ABSTRACT
Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives are a common aspect of popular culture. In cultural studies and wider, inter-disciplinary analyses of Northern Culture, such myth-making needs to be interrogated and explored. The chapter presents the special issue to provide a key to theorising about Northernness, and a platform to scholars working away at exposing the North in different aspects of culture. The aims of this special issue are twofold: to re-theorise 'the North' and Northern Culture and to highlight the ways in which constructions of Northernness and Northern Culture are constituted alongside other gender, racial and regional identities. The chapter focuses on theoretically and empirically contextualise Northernness by critically unpacking how Northernness and northern identities have been previously discussed in cultural theory. It utilises empirical and qualitative research to better understand the discourses, representations and formations of Northernness within popular culture.
