Hovuddelen av avhandlinga er ein biografi om salmediktaren, teologen, lingvisten og politikaren Elias Blix (1836-1902). Biografien granskar samspelet mellom nokre av dei viktigaste sosiale, politiske og kulturelle endringsprosessane som forma det moderne norske samfunnet i siste halvdel av 1800-talet, slik dette kjem til uttrykk i ei individuell livsforteljing. Eit etterskrift gir eit oversyn over ...

<p>Youths´ choice of education and residence will affect development in Northern Norway. This thesis offers insight into how some young people from Troms are seeing the future in the north and how young people experience their own participation in regional development. On one hand, a statistical description of Northern Norway's future perspectives from SSB, the media and scientists, can be perceived ...

<p>This dissertation aims to expand on the current empirical knowledge of and theoretical mechanisms in the social determinants of health. Specifically, it investigates the mechanisms by which social root causes generate health outcomes in order to assess within-state health inequalities in high-income countries such as Norway. It emphasizes the effect of material and immaterial resources that result ...

This thesis is a comparative historiography of local- and regional historical research in Northern Norway and Northwest Russia in the period 1972–2015. The analysed source material consists of local- and regional historical accounts, written by historians at the universities of Tromsø, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. The text analysis entails close reading of central texts from these three research ...

Prepositions belong to a class of small words whose meaning is very difficult to pinpoint once and for all; they are known to change interpretation dependent on the various contexts which they can appear in. This general flexibility which characterizes members of the category P makes them hard to classify, and forms the basis for the work leading up to the dissertation "Verbal Prepositions in ...

Hensikten med avhandlingen er å utforske potensialet i internettbaserte selvhjelpsgrupper som støttetilbud for ungdom med psykisk syke foreldre. Avhandlingen er basert på en aksjonsforskningsstudie hvor det ble etablert en internettbasert selvhjelpsgruppe for ungdom (15-18 år) med en psykisk syk forelder. Studien ble gjennomført i samarbeid mellom Nasjonalt senter for samhandling og telemedisin ...

Bakgrunnen for prosjektet er den begrensede kunnskapen man har om Indre Troms i tiden før koloniseringen på 1800-tallet. Utgangspunktet er at innlandsområdene har betydd mye for samiske samfunn som fra jernalderen av hadde jakt, fangst og fiske som hovednæring. Etter hvert gikk man over til tamreindrift, som siden har utgjort den økonomiske og kulturelle basis for samiske samfunn i generasjoner. ...

The thesis What Happened in Northern Norway? is a quantitative analysis of various aspects of the political and demographic development in Northern Norway from 1950 to today. The theories of Ottar Brox and in his seminal work Hva skjer i Nord-Norge? (What Is Happening in Northern Norway?), have influenced regional and national actors in their understanding of the region and their policy development. ...

In this dissertation, I investigate valencies and syntactically relevant semantic categories in North Sámi. In addition, I develop three machine-readable grammars for the North Sámi grammar checker GoDivvun that have access to valencies and semantics. Like a human, a machine-readable grammar analyzes a sentence by putting together information from different linguistic levels and based on this, ...

Abstract The dissertation explores the relevance and potential of approaching place politics through personal and collective stories about place. It is based on a case study of a local debate over a controversial project to bid for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Tromsø, Northern Norway. The dissertation contributes to developing Doreen Massey´s work on the politics of a relational sense of place ...