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 ...

By turning the ethnographical gaze towards an Evangelical community in Beirut, Lebanon, which greets, hosts, and takes care of displaced Syrians, this thesis explores how believers motivate themselves to engage in humanitarian ...

Sammendrag Fuck Politics: Ung, vellykket og middelklasse i Serbia (Torstein Stiegler Seim) begynner med en samtale om politikk og politikere på en lokal trolleybuss i Beograd. Derfra beveger den seg inn i den post(post)- ...

Denne avhandlingen er basert på et fem måneders feltarbeid i Cape Town, Sør-Afrika, våren 2019. Feltarbeidet er utført i et hagesenter i townshipen Khayelitsha, som er en rasemessig avgrenset bydel konstruert av apartheid-regimet ...

Since the end of the Second World War, the Norwegian society has seen an increased focus on- and value creation around labour – not only for the viability of the welfare state but also on behalf of the empowerment of the ...

What does it mean for a city to progress? What does growth entail for those who wish to make the city a healthy, sustainable, and good place to live? This thesis is based on six-month ethnographic fieldwork in Liverpool, ...

As an indigenous farmer living on a small island in the southeast of Chile and lacking basic services and economic security, how does one seek to improve one’s conditions of livelihood? People in the indigenous community ...

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 ...

Norge har verdens største bestand av Atlantisk villaks, men er også verdens største produsent av oppdrettslaks. I 2019 forsvant 289.570 laks fra norske oppdrettsanlegg i det fiskeridirektoratet registrerer som «rømningshendelser». ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The health and welfare of farmed fish are often regarded with less concern than for other production animals. This review compares the Norwegian legal health and welfare frameworks for broiler chickens and farmed salmon, ...

Speed has a financial significance, it is always a reason for investment. But still many innovations were abandoned because high speed doesn’t always mean success. Smartphone rapidly conquers the world. People managed their ...

This article outlines the thematic section’s main anthropological interventions and introduces the inherently ambiguous notion of welfare frontiers, implying allegedly benign practices of resource development. Through ...

An old tractor serves as an ethnographic entry point to shifting articulations of resources in coastal Finnmark, North Norway. Idle since the 1970s, the tractor is a relic of agricultural dreams, turned to rubble as novel ...

Professor Bukheti Swalehe Kilonzo , born 1949: joined Amani in 1968 as a Scientific Assistant. Studied microbiology and parasitology in London; PhD in plague epidemiology from Dar es Salaam in 1984. Left Amani in 1982 as ...

Abstract The ‘Africanization’ of science after decolonization was replete with dreams. Claims to Africa's place in the high-modern world, expectations of national technological and economic progress, and individual dreams ...

Aspirations bring different versions of the future into the present. This introductory essay asks what we can learn by attending to the myriad ways in which rural subjects and collectivities articulate and institutionalise ...

This article examines whether the use of climate change as a ‘spice’ in order to attract donor funding may instead exacerbate existing environmental problems. The World Bank’s latest adaptation project in coastal Bangladesh ...

The epidemic of COVID‐19 appears to be reshaping the world, separating before and after, present and past. Its perceived novelty raises the question of what role the past might play in the present epidemic and in responses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstract This thesis is a study of the conditions of academia under authoritarian rule. My objectives with this work is to elucidate and explain the contradictory relationship between freedom and control in academic spaces, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article deals with a critical perspective on modern schooling based on my own experience as a child and young adult. I illustrate the effects of what I call a pedagogic of detachment and argue for a decolonial option ...

This paper explores some accusations of wrongdoing in Papua New Guinea in the early 2000s. These accusations illustrate an ambiguous encouragement and discouragement of different kinds of perceived dependence as Papua New ...

The healing potential of blue spaces in human lives seems to have a universal timbre, yet little research has examined the great diversity of particular individual encounters with waters. To meet the challenge to capture ...

The expression “mastering the environment” may inspire conflicting associations depending on whether we focus on the temporality of targeted fishers, marine biologists, or policymakers. This study presents an emic perspective ...

Seks forskjellige sjarker, innsiden og utsiden, skipperne og kontekstuell atferd er i fokus. Det argumenteres for at sjarken kan forstås som et hjem. Den er et spesielt hjem, en egenartet arbeidsplass, et særegent bevegelig ...

Marianne Gullestad skriver i Kultur og hverdagsliv (2000) at «hjemmet og intimsfæren er blitt kilde for dypere mening, og er derfor, i en viss sekularisert forstand, blitt gjort til noe hellig» (2000, 5). Det har ...

I denne introduksjonen bygger vi videre på et fagkritisk engasjement knyttet til de nye reglene for forskningsetikk som er blitt innført og nylig forsterket med EUs personvernsregulativ, GDPR. Engasjementet kan spores ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background: There has been an increase in au pairs from the Philippines with TB registered in Norway. The study’s objective is to investigate 1) how this patient group is managing their TB treatment, 2) how the disease ...

Políciamento comunitário (community policing) was launched at the beginning of the 2000s in Mozambique as a project to liberalize, democratize and legitimize the national police. The majority of communities in the country ...

This thesis describes the life and labor of urban migrant women in Sucre, Bolivia. It is based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a local marketplace in Sucre. There, I studied women who worked as independent ...

I denne artikkelen argumenterer jeg for at luft og atmosfære har stort analytisk potensial for studier av den koloniale arven i dagens Sør-Afrika. Med utgangspunkt i bruken av såpe i helbredelsesritualer blant zulusionister ...

The Samoan Christian theologian Ama’amalele Tofaeono draws on Repetition; Christianity; diverse intellectual sources to articulate an ecological theology theology; Samoa; American both distinctively Samoan and self-consciously ...

This thesis is based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork among a group of environmentalists in Kuala Lumpur. I explore how civil society in Malaysia dealt with government restrictions, and focus on their negotiations ...

In his Ethnographic Atlas of Ifugao, Harold C. Conklin describes the agricultural practices that have shaped a landscape of extensive terraced irrigation. While the book may be read as an anthropocentric story of human ...

Artikkelen retter søkelys mot hvordan mennesker med forskjellig alder opplever virkeligheten som omgir dem gjennom narrativene de selv og andre forteller. Det er først og fremst hverdagens narrativer hvor alle er kreative ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Master’s thesis is the result of five and a half month fieldwork among members of the French radical right party, Front National (FN), in Gard in the south of France. It aims to illuminate populist worldviews by ...

I denne avhandlingen har jeg undersøkt hvordan sporten Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) utøves av aktører og entreprenører i La Paz, Bolivia. Med sporten som utgangspunkt fikk jeg tilgang til å se fremførelse av maskuline verdier, ...

Siden Sør-Korea åpnet for transnasjonal adopsjon 50-tallet har om lag 200 000 koreanske barn blitt adoptert ut av landet, og siden 1969 har Sør-Korea formidlet 9104 barn til Norge. I dag er en stor andel av koreanskadopterte ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker norske pars opplevelser av å gjennomgå fosterdiagnostikk i svangerskapet, deres beslutningstakingsprosess der de avgjør om de vil avbryte svangerskapet dersom fosteret får påvist diagnosen Downs ...

This thesis is based on six-month ethnographic fieldwork in Yangon, Myanmar conducted in the spring of 2018. Through three different perspectives, I aim at an understanding of how Facebook gained and withholds its position ...

Over the last decades, there has been a surge of interest in Amerindian plant medicines, , administered by indigenous healers in sporadic groups across the world - especially ayahuasca. Parallel to this interest, energy ...

Denne oppgaven handler om livet for et utvalg papirløse mennesker som bor på en nedlagt sukkerplantasje i Den dominikanske republikk. Deres problemer, strevet for å prøve å ordne lovlig opphold, økonomiske overlevelsesstrategier, ...

De siste årene har arbeidet for å integrere minoritetskvinner i samfunnsliv og arbeidsliv blitt intensivert. Deres deltakelse i samfunnet angis som et viktig «virkemiddel» for integrasjon av innvandrerbefolkningen, samtidig ...

This master’s thesis explores the newsroom culture at Telangana Today in Hyderabad, India and examines how female reporters negotiate the gendered politics within the newsroom and more generally in their daily lives. The ...

This ethnographic thesis is based on six months of fieldwork on the island of Ureparapara in 2017. This island is located in the Pacific Ocean and is part of the Banks group, north in Vanuatu. A minimal amount of ethnographic ...

On the first Saturday of every month at midnight, the Zulu Zionist congregation I worked with would climb a mountaintop in their heavily polluted urban township in Durban, South Africa in search of physical and spiritual ...

The thesis investigates the different sides to a public discourse that connected the emic term madness to young men`s practice of smoking marihuana.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Ph.D. thesis explores how the production of Dubrovnik’s heritage, and its World Heritage, intersects with the reconstruction and consolidation of identities and locality after the Croatian war of independence (1991-1995). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis gives an ethnographic account of the past and present everyday realities of former migrant workers from the village San José Calderas in Guatemala. Most of these migrants had returned to the village after working ...

Sammendrag Med denne oppgaven ønsker jeg å belyse hvordan statlige tiltak for håndtering av ofre for æresrelatert vold fungerer i praksis. Gjennom handlingsplaner fra den norske regjering, som «Retten til å bestemme over ...