• Anglophone hegemony in tourism studies today 

      Dann, Graham Michael S. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011-06-29)
      Building on a recent co-edited work (Dann and Liebman Parrinello, 2009), this account seeks to demonstrate that tourism studies as a field has been unjustifiably dominated by English speakers. The point is illustrated firstly in terms of its four major theories that claim to have their origin in the Anglophone world of the 70s in spite of the realisation that they had their antecedents in ...
    • Building a High North Growth Pole: The Northern Norwegian City of Hammerfest in the Wake of Developing the "Snow White" Barents Sea Gas field 

      Eikeland, Sveinung (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-04-25)
      Global oil industries are moving from well-established economic centres to remote areas in the north. This paper addresses regional impacts, and links the analyses and discussions to theories embedded in Keynes inspired ideas from the 1950'ies of state opportunities to build growth poles in peripheries by governing entering industries. The article analyses changes in the North-Norwegian city of ...
    • Communicating paradox: Uncertainty and the northern lights 

      Heimtun, Bente; Lovelock, Brent (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)
      While many characteristics of tourism products are well known, relatively little work has explored elements of uncertainty and risk. Little is known about how tourism operators communicate aspects of uncertainty. This qualitative study uses content analysis to explore the language used in promotional material of tour operators and destination management organisations to communicate the unpredictable ...
    • Communicating Paradox: Uncertainty and the Northern Lights 

      Heimtun, Bente; Lovelock, Brent; Morgan, Nigel (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2015)
      While many characteristics of tourism products are well known, relatively little work has explored elements of uncertainty and risk. Little is known about how tourism operators communicate aspects of uncertainty. This qualitative study uses content analysis to explore the language used in promotional material of tour operators and destination management organisations to communicate the unpredictable ...
    • Creating a Man for the Future: A Narrative Analysis of Male In-Migrants and Their Constructions of Masculinities in a Rural Context 

      Aure, Marit; Munkejord, Mai Camilla (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-10-10)
      Most research on rural masculinity focuses on sedentary and agricultural lifestyles. Based on fieldwork and interviews with 18 male newcomers, this article explores constructions of masculinities among in-migrants engaged in several occupations and entrepreneurial activities in Finnmark, in Northern Norway. Building on the concept of hegemonic masculinities, we show how a specific combination ...
    • Gendered Issues and Voices in Public Discourses on Industrial Development in Northern Norway 

      Kvidal-Røvik, Trine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-03)
      This article deals with gender and industrial developments in the northernmost part of Norway, where there are growing opportunities within the mining, oil and gas industries. Large companies move into the region for shorter or longer periods of time, leading to restructuring and change in these rural areas. These industries are typically male-dominated, and many of the workers coming to the region ...
    • The geopolitics of northern travels: Enactments of adventure and exploration in the Norwegian-Russian borderland 

      Wråkberg, Urban (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      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 ...
    • "Herrer i eget hus". Finnmarksloven i media 

      Eira, Stine Sand (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2012)
      In 2005, the Norwegian Parliament passed the Finnmark Act, with ownership of 96 % of Finnmark transferred from the State to the inhabitants of Finnmark. This article discusses the dominant arguments for and against the Act in two local newspapers in Finnmark. The debate was intense. Would the Finnmark Act lead to private ownership based on ethnicity, or equal ownership? Different understandings of ...
    • «Herrer i eget hus» - Finnmarksloven i media 

      Eira, Stine Sand (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2013-12-20)
      Forholdet mellom samer og nordmenn, og rettigheter til land og vann, ble igjen satt på dagsordenen i Finnmark i forbindelse med debatten om finnmarksloven. En gjennomgang av to finnmarksaviser viser at uenighetene først og fremst handlet om hvorvidt loven førte til privatisering, eller om finnmarkingene nå ble herrer i eget hus. Artikkelen viser at ulike forståelser av likhet, etnisitet og rettferdighet ...
    • High North scenarios and subnational realities: policies and practices in the Norwegian/Russian border zone 

      Haugseth, Peter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      As the world was becoming more interdependent, with increased global awareness of the north-ernmost parts of the world, both the Norwegian and Russian governments showed more political commit-ment to and interest in new forms of region-building and development in the High North from 2006 and onwards. Today, more than ten years later, many regional changes are evident in the Norwegian-Russian border ...
    • Installed base as a facilitator for user-driven innovation: How can user innovation challenge existing institutional barriers? 

      Andersen, Synnøve Thomassen; Jansen, Arild J. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012-12-06)
      The paper addresses an ICT-based, user-driven innovation process in the health sector in rural areas in Norway. The empirical base is the introduction of a new model for psychiatric health provision. This model is supported by a technical solution based on mobile phones that is aimed to help the communication between professional health personnel and patients. This innovation was made possible through ...
    • Kandidatundersøkelse blant kandidater fra den tidligere Høgskolen i Finnmark 

      Hines, Kjell (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2014-07-03)
      Undersøkelsen omfatter kandidater fra den tidligere Høgskolen i Finnmark som ble uteksaminert i 2007, 2010 og 2011. Undersøkelsen er utført på oppdrag fra den tidligere ledelsen ved Høgskolen i Finnmark.
    • The Meaning of the Feminist T-Shirt: Social Media, Postmodern Aesthetics, and the Potential for Sociopolitical Change 

      Kvidal-Røvik, Trine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-29)
      This article examines the potential for political or social change as part of postmodern cultural expression in consumer culture. Throughout the article, I discuss the way sociopolitical messages, circulating in contemporary culture, represent an interesting element in terms of their intertextual referencing and postmodern blurring. Postmodern aesthetic features merge commodifying, resistive, and ...
    • Mellom borealisme og orientalisme. Fortellinger og forestillinger om 'de andre' i nordlysturismen 

      Mathisen, Stein Roar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The article takes as its point of departure a media narrative, relating that Northern Lights tourists from the East are not only visiting the northern areas to experience the celestial phenomenon, as their actual hope is to conceive under the Lights. According to alleged old beliefs in the East, this is supposed to give handsomer, healthier, and more intelligent children. The location of these beliefs ...
    • Mellom borealisme og orientalisme. Fortellinger og forestillinger om 'de andre' i nordlysturismen 

      Mathisen, Stein Roar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2017)
      The article takes as its point of departure a media narrative, relating that Northern Lights tourists from the East are not only visiting the northern areas to experience the celestial phenomenon, as their actual hope is to conceive under the Lights. According to alleged old beliefs in the East, this is supposed to give handsomer, healthier, and more intelligent children. The location of these beliefs ...
    • Modes of entry to male immigrant entrepreneurship in a rural context: Start-up stories from Northern Norway 

      Munkejord, Mai Camilla (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-09-30)
      Objective: The purpose of this article is to address rural and gender gaps in the immigrant entrepreneurship literature by analysing the start-up narratives of nine male entrepreneurs in Finnmark in northernmost Norway. <p>Research Design & Methods: The article is based on a qualitative fieldwork including business visits and in-depth interviews. The transcripts from the interviews were ...
    • Nature Articulations in Norwegian Advertising Discourse: A Depoliticized Discourse of Climate Change 

      Kvidal-Røvik, Trine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-11)
      This article deals with how nature is articulated in public discourse, and more specifically how humans’ relationship to nature is constructed via such articulations. Based on critical cultural analyses of ads presented in a Norwegian context, the article claims articulations of nature serve to a depoliticization of nature, which silence social differences and reduce environmental politics ...
    • Naturen som rekreasjon og heteroseksuell romantikk: En studie av russiske kvinnelige migranters poetiske fortellinger om natur og kjønn 

      Wara, Tatiana; Munkejord, Mai Camilla (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2016-02-10)
      Denne artikkelen undersøker forbindelser mellom natur og kjønn. Vi analyserer data fra feltarbeid og intervjuer med kvinnelige russiske migranter som har bosatt seg i en liten by i Finnmark sammen med en norsk mannlig partner. I artikkelen bygger vi på nyere antropologiske forståelser av natur, samt studier om hvordan natur/sted, kultur og kjønn gjensidig konstituerer hverandre. Basert på denne ...
    • Nordlys, magi og turisme 

      Mathisen, Stein Roar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-04-02)
      Markedsføringen av naturfenomenet Aurora Borealis, eller nordlyset, har i de siste årene fått en særlig oppmerksomhet når det gjelder oppbyggingen av turisme som et vinterprodukt i NordNorge. I dette arbeidet benytter både markedsførerne og opplevelsesbedriftenes guider seg av ulike begreper og fortellinger. Formidlingen tar vanligvis utgangspunkt i det som oppfattes som to ytterpunkter. Som ...