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  • Islam i Tromsø: en nordnorsk religion 

    Bratsvedal, Ine Rolseth (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-20)
    Hva er islams historie i Tromsø? Hvordan har muslimer i Tromsø tilpasset livet i nord til islam, og islam til livet i nord? Hvordan har islam blitt en nordnorsk religion? Jeg forsøker å kaste lys over disse spørsmålene gjennom feltarbeid, intervju og undersøkelser av skriftlige kilder, samt ved å dra veksler på perspektiver fra religionshistorikeren Thomas Tweed.
  • On Boundaries and Areas in Local History Research 

    Thorvaldsen, Gunnar (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 1997)
    Among the social sciences, history is characterised as the most particularising discipline - the discipline to the greatest extent studying the way definite actions, events and structures differ from time to time and place to place. A considerable part of Norwegian historical research deals with local areas, <i>kommuner</i> (municipalities), <i>fylker</i> (provinces) and other regions below the ...
  • Kulturarv som grunnlag for en nordvendt framtid - Sluttrapport 

    Arntzen, Johan Eilertsen; Nilsen, Gørill (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2023)
    Prosjektet Kulturarv som grunnlag for en nordvendt framtid ble i 2020 gitt styøtte fra UiTs Strategisk utdanningsutvalgs Program for undervisningskvalitet i kategorien samarbeidsprosjekter med arbeidslivet. Prosjektet har jobbet med å øke det humanistiske disiploinfaget arkeologi sin erfaringsbasis og kunnskap om å skape begrepsmessig innsikt knyttet til praktiske- og praksisemner med relevans for ...
  • The Witchcraft Trial against Anders Poulsen, Vads  1692: Critical Perspectives 

    Willumsen, Liv Helene (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022-03-29)
    In this chapter, I will analyse a historical source that has attracted considerable attention during the last two decades, namely the court records of the trial of Anders Poulsen, 1692.1 The trial took place in the town of Vadsø in Finnmark, which is the northernmost district of Northern Norway. The reasons for this attention are multiple, and a few will be mentioned.
  • The Earldom of Orkney, the Duchy of Schleswig and the Kalmar Union in 1434 

    Grohse, Ian Peter; Magnussen, Stefan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-02)
    In August 1434, Erik VII, king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, confirmed William Sinclair as earl of Orkney, thus ending a decade-long dispute over the hereditary nature of that island fief. Although surviving sources pertaining to Orkney tell us little about Erik VII’s motives, historians have traditionally pointed to circumstances in and around the isles to explain the king’s acknowledgement of ...
  • A Thorny Past: The After-War Life, and Beyond, of Nazi World War II Barbed Wire in Norway 

    Farstadvoll, Stein (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-20)
    Conflicts have legacies beyond peace treaties and armistices. This article focuses on one example of such an enduring heritage, namely barbed wire left after the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II. This barbed wire has persisted up to the present day and thus presents a case that can illuminate nuances of a material legacy that is harmful but also an important source of insight and ...
  • Vojennyj dnevnik M.I.Starostina. 1941-1945 gg. 

    Nielsen, Jens Petter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    This article seeks to shed light on the diary of Maksim Ivanovich Starostin (1902–1948), First Secretary of the Murmansk Provisional Committee of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Murmansk Defense Committee, and written during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945). As a colonel and later major-general, Starostin was a member of the Military Council of the Soviet Northern Fleet and the Military ...
  • The Ural Population Project. Demography and Culture From Microdata in a European-Asian Border Region 

    Glavatskaya, Elena; Borovik, Julia; Thorvaldsen, Gunnar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-07)
    The Ural Population Project (URAPP) is built from individual level data transcriptions of 19th- to early 20th-century parish records and mid-19th-century census-like tax revisions manuscripts. This article discusses the source material, the contents, the history of creation and the strategy of the URAPP database and the outcome of the main research topics so far, including historical demography, ...
  • Gerüchte, Klatsch oder Propaganda? Der florentinische Herrscherwechsel im Jahr 1537 

    Lentz, Christina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-16)
    Dieser Beitrag zeigt an einem historischen Fallbeispiel, wie sozialwissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse über die Entstehung, Verbreitung und Funktion von Gerüchten für die historische Forschung fruchtbar gemacht werden können. Die Ermordung des ersten florentinischen Herzogs Alessandro de’ Medici und die Thronbesteigung Cosimo de’ Medicis im Jahr 1537 waren von einem Cluster von Gerüchten begleitet. Im ...
  • Monstrous things: horror, othering, and the Anthropocene 

    Godin, Geneviève (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-15)
    This article approaches the masses of discarded things washed ashore and roaming waterways as the new monsters of the Anthropocene. It explores the ways in which monstrosity and archaeology intersect, and how the genre of horror simultaneously emerges from and informs the current epoch. As they embark on their post-abandonment journey, things’ immense scale, spread, and refusal to serve as proxies ...
  • Is Finitude Original? A Rereading of “Violence and Metaphysics” 

    Rolfsen, Theodor Sandal (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-21)
    This article seeks to challenge what may seem to be an obvious assertion: that finitude is original in the sense that it must be presupposed that any possible meaning can only be thought beginning from this finitude. I do this through a rereading of Derrida’s epochal essay “Violence and Metaphysics,” which perhaps is the most decisive interpretation of the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. In the ...
  • Despina Stratigakos Hitler’s Northern Utopia. Building the new order in occupied Norway Norsk utgave: Hitlers norske drøm. Nazismens ariske utstillingsvindu Princeton University Press, Princeton og Oxford 2020, 352 s. Vega forlag, Oslo 2021, 327 s 

    Hatlehol, Gunnar D. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-14)
    I minnelandskapene etter den tyske okkupasjonen av Norge stiller først og fremst sporene i betong og jern seg til skue for oss. Festningsverkene og jernbanene har særlig hatt evnen til å fange forfatteres interesse når studiet av okkupasjonsmaktens byggeprogram står på dagsordenen. I sin siste bok, som nå også foreligger i norsk oversettelse, bemerker den kanadiske arkitekturhistorikeren Despina ...
  • Stø kurs! Nye perspektiv! 

    Tjelmeland, Hallvard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-23)
    Eg takkar redaksjonen av Arbeiderhistorie for høvet til å reflektera rundt årboka og perspektiv på framtida. Eg følgde forløparen Tidsskrift for arbeiderbevegelsens historie (TFAH) frå første nummer og første årgang i 1976. Tidsskriftet var svært viktig for oss studentar som var interessert i arbeidarrørslas historie, anten vi studerte historie eller ikkje. I dei politiserte faglege debattane som ...
  • Bart Holterman: The Fish Lands. German trade with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroe Islands in the late 15th and 16th Century 

    Grohse, Ian Peter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-14)
    Bart Holtermans bok, The Fish Lands. German trade with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes in the 15th and 16th Century, handler om et lite utforsket kapittel av hanseatisk historie. I det femtende århundre begynte nordtyske, gjerne hanseatiske kjøpmenn å styre unna Bergen, som da var sentrumet for den nordatlantiske handelen, og drive direktehandel med Norges krones skattland Island, Færøyene og ...
  • Kritische digitale Medienkompetenz in der BNE 

    Lentz, Christina; Otten, Tina; Pötzsch, Holger (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022)
  • Network Science in Biblical Studies: Introduction 

    Czachesz, Istvan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07)
    The notion of a network is ingrained in contemporary culture. In everyday English parlance, we casually talk about television networks, computer networks, professional networks, telephone networks, and so on. Even though the word has a technological flavor, the idea of a network is purely mathematical at its core. A network (or graph in mathematical language) is an abstract model that consists ...
  • Tarjei Vesaas og norsk litteratur i Nazi-Tyskland 

    Fulsås, Narve (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-31)
    Artikkelen undersøkjer publiseringshistoria til Tarjei Vesaas i Nazi-Tyskland. Det nye materialet den tilfører, er i hovudsak basert på materiale etter Det litterære byrå på Lillehammer, ein aktør som knapt er nemnd i norsk litteratur- og bokhistorie. I det transnasjonale og bokhistoriske perspektivet som dette opnar, får vi eit breiare, meir differensiert og delvis anna bilete av Vesaas og nazismen ...
  • Living with Heritage: Involuntary Entanglements of the Anthropocene – An Introduction 

    Venovcevs, Anatolijs; Bangstad, Torgeir Rinke (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-20)
    Heritage has come to be understood as a set of valued objects, landscapes and prac-tices to be preserved and maintained for the benefit of present and future generations (Harrison 2020, 20–31). In recent years, commitments to safeguard and care for heritage have proliferated, fuelled by perceptions of threat that urge caretakers to act before it is too late (Holtorf 2015; DeSilvey and Harrison 2020). ...
  • Ambiguous Matter: The Life of Mine Waste 

    Venovcevs, Anatolijs (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-20)
    This paper explores mine waste that originates from resource extraction by specifically focusing on waste rock, tailings, dust and material culture from the resource extraction industry. By drawing on examples from fieldwork, archives, local media commentary and limited interviews from two iron-mining regions in Arctic Norway and sub-Arctic Canada, this paper follows mine waste as it routinely ...

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