• Contextual sites of acknowledgement? Kven heritage and contemporary identity articulation processes 

      Øyen, Gyrid; Kvidal-Røvik, Trine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-04-19)
      It is more than 20 years since Kvens were recognized as a national minority in Norway, yet there is still a need for acknowledgement of Kven culture and heritage. This article discusses contemporary processes of identity articulation related to Kven heritage. Based on interviews with people who relate to a key Kven place in Varanger, we discuss people’s identity articulation processes in different ...
    • 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 ...
    • Into the unknown [Amas Mu Vuordá]? Listening to Indigenous voices on the meanings of Disney’s Frozen 2 [Jikŋon 2] 

      Kvidal-Røvik, Trine; Cordes, Ashley (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-02)
      In 2019, Disney released the animated film Frozen 2 and included depictions of Indigenous Sámi peoples, landscapes, and lifeways. Communication scholars have critiqued relationships between Disney and Indigenous cultures. However, with Frozen 2 Sámi consultants initiated a new mode of collaboration with Disney to combat cultural appropriation, linguistic erasure, and misrepresentations. This resulted ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video 

      Bursta, Beate; Kvidal-Røvik, Trine; Rantala, Outi (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-03)
      This article addresses the methodological aspects of a multi-voiced, collaborative ethnographic research process, in particular how video can enhance and amplify this research endeavour. The authors illustrate and discuss how experimental filmic methodologies can help to capture processes of becoming in a collaborative research endeavour, both enabling the development and production of diverse ...
    • Tuulessa - I vinden 

      Feldt Anfinnsen, Kjersti; Kvidal-Røvik, Trine; Maliniemi, Kaisa; Mathisen, Stein Roar; Nicolaysen, Kristin; Olsen, Kjell Ole Kjærland; Øyen, Gyrid; Aarekol, Lena (Book; Bok, 2023)
      Ønsket om å formidle forskning av kvensk kulturarv på en ny måte har resultert i vandreutstillinga Tuulessa – I vinden.
    • Yhđessä – Sammen om kvenske virkeligheter: Situering og akademisk ansvarlighet i forskningsprosessen 

      Øyen, Gyrid; Kvidal-Røvik, Trine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-17)
      This article discusses methodological aspects of an ongoing research project on Kven worldings. The work is inspired by Donna Haraway’s perspectives on situated research. A metalogue, where the authors share reflections and discuss their maneuvers as researchers, makes visible some of the ontological and epistemological troubles the researchers are facing related to the philosophical research approach, ...