期刊名称：Barents Studies: Peoples, Economies and Politics
电子版ISSN：2324-0652
出版年度：2015
卷号：2
期号：1
出版社：University of Lapland
摘要：This has been a good autumn for Barents Studies. The Barents Encyclopedia, a project which many of us know from years back, is now complete and has led to the recent publication of The Barents Region: A transnational history of subarctic Northern Europe. The book covers 1200 years of history in the region from different perspectives: state formation and borders, social history, economic systems and industrialization, region- alism, and globalisation. This history started with small local communities and hunting groups connected to networks of farmers and traders. The local networks still func- tion today, but "now within the framework of global market and the unforeseen risks of remote powers that depopulate the countryside, environmental problems that defy management on either the local or national level, a mass media society that has moved from hegemony to autonomism, migrations and ethnic inter-marriages that threat mi- nority cultures and languages,…" (Elenius 2015, 471).
