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| AESTHETICS AT WORK [Arne Melberg (ed)] This anthology deals with the changing state of the arts and the incorporation and relevance of the aesthetic dimension in daily life in general. The articles are not restricted to the arts, but the emphasis are given to aesthetics at work: the arts in their interaction, new aesthetical forms, new aesthetical activities, media and expressions including aesthetical dimensions in current economical and technological development, all those aesthetical tendencies that contribute to our world today. The book represents a decisive development in existing theories of art, mainly for taking the expanding field of aesthetics seriously. The authors make a critical contribution to a contemporary social tendency and is therefore of general as well as academic interest. The contributors represent aesthetic studies, musicology, art-history, literature and media. Together they have published widely within the aesthetic field and they all take part in the development of an aesthetic program at the University of Oslo. { 176pp, 155x230mm, December 2007; PB, £21.00, 8274772946:9788274772946 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| AESTHETICS IN PROSE [Arne Melberg, Ph.D.] This book is an investigation into the phenomenology of prose. The first section deals with two champions in the modern history of prose: Montaigne and Nietzsche. The second section considers some versions of prose and modernity through two profiles in the history of modernism: Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. Furthermore, modern prose is examined through the development of the modern prose-poem. The third section assembles a wide range of examples from two vital sections of modern prose on the boundaries of literary fiction: travel writing and life writing. The final section consists of four shorter extensions: prose in photos, design and blogs. The final extension is a brief summary of the idea of prose. The phenomenology of prose will be presented in many forms and via many metaphors. Montaigne's essayistic body, disparate but still hanging together, never finished, always something to add. Nietzsche's labyrinth, showing by hiding, hiding by showing. Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul or Ryszard Kapuscinski's World: diligently mapped by foot and pen. Thomas Bernhard's or W.G. Sebald's meandering syntax, indicating a state where everything is connected with everything else -- together with the insight in the boundless contingency of everything that exists. Network is the final metaphor: the network connects and includes. It encompasses the world while leaving the world open. { 182pp, 140x215mm, September 2008; PB, £32.00, 8274773748:9788274773745 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| AFFLUENCE & ACTIVISM : Organized Consumers in the Post-War Era [Even Lange & Iselin Theien (eds)] Consumer interests and concerns reveal themselves in different forms of consumer organisation. In this book, the agenda of affluent consumers in post-1945 Western societies is investigated through a collection of essays on the consumer movement in Britain, the USA, France and Norway. These contributions challenge a stereotype of the consumer as passive and individualistic by demonstrating how citizens have continued to organise on matters relating to consumption in the post-war era. Coming from the fields of history and the social sciences, the contributors offer fresh insights into questions of how and why consumers have chosen to organise in a context of increasing affluence. The book should appeal to students, scholars and others interested in the history of consumption and social movements. { 104pp, 140x215mm, December 2004; PB, £20.00, 8274771869:9788274771864 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| AID RUSH : Volume Two: Aid Regimes in Northern Europe During the Cold War [Helge Pharo & Monika Phole Fraser (eds)] The authors trace the foreign regimes of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands and Norway from the 1950s to the 1990s. The articles are based on public and private historical archives and deal with donor policies as well as the recipients in Africa, India and the Middle East. The 16 contributors are all historians and social scientists. The two volumes are closely interlinked. The first volume is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the aid policies of the Northern European states in an international perspective; while the second investigates issues of national priorities and individual actors in greater detail. The second volume consists of individual case studies organised in two parts; "The 'Developmental State' Revisited" and "Donor meets Recipient. Different Agendas", a closer look at the interaction of the two parties in the aid relationship'. { 286pp, 140x215mm, July 2008; PB, £37.00, 8274773802:9788274773806 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| AID RUSH : Volume One: Aid Regimes in Northern Europe During the Cold War [Helge Pharo & Monika Phole Fraser (eds)] The authors trace the foreign regimes of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands and Norway from the 1950s to the 1990s. The articles are based on public and private historical archives and deal with donor policies as well as the recipients in Africa, India and the Middle East. The 16 contributors are all historians and social scientists. The two volumes are closely interlinked. The first volume is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the aid policies of the Northern European states in an international perspective; while the second investigates issues of national priorities and individual actors in greater detail. The second volume consists of individual case studies organised in two parts; "The 'Developmental State' Revisited" and "Donor meets Recipient. Different Agendas", a closer look at the interaction of the two parties in the aid relationship'. { 363pp, 140x215mm, July 2008; PB, £45.00, 8274772938:9788274772939 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| AMBIGUITIES OF HISTORY : The Problem of Ethnocentrism in Historical Writing [Finn Fuglestad] This book argues that history may, by definition, be an imperialist science or a quintessentially Western form of discourse. Finn Fuglestad thinks there is something profoundly ambiguous about the science or academic discipline we call history. It is the only science that is the product of its own object of study, the past, an object outside of which it cannot exist. It is also the only science that can study itself. The author argues that history has a relationship with one of the so-called civilisations of the world that borders on the incestuous. That civilisation is Western Civilisation: history has both emerged from it and helped to shape it in such a way that they are inextricably linked. History, with its Western conceptual framework, has become a defining part of Western Civilisation to the extent that the West cannot even conceive of itself being without history. But what happens when history is removed from its natural habitat? Can it be done, and has it been done, other than on the terms of the West? The real issue therefore concerns all those societies and peoples outside the West who, in accordance with the Hegelian tradition, have traditionally been labelled as "without history". What does it mean exactly "not to have history"? The reconstruction of the pasts of "peoples without history" poses a tremendous challenge to the science of history, especially at the conceptual level. Finn Fuglestad not only believes that there has been a failure to confront this challenge properly, but he also questions whether anything can really be done. { 151pp, 170x240mm, December 2005; PB, £21.00, 8274772040:9788274772045 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| ARE WE CAPTIVES OF HISTORY? : Historical Essays on Turkey & Europe [Edgeir Benum, Alf Johansson, Jan-Erik Smilden & Alf Storrud (eds)] One of the most central questions in European politics today is the complex relationship between Turkey and the European Union. To better understand the controversies and ambiguities aroused by this issue it is necessary to go back in history. In 1529 and 1683, the conquering armies of the Ottoman Empire appeared at the gates of Vienna, threatening to overrun central Europe. But in recent years Turkey, with its 70 million mostly Muslim inhabitants, has been seeking closer integration with Western Europe, knocking at the door of Brussels. The ensuing debates on the possible Turkish membership of the European Union frequently evoke attitudes seemingly conditioned by an historical memory of one form or another, often originating centuries ago. The essays in this volume examine the assumptions, images and stereotypes developed about the 'Other' through the long historical relationship, focusing especially on European images of 'the Turk'. They also explore the interaction of the two parties at different times and in different geographical locations. Chronologically, they range from the origins of the 'East/West controversy' in classical times, to the present question concerning the future relationship of Turkey and 'Europe'. This volume provides a valuable source of knowledge for those interested in the persistence, as well as in the transformation, of basic notions through history, and in seeking a deeper under standing of how present day attitudes and arguments are related to historical memory. { 152pp, 180x260mm, December 2007; PB, £21.00, 8274772806:9788274772809 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| BORROWED FEATHERS : Plagiarism & the Limits of Imitation in Early Modern Europe [Hall Bjornstad (ed)] In our days plagiarism has become a subject of frequent dispute, accentuated by conflicts regarding the use of sources in textbooks, the way journalists and students use the internet in their writing, etc. The aim of this volume is a joint effort by a group of leading scholars to historicise the pressing contemporary problem of plagiarism by looking closely at various practices of textual transfer among a number of Early Modern writers. The focus of this book is plagiarism as practiced and perceived in Early Modern times (15th to 17th century), in its relation and opposition to the accepted and canonical mode of literary / artistic appropriation, namely imitation (in its many different forms). The book seeks a concept of plagiarism prior to our modern, post-romanticism understanding of the term. In the Early Modern period, the concept as such was never clearly defined, most likely because it was not conceived in opposition to romantic originality, but in the same spectrum as imitation. There was no legal protection of literary property at the time, beyond the eventual rights of the print house. Rising authorial consciousness and the development of print culture increased the sensitivity to issues of plagiarism throughout the period. This book goes beyond the repetition of commonplaces about the early history of plagiarism with a strong line-up of specialists, including world class scholars such as Kathy Eden, Timothy Hampton, Marie-Luce Demonet and Terence Cave. The contributions to the volume showcase diversity in geography (from Mediterranean to Northern Europe) and textual matter (including literary, scientific and diplomatic writings). { 230pp, June 2008; PB, £35.00, 8274773330:9788274773332 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| BRIDGES OF UNDERSTANDING : Perspectives on Intercultural Communication [Øyvind Dahl, Iben Jensen & Peter Nynäs (eds)] Intercultural communication is a complex phenomenon and deserves cross-disciplinary studies in order to shed some light on the processes. In this book, researchers with different backgrounds and experiences try to answer the following questions: From a variety of approaches, what can we learn about constructing new bridges of understanding? How can the insight be utilised in everyday intercultural encounters? This book came about as the result of a meeting between a group of Nordic researchers at the annual conference of The Nordic Network for Intercultural communication (NIC) in Kristiansand in November 2004. The target audience of the book is first and foremost researchers and students within the field of Intercultural Communication. { 291pp, 170x230mm, December 2006; PB, £27.00, 8274772695:9788274772694 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| CONSUL JONAS LIED & RUSSIA : Collector, Diplomat & Industrial Explorer, 1910-1931 [Marit Werenskiold (ed)] This interdisciplinary anthology with five Russian and six Norwegian contributors discusses the forgotten Norwegian businessman Jonas Marius Lied's adventurous life and activities in Russia from 1910 to 1931. With his great project "The Siberian Company", founded in Christiania in 1912, Lied opened an arctic sea route between Western Europe and Asiatic Russia, via the Kara Sea and the great Siberian rivers Yenisei and Ob. Success was secured when Fridtjof Nansen in 1913 accepted to join Lied's second expedition from Tromsø to Siberia, but in 1918 the Company was nationalised by the Bolsheviks. A range of leading specialists discusses Jonas Lied's pioneer activities as industrialist and Consul of Norway in Siberia before the October revolution and the importance of his unique collection of art from Pushkin's time, acquired in Moscow in the 1920ies and preserved quite anonymously on his ancestral farm Solsnes in Romsdal. { October 2008; HB, £43.00, 8274772865:9788274772861 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| DANTE : A Critical Reappraisal [Unn Falkeid (ed)] As one of the dominating names in Western literature, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) has also been read and studied with great enthusiasm in the Nordic countries. His masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy" has been translated into Nordic languages several times and over the last few decades many introductions and popular monographs have been published. Moreover, the interest seems to be increasing: Dante's works are studied across different disciplines -- within Italian and comparative literature, theology, philosophy and the history of ideas -- to the extent that we can now talk of a new generation of dantisti among Nordic scholars. The anthology consists of proceedings from the Third Conference of the Nordic Dante Network at the University of Oslo, September 2006. As such it paints a clear picture of what is currently going on within Dante studies in the Nordic countries: the domestic readings are the result of a fruitful dialogue within international scholarship, whilst concurrently having their own individual characteristics. The opening chapter is written by one of the world's leading Dante scholars, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor at Yale University and the current President of the American Dante Society. { 256pp, 155x230mm, July 2008; PB, £31.00, 8274773470:9788274773479 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| EDVARD MUNCH : An Anthology [Erik Mørstad (ed)] This anthology springs out of a productive environment that in recent years has been created in Norway for research into the art of Edvard Munch. Comprising scholars from both the University of Oslo and the Munch Museum, this environment is seeking to internationalise the research and broadening the network of scholars working on Munch's art. The nine essays written by art historians from USA, Germany, Switzerland and Norway shed new light upon different sides of Munch and his art, as well as on the impact he has had in art history. The authors in this anthology are more critical of their sources than has been seen earlier in research on Munch, and their interpretations of works are increasingly based on information that can be documented. A diversity of theory now supplements the traditionally biographical approach. One of the authors describes the process of identifying a formerly unknown Munch painting, Seated nude and three male heads, as well as addressing general problems of dating concerning Munch's oeuvres. Another essay focuses on Munch's portrayals of one of the most radical Norwegian art movements in the late 19th century, Kristianiabohemen, and the importance of this movement for Munch's development as an artist. Through analysis of Munch's paintings the authors also focus on Munch's role in the creation of a national identity, and his perception of the male role in contemporary society. In the last essay of the book it is being argued that Munch and his works have often been better comprehended by other artists than by traditional art historians. The essay shows how certain artists, most of them American such as Jim Dine, Andres Serrano and Elizabeth Jones, have appropriated and developed Munch's pictorial imagination, in independent works or in visual quotations. { 225pp, 195x270mm, December 2006; HB, £49.00, 8274772318:9788274772311 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| HUMANS IN THE LAND : The Ethics & Aesthetics of the Cultural Landscape [Emily Brady & Sven Arntzen (eds)] The concept of cultural landscape was first put to use by the German geographer Friedrich Ratzel in 1895. The American geographer Carl Sauer was probably the first to use the concept in the English language in 1925. In recent years, the concept of cultural landscape has become significant in social and political decision making and in environmental management and preservation. Cultural landscape has also become the object of extensive consideration and discussion within diverse academic disciplines and areas of research: human geography, cultural anthropology, history, archaeology, biology and ecology. Depending on the discipline or area of research, focus is directed towards specific features in the landscape that have come about as a result of human activity. This collection of essays is predicated on the view that considerations regarding the cultural landscape have underlying philosophical presuppositions. The authors propose that the cultural landscape be made the focus of environmental philosophy, ethics and aesthetics. { 282pp, 165x220mm, June 2008; PB, £35.00, 8274773438:9788274773431 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| INTELLECTUALS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE : in Britain & Norway After World War II [Jan Eivind Myhre (ed)] In this volume, three Norwegian and three English scholars probe the issue of the role of intellectuals in the two countries following World War II. The intellectuals studied comprise many kinds: from academics in general (particularly sociologists) to journalists and politicians, amongst others. The book investigates the influence of intellectuals on politics and also between the two countries. Several tendencies in post-war societies have shaped the role of intellectuals: secularisation, professionalisation, internationalisation and the rise of populism, to name but a few. Although "intellectual" is a fairly common term in both countries, it often tends to fall between two chairs as an analytic concept. Therefore, it should perhaps rather be viewed as a terminological meeting point where several interesting societal phenomena may be studied. { 211pp, 140x215mm, July 2008; PB, £29.00, 8274772911:9788274772915 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| SCANDINAVIAN MIDDLE CLASSES 1840-1940 [Jan Eivind Myhre, Jørgen Fink & Tom Ericsson (eds)] Who were the new social groups situated between the top and bottom of society, between capitalists and workers, between the bourgeoisie and the common people, between the rich and the poor? Some were new groups, like public and private functionaries, some were new versions of older groups, like artisans and shopkeepers. The rise and transformation of large segments of the social middle completely changed the societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden during the hundred years between 1840 and 1940. Widespread repercussions were felt in the areas of social relations, politics, work, gender relations, professional and voluntary associations and attitudes. This book tackles a neglected field and aims to fill an academic void by presenting the first comprehensive history of the Scandinavian middle classes for students and researchers at universities and colleges. It will also prove valuable to other students and teachers across the humanities and social sciences, as well as to the general interested reader. { 320pp, December 2004; PB, £25.00, 8274771362:9788274771369 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| TECHNOSCIENCE : The Politics of Interventions [Kristin Asdal, Brita Brenna & Ingunn Moser (eds)] Science is a social practice. It intervenes in nature and politics. It shapes our ways of life and social and political realities. In this book the issue of politics is placed at the core of knowledge production. The objective is to offer tools and resources for critical reflection and analysis of the role of politics and the political in science and technology. The book provides a critical introduction to the field of science and technology studies (STS) and traces how different notions of the political as well as social movements have been central to shaping this interdisciplinary field of study. The book is also an anthology of articles written by leading scholars in the field today. The various articles provide examples of how political engagement is currently discussed and practiced in STS. They explore objects and places such as the Zimbabwean bush pump, fluorine pollution from an aluminium production site in Norway, scallops in the St.Brieuc bay, and the genetics of the Marfan's Syndrome in a hospital laboratory. The book is furthermore a meeting point between influential feminist contributions and important actor-network-studies in STS. It traces implications of these exchanges for the further development of the field. { 352pp, 170x230mm, December 2007; PB, £26.00, 8274773004:9788274773004 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| TOWARDS FRIENDSHIP : The Relationship Between Norway & Japan, 1905-2005 [Eldrid Ingebjorg Mageli (ed)] Japanese culture appears to be found 'everywhere' in the West today. Sushi, sudoku, origami, sumo, manga, anime, and pókemon have become familiar idioms, especially among younger people. Norwegian interest in Japan, however, is not a recent phenomenon. In spite of the geographical and cultural distance, Norway and Japan have developed relations in a number of fields since the turn of the twentieth century, and even before. When the first Norwegian missionaries arrived in Japan after the Second World War, other Norwegians had long since become acquainted with the country. Japanese aesthetic trends were known in Europe from the second half of the nineteenth century, and influenced Scandinavian artistic expressions. There was, as well, considerable Norwegian interest in the commercial potential of Japan's expanding whaling and shipping industry. Shortly after Norway's independence, the country opened its first legation in Tokyo. Although the Second World War disrupted the diplomatic relations, contact between the two countries has steadily increased since the 1950s. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Japan had become Norway's most important trading partner in Asia. This book is based on rich empirical material and examines some of the fascinating stories that form the basis and background for today's close and cordial relationship between Norway and Japan. { 236pp, 180x260mm, December 2006; HB, £43.00, 8274772547:9788274772540 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| TWENTIETH-CENTURY HOUSEWIVES : Meanings & Implications of Unpaid Work [Hege Roll-Hansen & Gro Hagemann (eds)] The era of the modern housewife definitely belongs to the past. Since the 1960s tremendous changes have occurred concerning the economic and social roles of married women. In retrospect the housewife era now appears to have been merely an interlude. Nevertheless, in its different forms, housework has been an occupation of most adult women during most of the twentieth century. Like the feminists of the 1960s and 1970s, the authors of this anthology are going into this most 'trivial' of all fields. Rather than investigating the social history of housework and housewives, the articles look at the concep-tualisations of this work and its performers. The practice and ideology of housework are analysed from a range of schol-arly perspectives. The authors include ethnologists, media scientists and sociologists as well as historians. Their main concern is to understand how housework has been inter-preted, culturally and economically, as well as the political strategies implicit in these interpretations. The public discourse of unpaid domestic work offers a unique opportunity for investigating central dilemmas of the last century about the relations between the public and the private, between individuals and the family, between work, leisure and consumption, as well as between the genders. { 343pp, 140x215mm, December 2005; PB, £29.00, 8274772121:9788274772120 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| UNDERSTANDING CHOICE, EXPLAINING BEHAVIOUR : Essays in Honour of Ole Jørgen Skog [Jon Elster, Olav Gjelsvik, Aanund Hylland, Karl Moene (eds)] How do criminals solve the problem of trust? What is the social dependence of preferences, and the relationship between causal, rational and intentional explanations of behaviour? In this interdisciplinary anthology the authors discuss these and related questions in the first of three sections. The essays in the second part explore the consequences of behaviour with particular emphasis on the consumption of alcohol, mortality, early onset of drinking and the evolution of social movements. The third part consists of philosophical essays on objectivity, ethics, and includes a conceptual analysis of bullshit. The contributors are all leading scholars in their fields. They are: Nobel laureate Thomas C. Schelling, sociologists Raymond Boudon, Diego Gambetta, Peter Hedström, and Trond Petersen, economists George Loewenstein, Hans Olav Melberg, and Karl-Ove Moene, specialised alcohol researchers Griffith Edwards, Thor Nordström, Robin Room, and Ingeborg Rossow, philosophers Olav Gjelsvik and Dagfinn Føllesdal, a political scientist, Raino Malnes, and some who - like the man celebrated in this book - defy categorisation: Jon Elster and George Ainslie. { 282pp, 180x260mm, December 2006; HB, £43.00, 8274772377:9788274772373 , Oslo Academic Press } |
| URBANISATION & HEALTH : New Challenges in Health Promotion & Prevention [Gunnar Tellnes (ed)] This book presents some of the most important public health topics to be faced in the 21st century. The authors do not only analyse the challenges, but also propose solutions to researchers, practitioners and policy makers. Urbanisation is an on-going process throughout the world today. It has a profound impact on people's lives and health status. The globalisation of markets, increased use of communication and new information technologies are the driving forces behind this process. By 2025 it is estimated that about 60 percent of the world's population and 83 percent of Europeans will live in urban centres. Migration and immigration have an impact on social inequalities in health. Achieving good health is one of the major concerns of contemporary societies. Therefore future public health policy, practice and research have to focus not only on factors causing disease and injuries (pathogenesis), but also on factors promoting health (salutogenesis). Most of the chapters of the book reflect key presentations from the 12th EUPHA Conference in Oslo on 6-9 October 2004, including presentations from a pre-meeting on WHO´s Global strategy on Diet, Physical activity and Health. Some chapters illustrate the saluto-genetic way to health promotion and nature-culture-health activities, such as music and health, green areas in the cities, and healthy food. The 31 chapters of the book are written by 78 public health experts from all around the world. Our hope is that the book will be used by public health experts and students in different countries and by EU and WHO/EURO in setting up the new public health policy in Europe. { 368pp, 180x260mm, December 2005; HB, £43.00, 8274772083:9788274772083 , Oslo Academic Press } |