page_title: Borealism
hierarchical_section_title: Borealism
caption_attribution_description: Faroese Viking Metal band Týr in Copenhagen
context_page_description: Borealism is a form of exoticism in which stereotypes are imposed on the Earth's northern regions and cultures.
  The term was inspired by the similar concept of Orientalism, first coined by Edward Said. Like Orientalism, Borealism has its roots in eighteenth-century European Romanticism and Romantics' fantasies about distant regions. Borealism can include the paradoxical ideas that the North is uniquely savage, inhospitable, or barbaric, and that it is uniquely sublime, pure, or enlightened.
  A further form of borealism is the explicit invocation of the boreal by white-supremacist far-right politicians.
context_section_description: Borealism is a form of exoticism in which stereotypes are imposed on the Earth's northern regions and cultures (particularly the Nordic and Arctic regions).
  The term was inspired by the similar concept of Orientalism, first coined by Edward Said. Like Orientalism, Borealism has its roots in eighteenth-century European Romanticism and Romantics' fantasies about distant regions (though wild imaginings about the arctic regions can be traced back into Antiquity). Borealism can include the paradoxical ideas that the North is uniquely savage, inhospitable, or barbaric, and that it is uniquely sublime, pure, or enlightened.
  A further form of borealism is the explicit invocation of the boreal by white-supremacist far-right politicians.
caption: The Faroese folk metal band Týr performing in Copenhagen in 2007. Their development of a Viking-Faroese brand has been interpreted as self-exoticisation that capitalises on international enthusiasm for borealism.[1]
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