Artikler, rapporter og annet (samfunnsvitenskap): Recent submissions
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Oppslutningen om Ap, H, Sp og FrP ved sametingsvalg sammenliknet med stortingsvalg 1989–2017: Er det nasjonale valgvinder eller samepolitikken som teller?
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2018)Partisystemet i Sametinget kan betegnes som et hybrid system som består av både rene samiske lister som ikke stiller til valg til Stortinget, og nasjonale partier som stiller lister både til stortingsvalg og til sametingsvalg. Valgene til Sametinget og Stortinget holdes samtidig. Det er derfor interessant å finne ut om det i hovedsak er de nasjonale trendene i stortingsvalgene som bestemmer ... -
LambdaRoad - Summarizing the main findings of work package 1: System and organizational requirements for CCAM"
(Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2020)This report isa collection of the memos written in work package 1 of the LambdaRoad project, where the overall project objectives is to study the need and requirements for electronic communication (ecom) in the future transport system in Norway and develop a planning tool for ecom for the transport sector. lntroductory studies were performed in work package 1 and documented in this report. In ... -
Emotions and community development after return migration in the rural Arctic
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2020-10-18)Migration is emotive, evoking feelings of hopelessness, fear, or optimism for human and economic development, yet the role of emotions in post-migration community development gains limited attention. This chapter discusses the role of emotions in migration and rural development after the return of migrants, drawing on studies of temporary labour migration from Teriberka, a small coastal village in ... -
From Public to Private Accountability in Norwegian Local Government
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-08)This article discusses the consequences of changing views on accountability in democratic decision-making. Trends in Norway indicate that Norwegians are evaluating local democracy increasingly in terms of service performance and output, rather than in terms of political input from citizens. While traditional process evaluation is associated with governmental hierarchies and how voters can make elected ... -
Structural enablements and constraints in the creation and enactment of local content in Norwegian education
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-11)In Norway, the national curriculum together with the Education Act serves as the foundation for teaching and learning in primary and secondary education and training. Local educational providers are given autonomy to develop local adaptations of the centrally given subject-specific curriculum competence aims. This article explores some structural enablements and constraints tied to teachers’ ... -
Mot avvikling av trålernes plikter? En gjennomgang av utkjøpsavtaler i nordnorske fiskerikommuner
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2015)<p>The industry owned trawlers land-lock obligation, originally intended to ensure both greater seasonal distribution of raw material as well as settlement in coastal communities, function poorly and has been put under pressure. This is due to the industrial trawler concept being torn between its role as a raw material supplier with a social responsibility, and its role as profitable actor on a ... -
The spiralling effects of the Sino-American trade war
(Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2020-06-05)Almost two years ago, China and the United States instigated a trade conflict which has had serious international effects, a situation since exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. What has truly made a solution to this conflict elusive, however, is that its origins lie well beyond questions of trade deficits and fair competition, and are instead based on the looming question of a power transition ... -
Konkurrerende omdømmeoppfatninger : En drøfting av nordisk omdømmeforskning på offentlig sektor generelt og kommuner spesiel
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)Det er blitt vanlig i alle typer virksomheter å fokusere på eget omdømme. Ikke minst eksponeres offentlig sektor, deriblant kommuner, nå massivt for budskapet om å arbeide med – og håndtere – omdømme. Omdømmebegrepet er imidlertid svært diffust og forstås ulikt av ulike aktører. I denne artikkelen rettes oppmerksomheten mot de teoretiske perspektivene og definisjonene som benyttes for å forstå ... -
A Governance and Risk Inventory for a Changing Arctic: Background Paper for the Arctic Security Roundtable at the Munich Security Conference 2020
(Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2020)Many government officials, military leaders, and political observers have proclaimed the rise of a new, post-Cold War global great power competition between the United States, Russia, and China with myriad implications. Using this new reality as the backdrop for the Arctic Security Roundtable at the Munich Security Conference 2020, roundtable participants are asked to explore, discuss, and debate ... -
Screening new PFAS compounds 2018
(Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2019)This screening project has focused on the occurrence of conventional andemerging PFASs in terrestrial and marine environments, including the Arctic. Conventional PFASs were found to be wide-spread in the environment and for the first time in Norway reported in wolf, a top predator from the terrestrial environment.Otters living in close proximity to human settlements and preying on the marine food ... -
Debate: Corporatization in local government - the need for a comparative and multi-disciplinary research approach
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-28)During the past 20–30 years, scholars from different academic disciplines, as well as practitioners and local politicians, have observed a marked growth in the number of municipally-owned companies (MOCs) in local government service provision (Grossi & Reichard, 2008; Aars & Ringkjøb, 2011; Erlingsson, Fogelgren, Olsson, Thomasson, & Öhrvall, 2015; Ferry, Andrews, Skelcher, & Wegorowski, 2018). This ... -
China's UN peacekeeping in Mali and comprehensive diplomacy
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2019-03-04)China's increasing participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations reached a milestone in 2013 when Beijing agreed to send a large detachment of personnel, including combat forces for the first time, to support UN peacekeeping operations in Mali after that country fell into civil war. This commitment was also distinct in that unlike other African countries where Beijing has supplied peacekeepers, ... -
China's New Roles and Behaviour in Conflict-Affected Regions: Reconsidering Non-Interference and Non-Intervention
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2019-03-07)China's view on the sanctity of state sovereignty has slowly but inexorably been transformed, and the country has found it difficult to continue to adhere to the principles of non-interference and non-intervention with the same degree of rigour as during the Cold War era. This special section will explore what the principles mean to China today; why and how Beijing has become active in peacebuilding ... -
Historisk læring som struktur for dialog om det fremtidige forhold mellem Danmark og Nordatlanten
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019)Danmark har været statsretsligt knyttet til Nordatlanten siden unionen med Norge i 1380. Den kontinentaleuropæiske småstat Danmarks forhold til Nordatlanten drives frem af eksterne chok fra stormagtsrelationer og nationalliberale uafhængighedsidéer, der peger mod stadigt større og fuld selvstændighed for Færøerne og Grønland. Denne udvikling fortsætter ubønhørligt i et internationalt system præget ... -
The China–Switzerland Free Trade Agreement and Economic Identity-Building
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2019-01-25)The free trade agreement signed between China and Switzerland in 2013 was a watershed event in the economic policies of both states,a successful identity-building exercise for both actors in addition to an economic endeavour. In the case of Beijing, the Switzerland free trade agreement (FTA) was a crucial step not only in promoting its trade interests in Europe, including the European Union, but ... -
The Body as Situation: A Darwinian Reading of The Second Sex
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-04)Challenging the influential view that the chapter on biology in the first volume of <i>The Second Sex</i> is exposing scientific myths in severe prose, in the view of this paper, the chapter is as much about scientific facts as it is an intriguingly open-ended dialogue between phenomenology and science. Beauvoir’s consuming epistemological and scientific preoccupation with the category of biology ... -
Historic settlements and pastoralism in the Arctic and Tibetan Plateau: towards a comparison
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-12)Historic settlement processes of, respectively, the Northern Sámi and Western Tibetan pastoralists have so far not been subjected to any comparative social science analyses. This study contributes to such a conceptual platform, drawing on the constructs dwelling, settlement, herding unit, pastoral landscape and the labour–animal–pasture triangle. Ethnographic and archival evidence of transitions ... -
Refugees on Film: Assessing the Political Strengths and Weaknesses of the Documentary Style
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019)The article considers one dominant tendency of independent filmmaking, and its impact on the treatment of the refugee (broadly conceived): the application of contemporary documentary methods to both fiction and nonfiction works. The goal is a preliminary exploration of the complex, context-sensitive political effects of the approach, sometimes dubbed the “documentary style”, as resistance of ... -
Tamed Monsters and Human Problems in Cinema's Interview with the Vampire (1994)
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-11)What can the taming of the monster reveal about its construction and the potential and limits of change? Modernist, individualist qualities of Western culture and society have shaped the construction and deconstruction of the monster in popular culture in general and film in particular. The idea of an historically emergent human nature and its associated norms is key to the construction of the monster ... -
In the same boat? A comparative analysis of the approaches of Russia and Canada in the negotiation of the IMO's mandatory polar code
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-06)In the field of Arctic shipping, Canada and the Russian Federation have enacted extensive unilateral national regulations cognizant of Article 234, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. On the global level, both states have been important actors in negotiating the International Maritime Organization’s mandatory Polar Code, a legal instrument with implications for regulations at the national level. ...