Coto Sur on the Costa Rican’ Pacific coast had, for about fifty years been dominated by banana plantations, owned and run by the United Fruit Co, when they withdrew and closed the plantation in the first half of the 1970s. Former banana workers and landless peasants invaded the decayed banana plantations and the state Land Development Agency (IDA) got involved in a tremendous a rural reform process ...

This sociolinguistic dissertation examines the ethno-linguistic vitality of North Sámi in the two neighbouring municipalities of Deatnu/Tana in Norway and Ohcejohka/Utsjoki in Finland. The Sámi language revitalization manifested itself differently in different areas. My research focuses on how these differences influenced local level revitalization processes. Specifically the research solicited ...

The thesis is both part of and a critical response to the turn to things or the “new materialisms” developing within the humanities and social sciences during the last two decades. Based on the archaeological exploration of two recently abandoned herring stations in Iceland’s Northwest and their rich assemblages of decaying matter, the thesis seeks to scrutinize the fate of archaeological things ...

Knowledge held by people who have been involved in intimate and direct engagement with their land is often valuable for our understanding of past land use. This study has through an interdisciplinary approach explored the possible benefits of emphasizing local knowledge, local participation and the increasing possibilities within digital media, seen from an archaeological viewpoint. The study areas ...

This thesis provides evidence from Cairene and Baghdadi Arabic that sub-segmental representations depend on the patterns of contrast and phonological activity in a given language. I investigate every process of place assimilation in these two varieties, and show that the analysis of an individual phenomenon must be congruent with that of the overall sound system. In the analysis, phonological features ...

In adult French phonology, schwa is a separate vowel category that either deletes or merges with /œ/ in the output. This thesis revolves around the distribution, categorisation and acquisition of schwa. We test two main hypotheses on the basis of Swiss French adult and child data: one, that schwa does not constitute a separate category in early child language, and two, that the acquisition of schwa ...

Avhandlingen presenterer tre sentrale forfatterskap etter Freud. Den undersøker hvordan sinnet trenger å være i en intim, tillitsfull relasjon for å utvikle evnen til å føle, tenke og danne mening, og med det legge grunnlaget for psykisk helse. Meltzers estetiske perspektiv fortolkes som at det utgår en tiltale fra vår omverden – en appell av ontologisk, etisk og estetisk art – som vi i vårt psykiske ...

It is well known that referentially defective nominals fall into two broad categories: pro-forms whose reference seems structurally constrained (local anaphors, OC pro) and those which are discourse-pragmatically conditioned (logophors, deictic pronouns, indexicals). Nevertheless, a strict binary distinction cannot be maintained because most actually straddle the syntax-discourse divide: e.g. deictic ...

Det eksisterer mye kunnskap om skoleutvikling og endringsprosesser. Likevel mangler det teorier og strategier som adresserer det komplekse, kaotiske og motsetningsfylte i pedagogers hverdag, inkludert i utviklingsarbeid. Skoler må i dag kunne gjøre rede for kvalitet og forbedre praksis ved behov. Samtidig savnes tradisjoner, strukturer og felles språk for dette. Denne studien retter oppmerksomhet ...

The objective of this thesis is essentially to understand better how the High North initiative has been framed and construed in official and public discourse in Norway. To this end, the dissertation consists of five articles which deal with different aspects of this initiative from thematically different angles, and different sources of data depending on whether public or official discourses are ...