Full Description
Through an interdisciplinary range of case studies from across the Northern rim of Europe, this volume shows how place reinvention as a concept affects not only global cities but also marginal regions. Linking place reinvention to the economic, the symbolic and the political production of space, the volume puts forward insights into how 'marginal areas' understand their role in the global competition between places and regions through their branding strategies, playing with representations of the unique and the ordinary, urban and rural, reindustrialization and cultural economy. It also shows how and why some places seem to retain and strengthen their uniqueness, whilst others are losing their local distinctiveness in the struggle to survive.
Contents
Preface; Chapter 1 Place Reinvention at the Northern Rim, Torill Nyseth; Chapter 2 The Industrial Imperative and Second (hand) Modernity, Karl Benediktsson; Chapter 3 Place Reinvention by Real Changed Image, Kristina L. Nilsson; Chapter 4 Kirkenes - A Town for Miners and Ministers, Arvid Viken, Torill Nyseth; Chapter 5 Gendered Places, Magnfríður Júlíusdóttir, Yvonne Gunnarsdotter; Chapter 6 Creating 'The Land of the Big Fish', Anniken Førde; Chapter 7 Constructing the Unique - Communicating the Extreme Dynamics of Place Marketing, Brynhild Granås; Chapter 8 City Marketing, Krister Olsson, Elin Berglund; Chapter 9 Cool & Crazy, Gry Paulgaard; Chapter 10 Reinventing a Place through the Origin Myth, Turid Moldenæs; Chapter 11 Globalized Reinvention of Indigenuity. The Riddu Ri??u Festival as a Tool for Ethnic Negotiation of Place, Paul Pedersen, Arvid Viken; Chapter 12 Reinventing Rurality in the North, Mai Camilla Munkejord; Chapter 13 The Narrative Constitution of Materiality, Arvid Viken, Torill Nyseth;
