Nordic Academic Press: 57 books
Spas
The Cultural Economy of Hospitality, Magic and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
From 17th-century Sweden to the present time, this remarkable volume provides a historical perspective on the manner in which hospitality has developed from a private right and obligation to a commercialized product. Examining the ways religion, belief, and notions of health and wellness have been...
Reconsidering Religion, Law, and Democracy
New Challenges for Society and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
How are Western, mostly secular, societies handling religion in its increasingly pluralistic and complex forms? What different forms of interactions between and negotiations of religion and religious beliefs can we see in contemporary society? What are the primary contenders in these interactions...
Urban Squares
Spatio-temporal Studies of Design and Everyday Life in the Öresund Region
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Studies of Urban Squares suggests a specific and fresh take on agorology – the study of urban squares. The approach is one of recording everyday life and focusing on different ways to describe and investigate the public life and space of urban squares. The book comprises four empirical case studies...
Contested Technologies
Xenotransplantation and Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Addressing the important perspectives on xenotransplantation and human embryonic stem cell research, this book explores both the enthusiastic proponents and vehement resistance to these new biomedical technologies. Investigating the political, social, and ethical forces behind this kind of research...
Echoes of the Holocaust
Historical Cultures in Contemporary Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
The result of a research project conducted by Swedish scholars, this text examines interpretations and representations of the Holocaust in European societies, primarily focusing on the most recent decades. Using specific case studies, the articles in this anthology study how, when and why the collective...
by Bengt Sandin, Maija Runcis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
This look into the transformation of the Swedish welfare state in the 20th century through changes in the structure and content of Swedish educational broadcasting provides new insights into how media education fostered political and social change and reflected the changes of government policies as...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A compilation of carefully selected articles written by international film scholars, this record provides an in-depth look into the history of Swedish film. This scholarly account covers various phenomena, including the early screenings at the turn of the century, Swedish censorship, the golden age...
Aging with Dignity
Innovation and Challenge in Sweden – The Voice of Elder Care Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Demographic change is a defining issue of our time. As the worldwide population ages, the healthcare systems of every country will meet challenges of scale in providing for their elderly. Aging with Dignity: Innovation and Challenge in Sweden: The Voice of Elder Care Professionals is a study in the...
Tracing Old Norse Cosmology
The World Tree, Middle Earth and the Sun in Archeaological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail relying mainly on Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages. Here, Anders Andrén...
by Martin Aberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
An in-depth analysis of political organization and democratization during the crucial 18601920 period in Sweden and Germany, this book centers on the formation of liberalism. It argues that despite ideology’s individualistic traits-which made liberals less susceptible to political organization...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Focusing on the profound transformation in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain, this record analyzes complex cultural dimensions, such as lifestyles, habits, value markers, and identity. Written by a group of experts, it presents case studies from the former communist countries...
by Mats Burstrom
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In the autumn of 1944, around 70,000 people fled Estonia in the face of the Red Army's advance; most of them believed the Soviet occupation would be short-lived and they would soon be able to return home. A comprehensive study of a common yet neglected phenomenon, this book tells the stories of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Written by 19 scholars of history, archaeology, and ethnology, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach to European spaces of the past and the human agents within them. Prior to the Industrial Era, the geography of Europe posed problems but also offered possibilities for its people. Distances...
Museums in a time of migration
Rethinking museum's roles, representations, collections, and collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Migration has, across time, contributed to the development and reshaping of societies and urban spaces. Today, migration movements have become a global phenomenon, where the number of countries affected—socially, economically and culturally—by migration is continually increasing. As in past times,...