title: Challenging Boundaries from Below
abstract: The UN Sustainable Development Goals have been criticized for ignoring the role played by culture or at least for defining culture too narrowly and instrumentally. What then is the impact of culture and how can it be measured? Focusing on Norwegian-Russian cultural cooperation, this chapter offers some answers to this pertinent question. This chapter is based on a study of two cases of cultural cooperation between the two countries: a cultural institution in the border area and a large-scale cul