Culture, Development and Petroleum

Jan-Oddvar Sørnes is Associate Professor of Organizational Communication at the University of Nordland, Norway.Larry D. Browning is Professor of Organizational Communication at the University of Texas and Adjunct Professor of Management at the University of Nordland, Norway.Jan Terje Henriksen is Managing Director for Research and Patient Safety at Nordland Hospital Trust and Adjunct Professor at the University of Nordland, Norway.

• Prologue: People in the High North, Arne O Holm 1. Introduction Jan-Oddvar Sørnes, Larry D. Browning, and Jan Terje Henriksen Part 1: Passion before cash 2. A Daredevil's Passion: An Entrepreneur Shares His Secrets Ragnhild Johnson 3. The Daughter Takes a Farm: Organic Farming in the Arctic Tom McVey 4. Reindeers and Teepees: Restoring Young Minds through the Power of Nature Jacob Ford 5. First Came Love, Then Came Chocolate: Pioneering a New Vaeroy Tradition Leah Lefebvre Part 2: Pushing for change in a foreign business culture 6. A Captain and His Way through the Ice – A History of the Northern Sea Route Nadezhda Nazarova 7. One Ocean: Sharing the Sea in Newfoundland and Labrador Keri Stephens and Stephanie Dailey Part 3: Risking it 8. A Local Fire Hero: The Tension between Community Acceptance and Risk-Taking Joe Brentlinger 9. Keeping Law and Order in the Norwegian Oil-and-Gas Industry: The Challenges of Safety Regulation Anu Nadina Sandlin Part 4: Fighting for what you believe in 10. Renegade Hero for the Environment or King of Bellona?: Just Who Is Frederic Hauge? Elizabeth S. Goins 11. Easy Money: The Opportunism of a Bootstrapped Entrepreneur Frode Fjelldal-Soelberg 12. The Whistle-Blower Joseph McGlynn III 13. LO-VE Is Complicated — Steinar´s Uneasy Co-existence of Tourism and Petroleum in the Lofoten-Vesterålen Archipelago Ashley Barrett and Hin Hoarau-Heemstra 14. The Progress Party in the Summer of Horror Matthew B. Morris Part 5: The dark side of Norway 15. Norwegian vs. U.S. Prisons: A Sister’s Reflections Brittany Peterson 16. The Norwegian Workplace Hustle: A Crisis of Shifting National Identity Ashley Barrett and Dawna Ballard 17. It is Hard to be Suave When You Fish for Cod: Belonging, Identity, and the Future in Norway Nick Merola 18. Norway under Attack Melissa Murphy and Maegan Stephens 19. Doubly Disadvantaged: Ethnic and Gender Bias in Norway’s Engineering Sector Matt McGlone Part 6: Mayors by surprise 20. The Indian Bride Who Became the Deputy Mayor of Røst Preeti Mudliar 21. First Female Mayor Strikes Largest Oil Deal for Dying Hammerfest Caroline Sinclair 22. The Petroleum Renaissance in Alstahaug Municipality Krister Salamonsen Epilogue: Characters Solve the Complication: Writing about Culture Madeline Maxwell.