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Health Aspects of Colonization and the Post-Colonial Period in Greenland 1721 to 2014
Get PDFColonization in Greenland lasted from 1721 to 1953 but even after the introduction of self-government in 2009, aspects of economic and cultural colonization persist. Several epidemics that decimated the population have been recorded from the colonial period. In the post-colonial period urbanization, immigration of Danish workers and alcohol consumption increased significantly while suicides became an important cause of death.
We have outlined two parallel sequences of events, namely the general history of Greenland with emphasis on certain effects of colonization on everyday life and the epidemiological transition with emphasis on mental health. In particular, results from a health survey in 2014 among the Inuit in Greenland showed statistically significant associations between suicidal thoughts in adulthood and sexual abuse as a child as well as between sexual abuse as a child and alcohol problems in the childhood home. Among women also current socioeconomic conditions were associated with sexual abuse as a child.
Colonization in Greenland was relatively benign and our results illustrate that it is not only extensive colonial stress such as genocide and loss of language and culture that has negative effects on mental health but also the more subtle stress factors that the Inuit in Greenland were exposed to
Review (Norwegian): Anna Larsson, Björn Norlin, Maria Rönnlund, Den svenska skolgårdens historia
No full textIn-between “Swedish Gymnastics” and “Deutsche Turnkunst”: Educating “National” Citizens through Physical Education in Switzerland in the Last Decades of the Nineteenth Century
Get PDFIn Switzerland, physical education was as important as it was in other European countries during the last decades of the nineteenth century. Different visions of physical education were adapted to the Swiss context to promote national citizens that were strong and healthy and thus capable of protecting their fatherland. Discussions of Per Henrik Ling’s “Swedish system” and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn’s “Deutsche Turnkunst,” both of which were adapted in the francophone and the germanophone parts of Switzerland, dominated the discourse. Until the end of the nineteenth century, patriotic ideals permeated the army-ruled physical education, although methodology and health topics were discussed as well. The national and civic aims of physical education were the same for girls and boys, with one very important exception: boys were prepared for military service, whereas girls were primarily prepared to be good future mothers
Karl G. Johansson & Else Mundal (eds.), Riddarasǫgur. The Translation of European Court Culture in Medieval Scandinavia
No full textReview of: Karl G. Johansson & Else Mundal (eds.), Riddarasǫgur. The Translation of European Court Culture in Medieval Scandinavia,Oslo: Novus Forlag 2014 (Bibliotheca Nordica 7, eds.: Odd Einar Haugen, Karl G. Johansson & Jon Gunnar Jørgensen), ISSN 1891-1315; ISBN 978-82-7099-806-7, 351 pp
Gender equality in the Artic and North; socio-legal and geopolitical challenges
Get PDFThis first issue of the Nordic Journal on Law and Society (NJOLAS) is dedicated to the theme of gender in the Artic. The articles are the result of research carried out by members of a transnational, socio-legal and interdisciplinary network on gender studies on women’s every-day life in Arctic and Northern Regions.
Together, the articles form a socio-legal contribution to fill an identified knowledge gap about gender equality in the Arctic and in the geopolitics of Arctic
Kajsa Andersson (ed.), L’Image du Sápmi. Études comparées, vol. 1–3 (Humanistica Oerebroensia, Artes et linguae 15–17), Örebro: Örebro University 2009–2013, ISBN 9789176686188, 9789176689431, 9789176689448, 648 pp., 523 pp., 582 pp.
No full textCornelia Lüdecke, Deutsche in der Antarktis. Expeditionen und Forschungen von Kaiserreich bis heute, Berlin: Chr. Links Verlag 2015, ISBN 9783861538257 (hardcover), 224 pp. & 207 ill.
No full textFrédérique Rémy, Le monde givré, Paris: Éditions Hermann 2016, ISBN 9782705692766, 222 S.
No full textAnna Nilsén, The Gothic Sculpture of Uppsala Cathedral. On Spiritual Guidance and Creative Joy, Turnhout: Brepols 2014, ISBN 9782503551708, 102 pp.
No full textJónas Kristjánsson & Vésteinn Ólason (eds.), Eddukvæði. I. Goðakvæði. II. Hetjukvæði
No full textReview of: Jónas Kristjánsson & Vésteinn Ólason (eds.), Eddukvæði. I. Goðakvæði. II. Hetjukvæði, Reykjavík: Híð Íslenzka Fornritafélag2014 (Íslenzk Fornrit. Eddukvæði ritstjóri Þórður Ingi Guðjónsson), ISBN 978-9979-893-99-8; 978-9979-893-36-3 (vol. I); ISBN 978-9979-893-37-0 (vol. II), 469 + 466 pp