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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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)- ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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». ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...