Arvid Viken

Kapitler i bøker og artikler i tidskrifter:

• Viken, A. (2007): Indigenous tourism and the challenge of ecotourism. Procedings. The 2nd  World Conference of the International Ecotourism Society, TIES, Oslo May 12-14, 2007.
  
  
• Viken, A. (2007): The Svalbard transit scene. In J.O. Baerenholdt and B. Granås (Eds.) Mobile places. London: Ashgate, forthcoming.
  
  
• Suopajärvi, L. and Viken, A. (2007): Politizised places. In T. Nyseth and B. Granås (Eds.) Reinvention of place. Report. Stockholm: Nordregio.
  
  
• Viken, A. (2007): Kirkenes: the ‘bordered’ reinvention of an industrial town. In T. Nyseth and B. Granås (Eds.) Reinvention of place. Report. Stockholm: Nordregio.
  
  
• Viken, A. and Petterson, R. (2007): Sami Perspectives on Indigenous Tourism in Northern Europe: Commerce or Cultural Development? In T. Hinch and R. Butler (Eds) Indigenous tourism. London: Thompson.
  
  
• Viken, A. (2007): Heritagisation of the northern rim. Traveling into the past of Svalbard. Insula, 15(2): 23-38.
  
  
• Viken, A. (2006): Heritage tourism and revitalisation of barony life in Norway. In M. Smith and M. Robinson (eds) Global Cultural Tourism, London: Channel View.
  
  
• Viken, A. (2006): Sámi Tourism and Sami identity – an anlysis of the tourism-identity nexus in a Sami community. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 6(1): 7-24.
  
  
• Viken, A. and Müller, D. (2006): Introduction: Tourism and the Sámi. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 6(1): 1-6.
  
  
• Viken, A. (2006): Ecotourism in Norway: non-existence or co-existence? In S. Gössling (ed.) Ecotourism in Scandinavia. London: CAB International.
  
  
• Viken, A. (2006): Svalbard. In G. Baldachino (ed.) Extreme Tourism. Lessons from the World’s Cold water Island.  New York: Elsevier Science.
  
  
• Viken, A. (2003): Tourist environmental concern: attitudes, identity or good behaviour. In K. Pedersen, and A. Viken (eds) Nature and identity. Essays on the culture of nature. Kristiansand: Høgskoleforlaget.
  
  
• Viken, A. (2002): Reisen – fra Homo Logos til Homo Ludens. In Trond Thuen (ed.): Sted og tilhørighet. Kristiansand: Høyskoleforlaget.
  
  
• Viken, A. (2002): Tradisjoner i transformasjon. Turisme i Sameland. Utmak, nr 1, Internettidsskrift.
  
  
• Viken, A. (2002): Turismen i støpeskjeen på Svalbard. Plan, nr. 1.
  
  
• Viken, A. (2001): Fra gruvebus til turistbuss. In Thor Bjørn Arlov (ed.): Fra company town til folkestyre. Longyearbyen: Svalbard Samfunndrift.
  
  
• Viken, A. (2000): Turisme som essensialisering av kultur. Tilfellet Sameland. In Stein Roar Mathiesen (ed.): Materialisering av kultur. Kristiansand: Høgskolebokforlaget. 
  
  
• Viken, A. (1998): Miljødiskurs på Svalbard som akademisk hegemoni. Sosiologi i dag, 2: 83–109.
  
  
• Viken, A. (1998): Turisme og urbanisering på Nordkalotten. In Faravid. Rovaniemi: Pohjis-Suomen Historiallinen Yhdistys.
  
  
• Viken, A. (1998): Tourism regulation - cultural norms or legislation? Outdoor life and tourism regulation in Finnmark and on Svalbard. In  Linking tourism and conservation in the Arctic. Proceedings from workshops. Meddelelse no 159. Longyearbyen: Norsk Polarinstitutt.
  
  
• Viken, A. and Jørgensen, F. (1998): Tourism on Svalbard. Polar Records, 34 (189): 123–128.
  
  
• Viken, A. (1997): Turismens visualitet og estetisering av Sameland. In Sosiologi i dag, nr. 1: 49–71.
  
  
• Johnston, M. and Viken, A. (1997): Tourism on Greenland. Annals of Tourism Research, Vol 23.
  
  
• Kalstad, J-K. and Viken, A. (1996): Sami tourism: Traditional knowledge challenged by modernity. Diedut.
  
  
• Pedersen, K. and Viken, A. (1996): From Sami nomadism to global tourism. In M. Price (ed.): Tourism and people in fragile environments, Chichester: John Wiley.
  
  
• Viken, A., Vostryakov, L. and Davidov, A. (1995): Tourism in Northwest Russia. In C.M. Hall og M. Johnston (eds): Polar tourism, Chichester: John Wiley.
  
  
• Viken, A. (1995): The Arctic tourist experience - the Svalbard Case. In C.M. Hall og M. Johnston (eds): Polar tourism, Chichester: John Wiley.

Current projects:

Nr. 1:

The construction and negotiation of borders.
Discourses related to the border between Norway and Russia.
(A research project funded by Norwegian Research Council)

Goal:
The goal for this project is to developop knowledge on how border discourses are inscribed in social and political practices, identities and perceptions of the neighbour country in the Norwegian-Russian borderlands.

Sub-goals:

• To produce knowledge about the Norwegian-Russian border relevant for the development of the areas facing this border, the Barents Region and High North politcs.
• To further develop the competence about border and High North issues in north, and at Finnmark University College in particular
• To develop a research based platform for collaboration between northern instituttions coping with issues related to the Norwegian-Russian border and the Barents Region.

Project summary:
This project will focus on discourses and practices related to the Norwegian-Russian border in the borderlands. The border represents barriers and opportunities. More than 50 0000 people cross the border every year. The research question is how different discourses and perceptions concerning the Russian-Norwegian border and borderlands are created and inscribed in people?s private and professional lives, and in institutions and policies on different arenas. The arenas chosen are the political-administrative, police, cultural exchange, education and leisure tourism. The study will be undertaken on the basis of the academic discourse known as border studies. The political-administrative arena will be studied through a discourse analysis of documents and interviews with people that have significant contact across the borders. Another frontier aspect has to do with the way the border is under surveillance and control, functions that employ lots of people. In this project focus will be on perceptions, knowledge and attitudes in police staff on both sides concerning border control problems and collaboration. Another set of issues relate to the borderlands as a sphere for cross-cultural communication and interaction. One perspective is to look at borderlands as an arena for exchange of arts and folklore, and how these contacts give rise to public and individual border narratives, often modified and spread through media exposures. Cultural exchange also includes tourism; how tourists perceive the Norwegian-Russian border as such and the borderlands, and how the presentations from the tourism industry, hosts and guides, influence the perceptions of this particular border and the adjacent countries. As the boundary also is a border between languages, this project will focus on the significance of language skills for perceptions of border and border practice, and student exchange as a way into international careers.

Project period:
January 2008 to December 2011

Staff:
Project leader: Arvid Viken, Finnmark University College
Participants: Marit Bjerkeng, Finnmark University College, Helena Karma, Barents Institute and University of Helsinki, Kjell Olsen, Finnmark University College, Sonni Olsen, Finnmark University College, Stein R. Mathisen, Finnmark University College, Jessica Michelle Shadian, Barents Institute,
Urban Wråkberg, Barents Institute.

Nr. 2:

Polar tourism

A book:
Perspectives on tourism: Lessons from across Northern Canada and Northern Scandinavia

Editors: Arvid Viken and Patrick Maher.

A book in polar tourism is under production. This is a book  that particularly focus on tourism in northern areas of Scandinavia and Canada. Among the topics are the history of tourism in the north, the nature of today’s northern tourism, and northern travelling patterns including a chapter on cruise tourism. One section of the book is devoted to imigeries of the north as tourist destinations, another related to sustainability and governance aspects.

The book will be published in 2008.

A special issue: Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

Editor: Arvid Viken, puiblished 2008.

Articles - forthcoming:
The Svalbard Transit Scene. In Bærenholdt J.O. and B. Granås (Eds): Places of mobility (Ashgate).
 

Nr. 3:

Indigenous tourism:

Different minor projects and articles under production concerning the relationship between tourism and identity, ethnicity and indigenous peoples, and the Sami in special.