Following the plot of Bengt Pohjanen's Meänmaa

Narrativization as a Process of Creating Regional Identity

Bibliographic Data

ID3977613
AuthorsEeva-Kaisa Prokkola (0000-0003-3237-6953, University of Oulu), Juha Ridanpää (0000-0002-7028-1843, University of Oulu)
Year2011
Volume12
Issue7
Pages775-791
Publication date2011-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2011.615666
OpenAlexW2074237272
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited36

This paper discusses the artistic and cultural work of one minority author and regional activist, Bengt Pohjanen, and how it constitutes a means for mediating regional identity narratives, constructing Meänmaa, the region straddling the border between Sweden and Finland in the Tornio River Valley. We will approach narrativization as a creative social action, focusing on the performative, social and political aspects of regional stories, and by this means impugning the division between territorial, bounded, and networked, unbounded, conceptualizations of regions. We will follow the narrative plot of Bengt Pohjanen's Meänmaa, pointing out how an artistic and cultural region becomes part of our social reality and how regional consciousness and identity become established and constantly renegotiated within and across national borders

Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · Performative utterance · Plot (graphics · Political consciousness · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Social Science and Policy Research

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