This thesis concerns the ways in which a selection of at-risk youths constructed meaning and managed their identities within the frames of ‘Youth Gaze’ film courses. The Youth Gaze initiative was comprised of a series of participatory courses in reflexive filmmaking designed by visual anthropologists and carried out in collaboration with social and health institutions across Norway engaging with ...

Nenets reindeer herders of the Russian arctic are described by researchers as the most successful, in terms of the number of their reindeer and the number of people involved in this unique way of life. However, the continuation of this unique form of nomadic culture is at immediate risk. There is a problem, the recruitment and training of future generations of nomadic Nenets reindeer herders, in ...

<p>Youths´ choice of education and residence will affect development in Northern Norway. This thesis offers insight into how some young people from Troms are seeing the future in the north and how young people experience their own participation in regional development. On one hand, a statistical description of Northern Norway's future perspectives from SSB, the media and scientists, can be perceived ...

This dissertation investigates Russian perfective verbs with a prefix and the semelfactive suffix -nu-, such as zaxlopnut’ ‘slam shut’, for the sake of simplicity referred to as “Pref-Nu verbs”. Pref-Nu verbs have received only marginal attention in the scholarly literature, and in the dissertation a main goal is therefore to shed light on their distribution and productivity in Contemporary Standard ...

Mass protests have been an important part of the political environment in Eastern Europe for more than a century. Since the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, people have turned to urban spaces to make their opinions heard and to demand change, with varying degrees of success. This was most notably the case during the 1960s; and from the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, ...

This dissertation discusses living experiences and stories of urban Ainu youth, Indigenous people of Japan in the twenty-first century. I have weaved my own experiences as a Tokyo Ainu into the discussion in order to illustrate forms of Ainu cultural revitalization in cities. In the thesis, I ask: What attributes in cities facilitate the process of Ainu cultural revitalization? The dissertation ...

This thesis is a comparative historiography of local- and regional historical research in Northern Norway and Northwest Russia in the period 1972–2015. The analysed source material consists of local- and regional historical accounts, written by historians at the universities of Tromsø, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. The text analysis entails close reading of central texts from these three research ...

<p>This volume collects three articles which constitute the bulk of my PhD research. The overarching theme of the volume is the role of attractors - a concept from dynamical systems theory – in the neural realization of phonological grammar. <p>The motivation for this line of inquiry begins with the claim that the study of language should provide some insight into the workings of the human mind/brain. ...

I studien undersøker jeg læreprosessens arbeidsmåter og integrering av faginnhold ved yrkesretting av fellesfag, som tar utgangspunkt i yrkenes praktiske arbeidsoppgaver. Begrepet yrkesretting av fellesfag er sentralt ved en slik tilnærming til yrkesopplæring. Det empiriske utvalget i studien er tre yrkesskoleklasser innen programfagene Elektrofag vg1, Teknikk og industriell produksjon vg1 og ...

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 ...