Introduction / Aini Linjakumpu and Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo
History as a project of progress? : North as a focus of attention / Marja Tuominen
Chapters of progress : the case of a village idiot / Pälvi Rantala
Progress and emotions in Lapland / Aini Linjakumpu
Remembering and forgetting the second World War in Finland / Sandra Wallenius
Narratives of progress in the politics of urho Kekkonen and the Agrarian League / Petri Koikkalainen
Northern universities and the changing status of minorities / Lars Elenius
Slow activism : art in progress in the North / Mirja Hiltunen
From emotional memory to active awareness : counter-memory and resistance in Torne Valley Finnish literature / Riitta Kontio
Women behind the camera in the early 1900s at the arctic circle : a step toward independence / Mervi Autti
Concluding remarks / Aini Linjakumpu and Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo.