Daria Schwalbe

University of Copenhagen · Department of English

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This a report of a workshop, held in December 2023 at the Centre for Culture and the Mind (DNRF Centre of Excellence) at the University of Copenhagen, where researchers from all across Denmark gathered together to discuss Parenting and Parenthood in crisis. The workshop was informal, designed to generate new ideas and collaborations around the them...

Background: Approximately one-third of patient appointments in Danish health care result in failures, leading to patient risk and sizable resource waste. Existing interventions to alleviate no-shows often target the patients. The underlying reason behind these interventions is a view that attendance or nonattendance is solely the patient's problem....

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to conduct and evaluate the Blended Learning communication skills training program. The key objective was to investigate (i) how clinical intervention studies can be designed to include cognitive, organizational, and interactive processes, and (ii) how researchers and practitioners could work with integrated met...

In this article we take a closer look at post-Soviet identity and ‘belonging’ within the Indigenous communities in Chukotka, the Russian Far East. During the Soviet era, the Soviet identity was glorified, whereas local ways of life, languages and the ethnic identi- ties of Indigenous peoples were suppressed and stimatized. With the collapse of the...

During Nunamed 2022, three distinct topics emerged, when approaching the mental health and wellbeing of the Arctic communities: (1) fears, emotions and affects, (2) the prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses, and (3) sexual assault, violence, and suicide attempts. All three increased during the pandemic, even though the virus was not very widespread i...

Background Approximately one-third of patient appointments in Danish health care result in failures, leading to patient risk and sizable resource waste. Existing interventions to alleviate no-shows often target the patients. The underlying reason behind these interventions is a view that attendance or nonattendance is solely the patient’s problem....

BACKGROUND Approximately one third of patient appointments in Health Care fails. Failed appointments put patients at risk, and they create a sizeable “waste” of resources. Most interventions in health care target the patient. They do not always work and may lead to social biases and more health inequality. A more holistic understanding of no-shows...

In studies of language choice and minority language shift and maintenance, attention is frequently given to factors other than emotions: social context of contact, language politics, linguistic competence and attitudes, educational policies, and political agendas in a society. Yet human language is ideologically saturated, aesthetically experienced...

Background: This article illustrates how cognitive, organizational, and communicative/interactive processes can be included into the design of micro-skills interventions in healthcare. We present a model for integrating methods of cognitive ethnography and in situ simulation into clinical communication intervention studies to support the implementa...

The article (in Russian) tells about contemporary Yupik society taking departure in 11 Yupik words which characterise the contemporary culture of the Asiatic Yupik (Eskimo), including such words as Акузипиг (language), Тыг’ныг’аг’си (return of the soul of a living person), Атик’ак’а (giving names of the dead ancestors), Ман’тāк’ (wail skin with blu...

This article casts light on the last segment of Knud Rasmussen’s “grand expedition,” his trip to Chukotka, in the Russian Far East, in September 1924. He spent somewhere between 18 and 48 hours in Chukotka before he was deported back to Alaska, and it is doubtful that he was able to bring any significant local objects back with him. Yet the Fifth T...

Discourses surrounding migration and integration often see language, and in particular the knowledge of the native language, as a crucial barrier to minorities’ access to healthcare and welfare benefits, equal healthcare treatment, social integration, and psychological wellbeing. Using methods of ethnographic and interactional sociolinguistic and c...

В данной статье описывается языковая ситуация в Новое Чаплино по материалам моих обследований в 2003, 2005 и 2018 г. Основная задача – по- казать, каким образом коренные жители Чукотки используют имеющий- ся у них языковой репертуар в повседневной речи, а также насколько из- менения в политической и социальной среде за последние 20 лет повлия- ли н...

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In order to answer the critical question of "how (and whether) communities can sustain continued use of their languages in the future," this article addresses the subject of linguistic "sustainability" by comparing linguistic situations in two geographically and politically divided Yupik communities with dissimilar degrees of language maintenance:...

In the present report, I address some of the critical issues related to implementation of the Yamal LNG Project. The data presented in this report are based on a short-term fieldwork in Yamal, conducted in 2016. The report singles out and discusses some of the critical trends observed in the area (ecological impacts, affects on local economy, food...

Using an ethnography of speaking approach, this article discusses the ideological aspects of language practices, as they are played out in a traditional Yupik (Eskimo) village in Chukotka, in the Far East of the Russian Federation. The article shows how local linguistic practices and language choices of individual speakers intersect with purist lan...

The article is about the Danish vice admiral Just Juel and travel writing about his time spent as envoye extraordinaire at the court of the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great. / Just Juel skrev sig ind i historien som en af de danskere, der oplevede Rusland i årene efter slaget ved Poltava – en begivenhed, som ændrede Ruslands betydning og hele magtbala...