Full of Character
A passive character lacks this.
What is agency?
This late 19th century trend in newspaper publishing held that sensationalism "sells."
What is "Yellow Journalism"?
Lapponia is an example of this kind of “mixed-site.”
What is a UNESCO World Heritage site?
This heroine in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale demonstrates that salvation comes through love, not reason.
Who is Gerda?
The process by which things not typically bought and sold are imagined as such.
What is commodification?
When a “flat” character makes another character look good, he is referred to as this.
What is a foil?
The Spitsbergen Treaty in 1920 granted this country governance over Svalbard?
What is Norway?
This is seeking to have claims addressed among various international councils, NGOs, and treaty organizations.
What is “forum shopping”?
The “fortunate fall” and “progress through regress” are popular themes for this literary movement.
What is Romanticism?
This is the process of making something seem exotic.
What is otherization?
Some characters are “natural,” while others are presented as an artful “type.”
What is stylization? (a stylized character)
This is the subject of Give me my father’s body.
Who is Minik (Wallace)? (Mene)
This is the legitimization of continued presence in international territory, such as by conducting commercial or research activities.
What is “effective occupation”?
This explorer addressed the South Pole as a Sleeping Beauty waiting for his kiss.
Who is Roald Amundsen?
This is the "imagined community" created by a print media.
What is a reading public?
This ungodly woman didn’t fare as well as Gudrid in the sagas.
Who was Freydis?
This agreement defines indigenous rights to own and use traditional land, and must be ratified by country.
What is ILO Convention no. 169?
This 1982 law regulates sovereignty in the seas including in the Arctic, and grants special rights to the "Arctic 5."
What is UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of the Seas)?
A transcendent ecstasy in the face of something great, either by physical, moral, intellectual or artistic standards.
What is the sublime?
When images and information reappear in different contexts, reducing them to basic symbols.
What is re-mediation?
In antiquity, these fictional northerners were thought to be happy, lived in woods and caves, never fought, and threw themselves off a cliff when tired of living.
Who were “Hyberboreans”?
This is the author of "An Artistic Expedition to the North Pole."
Who is Julius von Payer?
This scientist advocated for environmental protections and wrote Svalbard’s Flora.
Who is Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen (Resvoll-Dieset)?
The answer to the puzzle Kai seeks to solve, and the kind of “big idea” contemplated by Coleridge.
What is "eternity"?
In social movements, an “absolutist” may emphasize this over education, whereas the opposite may be true for a “moderate”?
What is legislation?