Blar i forfatter Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur) "Kjeldaas, Sigfrid"

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    • Barry Lopez's Relational Arctic 

      Kjeldaas, Sigfrid (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)

    • Landscape and Vision in Gretel Ehrlich's This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland 

      Kjeldaas, Sigfrid (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Depicting the narrator’s repeated travels to the northwestern coast of Greenland, Gretel Ehrlich’s This Cold Heaven aims to portray the landscapes of Greenland in a way that frees them from the constraints of the visual ideology associated with Western culture’s idea of landscape. This, however, is no easy task in a natural environment dominated by wide and grand views that seem to invite the detached ...

    • Public Consultation on Proposed Revisions to Norway's Gene Technology Act: An Analysis of the Consultation Framing, Stakeholder Concerns, and the Integration of Non-Safety Considerations 

      Kjeldaas, Sigfrid; Antonsen, Trine; Hartley, Sarah; Myhr, Anne Ingeborg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-08)
      In Norway, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are regulated through the Gene Technology Act of 1993, which has received international attention for its inclusion of non-safety considerations. In 2017, the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board triggered a process to revise the Act that included a public consultation and resulted in the “Proposal for relaxation.” Using poststructuralist discourse ...

    • Samuel Hearne, The Denesuline, and The Beaver: Zoology and Its Effect in an Early Canadian Natural-Cultural Contact Zone 

      Kjeldaas, Sigfrid (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-24)
      Recent scholarship on Samuel Hearne's A Journey to the Northern Ocean (1795) has highlighted how Hearne's journey of exploration functioned to demonstrate the Hudson's Bay Company's strategic geopolitical worth, obscure the violence of its colonialist enterprise, and generate images of an empty North conducive to colonial settlement. Drawing on such scholarship, this essay attempts to nuance statements ...

    • With great power comes great responsibility: why ‘safe enough’ is not good enough in debates on new gene technologies 

      Kjeldaas, Sigfrid; Dassler, Tim; Antonsen, Trine; Wikmark, Odd Gunnar; Myhr, Anne Ingeborg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-25)
      New genomic techniques (NGTs) are powerful technologies with the potential to change how we relate to our food, food producers, and natural environment. Their use may afect the practices and values our societies are built on. Like many countries, the EU is currently revisiting its GMO legislation to accommodate the emergence of NGTs. We argue that assessing such technologies according to whether ...