As a response to the increase in human activity reliant on navigation in polar areas and concomitant challenges and risks, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) developed mandatory regulations in the form of the International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters (Polar Code). The Polar Code aims to enhance ship safety and environmental protection in Arctic and Antarctic waters. In so ...

Denne avhandlingen omhandler problemstillinger knyttet til salg av kultur i en urfolkskontekst. Det etnografiske materialet arbeides frem i bevegelser fra akademiske tekster om samisk turisme, gjennom reisen til – og samarbeidet med Senter for nordlige folk i Kåfjord i Nord-Troms, en fotoutstilling, og involvering i en studietur til New Zealand for samiske reiselivsaktører, en reise som skulle bygge ...

Næringshager er et populært konsept og redskap i regionalpolitikken. Samlokalisering av kunnskapsintensive virksomheter i distriktene motivert av befolknings og næringsmessige utfordringer mange distriktskommuner står overfor. Erfaringene etter 10-år med næringshager viser at dette er komplekse organisatoriske konstruksjoner hvor resultatene ikke er som forventet knyttet til innovasjon og entreprenørskap. ...

This dissertation is about norms of the outdoors and it is based in four publications. While the articles are about specific norms, the summary article focus on how these norms are negotiated between locals and tourists and how they in sum can be seen as a negotiable room – a moral landscape of the outdoors. Firstly, I set out to investigate how nature based tourism is affecting the normative ...

This dissertation investigates the interface of syntax and phonology in a fully modular view of language, deriving the effects of syntactic structure on prosodification without referring to that structure in the phonological computation. It explores the effects of the Multiple Spell-Out Hypothesis and ‘syntax-all-the-way-down approaches’, specifically Nanosyntax, on the phonological computation. The ...

This dissertation challenges the traditional idealized model of allomorphy by confronting it with comprehensive data on 15 Russian aspectual prefixes (RAZ-, RAS-, RAZO-, S-, SO-, PERE-, PRE-, VZ-, VOZ-, O-, OB-, OBO-, U-, VY-, IZ-) collected from corpus and linguistic experiments. The traditional definition narrows allomorphy down to a mere variation of form where the meaning remains constant and ...

This dissertation is a comparative study of Sámi and Norwegian family living arrangements, explored from the perspective of the elderly and their co-residing behaviour with an own adult child. Up until 1875 nearly two-thirds of all elderly Sámi resided with an own adult child, 10 percentage points lower among Norwegians. In 1900, fewer than half of the elderly lived together with an own adult ...

The objective of this thesis is essentially to understand better how the High North initiative has been framed and construed in official and public discourse in Norway. To this end, the dissertation consists of five articles which deal with different aspects of this initiative from thematically different angles, and different sources of data depending on whether public or official discourses are ...

Redefinering av monumentalitet har vært et av de sentrale prosjektene i arkitekturen i det tjuende århundret – enten perspektivet var historisk, sosialt, politisk eller estetisk. Under modernismen og etter andre verdenskrig ble behovet for en ny monumentalitet formulert av arkitekter og teoretikere. Hva dette “nye” består i er et vesentlig spørsmål i avhandlingen. Gjennom analyser av Tromsdalen ...