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Nordic Landscapes Region and Belonging on the Northern Edge of Europe Michael Jones and Kenneth R. Olwig, editors |
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The first in-depth presentation of the Nordic landscapes to be published in nearly twenty years. “Norden”—the region along the northern edge of Europe bordered by Russia and the Baltic nations to the east and by North America to the west—is a particularly fruitful site for the examination of the ever-evolving meaning of landscape and region as place. Contributors to this work reveal how Norden’s regions and people have been defined by and against the dominant culture of Europe while at the same time their landscapes and cultures have shaped and inspired Europe’s ways of life. Together, the essays provide a much-needed picture of this culturally rich and geographically varied part of the world. “This extensive collection provides interesting combinations of viewpoints and discourses concerning landscape, region, and place. It deepens knowledge of Nordic countries and their historical development, and also verifies the many similarities between these nations.” —Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review Contributors: Ingvild Austad, Sogn og Fjordane U College; Gabriel Bladh, Karlstad U; Tomas Germundsson, Lund U; Jens Christian Hansen, U of Bergen; Kirsten Hastrup, U of Copenhagen; Leif Hauge, Sogn og Fjordane U College; Maunu Häyrynen, U of Turku; Margareta Ihse, Stockholm U; Ari Aukusti Lehtinen, U of Joensuu; Anders Lundberg, U of Bergen; W. R. Mead, U College London; Ann Norderhaug, Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research; Venke Åsheim Olsen; Anssi Paasi, U of Oulu; Helle Skånes, Stockholm U; Bo Wagner Sørensen, Roskilde U; Ulf Sporrong, Stockholm U; Nils Storå, Åbo Academy U; Arne Thorsteinsson. Michael Jones is professor of geography at the University of Trondheim. Kenneth R. Olwig is professor of landscape theory at the Department of Landscape Architecture of Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Alnarp (SLU-Alnarp). 576 pages | 130 b&w photos, 8 tables | 7 x 10 | 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Introduction: Thinking Landscape and Regional Place Identity on the Northern Edge of Europe Denmark 2. The Jutland Cipher: Unlocking the Meaning and Power of a Contested Landscape The North Atlantic 4. Land Divisions, Land Rights, and Landownership in the Faeroe Islands 5. Perceiving Landscapes in Greenland Sweden 7. The South of the North: Images of an (Un)Swedish Landscape 8. The Province of Dalecarlia (Dalarna): Heartland or Anomaly? 9. Selma Lagerlöf’s Värmland: A Swedish Landskap in Thought and Practice 10. The Swedish Agro-Pastoral Hagmark Landscape: An Approach to Integrated Landscape Analysis Norway 12. The Landscape in the Sign, the Sign in the Landscape: Periphery and Plurality as Aspects of North Norwegian Regional Identity 13. Changes in the Land and the Regional Identity of Western Norway: The Case of Sandhåland, Karmøy 14. The “Fjordscape” of Inner Sogn, West Norway 15. The Agro-Pastoral Mountain Landscape in Southern Norway: A Museum or a Living Landscape? Finland 17. Landscape Territory, Autonomy, and Regional Identity: The Identity of the Åland Islands in a Cultural Perspective 18. Landscapes of Domination: Living in and off the Forests in Eastern Finland 19. A Kaleidoscopic Nation: The Finnish National Landscape Imagery 20. Finnish Landscape as Social Practice: Mapping Identity and Scale Norden 22. Features of Nordic Physical Landscapes: Regional Characteristics Contributors |
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