The geopolitics of northern travels: enactments of adventure and exploration in the Norwegian-Russian borderland
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...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/3057 2023-05-15T17:03:59+02:00 The geopolitics of northern travels: enactments of adventure and exploration in the Norwegian-Russian borderland Wråkberg, Urban 2014-07-16 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3057 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3057 nor nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3057/2968 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3057 doi:10.7557/13.3057 Copyright (c) 2014 Urban Wråkberg http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY Nordlit; No 31 (2014): Border Æsthetics; 71-89 Nordlit; Nr 31 (2014): Border Æsthetics; 71-89 1503-2086 0809-1668 subarctic borderland simulacrum adventure tourism road movie info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed article Fagfellevurdert artikkel 2014 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3057 2021-08-16T15:47:23Z 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, the highway between the Norwegian village of Kirkenes and the Russian city of Murmansk. In travels undertaken for professional or leisure purposes alike a hyperreal meta-script is enacted mediated on the cosmopolitan cultural experiences held collectively by the travellers; simulacra provide the context for the enactments of fact-finding and drama taking place during border-passage. It is argued that the characteristic montage-like sequence of events of border-crossings are interwoven with a geopolitical discourse, and that it should be understood as encompassing both language and practice in order to appreciate the geopolitics at work. Three ways in which geopolitics enters travels in the northern borderland between Scandinavia and Russia are identified: scenarios of future regional scenarios of future regional developments, popularisations of research obsessed with the problems of borders, and what has been termed here the geopolitical anecdote. In considering the aesthetics of the simulations taking place in cross-border travels this study suggests focussing the meta-script of the American and the European road movie film genres. The essay argues that the cosmopolitan mind of any traveller, and its collective mediated content of cultural and political discourses, has been underestimated so far in the socio-political research regarding the borderlands of the European north. Article in Journal/Newspaper Kirkenes Subarctic University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Murmansk Traveller ENVELOPE(-48.533,-48.533,61.133,61.133) Nordlit 31 71 |
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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, the highway between the Norwegian village of Kirkenes and the Russian city of Murmansk. In travels undertaken for professional or leisure purposes alike a hyperreal meta-script is enacted mediated on the cosmopolitan cultural experiences held collectively by the travellers; simulacra provide the context for the enactments of fact-finding and drama taking place during border-passage. It is argued that the characteristic montage-like sequence of events of border-crossings are interwoven with a geopolitical discourse, and that it should be understood as encompassing both language and practice in order to appreciate the geopolitics at work. Three ways in which geopolitics enters travels in the northern borderland between Scandinavia and Russia are identified: scenarios of future regional scenarios of future regional developments, popularisations of research obsessed with the problems of borders, and what has been termed here the geopolitical anecdote. In considering the aesthetics of the simulations taking place in cross-border travels this study suggests focussing the meta-script of the American and the European road movie film genres. The essay argues that the cosmopolitan mind of any traveller, and its collective mediated content of cultural and political discourses, has been underestimated so far in the socio-political research regarding the borderlands of the European north. |
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The geopolitics of northern travels: enactments of adventure and exploration in the Norwegian-Russian borderland |
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The geopolitics of northern travels: enactments of adventure and exploration in the Norwegian-Russian borderland |
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The geopolitics of northern travels: enactments of adventure and exploration in the Norwegian-Russian borderland |
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The geopolitics of northern travels: enactments of adventure and exploration in the Norwegian-Russian borderland |
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The geopolitics of northern travels: enactments of adventure and exploration in the Norwegian-Russian borderland |
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geopolitics of northern travels: enactments of adventure and exploration in the norwegian-russian borderland |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing |
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2014 |
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https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3057 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3057 |
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ENVELOPE(-48.533,-48.533,61.133,61.133) |
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Murmansk Traveller |
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Murmansk Traveller |
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Kirkenes Subarctic |
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Kirkenes Subarctic |
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Nordlit; No 31 (2014): Border Æsthetics; 71-89 Nordlit; Nr 31 (2014): Border Æsthetics; 71-89 1503-2086 0809-1668 |
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https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3057/2968 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3057 doi:10.7557/13.3057 |
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Copyright (c) 2014 Urban Wråkberg http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
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