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Border Aesthetics and Cultural Distancing in the Norwegian-Russian Borderscape

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ID3948639
AuthorsJohan Schimanski (0000-0002-1849-2600, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume20
Issue1
Pages35-55
Publication date2015-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2014.884562
OpenAlexW2072664768
LanguageEN
Citations received30

The borderscape is a flexible entity that goes beyond the space of the border and the borderland. This article argues that art and literature can be constitutive elements in the borderscape, along with other kinds of bordering and demarcation. Art and literature can help create resistance through performative acts of “borderscaping”, taking place in different locations and involving different perspectives. The article uses the aesthetic categories of the sublime, the postmodern, and the defamiliarised to trace forms of “distance” or “distancing” as they appear in conceptualisations of the borderscape. Artistic practices in the Norwegian-Russian borderscape are examined in an evaluation of their geopolitical significance, with particular attention given to descriptions of the Norwegian-Russian border in novels by John Fowles and Kjartan Fløgstad

Aesthetics · Art · Distancing · Geopolitics · Linguistics · Literature · Norwegian · Performative utterance · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Sociology · Sublime · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy

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