Strange encounters in place stories

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ID3978196
AutoresIngrid Marie Kielland (0000-0001-8855-0995, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume18
Fascículo1
Páginas78-91
Data de publicação2017-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2016.1176242
OpenAlexW2339993092
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas21

This paper will explore place stories as a site of encounter between different constructions of place, indigeneity and strangers. The paper shows how place stories used by local actors debating a would-be Olympic bid from the Northern Norwegian town Tromsø/Romsa were premised on different versions of ‘us’, ‘they’ and ‘the strangers’. While indigenous Sami pasts and presents of the town were drawn upon in the branding of the bid, there is an inherent ambiguity in many actors’ stories about Tromsø/Romsa, which contributes to an ambivalent sense as to what it means to be Sami, and to whether Tromsø is a Sami town. The paper examines four different stories about Tromsø/Romsa from which different versions of ‘strangers’ emerge, and discusses the use of place stories and stranger stories as discursive resources for actors arguing both for and against a particular political outcome

Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Ambivalence · Art · Indigenous · Linguistics · Norwegian · Place making · Political science · Politics · Sense of place · Social science · Sociology · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology