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Live, Die, Buy, Eat
(2023)
Live, Die, Buy, Eat. These words represent a chain of events which today is disconnected. In the past few years, controversies around meat have arisen around industrialization and globalization of meat production, often ...
Early Modern Genres of History
(2024)
Bringing together an international group of literary scholars, intellectual historians, and cultural historians, this book discusses history in its various forms, either as texts or images in the early modern period ...
Chapter 21 Differentiated integration in EU climate policy
(2022)
EU climate policy is characterized by significant degrees of differentiated integration. Although the two topics complement each other, differentiated integration and studies of EU climate policy have rarely been studied ...
Sonic Design
(2024)
This open access book offers a historical context and an overview of the field's current artistic and scientific research. Sonic design includes the construction and performance of acoustic instruments but also recording, ...
Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography
(2017)
Bringing sophisticated philosophy to bear on real-life historiography, Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography rekindles and invigorates the debate on two perennials in the theory and methodology of history. ...
The Nordic Education Model in Context
(2023)
Tracing historical and cultural factors which gave rise to the Nordic Education Model, this volume explores why Northern European education policy has become an international benchmark for schooling. The text explains the ...
Effective Houses
(2023)
This book examines property rights, settlement structure and social organization in Norway’s Østlandet in the Iron age (500 BC–AD 1050). Inspired by ethnographical and anthropological studies, a model of a stateless, ...
Chapter 11 Minoritized youth language in Norwegian media discourse
(2023)
This chapter sets out to analyse what the representations of urban youth and their language practices in Norwegian media reveals about circulating discourses about diversity and immigration. The digital media archive Atekst ...
Chapter 10 Norway
(2023)
The last decade has witnessed growing concern about violent extremism as many European countries have introduced policies to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE). Norway is no exception, launching three such action ...
Standardization in the Middle Ages
(2024)
We live in a world riven through with standards. To understand more of their deep, rich past is to understand ourselves better.These two volumes turn to the Middle Ages to give a deeper understanding of the medieval ideas ...
The Platformization of the Family
(2025)
This open access book outlines how the digital platforms that mediate so many aspects of commercial and personal life have begun to transform everyday family existence. It presents theory and research methods to enable ...
Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder
(2024)
Increasing levels of singledom, dating dysfunction, and sexual inactivity contribute to plummeting fertility rates. This book investigates the perhaps most foundational factor behind this uncoupling: our present era’s ...
Political Transition and Inclusive Development in Malawi
(2016)
Malawi is among the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has witnessed significant improvements in relation to meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. It exhibits some of the main challenges facing African ...
Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics
(2020)
Conceptual engineering is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with assessing representational devices such as concepts and words. Conceptual engineers looks for the problems with such devices and attempt to come up ...
Teacher Education in the Nordic Region
(2023)
This open access book is the first account of the whole diversity of teacher education in the Nordic region: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, the Åland Islands and Sápmi (where the ...
20 år med fysikkprestasjoner i fritt fall
(2019)
"The book discusses various challenges and solutions related to the coordination of health and welfare services. Coordination is central to creating integrated services for users with complex needs. In order to understand ...
Childlessness in the Age of Communication
(2020)
Cristina Archetti started researching childlessness after being diagnosed with ""unexplained infertility"". She soon discovered that, although involuntary childlessness affects an increasing number of women and men across ...
Coastal Landscapes of the Mesolithic
(2020)
Coastal Landscapes of the Mesolithic: Human Engagement with the Coast from the Atlantic to the Baltic Sea explores the character and significance of coastal landscapes in the Mesolithic – on different scales and with various ...
Acceleration and Cultural Change
(2024)
This open access book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world’s leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" ...
Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change
(2024)
The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum’s Gender ...