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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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/7400 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 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/7400 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing Nordlit 31(2014) s. 71-89 FRIDAID 1143730 0809-1668 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/7400 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_6974 openAccess VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Samfunnsgeografi: 290 VDP::Social science: 200::Human geography: 290 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2014 ftunivtroemsoe 2021-06-25T17:54:11Z 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. Three ways in which geopolitics enters travels in the northern borderland between Scandinavia and Russia are identified: scenarios of future regional developments, popularisations of research obsessed with any problems of bilateral relations, and what has been termed in this article 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 University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Murmansk Traveller ENVELOPE(-48.533,-48.533,61.133,61.133) |
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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. Three ways in which geopolitics enters travels in the northern borderland between Scandinavia and Russia are identified: scenarios of future regional developments, popularisations of research obsessed with any problems of bilateral relations, and what has been termed in this article 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://hdl.handle.net/10037/7400 |
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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 |
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Kirkenes |
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Nordlit 31(2014) s. 71-89 FRIDAID 1143730 0809-1668 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/7400 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_6974 |
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