Borderology: Cross-disciplinary Insights from the Border Zone: Along the Green Belt

249 Pages·2019·2.86 MB·English

by  Jan Selmer Methi

Springer Geography
Jan Selmer Methi · Andrei Sergeev 
Małgorzata Bieńkowska 
Editors
Basia Nikiforova   
Borderology:
Cross-disciplinary
Insights from the
Border Zone
Along the Green Belt
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Borderology:
Cross-disciplinary Insights
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Along the Green Belt
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Editors
Jan Selmer Methi MałgorzataBieńkowska
Faculty of Education andArts University of Białystok
Nord University Białystok,Poland
Bodø,Nordland Fylke,Norway
BasiaNikiforova
Andrei Sergeev LithuanianCulture Research Institute
Murmansk ArcticState University Vilnius,Lithuania
Murmansk, TheMurmansk Area,Russia
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Preface
This book is a collection of articles related to the ongoing project called
Borderology. The project started in 2009 initiated by The Norwegian Barents
Secretariatandwasdedicatedtobuildupeducationandresearchinordertodevelop
new knowledge based on people-to-people-diplomacy and lived experience in the
border zone between Norway and Russia. Nord university and Murmansk Arctic
State University(MASU)becamepartners inthis project anddecidedtodevelopa
joint master program and arrange Bakhtin-Kant seminars annually on both sides
of the border. The master program, Joint Master in Borderology, enrolled its first
class in 2013. The seminars have resulted in six reports and one anthology,
Philosophy in the border zone (2015). This book also represents the expanding of
borderologythinkingfollowingthelineoftheGreenBeltshowingthecollaborative
projectofaninternationalgroupofauthorswhichcomprises,primarily,researchers
from Nord University (Bodø, Norway) and Murmansk Arctic State University
(Murmansk,Russia),aswellasrepresentativesofSaintPetersburgStateUniversity
(St. Petersburg, Russia), the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute (Vilnius,
Lithuania), Klaipėda University (Klaipėda, Lithuania), and the University of
Białystok (Białystok, Poland). This is mirrored in the editorial board:
Andrei Sergeev is Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, full member of Russian
AcademyofNaturalSciences,rectorofMurmanskArcticStateUniversity.In1984,
he graduated from “History” training program of Petrozavodsk State University
named after O. V. Kuusinen. In 1991–1993, he was enrolled in Ph.D. philosophy
program of Leningrad State University. In 1997, he graduated from Higher
Doctorate training in philosophy of Saint-Petersburg State University, and suc-
cessfully passed a postdoctoral thesis defense on topic “Attitude to culture in the
Russian metaphysical philosophy of XIX–XXcentury”. In1998, he was issued an
academicdegreeDoctorofPhilosophy.In2001,hewasissuedatitleofProfessor.
Spheres of academic interests: metaphysics, philosophy of culture, social
philosophy.
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Jan Selmer Methi is Associate professor in philosophy at Center for Practical
knowledge, Nord university in Bodø, Norway. He completed his Ph.D. in philos-
ophyatÅrhusUniversityinDenmarkin2007.ThetopicofhisPh.D.wasteacher’s
professional identity and self-awareness. His research interests include philosophy
ofscience,sociocultural and activity theory, borderology andpractical knowledge.
Basia Nikforova is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Contemporary
Philosophy in Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. She completed her Ph.D. in
philosophy in Moscow State University in 1977. Her interests of research include
sociology of religion, cultural, and border studies, new materialism.
Małgorzata Bieńkowska is professor in sociology at Institute of Sociology and
Cognitive Science, University of Bialystok, Poland and visiting professor
University of Economy, Bydgoszcz, Poland. She is head of the Department of
Sociology of Multiculturalism in Bialystok. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology
at University of Nicolaus Copernicus in Torun, Poland. Her interests of research
include theory of sociology, multiculturalism, anthropology of borderland, and
gender studies.
Bodø, Norway Jan Selmer Methi
Murmansk, Russia Andrei Sergeev
Białystok, Poland Małgorzata Bieńkowska
Vilnius, Lithuania Basia Nikiforova
Contents
Part I Border Practices in the Green belt
OnUsesof‘WildNature’:EmpoweredVersusDisempoweredAgency
in Kola Reindeer Herding Territories (Murmansk Region,
NW Russia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Yulian Konstantinov
Borderlands of Lithuania and Kaliningrad Region of Russia:
Preconditions for Comparative Geographic Approach and Spatial
Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Eduardas Spiriajevas
Movement to Defend the Białowieża—The Problem of the Białowieża
Forest Protection as an Example of a Values Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Małgorzata Bieńkowska, Łukasz Faszcza and Łukasz Wołyniec
Potential, Problems, and Challenges of Joint International Master
Programmes: Case-Study of the Joint Norwegian-Russian Master
Degree Programme in Borderology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Inna Ryzhkova and Jan Selmer Methi
Part II Challenges of Mental Borders: Challenge for Europe
The Power of Doubt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Boris Sokolov
Nature and Man: Crime and Punishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Nadezhda Golik
Nature as Stoic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Viggo Rossvaer
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What Role Plays Intuition in Mathematics and Science? On the
Borders Between Several Conceptions of What It Means to Intuit. . . . . 93
Johan Arnt Myrstad
Deconstruction of European Environmental Identity in the Mass
Immigration Context Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Basia Nikiforova
Part III Knowledge on the Frontiers; Conceptualization
of Practice (Activity)
Man and Nature: Approaches to the Delimitation of Concepts . . . . . . . 135
Viktor R. Tsylev
Borderology and Practical Knowledge—Humanities Response
to Epigenetics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Jan Selmer Methi
Human Existence Between the Forest (Nature) and Home
(Technology). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Vasilii M. Voronov
Beyond the Green Shift—Ecological Economics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Ove Jakobsen and Vivi M. L. Storsletten
Myth on the Border Between Man and Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Irina Gorina
Part IV Borders in Collision: Search of New Paradigms
Cultural Images of Nature as Paradigms of Human Practices . . . . . . . . 197
Aleksandr Sautkin
Imagination as a Breaker of the Border. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Andrey Vinogradov
Part V New Unity in Science and Humanities: Renewal of Ethics
Translation in a Hermeneutical Context: Transforming Culture
and Human Nature Through Ethics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Andrei Kopylov
The Need for Being Disinterested as a Key Characteristic
of Human Nature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Andrei Sergeev
Index .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 247
Contributors
MałgorzataBieńkowska InstituteofSociologyandCognitiveScience,University
of Białystok, Białystok, Poland
Łukasz Faszcza Institute of Sociology and Cognitive Science, University of
Białystok, Białystok, Poland
Nadezhda Golik St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Irina Gorina St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Ove Jakobsen Nord University, Bodø, Norway
Yulian Konstantinov Bulgarian Society for Regional Cultural Studies, Sofia,
Bulgaria
Andrei Kopylov Murmansk Arctic State University, Murmansk, Russia
Jan Selmer Methi Nord University, Bodø, Norway
Johan Arnt Myrstad Nord University, Bodø, Norway
Basia Nikiforova Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania
Viggo Rossvaer Nord University, Bodø, Norway
Inna Ryzhkova Murmansk Arctic State University, Murmansk, Russia
Aleksandr Sautkin Murmansk Arctic State University, Murmansk, Russia
Andrei Sergeev Murmansk Arctic State University, Murmansk, Russia
Boris Sokolov St. Petersburg State University, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia
Eduardas Spiriajevas Klaipeda University, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Vivi M. L. Storsletten Nord University, Bodø, Norway
Viktor R. Tsylev Murmansk Arctic State University, Murmansk, Russia
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