Students will be responsible for reading one text in full for this course:
- O’Leary, Margaret Hayford. Culture and Customs of Norway. 2010. ISBN 9786612963599
The book is available online for free through the University of Oslo library. Students are welcome to purchase the book. Additional articles will be available in Canvas, the course management system, and the University of Oslo library system. A tentative bibliography is included below. All students must have the course texts at the start of the course and access Canvas during the course.
Bibliography – Recommended extra reading
NB! Articles available digitally at University of Oslo.
Ahva, Laura, Arjen van Dalen, Jan Fredrik Hovden, Guðbjörg Hildur Kolbeins, Monica Löfgren Nilsson, Morten Skovsgaard & Jari Väliverronen. «A Welfare State of Mind?» Journalism Studies 18.5 (2017): 595-613. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2016.1249005
Barkve, Marit Ann. «’Writing Beyond the Ending’ and Diasporic Narrativity in Loveleen Rihel Brenna’s Min annerledeshet, min styrke» Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 25 (2018): 92-114. https://scancan.net/barkve_1_25.htm
Berg, Roald. «From “Spitsbergen” to “Svalbard.” Norwegianization in Norway and in the “Norwegian Sea”, 1820–1925.» Acta Borealia 30.2 (2013): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08003831.2013.843322
Chinga-Ramirez, Carla. «Becoming a ‘Foreigner’: The Principle of Equality, Intersected Identities, and Social Exclusion in the Norwegian School.» European Education 49 (2017): 151-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2017.1335173
Donnar, Glen. «Male anxiety, inadequacy and victimhood: Insecure and immature men in recent Norwegian cinema.» Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 5.2 (2015): 155-168. https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.5.2.155_1
Fallan, Kjetil. «‘One must Offer “Something for Everyone”’: Designing Crockery for Consumer Consent in 1950s’ Norway.» Journal of Design History 22.2 (2009):133-149. https://doi.org/doi:10.1093/jdh/epp010
Høeg, Ida Marie. «Silent Actions – Emotion and mass mourning rituals after the terrorist attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011.» Mortality 20.3 (2015): 197-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2015.1012488
Krouk, Dean. «Falling Silent: Holocaust Trauma and the Breakdown of Postmemory in Merethe Lindstrøm’s Dager i stillhetens historie (2011).» Edda 104.4 (2017): 354-369. https://doi.org/10.18261/ISSN.1500-1989-2017-04-04
Mathisen, Line, Espen Carlsson, & Niels Arvid Sletterød. «Sami identity and preferred futures: Experiences among youth in Finnmark and Trøndelag, Norway.» The Northern Review 45 (2017): 113-139. https://doi.org/10.22584/nr45.2017.007
Monro, Surya & Janneke Van der Ros. «Trans* and gender variant citizenship and the state in Norway.» Critical Social Policy 38.1 (2018): 57-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018317733084
Myrdahl, Eileen Muller. «Recuperating whiteness in the injured nation: Norwegian identity in the response to 22 July.» Social Identities 20.6 (2014): 486-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2015.1004997
Nordh, Helena, Katinka Evensen, & Margrete Skår. «A peaceful place in the city: A qualitative study of restorative components of the cemetery.» Landscape and Urban Planning 167 (2017): 108-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.06.004
Pearce, Connor. «Reality and Fiction in Contemporary Television: The Case of SKAM.» TDR: The Drama Review 61.4 (Winter 2017): 156-161. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/677835
Ringdal, Siv and Kjetil Fallan. «110 Volts at Home: The American Lista.» Journal of Design History 27.1 (March 2014): 79-96. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/ept046
Sandström, Glenn & Ólöf Garðarsdóttir. «Long-Term Perspectives on Divorce in the Nordic Countries – Introduction.» Scandinavian Journal of History 43.1 (2018): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2017.1384661
Teitelbaum, Benjamin. «Saga’s Sorrow: Femininities of Despair in the Music of Radical White Nationalism.» Ethnomusicology 58.3 (Fall 2014): 405-430. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/ethnomusicology.58.3.0405
Vårheim, Andreas. «Trust and the role of the public library in the integration of refugees: The case of a Northern Norwegian city.» Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 46.1 (2014): 62-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000614523636
van Riemsdijk, Micheline. «Variegated privileges of whiteness: Lived experiences of Polish nurses in Norway.» Social & Cultural Geography 11.2 (2010): 117-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360903514376
Vassenden, Anders & Mette Andersson. «Whiteness, non-whiteness and ‘faith information control’: religion among young people in Grønland, Oslo.» Ethnic and Racial Studies 34:4 (2011): 574-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2010.511239
Wallenberg, Louise. «Traversing the gender binary: Exploring ‘new’ Scandinavian trans cinema.» Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 5.2 (2015): 169-182. https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.5.2.169_1
Wickström, Mats. «Nordic brothers before strange others: pan-national boundary making in the post-war naturalization policies of the Nordic countries.» Ethnic and Racial Studies 40.4 (2017): 675-693. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2016.1181269
Witoszek, Nina. «The World after Thor Heyerdahl: Challenges to Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century.» European Journal of Archaeology 15.1 (2012): 146-151, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/1461957112Y.0000000002
Wivel, Anders. «What Happened to the Nordic Model for International Peace and Security?» Peace Review 29.4 (2017): 489-496. https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2017.1381521
Åtland, Kristian. «North European security after the Ukraine conflict.» Defense & Security Analysis 32:2 (2016): 163-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/14751798.2016.1160484
City Classroom
Students will digitally submit a written reaction paper (obligatory for the exam) by 10 July to Canvas that documents their reflections on Norwegian Life & Society, based the interplay between “city classroom” assignments and in-class lectures. Additional information on the paper will follow during course lectures.