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  • Transnational Polish Families in Norway

    Social Capital, Integration, Institutions and Care

    Edited by Krystyna Slany, Magdalena Slusarczyk, Paula Pustulka, Eugene Guribye ...
    Series Book 7 - Migration – Ethnicity – Nation: Studies in Culture, Society and Politics
    This book provides timely insights into the lives of Polish migrants who have been settling in Norway with their partners and children, especially over the last decade. It brings together Polish and Norwegian scholars who shed light on the key areas of migrant family practices in the transnational space. The contributors critically assess social capital of those living mobile lives, discuss the ... Read more

    $61.69 USD

  • Family Business and Management

    Objectives, Theory, and Practice

    by Magdalena Biel, Beata Ślusarczyk ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
    Family Business and Management: Objectives, Theory, and Practice characterizes the specificity of the functioning of family businesses through the prism of their objectives.It contains both theoretical considerations about the essence of family entrepreneurship and the objectives set by family businesses, as well as the results of a survey conducted among family business managers. The study ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    A Comparative Network Analysis

    Edited by Berit Karseth, Kirsten Sivesind, Gita Steiner-Khamsi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book explores how policy makers draw on national, regional and international expertise in issuing school reform within five Nordic countries. In an era of international comparison, policy makers are expected to review best practices, learn from experiences from elsewhere, and apply international standards propelled by international organizations. Do they do so? What counts, for ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Sport and Nation-Building

    Interrogating Sámi Sport and Beyond

    by Eivind Å. Skille ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book investigates the social, political, and cultural dimensions of Indigenous sport and nation-building. Focusing on the Indigenous Sámi of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, it addresses how colonization variously impacts organizational arrangements and everyday sporting life in a modern world.Through detailed case data from the Norwegian side of Sápmi (the land of the Sámi), this book ... Read more

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  • The Finnish Education Mystery

    Historical and sociological essays on schooling in Finland

    by Hannu Simola ...
    Finnish education has been a focus of global interest since its first PISA success in 2001. After years of superficial celebration, astonishment and educational tourism, the focus has recently shifted to what is possibly the most interesting element of this Finnish success story: that Finnish schools have been effectively applying methods that go against the flow of global education policy with no ... Read more

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  • Resourceful Civil Society

    Navigating the Changing Landscapes of Civil Society Organizations

    Edited by Zhanna Kravchenko, Lisa Kings, Katarzyna Jezierska ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book examines how civil society organizations in Poland, Russia, and Sweden (re)act to transformations of opportunities and limitations in access to various forms of resources. The volume’s contributions discuss the constraints associated with different types of resources as well as organizations’ capacities to generate resources—or compensate for their lack—as they negotiate and ... Read more

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  • Dynamics in Education Politics

    Understanding and explaining the Finnish case

    by Hannu Simola, Jaakko Kauko, Janne Varjo, Mira Kalalahti, Fritjof Sahlstrom ...
    Dynamics in Education Politics: Understanding and Explaining the Finnish Case introduces a new theoretical framework characterised as Comparative Analytics of Dynamics in Education Politics (CADEP). Albeit the topicality of comparative research is obvious in the current era of global large-scale assessment, with its concomitant media visibility and political effects, comparative education is still ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Modernity

    The Nordic Model and Beyond

    Edited by Nina Witoszek, Atle Midttun ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies, with high economic productivity and quality of life. But they are also an enigma in a cultural-evolutionary ... Read more

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  • Lives in Peace Research

    The Oslo Stories

    Edited by Stein Tønnesson ...
    Series Book 3 - Evidence-Based Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies
    This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their ... Read more

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  • The Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens

    Public Opinion and Social Inequalities in Comparative and Relational Perspective

    by Christian Lahusen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Political Sociology
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003046653, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This book unveils the significant impact of the European integration process on the political thinking of European citizens. With close attention to the interrelation between social and ... Read more

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  • The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model

    Challenges in the 21st Century

    Edited by Anu Koivunen, Jari Ojala, Janne Holmén ...
    The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland – two countries topping global indexes for competitiveness, productivity, growth, quality of life, prosperity, and equality – start doubting themselves and their future? Is the Nordic ... Read more

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  • Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe

    Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging

    Edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, Mia Liinason ...
    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 ... Read more

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