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Lars Hermansson, Friendship, Love, and Brotherhood in Medieval Northern Europe, c. 1000—1200 (The Northern World 85), Leiden: Brill 2019, ISBN 9789004400078, 282 pp.
No full textReview (English): Inês Félix, School journeys: Ideas and Practices of New Education in Portugal (1890–1960)
No full textReview (Swedish): David Larsson Heidenblad, Ett år av akademiskt skrivande: Erfarenheter och arbetstekniker för unga forskare
No full textHow Academic Experiences and Educational Aspirations Relate to Well-Being and Health among Indigenous Sami Youth in Northern Norway: A qualitative Approach
Get PDFIncreasingly, education occupies the lives of Indigenous adolescents worldwide. This qualitative study is part of the project “Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood” (CIPA), where the overall aim was to identify young people’s stressors in five circumpolar sites, and the resilience processes that safeguard transition into adulthood (Allen et al. 2014). The present study explores the everyday lives of young Sami in Northern Norway regarding educational demands and plans, related challenges and stressors and their impact on well-being, health and cultural continuity. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2010 (N=22) with reindeer husbandry affiliation (RH: 11) and non-reindeer husbandry affiliation (NRH: 11) adolescents, aged 13–19 (females: 12). School well-being was divided into educational factors (culture-based teaching, e.g. Sami handicraft and outdoor practices), environmental factors (e.g. school canteen) and social factors (e.g. caring teachers), while challenges and stressors were educational (e.g. getting good marks), environmental (e.g. noise) and social (e.g. bullying). Lower secondary school pupils called for more tradition-based teaching. Educational aspirations were highestamong females and NRH males. RH males generally planned to continue their traditional lifestyle and showed the strongest place attachment. We also address the maintenance of cultural continuity, which is important for the well-being and health of Indigenous youth
Doing Justice: Uses of Norm Critical Children’s Picture Books in Swedish Preschools
Get PDFThe aim of this article is to examine the perceptions and uses of norm critical literature in Swedish preschool. The research questions highlighted are: What primary uses are associated with norm critical literature in preschool, according to preschool teachers and observations of reading aloud? How does the (claimed) usage of norm critical literature relate to required anti-discrimination and gender equality work? These questions are answered by focusing on the perceptions of preschool teachers as expressed in qualitative interviews with seven educators, and by additional observations of teachers reading aloud to children at six preschools in three different communities in Sweden. The data is categorized by thematical analysis. Two main themes were discerned: "The mirror" and "Combatting (masculine) gender norms". The findings are primarily discussed in relation to Nancy Fraser's (1997) distinction of different kinds of justice and Chantal Mouffe's (2005) concept of the political. The study shows that norm critical literature is considered to be a tool in the obliged value work, used as a mirror and as a tool in combatting outdated gender norms, especially regarding masculinity. The conclusion is that justice in terms of recognition and affirmative recognition were prioritized, while justice in terms of redistribution or transformative recognition was not brought to the fore (Fraser 1997)
Tax sparing clauses as a policy instrument of developing countries: Evidence from the Latin-American tax treaty network
Get PDFDeveloping countries frequently grant corporate income tax incentives in order to attract foreign direct investment. To secure the effectiveness of these measures at a cross-border level, tax sparing clauses secure a notional credit at residence, meaning a discount on the taxes due even if no or lower taxes were paid at source. These clauses prevent the home country of the investor from taxing that income, allowing the investor to retain the tax spared by the host country. This contribution examines the rationale of tax sparing and conducts an examination of the issue from the perspective of the Latin-American tax treaty network – comprising more than 250 treaties – to draw relevant conclusions from the analysis of the specific clauses included in these agreements
Andrew Jennings, Silke Reeploeg & Angela Watt (eds.), Northern Atlantic Islands and the Sea. Seascapes and Dreamscapes, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017, ISBN 9781443855129, 260 pp.
No full textNorthern Sweden and Economic Development
Get PDFGovernments around the Circumpolar world are attempting to ensure the long-term viability of northern economies, generally by supporting the natural resource economy and seeking opportunities to promote “new economy” commercial development. The challenge is formidable, in large measure because few Arctic or sub-Arctic regions have the research capability, highly skilled personnel, venture capital, accessible markets and entrepreneurial drive necessary to compete in the global science and technology-based economy. Communities in Norrbotten County in Sweden have made significant efforts to develop contemporary economic opportunities. This essay considers efforts made by a series of northern centres—Arjeplog, Kiruna, Luleå, Skellefteå and Haparanda—to build jobs and businesses beyond traditional northern economic activities, demonstrating that creative and determined northern regions can compete successfully in the age of rapid technological transformation
A Different Unified Approach to Global Tax Policy: Addressing the Challenges of Underdevelopment
Get PDFExperts from the North have long tried to teach countries in the South how to tax. For decades, they assumed the main challenges were domestic and there was a right answer to be found somewhere in the developed world that could be replicated everywhere else. Only more recently have they dedicated more attention to the international realm, yet their solutions remain tied to technical rules designed by a few specialists, as exemplified by the OECD Secretariat’s “Unified Approach” for the taxation of the digital economy. From a critical and historical socio-legal perspective, this Article argues that such technocratic approaches are set to fail less-developed nations for as long as we continue to overlook the background causes of weak taxation at both the national and international levels. These involve difficulties in applying complex rule sets, but also the very way in which global tax policy is developed, who influences the process, and the resulting distributive consequences.