Rethinking the Creation of North Norway as a Region

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ID9373376
AutoresKetil Zachariassen (Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen25
Número2
Páginas113-137
Fecha de publicación2008-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaActa Borealia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0800-3831 • E-ISSN: 1503-111X
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08003830802496679
OpenAlexW2076762091
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas12

The subject of this article is the creation of North Norway from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Some initial remarks about the relationship between nations and regions are followed by a number of interpretations of recent national and nationalism debates. The former synthesis of the creation of North Norway as a region is analysed, using approaches that on the one hand could be described as an actor stage theory, and on the other as structurally modernistic. As an alternative, a new theoretical approach inspired by cultural hegemonic theories is presented. This cultural hegemonic approach uses the works of Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) as a point of departure and is related to the concepts he developed, such as “hegemony”, “counter-hegemony”, “historic bloc”, “civil society” and “organic intellectuals”. A new synthesis of the historical regional formation process, based on a cultural hegemonic approach, is then presented, showing that North Norway as a region is the result of a long-lasting, contradictory and continuous process. Six periods are identified in the creation of the region: the period from the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century up to the second decade of the twentieth century emerges as a time-frame for a counter-hegemonic nation-building project. Since then, North Norway as a region has developed through hegemonic struggle between different kinds of region- and nation-building projects within and outside the region

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