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Re-politicisation as post-NPM response? Municipal companies in a Norwegian context
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-03-17)
This is an exploratory study of re-politicisation of municipal companies in one Norwegian municipality. Unlike re-municipalisation, which seems to imply the reversal of privatisation and out-contracting, and the reinstitution of municipal ownership, the Norwegian case demonstrates a continued adherence to the provision of certain public services through municipal companies. However, our study reveals ...
Cooperative Pastoral Production: Reconceptualizing the Relationship between Pastoral Labor and Production
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
A review of the literature concerning nomadic pastoralism reveals a prevalent assumption of a positive effect of labor inputs on pastoral production. However, studies that have tried to quantify the relationship between household labor availability and production are characterized by contradictory results where one reason may be related to the fact that nomadic pastoralists cooperate by sharing and ...
Reducing Energy Subsidies in China, India and Russia: Dilemmas for Decision Makers
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2010-02-01)
This article examines and compares efforts to reduce energy subsidies in China, India and Russia. Despite dissimilarities in forms of governance, these three states have followed surprisingly similar patterns in reducing energy subsidies, characterised by two steps forward, one step back. Non-democratic governments and energy importers might be expected to be more likely to halt subsidies. In fact, ...
China’s bilateral diplomacy in the Arctic
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-12-11)
This article investigates China's bilateral diplomacy in the Arctic towards the USA, Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Norway, Russia, and Iceland. In seeking to identify (1) the most important bilateral issues, (2) whether China's diplomacy towards some of Arctic states has been more successful than others, and (3) the long-term goals of China's Arctic diplomacy and presence, the article utilizes insights ...
Bácheveaij/Pasvikdalens eldre historie belyst ved pollenanalyser og arkeologisk materiale
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Denne artikkelen oppsummerer resultatene av et samarbeidsprosjekt der arkeologisk materiale fra tre lokaliteter i Báhceveaj/Pasvikdalen i Øst-Finnmark er sammenholdt med nye pollenanalyser fra myrer ved de samme lokalitetene (figur 1). Det har ikke vært vanlig å
inkludere botaniske analyser i arkeologiske undersøkelser i Nord-Norge, selv om det nå finnes stadig flere eksempler på at det gjøres. ...
Variations of ethnic boundary significance in north Norway
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
In coastal north Norway the Saami people have lived in a close relationship with Norwegians or Norse people for a thousand years or more. This relationship has been articulated in various ways over the centuries, and this article argues that in parts of the region it took a rather intimate form based on the shared exploitation of the dominant marine and terrestrial niches, a common class position ...
Once Were Warriors - a model that matters and a mirror of concerns
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
In this article, I will focus on connections between media, culture and society in order to understand two prototypical Maori responses to the film. The two kinds of responses are captured in the following phrases: “The film should never have been made” and “That’s not fiction, that’s reality”. One of my objectives is to show how these particular Maori responses to this fiction-film are ...
Norsk-russisk miljø- og ressursforvaltning i nordområdene.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Since the end of the Cold War, a flourishing network of collaboration has grown up between Russia and neighbouring Nordic countries in the European North, especially Norway. The Barents Euro-Arctic Region (BEAR) was established in 1993 by several North European states and regional administrative entities in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Its aim is to promote relations across the old East-Westdivide ...
Agencies and transparency in Norwegian local government
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
The NPM portfolio offers several solutions to improve organisational performance and . One of the most crucial of them is to split up integrated organisations into more autonomous operational units. The idea of arm’s length government is gaining ground in Norwegian local government and has materialised itself through the proliferation of agencies, especially in the shape of different forms of local ...
Mutual dependency: Young male migrants from the Central African Republic in urban Cameroon
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Abstract. Rural Central and Western Africa is losing its population to cities (Adepoju, 2005). The
young men described in this article have left poor economic conditions in the Central African Republic
for a better life in Cameroon. They are mostly orphans who left their homes before the age of 15 and,
through various paths, found their way to Tongo, a Muslim neighbourhood in the centre of the ...