Encountering the North

Cultural Geography, International Relations and Northern Landscapes

Frank Möller, Samu Pehkonen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781138722460
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351758277
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This title was first published in 2003. This volume is concerned with the European north above the Arctic Circle and its representations in Cultural Geography and International Relations. The chapters in the book deal with cultural, geographical and political imaginations of northern peoples and landscapes. Emphasis is placed on the triangle of and interrelationship between culture, geography and politics. The historical and contemporary variations of meaning assigned to the north point to real processes which need to be studied in their own right. To achieve this aim, the book does not plainly specify the sites and levels of discourses (be they academic, political or popular), but it does take into account the material circumstances making the context of the European north. Illustrated by a coherent set of specially written case studies, the volume explores issues such as history, literature, gender, folk culture, pictorial representations, environment and climate change and links these issues with the (geo-)politics of the region.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Plates
• List of Figures and Maps
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• 1 Discursive Landscapes of the European North
• 2 Mnemonic North: Multilayered Geographies of the Barents Region
• 3 Shades of White: An Essay on a Political Iconography of the North
• 4 Two Skolt Geographies of Petsamo during the 1920s and 1930s
• 5 Rosa Liksom’s Literary North: Traditional Confrontations or New Discursive Practices?
• 6 Explorers in the Arctic: Doing Feminine Nature in a Masculine Way
• 7 The Thing as an Incarnation of Nordic Political Culture and Its Roots
• 8 The Northern Antipode to European Integration, or Why Everybody Expects Northern Norwegians to Be Sceptical of European Integration
• 9 Spaces of Change Frozen in Time: Global Climate Change in the Arctic
• 10 Competing Industries and Contested Nature in Finnish Lapland after World War II
• 11 Can Europe Be Told from the North? Tapping into the EU’s Northern Dimension
• Bibliography
• Index