In this thesis I try to show that using poetry, especially E. E. Cummings’ poetry, to provide interdisciplinary value to classes on historical events, such as the World Wars, is productive. To support this claim I collected data from two groups of participants in lower secondary school. After two sessions, one for each World War, I distributed a questionnaire to gather their opinions on the sessions, ...

Geography and its territorial implications have increasingly shaped elections in Norway and internationally. This chapter explores whether Sami politics also exhibits a territorial dimension, drawing on Rokkan’s cleavage theory to analyze urban–rural and center–periphery divides, with a focus on how geography influences political trust and support for Sami self-determination. While overall geographical ...

From having been a significant force and the largest party in the Sami parliamentary election in 2009, the Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) slipped during the 2021 election from its position among the largest parties and now stands as a medium-sized party with 15 percent of the vote. This chapter employs a combination of qualitative interviews with politicians and a larger survey to elucidate this ...

Den gjennomførte undersøkelsen omhandler mangfold og mangfoldsledelse. Undersøkelsen er gjennomført i den norske industri- og bygg- og anleggsbransjen, henholdsvis Hydro og Veidekke. Undersøkelsen er gjennomført som en kvalitativ undersøkelse hvor problemstillingen som søkes besvart er følgende: «Hvordan lede, attrahere og ivareta sine ansatte i en mangfoldig organisasjon?» Problemstillingen er ...

The Norwegian Sami Association (NSR) has dominated Sámi politics since the establishment of the Sámi Parliament in 1989. NSR has often been the leading party, shaping the political agenda and forming most of the Executive Councils of the Sámi Parliament (‘governments’). This dominance, characterized as the dominant party in a two-party system, has been challenged recently by the emergence of the ...

This thesis investigates the interplay between bilingualism, socioeconomic status (SES), and social language engagement, and their impact on neurocognitive adaptation and inhibitory control throughout life. By analyzing data from 169 adults in Northern Norway, it provides new insights into how these factors contribute to cognitive resilience and executive functions. The study's mixed-method approach, ...

The climate crisis is full of marginalized human and more-than-human voices who are systematically silenced by solution-oriented, universalizing discourses. Listening as method is the opposite of silencing; it is an experiential form of knowledge production that conveys intention and care when done cautiously. We posit climate studies can learn from feminist listening practices how to listen rather ...

While the connection between baptism and creedal formulas has long been recognized, it was Hans Lietzmann who suggested that “the root of all creeds is the formula of belief pronounced by the baptizand, or pronounced in his hearing and assented to by him, before his baptism.” More recently, Wolfram Kinzig argued that during the first three centuries, “there was no declaratory profession of a triune ...

Denne oppgaven er basert på et diskursanalytisk rammeverk, og tar utgangspunkt i endringene i fortolkningsrammen for Barentssamarbeidet. I norsk utenrikspolitikk har Barentssamarbeidet innehatt en hegemonisk status nordområdepolitisk instrument. Samarbeidet representerte tidlig et mulighetsrom for normalisering og stabilisering Arktis, og har opprettholdt og utviklet seg i takt med autoritære endringer ...

The concepts of cognitive efficiency (CE) and expertise-dependent automaticity are central to the understanding of cognitive adaptations related to bilingual experiences. This study examined their behavioral manifestations in bilingual young adults by manipulating the cognitive load of a working memory task; the possibility to manipulate the difficulty of a cognitive task is necessary to observe ...