Blar i forfatter "Wråkberg, Urban"

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    • A.E. Nordenskiöld in Swedish memory: the origin and uses of Arctic heroism 

      Wråkberg, Urban (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-01)
      For Nordic nations scientific activities in the Polar Regions proved significant in defining national identities and shaping scientific profiles. Starting in the nineteenth century and continuing throughout the next century, polar research proved instrumental in inculcating national honour and expressing small-state colonial aspirations. It provided a source of heroes for forging collective memory ...

    • Betydelsen av teori- och metodutvecklingen inom historieskrivningen för undervisningen i ämnet teknikhistoria 

      Wråkberg, Urban (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 1990)

    • Collective memory of the Kirkenes iron mine in sub-Arctic Norway: Its role in forming the future 

      Wråkberg, Urban (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-10-30)
      This study argues that collective memory is a relevant concept that can be used to analyse how the outlooks on industrial futures are shaped in remote northern locations. The case in question is the Sydvaranger iron mine in Kirkenes in the north-easternmost part of Norway. By drawing attention to the long periods of time often involved in forming collective memory, this study questions the viability ...

    • Contested Methaphors in the European North 

      Wråkberg, Urban (Chronicle; Kronikk, 2013)

    • Euroarctic Strategies and Synergies 

      Wråkberg, Urban (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2012)
      A comparative discussion is made of contemporary national and organisational strategies on Northern and Arctic Europe to identify common interests in the Euro-Arctic region and to evaluate how some of these interests may relate to the global context. This dialogue will be considered in relation to the post-Cold War transition from Realist to geoeconomic perspectives on the world. <p> <p>My tentative ...

    • Experience of Norwegian-Russian cooperation in the field of education at the University of Tromsø - Arctic University of Norway Campus Alta and Kirkenes 

      Haugseth, Peter; Wråkberg, Urban (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)
      The leader and a developer of the Bachelor of Northern Studies (BNS) present this English language, online, interdisciplinary university course program in social sciences and the humanities. BNS is today part of the multi-campus UiT Arctic University of Norway output of higher education. An overview of BNS is given, noticing its 2010 origin in the University of the Arctic initiative, and the challenges ...

    • Färdigställning av forskningsartiklar – med fokus på publikationsprocessen 

      Wråkberg, Urban (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2020)

    • Futures of Northern Cross-Border Collaboration 

      Wråkberg, Urban (Book; Bok, 2013)
      The Barents Institute of the University of Tromsø and the Centre for North European and Baltic Studies of the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Relations (MGIMO) jointly launched, in 2011, the so-called Futures of Northern Cross-Border Collaboration Project. It brought together academic researchers and public and business managers with different specialities into a multidisciplinary network. This ...

    • 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 ...

    • Tourism in the Subarctic and the Baltic Sea regions of Europe 

      Wråkberg, Urban (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      It is argued that the cultural dimensions of the Arctic and Subarctic have much to offer contemporary tourism, both as sources of new contents in tours and as an important field in tourism research and management training. In Norway, the Euroarctic is marketed to tourists focusing on nature and wildlife. A limited set of branding elements is used: northern lights, ice hotels, dogsledding, “safaris” ...

    • Tracks across the Tundra: Making a Living from Nature in the Borderland of the Russian Northwest 

      Wråkberg, Urban; Haugseth, Peter (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-07-12)
      By drawing on our experiences from living in this part of the world and by comparing developments on each side of the Norwegian-Russian border, we apply a broad contextual and place-oriented approach to study this subarctic borderland. We ask what characterizes the differences found when comparing Soviet industrialization and contemporary developments to akin or related processes elsewhere in the ...

    • Vetenskaplig expertis och nordområdets naturresurser 

      Wråkberg, Urban (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The essay reflects on political pressures exerted by and on scientists and technologists acting as advisors on political and economic matters of the high north.It uses two case studies to do this. One consists in the group of scientists from several nations who engaged as advisors to their foreign offices in the process leading up tothe ratification of the Spitsbergen/Svalbard treaty in 1920. The ...