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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)The purpose of this thesis has been to produce insights on the agendas on sustainability that are empowered by social actors as a result of a “quality turn” in food practices in the Norwegian context. I described the quality ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)This thesis aims to take a closer look at Sen's assertion and inquire into the degree to which sustainable development (as the electrification in Russia can be conceived) was generated by unfreedom. The practical implications ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)Outdoor sports consumption is rapidly growing in Norway, where sports, nature, and society are intricately intertwined. While these pursuits offer opportunities for experiencing connecting with nature, they also entail the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)The 2014–15 Ebola epidemic in West Africa highlighted the significance of trust between the public and public health authorities in the mitigation of health crises. Since the end of the epidemic, there has been a focus ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)This study focuses on a Saminist (Sedulur Sikep) community in Java – Indonesia, particularly related to the contemporary anti-cement movement. With their Javanese puritanical traits and non-violent resistance, the Sedulur ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)How to re-member a fragmented world while climate change escalates, and green growth models reproduce coloniality, particularly in Indigenous territories? What can be the concrete contributions from different scholarly ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)ABSTRACT Propelled by a commodities boom and expanding South–South investment, mega-projects have reshaped the politics of labour in many African settings. Reflecting on such dynamics, this article critically ...
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Rebels with a Cause: Exploring the antecedents and motivations of environmental activism in Norway (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)Social movements have been essential in constructing the foundations of the Norwegian democracy and welfare society. Owing to collective actions in the 20th century the living conditions, education, welfare, rights, and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)In Norway, a green industrial shift is underway, and batteries are framed by some as a key technology to enable the “green transition”. In this domain, a story of the Norwegian battery industry as a new industrial adventure ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)The major way in which IPES-Food seeks to achieve change is by preparing and widely disseminating reports on different aspects of the global food system, which are rigorous in both empirical and analytical terms. These ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)Climate change has been framed in terms of disaster, cost, uncertainty, and sacrifice for decades. Many researchers have argued that we have to talk about climate change in a different way. My aim in this thesis has been ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)To achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 on maternal health, many countries have focused on marginalized women who lack access to care. Promoting facility-based deliveries to ensure skilled birth attendance and emergency ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)As we grapple with our relationships with nature in search of sustainable solutions in our precarious age, religion has entered the sphere of environmentalism. Offering religious ideas as a key to sustainability, some have ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)Access to nature and green areas is a real battle in many cities around the world. However, these battles can be very different in nature, resulting in various outcomes depending on the context and the actors. This thesis ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Guatemala is one of the most mining conflict prone countries in the world, with disproportionately high levels of violence accompanying the sector. Starting in the early 2000's, the rapid spread of mining projects throughout ...
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Rethinking Society in Times of Climate Crisis: The Transformative Potential of Citizens’ Assemblies (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This thesis explores the transformative potential of citizens’ assemblies on climate change (climate assemblies). Citizens’ assemblies are a type of ‘deliberative mini-public’: a body of randomly selected citizens that ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)In this paper, an interdisciplinary team of economists and anthropologists study the perplexing case of Norwegian households’ heat pump ownership. The heat pump is a technology that has the potential to reduce electricity ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)Globally, the urban transport sector is facing a diversity of problems such as pollution, congestion, high energy dependency, and parking space shortage. Cycling is considered as a desirable means of transportation, which ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)The COVID-19 crisis has led to an unprecedented acceleration in the number of people working from home (WFH). This article applies a practice theoretical lens to expand the pre-pandemic telework literature which often ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Rice cookers, social media, and television sets are commonly used in rural Nepal. In this paper we explore how gender norms condition the uptake of these artifacts, and the gendered implications of their uses. We draw on ...