[ecrea] New themes from Culture Unbound: ‘Writing at Borders’ & ‘Concurrences'

New thematic sections from Culture Unbound: ‘Writing at Borders’ and 
‘Concurrences: Culture Bound and Unbound’



http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html



Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research is proud to 
present two new thematic sections that give various perspectives on 
concepts such as borders, mobility, narrativity and power.  ‘Writing at 
Borders’ is edited by Tuulikki Kurki, Saija Kaskinen, Kirsi Laurén & 
Mari Ristolainen and focuses on the borders between Finland, 
Soviet/Russia and the Baltic states to discuss how geographical, social, 
and cultural borders have been reconceptualized from a territorially 
placed boundary, to a semantically constructed, ritualized and performed 
symbolic border, and finally to a discursive (textual) construction. 
‘Concurrences’, edited by Diana Brydon, Peter Forsgren and Gunlög Fur, 
engages with the postcolonial efforts to recover the voice and agency of 
the subaltern and challenge monolithic imperial representations. These 
articles investigate various cultural archives – formal and informal, 
traditional and digital, fiction and documentary text – in order to map 
multiple and concurring claims of reality, experience and meaning in 
time and place.

Featured articles are:

Writing at Borders

Tuulikki Kurki
Borders from the Cultural Point of View: An Introduction to Writing at 
Borders

Tiiu Jaago
Discontinuity and Continuity in Representations of 20th Century Estonian 
History

Tuulikki Kurki
Non-Russian Language Space and Border in Russian Karelian Literature

Kirsi Laurén
Facing the Otherness. Crossing the Finnish-Soviet Estonian Border as 
Narrated by
Finnish Tourists

Kirsti Salmi-Niklander
Adventurers, Flâneurs, and Agitators: Travel Stories as Means for 
Marking and
Transgressing Boundaries in 19th and Early 20th Century Finland

Thekla Musäus
Rattling Sabres and Evil Intruders: The Border, Heroes and 
Border-crossers in
Panfennist and Soviet Socialist Realist Literature

Saija Kaskinen
If the Borders Could Tell: The Hybrid Identity of the Border in the 
Karelian
Borderland

Mari Ristolainen
Displaced Borders: The Written Traumatic Borderline Between Pskov Province
and Chechnya

Tarja Tanttu
Encounters Along Micro-Level Borders: Silence and Metacommunicative
Talk in Service Encounter Conversations Between Finnish Employment
Officials and Immigrants

Concurrences: Culture Bound and Unbound
Diana Brydon, Peter Forsgren & Gunlög Fur
Culture Bound and Unbound: Concurrent Voices and Claims in Postcolonial 
Places

Fedja Borcak
Re-rigging Othering Subversive Infantilisation in Contemporary Bosnian-
Herzegovinian Prose

Linda Andersson Burnett
An Eighteenth-Century Ecology of Knowledge: Patronage and Natural History

Mikela Lundahl
Friction or Closure: Heritage as loss

Piia K. Posti
Concurrences in Contemporary Travel Writing: Postcolonial Critique and 
Colonial Sentiments in Sven Lindqvist’s Exterminate all the Brutes and 
Terra Nullius

Melanie Klein
Creating the Authentic? Art Teaching in South Africa as Transcultural 
Phenomenon

Hans Hägerdal
The Fictitious World Traveller: The Swede on Timor and the Noble Savage 
Imager



You can access all articles for free at: 
http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html



Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural research is an open access 
e-journal that seeks to be a forum for contemporary, cutting edge 
cultural research from a wide range of disciplinary and 
interdisciplinary areas. We also welcome new article manuscripts in all 
areas of cultural research, as well as proposals for future theme sections.



Martin Fredriksson

Executive Editor

Culture Unbound

(Martin.fredriksson /at/ liu.se)





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