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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 ...
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 ...
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" ...
Prioritering og progresjon i skolematematikken
(2017)
Norway is a leading country in the world when it comes to not prioritizing algebra in school mathematics, the mathematical language many students will need for further education and professions. Analysis of data from TIMSS, ...
The Many and the One
(2021)
Plural logic has become a well-established subject, especially in philosophical logic. This book explores its broader significance for philosophy, logic, and linguistics. What can plural logic do for us? Are the bold claims ...
Language Activism
(2021)
Through an ethnographic account of Isthmus Zapotec language advocates in Oaxaca, Mexico, this study illuminates a repertoire of advocacy strategies that are bringing linguistic equality closer to reality.
Academic Flying and the Means of Communication
(2022)
This open access book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s flying habit. The starting point of the book is that flying is only one means of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Musikk og religion
(2022)
Music plays an important role in many religions and in a variety of religious contexts. Music and Religion: Texts on Music in Religion and Religion in Music takes a look at the intersections between music and religion.
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Chapter 7 Made in France and Made in Paris
(2023)
Made in France examines the long history of the branding of the French nation, from the political imprint of Prime Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert to the present day. The politics of Made in France were articulated at several ...
Gender Equality in Academia
(2022)
What is the state of gender equality in science and technology? Gender Equality in Academia – from Knowledge to Change presents the results of a comprehensive research project and program of initiatives at the University ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Intersections of Religion, Education, and a Sustainable World
(2025)
This open access volume contains up-to-date, informed perspectives on how sustainable development issues can be integrated into religious education. With a focus on issues that frequently appear in policy documents related ...
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 ...
Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development)
(2025)
The edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing, and researching Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Engaging authors from the Majority ...
Cooperation and Confrontation in Nordic Civil Societies since 1800
(2025)
This book examines Nordic civil societies from 1800 until today, by studying the roles of voluntary action and associations in the Nordic region and beyond. Through its diverse and historically informed analyses of civil ...
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 ...
Police Cooperation and Sovereignty in the EU
(2018)
The State and the police are traditionally seen as closely connected phenomena. Today, however, rapid EU legal developments mean that European police forces are no longer tied to a specific national legal context or a ...
International Human Rights and Local Courts
(2024)
This book addresses the technicalities of how international human rights law can be applied at the domestic level through a case study of the human rights methodology of the Indonesian judiciary. Numerous international ...
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 ...
Kjønn, helse og marginalisering
(2025)
This anthology explores the intersection between gender, health and marginalization. In recent years, there has been increasing research interest in the connection between gender and health. However, in the Norwegian ...
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 ...