Liminal flux

The situation in Nikel is not necessarily unique, but the closeness to Norway makes the difference so very obvious. The towns position as liminal to its own future, yet reluctant or powerless to change its path, leaves its inhabitants in a flux between flight or surrender in a struggle for the city to reproduce the story of itself and its identity as a company town.
Yet there is no certainty this is neither the wrong nor the right way to see the situation. As strangers, again, this is interpreted with a background that differs from what might be the background of the inhabitants of Nikel.

Is the story reproduced? Is there a local initiative for a future – which kind of future? Which kind of initiative?

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