Mediating the North in a Transnational Context. Vernacular and Cosmopolitan Places in Nordic Noir

Louise Nilsson's project within the research program Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures addresses the values of places depicted in literature. Seeing that the contemporary genre of Nordic crime fiction is a globally dispersed literary genre that interacts with other media forms, for example in film-making based on novels, she investigates how the depiction of local and global place creates an imaginary which is in turn bound up with a broader notion of the European north as an ostensible “elsewhere”. The conceptualisation of the production of space (Lefebvre), the global imaginary and mediascapes (Appadurai) inform the theoretical basis of her study.