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Shades of Displacment Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Acts of resistance against forced displacement can manifest itself through a wide variety of social and cultural expressions. This thesis explores resistance against the dam-induced displacement in the highlands of Georgia ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis is concerned with the significant cultural, physical, and emotional losses of the Ojibwe people and their current efforts to use food as a means of regaining their sovereignty and self-sufficiency. In Ojibwe ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Barcarena, a city located in the Brazilian Amazon, was a small town until the 1970 s, but a massive aluminium production plant was built in the region in the 1980 s and the alumina and primary aluminium plants were responsible ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis sets out to explore the factors that have challenged the introduction of Meat-Free Monday in the Norwegian Armed Forces. The need to address the unsustainable levels of meat consumption, especially in the West, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Background: There is extensive use of polystyrene (PS6), polypropylene (PP5) and other plastics in packaging practices in Iceland today, despite these materials being a threat to the environment. As Iceland is portrayed ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The objective of this thesis is to find out how music festivals in Norway communicate environmental awareness to their audience. Through the use of mixed methods for collecting data, I measure the impact that the music ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis discusses political participation, democracy and development in Khayelitsha in Cape Town. It looks at channels for participation and how participation relates to issues of democracy and development. In South ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
It is often contended that individuals and states fail to act on knowledge of climate change as it is too abstract and intangible. What then of the so-called hotspot communities situated in the most dramatically impacted ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis is a case study based on the urban development project Harstadpakken . It seeks to 1) identify leading discourse or discourses in the projects planning documents and how this, or these discourses influence the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This paper investigates the spaces for participation that have been created by readiness preparations launched in connection with the international initiative “Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” ...