Negotiating Pasts In The Nordic Countries

Author : Anne Eriksen,Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789185509331

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Negotiating Pasts in the Nordic Countries by Anne Eriksen,Jón Viðar Sigurðsson Pdf

The authors present a number of case studies, from the Middle Age to present time, about how the past has been made meaningful and relevant to people living in later periods. It is the process of selecting, interpreting and passing on meaning that we call negotiating the past. This process is loaded with tension in part stemming from the past itself, but which is often due to the various agents involved in the process as they represent different interests, understandings and points of view. At the same time, the process is marked by a wish to come to terms with unknown conditions, to develop some consensus, again not only with the past, but also with one's contemporaries. These dynamic and dialogical processes do not only concern the past as in "history", but rather a number of pasts, which are sometimes in conflict, but at other times harmoniously complement each other. The book should be viewed as a contribution to the international and interdisciplinary field of collective memory, which has grown large over the last decades. Today, studies of commemorations and festivals, monuments, exhibitions and museums, historical films and narratives are numerous, and terms such as social memory, collective or collected memory, lieux de mémoire all demonstrate the scholarly interest in how the past -- or images of it -- is constructed, composed and built up, but also demolished, dismantled and rejected. To learn more about the processes when dealing with the past is an important key to understanding why and how societies and communities change and evolve. The authors are Norwegian, Danish and Swedish scholars who have collaborated in a network on the subject between 2007 and 2009. They are employed at universities and university libraries throughout Scandinavia. Contributors: Anders Berge; Brita Brenna; Bernard Eric Jensen; Helge Jordheim; Kyrre Kverndokk; Anne Birgitte Rønning; Leiv Sem; Karen Skovgaard-Petersen; Erling Sverdrup Sandmo; Anna Wallette.

Author : Elettra Carbone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351549516

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Sculpture and the Nordic Region by Elettra Carbone Pdf

Histories of sculpture within the Nordic region are under-studied and the region?s influence upon and translation of influences from elsewhere in Europe remain insufficiently traced. This volume brings to light individual histories of sculptural mobility from the early modern period onwards. Examining the movement of sculptures, sculptors, practices, skills, styles and motifs across borders, through studios and public architectures, within popular and print culture and via texts, the essays collected here consider the extent to which the sculptural artwork is changed by its physical movement and its transfigurations in other media. How does the meaning and form of these objects performatively respond to the pressure of their relocations and rematerialisations? Conversely, how do sculptures impact their new contexts of display? The contributing authors engage with a wide variety of objects and media in their essays. Each focuses on the contextualisation of sculpture in an original and timely way, exploring how mobility acts as a filter offering new perspectives on iconography, memorialisation, collecting, iconoclasm and exhibiting. From the stave churches of early Norway to the decoration of International Style monoliths of the twentieth century, from Italian quarries to Baroque palaces, from fountains to figurines, from text to performance, these wide-ranging and fascinating case studies contribute to the rich history of the Nordic region?s sculptural production.

Author : Jürg Glauser,Pernille Hermann,Stephen A. Mitchell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110431360

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Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies by Jürg Glauser,Pernille Hermann,Stephen A. Mitchell Pdf

In recent years, the field of Memory Studies has emerged as a key approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has increasingly shown its ability to open new windows on Nordic Studies as well. The entries in this book document the work-to-date of this approach on the pre-modern Nordic world (mainly the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, but including as well both earlier and later periods). Given that Memory Studies is an ever expanding critical strategy, the approximately eighty contributors in this volume also discuss the potential for future research in this area. Topics covered range from texts to performance to visual and other aspects of material culture, all approached from within an interdisciplinary framework. International specialists, coming from such relevant fields as archaeology, mythology, history of religion, folklore, history, law, art, literature, philology, language, and mediality, offer assessments on the relevance of Memory Studies to their disciplines and show it at work in case studies. Finally, this handbook demonstrates the various levels of culture where memory had a critical impact in the pre-modern North and how deeply embedded the role of memory is in the material itself.

Author : Helle Bjerg,Claudia Lenz,Erik Thorstensen
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839413258

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Historicizing the Uses of the Past by Helle Bjerg,Claudia Lenz,Erik Thorstensen Pdf

This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the perspective of history didactics. The theoretical framework of historical consciousness offers an approach linking individual and collective uses and re-uses of the past to the question how history can and should be taught. It also offers some examples of good practice in this field. The book promotes a teaching practice which, in taking the social constructivist notions of historical consciousness as a starting point, can contribute to self-reflecting and critical thinking - being fundamental for any democratic political culture.

Author : James Dodd,Ellen Meijer
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784919719

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Giving the Past a Future: Essays in Archaeology and Rock Art Studies in Honour of Dr. Phil. h.c. Gerhard Milstreu by James Dodd,Ellen Meijer Pdf

This volume celebrates the work of Dr. Phil. h.c. Gerhard Milstreu in his 40th year as director of Tanum Museum of Rock Carving and Rock Art Research Centre, Sweden. A feast of scholarly contributions pay respect to and acknowledge Gerhard’s achievements in the fields of rock art documentation, research, international collaboration and outreach.

Author : Håkon Hermanstrand,Asbjørn Kolberg,Trond Risto Nilssen,Leiv Sem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783030050290

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The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami by Håkon Hermanstrand,Asbjørn Kolberg,Trond Risto Nilssen,Leiv Sem Pdf

This open access book is a novel contribution in two ways: It is a multi-disciplinary examination of the indigenous South Saami people in Fennoscandia, a social and cultural group that often is overlooked as it is a minority within the Saami minority. Based on both historical material such as archaeological evidence, 20th century newspapers, and postcard motives as well as current sources such as ongoing land-right trials and recent works of historiography, the articles highlight the culture and living conditions of this indigenous group, mapping the negotiations of different identities through the interaction of Saami and non-Saami people through the ages. By illuminating this under-researched field, the volume also enriches the more general debate on global indigenous history, and sheds light on the construction of a Scandinavian identity and the limits of the welfare state and the myth of heterogeneity and equality.

Author : Torben M. Andersen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035213920

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Wage Formation and Macroeconomic Policy in the Nordic Countries by Torben M. Andersen Pdf

Scandinavian Labor market policies have always represented one of the strongest alternatives to those adopted by recent governments in the United Kingdom and the United States, and the ability of these countries to maintain such low unemployment is currently of great interest to economists. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of both wage formation in the individual Nordic economies and general aspects of Nordic wage setting institutions, in particular the relation between centralized bargaining and wage drift. This book will be of special interest to economists, policy makers, and trade unions.

Author : Clive Archer,Pertti Joenniemi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351884891

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The Nordic Peace by Clive Archer,Pertti Joenniemi Pdf

The first authoritative account concerning the lack of conflict in the Nordic region, this text evaluates why the area is more peaceful than the rest of Europe and whether there is a lesson to be learned from the area. Looking at cases where parts of the Nordic area have started to break away from the others and how this was achieved without violence, it also explores the settlement of demarcation disputes. By using this region as an example for the rest of Europe, this book tests the hypothesis of the Nordic Peace using a number of approaches including historical, political science, peace research, sociology and law. This highly insightful piece of research is relevant for courses in international relations and European studies.

Author : Lothar Katz
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business and politics
ISBN : UCLA:L0099971780

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Negotiating International Business by Lothar Katz Pdf

Pt. 1. International negotiations. -- Pt. 2. Negotiation techniques used around the world. -- Pt. 3. Negotiate right in any of 50 countries.

Author : Alexandra Sanmark,Natascha Mehler,Sarah Semple,Frode Iversen,Halldis Hobæk,Marie ØDegaard,Alexis Tudor Skinner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367513862

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Negotiating the North by Alexandra Sanmark,Natascha Mehler,Sarah Semple,Frode Iversen,Halldis Hobæk,Marie ØDegaard,Alexis Tudor Skinner Pdf

This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Atlantic islands in the 1st and 2nd millennia AD. In this volume we integrate a wide range of historical, cartographic, archaeological, field-based, and onomastic data pertaining to early medieval and medieval administrative practices, geographies, and places of assembly in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Scotland, and eastern England. This transnational perspective has enabled a new understanding of the development of power structures in early medieval northern Europe and the maturation of these systems in later centuries under royal control. In a series of richly illustrated chapters, we explore the emergence and development of mechanisms for consensus. We begin with a historiographical exploration of assembly research that sets the intellectual agenda for the chapters that follow. We then examine the emergence and development of the thing in Scandinavia and its export to the lands colonised by the Norse. We consider more broadly how assembly practices may have developed at a local level, yet played a significant role in the consolidation, and at times regulation, of elite power structures. Presenting a fresh perspective on the agency and power of the thing and cognate types of local and regional assembly, this interdisciplinary volume provides an invaluable, in-depth insight into the people, places, laws, and consensual structures that shaped the early medieval and medieval kingdoms of northern Europe.

Author : Taco Peijpe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061761016

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Employment Protection Under Strain:Sweden, Denmark, and The Netherlands by Taco Peijpe Pdf

1.1 Trends in labour law

Author : Frantz Wilhelm Wendt
Publisher : Stockholm : Published for the Nordic Council by Almqvist & Wiksell International
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039183905

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Cooperation in the Nordic Countries by Frantz Wilhelm Wendt Pdf

History of one hundred and fifty years of Nordic cooperation describing achievements, obstacles met and defeats suffered.

Author : Laura Ervo,Anna Nylund
Publisher : Springer
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319044651

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The Future of Civil Litigation by Laura Ervo,Anna Nylund Pdf

This book offers an analysis of the current trends and developments in Nordic civil litigation and is divided into four main parts. In the first part a picture of the current civil litigation landscape is provided by focusing on whether there is a truly Nordic form of civil litigation, the current state of Nordic civil litigation, the recent major reforms of civil procedure legislation and the effects of Europeanization. In the second part, the way rules on court-connected mediation have been implemented and practiced in the Nordic countries is discussed. The authors offer their insights on why court-connected mediation has not been fully embraced by Nordic lawyers and the Nordic approach to this type of mediation is contrasted with the Austrian and German approaches. In the third part, recent developments affecting access to justice in the Nordic countries are discussed. Among the topics are changes in legal aid schemes, the impact of recent civil procedure law reforms, hindrances for larger companies to use litigation as a method of dispute resolution and differences in costs and delays. Additionally, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Class or Group Actions are explored as methods to enhance access to justice. The potential adverse effects of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Group Actions are also examined, both in a Nordic and European context. In the final part, conclusions are drawn from both historical and future-oriented perspectives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Vocational education
ISBN : UCSD:31822024796872

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Vocational Training, European Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anna Nylund,Kaijus Ervasti,Lin Adrian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319730196

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Nordic Mediation Research by Anna Nylund,Kaijus Ervasti,Lin Adrian Pdf

This open access book presents twelve unique studies on mediation from researchers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, respectively. Each study highlights important aspects of mediation, including the role of children in family mediation, the evolution and ambivalent application of restorative justice in the Nordic countries, the confusion of roles in court-connected mediation, and the challenges in dispute systems. Over the past 20-30 years, mediation has gained in popularity in many countries around the world and is often heralded as a suitable and cost-effective mode of conflict resolution. However, as the studies in this volumes show, mediation also has a number of potential drawbacks. Parties’ self-determination may be jeopardized, affected third parties are involved in an inadequate way, and the legal regulations may be flawed. The publication can inspire research, help professionals and policymakers in the field and be used as a textbook.