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Sámi new speakers: A case study of the North Sámi language beginner program at UiT
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-06-22)The present thesis focuses on students enrolled at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) during the 2020/2021 academic year in the Nordsamisk som fremmedspråk, North Sámi beginner language program. The study explores the process of becoming a Sámi new speaker through an educational program and the factors that motivate, promote, or prevent new speakers’ learning path. New speakers can contribute ... -
How to Record Current Events like an Archaeologist
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-15)This article shows how to record current events from an archaeological perspective. With a case study from the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway, we provide accessible tools to document broad spatial and behavioral patterns through material culture as they emerge. Stressing the importance of ethical engagement with contemporary subjects, we adapt archaeological field methods—including geolocation, ... -
Cognitive flexibility in children with Developmental Language Disorder: drawing of nonexistent objects
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-17)Cognitive flexibility is the ability to adapt thoughts and behaviors to new environments. Previous studies investigating cognitive flexibility in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) present contradictory findings. In the current study, cognitive flexibility was assessed in 5- and 6-year-old preschoolers with DLD (<i>n</i> = 23) and peers with typical development (TD; <i>n</i> = 50) ... -
Åarjelsaemien infinihte veerbehaemieh
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-06-16)I denne masteroppgaven analyseres sørsamiske infinitte verbformer gjennom deres morfologi, syntaks og semantikk. Målet er å finne svar på hvilke infinitte verbformer som finnes i sørsamisk med hovedvekt på funksjonsanalyse, og gjennom dette beskrive et koherent system av infinitte verbformer fra et morfosyntaktisk perspektiv. På grunnlag av en tredelt funksjonsanalyse som tar for seg predikative og ... -
Fuelling toxic relations: Oil sands and settler colonialism in Canada
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-01)How does the often-invisible nature of pollution affect people's physical health and psychosocial relations, and their well-being near major industrial projects? Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Northern Alberta, Canada, this article explores this question by focusing on oil sands extraction on Cree, Dené and Métis nations' homelands with its environmental and socio-cultural consequences. ... -
Filmowe portrety Stanisława Siedleckiego (1912-2002) na tle Svalbardu: Fragmenty wizualnej historii nauki
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-17)The article offers a new perspective on Stanisław Siedlecki’s biography through visual history, with a particular emphasis on film history. The connections between Siedlecki’s life and the cinema can be grouped in three sections: 1. films starring Siedlecki, 2. films by Siedlecki and 3. films about Siedlecki. The film <i>Do Ziemi Torella (To Torell Land)</i> represents the pre-war period; the post-war ... -
Unfettering discussions about social justice: the role of conversational prompts in discussions about mathematics education for Indigenous students
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-21)To increase possibilities for listening respectfully to Indigenous educators, there is a need to identify conversational prompts which are used to raise alternative views of social justice about mathematics education for Indigenous students. Using Nancy Fraser’s description of abnormal social justice, an analysis was made of transcripts from round table sessions, at an Indigenous mathematics education ... -
Kindergartens in Northern Norway as semiotic landscapes
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-20)Educational institutions have a responsibility to ensure that all children receive care and equal possibilities for development, independent of their linguistic and cultural background. However, there is little knowledge about how kindergartens ensure a welcoming and inspiring place for both transnational migrants, Indigenous children, and children from the majority population. Through a semiotic ... -
A Journey towards Fatherhood: The importance of embodying a new role
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-15)This thesis explores the complex transformations involved in first-time fatherhood, when adult men undergo one of the most important changes of status in their lives. How is this new status reached? What are the stages of this transition? What other social factors influence the way this transition takes place? The study is primarily based on audiovisual material of my husband, a Spanish researcher ... -
Tales of Tirpitz – The Battleship in European Documentaries and Museum Exhibitions
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-11-05)The goal of this thesis was to explore, collect and highlight various strategies that British, German and Norwegian documentaries and museum exhibitions use to mediate different cultural memories about the same historical event. By examining the story of the German battleship Tirpitz that was sunk by the British in Norway during World War II, this thesis analyses the production of memory potentials ... -
Hybride heltinner i det litterære Arktis. Dekolonialitet, interseksjonalitet og økokritikk i Nelvana of the Northern Lights (1941 - 1947), White Heat (2011) og Kautokeino, en blodig kniv (2012)
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-11-04)The purpose of this dissertation, <i>Hybrid heroines in the literary Arctic</i>, is to bring literary studies to the popular literary Arctic through analyzes of Arctic indigenous cultures and lifeworlds. These lifeworlds have to varying degrees been subject to colonial processes, and both social, historical and natural conditions in addition to gender and ethnicity affect the hybrid protagonists' ... -
The development of the Latin gerund in Rhaeto-Romance
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-09-30)<p><i>L gerundie indichea la modalitèdes o la condizions de n'azion. L vegn durà demò te la forma prejenta; tel passà se doura de autra construzions perifrastiches. [...] De spes se pel l transformèr te n complement indiret de temp, de meso, de modo o te na frasa temporèla, ipotetica, e c.i.</i> <p>This is how the Grammar of Fascian Ladin (issued by the Ladin Cultural Institute in Vigo di Fassa) ... -
Who merits admittance? The fairness of skills-based migration criteria
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-10-20)The last few decades have seen an increasing use of merit-based immigration systems, whereby migrants are treated differently on the basis of their skills, education, and wealth. In this thesis I argue that there are justice-based reasons to be sceptical of such policies. While I agree that there are good grounds for states to control their own borders, related to self-determination and the welfare ... -
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää and Mari Boine: Song lyrics and Themes. Thematic Study of their song lyrics and the long lines
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-08-29)The topic of this thesis is the development of the song lyrics to Nils-Aslak Valkeapää and Mari Boine. How they have been evolving and changing through times and looking for the long lines of the song lyrics, what is possible to see when looking at them. The Sámi society and communities have been changing in the last 50 years since the Sámi pop music in Sámi language made its way to the scenes. All ... -
En minoritet i minoriteten. Homofile i samiske miljø og samer i homofile miljø
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2003)Denne artikkelen fokuserer på de komplekse samfunnsmessige relasjonene homofile samer er innvevd i; relasjonene til heteroseksualiteten som sosial institusjon, til norske homofile, til det samiske samfunn og til det norske samfunn. Artikkelens målsetting er å problematisere noen aspekter ved den doble minoritetsposisjonen homofile samer befinner seg i. -
Association of Pre-diagnostic Antibody Responses to Escherichia coli and Bacteroides fragilis Toxin Proteins with Colorectal Cancer in a European Cohort
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-20)Experimental evidence has implicated genotoxic <i>Escherichia coli (E. coli)</i> and enterotoxigenic <i>Bacteroides fragilis</i> (ETBF) in the development of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, evidence from epidemiological studies is sparse. We therefore assessed the association of serological markers of <i>E. coli</i> and ETBF exposure with odds of developing CRC in the European Prospective Investigation ... -
The survival of dugnad. Exploring the meanings and adaptabilities of dugnad as a concept and function in contemporary Norwegian society
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-31)The thesis explores the concept of dugnad, its meanings, and functions in contemporary Norwegian society. Dugnad is a tradition of unpaid voluntary work that can be traced back to agricultural society. Despite Norway undergoing substantial social, political and economic changes, it did not lose its relevance. In my thesis, I attempt to answer why practice so old prevailed in the modern world and how ... -
The Tourism of the Authentic in a Rural Idyll: The Case of a Family Organized Activity in the South of France
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-18)Ethnography is a multi-method human-conducted examination of what humans do, say, think and believe. As Sherry Ortner flawlessly explains: “ethnography has always meant the attempt to understand another life world using the self – as much of it as possible – as the instrument of knowing.” (2006: 3) My thesis will be devoted to study how people experience alternative lifestyles and new ways of living ... -
How ritualistic formality affects the integrity of education at the University of Novi Sad
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-06-01)This fieldwork looked into historical and cultural traits of the Serbian people and assessed their affect on the integrity of education at the University of Novi Sad, under the scope of the international Bologna Process. The culture is intertwined with specific, ritualized notions of upbringing of formality in its people, as to make the status quo and respect of authority more rigid. The country ... -
Vibber og forretninger i Silicon Valley
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-06-01)Folk i fra hele verden kommer strømmende til Silicon Valley for å bo i trange, stappfulle hus, for en urimelig høy pris. Mange satser stort for å dra dit, men det de finner er ikke nødvendigvis det de søkte, og det de trodde de søkte er ikke nødvendigvis det de ender opp med å verdsette. Avhandlingen skildrer hvordan dynamikken mellom Apolloniske og Dionysiske tendenser utspiller seg på et sted med ...
