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Jarich Oosten & Barbara Helen Miller (eds.), Traditions, Traps and Trends. Transfer of Knowledge in Arctic Regions, Edmonton: Polynya Press 2018, ISBN 978177212372 (Softcover), 318 pp.
No full textSpecial Issue: Tracing the Arctic; Arctic Traces
Get PDFNowhere on earth is global warming happening as fast today as in the northernmost region. In many cases the situation is acute for both humans and other animals. But it is not only biotopes, but also long-since intertwined systems of nature and culture that are in accelerating processes of change. What was once portrayed as almost invincible is now associated with vulnerability. The situation is one of urgency for the four million people living in Arctic areas, but it may ultimately affect many more. The northernmost area on earth once again reminds us that humanity too has a limit. This introduction starts with a fieldwork note from contemporary Greenland, where the contested colonial heritage also exemplifies the entanglement and friction of global interests and environmental change. In this broadly multidisciplinary collection of scholarly articles the Arctic will be discussed both as nature and as culture, and in ways that stress change and complexity. Unexpected alliances and tentacular methods are crucial in our challenging times, according to environmentalist Donna Haraway. The contributions of this journal issue also share the context of support for a co-curated exhibition at the Nordiska museet on “The Arctic—While the Ice Is Melting” (from 2019)
Darren McGettigan, The Kings of Aileach and the Vikings, AD 800–1060, Dublin: Four Courts Press 2020, ISBN 9781846828362 (paperback), 208 pp.
No full textThomas Wallerström, Kunglig makt och samiska bosättningsmönster. Studier kring Väinö Tanners vinterbyteori: [English summary: Royal power and Sámi settlement patterns. Studies concerning Väinö Tanner’s winter camp theory. With contributions from Ulf Segerström and Eva-Maria Nordström]
No full textReview of: Thomas Wallerström, Kunglig makt och samiska bosättningsmönster. Studier kring Väinö Tanners vinterbyteori (English summary: Royal power and Sámi settlement patterns. Studies concerning Väinö Tanner’s winter camp theory. With contributions from Ulf Segerström and Eva-Maria Nordström), Oslo: Novus forlag 2017, ISBN 9788270999071, 322 pp
North Actually: The Meaning of Place in Åsa Larsson’s Crime Novels About Rebecka Martinsson
Get PDFThe article discusses and examines Larsson’s thus far five crime fiction novels to investigate how the formation of identity are connected to the peripheral North—the “real” North of the globally popular crime fiction subgenre Nordic Noir. Certain key concepts will be used to examine the novels: hyperlocalisation, neo-romanticism, anthropomorphism, borders, and history. This article will argue that in Åsa Larsson’s novels, place and its nature, borders and history are crucial in identity formation, and the place with its nature, climate and animals is an active agent in all the narratives
Birgitte Sonne, Worldviews of the Greenlanders. An Inuit Arctic Perspective, Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press 2017, ISBN 9781602233393 (ebook), 9781602233386 (hardback), 471 pp.
No full textPer-Axel Wiktorsson (ed.), Fornsvenska legendariet, vols. 1–4 (Svenska Fornskriftsällskapet. Serie 1. Svenska skrifter 102
No full textReview of: Per-Axel Wiktorsson (ed.), Fornsvenska legendariet, vols. 1–4 (Svenska Fornskriftsällskapet. Serie 1. Svenska skrifter 102; Skara Stiftshistoriska Sällskaps skriftserie 100), Skara: Svenska Fornskriftsällskapet & Skara Stiftshistoriska Sällskap 2020, ISBN 9789197988162, ISSN 0347-5026, 106 pp. + 604 pp. + 663pp. + 358 pp
The Role of Legal Theory in Legal Education : A Reflection on Professional and Academic Ideals in Nordic Legal Education
Get PDFThe article addresses the role of legal theory in legal education. Today, a multitude of perspectives is present within legal theory and, as a subject, it is not as distinct as it is sometimes claimed to be. It is evident when considering syllabuses in the Nordic countries that nearly all LLM programmes have ambitions to teach legal theory as embracing a multitude of theoretical and methodological perspectives. This multitude of perspectives promises adaptable content for the subject of legal theory in various legal contexts, and could facilitate a reflection on how knowledge is acquired and why. The challenge addressed in the article is the presence of explicit or implicit ideas from the subject of legal theory as comprising a coherent “legal method” and a specific list of accepted theories. The persistence of such ideas is scrutinised in this article with help of the concepts of “professional knowledge” and “scholarly knowledge”. In order to navigate the complex field of legal theories, students need meta-reflective skills, which means the ability to reflect upon the underlying complexity and multitude of the subject. This is shown by a case study from the Department of Law at the University of Gothenburg, together with examples from curricula and textbooks from legal theory courses across the Nordic countries
Special Issue Introduction: Nordic Legal Education: A Situated Gothenburg Perspective
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Klass i begåvningsreservens tidevarv: Taxonomiska konflikter inom och genom svensk utbildningsforskning, ca 1945–1960
Get PDFClass in the age of the pool of talent: Taxonomic struggles in and through Swedish education research, c. 1945–1960. This article studies conceptualisations of social class in Swedish education research, c. 1945–1960. The article follows knowledge produced about talent and class in state commissions and in the newly expanded social sciences, and how it in turn was interpreted and used in political debates and in the media. I show that the taxonomy of the population in social groups (Socialgrupper) was key for conceptualising notions of talent and framing education policy, beginning with debates around ”the pool of talent” (Begåvningsreserven) in 1948. At the same time as becoming a standard tool for mapping social difference in Sweden, the social group taxonomy was criticised for being unscientific