ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the core understanding of centre and periphery is handled in different contexts, in the public media, in encounters with locals and within the field of tourism. The vision of a new world order, replacing the solid, fixed and stable past with fluidity and mobility, a free unbounded space within a global universe, is frequently used as a diagnosis of contemporary society. Tourism presupposes increased mobility and has been used as an example of how global processes can, in a sense, is pinned down in certain localities. Honningsvåg is one such locality, placed in the North Cape municipality, the northernmost municipality in Norway. Young people living on the coast of Finnmark at a place called Btsfjord make a distinction between themselves and young people living in Berlevg, another place in the vicinity. Nonetheless, practices within the field of tourism reinforce the myths, stereotypes and core contrasts that people are trying to deconstruct in other contexts.
