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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
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This article proposes volatility as a term with which to approach some of the challenges that shape the current world. We develop this term as an analytical concept and perspective by thinking with people and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article maps out a nascent field that is currently taking shape, one that bridges anthropological considerations of infrastructure, political ecology, and science and technology studies with transdisciplinary approaches ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
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Sometimes attempts to reduce volatility have the opposite effect. A naturally flexible system which is regimented and disciplined to a fixed shape loses its ability to adjust to shifting circumstances. This is ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Trout were introduced to South Africa in the late nineteenth century with colonial fanfare, but since the 1990s, post-apartheid legislation has declared trout alien and sought to reduce their numbers. Both the initial ...
(Journal issue / Seriehefte, 2007)
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Det oransje- og brunblomstrete tapetet slår mot meg i det jeg kommer inn på kjøkkenet. På en måte syntes jeg det er fint, det minner om sommerferiene jeg tilbrakte hos farmor da jeg var yngre. Lukten ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
In this special issue, we bring together anthropological and historical work that considers successive aspirations towards ‘health for all’: their pasts, their futures, and their diverse meanings and iterations. Across the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The COVID-19 Pandemic issued a cascading crisis in the transport sector and has signified a wholesale reconfiguration of global supply chains. In studying supply chains, anthropological scholarship has tended to focus on ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Over the last 30 years, there has been significant investment in research and infrastructure aimed at mitigating the threat of newly emerging infectious diseases (NEID). Core epidemiological processes, such as ...
Resilience as Practice - An Ethnographic Study of the Paradoxes Resulting from a Top-Down Implemented Vision of Climate Resilience in Dominica Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Throughout my fieldwork on the Caribbean Island of Dominica, I gathered stories and perspectives from people’s experiences with Hurricane Maria that struck the island in 2017 and Tropical Storm Erica in 2015. This MA thesis ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
I Oslo sin kommuneplan for 2019 står det at kommunen står overfor mange utfordringer som krever innovasjon og organisatoriske grep, hvor integrering og inkludering er en stor del av det. På arbeidsplasser i Oslo, spesielt ...
Both Sides of the Coin: An anthropological study of the effects of remittances on the lives of Somali immigrants in two host countries. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Sammendrag Unge innvandrere møter ulike utfordringer, og kulturelle forventninger som kan komme i klem i møte med et nytt geografisk landområde. De neste kapitlene tar for seg tre unge menn som har innvandret til Norge, ...
Resilience Tactics of Istanbul’s Queer Communities: the Example of Lubunya Nightlife of Istanbul Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This master’s thesis explores the nightlife socialization encounters of queer individuals in Istanbul before and during Covid-19 pandemic. Similar to LGBTI+ individuals in many other countries in the rise of right-wing ...
Frivillighet på kaia: en bistandsorganisasjons respons på den europeiske migrasjonskrisen Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
De siste ti årene har migrasjonen over Middelhavet økt betraktelig. Den arabiske våren, borgerkrig i Syria og diverse langvarige konflikter på det afrikanske kontinentet utløste en massemigrasjon over til Europa. Tusenvis ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Climate reductive translations of migration attract international attention, but result in three problematic misreadings of Bangladesh’s socioecological landscape. First, attributing migration to climate change misreads ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis argues that inattention to policy actors' meaning, fear of meaninglessness, individual interests and agendas can contribute to incomplete policy analysis and misguide our understanding of the dynamics and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Since the creation of the Premier League in 1992, English football has become increasingly marketized and commercialised. In the past thirty years, the price of tickets has skyrocketed, football on television has been put ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This paper examines how the new material value of land in postcolonial Vanuatu intensifies people's shaping and re-shaping of claims to autonomy and dependence. Ahamb, like many other villages in Melanesia, originated as ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis is based on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork done among the residents living in the town of Longyearbyen at Svalbard, about halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. During my stay, I have explored ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
It is nearly half a century from the wave of decolonisation and national independence that swept across the Pacific in the 1970s and early 1980s. Yet despite this, as across the rest of the world, issues of what can be ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
In this article, I look at the ways in which a number of forms of providing for a livelihood have increased in importance in the region in this period and explore the ways in which they have created the possibility for new ...
Heritage Interpretation in Paphos in the Post-conflict Era Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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Mainstream economic theories of the firm argue that the boundary between firm and market is determined by efficiency-enhancing logics which optimise coordination or bargaining outcomes. Drawing on social ...
Slægtskab og ufrivillig barnløshed i Nuuk Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Hvad er slægtskab og familie i Nuuk, Grønland? Hvordan ser slægtskab og familieliv ud i praksis? Og hvad sker der når et par ikke kan lave ”egen familie” fordi de er ufrivilligt barnløse? Denne opgave er en etnografisk ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This master thesis in Social Anthropology is based on a literature study of the impact gentrification have had on Woodstock, South Africa. Woodstock is a neighbourhood in Cape Town, South Africa and have throughout history ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
An ethics of care in nature conservation must ask not only whose voices are heard, but also which interspecies relations that come to matter. Inspired by Jane Bennett’s question about how ethical codes are transformed into ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan kvinner opplever å møte abortnemnda, og tar nemndsopplevelsen som utgangspunkt for analyse. Oppgaven er basert på intervjuer med 29 informanter. Jeg opererer med et skille mellom ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Ethnicity at a youth club: An ethnographic study on ethnic categorization among Norwegian youths with immigrant background Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis is about a group of youths who hang out a club in the east of Oslo. Most of them have parents with an immigrant background. I seek to understand how these youths understand, use, and categorize their ethnicities. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Identity, specifically on an individual level adjusts after migration. The new environment that migrants find themselves in after migration provokes processes of acculturation influenced by social, economic, and cultural ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Nation in Decay - A Digital Approach to Right-Wing Extremism in Norway Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
In recent years there has been a surge of right-wing extreme attacks globally, as well as in Norway. Due to the lack of general knowledge on the field, this thesis contributes to a nuanced understanding of heterodox thinking ...
Den norske mottaksklassen: Teorier og perspektiver på inkludering og ekskludering av nyankomne elever i det norske skolesystemet Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Den 12. mars 2020 innførte den norske regjeringen de mest inngripende tiltakene i fredstid. Beskjeden var tydelig fra politikerne - samfunnet måtte stenge ned som følge av den altomfattende pandemien som skulle vise seg å ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This article shows that landed property can be an exercise of state sovereignty in micro. I argue that property tightly relates to statehood and that the concept of ‘community’ offers us a lens with which to investigate ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
TikTok has seen a staggering growth and relevance in the social media space since its release in 2018, becoming a staple of social media in the short time it has been around. In the last ten years or so, an entire industry ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(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. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Abstract/Summary Sofie Kirkeby: Integration and Inclusion in the Oslo Region This thesis is about integration in the Oslo region and the social inclusion of immigrants based on my fieldwork in an independent Lutheran-Evangelical ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Surfing er en aktivitet med økt interesse både i Norge og globalt. I og med at det er en aktivitet som foregår i havet, kommer surfere tett på og påvirkes av miljøproblemer som plast i havet, oljesøl og andre trusler mot ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The Port of Rotterdam is the core of fossil fuel industries in Europe and, therefore, an essential place and infrastructure to reconfigure if we are to mitigate climate change and achieve a proper energy transition. However, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
I denne avhandlingen utforsker jeg livene til venezuelanske migranter på den karibiske øya Trinidad. Det er estimert at det har kommet mellom 40.000-60.000 venezuelanere til Trinidad & Tobago i løpet av de siste årene. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The language of the Faroe Islands survived as a spoken language for centuries under foreign rule and the imposition of a foreign language. In 1948 they became self-governed, spurred by an inside movement reclaiming Faroese ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The ‘smart city’ concept has developed throughout the last two decades as a contemporary solution to rising global issues and as a continuously advancing blueprint for a better future. A ‘smart city’ is set to deal with ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Examining conspiracy theory authors has not been seen as worthy of ethnographic inquiry in anthropology as of yet. This is intriguing, as encountering conspiracy theorists inspires a process of reassessing the critical ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
In the face of utopian discussions on global citizenship and cosmopolitan identities, this article argues that the concept of offshoring provides insights into rising realities in elite mobility and the formation of expat ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
While authoritarian populism and its relationship to the rural world have gained analytical prominence recently, few have attempted a systematic exploration of how various authoritarian populisms emerge from, and are ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne oppgaven baserer seg på et seks måneders feltarbeid i Lisboa, våren 2019. På bakgrunn av en nasjonal rusrelatert krise, gjennomførte Portugal i overgangen til 2000-tallet, en omfattende rusreform. Dette innebar blant ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Digitalisation and innovation are two terms that have become increasingly more popular in discourse related to the welfare state in Norway. Digital technology has been accredited (and fetishized as) a one-size-fits-all ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
To obtain insight into perceptions of how fish welfare and health is governed in Norwegian aquaculture, this study investigates three conflict cases: salmon lice, pancreas disease and farm siting. Using surveys and in-depth ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article seeks to understand the role of land use planning in India's neoliberal regime of dispossession. Analyzing the relationship between planning and land dispossession in the state of Goa, we view planning processes ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Kjønn, Omsorg og Økonomisk Liv i Post-Sovjet Havanna, Cuba. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Innenfor rammene av en kjønnet hverdag utforsker jeg hvordan sosiale relasjoner og økonomisk liv interagerer. Dette gjør jeg ved å se nærmere på utførelsen av uformell omsorg i hverdagslige situasjoner innen et omsorgsnettverk. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Yoga som spirituell praksis Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This article uses the concepts of orchestration and spectacle to analyse the work of leaders of an anti-dispossession movement in rural West Bengal. It examines what being a movement leader entails and argues for the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Exploring Sicilian secular confessions, this essay discusses anthropological impasses on talk and silence. Such dilemmas reveal ethnographic frailties in engaging with concealment and revealing. The delicacy of negotiating ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this special issue, we ask what meaning should be attributed to a concept of wealth. We think there are good reasons for looking closely at the concept, first of all because we are often led to believe that wealth is ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Set in the urban-rural continuum of Thessaloniki, this paper explores the grounded social activities of certain groups, committed to building a social economy of distributing food without intermediaries. In the light of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AccptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article explores the meanings of imagined, secret and hidden wealth that followers of conspiracy theory account for on different sides of the moral compass, as bad and good. Conspiracy theory, a strand of intellectual ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
In the movement known as Spiritualism, successful performances of “mental mediumship” are rarely smooth. At services held by the Canberra Spiritualist Association, mediums attempt to provide evidence of life after death ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
How are postcolonial identities curated in non-Western art institutions? How do the latter engage with the question of the restitution of colonial looted artefacts during this turning point where Western museums seem ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article proposes a movement between two sorts of dependency in the secretive bonds of violent men. The first forges an interdependent set of relations between mafia men, independent of the state; the second arises as ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This article poses the question of what analytical insight can be gained by comparing ritual and cliché, both of which involve evaluations of the significance of repetition. The case study is kava-drinking sessions in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis is based on a 6 month ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2019 in Riace, a small village located in Calabria, Italy. I explore resistance and refusal amongst pro-migrant activists within the governing ideology ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in West Jerusalem, this thesis explores the lives of Israeli men trying to make meaningful lives in a country both struggling for the status as a Western democracy and at the same ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
By examining railway workers' narratives of poussière (dust) and their practices of repair work in the train depot at Rufisque, Senegal, the article reveals how the workers' understanding of dust encapsulates a toxic ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article looks at boundaries as shared points of conflict and sociality in rural Sicily where the mafia and their opponents (‘antimafia’ cooperatives) have lately been at loggerheads. My focus is on neighbourly relations ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Hva skal til for at selvhjelpsgrupper klarer å utvikle et fellesskap hvor gruppa blir en arena for deltakernes arbeid med å endre seg selv og sine personlige relasjoner? Avhandlingen følger prosesser i selvhjelpsgrupper ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Med et mål om å konvertere så mange mennesker som mulig, er evangelisk kristne/pinsebevegelsen en av verdens raskest voksende religiøse bevegelser etter islam. I år 2002 var det registrert et totalantall på 1.699.725 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne avhandlingen omhandler fritidsbasert hagebruk i post-krise Spania. Den er basert på seks måneders feltarbeid ved to parsellhager utenfor Málaga. Etnografien illustrerer dyrkernes interaksjon med de ikke-menneskelige ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Anxieties around the moral effects of states of ‘dependence’ remain central to political and social debate across the world. At a time when the association between wage‐labour and a particular valorised conception of adult ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This paper concerns affective relations and unexpected interruptions as the planned expansion of an extractive open-pit mining site gathers momentum. The site is a mountain in Varanger, North Norway, criss-crossed by a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Rethinking the study of prayer: Narrative stories from Burundian migrant devotees. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Å være (som) việt kiều: Kategorien việt kiều i en endringsprosess i dagens Sosialistiske Republikk Vietnam Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Sammendrag Som følge av hendelsene etter Vietnamkrigen flyktet over 130.000 sør-vietnamesere fra landet. Det er blitt dokumentert at over 1.6 millioner vietnamesere bosatte seg i ulike land utenfor Vietnam i tidsperioden ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis examines the culture of a couple of Norwegian CrossFit boxes as well as the process of becoming a CrossFitter. The study is based on six months of fieldwork in Eastern Norway. CrossFit is a fitness brand from ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Jeg har gjennomført feltarbeidet blant tolker som jobber i Oslo, og denne oppgaven handler om møtet mellom offentlig sektor og fremmedspråklige i Norge; møter hvor tolker på forskjellige språk benyttes. I oppgaven vil jeg ...
Da ulven kom til byen: Om natursyn og konflikt mellem ulvetilhængere og ulvemodstandere i Østmarka Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
That rituals are ambiguous phenomena has been long established in anthropology. However, while this ambiguity is often assumed to be resolved in one way or another through the course of a ritual and taken as contributing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this introduction, we aim to demystify the concept of wealth, too entangled in financial discourses, which have generally reduced it to ‘accumulated assets’. This is at odds with the intricate cultural history of wealth ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Since the era of national independence in the Pacific Islands, many indigenous leaders have attempted to articulate a ‘Pacific Way’ aimed at developing island states along lines true to a shared past. Drawing on emblematic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
This paper explores the namata ritual, common among Tolai people in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province. The namata is often presented as an event that contributes towards social order, both in the ethnographic ...
Bryllupsritualer: et vindu inn i den kulturelle dynamikken i Kautokeino Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Basert på et to måneders langt feltarbeid i Kautokeino, setter denne masteroppgaven bryllupsfester i bygda i fokus. Etter å ha deltatt aktivt i diverse sosiale aktiviteter, både i dagligdagse situasjoner og på tre forskjellige ...
First Flights: An Ethnographic Study of the Reintroduction of Green-winged Macaws in Argentina Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The current rate of biodiversity loss worldwide has in recent years led scholars to suggest that we have entered a period of mass extinction, referred to as the “sixth extinction” (Kingsford et al., 2009). As concern ...