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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Abstract In 2011, the Cuban government authorized banks to start offering loan credit to the country's growing number of small businesses for the first time since the beginning of the revolution. Yet in the following years, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The last decades have seen the rise of a new kind of industry. Companies like Foodora and Wolt utilize the internet, organizational techniques, and technological advances in new ways, creating new forms of work. Delivery ...
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)
(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, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
España Vaciada [the ‘Emptied Spain’] has become an everyday reference to the vast areas of rural interior Spain that have experienced immense depopulation since the 1960’s. Houses, fields and social relations have been ...
Build Bridges, Trust the System: Volunteer Work and Trust in The Norwegian Trekking Association Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis is about central values connected to The Norwegian Trekking Association (DNT). Values connected to volunteer work, and values connected to their self-service cabins. I have conducted fieldwork as a volunteer ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Japan is a “super-aged” society with 28% of the population over the age of 65 years old. Once the second largest economy in the world and now the third, Japan has been a neoliberal model of economic development. Yet, despite ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I noen av Oslos urbane hager utøves langsomme praksiser i respons til vår moderne samtids tids tyranni og vår tids store omveltninger. I Oslo er det et uttalt mål for Oslo kommune og bymiljøetaten å gjøre byen mer bærekraftig ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
“There’s so much more to being an artist than just making art,” voiced a professor. Being an artist, instead, is a way of life, and becoming an artist is deeply connected to learning this way of life. At arts schools around ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The remains of Amani, a century-old scientific laboratory in Tanzania, are quintessential modern relics. When anthropologists turn to such infrastructures of, originally colonial, knowledge-making, their own implication ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Røde Kors København er et eksempel på hvordan den danske hyggen blir brukt til å re-integrere rusmiddelavhengige i samfunnet. Dette arbeidet er viktig fordi det er en gruppe som er ekstra utsatt for å være ensomme, ettersom ...
Moving Meals, Moving Bodies: Navigating the Gap between the Digital and the Material in Food Delivery Platform Work Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Food delivery couriers in colorful attire have become a highly visible part of urban life worldwide. They work for platform companies that provide urban dwellers with an app to order meals. An algorithm assigns couriers ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Anthropological studies done on the subject of virtual worlds have covered immersive virtual spaces which tend to simulate traditional social networks. These spaces offer alternative ways of identity building and ...
Norwegian-Pakistani identity Balancing between two cultures as a second-generation minority Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Gathering the African Technosphere: An Ethnography of Informal Electronic Waste Recycling in Tanzania Restricted Access
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
This thesis is about the value that is extracted and exploited from discarded materials, salvaged from the ruins of capitalism, modernity, and empire. That little value, the value that remains in the debris of consumer ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores two facets of the situation in Malta regarding sex work: The contemporary public discourse and the landscape of existing services and their accessibility. Drawing upon ethnographic methods and theoretical ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores how citizen participation is shaped by inhabitants' values, motivations, and ideas. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Oslo, the study investigates how residents along Brynsbakken employ language to ...
(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)
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In this article we explore the inheritance of hytte , or secondary homes, in Norway. Inspired by the notion of ‘kinning’, we extend the notion of kinning to include various materialities and temporalities. In ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article examines processes of ‘more-than-economic dispossession’ arising from pollution in the interconnected forests, tides, canals, rivers and humid airs – the fluid commons – of the shipbreaking region Sitakunda. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article explores how ship recycling—an essential part of the shipping economy—results in breaking up toxic vessels that leak hazardous materials into coastal communities and wetlands ecologies of South Asia. Drawing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
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‘Kinning and De-kinning’ introduces a special issue that considers how houses, heirlooms and other owned items reproduce kinship and family in diverse societies. It revisits death and inheritance in kinship ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
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In the atoll society of Tokelau, intergenerational succession has occurred since approximately 1925 without a concomitant exchange of enduring material objects, with the exception of land. The article explores ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This special issue on ‘“Fluid Dispossessions’: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures” examines the multiple and mutable relationships between water, dispossession and property. We use ‘fluid dispossessions’ as an analytical ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The fluid qualities of water include its propensity to yield, to dissolve, and to accommodate intrusive structures and projects. The possibilities for aquacultural expansion appear limitless, yet the presence of aquaculture ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The term polycrisis , coined by Edgar Morin at the turn of the millennium (Morin and Kern 1999), has been picked up by a handful of commentators recently, and it was also recently the topic of a special issue of Anthropology ...
(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)
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 article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Rather than theorizing trust and mistrust in the abstract, recent anthropological scholarship has shown how trust and mistrust emerge in particular social settings. In this article, I build on this scholarship by drawing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Crisis interrupts routine in unwelcome ways with an uncertain outcome. The Greek word krisis ( κρíσις ), which is etymologically close to criterion and criticism, was occasionally used in relation to social ailments. ...
(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)
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Beginning with a dream encounter with the tubuan , an ancestral spirit in Papua New Guinea, this article questions conventional anthropological framings that posit a sharp distinction between Western humanist ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The ongoing refinement of internet technology is compelling anthropologists to reconceptualize data acquisition within the digital realm. Conducting ethnography on sensitive topics that involve imagery necessitates the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Taking The Trash Out Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
A Future Horizon for Restitution in a Film on the Argentinian Puna: Ruben Guzman’s the Noise of Time
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article offers a detailed discussion of the film The Noise of Time by Rubén Guzmán (Argentina, 2021). The essay film is a poetic reflection on the morally questionable excavations and anthropological research by the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The ideology and politics of Hindu nationalism has always been predicated on an antagonistic discursive construction of ‘dangerous others,’ notably Muslims but also Christians. This construct has served to define India as ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne masteroppgaven utforsker prekære livssituasjoner, utenforskap og sårbarhet i en kontekst av en ideell organisasjon i Drammen. Spørsmålet oppgaven vil forsøke å besvare er «Hvordan utspiller ulike former for utenforskap ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I denne masteroppgaven vil jeg utforske hvordan det oppleves å være en dobbel eller trippel minoritet som samisk, skeiv og/eller trans fra et interseksjonelt perspektiv i Norge [Oslo og Tromsø]. Jeg skriver om erfaringer ...
(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 ...
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 ...
What We Build Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores the lives of a small number of Norwegian Flat Earthers and their conspiracist system of beliefs. The theory in question contends that, contrary to the scientific consensus of old, and to widespread ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis is based on six-month ethnographic fieldwork in a rural community in Norway, in 2021. In this thesis, I explore the consequences of the wind power development in Norway as perceived by the local population of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Abstract Based upon six months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted on the island of Emae, Vanuatu, this thesis explores what people see as a meaningful way of life in a country often depicted as small, remote, and ...
(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, 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, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
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 ...
(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)
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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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)
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)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
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)
(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 ...
(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 ...
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)
(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, ...
(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)
An unsung alumnus of the Manchester School, Axel Sommerfelt (b. 1926) published little during his career, but has nevertheless had a major impact on contemporary Norwegian anthropology. Following six years as a lecturer ...
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The paper is based on 15 months of anthropological fieldwork on some small islands, fringing the North Atlantic Ocean, in Norland County, Norway. The concepts of identity and life quality are central to this exposition as ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The societies studied in early social and cultural anthropology were by default considered what we would now call sustainable, in that they were assumed to be capable of reproducing themselves indefinitely, changing only ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Movement is a defining feature of life, for humans, for other living beings, for the inanimate, and the Suez Canal is a place that resonates with a promise of mobilities. The discussions of this roundtable were inspired ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This article is part of a Book Forum review of Sanjib Baruah’s book In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast. The Book Forum consists of individual commentaries on this text by five interested scholars, followed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This paper was written in Norwegian in 1967 for the symposium, organized by Fredrik Barth, that led to the publication of Ethnic Groups and Boundaries in 1969. My paper was never submitted for publication, however, and the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
On June 24, 2015, a huge swarm of jellyfish clogged the cooling system of an Israeli coal-fueled power plants located on the Mediterranean shoreline, almost forcing a shutdown. Images from the event displayed tons of pale ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
What do the protests against the farm laws of the Modi regime tell us about the trajectory of neoliberalisation in India? In this article, we address this question through a comparative analysis of the farm law protests ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
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The Ganges-Brahmaputra (GB) delta is one of the most disaster-prone areas in the world due to a combination of high population density and exposure to tropical cyclones, floods, salinity intrusion and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The final panel considered whether it was productive to approach migration from the perspective of a global middle class, a concept first advanced by economists in the early 2000s (Milanovic & Yitzhaki, 2002). While they ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Let us take a minute; look at our society. We will find a group of people who share different nationalities. We define them as immigrants. This is an ethnographic study of Bangladeshi women immigrants in Oslo, Norway. It ...
Kinship and Gender in a Norwegian kindergarten: An empirical study on kinship and gender among children Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Palabek Refugee Settlement in Northern Uganda hosts more than 40,000 refugees from South Sudan. They receive plots of land upon which they must build their own houses, as well as a few relief items and minimal food rations. ...