We recently conducted a review of the literature regarding hunter-gatherer children’s schooling experiences in the global South (Ninkova et al 2024). In this research note, we highlight one central finding of our review: that the autonomy granted to hunter-gatherer children determines their participation in school. Children decide for themselves whether they will attend. Children also decide for ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated many fundamental and challenging implications regarding security, for both states and people. This article addresses the pandemic as a security threat, whereby societal and human dimensions of security are intertwined with the narrower (so-called traditional) state dimensions, culminating in comprehensive security. This article uses mixed methods, combining desk ...

Nature-based tourism is imbued with ambiguities that tell of tourism as deeply intertwined in the development of places. Inspired by Krzywoszynska (2023) and Stirling’s (2008) idea of framing research by opening up, we argue for attending to nature-based tourism as an open relational historical-geographical phenomenon, to illuminate the grey zones of world-making in the place-tourism nexus. ...

Undergraduate research is a high-impact practice that increases student learning and is driven by engaging in mentoring relationships with faculty while building a culture of innovation and scholarship. This volume of the Russian Language Journal presents a special collection of articles entitled “Collaboration Beyond the Classroom: Undergraduate Research in Russian Language Studies.” Undergraduate ...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba has faced persistent economic stagnation. Driven by the sudden loss of subsidies from the Eastern Bloc and a tightening embargo imposed by the United States, the largest island in the Caribbean archipelago has found itself in a position where state structures alone are no longer sufficient to meet the population’s basic needs. In recent years, these ...

Memory politics involves public efforts to shape and circulate certain representations of the past for political purposes. By engaging with memory politics, social actors participate in mediating the collective representations of the past and influencing historical consciousness. As a powerful tool for legitimation, identity building, and production of consent, memory politics is a usual part of the ...

Å balansere mellom fallgruver <p> <p>Når: 2018 <p> <p>Hvor: Blindern, Oslo <p>Hva: Å skrive og snakke om urfolk og koloniale strukturer i arbeidet med doktorgraden<p> <p> «Er det ikke slik at de ønsker å bruke oljepenger til kvinner, raske biler og alkohol»? Kommentaren fikk jeg etter at jeg hadde presentert doktorgradsforskningen min om strukturell betinget sosioøkonomisk ulikhet og utbredt ...

The interdisciplinary ERASMUS+ project Voices of Women (VOW) commenced in January 2022, bringing students and teachers from Norway, the Netherlands, and Germany together. One of the main objectives of VOW was to familiarize students and audiences with art songs created by women composers from 19th and 20th century Europe. <p> <p>The purpose of this article is to present results from the research ...

Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvorvidt en satsning på cruiseturisme kan være forenelig med reisemålet Kirkenes mål om bærekraftig utvikling. Med en økende interesse for bærekraftig turisme, både lokalt, nasjonalt og internasjonalt, er det avgjørende for reisemål som Kirkenes å utvikle en dypere forståelse av hvordan cruiseturisme påvirker deres posisjon i arbeidet som bærekraftig reisemål. ...

Global challenges related to health, climate, the economy and political tensions have affected many, including those living in remote areas. We explore how youth live and appreciate life in the Arctic region of Norway. We facilitated four dialogue café sessions where participants talked about the everyday lives of young people. Based on these conversations in this chapter, we ask: What future prospects ...