Nov. 29th 2005, on the front page of Norway’s largest newspaper Verdens Gang (VG): next to photos of two young Chinese boys, the title read “Disappeared from Moss – the police fears: TAKEN by human traffickers” . It was ...

Can high levels of poverty be a competitive advantage for a country in the world economy? Or, put differently, can low labour costs provide a sustainable basis for a small country’s export strategy? In this study poverty ...

Discourse analysis based on the archaeological method developed by Michel Foucault shows that International governmental organisations (UNEP and EEA) and national governments (Norway) are relying on two discursive systems ...

This thesis is about the modernization of fishing practices in a traditional fishermen community in Indonesia in the context of decentralization. The focus will be to learn how the process takes place, and how actors ...