Memory politics in transition: Nostalgia tours and gilded memories of Petsamo

• Published in: Matkailututkimus
• Main Authors: Lähteenmäki, Maria, Colpaert, Alfred
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Suomen matkailututkimuksen seura ry 2020
• Subjects: politics of memory; nostalgia tourism; war refugees; Finnish-Russian Arctic borderland; text mining; muistipolitiikka; nostalgiamatkailu; sotapakolaiset; arktinen raja-alue; tekstinlouhinta; Arctic; Pechenga; Arktis*; sami
• Online Access: https://journal.fi/matkailututkimus/article/view/85341; https://doi.org/10.33351/mt.85341

The paper examines politics of memory related to the Arctic Finnish-Russian-Norwegian borderland, Petsamo-Pechenga. How it has been remembered, shared and interpreted after the Second World War by refugees from Finnish Petsamo and their offspring, on the one hand, and Finnish public writing, on the...