Nordlit  

Stephen Wolfe

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Debra Ann Castillo

This paper studies Rivera's 12-year-old spoof outsourcing website, with particular attention to the 4.5 minute 1997 video that served as its original point of departure (he is now best know for his 2008 feature film, "Sleep Dealer.").   Rivera’s work... see more

Ulrike Meinhof

My paper introduces geo-political and symbolic dynamics of 21st century Europe through three conceptual prisms: those of borders or border communities, networks, and neighbourhoods. Each of these can be seen as both descriptive lenses for capturing specif... see more

Marc Schoonderbeek, Klaske Havik

It is in marginal urban areas, borders of states, territories and cities, that marginal urban practices tend to take place. Limits of “normal” behaviour are transgressed and social and political differences become apparent. Such sites, where “other” spati... see more

Anne Heith

The article analyses deconstructions of the European construct from the vantage point of how skin colour, physical appearance and religion have been used for drawing boundaries between white, Christian Europe and the black, Muslim world. The analysis is b... see more

Urban Wråkberg

 Critical geopolitics is used in analysing discourses on a micro-social level in the performances and enactments taking place during fact-finding tours and leisure journeys in northernmost Europe. The cases of journeys focussed are those of Scandinav... see more

Tuija Saarinen

The focus of this article’s is to study Finnish popular journalism in 1970s and 1980s. A magazine studied in this article is Hymy (Smile), and it has been estimated that in the beginning of 1970s approximately the whole literary population of Finland read... see more

Mari Ristolainen

This article discusses ‘visual bordering processes’ and the aesthetic strategies used in border photographs. The two main objectives are, firstly, to discuss the politics of aesthetic strategies in photographical process of border-building and/or border-u... see more

Johannes Riquet

This paper discusses the role of the border of the island as a complex aesthetic zone in the journals of early European and American navigators in the South Seas (such as George Robertson, James Cook, Benjamin Morrell and Charles Wilkes) and in 1920s/1930... see more

Anka Ryall

Virginia Woolf’s circadian novel Mrs Dalloway (1925) has inspired many successors, some of them important works in their own right. Although few of these novels are as explicitly linked to Mrs Dalloway as Michael Cunningham’s The Hours (1998), more recent... see more

Ruben Moi

This essay discusses the borders and boundaries between the poetry of Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel Laureate from Northern Ireland, and the Troubles of the border-riven society from which it stems.

Liv Lundberg

The language of poetry is a language of inquiry, not the language of a genre. Poetry has the capacity of entering those zones known as borderlands, where you meet strange things and foreign people. In this poetic world view, the border is not an edge alon... see more