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Building a High North Growth Pole: The Northern Norwegian City of Hammerfest in the Wake of Developing the "Snow White" Barents Sea Gas field
(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 ... -
Installed base as a facilitator for user-driven innovation: How can user innovation challenge existing institutional barriers?
(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 ... -
Anglophone hegemony in tourism studies today
(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 ... -
"Herrer i eget hus". Finnmarksloven i media
(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 ... -
Communicating Paradox: Uncertainty and the Northern Lights
(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 ... -
Mellom borealisme og orientalisme. Fortellinger og forestillinger om 'de andre' i nordlysturismen
(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 ... -
Orientalism or Cultural Encounters? Tourism Assemblages in Culture, Capital, and Identities
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2017)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 ... -
Gendered Issues and Voices in Public Discourses on Industrial Development in Northern Norway
(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 ... -
Nordlys, magi og turisme
(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 ... -
Sametingets relevans og rekkevidde
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-29)Sametinget, som et direkte folkevalgt organ av og for samer, kan sies å være etablert for å utøve selvbestemmelse for et eget urfolkspolitisk fellesskap innenfor staten. Det er en institusjon som imidlertid har betydelige tillitsutfordringer hos samer og i sitt nære omland. Artikkelen ser på betingelsene for Sametingets relevans og rekkevidde for sikring av kulturelt fellesskap og tilrettelegging ... -
«Herrer i eget hus» - Finnmarksloven i media
(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 ... -
Tourism in the Subarctic and the Baltic Sea regions of Europe
(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” ... -
High North scenarios and subnational realities: policies and practices in the Norwegian/Russian border zone
(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 ... -
Nature Articulations in Norwegian Advertising Discourse: A Depoliticized Discourse of Climate Change
(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 ... -
Mellom borealisme og orientalisme. Fortellinger og forestillinger om 'de andre' i nordlysturismen
(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 ... -
Tracing Shintoism in Japanese nature-based domestic tourism experiences
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-12)This study explores into Japanese cultural meaning of nature. The paper studies Japanese domestic tourists to a mountain trail near Tokyo. East Asian concept of nature distinctively identifies itself as a unity between nature and humanity. To gain a more defining understanding of Shintoism-inspired meaning of nature, we surveyed on the meaning of nature, experiences and benefits sought and ... -
The Meaning of the Feminist T-Shirt: Social Media, Postmodern Aesthetics, and the Potential for Sociopolitical Change
(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 ... -
Communicating paradox: Uncertainty and the northern lights
(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 ... -
Creating a Man for the Future: A Narrative Analysis of Male In-Migrants and Their Constructions of Masculinities in a Rural Context
(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 ... -
Modes of entry to male immigrant entrepreneurship in a rural context: Start-up stories from Northern Norway
(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 ...
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