Sørnes / Soelberg / Browning High North Stories in a Time of Transition

Creativity, Loss, Work and Play
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-80487-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

High North Stories in a Time of Transition collects multiple perspectives on the lives of people who live in the High North of Norway in a time when the petroleum boom is no longer the dominant cultural feature of the region. Utilising constructivist grounded theory, the volume comprises narrative accounts of ethnographies field work conducted by both local and international anthropologists who spent time with individuals or families in the High North. This book will be of interest to scholars of cultural anthropology, the Arctic, Scandinavian studies, leisure and tourism studies, and narrative theorists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sørnes, Jan-Oddvar

Soelberg, Frode

Browning, Larry

Fjelldal-Soelberg, Frode

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Jan-Oddvar Sørnes, Larry Browning and Frode Fjelldal-Soelberg)

Part 1: Creativity

2. Bringing Hip-hop to the High North (Erik Holland)

3. Producing Art in Norway (Kristyn Goldberg)

4. A Homeboy in the High North (Eric Waters)

5. Whiskey, Work, Relationships and Investments (Jared Kopczynski)

6. There's no Such Thing as Bad Weather, Only Bad Clothing (Erin O'Connor)

Part 2: Loss

7. The Palest Foreigner (Anna Medica)

8. Climate and Controversy (Grace Cicatello)

9. It Takes a Village (MacKenzie Greenwell)

Part 3: Work

10. Strategic Planning Meetings in Norway (Katherine Peters)

11. Parademic Response (Melissa Dalton)

12. Cohabitation and Disclosure (Lingzi Zhong)

13. TBC (Rebecca Rice)

14. TBC (Sarah Chorley)

15. TBC

16. TBC

Part 4: Play

17. A Time to Work and a Time to Play (LaRae Tronstad)

18. Come Stay on My Couch (Robert Carroll)

19. Temporary Vacation Communities (Brad Haggadone)

20. Protecting Personal Time from Work (Ashley Barrett and Stephanie Dailey)

21. If it is has a Happy Ending, it's not Norwegian (Julie Escurignan)

22. Conclusion (Madeline Maxwell)

Über Autor(innen)

Jan-Oddvar Sørnes Associate Professor of Organizational Communication at Nord University Business School, Norway.

Larry D. Browning is Professor of Organizational Communication at the University of Texas and Adjunct Professor of Management at Nord University Business School, Norway.

Frode Fjelldal-Soelberg is Vice-Dean at the Nord University Business School, Norway.