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Rethinking the Creation of North Norway as a Region

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ID9373376
AuthorsKetil Zachariassen (Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume25
Issue2
Pages113-137
Publication date2008-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueActa Borealia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0800-3831 • E-ISSN: 1503-111X
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08003830802496679
OpenAlexW2076762091
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited12

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

Aesthetics · Cultural hegemony · Hegemony · Modernization theory · Nationalism · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Political Systems and Governance

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Citations per year0,27
Citation span2011 - 2023 (13)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 4
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