Nordic Academic Press: 57 books
Nordic Narratives of the Second World War
National Historiographies Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Written by leading Nordic historians, this analysis discusses postwar memory and war historiographies from the perspectives of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden vis-à-vis the Second World War. Focusing on the relationship between scholarly and public understandings of the war, this book...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A contribution to the popular international and interdisciplinary field of collective memory within a Scandinavian context, this reference presents a number of case studies-from the Middle Age to the present time-that discuss how people look to the past for identity and meaning. Acknowledging that...
Circulation of Knowledge
Explorations into the History of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Historians have long been interested in knowledge—its nature and origin, and the circumstances under which it was created—but it has only been in recent decades that the history of knowledge has emerged as an academic field in its own right. In Circulation of Knowledge, a group of Nordic researchers...
Public Diplomacy and Academic Mobility in Sweden
The Swedish Institute and Scholarship Programs for Foreign Academics, 1938–2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Academic exchange is one of the cornerstones of public diplomacy. Receiving foreign academics is one way of influencing foreign elites in an attempt to build goodwill and stable international networks. The result is that academic mobility and the internationalization of higher education and research...
Social Science in Context
Historical, Sociological, and Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
One of the very first books to explore the role of the social sciences in historical, sociological, and global perspectives, it does so by analyzing the practical making and discursive aspects of social scientific disciplines, including sociology, economics, psychology, business and administration...
Making Cultural History
New Perspectives on Western Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This volume contains 17 essays with fresh new approaches to cultural history from 17 authors that belong to different academic disciplines, including archaeology, art history, classical languages, ethnology, fashion studies, history, history of ideas, history of religion, literature studies, and media...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Written by distinguished scholars from multiple perspectives, this account widens the interpretative scope on religious life among the pre-Christian Scandinavian people. The religion of the Viking Age is conventionally identified through its mythology: the ambiguous character Odin, the forceful Thor,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Social scientists, a rehabilitation researcher, a folklorist, a political commentator, and other contributors survey some of the differences in European culture and discuss the complex topic of national identity in Europe. This volume forms a fascinating mosaic of European diversity, revealing idiosyncrasies...
Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities
Nordic Perspectives on Urban Marginalisation and Social Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
The Social Tranformations of Scandinavian Cities highlights the changing face of social sustainability and social disintegration in Scandinavian cities against the backdrop of ongoing global societal transformations. It contributes to the literature on urban development in advanced societies by bringing...
Hype
Bestsellers and Literary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In the world of books and literature, "hype" is associated with bestsellerism—the books that sell the most, are read by vast numbers, and constantly talked about in media and staff rooms. Often, it is the success in itself that generates an interest because popularity begets popularity....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
One of the most significant challenges facing the international community today is how to stabilize and rebuild societies emerging from civil wars, and this book, which includes both theoretical discussions and empirical applications, considers the various factors of peacebuilding. As it addresses...
A Place to Know
Aesthetic Meaning in Recent Visual Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
To engage with the aesthetic is to watch yourself watching—and what you see cannot be reached, for all that exists is the reflection of the vision performed by you. The aesthetic experience offers insights into the consciousness that are both ancient and linked to creative inventions in present-day...
Siting Michelangelo
Spectatorship, Site Specificity & Soundscape
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Michelangelo's originality as an artist lay not only in ideas about perfection and beauty, but also in his unique approach to the artistic process and art's site specificity. Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and the sculptures of the Medici chapel and Julius II's tomb should all be understood...
by Barbara Tornquist-Plewa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Discussing the complex weave of cultural links and the different religious and linguistic groups that have been living side by side in the Balkans for centuries, this anthropological study is the result of a project initiated to create a network of scholars from Scandinavia and the Yugoslav successor...