Place reinvention : northern perspectives/ Edited by Torill Nyseth and Arvid Viken

Contents: Preface; Place reinvention at the Northern rim, Torill Nyseth; The industrial imperative and 2nd(hand) modernity, Karl Benediktsson; Place reinvention by real changed image: the case of Kiruna's spectacular makeover, Kristina L. Nilsson; Kirkenes - a town for miners and ministers, Arvid Viken and Torill Nyseth; Gendered places: cultural economy and gender in processes of place reinvention, Magnfridur Juliusdottir and Yvonne Gunnarsdotter; Creating 'the land of the big fish': a study of rural tourism innovation, Anniken Forde; Constructing the unique - communicating the extreme: dynamics of place marketing, Brynhild Granas; City marketing: the role of the citizens, Krister Olsson and Elin Berglund; Cool and crazy: place reinvention through filmmaking, Gry Paulgaard; Reinventing a place through the origin myth, Turid Moldenaes; Globalized reinvention of indigenuity: the Riddu Riddu festival as a tool for ethnic negotiation of place, Paul Pedersen and Arvid Viken; Reinventing rurality in the North, Mai Camilla Munkejord; The narrative construction of materiality, Arvid Viken and Torill Nyseth; Index.

Directs attention towards the relationship between symbolic, imaginative change and intended regeneration or place development. This book reinvents places by the interplay of industries, citizens and authorities, by projects of construction, promotion and consumption, and by processes related to information, identity and imagery.