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- Gayim, Eyassu, 1949
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Humanity and Human Rights: The Contours of International Law
- 2017
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Ingår i: Nordicum-Mediterraneum, Iceland E-Jorunal of Nordic and Mediterranean Studies. Volume 12, no. 2 (2017). - 1670-6242.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- There are compelling reasons for being content in living at a time when the basic requirements of humanity and human rights have been recognized by the ratification of most of the international human rights and international humanitarian law instruments. Clearly, the existence of disparity between the recognized norms and the actual behavior of states cannot be denied. There are also states that are not willing to subscribe to what is widely accepted or political actors that have interests in reversing the gains made this far. Despite all this, no one can doubt that a mile-stone has been reached in recognizing the values of humanity and human rights. The credit for this goes to those that have struggled for these goals, including through their writings and struggles and the conducive, post-World War II political atmosphere which stimulated the inter-state agreements. Giving credit to the role played by the past thinkers does not necessarily mean that there is no longer any need for intellectual debate relating to this matter. If the requirements of human rights and humanity are to be critically appraised, it will be necessary to examine closely the thoughts of scholars, past and present, on this subject. Then and only then will we be able to fully recognize the inter-play between humanity and human rights as perceived in the past and present and to appreciate the direction international law has taken or should take. This article sheds light on the path which international law took in responding to the requirement of human rights and humanitarianism (as dictated by humanity). This is done by reflecting on international human rights law and international humanitarian law. If these laws were developed to protect the dignity and worth of the human being, as is claimed, why make a distinction between them? Are there areas of convergence between them? Before attempting to respond to these and other questions it will be necessary to clarify not only what is understood by human rights and humanity, but also who the human being is in the first place.
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- Hammarlund, Karl Gunnar, 1954-
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Teaching History in a multicultural society – trends and tendencies in Nordic schools
- 2015
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Ingår i: Nordicum-Mediterraneum. - Akureyri : University of Akureyri. - 1670-6242. ; 10:2, s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Meeting the history and heritage of the majority culture in a pluralist society might, at worst, mean giving up the control of one’s own past and assimilating into a new ’master narrative’. By re-defining history as a school subject, putting at its core not a set narrative of the past but the cognitive process of thinking about the past, the very process of knowing and understanding might form a ground for a shared experience of history while at the same time allow for the co-existence of different narratives. History curricula in the Nordic countries have for the last two decades gradually moved in this direction. Whether classroom work has done so as well remains less certain. Recent studies suggest that History teachers acknowledge that teaching and learning must adjust to the reality of pluralism but are less confident about how to meet the challenge in concrete terms.
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- Isenberg, Bo
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Mammonist Capitalism – Ubiquity, Immanence, Acceleration. And the Social Consequences
- 2013
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Ingår i: Nordicum-Mediterraneum. - 1670-6242. ; 8:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay attempts at a general understanding of contemporary capitalism and some of its social and mental consequences. It works through combinations and variations of concepts from classical and contemporary social theory. Some key concepts are Mammonism, acceleration, ubiquity, self-dynamics, precariat, inertia, conformity, flexibility, specter of uselessness. The text refers to classical modern thinkers like Marx, Simmel, Musil, Benjamin, and to contemporary ideas in the works of Deleuze, Rosa, Crouch, Illouz, Standing, Hochschild. It is summoned up by asking some important, complex questions that regard democracy, community and autonomy.
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- Skånberg Dahlstedt, Ami, 1967, et al.
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Artistic Research: Being There, Explorations into the Local
- 2017
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Ingår i: Nordicum-Mediterraneum. - : The National and University Library of Iceland. - 1670-6242. ; 15:1
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How does artistic research engage with the concept of local? In what ways can art practice be an intervention into traditional notions of history and culture? How does it engage with local and global identities? This book raises questions about transient art practices and site-specific works within communities, as well as art and research based experiences localized in urban and rural spaces, within the body and memory. Being There is a wide-ranging anthology that demonstrates the field of artistic research has never been stronger. The essays and meditations are by visual artists, writers, performers, filmmakers, historians, sound artists, and activists who have worked together in the Nordic Summer University and who share a desire to unite their creative practices with critical enquiry. Their contributions were generated within twice-yearly symposia that moved between Nordic and Baltic countries over a three year cycle of practice-based research. Some contributions are enigmatic meditations on place, whilst others, paradoxically, address the question of what is local through the notion of the nomadic. Whether describing quests of individual artists, or relating to collective endeavours, these works are engaged with the spaces in between. Each offers the reader a thoughtful encounter with the aesthetic, and the political, within a myriad of art practices across a rapidly evolving Europe. A part of the series NSU-press and the subject areas Philosophy and Art
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- Spaak, Torben, 1960-
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Ingvill Helland and Sören Koch, eds., Nordic and Germanic Legal Methods, 461 pp. (Mohr-Siebeck, 2014)
- 2016
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Ingår i: Nordicum-Mediterraneum. - 1670-6242. ; 11:1
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book on Nordic and Germanic legal methods includes contributions from a number of German, Swiss, and Nordic legal scholars and is a welcome contribution both to the national and the international debate on legal reasoning. Clearly, we have reason to compare not only solutions to substantive legal problems, as comparative legal scholars usually do, but also the methods for the interpretation and application of the law used in different legal orders. Reading through these essays, then, the reader is likely to acquire some interesting information about the similarities and differences between the so-called legal methods used in the relevant legal orders and about the reasons why there are certain similarities and differences between those methods. What the reader will not get, however, is (i) a systematic discussion of whether there is anything specific enough to deserve the name of ‘legal method’ and, if so, what, exactly, this might be, or (ii) any general conclusions about the similarities and differences between the legal methods used in the various legal orders or about the reasons for the relevant similarities and differences. Moreover, the reader will not get (iii) a systematic discussion of the relation between the two aims of the collection, that is, (a) to describe and compare the legal methods in the different legal orders and (b) to explain any similarities and differences regarding the methods that may turn up in the comparison. For these reasons, although I do welcome the book, I am not entirely satisfied with it.
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- Tarsi, Matteo, 1988-
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On Loanwords of Latin Origin in Contemporary Icelandic
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Ingår i: Nordicum-Mediterraneum. - 1670-6242. ; 9:1, s. 1-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on the Icelandic lexis' history by analysing the loanwords of Latin origin in it. The corpusexamined traverses the history of Icelandic through its whole.The borrowings are divided into four main waves, excluding the pre-literary period. Each wave is dominated byone or two borrowing languages. The semantic fields Icelandic selects loanwords from are various and no field isstrictly bound to any of the four waves above mentioned.Finally some words of particular interest are presented and discussed, for the importance they assume in the light of the Icelandic lexis' history.
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- Theodoridis, Fotis
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Beyond the Reductionist Thinking-Doing
- 2008
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Ingår i: Nordicum-Mediterraneum. - 1670-6242. ; 3:2, s. 23-41
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