Placing the North

Oliver, Jeffry Monson; Curtis, Neil

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“…A mythical Hyperborean land located beyond the north wind (Boreus/Boreas), as first described in Homeric hymns and classical geographical accounts, had characteristics which are found in (early) modern perceptions of the North: a rich utopian land of light and marvels on the one hand, and a dark barbarian world of death and evil on the other (Davidson 2005, 21–7). The North has been conceived in ambiguous and conflicting terms for centuries and millennia—a place of extremes and the exotic, a blend of realities and fantasies (see further Andersson Burnett 2010; Davidson 2005; Naum 2016; Oliver & Curtis 2015). The fact that northern Fennoscandia was effectively a terra incognita in the early modern European world enabled representing it in mutually different and conflicting ways.…”

Section: Juxtaposing Classical and Northern Worldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alternative Pasts and Colonial Engagements in the North: The Materiality and Meanings of the Pajala ‘Runestone’ (Vinsavaara Stone), Northern Sweden

Herva

Ikäheimo

Enbuske

et al. 2018

CAJ

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The unknown and exotic North fascinated European minds in the early modern period. A land of natural and supernatural wonders, and of the indigenous Sámi people, the northern margins of Europe stirred up imagination and a plethora of cultural fantasies, which also affected early antiquarian research and the period understanding of the past. This article employs an alleged runestone discovered in northernmost Sweden in the seventeenth century to explore how ancient times and northern margins of the continent were understood in early modern Europe. We examine how the peculiar monument of the Vinsavaara stone was perceived and signified in relation to its materiality, landscape setting, and the cultural-cosmological context of the Renaissance–Baroque world. On a more general level, we use the Vinsavaara stone to assess the nature and character of early modern antiquarianism in relation to the period's nationalism, colonialism and classicism.

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Section: Juxtaposing Classical and Northern Worldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alternative Pasts and Colonial Engagements in the North: The Materiality and Meanings of the Pajala ‘Runestone’ (Vinsavaara Stone), Northern Sweden

Herva

Ikäheimo

Enbuske

et al. 2018

CAJ

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Tenancy, finance, and access to commercial goods: Interpreting impoverished assemblages in Skagafjörður, Iceland, CE 1300–1900

Bolender

Johnson

Bello

2020

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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A Comparison of Stephen Harper’s and Justin Trudeau’s Arctic Narratives: Toward a New Geography of the Canadian North

Cros

2024

International Journal of Canadian Studies

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This article intends to compare the political narratives on the Canadian Artic produced by the governments of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2006–2015) and Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (2015–2023), with a specific focus on the identity dimension of these two sets of political narratives. Harper’s Arctic narrative, served by a unique personal commitment of the PM, promoted a radical shift from the historic Canada centred on the Laurentian region to a new Arctic Canada and in so doing, created a new political geography of Canada. In Justin Trudeau’s Arctic narrative, priority was given to reconciliation through the development of state-to-state relations with Indigenous communities. Embodied by the person of Governor General Mary Simon and concretized by the cooperative approach of Trudeau’s Arctic and Northern Framework, this new agentivity of Northern Indigenous peoples has ushered in a new decolonial geography of the Arctic. Unexpectedly, these successive official narratives of Arctic Canada have proven complementary in striving to move the center of gravity of the country north, thus creating new perspectives on Canadian identity and political geography.

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Placing the North

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

Alternative Pasts and Colonial Engagements in the North: The Materiality and Meanings of the Pajala ‘Runestone’ (Vinsavaara Stone), Northern Sweden

Alternative Pasts and Colonial Engagements in the North: The Materiality and Meanings of the Pajala ‘Runestone’ (Vinsavaara Stone), Northern Sweden

Tenancy, finance, and access to commercial goods: Interpreting impoverished assemblages in Skagafjörður, Iceland, CE 1300–1900

A Comparison of Stephen Harper’s and Justin Trudeau’s Arctic Narratives: Toward a New Geography of the Canadian North

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