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We live in strange times. Old borders are vanishing just before our astonished eyes, while new ones are rapidly emerging. Nearly three decades after the publication of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man, the zeitgeist that predicted a bright future for mankind to a large extent turned out to be rather more of a dystopia. Crises in and outside Europe multiplied the number of border controls, triggered the construction of walls and fences and widened ideological gaps. The book Discussing Borders, Escaping Traps is a transdisciplinary and transspatial approach to investigating these vanishing, emerging and changing material and immaterial borders. It is the result of a two-year project by AreaS, a research group in area studies located at Østfold University College in Norway, and by AreaS’ partners.
Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since 1945.
This book addresses how peer group mentoring in higher education can contribute to the development of supportive and collaborative working environments for faculty staff. It draws on an extensive empirical study examining how group based peer-mentoring methods are implemented and experimented within four different academic communities at one university, and documents how these environments and their participants experience peer group mentoring as a collaborative measure in the development of teaching and supervision practices. The book presents a literature review of research on peer group mentoring in higher education and provides the conceptual grounding for the book, placing peer group me...
"Uheldige Sædvaner", der er hendes sjette bog, handler om de voldsomme slag, som livet nogle gange giver os. I bogen mødes to unge mennesker med succes og tjek på tilværelsen. Det ender med, at de forelsker sig og bliver gift. De bliver også de lykkelige forældre til en dejlig datter; men lykken brister, og livet viser sig fra sin mest barske side. Bogen indeholder utroligt mange lag. Vi kommer omkring emner som: Sæddonation, alvorlig sygdom, folkedomstolen, pressens kynisme, religiøs fanatisme, og hvordan konstant pres er tæt på at nedbryde selv det mest kærlige forhold. Forfatteren har bevidst valgt mennesker fra de bedre sociale lag som bogens hovedpersoner. Vi ser ofte livet b...
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