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Shane McCorristine, The Spectral Arctic. A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration, London: University College London Press 2018, ISBN 9781787352476, 275 pp.
No full textJustifying interventions in Norwegian child protection: An analysis of violence in migrant and non-migrant families in Norway
No full textHow are decisions about care orders of children in cases about violence justified? What important accounts are considered? In an in-depth analysis of 94 written care order decisions from the Norwegian County Boards, we examine decision-makers arguments and hereunder if there are differences in cases about migrant and non-migrant families. The analysis shows that justifications are largely rooted in a pragmatic discourse focusing on risk-levels, drawing on empirical evidence of violence. Additionally, there is a pragmatic-ethical discourse rooted in the decision-makers assessment of parents’ ability to change their behaviour, to meet the children’s needs, highlighting parental denial of violence and blaming the children. This serves the decision-makers in justifying whether the necessary care for the children is possible to attain. We find only a few differences between migrant and non-migrant cases: parents’ denial is more prevalent in migrant cases; in non-migrant cases consequences for the child is more prevalent; and more evidence of strong direct violence in migrant cases
Review (English): Annelie Maria Fredricson, Barnträdgårdens didaktik: Kontinuitet och förändring i talet om material och arbetssätt i tidskriften Barnträdgården 1918–1945
Get PDFNarratives of Displacement and Trauma: The Tuberculosis Epidemic among the Inuit of Nunavik in the 1940s–1950s
Get PDFThe Inuit of Canada have suffered from a plethora of governmental interventions including relocations, residential schooling, and forced hospitalisation due to the tuberculosis epidemic. The hospitalisation of Inuit had a detrimental effect on individuals through physical abuse, disconnection from language and culture, and being removed from their families and communities. These government interventions are examples of structural violence that potentially cause both individual and collective trauma and are recounted through the personal narratives of Inuit Elders. In addition, the ethical concerns of conducting anthropological fieldwork on trauma and memory are investigated
Review Essay: What Makes a Grammar a Modern Grammar? Review of Mikael Svonni, Modern nordsamisk grammatik, Kiruna: Ravda Lágádus, 2018, ISBN 9789198279634, 308 pp.
No full textKåre Hoel, Bustadnavn i Østfold 18. Trøgstad. Utgitt av Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, Universitetet i Oslo ved Tom Schmidt, Oslo: Novus Forlag 2019, ISBN 9788270999231, 515 pp. + map at the end.
No full textAnu Lahtinen & Mia Korpiola (eds.), Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe, Leiden: Brill 2018, ISBN 9789004284890, ix + 211 pp.
No full textKarolina Widerström och skolans dissektionsundervisning 1900–1920
Get PDFKarolina Widerström and Animal Dissection in Swedish Schools 1900–1920. This article examines the attempts to introduce dissections of small animals in Swedish primary schools and secondary girls’ schools during the early twentieth century. It demonstrates that the new teaching methods were a part of a further ambition to transform the pupil’s relationship to nature and how teachers taught the natural sciences. Knowledge of the human body was emphasised and produced in analogy with other species, leaving none of the body’s organs or basic functions outside the curriculum. One of the strongest voices in this process was the Swedish physician Karolina Widerström (1856–1948). Through hers—but also others—engagement in annual training courses in basic dissection techniques for female teachers and the production of wildly distributed illustrated dissection manuals, extensive effort was made to change the pupil’s understanding of nature in general as well as their own bodies including the fundamental principles of human reproduction
The Neverlands of Nature: Exploring Representations of the Non-Human in Visitor Information Publication Material on Swedish National Parks
Get PDFIn this paper, we distinguish, make visible, and problematize how the non-human world (often depicted as nature) in Swedish national parks comes into being through representations in visitor information publications, and what the productive effects of those representations are. Through a discursive analysis, we identify seven discursive formations that concern portrayals of the non-human world. On the one hand, it is represented as extraordinary and sublime pieces of wild and pristine nature—and on the other, as ordinary and accessible. Despite this divergence, these kinds of spaces function as national heritage with an elitist status, which creates hierarchizations between national parks and other spaces, but also between the national parks themselves. North and south are assigned different attraction values and portrayed as desirable in different contexts. The north is wild, pristine, and sublime, while the south is safe, available, and always open to tourists. Furthermore, the material generates portrayals of national parks as places for learning, where the non-human world is displayed, explored, experienced, and taught. The uniting force of these formations is the focus of national parks as places of otherness, which turns them into heterotopian neverlands far away from the mainland of modernity