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Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Society in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region
(2024)
The literarisation of the early modern Baltic Sea region was a long and complex process with varying trajectories for different vernacular languages. This volume highlights the interaction of local social and cultural ...
Girjjohallat girjáivuođa - Embracing Diversity
(2024)
Unveil the dynamic world of Sami education across Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia in this book. This vital volume presents cutting-edge research from top scholars, enriching teacher education with innovative, ...
Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks
(2024)
While providing a basis for all ecosystems, bugs such as insects and arachnids also destroy crops and indirectly kill humans and other animals by the millions. This book illuminates the many ways in which human lives affect ...
The Politics of Diversity in Music Education
(2021)
This open access book examines the political structures and processes that frame and produce understandings of diversity in and through music education. Recent surges in nationalist, fundamentalist, protectionist and ...
Common Good and Self-Interest in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
(2024)
This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in the history of Western philosophy. The thirteen chapters explore both ...
Chapter 10 ‘Aid the victims of German fascism!’
(2021)
Anti-fascism became one of the main causes of the American left-liberal milieu during the mid-1930s. The chapter offers a new analysis of two communist-led, international organisations called the World Committee against ...
Chapter 5 ‘Make Scandinavia a bulwark against fascism!’
(2021)
Hitler’s seizure of power on 30 January 1933 provided an urgent impetus to stage transnational anti-fascist conferences and rallies on a global scale. One of the first, but almost completely overlooked major conferences ...
Chapter 2 Normative economic statecraft
(2021)
This chapter provides an overview of state-of-the-art research revolving around China’s use of economic and financial means to serve foreign policy objectives with normative implications, defined here as normative economic ...
Chapter 9 Talking rocks, illusory sounds, and projections of the otherworld
(2021)
This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world we live in. Considering different cultural ...
Chapter 3 Digital Approaches to Analyzing and Translating Emotion
(2023)
This chapter discusses the use of digital tools—in particular, language technology—to study the history of emotions. There are a growing number of annotated text corpora for ancient languages large enough to benefit from ...
Chapter 10 Bad behaviours, spoiled identities
(2024)
Elaborating on Goffman’s ideas of self and face, the chapter examines the ways in which patients with personality disorders manage the stigma of impulsive behaviours (such as verbal or physical violence) in psychiatric ...
Chapter 13 The social organization of (in-)attention
(2024)
“Attention” is a primordial topic throughout Goffman’s work. Already his dissertation thesis (1953) includes a separate chapter on “the organization of attention”. In his later studies he developed various concepts related ...
Koti, hyvinvointityö ja haavoittuvuus
(2022)
In this book [titled Home, welfare work and vulnerability] the authors take the reader on welfare workers’ home visits to clients in need of support in their living. Welfare workers refer to professionals in health and ...
Animal Industries
(2024)
This book explores the history and development of animal industries in Nordic countries from their establishment in the late nineteenth century to the present day. It charts the manner in which the value of an animal has ...
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Planetary Well-Being
(2024)
This book proposes a paradigm shift in how human and nonhuman well-being are perceived and approached. In response to years of accelerated decline in the health of ecosystems and their inhabitants, this edited collection ...
Young People as Agents of Sustainable Society
(2023)
This book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well-being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco-social system.
It develops a ...
Up in Arms: Gun Imaginaries in Texas
(2022)
Up in Arms provides an illustrative and timely window onto the ways in which guns shape people’s lives and social relations in Texas. With a long history of myth, lore, and imaginaries attached to gun carrying, the Lone ...
Chapter 5 Distances and sense of belonging
(2023)
This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs and wishes in ...
Chapter 4 Age-friendly environments in the stories of older people in the Finnish Arctic
(2023)
This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs and wishes in ...
Chapter Muslim women caregivers in elderly care in Finland
(2023)
Elaborating with the concepts of culture and religious literacy, this volume examines theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of the practice and study of religion and non-religion, culture, spirituality and ...
Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch
(2022)
This Open Access book provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly developing esport phenomenon by examining one of its contemporary flagship titles, Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment 2016), through three central themes ...
Chapter 12 Sámi teacher education emphasising land-based approaches for Indigenous rights
(2025)
Backed by a range of case studies and recent developments in human rights education research, Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education guides readers through an analysis of educational inequities and identifies how ...
Dealing with Medical Uncertainty in and through the History of Medicine
(2025)
This book examines the history of medicine as a sub-discipline within the medical humanities and its possible contributions to dealing with medical uncertainty. It investigates how the history of medicine reduced intolerance ...
Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling
(2023)
Characters are a vital aspect of today’s transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media ...