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Describes UN MENU FRANCAIS, a teacher developed-computer program for students of French, and points out the advantages of using computers in the second language classroom, despite the poor pedagogical quality of most second language software currently available. An electronic mail correspondence between students in France and Denmark is described. (JR)

Examines the professional status and social benefits of the translator in European countries. (AM)

Corruption, defined as the “misuse of public position for private gain”, represents an act of deviance from official duties in the interest of self-enrichment. Denmark is ranked as one of the least corrupt countries in the world. Danish court records, however, show that corruption cases have appeared in the 21st century. Using Luhmann’s systems theory and Foucault’s method of genealogy, this article asks how this has happened. I argue that understanding corruption in Denmark may go back to changes in public administration ideas and practices since the 1990. New Public Management reform has increased the complexity in public administration where meaning horizons of communication related to different functional systems – especially the sub-systems of law and economy – clashes. I theorise and illustrate using court cases how the coexistence of different codes creates an environment for public employees that in some circumstances – however still rare – result in corruption.

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In this article, I will provide insights on the TV drama serie “Borgen” (Denmark, 2010-2013 and 2022) as a case study of “popular geopolitics”. Beginning with analyzing spatialities, I will focus on how this serie reconstructs what I call a “geopolitical dramaturgy” highlighting the colonial relationships between Denmark and Greenland. This serie can provide a mirroring effect for studying the geopolitical issues.

The role and working area of intelligence agencies in countering radicalization is a contentious issue. Especially, emphasizing the concepts of radicalization and terrorism for political reasons will lead to the perception that intelligence is used as a device to suppress the opposition. However, preventing radicalization and rehabilitating radicals is not seen as possible without utilizing the possibilities and capabilities of intelligence. Intelligence has an effective function in tools of prevention, repression, and intervention covered by the programs implemented in the fight against radicalization. The article will examine the participation of intelligence agencies in the Danish Model, considered a relatively successful practice by the authorities, and its function in these programs.

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Ball brooches make a difficult research theme in Denmark. This is mainly because very few of the hitherto published specimens were found in a context or under circumstances that help to shed light on their chronology. The most recently published study is a very brief paper by Jesper Laursen on the chronology and typology of ball brooches (Laursen 1984). Laursen’s paper was published at a time when hobby metal detecting was only at its early stages in Denmark. Therefore, this hobby had not yet had its impact on the material. Metal detecting favors objects with much metal and since cultivated soil contains a lot of iron waste most hobby detectorists tend to screen for iron. Consequently, objects of bronze, silver and gold will have a tendency to dominate the finds brought in by these people, and especially massive objects.

Fungal diseases are the common cause of death in wild animals and birds of prey. This study was designed to investigate the development of fungal infections among wild birds in Denmark. In this study, fungal samples were isolated from such sources as Barn swallows' feathers, White stork, and birds of prey. The fungal species were isolated by direct culture of feathers on SD Agar with chloramphenicol and incubated at 28±2ºC. The fungal genomic DNA was isolated from each species, PCR reaction was performed, and the resulting fragments of the 18S rRNA DNA were sequenced and used for identification. A comparison between the resulting fragments was made to find out the percentage of similarity among the different fungal species. The multiple sequence alignment showed percentages of similarities ranging from 39% to 99%. To sum up, the 18S rRNA DNA sequence has been evolved dramatically even within the same species, while still conserved in others. It is a useful tool to be used for the identification of fungal species as it reduces time. Moreover, according to the results, there were no comprehensive high homology percentages among the species infecting the same bird.

The Landslǫg was the first national law code of Norway, in force between 1274 and 1687. During this time, several different prologues were appended to the law code. The most ubiquitous were the original prologue from the law of 1274 and a new prologue that accompanied translations of the code into Danish. There was also a learned prologue that was occasionally found together with the new prologue, and when the law code was finally printed for the first time in 1604, another prologue was also written to accompany it. While previous scholarship has paid scant attention to the transformation of the prologue (several of them have never been published), I argue that the prologues are key in understanding the contexts of the Norwegian Landslǫg. Using Derrida's concept of the parergon outlined in The Truth in Painting and by analysing the interaction of the prologue and main law code in different manuscripts, I conclude that each prologue exerts a parergonal influence on the law code in a different way and that the translation of the law into Danish had a profound effect on the transformations of the prologue. In addition, this article provides an updated overview of the prologues to the Landslǫg and lists which manuscripts they are preserved in.

The recent and ever-increasing amount of studies investigating human mobility for single individuals in the European Bronze Age (Bergerbrant et al. 2017; Blank et al. 2018; Cavazzutti et al. 2019a, 2019b; Felding et al. 2020; De Angelis et al. 2021; Frei 2012; Frei et al. 2015a, 2015b, 2017, 2019, 2020; Frei & Frei 2011, 2013; Frei & Price 2012; Hoogewerff et al. 2019; Knipper 2004; Ladegaard-Pedersen et al. 2020, 2021; Nielsen et al. 2020a, 2020b; Price et al. 2011; Reiter 2015; Reiter et al. 2019; Reiter & Frei 2015; Scheeres et al. 2014; Snoeck et al. 2015; Taylor et al. 2020; Turck et al. 2012) presents us with an unprecedented opportunity to study mobility theories. By examining these new body of data as a whole, patterns may emerge. There is a scholarly movement which is beginning to go beyond producing evidence for movement/non-movement to starting to assess social strategies which may have caused mobility/non-mobility (Reiter & Frei 2019)

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The concept of otherness means the ability of recognizing oneself in the other and placing oneself in their place. Considering themselves to be a part of the same people, the Kurdish population in diaspora and the Kurdish population in Kurdish territory maintain social, political and cultural ties. Among Kurdish populations in diaspora all over the world, it is very common that groups organize themselves both to create solidarity over political matters involving Kurdistan and to act in favour of Kurds suffering in Kurdistan. This article analyzes how such movements occurred in the Danish capital during the ISIS offensive in Mount Sinjar, located in the Iraqi Kurdistan. It suggests that the usage of the concept of human rights by Kurdish groups in Copenhagen is part of a strategy that mobilizes Danish political actors to intervene in favour of an ethnic minority suffering from an attempt of genocide, whereas Kurdish-Danish political disputes serve as a background. Thus, this article will discuss the ways in which the individuals articulate Human Rights, and the morality that comes from this concept. By invoking Kurdish history–who were historically denied of their human rights–and the historical role that Denmark has of defending such rights, these actors aim to articulate both Kurdish ethnic belonging and Danish identity.

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Social workers are finding it hard to work in an environment where politics influence the work they do especially with Migrants. Recent electoral research demonstrating that recent general elections in most European countries have been decided based on which party’s voters expect to deliver the highest standards of restrictive immigration policy. The aim of the study was to contribute to research on analysing and understanding the impact that the current political discourse with regards to migrants has on social work practice with this population group. The following research questions were devised in order to explore the impact that the current political discourse has on social work practice with migrants: 1. What is the current political discourse with regards to migrants?; 2.What influence does the current political discourse on migrants have on social work practice?; 3.When working with migrants, are social workers able to work in line with the values and ethics of the profession under the current political discourse? The study adopted case study research design and purposive sampling was used to identify social workers from various agencies in Aalborg City. The study used primary data to gather the required information from respondents using a semi-structured interview guide, the data was analysed using thematic method. The study found out that there is a negative political discourse regarding migrants in Denmark; creates the notion of ‘us versus them’, erosion of Danish culture, waste of resources, media domination. The study concludes that that social workers should address specific needs of minorities such as migrants, researchers need to rethink the foundation of welfare state from the perspective of migration and diversity as cultural diversity, Integration of migrants can only succeed if discrimination and devaluation of what Danes consider non-European is addressed through multicultural policies on a National level. The study recommends that Social workers need to start challenging the existing unjust policies being implemented by government when it comes to social assistance given to migrants. Going forward, focus needs to be on improving best practices when working with migrants and other marginalized groups.

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This article traces the historiography of an elite woman and salonnière from late eighteenth-century Denmark, Charlotte Schimmelmann (1757–1816), arguing that the publication of her letters at the turn of the twentieth century has impacted contemporary historical writing on her salon and elite women’s political agency in Denmark. The article places the case of Charlotte Schimmelmann’s correspondence within the wider context of salon historiography and new diplomatic history, arguing that we must take the international research on not only the eighteenth-century salon, but also aristocratic sociability and new diplomatic history into account in order to understand Charlotte Schimmelmann’s late eighteenth-century sociability. Through examples from a reading of Charlotte Schimmelmann’s and her female circle’s full correspondence, their political and diplomatic involvement is highlighted. Several of these examples have been excluded from the published collection, prompting the second part of the article to investigate how and why the letters presented in the collection were selected for publication. Drawing on material from Louis Bobé’s personal archive, this part of the article uncovers Bobé’s basis for publishing the letters, leading to a discussion of how the publication’s emphasis on literary aspects of elite sociability has contributed to contemporary understandings of their agency.

In 2015 and 2016 two interesting cases occurred in Denmark regarding practices related to Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE): a community-level dialogue was discontinued with an extremist milieu in Copenhagen due to the specific worldview but allowed to continue in a similar situation in Aarhus. What were the reasons for this divergence? When examining the community-level political argumentation, an exclusion paradigm played a crucial role, but other factors, such as confusion about the core concepts and goals of PVE, the political dynamics at play, and the prevailing decision-making structures also influenced the differential outcomes despite the similarity of the situations. Since community-level PVE practices constitute a rapidly growing field, there is a lesson to be learned from the Danish cases: building coherent and continuous PVE practices is not only a matter for professional practitioners, but also calls for a solid understanding of its goals at the political level.

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The most significant Danish warrior burial is arguably the Memorial Grove in Ryvangen for members of the Danish resistance movement during World War II. This article places the memorial within Danish history and the reception of WWII and argues for its particular qualities as a modernist re-working of a discredited monumental tradition with a particular focus on plain materials and a low architectural scale. The memorial affords a heightened sense of materiality and nature as a practical example of a philosophy of presence. The park-like memorial can also be seen as a performative ground for instilling aspects of identity and collective memory for both individuals and Danish society. Future uses of the site can either go in the direction of recreation or toward immersive education.

The Nordic countries hold the highest social trust scores in the world with averages up to 76%. There are, however, regional differences. When measuring the level of social trust in a rural area such as Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality (RSM), located in peripheral Denmark, the result is an astonishing score of 91%. How can we explain why the RSM achieves such a high social trust score? One first answer could be based on Robert Putnam’s theory on voluntary organizations. In fact, logistic regressions with predicted probabilities show that voluntary work has a strong positive effect on a citizen’s social trust. This result is useful for geography as it shows that peripheral rural areas may perform extremely well in terms of social trust which again could be used by them as a new and overlooked brand for attracting newcomers.

This article discusses the case of two schools, that are "famous", each in her own way in Denmark, which recently received ambitious expansion and renovation programs : Rodding Hojskole (Rodding Folkhighschool) and Munkegaardsskolen (Munkegaard's school). These projects are part of the history of these schools, of the country, and are based on a child's or man's conception specifically developed in the Nordic countries. They show a need to adapt buildings to technical developments and constraints, and a wish to improve education and teaching methods. Our article reports, for part, of the architectural evolution of these two schools, each understood in historical, social and educational context ; then we make a comparison of the two projects and of their foundations, and we open research perspectives on the pedagogical contribution that these architectural evolutions could induce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper starts with a short description of types of comparison in traditional linguistics. Some examples demonstrate linguistic on the lexical, phraseological and syntactical level. On the textual level, linguistic and intercultural contrasts are shown concerning terms of personal address in French, English, German and Japanese. Even more cultural differences can be analyzed within a culinary product from Denmark presenting quite different recipes for English, German and French cooks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with some of the ethnonyms mentioned in the Veneranda dies, proposing some identifications for the names “Daci” and “Romani” that have not hitherto been considered.

Defending Theology: Freedom of the Press and Theological Textual Cultures in Swedish and Danish Periodicals at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century This article examines the relationship between theology and freedom of the press in the periodicals Läsning i blandade ämnen (Stockholm 1797–1801) and Minerva (Copenhagen, 1785–1801). Sweden and Denmark were subject to different press regulations in the last decades of the eighteenth century, not least concerning theological issues. The editors of the periodicals in question sought to contribute to general enlightenment, and each of them published texts thematizing theological and religious issues. Through close reading of theological texts from these periodicals, the present study aims to demonstrate how the different press regulations in the two countries entailed a need for different presentations of Christian ideas during a period when dogmatic Christian teaching was challenged. This will in turn shed light on the role of these periodicals as far as public opinion regarding theology and theological themes in general is concerned.

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Danish landscape research blossomed during the 1990s thanks to several transdisciplinary research programmes involving several institutions. The main themes of the programmes encompassed landscape change, landscape and biological diversity, nature and landscape management, use and monitoring of the countryside. The values of the Danish landscape pertain mainly to the coastal landscapes. The threats include the industrialization of the agricultural landscapes and, in places, urban sprawl.

In comparison with neighbouring countries, the peri-urbanisation process in Belgium is very important in many aspects. In relation with sustainable development strategic objectives, this is a major issue and numerous researches have shown that peri-urbanisation contributes to various collective costs. By comparing Belgium with the situation in Denmark and in Switzerland, two countries renowned for their relatively effective urban containment, the aim of this paper is to analyse why sprawl so deeply affects the Belgian territory. Three issues are taken into account for this comparison: land policy, housing development and the Belgian choice for car mobility. This triple analysis shows that peri-urbanisation processes are deeply implanted in Belgium. They are indeed related with the influence of natural environment, with old reticence for urban life, with a weak consciousness towards planning and with persistent political choices in favour of centrifugal dynamics.