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Review: Nancy Beadie, Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic
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The Rise of the Knowledge School and Its Relation to the Resurrection of Bildung
Get PDFIn this article the historical background to the reactivation of the concept of Bildung in the Swedish school debate during 1980s is presented. The article argues that the resurrection of this concept is intimately related to the foundation of the discourse of the Knowledge School (Kunskapsskolan), and shows how these two terms were central in school political program developed by the Knowledge Movement (Kunskapsrörelsen) in the early 1980s. The article shows how the concept of Bildung since it was resurrected not only has been highly contested, but that it was actually reactivated within the same movement that helped pave the way for the manifest economic-instrumentalist school discourse that dominates the current curriculum
Review: Charlotte Appel and Morten Fink-Jensen, Da læreren holdt skole: Tiden før 1780. Dansk skolehistorie 1
No full textTakashi Irimoto, The Ainu Bear Festival, Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press 2014, ISBN 9784832903685, 291 pp.
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Media Environments: Icebergs/Screens/History
Get PDFIcebergs, at present, are living a second life on screens. While they are one of the natural world’s most photogenic objects, icebergs are also subject to modes of representation through parametric modeling applications. The purpose of this digital life on screens is largely confined to determining how, and under what conditions, icebergs can be made a source of potable water for the planet. Yet icebergs have a story to tell about the epistemological and economic production of northern natural resources. Distinct institutional actors, from oceanographers and military engineers to Saudi royalty and software design companies, have sought to control and come to know icebergs through specific practices of modeling. I argue that the representation of icebergs is a contingent practice that has often been bound up with processes of commodification. To come to know icebergs we have to come to know how these quintessentially polar phenomena have been represented and commodified, across the twentieth century and at a significant remove from the highest latitudes of the planet. The increasing pace of northern development, with natural resources at the vanguard of corporate and governmental incursions, signals the emergence of “media environments” that are extending the representation of (and control over) natural phenomena through a series of media technologies, from 3D modeling applications and collections of satellite data to virtual reality environments and predictive algorithms
Review Essay: Changes in the Attribution of Values to Northern and Arctic Spaces
No full textReview of: Silje Gaupseth, Marie-Theres Feerhofer & Per Pippin Aspaas (eds.), Travels in the North, Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag 2013, Troll Band 13, Tromsø Studien zur Kulturwissenschaft, ISBN 9783865253347, 230 pp.;John McCannon, A History of the Arctic. Nature, Exploration and Exploitation, London: Reaktion Books Ltd. 2012, ISBN 9781780230184, 349 pp.;Martin Breum, Når isen forsvinder. Danmark som stormagt i Arktis, Grønlands rigdomme og kampen om Nordpolen, København: Gyldendal 2013, ISBN 9788702138023, 316 pp.;Barry Scott Zellen (ed.), The Fast-Changing Arctic. Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World, Calgary: University of Calgary Press 2013, ISSN 1701-0004; co-published by the Arctic Institue of America, ISBN 97815523-6460, 395 pp.;Miyase Christensen, Annika E. Nilsson & Nina Wombs, Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change. When the Ice Breaks, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire UK: Palgrave Macmillan 2013, ISBN 9781137266224, 182 pp
