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Spatial trends of chlorinated paraffins and dechloranes in air and soil in a tropical urban, suburban, and rural environment 
Nipen, Maja; Vogt, Rolf David; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Borgå, Katrine; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, anders Røsrud; Jørgensen, Susanne Jøntvedt; Ntapanta, Samwel Moses; Mmochi, Aviti John; Schlabach, Martin; Breivik, Knut (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
There are large knowledge gaps concerning environmental levels and fate of many organic pollutants, particularly for chemicals of emerging concern in tropical regions of the Global South. In this study, we investigated the ...
Make Argentina Liberal Again. An analysis on value, elites and political practices. 
Coto Giménez, Joaquín Alberto (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Interruptions: Affective futures and uncanny presences at Giemaš, Finnmark 
Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (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 ...
The Battle of the Truth. The Role of Israel Defence Forces in Polarised Discourses Today. 
Skålevik, Mona Lock (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Gender Segregation in the Norwegian Labour Market - A Qualitative Study About Women in the Construction Industry 
Kjellgren, Anna Magdalena (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
ABSTRACT The Norwegian Labour market is both vertically and horizontally segregated in terms of gender. Men are over-represented in the private sector while women dominate the public sector, and there are differences in ...
VI VIL LEVE- En etnografisk studie av hva som motiverer klimaaktivister i Extinction Rebellion 
Bråttvik, Nora Kristin Moe (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg hva som motiverer aktivistene i Extinction Rebellion (XR). Aktivistene bruker ikke-voldelig sivil ulydighet for å få myndighetene til å ta klima- og naturkrisen på alvor, og begrunner ...
Fish protection during fish production. Organizational conditions for fish welfare 
Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Stien, Lars Helge; Medaas, Christian; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Tørud, Brit; Kristiansen, Tore S; Gismervik, Kristine (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Too many salmon die during production at Norwegian fish farms. Earlier research shows that most farmed salmon die in operations partly related to protection of the wild salmon (from salmon lice), but it is not known how ...
Minding the Gaps in Fish Welfare: The Untapped Potential of Fish Farm Workers 
Medaas, Christian; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Gismervik, Kristine; Kristiansen, Tore S.; Osmundsen, Tonje; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Tørud, Brit; Stien, Lars Helge (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract The welfare of farmed fish is often regarded with less concern than the welfare of other husbandry animals, as fish are not universally classified as sentient beings. In Norway, farmed fish and other husbandry ...
The Greek Crisis Ends here Tonight”: An Ethnographic Examination of Labor Market Deregulation in Greece beyond the State of Exception. In press 
Poulimenakos, Giorgos; Dalakoglou, Dimitris; Pavlopoulos, Dimitris; Alexandridis, Antonis; Della Puppa, Anna Giulia (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract The concept of crisis has frequently been used to characterize seismic historical events of the 21st century, and many scholars have interpreted it according to Agamben’s elaboration of the state of exception. ...
Containing Mobilities: Shifting Time and Space of Maritime Labor 
Markkula, Johanna (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 ...
Lifescaping’ toxicants: Locating and living with e-waste in Tanzania 
Ntapanta, Samwel Moses (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Based on fieldwork in an informal scrap recycling workshop, this article explores how unregulated electronic waste (e-waste) handling activities in Dar es Salaam expose workers to toxic substances as part of their livelihoods. ...
Imagined individuality: Cultivating separated personhood in Cuba and beyond 
Wig, Ståle (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
If no man is an island, if we are inherently social creatures, how should we understand people’s claims to be valuable individuals, separate from their environment? Based on ethnographic research among self-employed Cuban ...
"Because of the missionaries": The ambiguous presence of past missionaries in the Marshall Islands 
Berta, Ola Gunhildrud (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This article analyzes the contemporary presence of pioneering missionaries to the Marshall Islands by looking at how conventional conversion narratives construe them as agents of radical transformation. Ridden with ambiguity, ...
Korona-kroppen: Hvordan viruset kan få oss til å tenke annerledes om oss selv 
Nyquist, Jon Rasmus (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Hverdagslige opplevelser i løpet av koronatiden kan bidra til å endre hvordan vi selv tenker om vår egen kropp. Gjennom rutiner som håndvask og spriting, avstand og munnbindbruk blir vi minnet på bestemte ting ved relasjonen ...
India's new coal geography: Coastal transformations, imported fuel and state-business collaboration in the transition to more fossil fuel energy 
Oskarsson, Patrik; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala; Roy, Brototi (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The advance of renewable energy around the world has kindled hopes that coal-based energy is on the way out. Recent data, however, make it clear that growing coal consumption in India coupled with its continued use in China ...
Standing still at full speed: Sports in an overheated world 
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
In evolutionary biology, the “Red Queen Effect” refers to a form of inter- or intra-species competition where continuous improvement is necessary in order to survive and thrive, since the other species/individuals evolve. ...
The pandemic as a rupture that follows rules: Comparing governance responses in India, USA, Sweden and Norway 
Sareen, Siddharth; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Oskarsson, Patrik; Remme, Devyn Helen Avhild (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
How a country responds to a rupture such as the COVID-19 pandemic can be revelatory of its governance. Governance entails not only the exercise but also the constitution of authority. The pandemic response thus presents a ...
Political ecology and the Foucault effect: A need to diversify disciplinary approaches to ecological management? 
Nustad, Knut Gunnar; Swanson, Heather Anne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
While explicitly Foucauldian analyses have declined in recent years in the social sciences, Foucault’s ideas continue to strongly influence scholars’ approaches to power, governance and the state. In this article, we explore ...
Building ships while breaking apart. Container Economies and the Limits of Chaebol Capitalism 
Schober, Elisabeth (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
With the center of gravity of the maritime industry over recent decades progressively moving eastwards, South Korea is today a giant in both shipping and shipbuilding. Its largely family-controlled industrial enterprises ...
Battlegrounds of dependence. Reconfiguring labor, kinship and relational obligation 
Martin, Keir James Cecil; Wig, Ståle; Yanagisako, Sylvia (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Interdependence is a fundamental characteristic of human existence. The way in which certain dependencies are acknowledged as opposed to those that are hidden, or the ways in which some are validated while others are ...
Introduction: Inside Container Economies 
Markkula, Johanna; Leivestad, Hege (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2021)
This introduction proposes an anthropology of global cargo circulation by placing the maritime shipping industry at the center of global capitalism. With “container economies” we refer to the maritime global circulation ...
What is love? The complex relation between values and practice in Vanuatu 
Bratrud, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The past decade has seen a renewed anthropological interest in values, morality, and ethics. This article engages with this field by demonstrating how values can be strategies as well as ideals, prone to destabilize social ...
Love Jihad and the Governance of Gender and Intimacy in Hindu Nationalist Statecraft 
Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
What role does the Islamophobic theory of “love jihad” play in the politics of Hindu nationalist statecraft—the legal codification of Hindu nationalist ideology—in India today? In this article, we address this question ...
Maize as a nightmare: Food safety and toxicity in rural Kenya 
Biehl, Konstantin (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This article discusses how Kenyan farmers engage with potentially toxigenic mould growing on the maize they produce, buy, process, consume and feed their animals. Aflatoxins, a group of mycotoxins produced by strains of ...
The Loss of Diversity in the Anthropocene Biological and Cultural Dimensions 
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Theories of nationalism emphasise its standardising effects. Ernest Gellner compared the pre-nationalist world to a painting by Kokoschka (a colour extravaganza) and the world of nationalism as one by Modigliani (calm, ...
‘Cutting the Colonial Cord’? Tensions of Value and the Relationship between Tokelau and New Zealand 
Hoem, Ingjerd (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 ...
Introduction: Dependence in Oceania 
Martin, Keir James Cecil (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 ...
Asserting Land, Estranging Kin: On Competing Relations of Dependence in Vanuatu 
Bratrud, Tom (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 ...
Wars of Dependence: Contested Histories Among Tolai People of Papua New Guinea 
Martin, Keir James Cecil (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 ...
Dams and Flows: Boundary Formation and Dislocation in the Financialised Firm 
Leaver, Adam; Martin, Keir James Cecil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract 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 ...
Heritage Interpretation in Paphos in the Post-conflict Era Restricted Access
Fu, Shiyi (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Slægtskab og ufrivillig barnløshed i Nuuk Restricted Access
Lange-Nielsen, Mette (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 ...
It feels good to be useful: A Study of the Experiences of Volunteers in Calais, France 
Lavrentjeva, Margarita (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Min kropp, mitt eller abortnemndas «valg»?: En antropologisk studie av kvinners opplevelser av abortnemnda 
Solli, Tilla (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 ...
Resisting Erasure. Gentrification in Woodstock. 
Andersen, Anton Pettersen (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 ...
Hytta, bygda og byen: Forhandling om tilhørighet i krisetid 
Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Bratrud, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
I denne artikkelen bruker vi «koronaåret» 2020 og hytteforbudet som empirisk inntak for å forstå mer generelle trekk ved norske forståelser av sted, tilhørighet og sosiale skillelinjer. Vi tar utgangspunkt i den økende ...
The Politics of Place in Urban Landscapes: Boundaries, Exclusion and Belonging Three Case Studies from São Paulo, Boston and Oslo 
Prescott, Jenny Glenton (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Space is a physical location, but also a material manifestation of our social world, continuously shaped by and producing human practice. As globalisation processes have enabled more people to seek opportunities in cities, ...
Automated Care - A Study of Companionship Between Human and Machine 
Ulset, Marie Opdal (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
By talking with people who work in eldercare as well as those involved in work on robotics, I look at how robotic seals are exceeding the traditional uses of automation. During a time of global population aging, technology ...
COVID-19 preventative measures: A case study among immigrants in Hangzhou, China 
Johansen, Stine Lien (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 ...
Relasjoner mellom hytteeiere og fastboende. Om slektskap, hytter og hytteforbudet på Voss 
Fagerland, Oda (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Tema for denne masteroppgaven er relasjoner mellom hytteeiere og fastboende slik de kommer til syne gjennom slektskap, hytter og hytteforbudet i Voss kommune på Vestlandet. «Forskrift om karantene, isolasjon og forbud mot ...
Pandemic Life in South Korea: Tracing, Stigma, and Masks 
Nøst, Ingvill (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Reclaiming Death - How eco-friendly and alternative deathcare movements are challenging the United States funeral industry 
Walsh, Kaja Emilie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Recoloring Black Italians: An Integrated Analysis of Immigration Discourses in Macerata Province, Italy 
Conesta, Simone (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Norsklæring under Covid19 Nyankomne innvandreres opplevelse av norsklæring og sosial nedstengning under Covid 19. 
Kyrdalen, Marie Fiskvatn (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, ...
"Å treffe spikeren på hodet." En antropologisk studie av inkludering av jenter på byggfag i Oslo under COVID-19 
Foss, Natasja Frengis Safarali Lo (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 ...
Governing the welfare of Norwegian farmed salmon: three conflict cases 
Stien, Lars Helge; Tørud, Brit; Gismervik, Kristine; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Medaas, Christian; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Kristiansen, Tore S; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal (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 ...
Using the body: An ethnographic study of sexual capital in Havana, Cuba 
Fragell, Anne Danielsen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
"Takk for tilliten": Gjensidighet, transformasjon og rituell grammatikk i selvorganiserte selvhjelpsgrupper 
Gotaas, Nora (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 ...
“We remain humane” On resisting the politics of migration in South Italy 
Vassvik, Frida (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 ...
The shared boundary: Sicilian mafia and antimafia land 
Rakopoulos, Theodoros (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 ...
The dynamics of toxic dust 
Kopf, Charline (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 ...
Nationalist Narratives: The double-bind of unemployed Israeli men 
Schrøder, Benjamin Gideon (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 ...
Two kinds of mafia dependency: on making and unmaking mafia men 
Rakopoulos, Theodoros (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 ...
The Return of the Horkatoi (and of a Sociology of Class) 
Rakopoulos, Theodoros (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Cooperatives 
Rakopoulos, Theodoros (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 ...
Åkrer som samtalepartnere: En etnografisk studie av hagebruk ved to parsellhager i Sør-Spania 
Gjerstad, Anna Vilda Hindal (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 ...
States of dependence: Introduction 
Martin, Keir James Cecil; Yanagisako, Sylvia (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 ...
Rethinking the study of prayer: Narrative stories from Burundian migrant devotees. Restricted Access
Irankunda, Linda (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Choreographing the Postcolonial Field: Hip-hop and Identity Politics in the Cape Flats Restricted Access
Hanssen, Helene Johanne (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Stretching Bonds and Strengthening Ethics in Avoiding Giving 
Martin, Keir James Cecil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Compounding aspirations: grounding hegemonic processes in India's rural transformations 
Jakobsen, Jostein; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (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 ...
Forskningsetikk og forskningens frihet: Utfordringer for antropologifaget 
Vike, Halvard; Furst, Elisabeth L'orange (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Velkommen hjem: En norsk pinsekirkes bruk av hjem og hjemlighet - Welcome home: A norwegian pentecostal church's use of home and homeliness 
Høgblad, Tone (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Sensing Seascapes: How Affective Atmospheres Guide City Youths’ Encounters With the Ocean’s Multivocality 
Beyer Broch, Tuva (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Mastering the environment: frontier behaviour at an ocean Klondike during Greenland halibut fishery 
Broch, Harald Beyer (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
The Pedagogy of Detachment and Decolonial Options: Reflections from a ‘minoritized’ Point of View 
Salinas, Cecilia G. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Sjarken, et rom i hjemmet - A Norwegian coastal fishing vessel as a room in the home 
Broch, Harald Beyer (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Do you Want us to Feed you like a Baby? Ascriptions of Dependence in East New Britain 
Martin, Keir James Cecil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Land use planning, dispossession and contestation in Goa, India 
Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Bedi, Heather P.; Da Silva, Solano Jose Savio (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 ...
Ruspolitiske Ringvirkninger: En Etnografisk Studie av Portugals Ruspolitikk 
Hagerup, Kjell Håvard (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 ...
The Idea of “Labour”: An Anthropological Study of Women’s Told Qualification for Membership in the Norwegian Society. Restricted Access
Kaasa, Kaja Sundbeck-Arnäs (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Fuck Politics: Ung, vellykket og middelklasse i Serbia 
Seim, Torstein Stiegler (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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)- ...
Hospitality in the Name of God 
Østrem, Håvard (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Kunstneren, jorden og hagesenteret -En etnografisk studie av bærekraftighet i en marginalisert kontekst 
Staaland, Marie Berge (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Liverpool’s Meanwhile Spaces: Re-imagining growth, and the value of values 
Larsen, Charlotte Ulvang (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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, ...
Welfare Frontier: Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene 
Hastrup, Frida; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Remembering Africanization: two conversations among elderly science workers about the perpetually promissory 
Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Kelly, Ann H.; Gerrets, René; Mangesho, Peter E.; Okwaro, Ferdinand Moyi; Poleykett, Branwyn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Remembering Africanization: excerpt of reunion transcripts 
Geissler, Paul Wenzel (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Synchronisation and de-synchronisation in the era of the smartphone 
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Dreams of Prosperity - Enactments of Growth; The Rise and Fall of Farming in Varanger 
Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Climate Change as a Spice: Brokering Environmental Knowledge in Bangladesh's Development Industry 
Dewan, Camelia (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Hjemløse laks og laksens hjem: Domestisering, fangenskap og tilhørighet langs norskekysten 
Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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». ...
Layers of epidemy: Present pasts during the first weeks of COVID‐19 in western Kenya 
Prince, Ruth Jane; Geissler, Paul Wenzel (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Agrarian crossroads: rural aspirations and capitalist transformation 
Bennike, Rune Bolding; Rasmussen, Mattias Borg; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Comparison of Norwegian health and welfare regulatory frameworks in salmon and chicken production 
Gismervik, Kristine; Tørud, Brit; Kristiansen, Tore S; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Medaas, Christian; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Stien, Lars Helge (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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, ...
Beyond realism: Africa’s medical dreams. Introduction to Special Issue 
Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Tousignant, Noémi (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Bureaucracy Meets Innovation: Contradictions at the Municipality of Trondheim 
Courtade, Magali (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 ...
Academia under autarchy. Navigating freedom and control in Cameroonian political science Restricted Access
Johansen, Anna Kristine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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, ...
Toxic worldings: Introduction to toxic flows. 
Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In the course of recent world history, humans have permanently changed the chemical composition of the planet, as human-made chemical substances become part of the air, water and soil, pervading human and non-human bodies ...
"Å bli den du virkelig er" - Kroppssnakk og kroppshistorier i Rosenmetoden Restricted Access
Otneim, Torstein (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Marin forsøpling – en materie som ikke hører til? Et etnografisk studie av havplasten i Nordland Restricted Access
Rueslåtten, Mari (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Unsettled lives, displaced selves: An ethnographic study of refugees’ subjective experiences and identity reformulation in a refugee camp in Greece 
Perez Acosta, Connie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Facebook in Yangon, Myanmar: An Ethnographic Study 
Bakke, Marte Rieber (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Andinske hybrider: Kampsport, fellesskap og mannlighet i La Paz, Bolivia 
Mørk, Daniel (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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, ...
"En fot på hver side": Identitet og Tilhørighet blant Koreanskadopterte i Norge Restricted Access
Johnsen, Emma Kristine Laier (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Voices from the Front: An ethnographic study of the French radical right in Gard département Restricted Access
Andersen, Fredrik Bakke (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Svangerskapets usikkerheter: Opplevelser av fosterdiagnostikk og selektiv abort Restricted Access
Bauer, Elise Engdahl (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Vern og bevar meg vel Restricted Access
Veivåg, Marlene (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Working with the Root: The Facilitation of Healing and Activism In the Peruvian Amazon 
Ringstad, Nicholas (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Donor Conception and Unknown Kin: Reconsidering Identity and Family Through Anonymous and Deanonymized Relations 
Mogseth, Martin Eggen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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