Encountering the North

Frank Möller and Samu Pehkonen are both Research Fellows at Tampere Peace Research Institute, University of Tampere, Finland.

Contents: Discursive landscapes of the European north, Frank Möller and Samu Pehkonen; Mnemonic north: multilayered geographies of the Barents region, Ari Aukusti Lehtinen; Shades of white: an essay on a political iconography of the north, Frank Möller; Two Skolt geographies of Petsamo during the 1920s and 1930s, Paulo Susiluoto; Rosa Liksom's literary north: traditional confrontations or new discursive practices?, Juha Ridanpää; Explorers in the Arctic: doing feminine nature in a masculine way, Hanna-Mari Ikonen and Samu Pehkonen; The thing as an incarnation of Nordic political culture and its roots, Ulrich Albrecht; The northern antipode to European integration, or why everybody expects northern Norwegians to be sceptical of European integration, Jochen Hille; Spaces of change frozen in time: global climate change in the Arctic, Monica Tennberg; Competing industries and contested nature in Finnish Lapland after World War II, Leena Suopajärvi; Can Europe be told from the north? Tapping into the EU's northern dimension, Pertti Joenniemi; Bibliography; Index.