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dc.contributor.authorGrenersen, Geir
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-22T06:43:08Z
dc.date.available2022-04-22T06:43:08Z
dc.date.issued2016-01
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses the role of libraries in the implementation of the Norwegianization policy towards the Sámi and Kven minorities in Norway. This question has not been written about or debated in the library history of Norway. The hypothesis is that the libraries had a dual function: they were both seen as an instrument of Norwegianization by the government, but were simultaneously places where modern ideas about democracy, equality and emancipation were made accessible to the minorities. Ironically, the schooling authorities’ efforts to learn the Sámi and Kven to read and write Norwegian, contributed to the rise of a reading and writing Sámi and Kven public from around 1890. Both groups had a high reading proficiency and in public-, school-, and private libraries the Sámi and Kven found a rich selection of books that argued for a more egalitarian society. There are methodological challenges in this research. Minority voices are often silenced in archives and libraries. Researchers have to carried out empirical studies and closely read archival documents in order to seek out alternative interpretations in documents that have been interpreted in a conventional way.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGrenersen ggr002. The Role of the Libraries in the Norwegianization Policy 1880-1905. The Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy. 2015;2(1)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1313118
dc.identifier.doi10.35492/docam/2/1/11
dc.identifier.issn2376-8908
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/24852
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherThe University of Akronen_US
dc.relation.journalThe Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2015 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleThe Role of the Libraries in the Norwegianization Policy 1880-1905en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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