Som institusjon, merkevare og kulturbærer er Mack Ølbryggeri ganske snart historie i Tromsø by. De meste av fabrikklokalet i sentrum av Tromsø er allerede demontert og flyttet ut av byen. De store lagertankene med Mackøl brygget i Tromsø er i ferd med å gå tom. Fra slutten av inneværende år vil både øl og mineralvann komme fra Macks nye og toppmoderne anlegg i Nordkjosbotn. Og dermed er det vel ...

I vesten og i den tredje verden finner man en mengde ulike bilder av formell vestlig utdannelse. I dagliglivet forsøker folk å koordinere forskjellige kunnskapsfelt, lokale og globale3. Konstruksjonen av bilder av vestlig utdannelse og synet på hvilken betydning en slik utdannelse får for den enkelte og for samfunnet er et komplekst emne. I dag samhandler de fleste mennesker med folk som er involvert ...

It is estimated that persons with disability constitute about 15 percent of the world population and that 80 percent of PWD live in developing countries. Estimations also show that more than 90 percent of children with disabilities in developing countries do not attend school and that only three percent of all adults with disabilities in the world are literate. Implementing the right to education ...

Much has been said and written about the Ukrainian revolution of 2013–14, yet research on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, the protests’ most iconic location, has thus far been rather limited. This article analyses the history, attributes and symbolism of this particular city space. What function does Maidan have in the Ukrainian society? In the cause of my fieldwork in Kyiv 2013–15 on the recent revolution, ...

Ausbau processes increase differences between two close written language varieties. Finnish and Kven are considered two ausbau languages today, in contrast to an earlier view which considered Kven to be a dialect of Finnish. In this article, ausbau processes are illustrated by comparing the use of eera verbs, a group constituting international and Scandinavian loanwords in the two languages. Most ...

The United Nations’ fifth Sustainable Development Goal on gender equality states that it is “not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world” (UNSDG5). The goal itself aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by providing them with access to education, health care, decent work, representation in political and ...

How do social audiences negotiate and handle stigmatized organizations? What role do their heterogenous values, norms and power play in this process? Addressing these questions is important from a business ethics perspective to improve our understanding of the ethical standards against which organizations are judged as well as the involved prosecutorial incentives. Moreover, it illuminates ethical ...

Narratives of globalization, conceived of as large-scale political, economic, and cultural processes flowing from metropolitan centers, often emphasize the loss of tradition and cultural originality in the remote and wild peripheries. All three television programs filmed in the past 10 years in Krasnoshchel’e, a remote Arctic village in Northwest Russia where I did anthropological fieldwork, are ...