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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What challenges lie in the indigenous tourism project? What is the significance to consider when using culture as a basis for business development? What basic paradoxes and challenges will be met when one wants to achieve growth in Sami tourism and the creative cultural industries? It is believed that Sami culture has an unredeemed potential as a product and attraction in the new and major initiatives ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...