Nordic Landscapes

Author : Michael Jones
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816639144

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"The first in-depth presentation of the Nordic landscapes to be published in nearly twenty years. “Norden” -- the region along the northern edge of Europe bordered by Russia and the Baltic nations to the east and by North America to the west -- is a particularly fruitful site for the examination of the ever-evolving meaning of landscape and region as place. Contributors to this work reveal how Norden’s regions and people have been defined by and against the dominant culture of Europe while at the same time their landscapes and cultures have shaped and inspired Europe’s ways of life. Together, the essays provide a much-needed picture of this culturally rich and geographically varied part of the world."--pub. desc.

Author : Michael McEachrane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317685241

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Afro-Nordic Landscapes by Michael McEachrane Pdf

Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe challenges a view of Nordic societies as homogenously white, and as human rights champions that are so progressive that even the concept of race is deemed irrelevant to their societies. The book places African Diasporas, race and legacies of imperialism squarely in a Nordic context. How has a nation as peripheral as Iceland been shaped by an identity of being white? How do Black Norwegians challenge racially conscribed views of Norwegian nationhood? What does the history of jazz in Denmark say about the relation between its national identity and race? What is it like to be a mixed-race black Swedish woman? How have African Diasporans in Finland navigated issues of race and belonging? And what does the widespread denial of everyday racism in Nordic societies mean to Afro-Nordics? This text is a must read for anyone interested in issues of race in the Nordic region and Europe writ large. As Paul Gilroy writes in his foreword, it is a book that "should be studied with care and profit inside the Nordic countries and also outside them by the broader international readership that has been established around the study of racism and 'critical race theory'."

Author : Annika Zetterman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 0500296146

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New Nordic Gardens by Annika Zetterman Pdf

Few people have difficulty conjuring images of modern Scandinavian design, whose influence over the past century has reached around the world. More difficult for many is imagining the quiet landscapes of the Nordic countries, which range from the flatlands of Denmark to the dramatic mountains and fjords of Norway. These majestic environments, combined with long summer days and light-poor winters, raking light and dense birch forests, have given rise to exceptionally refined examples of garden and landscape design. This survey presents the best gardens to have been produced in the region over the past ten years. Organized by themes that encapsulate the special ambience and lifestyle of the Scandinavian countries - Simplicity, Silence, Fragility, Nakedness, Attunement, Boldness, Openness and Care - each garden is presented through images and texts explaining its unique aspects and describing its particularly Scandinavian characteristics. The timelessness of Nordic design has proven itself around the world for many decades. Now it is time for the quality of its gardens and landscapes to come into the light. With 291 illustrations in colour

Author : Lindhjem, Henrik,Reinvang, Rasmus,Zandersen, Marianne
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789289342407

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Landscape experiences as a cultural ecosystem service in a Nordic context by Lindhjem, Henrik,Reinvang, Rasmus,Zandersen, Marianne Pdf

Cultural ecosystem services in the form of experiences derived from landscapes are potentially important, but often overlooked. Given the large and unprecedented landscape changes many of the Nordic countries are undergoing, there is a need to find ways of including people’s preferences and the value of landscape impacts in policy assessments and decision-making processes. The project aim has been to synthesize knowledge about the magnitude and value of landscape experiences, and investigate current practices and examples of how landscape impacts are incorporated (or not) in policy assessments and decision-making contexts in the Nordics. The literature demonstrates potentially high unaccounted welfare loss from landscape change. We find clear weaknesses in current practices, that a second phase will try to address. The project was carried out by Vista Analysis in Oslo and Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University from 2014–15.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9289308729

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Nordic scenery by Anonim Pdf

Author : Magnus Nilsson
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0714872377

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Nordic by Magnus Nilsson Pdf

A personally curated selection of Magnus Nilsson’s photographs from The Nordic Cookbook, also including previously unpublished images taken during his research. Given his first camera at the age of six, celebrated Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson has been taking photographs for over twenty-five years. As part of his research for The Nordic Cookbook, Magnus travelled extensively throughout the Nordic countries, not only collecting recipes but also photographing the landscape, food and people. Nordic: A Photographic Essay of Landscapes, Food and People accompanies a travelling exhibition of his work.

Author : Patrick Huse,Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1107010068

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Nordic Landscapes by Patrick Huse,Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson Pdf

Author : Cecilia Cassinger,Andrea Lucarelli,Szilvia Gyimóthy
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788974325

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The Nordic Wave in Place Branding by Cecilia Cassinger,Andrea Lucarelli,Szilvia Gyimóthy Pdf

The widespread international interest in the Nordic region and the mobility of Nordic brand imaginaries call for more research into the global relevance of Nordic place-branding practices. This book offers a timely attempt to unpack the specificity of the Nordic in regard to place branding by gathering different transdisciplinary accounts written by researchers in marketing, tourism, geography, communication, sociology and political science.

Author : Kim Toft Hansen,Anne Marit Waade
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319598154

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Locating Nordic Noir by Kim Toft Hansen,Anne Marit Waade Pdf

This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990’s until today. The authors introduce the history of contemporary Nordic Noir from the perspective of place, production and location studies. The chapters include readings of well-known television crime dramas such as Beck, The Killing, Trapped and The Bridge as well as a range of other important Nordic Noir cases. The authors position the development of Nordic Noir in the global market for popular television drama and place the international attention towards Nordic crime dramas within regional development of drama production in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland. Consequently, Nordic Noir is read as both a transnational financial and creative phenomenon and as a local possibility for community building. Offering a comprehensible, scholarly and methodologically original approach to the popularity of Nordic television crime dramas, this volume is aimed at readers with an interest in crime drama as well as scholars and students of television drama.

Author : Jan-Erik Lundström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Landscape photography
ISBN : UOM:39015029281758

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Nordic landscapes by Jan-Erik Lundström Pdf

Antologi af landskabsfotografier af nordiske fotografer

Author : Linda Badley,Andrew Nestingen,Jaakko Seppälä
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030386580

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Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation by Linda Badley,Andrew Nestingen,Jaakko Seppälä Pdf

This book argues that adaptation is an underrecognized yet constitutive element of Nordic noir. In so doing, it reframes the prevailing critical view. Now celebrated for its global sweep, Nordic noir is equally a transmedial phenomenon. Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation deploys the tools of current adaptation studies to undertake a wide-ranging transcultural, intermedial exploration, adding an important new layer to the rich scholarship that has arisen around Nordic noir in recent years.

Author : Annika Lindskog,Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787353992

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Introduction to Nordic Cultures by Annika Lindskog,Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Pdf

Introduction to Nordic Cultures is an innovative, interdisciplinary introduction to Nordic history, cultures and societies from medieval times to today. The textbook spans the whole Nordic region, covering historical periods from the Viking Age to modern society, and engages with a range of subjects: from runic inscriptions on iron rings and stone monuments, via eighteenth-century scientists, Ibsen’s dramas and turn-of-the-century travel, to twentieth-century health films and the welfare state, nature ideology, Greenlandic literature, Nordic Noir, migration, ‘new’ Scandinavians, and stereotypes of the Nordic. The chapters provide fundamental knowledge and insights into the history and structures of Nordic societies, while constructing critical analyses around specific case studies that help build an informed picture of how societies grow and of the interplay between history, politics, culture, geography and people. Introduction to Nordic Cultures is a tool for understanding issues related to the Nordic region as a whole, offering the reader engaging and stimulating ways of discovering a variety of cultural expressions, historical developments and local preoccupations. The textbook is a valuable resource for undergraduate students of Scandinavian and Nordic studies, as well as students of European history, culture, literature and linguistics.

Author : Graham Fairclough,Ingrid Sarlöv Herlin,Carys Swanwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317621034

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Routledge Handbook of Landscape Character Assessment by Graham Fairclough,Ingrid Sarlöv Herlin,Carys Swanwick Pdf

In this multi-authored book, senior practitioners and researchers offer an international overview of landscape character approaches for those working in research, policy and practice relating to landscape. Over the last three decades, European practice in landscape has moved from a narrow, if relatively straightforward, focus on natural beauty or scenery to a much broader concept of landscape character constructed through human perception, and transcending any of its individual elements. Methods, tools and techniques have been developed to give practical meaning to this idea of landscape character. The two main methods, Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) and Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) were applied first in the United Kingdom, but other methods are in use elsewhere in Europe, and beyond, to achieve similar ends. This book explores why different approaches exist, the extent to which disciplinary or cultural specificities in different countries affect approaches to land management and landscape planning, and highlights areas for reciprocal learning and knowledge transfer. Contributors to the book focus on examples of European countries – such as Sweden, Turkey and Portugal – that have adopted and extended UK-style landscape characterisation, but also on countries with their own distinctive approaches that have developed from different conceptual roots, as in Germany, France and the Netherlands. The collection is completed by chapters looking at landscape approaches based on non-European concepts of landscape in North America, Australia and New Zealand. This book has an introductory price of £125/$205 which will last until 3 months after publication - after this time it will revert to £140/$225.

Author : William C Miller
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781785002373

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Nordic Modernism by William C Miller Pdf

Modernism was instrumental in the development of twentieth and twenty-first century Scandinavian architecture, for it captured a progressive, urbane character that was inextricably associated with, and embraced the social programmes of the Nordic welfare states. Recognized internationally for its sensitivity and responsiveness to place and locale, and its thoughtful use of materials and refined detailing, Nordic architecture continues to evolve and explore its modernist roots. This new book covers the romantic and classical architectural foundations of Nordic modernism; the development of Nordic Functionalism; the maturing and expansion of Nordic modern architecture in the post-war period; international influences on Scandinavian modernism at the end of the twentieth century and finally, the global and local currents found in contemporary Nordic architecture. Superbly illustrated with 100 colour images.

Author : Darcy White,Chris Goldie
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839449509

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Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography by Darcy White,Chris Goldie Pdf

Northern landscapes are both real places and representations, imagined spaces - notions which are bound to collide in landscape photography. In this book, photographers, academics, curators, and archivists from Germany, Finland, Scandinavia, the US, and the UK address urgent questions about environmental degradation, globalization, consumerism, and the role of new technologies of representation in relation to landscape. Wide-ranging case studies examine the interpretation, experience, and appropriation of landscape in northern Europe, northern England, Scotland, and the Nordic countries. The book explores tensions in landscape photography between an emphasis on proximity and the embodied experience of place and space, and an advocacy of distance and critical engagement and a questioning of the primacy of direct experience.