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(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Children and youth belong to one of the most vulnerable groups in societies. This was the case even before the current humanitarian crises around the world which led millions of people and families to flee from wars, terror, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne studien er en undersøkelse av det tilgjengelige begrepsapparatet brukt av skeive personer med minoritetsbakgrunn i Norge for å italesette sin identitet. Oppgaven ser spesifikt på hvordan gruppen forstår, anvender og ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The late Victorian Britain was fascinated with the ancient North. British literary authors of the second half of the nineteenth century sought inspiration for their novels, poems, and plays in medieval Icelandic imagery. ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article explores how male officers in the Norwegian Armed Forces (NAF) understand the relevance of the global Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) norms in their conceptualizations of security work. The study is based on ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This edited book challenges the limits of current educational philosophical discourse and argues for a restored normativisation of education through a powerful notion of justice. Moving beyond conventional paradigms of how ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article explores affective alignment and epistemic polarization in the field of feminist research, resulting from the neoliberalization of the universities and a performance-oriented research economy. Previous research ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This chapter describes a psychosocial narrative method that focuses on modes of being in and relating to the world through practice. Whereas the “cognitive interpretations” prevalent in narrative research tend to conflate ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
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This article investigates the activities of Kurdish women aimed at protecting and revitalising Kurdish language, which include collecting and publishing folklore, translating into Kurdish, and writing literature ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
In this article, I argue that Smith’s continued relevance coincides with more recent retrievals of Marx-inspired materialism. This materialism and the associated understanding of human beings—the social, language, and world ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Though many advocates argue that ‘rape is rape’, empirical research demonstrates that many incidents and experiences are ambiguous. This article explores how heterosexual norms play into the construction of a grey area ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
En gruppe krigsbarn som vi har lite kunnskap om, er de født under og rett etter andre verdenskrig i Norge av samiske og kvenske mødre. I artikkelen presenterer jeg noen historiske linjer gjennom eksempler på krigsbarn fra ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Utnevnelsen av Ine Eriksen Søreide i 2017 var et historisk første: Norges første kvinnelige utenriksminister. For merkevaren Norge var dette viktig: Det viste likestilling i praksis, ikke bare som gode intensjoner. I norsk ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Close-up research on the far right comes with inherent challenges related to issues of power, justice, and ethics, which are often gendered and intersect with other axes of inequality, like race, ethnicity, religion, and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan Helen Sandler’s erotiske roman Big Deal (1999) kan bryte med binære forståelser for kjønn, seksualitet og makt. Ettersom romanen er publisert ved årtusenskiftet, vil jeg undersøke hvordan ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I denne avhandlingen utforsker jeg endringene i den delte følelsen av farskap mellom to generasjoner av norske middelklassefedre. Utforskningen er basert på personlige fortellinger om farskap slik de framstår gjennom ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis aims to explore the potential impacts of universal basic income (UBI) policy on gender equality in Norway. A strong gender segregation in the labor force persists as large numbers of women work part-time and ...
Sexual consent discourses in Norwegian news media: A critical discourse analysis of discursive constructions and gendered understandings of sexual consent Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Denne oppgaven utforsker seksuelle samtykkediskurser i norske nyhetsmedier fra 2020. Problemstillingen min var følgende: Hvordan er seksuelt samtykke diskursivt konstruert i norske nyhetsmedier, og hvilke kjønnede forståelser ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Denne masteroppgaven er en nærlesing av den norske medisinske diskursen om medisinske uforklarlige plager og symptomer (MUPS). Dette er tilstander som har få biologiske bevis og ingen kjent behandling eller kur per i dag. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
I denne oppgaven har jeg undersøkt følgende to problemstillinger: a) Hvilke erfaringer har kvinner med soningsforhold når det gjelder; tilrettelegging av innhold, sikkerhet, sårbarhet og forberedelse til løslatelse? b) På ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan maskulinitet og vennskap navigeres i flerkulturelle områder på Østkanten i Oslo. Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i elleve semistrukturerte intervjuer med gutter oppvokst på Østkanten mellom 18 ...
A Study of Affect, Security and Masculinity in Breivik and Tarrant’s Manifestos: A Discourse Analysis Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
For ytre høyre er sikkerhet viktig. Kjønn er en avgjørende komponent i deres idealsamfunn. Videre er kjønn en sentral hjørnestein i det som truer kjerneverdiene deres i tillegg til nasjonen. Sara Ahmed en av mange som slår ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Denne avhandlingen tar sikte på å utforske hvordan tidligere kvinnelige stridende fra den største venstreorienterte opprørsgruppen i Latin-Amerika – Colombias revolusjonære væpnede styrker-Folkets Hær (FARC-EP) – opplever ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
ammendrag Denne masteroppgaven handler om kvinnelig omkjæring I Uganda. Ifølge UNICEF har kvinnelig omkjæring blitt utført på minst 200 millioner jenter og kvinner. Grunner til det er kulutur, seksualitet og mer. Disse ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The Norwegian Research Council has, via the research programme Balanse Programmet, funded research as well as practice-oriented initiatives for increasing the representation of women in research leadership positions (Lund, ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Stefano Harney og Fred Motens begrep the undercommons, som de har introdusert som en alternativ måte å tenke motstand og endring på i en nyliberal verden, har blitt tatt opp av en rekke forskjellige forskere. Denne oppgaven ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This article aims to develop enhanced conceptions of the motivational drives that may be imperilled by their encounter with new forms of governance in higher education. Of particular concern are the motivational drives ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
I argue that educators, by introducing young people to various ways of responding to wrongdoing, help prepare them for the task of acting in and taking responsibility for the world. I begin by (a) introducing Hannah Arendt’s ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
I denne artikkelen diskuterer jeg hvorfor Simone de Beauvoirs syn på kjærlighet, slik det blant annet kommer til utrykk i Det annet kjønn gjennom skillet mellom autentisk og inautentisk kjærlighet, må forstås som grunnlagt ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This chapter introduces a psychosocial strand of thinking that offers a way to conceive of creative relations between the psyche and the world. Whereas much current psychosocial theory stresses how anxieties are managed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Hannah Arendts arbeid dreier seg om vita activa og vita contemplativa. Hun legger hovedvekten på det offentlige rom, og begreper som politikk, menneskelig pluralitet, frihet, likhet og makt er sentrale for hennes tenkning. ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This book explores how gender equality, a central part of the Nordic imaginary, is used in the political communication of Nordic states. The analyses presented move beyond conventional images and discourses of Nordic gender- ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
I denne masteroppgaven sammenlignes en bred mengde forskningslitteratur fra de siste 20 årene, med formål om å finne likestilingseffekter fra den norske barselmodellen. Studien sammenligner to nordiske land med svært ulik ...
Representasjoner som gjør meg glad for at jeg er tykk: Tykkaktivisme i et skeivt perspektiv Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
I denne oppgava ser jeg på to tykkaktivistiske verk, dokumentaren Tykke Ida og instagramprofilen Shooglet. Jeg undersøker disse fra perspektiver fra skeiv teori, og perspektiver fra tykkstudier. Jeg bruker Female Masculinity ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
I musikkvideoer er de kvinnelige artistene ofte halvnakne og spiller på sex. I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg hvordan kvinnelige artister forhandler iscenesettelsen av seksualitet gjennom objektiverende og subjektiverende ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Kvinner har lang erfaring med stigma vedrørende deres følelsesliv – historisk konstruert som emosjonelle og en motpol til den rasjonelle mannen. På tross av et tradisjonelt syn på kvinner som emosjonelle vesener, synes ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Abstract The issue of forced marriage and arranged marriage among immigrant communities has been a controversial public discussion in Norway since the early 90s. Most Norwegians will not know the difference between the two ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Denne masteroppgaven har tittelen lesbisk performativitet og handler om å løfte fram og diskutere ulike måter lesbiskhet kan komme til uttrykk på. Empirien er hentet fra scenekunstfeltene i Oslo, Stockholm og Berlin, der ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Framtidsfortellinger er tilknyttet epistemologiske, strukturelle og institusjonelle rammer. Disse rammene setter grenser for hvordan vi kan se for oss drømmene våre for framtiden og hvem som har anledning til framtidsdrømming. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This paper offers a new way to engage with gender, race, and class relations in academic leadership and organizations. Viewing our research materials through different images helps us to ask new questions, open up new kinds ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This chapter explores the production of work knowledge, through an account of a research journey from institutional capture to discovery. The chapter is based on a study I conducted of epistemic inequalities in Finnish ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
I både det danske og norske Forsvaret har vi sett hvordan en utbredt bruk av humor tilsynelatende gjør hverdagen morsommere for noen soldater, mens den for andre har en negativ effekt. Ikke minst gjelder det for de kvinnene ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article aims to develop new conceptions of the psychosocial dynamics that drive the re-romanticization of domestic femininity in current financialized capitalism. Feminist scholars have described this heightened ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Kjønn har skiftet beite i vår tid. I løpet av de siste 50 årene har kjønn flyttet seg fra primært å uttrykke seg gjennom utdanning, arbeidsdeling, økonomi og politikk, til å uttrykke seg gjennom kropp og seksualitet. Dette ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Norsk politi har kjønnsbalanse i utdanningen. Andelen kvinner i politistillinger har passert 30 prosent. I den skarpe enden av den operative virksomheten er kvinneandelen rundt 10 prosent. I en casestudie i et politidistrikt ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Individual, cultural and structural barriers exist in reporting rape to the police. Our study’s context is Norway, where reporting is more accepted than before and is even encouraged. Still, few who experience rape report ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Women leaders are frequently treated as one class – a homogenised group with essentialised skills and competencies in binary relationship to male leaders. We explore how feminist ways of knowing gender and leadership, and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article unpacks the social construction of the ‘ideal academic’ in the context of major shifts in the global and national governance of academia that have introduced managerial practices, standardised notions of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Common sense, which refers to judgement rooted in everyday life experiences, constitutes an important part of legal decisions. In this article, I study how the female victim’s body appears in written rape verdicts, by ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Tove Pettersen explores why Simone de Beauvoir was been neglected as a philosopher, and also why she denied calling herself a philosopher. One important reason is, Pettersen argues, the collision between her gendered ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
I Alderdommen (1970) fremsetter Simone de Beauvoir en filosofisk analyse av alderdom og eldre menneskers situasjon, og hevder at behandlingen de får er «skandaløs»; samfunnet «returnerer dem som en vare det ikke lenger er ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis aims to examine how participants in an antifeminist online discussion forum debate issues of rape and how they further utilize the term rape in their discussions. Research has shown that one of the most common ...
Knowledge, Preference and Agency on contraception: A comparative study on young married and unmarried women in Dhaka city Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This study deals three specific points put forward to explore ‘source of knowledge,’ ‘way of priority’ and ‘practice of sexual agency’ regarding contraception among young married and unmarried women in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Kvinneandelen i norske kommunestyrer har flatet ut de siste tjue åra. På landsbasis har andelen aldri kommet over 40 prosent, men gjennomsnittet dekker over store variasjoner. Valgforskere har studert hvordan partiene og ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis analyses Finnish women’s experiences of using pornography. Pornography studies is a large and vibrant field of study but qualitative research on women’s use of pornography is rare, particularly in the Finnish ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque opened its doors in the German capital of Berlin in June 2017. Since its public opening, the mosque has proven a source of numerous controversies with traditional Muslims regarding its validity as ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Norge har et sterkt nasjonalt selvbilde som likestillingsforkjemper og fredsnasjon. I denne artikkelen utforsker viskjæringspunktet mellom likestilling og fredsengasjement i norsk utenrikspolitikk. Mens systematisk integrering ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This article discusses how perpetrators and victims are constructed in legal rape cases and how these constructions are informed by notions of gender, sexuality, race, and nation. It presents an in-depth frame analysis of ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
This study is qualitative, positioned in the interdisciplinary research field of disability studies, and draws on the theoretical insights of critical feminist studies. The fieldwork consisted of qualitative interviews ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Tildelingen av Nobels fredspris 2018 til Nadia Murad og Denis Mukwege for deres arbeid med å bekjempe seksuelle overgrep i krig representerer en enorm endring i forståelsen av hva denne formen for vold er, og hvordan den ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Based on a multi-methodological fieldwork, conducted in Gaborone and a village in Botswana in 2015/16, this article discusses how new media is used as part of young people’s everyday practices and with what consequences. ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Resistance is a concept that may seem out of place in studies of Nordic welfare societies. However, several studies depict how people in these societies act in ways that, whether explicitly or not, question the current ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
In research on traffic injury prevention, young male drivers willing to take risks are known as “young problem drivers” and have been identified as the greatest road safety challenge. This intersectional study draws on ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
A few popular explanations attempt to argue for a weaker relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), parental involvement (PI), and achievement among Asian Americans compared to their white counterparts: Asian American ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Young people today, and in particular young women, report increasing levels of stress, eating disorders, feeling of depression and dissatisfaction with their bodies. This scenario comes from a generation and class of young ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Psychological trauma has become the main framework for understanding the impact of rape on individual victims. Trauma has traditionally been understood as a mental illness conceptualized in opposition to normality. This ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This study aims to examine how public discourse and how portrayal of women with Muslim backgrounds, have consequences for citizenship in Norway. Growing scepticism towards immigrants, and stronger sense of islamophobia ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
With an expansion of global capitalism and global humanitarian crises, a cosmopolitan rhetoric of the shared world community has surged in the past decades. Recent educational agendas emphasize humanitarian and multicultural ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Sammendrag Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan aseksuelle perspektiver utfordrer hegemoniske forståelser av seksualitet. Oppgaven undersøker og diskuterer aseksualitet som diskurs. Dette betyr aseksualitet knyttet til ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The film and television industries are no stranger to terrifying gendered monsters. Pulling from iconic and diverse folklore, the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy have enunciated long-standing human fears in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan kjønn praktiseres og uttrykkes gjennom rutiner for vask og stell av kroppen. Kildematerialet består av spørrelistesvar om personlig hygiene som ble samlet inn i 2014 av det kulturhistoriske ...
It starts with wanting children: Norwegian parents’ experiences with commercial surrogacy in the USA
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis explores Norwegian parents’ experiences with commercial surrogacy in the USA. Surrogacy is a controversial phenomenon, and illegal in Norway, yet relatively little research has been done on the population of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
In this thesis, dominating, dichotomous ways of understanding and explaining sex are outlined and questioned. Dichotomous ideas and experiences of sex are sat in connection with the troubling times that the world finds ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
For almost two decades, the public debate about Islam in Western Europe has been dominated by concerns about the lack of gender equality in the racialized Muslim population. There has been a tendency to victimize “the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article reflects on the value of engaging with visual methods in a fieldwork situation. It portrays various forms of visual methods used in a recent research in Botswana and discusses – by using a concrete example – ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne oppgaven tar sikte på å undersøke koblingene mellom høyre-ekstremisme, maskulinitet og miljøvern. Miljøvern bli gjerne assosiert med den politiske venstresiden, ikke ekstremhøyre, og med femininitet fremfor maskulinitet. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The departure point for this thesis was a national online debate on Chinese sex education. In spring 2017, beginning with a mother complaining about the “explicit” contents in a sex education textbook on Sina Weibo, thousands ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Denne artikkelen har som mål å undersøke den akademiske kulturen innenfor realfagene med et kjønnsperspektiv, samt å diskutere likestillingstiltak innenfor det akademiske idealet om meritokrati. Funnene fokuserer på disse ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Er gutter de nye skoletaperne? Artikkelen ser nærmere på tre av hovedtemaene i debatten om kjønn og skole: karakterforskjeller i grunnskolen, frafall i videregående skole og kjønnede overganger til høyere utdanninger. Det ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article is an autoethnography of fieldwork carried out as part of a research project about the legal processing of rape cases in Norway. The author observed 15 rape trials and interviewed ten defense lawyers. During ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This position paper by four key researchers from two projects (one in Norway and one in Sweden) aims to define and discuss terms and concepts in Gender Studies. It is inspired by the concept of dialogue as a method of ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this introductory article to the special issue Women and War in Kurdistan, we connect our topic to feminist theory, to anthropological theory on war and conflict and their long-term consequences, and to ...
Women fleeing from Tibet: An ethnographic study of the migratory experiences of women in the Tibetan diaspora Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Why do Tibetan women flee to Dharamsala? Are there other, more social and less explicitly political, reasons than simply wanting to escape Chinese rule and follow the Dalai Lama? How are refugee and migratory experiences ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
I denne artikkelen bruker vi institusjonell etnografi til å utforske kvinnelige førsteamanuensers arbeidshverdager og forskningskarrierer ved Universitetet i Agder (UiA) og hvordan disse erfaringene er sosialt organiserte ...