Icelandic E-Journal of Nordic and Mediterranean Studies
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This year’s regular issue of Nordicum-Mediterraneum comprises seven new scholarly articles, dealing with heterogeneous Nordic and Mediterranean topics, that underwent the standard process of double, blind peer review, plus another contribution, which arises from last year’s Akureyri-based conference on policing and society and was similarly subjected to the same standard process of double, blind…
In this article cultural encounters of immigrants with Icelandic society are empirically examined. This is done by measuring their civic engagement or social and political participation as well as the level of institutional trust. These measurements are grounded in classical scholarly literature on civic engagement (Almond & Verba, 1963, 1989), on the one hand, and trust and social capital on the…
This study investigates the conflict management strategies employed by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) in North-Central Nigeria. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews and focus groups conducted under the USIP Conflict Mitigation and Community Policing initiatives, the research examines the effectiveness of intervention models within…
Two comprehensive municipal structural reforms have been implemented in Iceland, the first one starting in 1991 and ending in 1993, and the second one starting in 2003 and ending in 2005. Other reform intentions by governments and ministers have been planned but have not come to be a reform. The aim of this article is to identify the reform strategies used, the conflicts that arose, the outcomes…
Greinin varpar ljósi á alþjóðaöryggismál út frá hugmyndum um hlutverk ríkja, mannlegs eðlis, átaka og sögulegra minninga. Öryggisfræðum og kenningum alþjóðasamskipta, nýraunhyggju, mótunarhyggju og frjálslyndisstefnu, er beitt til þess greina viðfangsefnið. Tilgáta þessa verks er að alþjóðaöryggi sé mikilvægasta viðfangsefni alþjóðasamskipta og svo hafi verið um langa hríð þar sem hernaðaröryggi…
Proficiency in the language of the receiving society is widely recognized as an important aspect of immigrants’ inclusion, but there is limited research on the associations among immigrants' language proficiency, quality of life, and trust in institutions. We drew on a large-scale quantitative survey of immigrants in Iceland (N=2,139) and conducted two regression analyses to examine associations…
In the century of the Enlightenment, Russia, aimed at emerging from national and confessional isolation, was able to get in touch with other countries open to new ideas. This attempt to integrate into Eighteenth-century European culture and politics is reflected as well in various forms of entertainment and amusement spreading both in the noble estates and at the Imperial Court. Among the various…
Aðild Íslands að EES-samningnum árið 1994 breytti miklu um málsmeðferð vegna vatnsaflsvirkjana yfir tiltekinni stærð, með tilheyrandi innleiðingu á reglum um mat á umhverfisáhrifum framkvæmda. Nú er nokkur tími liðinn síðan ráðist var í gerð Kárahnjúkavirkjunar en gríðarlega mikil þjóðfélagsleg umræða fór fram um málið og var hart deilt, m.a. um matsskyldu framkvæmdarinnar. Kárahnjúkavirkjun er…
The Oura Archipelago is a biocultural landscape in the northern Baltic Sea. It is home to a unique small-scale marine fishing and seal hunting community. Lifeways in Oura have been shaped by innovations in fisheries, economic incentives and the opportunities and limits created by the northern marine ecosystem. We undertake a theoretical review of Campling and Colás to explore elements of the…
The 6th sustainability conference at the University of Akureyri, co-hosted by the Environmental Council and the Stefansson Arctic Institute at the University of Akureyri, received more abstracts and registrations than ever. Albeit globally, public interest in the climate crisis decreased over the past year in view of the threats to democracy, violation of international law at a large scale,…
