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(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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». ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
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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 ...
(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, ...
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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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(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 ...
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Cooperatives are a main means of organization for economic activity, generally operating on principles of equal membership and members’ democratic control of their means of livelihood. Co-ops have developed as modern ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / 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 ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Anxieties around the moral effects of states of ‘dependence’ remain central to political and social debate across the world. At a time when the association between wage‐labour and a particular valorised conception of adult ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / 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 ...
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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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
In the movement known as Spiritualism, successful performances of “mental mediumship” are rarely smooth. At services held by the Canberra Spiritualist Association, mediums attempt to provide evidence of life after death ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Med et mål om å konvertere så mange mennesker som mulig, er evangelisk kristne/pinsebevegelsen en av verdens raskest voksende religiøse bevegelser etter islam. I år 2002 var det registrert et totalantall på 1.699.725 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Since the era of national independence in the Pacific Islands, many indigenous leaders have attempted to articulate a ‘Pacific Way’ aimed at developing island states along lines true to a shared past. Drawing on emblematic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This article poses the question of what analytical insight can be gained by comparing ritual and cliché, both of which involve evaluations of the significance of repetition. The case study is kava-drinking sessions in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This article uses the concepts of orchestration and spectacle to analyse the work of leaders of an anti-dispossession movement in rural West Bengal. It examines what being a movement leader entails and argues for the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In the past six years I have had the enormous privilege of welcoming 250 undergraduate students to anthropology. Central to the first lecture that I give are three interrelated points about how to become a good anthropologist: ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Labour regimes organize the economy; they also organize lives. With the continued deregulation of the labour market and the simultaneous drive to cut labour costs, there lies a challenge to grasp not only the workings of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this introduction, we aim to demystify the concept of wealth, too entangled in financial discourses, which have generally reduced it to ‘accumulated assets’. This is at odds with the intricate cultural history of wealth ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
How are postcolonial identities curated in non-Western art institutions? How do the latter engage with the question of the restitution of colonial looted artefacts during this turning point where Western museums seem ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Exploring Sicilian secular confessions, this essay discusses anthropological impasses on talk and silence. Such dilemmas reveal ethnographic frailties in engaging with concealment and revealing. The delicacy of negotiating ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this special issue, we ask what meaning should be attributed to a concept of wealth. We think there are good reasons for looking closely at the concept, first of all because we are often led to believe that wealth is ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AccptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article explores the meanings of imagined, secret and hidden wealth that followers of conspiracy theory account for on different sides of the moral compass, as bad and good. Conspiracy theory, a strand of intellectual ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
For the Ifugao of Northern Luzon, the Philippines, life, health and well-being depend on the containment of the life force called lennawa within the body. The life sustaining lennawa-body relation is, however, inherently ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This chapter explores an ongoing process of establishing local and indigenous user rights in Finnmark, Northern Norway. Our concern is the extent to which this ongoing process allows for what we tentatively refer to as ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Sorcery and Christianity have been in an intimate and seemingly opposing relationship on the small Ahamb Island in Vanuatu for more than a century. While sorcery is seen as the most potent threat to the good life as it ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Dagens forskningsbibliotek lever ikke opp til stereotypien av støvete, stille rom med hysjende bibliotekarer. Snarere er bibliotekene ofte i forkant av den teknologiske utviklingen. Tenkningen om deres samfunnsoppdrag ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Since the late 1960s a major port in Australia and an important coal port, Gladstone in central Queensland expanded its capacity from 2010 to 2013 through the dredging of its western harbour. This would make it easier ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This paper seeks to elaborate the dynamics through which food acquires potency in shaping human life and organisation as it takes shape in enacting ritual transformation. I argue that whereas life and various existential ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
I Malawi har nasjonsbygging historisk vært tett knyttet til politikk om moderskap og helse. Basert på feltarbeid i en landsby i det sørøstafrikanske landet, utforsker denne artikkelen hvordan beboeres praksiser og diskurser ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
A number of anthropology’s most emblematic innovations have caught on elsewhere. Yet anthropologists seem almost distressed by the success of concepts like “culture” and “ethnicity” and too readily dispose of them in the ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by ‘fake news’, ‘alternative facts’, conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as ‘the real truth which has hitherto been concealed ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This material has been published in Human Nature and Social Life: Perspectives on Extended Sociality, edited by Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme & Kenneth Sillander. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Set in the urban-rural continuum of Thessaloniki, this paper explores the grounded social activities of certain groups, committed to building a social economy of distributing food without intermediaries. In the light of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Over en million asylsøkere ankom Europa i 2015, mer enn det dobbelte fra det foregående år.1 En av de mange og sammensatte årsakene til økningen er de langvarige konfliktene i Midtøsten, Nord-Afrika og Sentral-Asia.2 ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
At a time when the channels for academic publication seem to multiply at a staggering rate and the writer-to-readership ratio approaches 1, our fellows’ gaze becomes an ever scarcer commodity. Attentionseeking behaviour ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
This article discusses the theoretical potential of air, winds, and atmosphere as they place ux, transience, and motion at the center of the human predicament. Based on ethnographic eldwork conducted among urban Zulu ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Food and desire are intimately entangled whereby food becomes a core tool to manage desire in fashioning oneself as a morally virtuous person. This paper looks at the ways in which Buddhist texts conceptualize human ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The boom in extractivist industries since the 1990s has resulted in a concomitant increase in socio-environmental conflicts in Peru. In the southern region of Arequipa, the Majes Irrigation Project has transformed 15,000 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Examination of the distribution of climate vulnerability, water resources, and economic opportunities in a Peruvian watershed suggests that, rather than the concept of adaptation, a focus on political agency is important ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Creatively operationalizing Claude Lévi-Strauss’ predicament that food is good to think with, I initiate a methodological conceptualization of food by exploring the ways in which it is apt to study Sri Lankan domestic and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
This article is an historical investigation of the term non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and its acronym NSAIDs. Drug names and categories tend to be taken at face value in everyday practice, as natural categories ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
In this article my primary aim is to argue for an ontological and phenomenological approach to studying healing rituals within the African Independent Churches in South Africa. Through ethnographic evidence I will argue ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Based on extensive empirical ethnographic fieldwork in northern Norway, the article examines social or cultural resilience and life quality in an island, fishing-based community. It is argued that resilience and life quality ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
Why do certain landscapes become contested sites for claims about identity? We approach landscapes as assemblages of human and non-human elements that reach beyond the confines of their immediate physical and temporal ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2009)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2007)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2007)
How do certain forms of knowledge become globally mobile? Focusing on Tasmanian salmon farming, this article addresses the negotiation of locally situated knowledge against the persuasive power of universalising expertise. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2007)
It is sometimes said that if you are on the team that wins the Irish championship in Gaelic football, you will never have to pay for a pint in your village pub again. However, if you are an outstanding soccer player, you ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2004)
Chapter 10 of Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Nerlich, Brigitte (eds.). The Politics of Food. Berg Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-85973-853-2. http://www.bergpublishers.com/?tabid=1487
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2004)
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This chapter appears in a larger collection published by Berghahn Books (http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KingMigration). SAMPLE CITATION: Anderson, Astrid. 2003. “Landscapes of Sociality: Paths, Places and Belonging on ...