What is the imagined North? Norwegian
International audience Translation in Norwegian. The North has been imagined and represented for centuries by artists and writers of the Western world, which has led, over time and the accumulation of successive layers of discourse, to the creation of an “imagined North” – ranging from the “North” o...
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HAL CCSD
2018
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| Online Access: | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02134943 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02134943/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02134943/file/222058496%20NO.pdf |
| Summary: | International audience Translation in Norwegian. The North has been imagined and represented for centuries by artists and writers of the Western world, which has led, over time and the accumulation of successive layers of discourse, to the creation of an “imagined North” – ranging from the “North” of Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, to the “Far North” or the poles. Westerners have reached the North Pole only a century go, which makes the “North” the product of a double perspective: an outside one – made especially of Western images – and an inside one – that of Northern cultures (Inuit, Sami, Cree, etc.). The first are often simplified and the second, ignored. If we wish to understand what the “North” is in an overall perspective, we must ask ourselves two questions: how do images define the North, and which ethical principles should govern how we consider Northern cultures in order to have a complete view (including, in particular, those that have been undervalued by the South)? In this article, I try to address these two questions, first by defining what is the imagined North and then by proposing an inclusive program to “recomplexify” the cultural Arctic. «Det nordlige» har gjennom århundrer blitt forestilt og fremstilt av kunstnere og forfattere fra den vestlige verden. Som følge av gradvis oppsamling av ulike diskursive lag, har med tiden «forestillinger om det nordlige» oppstått. Dette nordlige dekker både Skandinavia, Grønland, Russland, det høye nord og polene. Det er imidlertid bare et århundre siden de vestlige nådde Nordpolen, noe som gjør at det «nordlige» er produktet av et dobbelt blikk, ett fra utsiden – fremstillingene, som oftest vestlige – og ett fra innsiden – de nordlige kulturene (inuittiske, skandinaviske, cree-, etc.). De første er ofte forenklede, mens de andre er miskjente. Hvis vi ønsker å studere det «nordlige» i et helhetsperspektiv, må vi derfor stille oss to spørsmål: Hvordan kan man definere det nordlige gjennom det forestilte? Og hvilke etiske prinsipper må vi ta i betraktning ... |
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