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  • War Memories, Monumental Activism, and Regional Identity in the Arctic Borderland: Monumental Memory Politics of the Great Patriotic War and Mnemonic Actors in the Post-Soviet Murmansk Region 

    Spirin, Artem (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-06-07)
    Given the recent trend toward the instrumentalization of memory of the Great Patriotic War (GPW) in Russian federal memory politics, this article examines regional features of this trend by assessing the transformations that occurred in the monumental GPW commemoration in the post-Soviet Murmansk region. The case study analyzes the process of creating war memorials dedicated to the Battle for ...
  • How ready is the health care system in Northeast India for surgical delivery? A mixed-methods study on surgical capacity and need 

    Virk, Amrit; King, Rebecca; Heneise, Michael Timothy; Aier, Lanuakum; Child, Catriona; Brown, Julia; Ensor, Tim (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-06-26)
    Background Surgical services are scarce with persisting inequalities in access across populations and regions globally. As the world’s most populous county, India’s surgical need is high and delivery rates estimated to be sub-par to meet need. There is a dearth of evidence, particularly sub-regional data, on surgical provisioning which is needed to aid planning.<p> <p>Aim and method This ...
  • Exploiting the “white coal” of the Pasvik River. Negotiating corporate and national interests in the border region during the German occupation of Norway 

    Myklebost, Kari Aga; Lähteenmäki, Maria (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-30)
    The history of the Pasvik River, demarcating Norway’s border with Russia in the north is inextricably linked with issues of security and national interests on the one side, and exploitation of natural resources and business interests on the other. This applies not least to the war years, as German warfare in Europe increased the value of the hydropower and the strategic metals of the border region. ...
  • The Phenomenology of Pain and Pleasure: Henry and Levinas 

    Dahl, Espen; Rolfsen, Theodor Sandal (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-12)
    While Henry and Levinas are often juxtaposed, little attention has been given to their shared views on pain and pleasure. Both phenomenologists converge on the argument that an adequate account of pain and pleasure requires a critical confrontation with the theory of intentionality. This raises further questions. What roles do interiority and exteriority play in pain and pleasure? Should they be ...
  • More Efficient Manual Review of Automatically Transcribed Tabular Data 

    Pedersen, Bjørn-Richard; Johansen, Rigmor Katrine; Holsbø, Einar Jakobsen; Sommerseth, Hilde Leikny; Bongo, Lars Ailo Aslaksen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-04)
    Any machine learning method for transcribing historical text requires manual verification and correction, which is often time-consuming and expensive. Our aim is to make it more efficient. Previously, we developed a machine learning model to transcribe 2.3 million handwritten occupation codes from the Norwegian 1950 census. Here, we manually review the 90,000 codes (3%) for which our model had ...
  • Den nordnorske heksefiguren - Ei værheks. Hva vet vi om forfølgelsen av trollfolk i Lofoten? 

    Hagen, Rune Blix (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2024-05-26)
  • Fiskesøkker og hverdagens magi i steinalderens kystlandskap 

    Damm, Charlotte Brysting (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024)
    Kystlandskapet og dets ressurser har gjennom alle tider vært viktige for befolkningen i Nord-Norge. Det gjelder også for fangstfolk i periodene yngre steinalder (ca. 5000–1800 fvt.) og tidlig metalltid (1800–0 fvt.) som primært livnærte seg av fisk, sel og sjøfugl. Derfor er det litt av et paradoks at de avbildninger vi finner for eksempel i bergkunsten i utstrakt grad er av landpattedyr. Hvordan ...
  • Nansen og Russland 

    Myklebost, Kari Aga (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
    3. oktober 1913 satt Fridtjof Nansen på den transsibirske jernbanen ett døgn fra Vladivostok og skrev brev hjem til sin nære venn og kollega Bjørn Helland-Hansen: «Jeg har hatt en interessant reise på mange måter, og har nu hodet fullt av helt nye inntrykk av den mest forskjellige slags fra Ishavet og hit til det Himmelske Rike, som vi nu har reist gjennom, […] Hvad jeg skal gjøre med alt det nye ...
  • Mikhail Konstantinovich Sidorov and the role of Norwegians in the opening up of the Northern Sea Route to Siberia (Michail Konstantinovich Sidorov i rolij norvezesev v osvoenii Severnogo Morskogo Putii) 

    Nielsen, Jens Petter; Tevlina, Victoria V. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-28)
    In this article the authors examine the activity of the Russian public figure, the goldmining entrepreneur and employer M.K. Sidorov and his relationship with Norwegian shipowners and marine mammal hunters, engaged in sealing and walrus hunting in the area around Novaya Zemlya and in the Kara Sea. In the 1860s and 1870s M.K. Sidorov tried to carry through a largescale project for the opening up of ...
  • Et forsvarsproblem og et mulig sikkerhetsdilemma. Allierte forsterkninger og sikkerhetspolitikk i Nord, 1960–1980 

    Bones, Stian (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-03-22)
    This chapter investigates two phases of Norwegian-American bilateral studies aiming to reinforce the defense of Northern Norway. The inception of this initiative can be traced back to the early 1960s, when Minister of Defense Gudmund Harlem launched an invitation policy based on the new strategic concept of “flexible response”. A major defense problem, seen from the perspective of small state Norway, ...
  • Die Kontroverse um die Färöer ca. 1524–1536 

    Grohse, Ian Peter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    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 ...
  • Kilder og metoder for å identifisere byfolk på tidlig 1900-tall 

    Thorvaldsen, Gunnar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-23)
    Denne artikkelen er skrevet med tre hovedformål. For det første tar den for første gang i bruk den transkriberte utgaven med åpne individdata fra folketellinga 1920 i forskning. Arkivverket gjør denne kilden tilgjengelig i komplett versjon i 2023, noe som gir nye muligheter til å studere en rekke aspekter ved norsk befolknings- og sosialhistorie på tidlig 1900-tall, blant annet detaljert innsikt i ...
  • Long-Term Exposure to Low-Level formula PM2.5 and Mortality: Investigation of Heterogeneity by Harmonizing Analyses in Large Cohort Studies in Canada, United States, and Europe 

    Chen, Jie; Braun, Danielle; Christidis, Tanya; Cork, Michael; Rodopoulou, Sophia; Samoli, Evangelia; Stafoggia, Massimo; Wolf, Kathrin; Wu, Xiao; Yuchi, Weiran; Andersen, Zorana J.; Atkinson, Richard; Bauwelinck, Mariska; de Hoogh, Kees; Janssen, Nicole A H; Katsouyanni, Klea; Klompmaker, Jochem O.; Kristoffersen, Doris Tove; Lim, Youn-Hee; Oftedal, Bente Margaret; Strak, Maciej; Vienneau, Danielle; Zhang, Jiawei; Burnett, Richard T.; Hoek, Gerard; Dominici, Francesca; Brauer, Michael; Brunekreef, Bert (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-01)
    Background: Studies across the globe generally reported increased mortality risks associated with particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2,5 μm (PM<sub>2,5</sub>) exposure with large heterogeneity in the magnitude of reported associations and the shape of concentration-response functions (CRFs). We aimed to evaluate the impact of key study design factors (including confounders, applied ...
  • Trade and Transaction – How to become a Canon and finance a Chapter in Norway in the 15th and 16th Centuries 

    Berg, Sigrun Høgetveit (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
    This article concentrates on the late medieval cathedral chapter and the canons of the archdiocese of Nidaros in Norway, and it will shed light on the close connection between the members of the cathedral chapter and the stockfish trade. The archdiocese included in the late medieval period the whole of today’s northern Norway, a vast area with limited surplus from agricultural products but all the ...
  • Ættleiing. Ein ny sjanse for dei uektefødde 

    Berg, Sigrun Høgetveit (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
    Å ættleie tyder å gje barn fødde utanfor ekteskap – såkalla uektefødde barn – arverett ved å «leie dei» inn i ætta.2 I landskapslovene kunne den ættleidde ta arv jamsides med den ektefødde, men etter kvart som kyrkja sitt syn på ekteskap vann fram gjennom mellomalderen, endra også synet på uektefødde barn seg. Kyrkja si ekteskapslære sette spor etter seg i alt lovverk, også i Landslova, og etter ...
  • The New Testament as a Model: Reading the Bible with Richard Dawkins 

    Czachesz, Istvan (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
    The New Testament is a cultural canon that fundamentally shaped the development of Christian Europe and the entire Christian world. The Bible can be seen as a repository of ideas and behavioral rules that have been read and interpreted by many generations of (cultural) Christians. The ideas and behavioral rules that became part of the Bible, as well as their specific combinations and intertextual ...
  • Constructive forgetting and reconciliatory memory in nineteenth-century historical fiction A comparative perspective on Scandinavianism, pan-Germanism and Greater Netherlandism 

    van Gerven, Tim (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-06-30)
    This chapter studies how far the reconciliation of a troublesome shared past through historical fiction can be considered a general characteristic of pan-national movements in nineteenth-century Europe. A cross-case analysis shows that this praxis was most widespread and most intricately developed in Scandinavianism, while it to a lesser degree also left its mark on pan-Germanism as expressed through ...
  • Theory at Sea: Some Reflections from the Gunwale 

    Olsen, Bjørnar Julius (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
    Fishing was the main source of livelihood in the area where I grew up. In my village, as at other places along the Arctic coast of northern Norway, it had been for centuries carried out from a boat called nordlandsbåt (literally, ‘northland boat’). Though the oar and sail powered boat varied in size, from 4.5 to 14 m, the construction was essentially the same: an open and clinker-built keeled vessel ...
  • Reformasjonen på Færøyene - en nordtysk kulturarv? 

    Grohse, Ian Peter (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-12-18)
    The chapter examines the proposition, first advanced by Faroese historian Louis Zachariasen, that the Reformation was introduced to the Faroe Islands by German merchants from Hamburg who held trading privileges and governing authority in the Faroes between ca. 1520 and 1553. Hamburg and the Faroes represented two dramatically different cultural spaces. In addition to obvious differences in language ...
  • In the northern periphery of Russia abroad. The Norwegian destiny of Anatol Ye. Heintz (1898–1975), palaeontologist and native of St Petersburg 

    Nielsen, Jens Petter; Tevlina, Victoria V. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-13)
    This article provides an exposé of the life and work of Anatoliy Yevgenyevich Geynts, in Norway known as Anatol Heintz. Heintz was born and raised in St Petersburg, became a Russian refugee after the revolutionary events in Russia in 1917–1918, and ended up in Norway with his family. Later Heintz became renowned in the world of science as a Professor, Academician, and one of the founding fathers ...

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