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Ulrik Spliid giver en oversigt over Afrikas institutionelle landskab.

Denne artikel tager udgangspunkt i udtalelser om Grønlands hovedstad Nuuk som "et stykke Danmark på klipper". Formålet er at vise, hvordan og hvorfor Nuuk er omstridt, og hvordan synet på byen har ændret sig over tid. Ved hjælp af landskabsbegrebet defineret som en relation mellem det sociale livs forgrund (os som vi er nu) og baggrund (os som vi kunne være) påvises en sammenhæng mellem synet på byen og den politiske udvikling i Grønland. Hvor den anti-urbane fortælling var fremherskende fra sidst i 1960'erne, hvor byerne var associeret med danskhed og fremmedgørelse, og grønlænderen og byen blev set som uforenelige størrelser, blev den fra 2000 i stigende grad afløst af en mere inkluderende og kompleks grønlandskhed. I landskabsterminologi var situationen den, at folk levede et utilpasset, danskpræget dagligliv i byen, men drømte om et andet liv i pagt med grønlandske traditioner og værdier. Hvor forgrund og baggrund lå meget langt fra hinanden, er der sket en tilnærmelse ved, at byen er blevet approprieret som et grønlandsk landskab. Nuuks status har således ændret sig i retning af stigende anerkendelse. Men Nuuk beskyldes samtidig for at videreføre en dansk centraliseringspolitik og kan i den forstand stadig ses som "et stykke Danmark på klipper".


ENGELSK ABSTRACT:

Bo Wagner Sørensen and Søren Forchhammer: The Town and the Settlement – Landscapes of "Greenlandicness"

This article analyses statements about the Greenlandic capital Nuuk as being "a piece of Denmark on rocks". The purpose is to show how and why Nuuk is contested and how this perspective has changed over time. Using the concept of landscape defined as a relation between the foreground (the way we are now) and background (how we could be) of social life, the article demonstrates how this perspective of the town is connected with the political development in the country. The anti-urban narrative was dominant from the late 1960s when towns were associated with "Danishness" and alienation, but it was increasingly replaced by a more inclusive and complex "Greenlandicness" from around 2000. In landscape terminology it appeared that people lived incompatible "Danish" everyday lives in towns, but dreamt about another life more in agreement with Greenlandic traditions and values. While foreground and background used to be far apart, they have come closer as the town has been appropriated as a Greenlandic landscape. Thus the status of Nuuk has changed towards increasing approval. However, Nuuk is also criticized for carrying on a Danish policy of dominance and centralizing. In this sense it is still considered "a piece of Denmark on rocks".

Keywords: Greenland, Nuuk, urban studies, landscapes, migration.

Overalt i verden er ældreomsorg på den politiske dagsorden på grund af ændringer i demografi, fertilitet, kvinders stigende erhvervsdeltagelse og senest finanskrisen. Samtidig ændres de samfundsmæssige betingelser og styringen af ældreomsorg i det nordiske velfærdsregime gennem blandt andet professionalisering, senmodernitet, afkønsliggørelse og neoliberalisering. Hidtidig teori i form af feministisk omsorgsteori er utilstrækkelig til at forstå, hvad de nævnte forandringer gør ved ældreomsorgen, betingelserne for styring og forholdet mellem stat, svækkede ældre og de nære Andre. I kritisk dialog med – og udvidelse af – feministisk omsorgsteori argumenterer jeg for, at vi derfor nødvendigvis må supplere den med nye analytiske begreber fra filosofi og politologi såsom assemblage, relaterethed, logikker, flerniveaustyring og transnationale diskurser. De analytiske begreber introduceres, og deres relevans begrundes.

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This anthology is the first volume of the new series "The Castles of the North" published by the Danish Castle Research Association "Magt, Borg og Landskab" (Power, Castle, and Landscape). This volume is the result of the first international and interdisciplinary symposium held at Nyborg Castle April 29th-30th 2013, its topic was "Castles at War" in particular during the period AD 1000–1660. For the last 20 years, archaeological and historic research has dealt with many aspects of castles, their function as a noble family's seat, their role each as an administrative unit's centre, their relevance for trade, craft and consumption, the geographical, typological, and structural appearance of individual castles, and last but not least the castles' symbolic meaning. Beyond this, the oldest and most prominent function of a castle has tended to be neglected in scholarly discourse: its strategic and tactical function as a military stronghold that played a central role in the political strategies of the ruling European elite. Even as a threat of force, a castle had the potential to structure a conflict or to structure the rule of a region. This role of castles in medieval warfare has long been considered to be a topic primarily for a narrow circle of specialists in military history and archaeologists interested in loop-holes and mining technique. However, the picture has been changing, and both historians and archaeologists have started to recognize the critical relevance of strongholds, castles, earthworks, and redoubts in warfare. This volume collects the contributions to that symposium and two additional papers by Jan Kock and Jesper Hjermind. Their range encompasses "The role of castles in political strategy" in the first part including studies that explore the development of fortifications in general. The second part, "Castles during warfare and sieges", presents case studies about individual sieges, weapons, instruments, and strategies of warfare during the period under consideration. Here, a new light is shed on the significant role of non-descript and unimposing earthworks being a part of a besieger's strategy to cut off a castle under siege from communication and supply.