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Presentation at the 10th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 21st-23rd of October 2009. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Full conference report available in Munin at http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2992</a

Opening

Presentation at the 11th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 24th-26th of October 2010. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway.Full conference report available in Munin at http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2941</a

Scholarship, Subtext, Submission and Mission: Reintroducing Paul Olav Bodding

Source at http://www.egede.no/sites/default/files/dokumenter/pdf/%2332017_NTM%20BleieT.pdf.The Santal Mission began as a Baptist home mission in tribal British India in the late 1860s and went through several name changes. It developed into a transatlantic, Lutheran, enlightenment-oriented, pastoral movement in the late pioneer era (1880s-1890s) with ardent supporters in India, England, Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and America. Under the stewardship of most notably, the co-founders Lars Skrefsrud and Hans P. and Caroline Børresen, the Mission and a budding Santal church constituted, for a period, a dynamic religious and social mass-movement. Skrefsrud handed over vast literary responsibilities to the gifted theologian Paul Olav Bodding, while serving as a district missionary. Based on social science insights, the paper discusses the scholar-missionary Bodding’s importance in this Mission, academically and for the Santals he lived amongst for more than four decades. In 1910, Bodding succeeded Skrefsrud and was tasked to modernize, democratize and streamline a largely homegrown movement into a conventional Lutheran missionary society. This article reveals some of the lesser known aspects of Bodding’s turbulent life history. Fom a sheltered childhood to young missionary, early scholarly renown, Bodding went on to a head highly profiled missionary organization while facing unreasonable treatment, personal tragedies and unexpected conjugal fulfillment. His posthumous public reputation was divided between a deafening silence and omission in the Mission’s own history books until the early 1990s and increasing public recognition in India. After Independence, his literary legacy became a source of outright public cultivation. “Bodding Sahib”, as he was called in India, became gradually a cultural hero. This article attempts to analyze the underlying institutional, theological and cultural reasons for the strange silence and the eventual rediscovery of the man.Santalmisjonen utviklet seg fra slutten av 1860-tallet under skiftende navn fra en baptist tilknyttet hjemmemisjon i et område bebodd av stammefolk til en lutheransk transatlantisk opplysningsorientert bevegelse på 1880-90 tallet. Under ledelse av grunnleggerne Lars O. Skrefsrud, Hans P. og Caroline Børresen, utviklet misjonen og den nyetablerte santalkirken seg i løpet av denne fasen til en dynamisk religiøs og sosial bevegelse. Skrefsrud valgte å gi den begavede teologen Paul Olav Bodding omfattende litterære oppgaver, mens han tjenestegjorde som distriktmisjonær. Basert på en samfunnsvitenskapelig tilnærming, drøfter denne artikkelen vitenskapsmannen og misjonæren Boddings betydning i misjonen, akademisk og for santalfolket som han levde blant i over 40-år. Som Skrefsruds etterfølger, fikk Bodding ansvar for å modernisere, demokratisere og tilpasse en uortodoks hjemmemisjonen til å bli en konvensjonell lutheransk misjon. Boddings omskiftelige og lite kjente livshistorie vil bli nøstet opp, fra en beskyttet barndom til ung misjonær som tidlig vant anerkjennelse, til lederansvar for en profilert misjon under meget krevende arbeidsforhold, nye personlige tragedier og igjen uventet ekteskaplig lykke. Han offentlige ettermæle er påfallende delt; taushetsbelagt og undervurdert i misjonens egne publikasjoner fram til tidlig på 1990-tallet. I India fikk han etter sin død økende offentlig anerkjennelse som utviklet seg til offentlig beundring og status som kulturhelt. De underliggende institusjonelle, teologiske og kulturelle årsakene til både denne tausheten og nyoppdagelsen vil bli analysert

The Nordic NATO pivot a stronghold for regional and global peace or a fragile region with turbulent seas and crowded skies?

Published in: https://www.telegraphnepal.com/the-nordic-nato-pivot-a-stronghold-for-regional-and-global-peace-or-a-fragile-region-with-turbulent-seas-and-crowded-skies/.Imagine Nepal as a small state left an alliance-free foreign policy on short notice, seeking membership in a regional military alliance. Imagine your defense minister few weeks back said s/he was against membership and your prime minister expressed serious reservations. Imagine a historical decision is nevertheless taken in what is characterized as an unprecedented threatening context. Another neighbor launches a full-scale military attack on a third country in your region. After hasty deliberations and consultations, the government, following parliamentary voting, decides to apply for membership. Presumably, it would be felt like a seismic jolt. The political earthquake would occupy political leaders, historians and military and security analysts catapulted to rethink military integration and cooperation involving land, seas, and skies domains. Fear-struck citizens hope the military alliance’s protective embrace will secure peace in an atomic era of mounting great power rivalry in a melting and warming world

The Decade of Violent Destabilisation in Nepal: An Analysis of its Historical Background and Trajectory

Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology - Volume 10, 200

Hvilke utfordringer kan sykepleier møte i forhold til pasienter som har vært utsatt for seksuelle overgrep?

Denne oppgaven retter søkelyset mot pasienter som har vært utsatt for seksuelle overgrep i barndommen, og senskader av psykisk og fysisk art som kan vises hos kvinner i voksen alder. Sykepleiefokuset i oppgaven rettes mot hvilke utfordringer sykepleiere møter i forhold til pasienter med denne problematikken. Vi tenker at sykepleiere kan møte utfordringene med handlingskompetanse i kommunikasjonsferdigheter. Vi fikk inspirasjon til å skrive hovedoppgaven med bakgrunn fra psykiatrisk praksis, der vi opplevde at majoriteten av pasientene hadde en overgrepsproblematikk bak seg. Her møtte vi en utfordring blant sykepleiere, der temaet seksuelle overgrep opplevdes for oss som et tabubelagt tema. På medisinsk avdeling i somatisk sykehus opplevde vi at enkelte pasienter hadde en sykdomsopplevelse med fysiske utfall uten at det ble funnet noen medisinsk forklaring. Sykdomstilfellene ble kalt ”sykdom av psykogen art”. Disse pasientene ble ikke invitert til samtale med sykepleier. Kirkengens bok ”Hvordan krenkede barn blir syke voksne” har fått oss til å reflektere over sammenhengen mellom pasienters livserfaring og sykdom som uttrykkes i pasienters subjektive sykdomsopplevelse. Sykepleien er integrert i det naturvitenskapelige – og det samfunnsvitenskapelige menneskesynet. Dette skaper en helhetsvurdering av mennesket der fysiske, psykiske, sosiale og åndelige faktorer virker i et samspill i menneskets opplevelsesverden. Denne kunnskapen har vært utdypet i sykepleieundrevisningen, men etter vårt syn, på et for generelt nivå. For å kunne betrakte pasienters subjektive sykdomsopplevelse i kartlegging av pasienters problemer, kan vi trenge kommunikasjonsferdigheter som tar sikte på å nå inn i pasientens problem. Her kan sykepleiere møte utfordringer i forhold til egne holdninger, da enkelte pasienthistorier inneholder informasjon som er tabubelagt. Verdens helseorganisasjon viser til at hver femte kvinne har vært utsatt for seksuelle overgrep (WHO 2003). Da forekomsten av seksuelle overgrep er stor, undres vi over at temaet er lite nevnt i sykepleieutdanningen. Det er gjort en undersøkelse i England i forhold til undervisning om seksuelle overgrep i sykepleiestudiet og viste at av 109 sykepleiestudenter svarte 74.1 % at de ikke hadde hatt seksualitet som en del av undervisningen (Kittelsen 2001). Kirkengen (2005) viser også til en studie som dokumenterer at helseprofesjonene tilegner senskader av seksuelle overgrep liten oppmerksomhet

The Politics of Shaming and Sanctions: Rewriting the Anatomy of the Bangladeshi State

This paper aims to stimulate a shift from an “issue” or “problem” approach in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) studies to a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of civil-military relations, characterized by power-sharing arrangements, a culture of patronage and factionalist behavior. CHT is commonly wedged between two dominant, rather incompatible narratives; one nationalist and security-oriented, the other normative—anchored in a liberal democracy model and human rights. The latter position has been articulated by, among others, the International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission (CHTC), mostly informed by international law and political science, less so by political anthropology’s descriptive emic (insiders’ points of view) approaches of norms, institutions and practices. Drawing on all these disciplines, this paper seeks to fill this gap, and to substantiate the paper’s main assumption: that alleged regime shifts should be substituted by an analytical emphasis of structural continuity, in order to better explain why the CHT Accord’s principal provisions remain largely unimplemented 20 years after the deal was signed, regardless of parties in executive power. In order to test the validity of this assertion, five main arguments will be sought substantiated. First, civil-military relations are intertwined—a conglomerate—and cemented by patrimonial vertical and horizontal bonds of patronage, non-transparent control over state resources and a power-sharing arrangement that makes the categories “civilian” and “military” fuzzy and overlapping. Second, this tacit power-sharing arrangement has three distinct phases: an early antagonistic one; a second experimental, increasingly institutionalized phase during military rule (with partly civilian elements) and reign; and third, the current phase of uneasy opportunistic co-existence, with (until recently) caretaker governments as a safety valve. Fourth, during times of military rule, the armed conflict in CHT became integral to this tacit national power-sharing structure, a civil-military complex not only in its own right, but one of the Bangladeshi state’s bearing pillars. A final argument is that the sources of reproduction of a political culture of oral rhetoric (agitational in nature), patronage and factionalism need to be fully appreciated in order to explain striking structural continuity across institutions (political parties, military and bureaucracy). Furthermore, a deeper understanding of such societal and systemwide deeply culturally coded behavioral patterns renders it possible to predict and develop approaches that may engender structural change and a new scope for national and international actors to facilitate, steer or help augment positive societal change

Paradoxical sinus deceleration during dobutamine stress echocardiography: case series and review of the literature

Background: Dobutamine stress echocardiography is an established diagnostic modality for assessing myocardial ischaemia in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. Dobutamine infusion causes dose-dependent increase in heart rate and contractility. However, in some cases, it induces paradoxical sinus deceleration, whose underlying mechanism and clinical significance are not fully understood. Case summary: We present episodes of paradoxical sinus deceleration observed during dobutamine stress echocardiography in six (four males and two females) patients and described its patterns of occurrence and clinical and echocardiographic characteristics. Discussion: Paradoxical sinus deceleration occurred mostly at maximal dobutamine infusion was accompanied with a decline in blood pressure and resolved spontaneously following cessation of dobutamine infusion. Individuals experiencing paradoxical sinus deceleration had in common abnormal left ventricle geometry but differed with regard to age, sex, and cardiometabolic risk factors.publishedVersio

Right ventricular postsystolic shortening: Resolution after opening a totally occluded right coronary artery

Acute myocardial ischemia induces reduced systolic shortening and causes postsystolic shortening (PSS). Right ventricular (RV) PSS in coronary artery disease has been less studied. We present here the case of a 51-year-old woman admitted with a non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction and significant PSS in the RV free-wall segments on two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography, suggesting ongoing ischemia. A cardiac CT demonstrated occluded proximal right coronary artery with a low-attenuated/soft plaque, confirmed by coronary angiography which was treated by percutaneous coronary intervention. At 3-week follow-up, there was complete resolution of the RV-PSS, with a more synchronized pattern of maximum myocardial shortening at systole.publishedVersio

Combined Stiffness Identification of 6-DoF Industrial Robot

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