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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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Heathen religion in Old Norse provincial laws: case studies concerning the period of religious change [PDF]
, 2015 This article inquires into the image of heathen religion in Old Norse provincial laws. In spite of the fact that all extant provincial law books claim to contain Christian laws, their religious position is far from clear.
Starý, Jiří
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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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Heathen religion in Old Norse provincial laws: case studies concerning the period of religious change [PDF]
, 2014 This article inquires into the image of heathen religion in Old Norse provincial laws. In spite of the fact that all extant provincial law books claim to contain Christian laws, their religious position is far from clear.
Starý, Jiří
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Religion and Humour: Comical Layers in Old Norse Religious Texts and Their Relationship to the Offical Religion [PDF]
, 2014 This paper focuses on the comic layers in Eddic mythological poetry, namely in Lokasenna, Hárbarðsljóð and Ϸrymskviða, and on their relation to the Old Norse religion.
Michalíková, Jana
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The Mighty One Above and After : Christian Interpretation and Colonization of Old Norse Myth in History Textbooks [PDF]
, 2023 During the latter part of the 19th Century, many Swedish history textbooks inserted stories about Old Norse myths, thereby creating a certain kind of school mythology with their own interpretations of the myth's content and meanings.
Wickström, Johan,
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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In Search of a National Epic: The use of Old Norse myths in Tolkien's vision of Middle-earth [PDF]
, 2014 Tommy Kuusela is a PhD-student in the history of religions at Stockholm University. He’s working on a dissertation on giants and giantesses in Old Norse mythology and has published articles on different topics, such as the werewolf in the Old Norse ...
Tommy Kuusela, Kuusela, Tommy
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Collegium Medievale, 2016 The present anthology is rooted in collaboration that began at the 14th International Saga Conference in Uppsala in 2009, where Eldar Heide discussed the need for greater methodological awareness in studies dealing with the use of post-medieval material ...
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir
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