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The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving

The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving

The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving explores the roots and strengths of Nordic digital archiving and proposes new directions to guide digital archivists in addressing the challenges posed by ever-changing digital technologies and the datafication of information and records. Digitization and born-digital records promise efficient and cost-effective solutions to everything from preservation of data to easy user access. However digitization also poses challenges for archival practitioners worldwide. Bringing together contributions from practitioners and academics to offer a range of international case studies this book offers practical solutions for archivists in terms of governance technologies and processes. It highlights and analyses the cornerstones of the Nordic model of archiving: reliance on standards; powerful regulatory instruments - especially in public sector archiving including legislation; and collaboration between archivists and government agencies and among different tiers of central and local government. While showcasing work in the Nordic region for the benefit of archivists and record keepers globally this volume also challenges the limits of the Nordic model with insights drawn from international archival theory. The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving offers a new perspective on archiving that will be of interest to academics researchers and postgraduate students of archiving digital archives and records management.

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Digitalization and Digital Competence in Educational Contexts A Nordic Perspective from Policy to Practice

Digitalization and Digital Competence in Educational Contexts A Nordic Perspective from Policy to Practice

This edited collection presents a Nordic perspective on intensified discussions concerning digitalization and digital competence in the current trends of educational work. Using a multidisciplinary and holistic approach the book compares Nordic countries’ attitudes towards the digitalization of education and demonstrates the Nordic region’s position as digital front-runners in a European and a global context. The book provides up-to-date cases and future-oriented perspectives on digitalization and digital competence in educational work. Chapters use empirical data gained from policy documents interviews and questionnaires to present nuanced discussions theoretical perspectives and implications for the future of digitalization in education. Ultimately this book’s reach far exceeds that of its Nordic contexts and will be of use to postgraduate students researchers and scholars across the globe involved with digital education teacher education and educational policy and politics more broadly. Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Digitalization and Digital Competence in Educational Contexts A Nordic Perspective from Policy to Practice

GBP 130.00
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Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation 1960–1980 Revolt and Resilience

Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation 1960–1980 Revolt and Resilience

Covering the 1960s and 1970s this volume explores new ways of investigating comparing and interpreting the different domains of design culture across the Nordic countries. Challenging the traditional narrative this volume argues that the roots of the most prominent features of Nordic design’s contemporary significance are not to be found amongst the objects for the home collectively branded as ‘Scandinavian Design’ to great acclaim in the 1950s but in the discourses institutions and practices formed in the aftermath of that oft-told success story during the turbulent period between 1960 and 1980. This is achieved by employing multidisciplinary approaches to connect the domains of industrial production marketing consumption public institutions design educations trade journals as well as public debates and civic initiatives forming a design culture. This book makes a significant contribution to current international agendas of historiographical critique focusing on transnational relations and the deconstruction of national design histories. This book will be of interest to scholars in design design history and Scandinavian studies. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation 1960–1980 Revolt and Resilience

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Urban Life in Nordic Countries

Urban Life in Nordic Countries

Based on empirical studies this book investigates the particular urban history of the North from the 17th century until today in a comparative Northern perspective. Urban Life in Nordic Countries is the result of a conference on Urbanity in the Periphery held in Stockholm on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Institute of Urban History at Stockholm University aimed at establishing the field of the urban history of the North and creating a network of urban historians of the North. With a broad range of contributions from Sweden Finland Denmark Norway and Estonia the volume seeks to further discourse on the region within national and transnational lenses and to highlight possibilities for new cooperation among researchers. Urban history is a transdisciplinary subject engaging not only historians but also ethnologists sociologists urban planners and cultural geographers and this book targets all scholars whose work requires a historical understanding of the Northern town. European urban historians outside the region will also find this text valuable as one of the few studies to consider the urban history of the continent from a North-centered viewpoint.

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Culture Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare Nordic Perspectives

Culture Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare Nordic Perspectives

Elaborating with the concepts of culture and religious literacy this volume examines theoretical methodological and empirical aspects of the practice and study of religion and non-religion culture spirituality and worldviews within healthcare. In modern multi-cultural and multi-religious societies a host of new issues have arisen concerning culture religion and spirituality within healthcare especially when people face serious and life-limiting illness. Healthcare professionals are faced with challenges addressing and handling patients’ cultural expressions of religiosity spirituality and existential concerns. The variety needs to be met without essentializing the concepts of culture and religion and with an ability to include the non-religious as well as new types of spiritualities. This collection reflects on the tension between cultural religious and spiritual dimensions of care in a secularized healthcare institution and describes implications of this tension for healthcare professionals and patients. The book engages with an ongoing scholarly discussion about religious literacy in healthcare and contributes perspectives experiences and empirical examples from the Nordic countries especially Sweden. It gives suggestions for practical application of research to healthcare practice highlighting challenges and ideas for how to integrate religious non-religious and spiritual dimensions in care. This is an important contribution to the literature on religious literacy and provides a vital reference for students scholars and healthcare professionals with an interest in the complex relationship between culture spirituality and religion in healthcare. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | Culture Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare Nordic Perspectives

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The Significance of Sámi Rights Law Justice and Sustainability for the Indigenous Sámi in the Nordic Countries

The Significance of Sámi Rights Law Justice and Sustainability for the Indigenous Sámi in the Nordic Countries

This book examines the significance of the rights of the Sámi people and analyses the issues raised by the recognition and implementation of these rights in the Nordic countries. Written together by Sámi and non-Sámi experts the book adopts a human rights approach to examine the adequacy of law and policies that seek to protect the culture and livelihood of Sámi communities in their traditional lands and territories. The book discusses contemporary legal and jurisprudential developments in the field of Sámi rights. It examines the processes and challenges in the recognition and implementation of these rights particularly in relation to the governance of their traditional land and resources. The book will be of particular interest to legal scholars political scientists experts in the field of Indigenous peoples’ rights governmental authorities and members of Indigenous communities. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4. 0 license. | The Significance of Sámi Rights Law Justice and Sustainability for the Indigenous Sámi in the Nordic Countries

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The Nordic Baltic and Visegrád Small Powers in Europe A Dance with Giants for Survival and Prosperity

The Nordic Baltic and Visegrád Small Powers in Europe A Dance with Giants for Survival and Prosperity

This volume addresses and seeks to answer a number of questions on the current issues facing small states/powers in Europe. How can small European states survive and prosper within a multipolar world of great powers? What part should small states take in European integration? Are EU fiscal and monetary policies allowing for Keynesian economic stimulus when needed and are euro area convergence criteria viable as the world recovers from the COVID-19 crisis? Are small state alliances within the EU useful to counterbalance the influence of the larger EU member states? How far should EU and NATO expansion go? Should it include countries such as Ukraine? Can the EU rely on US leadership of NATO for its security? How should small states relate to great powers seeking to influence Europe most notably the US the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation? Do smaller states need to choose a single ally among the major powers? Using an interdisciplinary approach the author discusses issues of economic policy international relations and politics economic and political integration as well as the effects of global and regional institutions and priorities in bilateral development cooperation demonstrating how policies are shaped by the interaction between small states (small powers) and large states (great powers). | The Nordic Baltic and Visegrád Small Powers in Europe A Dance with Giants for Survival and Prosperity

GBP 120.00
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An Economic and Social History of Western Europe since 1945

An Economic and Social History of Western Europe since 1945

This is the ideal companion text to A Political History of Western Europe Since 1945. It is an introductory survey which explains how western Europe built up its postwar prosperity and is moving towards continental integration. Themes treated include: the origins of the EC; consumerism; youth culture and protest; immigration; the oil crisis and its aftermath; and the contrasting experience and expectations of the Nordic world and the Mediterranean south. The book ends with the consequences of Soviet collapse. Designed for general history students it assumes no formal knowledge of economics and is notably accessible and user-friendly in its approach. | An Economic and Social History of Western Europe since 1945

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Bildung Knowledge and Global Challenges in Education Didaktik and Curriculum in the Anthropocene Era

Bildung Knowledge and Global Challenges in Education Didaktik and Curriculum in the Anthropocene Era

This book offers a critical and reflective discussion of contemporary challenges for education relating to sustainability and post-factual truths in light of the concepts of knowledge and Bildung. The book uses the concepts of knowledge and Bildung as keys to grasp what education is and how the different educational traditions can complement a better understanding of challenges to education. Knowledge is taken as the core of the Anglo-American and French educational traditions and Bildung is key for German and Nordic Didaktik traditions. The book presents comparative analytical work from international scholars who discuss Bildung aims in the light of sustainability and knowledge in light of the ‘post-factual’ era. Building on the 2021 book Didaktik and Curriculum in Ongoing Dialogue the book will be highly relevant for researchers scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of educational theory pedagogy curriculum studies and comparative education. | Bildung Knowledge and Global Challenges in Education Didaktik and Curriculum in the Anthropocene Era

GBP 130.00
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Race in Sweden Racism and Antiracism in the World’s First ‘Colourblind’ Nation

Race in Sweden Racism and Antiracism in the World’s First ‘Colourblind’ Nation

Race in Sweden is an introduction to and a critical investigation of the Swedish relationship to race in the post-war and contemporary eras. This relationship is fundamentally shaped by an ideology of colourblindness with any kind of race talk being taboo in public discourse and everyday language use and in practice forbidden in official and institutional language. A study of a country which was until recently strikingly white but has become extremely diverse yet where the legacy of Swedish whiteness co-exists with a radical colourblind antiracist ideology Race in Sweden will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities with interests in race and ethnicity whiteness and Nordic studies. Chapters 2 and 3 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | Race in Sweden Racism and Antiracism in the World’s First ‘Colourblind’ Nation

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The Consumer Co-operative Sector International Perspectives on Strategic Renewal

The Consumer Co-operative Sector International Perspectives on Strategic Renewal

Globally consumer co-operation has experienced a difficult period since the 1970s. Large scale failures in France Germany and Austria were accompanied by loss of market share in the UK (including the failure of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society and its takeover by its English counterpart). Even in the Nordic countries where consumer co-operation has always been more robust new challenges from the non-co-operative sector had to be confronted. How did co-operative organizations in different countries cope with these challenges? What were the processes of strategic renewal that they undertook? How successful were they? These are the key questions that the collection will address culminating in an analysis by the editors of the effectiveness of strategic renewal in the co-operative sector. This book is a study of strategic renewal in the consumer co-operative sector using eleven international case-studies to demonstrate how the concept has been applied over the last fifty years. | The Consumer Co-operative Sector International Perspectives on Strategic Renewal

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Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe Critical Essays on Knowledge Inequality and Belonging

Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe Critical Essays on Knowledge Inequality and Belonging

Interdisciplinary in perspective this book explores contemporary struggles around ‘identity politics’ in Europe offering a unique glimpse into contemporary tensions and paradoxes surrounding identities belonging exclusions and their deep-seated gendered colonial and racist legacies. With a particular focus on the Nordic region it provides insights into the ways in which people who find themselves in minoritized positions struggle against multiple injustices. Through a series of case studies documenting counter-struggles against racist colonialist sexist forms of discrimination and exclusion Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe asks how the paradigm and politics of the welfare state operate to discriminate against the most marginalized by instating a naturalized hierarchy of human-ness. As such it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities with interests in race gender colonialism and postcolonialism citizenship and belonging. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe Critical Essays on Knowledge Inequality and Belonging

GBP 130.00
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The East Asian Model Transformation and Sustainability

The East Asian Model Transformation and Sustainability

Hyungkee Kim analyses the model of East Asian development as it existed during periods of high growth and how it was transformed by pressures from both the Washington consensus and its own internal contradictions. Many have discussed the successes and failures of the East Asian model but Kim is concerned rather with the story of its transformation and its long-term sustainability. He uses a Five Sector Model which focuses on the state corporate financial labour and foreign sectors to identify the core of East Asian model and examine the variants in Korea Japan and China. He also outlines the distinctions between the East Asian model and Western development models including the Anglo-American Rhine and Nordic models. He analyses in detail the institutional changes such as marketization privatization liberalization and flexibilization that have transformed the East Asian model. Highlighting the major problems that emerged from the transformation of the East Asian model Kim assesses its prospects for economic social and ecological sustainability and proposes an agenda for institutional reforms. An essential reading for scholars of East Asian political economy. | The East Asian Model Transformation and Sustainability

GBP 120.00
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Rescaling Social Policies towards Multilevel Governance in Europe Social Assistance Activation and Care for Older People

Rescaling Social Policies towards Multilevel Governance in Europe Social Assistance Activation and Care for Older People

The workings of multi-level governance - institutional choices concerning centralisation decentralisation and subsidiarity - are widely debated within European public policy but few systematic studies assessing the effects of changing divisions of power for policy-making have been carried out. This volume offers an assessment of the workings of multi-level governance in terms of social welfare policy across different clusters of European states - Nordic Southern European Central and East European. This book reports on a major comparative study at the European Centre for Social Welfare policy and Research which included partners from univerisities in Finland France Italy Norway Sweden Poland Spain and Switzerland. It reports on three particular policy areas: social assistance and local policies against poverty; activation and labour market policies; and care for the elderly. The authors describe different starting points strategies and solutions in European countries which are facing similar challenges and could thus learn from each other. They explore the differences between European welfare regimes in terms of territorial responsibilities the changes that have taken place over the past few years and their effects. The book is distinctive in highlighting comparative transversal and transnational issues of multi-level governance in social welfare policies rather than presenting country reports. | Rescaling Social Policies towards Multilevel Governance in Europe Social Assistance Activation and Care for Older People

GBP 175.00
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Social Cohesion and Welfare States From Fragmentation to Social Peace

Social Cohesion and Welfare States From Fragmentation to Social Peace

Aiming to go beyond reiterating the stereotypical narrative of the rise of welfare states this interdisciplinary book examines the long-run historical processes of the development of the welfare state. It focuses on the complex political social economic and institutional transformations which give rise to these peaceful and cohesive societies. Welfare is crucial to the story of peaceful social integration and this book explores and explains this vital connection taking a non-linear view of the history of moving from fragmentation to peace with comprehensive welfare institutions. Chapters collectively focus on three central areas: (a) types of socio-political fragmentation (b) the interconnection of social political and economic forces that led to the institutionalisation of integrationist processes and policies (including re-distributional welfare systems) and (c) how this new institutional development helped achieve or failed to achieve social peace and welfare. The international panel of expert contributors provide case studies from a rich variety of country contexts including Germany South Africa the Netherlands Austria and the Nordic Countries. This thought-provoking collection of essays is well suited for advanced students and researchers in social history economic history political economy and social policy. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | Social Cohesion and Welfare States From Fragmentation to Social Peace

GBP 130.00
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Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets

Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets

Focusing on how museums prioritize and produce content Hip Heritage demonstrates how economic issues play an ever-larger role in determining how cultural heritage is being framed and presented in contemporary heritage museums. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the authors at seven museums over the course of five years this book offers an in-depth analysis of heritage museums in Nordic Scandinavian and North American contexts. It investigates how economic realities coupled with the cultural contexts in which museums operate affect how these institutions organize manage and develop their collections to make themselves relevant in society. Once charged with the primary task of educating citizens about their cultural identity and history national museums and heritage organizations are also under pressure to rethink their market demands and meet stakeholders’ increasing interest in growing visitor numbers and expanding economic returns. Simultaneously many museums are part of a cultural sector with diminished public funding and increased competition for the existing financing. Against this background this book questions: ‘When the budget is tight whose heritage counts most?’ It considers museums as arenas for heritage politics in action on the local national and international levels as well as at the institutional level. Hip Heritage will appeal to scholars and students engaged in the study of ethnology heritage museum studies marketing leisure and tourism public folklore and sociology. | Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets

GBP 130.00
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Asian Trade and Investment in Europe

Asian Trade and Investment in Europe

This book provides deep insight into the flow of foreign direct investment from Asia to Europe. It assesses the topic of trade and investment from the reverse direction considering Asian countries as the capital investors in the EU countries. Each chapter analyses either the international trade or investment of one or more Asian countries in correlation with one or more European states. The book analyses a significant number of countries which are included in various economic associations such as the Visegrad Group the Three Seas Initiative the European Free Trade Association or are states from the same geopolitical region – for instance the Iberian Peninsula Baltic States and Nordic countries. It examines Indian outward foreign direct investment trends in the UK before and after Brexit based on select case studies to emphasize the impact of Brexit as well as to encourage trade and investment among Asian and European countries before and during COVID-19 to highlight the influence of the pandemic on the target country’s economy. The authors use a variety of analytical methods in the book such as numerical presentations econometric analysis descriptive statistical analysis an examination of time-series dynamics the modelling of functions and semi-structured interviews with company executives. The regional perspectives bring new and useful insights to the topic and the case study approach allows for a wider exploration of the research questions as well as their theoretical evolution. The book provides a big picture for economists researchers business analysts and PhD students of economics international trade and business. | Asian Trade and Investment in Europe

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