Welcome to The Multidiciplinary Research School – CEPIN

CEPIN - a research school for studying globalisation- and modernisation processes in the north.

The three research themes/fields:

CITIZENSHIP: The questions and challenges of citizenship in an era of increasing mobilisation and multiculturalism. The rights and duties of citizenship have traditionally been tightly connected to well-defined nationality/ethnicity and nation-state borders. This has become problematic and is an important issue in the northern regions.

ENCOUNTERS: The increasing mixing and meeting – encounters - of people, artefacts, symbols, organisations and institutions from various cultural, national, ethnic and linguistic background. Our northern regions have experienced various kinds of encounters in the past, so our research agenda will include historical perspectives.

PLACE ENACTMENT: A typical trend within contemporary globalisation processes is an effort in many sites around the globe to appear unique, as especially attractive places with a striking and highly interesting identity. This phenomenon we call place enactment. It is particularly visible in tourism as efforts to promote and sell places and adventure. But it is also observable within more general public discourses on the identity and characteristics of places and is deeply connected to questions of who we are and what we will become.

Project organization: CEPIN research school will be led by the following steering committee:

• Associate Professor dr.polit. Anne Britt Flemmen,
• Professor dr. philos. Willy Guneriussen,
• Associate professor dr. polit. Hans-Kristian Hernes,
• Research Leader dr.polit. Ann Therese Lotherington,
• Professor dr.philos. Einar Niemi,
• Associate Professor dr.polit. Gry Paulgaard,
• Professor dr.philos. Nils Aarsæther,
• Research fellow Ketil Zachariassen.

Head of research: Professor dr. philos. Willy Guneriussen