The geopolitics of northern travels: enactments of adventure and exploration in the Norwegian-Russian borderland

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Urban Wråkberg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2014
• Subjects: subarctic; borderland; simulacrum; adventure tourism; road movie; Norwegian literature; PT8301-9155; Murmansk; Traveller; Kirkenes; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3057; https://doaj.org/article/eef977049ae440dfbdff89289c11b7d8

Critical geopolitics is used in analysing discourses on a micro-social level in the performances and enactments taking place during fact-finding tours and leisure journeys in northernmost Europe. The cases of journeys focussed are those of Scandinavians travelling along, and sometimes departing from...