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- Berglund, Per, et al.
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Linking Education and Research : A Roadmap for Higher Education Institutions at the Dawn of the Knowledge Society
- 2019
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In: Linking education and research. - Basel, Switzerland : MDPI. ; , s. 11-33
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In an era characterized by a move towards a “knowledge society”, universities are central in fostering “knowledgeability”, that is the reflexive understanding of knowledge in knowledge societies. The objective of “knowledgeability” can be met through creating a stronger link between education and research. Furthermore, overall student performance, for example in critical thinking and problem solving, can be improved if research-related activities are incorporated into the curriculum.The aim of this paper is to use international examples to discuss the research- education nexus from four different perspectives, namely context, policy, implementation and quality, with case studies from higher education institutions in Singapore and Sweden.We suggest that different integrative technologies can be used to enhance the links, but it will be essential to consider the inputs of training, service and support in using new technology. Interestingly, the act of evaluating the link between education and research will increase awareness of this linkage by stakeholders involved in both education and research. In turn the link can be strengthened, contributing to increased quality in both education and research.
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Cold Matters : Cultural perceptions of Snow, Ice and Cold
- 2009
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Cold matters on a number of different levels. It has become a political instrument that helps to establish common ground for the cold regions of the globe. As a metaphor, it suggests an impassioned and controlled outlook on life. Physically, cold produces environments where people can freeze and starve to death. Psychologically, it may serve as the route to self-discovery, since it has the capacity to strip away everything except the most essential aspects of the self. Historically, cold has usually been surrounded by negative associations but more recently, it has become a theme to explore in words and pictures and exploit in marketing strategies. At the beginning of the twenty-first century there are signs that indicate that cold is becoming increasingly “cool.” At such a juncture, it is vital to assess the cultural meaning of snow, ice and cold since conventional ideological and metaphorical connotations of the concepts are destabilised. Cold Matters launches the monograph series linked to The Journal of Northern Studies. This interdisciplinary journal concentrates on life in the northern parts of the globe, and is published by Umeå University and Sweden’s northernmost Royal Academy, the Royal Skyttean Society.
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- Dybris McQuaid, Sara, et al.
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A new geography of reference
- 2019
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In: Ireland and the North. - Oxford : Peter Lang Publishing Group. - 9781788742894 - 9781788742900 - 9781788742917 - 9781788742924 ; , s. 3-14
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Fictions of the Irish Land War
- 2014
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The eruption of rural distress in Ireland and the foundation of the Land League in 1879 sparked a number of novels, stories and plays forming an immediate response to what became known as the Irish land war. These works form a literary genre of their own and illuminate both the historical events themselves and the material conditions of reading and writing in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Divisions into 'us' and 'them' were convenient for political reasons, but the fiction of the period frequently modifies this alignment and draws attention to the complexity of the land problem. This collection includes studies of canonical land war novels, publication channels, collaborations between artists and authors, literary conventions and the interplay between personal experience and literary output. It also includes unique resources such as a reprinted letter by the author Mary Anne Sadlier and a reproduction of Rosa Mulholland's little-known play Our Boycotting. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography of land war fiction between 1879 and 1916, which should inspire further reading and research into the genre.
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-
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An Arctic Eden : Alexande Hutchinson's Try Lapland and the Hospitable North
- 2012
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In: Northern Review. - Whitehorse, Canada : Yukon College. - 0835-3433 .- 1929-6657. ; Spring:35, s. 147-166
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As tourism boomed in the latter half of the nineteenth century, depictions of the Scandinavian North as a testing place for heroes gave way to representations where the region emerges as accessible and hospitable. Travel narratives like Alexander Hutchinson’s Try Lapland: A Fresh Field for Summer Tourists (1870) played an important role in modifying the previously dominant paradigm. This article discusses Hutchinson’s travel book as a transitional text where the North is transformed from a place of danger to a place of leisure. The redefinition of the region includes, among other things, a female gendering of the area compared to the masculine image of the Arctic conveyed in exploration narratives and a projection of the author as visitor and consumer rather than conqueror and explorer. The representation of place is inextricably bound up with the representation of self in the text, and by presenting himself as a middle-class tourist, Hutchinson presents Swedish Lapland as closer to English suburbia than to the North Pole. In this way, he contributes to the place-making that designs Lapland as a tourist destination in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-
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Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel
- 2009
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In: Irish literature since 1990. - Manchester : Manchester University Press. - 9780719075636 ; , s. 216-231
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Anne Enright has been hailed as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Irish fiction, but it is very difficult to find a place for her in contemporary Irish criticism. To some extent this is a result of the preoccupation with issues of national identity and the state of Irish society that informs so much of current criticism, which means that literature that avoids these themes easily gets overlooked. Another explanation may be found in Enright’s fragmented storytelling, which means that themes are not always easily detected or obvious.This paper considers Anne Enright’s 2001 novel What Are You Like? as a ‘postnationalist’ text, showing how both her narrative strategies and the themes she addresses can be linked to a position beyond nationalism. In the national story, the search for identity can usually be satisfied through information about genetic – and by extension ethnic – background and identification with the nation, but Enright demythologises many of the staples of earlier Irish fiction, such as rural farm life, family relationships and the moral superiority of nuns, and she does not replace these old stabilities with a new belief in genetics which could have been logical, since the story concerns twins. Instead of showing the primacy of heredity Enright argues, like so many postmodern writers, that identity is in constant process. Such a view is at odds with a vision of nationality founded on ethnic origin, and so both the characters’ personal search for selfhood and Enright’s deconstruction of common Irish myths can be linked to a postnationalist position.A postnationalist reading of Enright’s novel obviously accepts the centrality of ‘nation’ in Irish literature to some extent, and overlooks other aspects of the work, such as its relationship to feminism or how early separation may affect the lives of twins, which is, after all, the novel’s most obvious theme. Given the preoccupation with questions of nation in present-day Irish literature and criticism, however, it is important to include also women’s writing in this context and to add expressions of postnationalism to the equation. The paper therefore primarily considers those elements in What Are You Like? that can be related to a postnationalist outlook.
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-
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Arctopias : the Arctic as No Place and New Place in fiction
- 2015
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In: The new Arctic. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319176017 ; , s. 69-77
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In fiction written from the outside, i. e., not by the indigenous population, an Arctic setting has long been used to emphasise the tough and heroic qualities of predominantly male main characters. The primary genres have been adventure stories and thrillers, with the region depicted as a natural rather than a social world. But there is also a counter-tradition where the Arctic is perceived as the route to or the place of an alternative world. Such utopian, or Arctopian works, appear in the nineteenth century when Arctic exploration maintained public interest and seem to reappear in the form of so-called cli-fi or climate fiction today. The works usually describe new forms of social organisation, and as a result, they contribute to changing persistent ideas about the Arctic as pristine nature. At the same time, genre characteristics rely on conventional ideas of the Arctic as empty space, which means that fantasies of the region continue to play a comparatively important role, despite increasing knowledge about actual conditions.
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