Anna Kontula Explained

Anna Kontula
Office1:Member of the Finnish Parliament for Pirkanmaa
Term Start1:April 20, 2011
Parliamentarygroup1:Left Alliance
Birth Date:1977 3, df=y
Birth Place:Pori, Turku and Pori Province, Finland
Birth Name:Anna Liisa Kontula
Nationality:Finnish
Occupation:Researcher
Party:Left Alliance
Alma Mater:University of Tampere (Master of Political Science)
Website:http://annakontula.fi/
Footnotes:[1]

Anna Liisa Kontula (born 1977) is a Finnish sociologist and an MP since 2011. Until 2017, she was also a member of the city council of Tampere. In 2019, Kontula declared herself the only communist in the current Finnish parliament and predicted that the economic system would collapse.[2]

Biography

Anna Kontula was born on 30 March 1977 in Pori, 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 the University of Tampere. 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, and was involved in many organizations dealing with social activism during her school years. 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 any Left Alliance candidate.[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.[13]

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.[14]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anna Kontula Vasemmistoliiton eduskuntaryhmä. Eduskunta Riksdagen. Eduskunta Riksdagen. 26 July 2015. Helsinki, Finland. Finnish.
  2. https://www.kansanuutiset.fi/artikkeli/4158735-anna-kontula-on-kommunisti-ja-nyt-han-kertoo-miksi-termia-ei-pida-valttaa-itse-olen-valinnut-taman-strategian Anna Kontula on kommunisti ja nyt hän kertoo, miksi termiä ei pidä välttää – ”Itse olen valinnut tämän strategian”
  3. Web site: Anna Kontula. Like Finland. Like Finland. 26 July 2015. Helsinki, Finland. Finnish.
  4. Web site: Kontula. Anna. Kuollut muttei kuopattu: taistolaisuus ja miten sitä muistetaan. TamPub. ampereen yliopisto. 26 July 2015. Tampere, Finland. Finnish. 2002.
  5. Book: Roth. Venla. 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. 2012. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Leiden. 978-9-004-22587-9. 235. 26 July 2015.
  6. News: Kovanen. Inka. Ranska pohtii rintojen poliittisuutta. 26 July 2015. Helsingin Sanomat. 28 February 2015. Helsinki, Finland. Finnish.
  7. Web site: Rakennusalan harmaa työ. Suomen Akatemia. Suomen Akatemia. 26 July 2015. Finland. Finnish. 24 September 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20190203030454/http://webfocus.aka.fi/ibi_apps/WFServlet?ekaLataus=0&IBIF_ex=x_RahPaatYht_report&IBIAPP_app=aka_ext&UILANG=fi&ETUNIMI=&SANAHAKU=&SUKUNIMI=kontula&PAATVUOSI_A=2010&PAATVUOSI_L=2010&SUKUPUOLI=FOC_NONE&TMK=FOC_NONE&HAKU=FOC_NONE&TUTKDI=FOC_NONE&ORG_RYHMA=FOC_NONE&LAJITTELU=PAATOS. 3 February 2019. dead.
  8. Web site: Näkymätön kylä. Into Kustannus. Into Kustannus. 26 July 2015. Helsinki, Finland. Finnish. 2010.
  9. Web site: Kunnallisvaalit2004. Helsingin Sanomat. Helsingin Sanomat. 26 July 2015. Helsinki, Finland. Finnish. https://web.archive.org/web/20150726184735/http://www2.hs.fi/extrat/kunnallisvaalit2004/tulos/kunta.jsp?KuntaID=837. 26 July 2015. dead. dmy-all.
  10. Web site: Puolueiden paikkaluvut. Vaalikone. Helsingin Sonomat. 26 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20081030055025/http://www.vaalikone.fi/kunta2008/vaalipiiri.htm?MK=7&VP=837&AA=0. 30 October 2008. Helsinki, Finland. Finnish. 2008.
  11. Web site: Kunnan suurimmat puolueet. Vaalikone. Helsingin Sanomat. 26 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20131204193323/http://www.vaalikone.fi/kunta2012/tulos/07/837/. 4 December 2013. Helsinki, Finland. Finnish. 2012.
  12. Web site: Valitut ehdokkaat Pirkanmaan vaalipiiri. Vaalit. Eduskuntavaalit. 26 July 2015. Helsinki, Finland. Finnish. 2011.
  13. Web site: Anna Kontula Vasemmistoliiton eduskuntaryhmä. Eduskunta Riksdagen. Eduskunta Riksdagen. 26 July 2015. Helsinki, Finland. Finnish.
  14. Web site: Anna Kontula, a Finnish left-wing lawmaker, held for over 10 hours in Israel. www.helsinkitimes.fi. en-gb. 2020-01-20.

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