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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
What does the new phase of SOE reforms starting around 2016 tell us about economic and institutional transformations and contradictions in Vietnam? In raising this question, we shed light on contradictions between the ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Decision-making in the European Union is often characterized as technocratic and depoliticized. But has European integration also increased the role of experts and expertise in national policy-making? The chapter addresses ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Fifty years ago, the concept “sexual script” was coined to describe sexual activities as social and learned interactions. Such scripts gradually change, however, and result in what we may label “generational sexualities”. ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
In this chapter, the authors examine critically the rise of global indexes and ask how they helped build and shape the idea of Nordic gender exceptionalism, as the region's members moved from being Cold War-era 'middle way ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The compact city has become the preferred and mainstream model for urban, peri-urban and sometimes even rural planning in the Nordic context. However, the compact city is increasingly contested as a model for sustainability ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Norway is considered to be one of the most egalitarian countries in the world. But even though egalitarian perceptions have been dominant over the last 20 years, class inequalities have either remained stable or been on ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This chapter revisits tensions between Norway’s image as a climate-resilient society and the reality of vulnerability among farmers in Eastern Norway. Over the past decade, farmers in Eastern Norway have introduced various ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Traditionally, the use of cannabis has been associated with more deviance and psychosocial problems than the use of alcohol among adolescents in Norway. Drawing on national survey data, we present trends in the use of both ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Throughout the 1950s, as psychology, sociology and criminology developed as academic disciplines in Norway, researchers within these disciplines began publishing scattered reports on youth. In the 1970s and ‘80s, The Centre ...