In the amazing building constructed in the early 19th century to house the Bank of Scotland, in the centre of Edinburgh, you will find the Museum of the Mound, a museum basically dedicated to anything to do with “money”. Its collection contains marvellous pieces of what we may call traditional forms of money from various cultures all over the world. What I would say is arguably the most spectacular ...

Human mobility is perpetuated at the intersection of opportunity and pressure. In this photographic essay, I explore reverberations of movement from the Arctic to East Africa, where I have done ethnographic fieldwork or passed through on my own anthropological and personal journey. The photos compare continuities of movement for transborder Skolt Sámi communities in Fennoscandia, sedentarized East ...

In diesem Artikel zeigen wir, dass Design Thinking als Master-Idee verstanden werden kann; eine weit verbreitete Idee, die einen besonders hohen Stellenwert und Legitimität erlangt hat. Es hat wiederum anderen organisatorischen Rezepten und Standards Legitimität verliehen. Wir zeigen auch, dass Design Thinking ein rationalisierter Mythos ist, der von seinem generischen Charakter getrieben wird.

Background - There now exists a rich body of literature on the relationship between income, income inequality, and health. The discussion about the impact of income and income inequality on health includes psychosocial mechanisms, such as long-term perceptions of inferiority and social positioning, material advantage from income, and the structural conditions that define what people can do with their ...

Purpose - The study examines how introducing joint municipal arm's length bodies (ALBs) into municipal waste management has influenced the preconditions of democratic governance.<p> <p>Design/methodology/approach - The authors describe and explain the democratic implications of joint municipal agencification by reviewing the perspectives of representative and participative democracy. Through this ...

Objective To examine the association between area-level education and the local growth trajectories in antibacterial dispensing rates in Norwegian municipalities among children under 3 years old.<p> <p>Design Retrospective, longitudinal study using individual primary care prescription data from the Norwegian Prescription Database for the period 2006–2016. Data were collected on the date of ...

For many years, and within the context of pre-pandemic tourism growth in the Norwegian Arctic, governmental institutions have had expectations that Sámi indigenous people of the north of Norway should engage more strongly in the tourism economy. What does it however imply for Sámi people to become agents in tourism and take ownership to tourism development? This paper attends to Sámi people who ...

This paper discusses the impact of new media on local politics and politicians in a highly digitalised and advanced democracy. Through case studies and interviews of elite representatives in three Norwegian municipalities, the paper’s ambition is to gain further understanding of the use of new media at the local political level and how new media influence and shape the role of local political ...

Sosiale medier er et sentralt element i politikk på nasjonalt nivå i ulike land, og viktig for å forstå dagens politiske prosesser. Sosiale mediers betydning og rolle er omstridt, mange frykter at de truer demokratiske prosesser og politisk representasjon. Vi har langt mindre kunnskap om sosiale medier i lokal politikk, hvordan det brukes og hva det betyr for rollen til kommunepolitikere og deres ...

Rapporten dokumenterer resultater fra et forprosjekt i Frøya kommune, hvor formålet har vært å frembringe et nødvendig kunnskapsgrunnlag for realisering av et transporttilbud med selvkjørende buss for øysamfunnet på Sula. Viktige problemstillinger i dette arbeidet har vært: • Hvordan kan man utforme et busstilbud som dekker målgruppens mobilitetsbehov og krav til en slik tjeneste? • Hvordan kan ...