The Reflexive North
Author: Nils Aarsæther
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9789289301619
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Transforming the Local
Author: Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9789289307116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoken tar for seg endringer i regioner og lokalsamfunn som følge av blant annet økt økonomisk konkurranse og fraflytting, og ser på muligheter til å snu negative trender. Med eksempler fra blant annet Island, Nordvest-Russland, Færøyene, Sverige og Finnmark. Litteraturliste og noen illustrasjoner. Engelsk tekst.
Morphologies of Asia and Africa
Author: Alan S. Kaye
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2007-06-23
Total Pages: 1420
ISBN-13: 1575065665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1997, Eisenbrauns published the highly-regarded two-volume Phonologies of Asia and Africa, edited by Alan Kaye with the assistance of Peter T. Daniels, and the book rapidly became the standard reference for the phonologies of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Now the concept has been extended, and Kaye has assembled nearly 50 scholars to write essays on the morphologies of the same language group. The coverage is complete, copious, and again will likely become the standard work in the field. Contributors are an international Who’s Who of Afro-Asiatic linguistics, from Appleyard to Leslau to Voigt. It is with great sadness that we report the death of Alan Kaye on May 31, 2007, while these volumes were in the final stages of preparation for the press. Alan was diagnosed with bone cancer on May 1 while on research leave in the United Arab Emirates and was brought home to Fullerton by his son on May 22.
Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community
Author: Donna Patrick
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-06-10
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 3110897709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the early 1970s, the Inuit of Arctic Quebec have struggled to survive economically and culturally in a rapidly changing northern environment. The promotion and maintenance of Inuktitut, their native language, through language policy and Inuit control over institutions, have played a major role in this struggle. Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community is a study of indigenous language maintenance in an Arctic Quebec community where four languages - Inuktitut, Cree, French, and English - are spoken. It examines the role that dominant and minority languages play in the social life of this community, linking historical analysis with an ethnographic study of face-to-face interaction and attitudes towards learning and speaking second and third languages in everyday life.
The Political Economy of Northern Regional Development: Introduction to the Project and The First Volume of The Political Economy of Northern Regional Development (POENOR)
Author: Gorm Winther
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9289320168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Nordic co-operation is one of the world's most extensive forms of regional collaboration, involv-ing Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and three autonomous areas: the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland.
Reflexive Ethnographic Practice
Author: Amanda Kearney
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-01-21
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 3030348989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPutting the anthropological imagination under the spotlight, this book represents the experience of three generations of researchers, each of whom have long collaborated with the same Indigenous community over the course of their careers. In the context of a remote Indigenous Australian community in northern Australia, these researchers—anthropologists, an archeologist, a literary scholar, and an artist—encounter reflexivity and ethnographic practice through deeply personal and professionally revealing accounts of anthropological consciousness, relational encounters, and knowledge sharing. In six discrete chapters, the authors reveal the complexities that run through these relationships, considering how any one of us builds knowledge, shares knowledge, how we encounter different and new knowledge, and how well we are positioned to understand the lived experiences of others, whilst making ourselves fully available to personal change. At its core, this anthology is a meditation on learning and friendship across cultures.
Coping with Distances
Author: Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011-03
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0857451448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Nordic Atlantic area has seen remarkable examples of social formations in areas that many would perceive as too remote to allow the construction of functioning communities. But through innovations, networking and the formation of identities people have coped with distances, thus continuously rebuilding societies in Northern Norway, Iceland, the Faroes, and Greenland. Living conditions in the Nordic Atlantic are so extreme that one might ask whether the notion of society is applicable under these circumstances. The author argues that, yes, there is a meaningful way of comprehending these social formations, which is through the spatial and temporal practices that produce, reproduce, stabilize, destabilize and change them. He introduces the concept of coping, which means neither mastering nor adapting but relates to in-between strategies and tactics reflected in practices of securing people’s way of life under conditions that are never totally under their control.
The Logics of Water Policies in Central Asia
Author: Andrea Zinzani
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 3643906455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the framework of Political Geography of Water, this book examines the logics of water policies implementation in the Central Asian region. Reflecting on the relations between political power, water policies and the hydraulic territories, it analyzes the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) implementation - the global water paradigm promoted by the development organizations since the 1990s - its logics and rationales, in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan at the basin / local level. Based on detailed, actor-oriented and comparative field-research in two river basins, the main findings highlight how the IWRM implementation was reconfigured by the two states in order to pursue specific socio-political strategies, in contradiction with the paradigm's aims and the narratives of international development.
The Alternative Media Handbook
Author: Kate Coyer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-12-27
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 113675573X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an overview of global alternative media activity, before moving on to provide information about alternative media production and how to get involved in it.
Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic
Author: Chris Southcott
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-04
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1351019082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past thirty years we have witnessed a demand for resources such as minerals, oil, and gas, which is only set to increase. This book examines the relationship between Arctic communities and extractive resource development. With insights from leading thinkers in the field, the book examines this relationship to better understand what, if anything, can be done in order for the development of non-renewable resources to be of benefit to the long-term sustainability of these communities. The contributions synthesize circumpolar research on the topic of resource extraction in the Arctic, and highlight areas that need further investigation, such as the ability of northern communities to properly use current regulatory processes, fiscal arrangements, and benefit agreements to ensure the long-term sustainability of their culture communities and to avoid a new path dependency This book provides an insightful summary of issues surrounding resource extraction in the Arctic, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in environmental impact assessments, globalization and Indigenous communities, and the future of the Arctic region.
