Browsing Sosialantropologisk institutt by Title
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article introduces compounding aspirations as a key concept for interrogating complex and contradictory rural transformations in India. We argue that compounding aspirations are central to the conjunctural grounding ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)Denne masteroppgaven er basert på et seks måneders feltarbeid blant peruanere og deres foreninger i Madrid, Spania, våren 2009. Jeg undersøker hvordan vi kan forklare differensieringsprosesser blant peruanere i Madrid ut ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2000)The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (SATRC) was operatively established in 1996 and operated in public for about two and a half years. Its aim was to disclose the truth about the past, reconcile the people ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Since the late 1960s a major port in Australia and an important coal port, Gladstone in central Queensland expanded its capacity from 2010 to 2013 through the dredging of its western harbour. This would make it easier ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)Abstract Indigenous Australians have been living as a dispossessed, colonized people in their own homeland for well over two centuries. 2017 marks the year of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 citizenship referendum, after ...
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The construction of resistance : a case study among "Il-majaneen" students in the occupied West Bank (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)This thesis is the result of eight months of fieldwork in 2003-2004, among a group of young Palestinian students at Birzeit University. My main subject is resistance, broadly defined: as a cultural model, as an expression ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article uses ethnography from onboard container ships to show how seafarers as a workforce at the center of global capital circulation are increasingly confined inside their mobile worksites. Drawing on theories of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)The thesis presents and discusses the contemporary exile or displacement of a diasporic community who between 1965 and 1973 were expelled from the Chagos archipelago in the centre of the Indian Ocean. Their majority, some ...
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Convenient labels? : classification in Maltese mainstream and alternative rock musicRestricted Access (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)This is a study of a small and previously unexplored field: mainstream and alternative rock music, musicians and fans, on the Mediterranean island of Malta. With 400,000 inhabitants in 316 square kilometers it is the most ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)My fieldwork was conducted in the spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa, where I spent eight and half months between July 2000 and August 2001. The focus is on the relation and discrepancy between an official discourse ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Cooperatives are a main means of organization for economic activity, generally operating on principles of equal membership and members’ democratic control of their means of livelihood. Co-ops have developed as modern ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The thesis "Coping with disrupted lives, - a study of Afghan girls and their family networks" explores the practical and emotional ways of coping of the generation who has grown up with the war in Afghanistan, and in exile ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)This thesis takes as its starting point American warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan as of 2008, and explores how American service members, as well as their families and friends, look at these wars. Information is collected ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)This thesis is based on a 5 month long ethnographic fieldwork in Hangzhou, China, where I spent time with immigrants. I will explore the COVID-19 virus, how it spread, and how it became a world pandemic. As an effect of ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)This thesis is an examination of Catalan nationalism and the use of F.C. Barcelona - Barça - in the expression of national sentiments. My way of examining and analysing Football Club Barcelona in this thesis is as a ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This thesis deals with the construction of symbolic value and aesthetic authority in a menswear context. Based on fieldwork conducted in Oslo; in two tailoring shops which are seen as two of the best menswear shops in Oslo. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)My thesis is an exploration of cultural life in the city part Äussere Neustadt in Dresden, capital of the former East German state Saxony. The city part hosts a lively and youthful scene of a range of subcultural practices ...
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Current demands in the Nepali electricity sector: For a social reproduction theory of infrastructure (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article uses work and state relations at a Nepali electricity office as a staging ground for bringing the labour of repair squarely into focus in the ethnography of infrastructure. A trio of electricians at the office ...
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‘Cutting the Colonial Cord’? Tensions of Value and the Relationship between Tokelau and New Zealand (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article discusses concepts of self-government, dependence and independence in the light of Tokelau and New Zealand practices. Kin-based forms of mutual dependence are compared with the demands for specific forms of ...