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Marit Franden, "Att blotta vem jag ar". Slaktnamnsskick och slaktnamnsbyten hos samer i Sverige 1920–2009 (Namn och samhalle 23), Uppsala: Uppsala universitet 2010, ISBN 978-91-506-2152-5; ISSN 1404-1790, 312 pp.
Early academic article on McCartney's songs during/after the Beatles. This focuses on themes of time and nostalgia alongside musical innovation in a selection of McCartney songs, 1963-2001. Some of my later publications on McCartney (and... more
With close reference to Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy (1957), this chapter emphasises the influence of working-class culture on the songwriting of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. The chapter also discusses... more
Journal article in Manchester Region History Review, 2014, Vol. 25.
The long history of travels to the northernmost areas of the globe has been accompanied by an equally long tradition of textual representations of the North. Such representations span not only variations in geography but also a whole... more
The development of populated spaces in Modern Japan into distinct places by government and private actors has been the target of much recent scholarship, particularly concerning the development of urban identities in major cities.... more
Traces a shift over the past century of Alaskan writing away from elegiac or apocalyptic representations of environmental change, toward more nuanced, post-nature perspectives. Rather than mourning ‘the end’ of northern nature, recent... more
“Writing in the Anthropocene from the Global North to the Global South: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Richard Power’s The Echo Maker” has already been accepted for publication in the forthcoming collection Critical Norths: Space,... more
The paper suggests that cultural landscapes were permeated by religious meanings in all pre-modern societies, including Sami societies before c. AD 1600. We suggest that knowledge of this sacred landscape was not restricted to an elite or... more
Подмеченное Герценом вятское обыкновение ездить «гусем» (несколько необычное для жителя центральной России) связано с тем, что дороги в Вятском крае слишком часто бывали узки, неудобны и малопроезжи. Эта запряжка роднила Вятку с Сибирью,... more
This article focuses on contextualizing the Sami (finnar) representations in Old Norse saga literature. The purpose is to show that the Sami representations reflect multi-layered Old Norse textual ...
The article deals with the «Northern discourse» (the term by E. Sh. Galimova) in the Russian rock-poetry of the last 10-15 years. Though the music styles the authors belong to, their aesthetic preferencea and world views can differ, the... more
The creation, by federal letters patent, of The University of Canada North (UCN) in March 1971, is an important event in the history of education in the Canadian North. The brain-child of Richard Rohmer, a prominent Toronto lawyer, and... more
This paper concerns Kisima Ingitchuna / Never Alone, an Iñupiat-language video game from the world’s first indigenous-owned game studio. Never Alone confronts, in some playful and provocative ways, the challenges of translating arctic... more
“Settler colonialism” presents a vexing challenge to voting rights theory and praxis in liberal-democratic states. I call this challenge “Kymlicka’s dilemma,” after Will Kymlicka, the political theorist who has led contemporary discourse... more
Literary and cinematic elegies abound for northern landscapes and lifeways presumed ‘lost’ to modernization. These narratives are part of a wider elegiac trend representing the North as a place of disappearance, or a place itself... more
Since 1964, there have been four periods in which a northern university for the Canadian territories was proposed or attempted. The first, from 1964 to 1982, coincided with such motivating national forces as post-war expansion and... more
THIS ESSAY DISCUSSES THE INTERCONNECTIONS BETWEEN art, human imagination and postcolonial critique in the context of northern Finland. The ‘North’ is conceived here as an imaginative region, a myth, characterized by the stereotypes... more
"This study examines the influence of the wage economy on food security in Paulatuk, NT, and aims to illustrate: a) how individuals are participating in the wage economy and traditional economy in Paulatuk, and in turn how this influences... more
In February 2002, Yukon College lost a visionary founder. Aron Senkpiel had joined the new college in 1983 and devoted almost twenty years of his professional life to developing university-level programs at the college, to brokering... more
In the early twentieth century, the Canadian Lakehead was known as a breeding ground for revolution, a place where harsh conditions in dockyards, lumber mills, and railway yards drove immigrants into radical labour politics. This... more
Comment proposer une « cartographie du Nord » par l’analyse de lieux ou d’espaces qui concentrent une ou plusieurs formes de mémoire, tout en étant parfois laissés à l’abandon, voire condamnés à l’oubli ? Comment ces « territoires... more
The manifesto for the establishment of Yukon College's academic journal The Northern Review. The paper discusses the state of Northern Research c. 1987 and the need to establish a research paradigm and capacity to conduct research "In the... more
In this essay, I argue that by juxtaposing Shelley’s prescient Frankenstein (1818) with Richard Power’s American novel, The Echo Maker (2006) the reader can see how novels, both old and new, and, more specifically, the environmental... more
Northern Review. Article Tools Print this article. Review policy. Email this article (Login required). About The Author Amanda Graham Yukon College. Open Journal Systems. Journal Help. User Username, ... Amanda Graham. Full Text: PDF.... more
Résumé Depuis 1964, on peut compter quatre périodes lors desquelles des tentatives ou des propositions d’une université nordique ont été faites pour les territoires canadiens. La première, entre 1964 et 1982, coïncida avec une motivation... more
This one-day conference invites post-graduate and early-career researchers to discuss the issues and complexities that arise in constructions of ‘the North’ and Northern identity. Send 500 word abstracts to: Rebecca Andrew:... more
The creation, by federal letters patent, of The University of Canada North (UCN) in March 1971, is an important event in the history of education in the Canadian North. The brain-child of Richard Rohmer, a prominent Toronto lawyer, and... more