Banal placemaking : spatial conceptions in an Icelandic provincial newspaper in the 1880s

• Published in: Scandinavian Journal of History
• Main Author: Gustafsson, Harald
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2023
• Subjects: Human Geography; Iceland; nineteenth century; Placemaking; newspapers; Reykjavík; Ísafjörður
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/54ce2594-9fda-4436-942f-7f49bafbb1b1; https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2023.2171477

Drawing theoretic inspiration from the spatial turn within humanities, this article attempts to develop methods for studying placemaking in news media. This is done by a case study of the newspaper Þjóðviljinn, published in Ísafjörður, Iceland, in the late nineteenth century. The concept ‘banal plac...