei kuopattu: taistolaisuus ja miten sitä muistetaan". TamPub (in Finnish). Tampere, Finland: ampereen yliopisto. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  3. 1 2 Roth, 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. ISBN 978-9-004-22587-9. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  4. ↑ Kovanen, Inka (28 February 2015). "Ranska pohtii rintojen poliittisuutta" (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Rakennusalan harmaa työ". Suomen Akatemia (in Finnish). Finland: Suomen Akatemia. 24 September 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "Näkymätön kylä". Into Kustannus (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Into Kustannus. 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "Kunnallisvaalit2004". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Puolueiden paikkaluvut". Vaalikone (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Helsingin Sonomat. 2008. Archived from the original on 30 October 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  9. ↑ "Kunnan suurimmat puolueet". Vaalikone (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Helsingin Sanomat. 2012. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "Valitut ehdokkaat Pirkanmaan vaalipiiri". Vaalit (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Eduskuntavaalit. 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  11. ↑ "Anna Kontula Vasemmistoliiton eduskuntaryhmä". Eduskunta Riksdagen (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Eduskunta Riksdagen. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
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