Images of the Russian threat as printed at the border
Since Finland’s declaration of independence from Russia in 1917, the actuality of threats emanating from images of Russia has been one of the most debated topics in Finnish academic, political, and open discussion forums alike. Reflecting on previ- ous studies, I have qualitatively examined how thre...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/355333 2024-01-07T09:41:43+01:00 Images of the Russian threat as printed at the border Oivo, Teemu Aleksanteri Institute - Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies 2023-03-01T11:52:01Z 22 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/355333 eng eng University of Lappland Oivo , T 2022 , ' Images of the Russian threat as printed at the border ' , Barents Studies: Peoples, Economies and Politics , vol. 7 , no. 1 , 1 , pp. 17-38 . < https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2022121471392 > c651dcde-417c-48df-9796-c7f68ff4f679 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/355333 cc_by openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 5171 Political Science 518 Media and communications Article publishedVersion 2023 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:09:39Z Since Finland’s declaration of independence from Russia in 1917, the actuality of threats emanating from images of Russia has been one of the most debated topics in Finnish academic, political, and open discussion forums alike. Reflecting on previ- ous studies, I have qualitatively examined how threats associated with such images were represented and challenged in 2016. My case study is based on an analysis of Karjalainen, the provincial newspaper of North Karelia, which borders another Barents Euro-Arctic Region, the Republic of Karelia, a subject of the Russian Federation. The daily media discussions on the pages of Karjalainen provide a view to the intersec- tion of regional, national, and international news. I compare the newspaper contents to threats associated with Russia as recognized in previous research literature. The threat images are represented contextually in different ways when they are related to history, contemporary international affairs, the Russian people, and border life, as well as the less visible topics of the economy and the environment. The newspaper content rehearses the dominant image of Russia as a geopolitical threat, but even those who wrote about this, often problematized simplified images of an entire country. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic karelia* Republic of Karelia HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Arctic Karjalainen ENVELOPE(29.283,29.283,65.950,65.950) |
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Since Finland’s declaration of independence from Russia in 1917, the actuality of threats emanating from images of Russia has been one of the most debated topics in Finnish academic, political, and open discussion forums alike. Reflecting on previ- ous studies, I have qualitatively examined how threats associated with such images were represented and challenged in 2016. My case study is based on an analysis of Karjalainen, the provincial newspaper of North Karelia, which borders another Barents Euro-Arctic Region, the Republic of Karelia, a subject of the Russian Federation. The daily media discussions on the pages of Karjalainen provide a view to the intersec- tion of regional, national, and international news. I compare the newspaper contents to threats associated with Russia as recognized in previous research literature. The threat images are represented contextually in different ways when they are related to history, contemporary international affairs, the Russian people, and border life, as well as the less visible topics of the economy and the environment. The newspaper content rehearses the dominant image of Russia as a geopolitical threat, but even those who wrote about this, often problematized simplified images of an entire country. Peer reviewed |
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Oivo , T 2022 , ' Images of the Russian threat as printed at the border ' , Barents Studies: Peoples, Economies and Politics , vol. 7 , no. 1 , 1 , pp. 17-38 . < https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2022121471392 > c651dcde-417c-48df-9796-c7f68ff4f679 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/355333 |
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