In 2005, Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc along the Mexican Gulf Coast, and the aftermaths have (again) revealed the racial inequality that endures in the US. The fact that the US government was unable to protect their weak and most vulnerable citizens points to a fractured social contract. Through the memoir The Yellow House by Sarah Broom, and the non-fiction text Five Days at Memorial by Sheri ...

I denne oppgaven beskrives Bo i Nord et boligområde sentralt på Tromsøya fra de første ideene, via det kommunale planarbeidet og til området stod ferdig. Boligområdet ble anlagt i 1990 og var planlagt som en boligutstilling i tilknyttet organisasjonen Winter Cities, og skulle vise eksempler på gode klimatilpassede boliger i arktiske strøk. Bo i Nord er et tettbygget småhusområde hvor boligene ligger ...

Henrik Steffens’ erste wissenschaftliche Buchpublikation, Udkast til en Lærebog i Botaniken (1794), war die Übersetzung eines botanischen Klassikers des ausgehenden 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts, Carl Ludwig Willdenows Grundriss der Kräuterkunde (1792). Der vorliegende Beitrag arbeitet anhand dieser bislang wenig beachteten Übersetzung Steffens’ Position als Naturwissenschaftler im Übergang von ...

ABM-utviklings kortvarige eksistens fortoner seg som en sammenhengende reorganiseringsprosess, skriver forfatterene i denne artikkelen om ABM-utviklings vekst og fall». Artikkelen er en popularisert versjon av den vitenskapelige artikkelen «ABM-utvikling og avvikling: Institusjonell konvergens og divergens i kulturpolitikken.» (Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidsskrift, 2019, 22, 02)

Included in the tasks facing a language learner is the acquisition of a lexicon and a grammar. However, when the target language has inflectional morphology, these two parts of the language-learning task intersect in the paradigms of grammatical word forms because each open-class lexeme has a number of forms that allow it to express various combinations of grammatical categories. Among major world ...

Otná teknologiija dahká vejolažžan neahttasátnegirjjis ohcat maiddái sámegiela sojahuvvon sániid, ja dat lea buktán ođđa vejolašvuođaid sámegielat čálliide. Dán dutkamušas guorahalan mo ohcan doaibmá Neahttadigisániid davvisámegiela-dárogiela-davvisámegiela sátnegirjjis. Guorahalan guovttelágan davvisámegiela-dárogiela sátnegirjji. Vuosttaš lea dábálaš sátnegirji ja nubbi lea dakkár toleránta ...

Svalbard, or “cool edge” in Old Norse, is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. It has no indigenous population and some 60% of its landmass is covered by ice. Yet its rich wildlife and mineral resources, as well as spectacular sights, have been attracting a great deal of commercial interest ever since Willem Barentsz discovered the archipelago in 1596 and named it Spitsbergen (“peaked mountains”). ...

This article discusses Alf Nilsen-Børsskog’s four-volume series of novels <i>Elämän jatko</i> [Continuation of life, 2004–2015], seen as the first literary works treating the Kven culture from a native perspective. Nilsen-Børsskog’s novels are analysed as constituting a “counterstory”, a term coined in the postcolonial cultural research paradigm to refer to self-representation. The Kvens have been ...

The article analyses the user logs of twelve different bilingual mi- nority language dictionaries. The logs show that the dictionaries are in frequent use, with lookup in the direction towards the minor- ity language (production use) dominating by approximately 60% of the total queries. Query recall is high, around 90%, despite the dictionaries being medium-size to small, and most failed queries are ...