Home  About FNI  Research  Publications  Staff  News & events  Contact		FNI PROJECTS Borderland Russians: Identity, Narrative and International Relations This project was about what it means to be a borderland Russian - living in the high north, hailing from the south, with Western neighbours within throwing distance across an increasingly permeable border. The project touched on some of the big questions in contemporary social science: What is identity? How is it narrated by subjects? Can identities help explain events in international relations? But in addition it addressed some of the ‘smaller’ questions in more specialized fields of the social sciences: How does living close to a border affect people? Are borderland people different from other people? Above all, we asked a few empirical questions about identities in a specific geographic location: What does it mean to be Russian? What does it mean to be a northerner? How do people in Russia’s north-western corner define themselves in relation to their Scandinavian neighbours and their southern relatives? Project leader: Geir Hønneland Project period: 2009-2010 Publications: Hønneland, Geir, Borderland Russians: Identity, Narrative and International Relations. Basingstoke/New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 184 p. Hønneland, Geir, 'Russiske norgesbilder' ('Russian Images of Norway'), Nordlys, 20.10.2010. In Norwegian. Hønneland, Geir, 'Den russiske nordlendingen' ('The Russian Northerner'), Nordlys, 03.09.2010. In Norwegian. Top		Related focal points of research:   Polar and Russian politics Project funding:   Fridtjof Nansen Institute Recent relevant FNI News: Borderland Russians Published in Revised Version (29.01.2013) FNI-artikkel om klima og sikkerhet i Arktis nominert til Årets tidsskriftartikkel 2010 ('FNI Article Nominated to the Norwegian Peer Review Article of the Year Prize for 2010'). In Norwegian. (01.06.2011) Borderland Russians (03.09.2010)
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