Coastal communities = intercultural regions (norway & shetland) [silke reeploeg]
•
1 like•298 views
Recommended
More Related Content
Similar to Coastal communities = intercultural regions (norway & shetland) [silke reeploeg]
Similar to Coastal communities = intercultural regions (norway & shetland) [silke reeploeg] (20)
More from University of the Highlands and Islands
More from University of the Highlands and Islands (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Coastal communities = intercultural regions (norway & shetland) [silke reeploeg]
- 1. www.nordic.uhi.ac.uk The Centre for Nordic StudiesThe Centre for Nordic Studies Silke Reeploeg Staff Researcher and Phd Candidate www.uhi.ac.uk/research http://uhi.academia.edu/SilkeReeploeg https://communities.uhi.ac.uk/sh01sr/weblog/ silke.reeploeg@shetland.uhi.ac.uk
- 2. Coastal communities = intercultural regions? Shetland & Norway Coastal communities = intercultural regions? Shetland & Norway
- 3. Where is Shetland?Where is Shetland?
- 5. Where is Shetland?Where is Shetland?
- 6. Cultural identity Being in Shetland is unlike being anywhere else,Being in Shetland is unlike being anywhere else, a fact that’s evident from our unique culture, oura fact that’s evident from our unique culture, our dialect, our heritage, even our place names.dialect, our heritage, even our place names. www.visitshetland.orgwww.visitshetland.org
- 7. Flows of people, objects & narratives
- 8. Da sie’s da wy da wirld kum’s ta wis. The sea’s the way the world comes to us. (Jamieson, 2007:74)
Editor's Notes
- Introduction I am a Staff Researcher and Phd Candidate with the newly established UHI Centre for Nordic Studies, based in Scalloway, Shetland. My Phd project argues that the North Atlantic acts as an 'intercultural region‘ - using the continuing cultural links between Shetland and Norway as a case study. The research looks at post-Viking age intercultural links between Shetland and Norway - particularly in the 18th and 19th century, which saw the development of new geopolitical borders based on nation-states, and associated administrative regionalisation of Northern Europe in terms of centres and peripheries. The historical and cultural links between the Shetland Islands and Norwegian coastal communities are effectively explored as a case study, to demonstrate the continuity of cultural history between coastal communities that seem separated by boundaries (national, linguistic, geographical). The main focus of my research is to trace the impact of these changing perspectives via historical and cultural texts, but also to present evidence that the North Atlantic nevertheless continues to act as a cultural space, an 'intercultural region‘. So, what am I studying and where?
- Cultural links based on: Geography, history and cultural memory - common Nordic heritage narratives >> cultural identity.
- Cultural links: people, objects, narratives