Introduction: Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders

Johan Schimanski,Stephen Frank Wolfe

doi:10.7557/13.1462

Abstract

The essays in this issue of Nordlit focus on how historical and contemporary border discourses, expressive and aesthetic representations, are generated, circulated, and interpreted in both local and global contexts.

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CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND NEGOTIATION OF BORDERSJohan Schimanski and Stephen WolfeThe papers we are presenting in this issue of Nordlit were all first given at the 2008 European Conference of the Association of Borderlands Studies, held in Kirkenes in northern Norway, September 11-13, on the borders of the Arctic and in the Finnish-KvenNorwegian-Russian-Sámi borderland
The conference was arranged by the Border Poetics research group at the University of Tromsø in close cooperation with the History Department and the CEPIN (Citizenship, Encounters and Place Enactment in the North) research school there, the Petrozavodsk State University and, vitally, the Barents Institute in Kirkenes itself
The theme of the conference was a wide one: the ”Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders”. This theme was intended as an acknowledgement of the increasing focus which has been given recently by geographers and historians to the role of cultural production and negotiation in social and territorial bordering processes

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Introduction

The papers we are presenting in this issue of Nordlit were all first given at the 2008 European Conference of the Association of Borderlands Studies, held in Kirkenes in northern Norway, September 11-13, on the borders of the Arctic and in the Finnish-KvenNorwegian-Russian-Sámi borderland. This theme was intended as an acknowledgement of the increasing focus which has been given recently by geographers and historians to the role of cultural production and negotiation in social and territorial bordering processes.

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