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Sheep Farmers in the Realm of Læstadius: Science and Religion as Motivating Forces in the Community of Practice in Northern Norway
Get PDFThe article discusses some aspects of a successful development in a village in Northern Norway, where agriculture is an important industry. The author examines family-based farms with sheep, upbringing, socialization and learning in communities of practice, and integrated academic and sociocultural forces in development. Sheep farming in the studied village is integrated into a sophisticated field of knowledge rooted in the local culture. An important aspect is the bidirectional support and knowledge exchange between experience-based and science-based knowledge centres (i.e. there is a two-way transfer): the farmers supply external agricultural experts with data on breeding and fattening, and subsequently input their derived knowledge for further use in development. Another important part of this field of practice is financial support from the state. The author argues that the interaction between culture and the business environment is important and provides synergy. As a consequence, an extraordinary momentum resulting from sheep farming is created in the mapping between the organized business community on the one hand, and local culture and religious communities with strong historical roots on the other hand. The findings indicate that these conditions could be of general interest for innovation and development also in other industries and other types of societies
Nicolas Meylan, Magic and Kingship in Medieval Iceland. The Construction of a Discourse of Political Resistance (Studies in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 3), Turnhout: Brepols 2014, ISBN 9782503551576 (hbk.), x + 223 pp.
No full text"Even if a Sparrow is small, it still has all organs.": Chinese and Greenlandic Gendered Perspectives on the Global Arctic
Get PDFThis essay is an attempt to bring together experiences and research by the author related to the fields of gender, the Arctic, especially Greenland, and China. Comparison of these very divergent and different parts of the world in scale, population and size of the economy as well as legal and normative cultures is hardly possible. Nonetheless a gendered – and personal – perspective reveal similarities in development especially in relation to rapid social change, urbanization, globalization and climate and environmental challenges. The use of the essay as a genre has seemed to me particularly apt for this purpose of looking for links and similarities
Ulf Teleman, Tankens makt över språket. Utvalda artiklar med anledning av författarens 80-årsdag (eds. Lars-Olof Delsing, Lena Ekberg, Lisa Holm, Jan Svensson & Bo-A. Wendt), Lund: Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet 2014, ISBN 978-91-88396-31
No full textReview of: Ulf Teleman, Tankens makt över språket. Utvalda artiklar med anledning av författarens 80-årsdag (eds. Lars-Olof Delsing,Lena Ekberg, Lisa Holm, Jan Svensson & Bo-A. Wendt), Lund: Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet 2014, ISBN 978-91-88396-31-2, 238 pp
Anita G.J. Buma, Annette J.M. Scheepstra & Richard Bintanja (eds.), Door de kou bevangen. Vijftig jaar Nederlands onderzoek in de poolgebieden, Lelystad: MaRiSuDa Uitgeverij 2016, ISBN 9789081826426, 235 pp.
No full textKristinn Jóhannesson, Gunnar D. Hansson & Karl G. Johansson (eds.), Islänningasagorna. Samtliga släktsagor och fyrtionio tåtar
No full textReview of: Kristinn Jóhannesson, Gunnar D. Hansson & Karl G. Johansson (eds.), Islänningasagorna. Samtliga släktsagor och fyrtioniotåtar (Text examining: Erik Andersson. Editorial committee: Viðar Hreinsson, Örnólfur Thorsson, Gísli Sigurðsson, Vésteinn Ólason, Berljót Kristjánsdóttir & Jónas Kristjánsson), vols. I–V, Reykjavík: Saga forlag 2014, ISBN 978-9935-9199-2-2 (vols. I–V); 978-9935-9199-3-9 (vol. I); 978-9935-9199-4-6 (vol. II); 978-9935-9199-5-3 (vol. III); 978-9935-9199-6-0 (vol. IV); 978-9935-9199-7-7 (vol. V), LXII + 418 + 482 + 494 + 490 + 464 pp. [collected in a box]
Mikael Svonni, Davvisámegiella – sánit ja cealgagat. Láidehus sámi lingvistihkkii, Giron/Kiruna: Ravda lágádus 2015, ISBN 978-91-982796-0-3, 268 pp.
No full textRussian Women's Labor Rights: Theory and Practice
Get PDFLabour in Russia remains highly segregated by gender, both across occupational spheres and within the employment hierarchy. Certain spheres that are female-dominated, such as education, healthcare and accounting, also have the lowest wage levels. Within each profession, women are concentrated at lower levels of the hierarchy, which is reflected in lower salaries. Additionally, large numbers of women, especially young women without educational qualifications, are employed in the informal sector, which leaves them at risk of violations of their labour rights