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Come to Finland
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Visual Representations of the Arctic
Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North. Original contributions include case studies from all the countries along the Arctic shore, with Russian material occupying a large section due to the country’s impact on the region
Industry, War and Stalin's Battle for Resources
In this book the territory of Pechenga, located well above the Arctic circle between Russia, Finland and Norway, holds the key to understanding the geopolitical situation of the Arctic today. With specific focus on the local nickel industry of the region, Lars Rowe explores the interaction between commercial and state security concerns in the Soviet Union. Through the lens of this local industry a larger historical context is unravelled – the nature of Soviet-Finnish relations after the Russian Revolution, Soviet international relations strategies during the Second World War and the nature of the Stalinist economy in the early post-war years. By presenting this environmentally focused history of a small corner of the Arctic, Rowe offers the historical context needed to understand the current geopolitical climate of the Polar North.
Come to Finland
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Cap sur la Finlande
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Hiidenkivi
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Die Ostsee. Raum – Kultur – Geschichte
Seit Hunderten von Jahren ist die Ostsee das pulsierende Herz Nordeuropas, Nahrungsquelle und Urlaubsregion, Ort des Austauschs von Waren und Ideen, Schauplatz von Völkerwanderungen und von verheerenden Kriegen. Skandinavier, Polen, Balten, Russen und Deutsche treffen hier aufeinander und machen die Ostsee zu einem multikulturellen Begegnungsraum. Martin Krieger, Nordeuropahistoriker in Kiel, schildert diesen Kulturraum von der frühen Besiedelung bis heute, wobei er sich in den einzelnen Epochenkapiteln jeweils bestimmten sachlichen Schwerpunkten zuwendet: dem Heringsfang und dem Getreidehandel, der Christianisierung und der Ostkolonisation, der romantischen Malerei und dem Entstehen eines Nationalbewusstseins, der Landwirtschaft und der Holzindustrie, aktuellen Umweltproblemen und dem Tourismus.Eine souveräne und umfassende Darstellung mit zahlreichen farbigen Fotografien, Karten und historischen Abbildungen.
Books from Finland
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An Ethnic At Large
This work begins with a boy named Geraldo growing up Sicilian in Rochester, New York, and ends with the author breakfasting with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. It is a portrait of what it was like to come of age in the 1930s and 1940s.
