For the first time ever, over fifty Polish documentaries about Svalbard, filmed during the ninety years of Polish presence on the archipelago, have been looked at and categorized. Four distinct periods of such documentary-making have been identified and characterized: the heroic (in the 1930s), the exotic (in the 1950s-60s), the routine (in the 1970-90s) and the ethical (from the 1990s until present). ...

This article examines the efforts of Norway’s council of the realm to rescind the governing offices and trading rights of Hamburg merchants in the Faroes between the mid-1520s and mid-1530s. The limited body of prior research on the subject focuses on the commercial aims of opposing parties, treating their dispute as part of the long-standing conflict over the western Norwegian town of Bergen’s ...

I denne artikkelen analyserer vi framveksten av to framtidsvisjoner for regionen Lofoten. Den ene visjonen handlet om oljeutvinning. Den andre samfunnsvisjonen framstiller grønn omstilling som en regional vekstmulighet, og har vokst fram i perioden etter at oljevisjonen mistet sitt fotfeste. Vi analyserer hvilke argumenter som har vært sentrale i den lokale debatten om oljevirksomhet, og kobler ...

Das Prinzip des Willens zur Macht spielt von Beginn an, das heißt spätestens seit dem kurzen Stück über Homer’s Wettkampf, bis in Nietzsches letzte philosophische Texte hinein eine hervorgehobene Rolle. Doch es fällt auf, dass Nietzsche am Ende neben und gegenläufig zu diesem Prinzip ein Verständnis und eine Haltung dem Leben gegenüber zu konturieren sucht, die über den Willen zur Macht hinausweisen. ...

In November 2022, we organised a conference where researchers, teachers, elders, doctoral students and prospective teachers from “all over the world” were invited to participate in conversations about mathematics education in Indigenous and/or migrational contexts. The conference took place in Alta, Northern Norway. In this area, Sami, Kven and Norwegian peoples live together side by side. This is ...

Markedness is the observation of an encoding asymmetry in which higher complexity (both in terms of form and meaning) tends to pattern with lower frequency. Given that markedness focuses on the relationships between form-meaning patterns and usage patterns, markedness is of inherent theoretical interest for cognitive linguistics. Traditionally it is assumed that the markedness values of Russian ...

In recent decades, digital technology has accelerated the development of new musical instruments, not only establishing new techniques for creating sound but also enabling new performance practices. Audiences have been exposed to new ways of performing music ranging from more or less static laptop performances to expressive use of bodily gestures to control sounds. These changes are becoming even ...

The article discusses challenges facing the bidirectional North Saami–Norwegian e-dictionary Neahttadigisánit when used as a production dictionary, based upon a set of writing and translation tasks presented to second term students and logging of their dictionary use. The dictio¬nary's ability to both analyse and generate Norwegian and Saami forms is of great help to the students. The dictionary ...

Despite the importance of sport to society as a whole and to different minority groups, the role of sport in forming ethnic identities in the Nordic countries have not been thoroughly examined by academics. The historically diverse communities of orthern Norway, consisting of Kveens, Sámi and Norwegians has fostered great athletes. Skiers Per Olsen and Bjørn Wirkola from Alta are two of them who ...

This thesis discusses the protection and promotion of Indigenous and minority languages by analyzing the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML). The study is comparative in nature and focuses on the Sami languages, in Norway and Sweden, and the Frisian languages, in Germany and the Netherlands. The ECRML and its explanatory report are analyzed as well as the latest ...