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Academia under autarchy. Navigating freedom and control in Cameroonian political science Restricted Access
(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, ...
(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 ...
The Idea of “Labour”: An Anthropological Study of Women’s Told Qualification for Membership in the Norwegian Society. Restricted Access
(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 ...
(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)- ...
(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 ...
(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, ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
Åkrer som samtalepartnere: En etnografisk studie av hagebruk ved to parsellhager i Sør-Spania Restricted Access
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Rethinking the study of prayer: Narrative stories from Burundian migrant devotees. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis is based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork among a group of environmentalists in Kuala Lumpur. I explore how civil society in Malaysia dealt with government restrictions, and focus on their negotiations ...
(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, ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
Voices from the Front: An ethnographic study of the French radical right in Gard département Restricted Access
(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 ...
Inequality, Fear and Security: An Ethnographic Study of Community Policing in Maputo, Mozambique Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Políciamento comunitário (community policing) was launched at the beginning of the 2000s in Mozambique as a project to liberalize, democratize and legitimize the national police. The majority of communities in the country ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Background: There has been an increase in au pairs from the Philippines with TB registered in Norway. The study’s objective is to investigate 1) how this patient group is managing their TB treatment, 2) how the disease ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis describes the life and labor of urban migrant women in Sucre, Bolivia. It is based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a local marketplace in Sucre. There, I studied women who worked as independent ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
De siste årene har arbeidet for å integrere minoritetskvinner i samfunnsliv og arbeidsliv blitt intensivert. Deres deltakelse i samfunnet angis som et viktig «virkemiddel» for integrasjon av innvandrerbefolkningen, samtidig ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Denne oppgaven handler om livet for et utvalg papirløse mennesker som bor på en nedlagt sukkerplantasje i Den dominikanske republikk. Deres problemer, strevet for å prøve å ordne lovlig opphold, økonomiske overlevelsesstrategier, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This master’s thesis explores the newsroom culture at Telangana Today in Hyderabad, India and examines how female reporters negotiate the gendered politics within the newsroom and more generally in their daily lives. The ...
(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 ...
Vern og bevar meg vel Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Marin forsøpling – en materie som ikke hører til? Et etnografisk studie av havplasten i Nordland Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Yoga som spirituell praksis Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Kjønn, Omsorg og Økonomisk Liv i Post-Sovjet Havanna, Cuba. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Innenfor rammene av en kjønnet hverdag utforsker jeg hvordan sosiale relasjoner og økonomisk liv interagerer. Dette gjør jeg ved å se nærmere på utførelsen av uformell omsorg i hverdagslige situasjoner innen et omsorgsnettverk. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This ethnographic thesis is based on six months of fieldwork on the island of Ureparapara in 2017. This island is located in the Pacific Ocean and is part of the Banks group, north in Vanuatu. A minimal amount of ethnographic ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis is based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork among young middle class women in Nairobi, and focuses on their negotiations concerning the concept of feminism and feminist identities. It discusses what life ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The use of psychedelic substances has become an emerging trend during the last decade. Perhaps this is due to the substances effects, inducing processes of autognosis (meaning selfknowledge by the process of self-analysis). ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Verneplikten har lenge fungert som Forsvarets viktigste rekrutteringsgrunnlag, et prinsipp som er nedfelt allerede i Grunnloven. Siden slutten av den kalde krigen har imidlertid endringer i doktriner og operasjonelle ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
I have always said that Spain is the land that smells of sun-scorched earth, strong cigarettes and cheap perfume, and that you can notice the fragrance immediately once you exit the aeroplane. It is the ultimate sign and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Abstract The world leading survey company Gallup ranked Paraguay the world's happiest country in 2015 (Clifton, 2014). Through my fieldwork during the first six months of 2017, I wished to review and investigate this ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne avhandlingen baserer seg på et seks måneder langt feltarbeid på henholdsvis Norsk Taiji Senter og Oslo Buddhistsenter. Teksten tar for seg på hvilken måte kampkunsten taijiquan, meditasjon og buddhistisk filosofi ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Start-up networks are flourishing around the world, and today the third largest amounts of start-ups are based in India. During my fieldwork in Delhi, I looked further into the start-up network and found a lot of start-ups ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne masteroppgaven gir et bilde av zerowasteres hverdag, av hvordan det er å leve uten søppel når det finnes potensielt avfall overalt. Det oppstår flere dilemmaer og utfordringer i forbindelse med forbruk når man ønsker ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Drawing on six months of fieldwork in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this master’s thesis provides a portrait of Rio de Janeiro by following activities related to mosquitoes. Mosquito-borne diseases pose grave health ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Jeg har gjennomført feltarbeidet blant tolker som jobber i Oslo, og denne oppgaven handler om møtet mellom offentlig sektor og fremmedspråklige i Norge; møter hvor tolker på forskjellige språk benyttes. I oppgaven vil jeg ...
Da ulven kom til byen: Om natursyn og konflikt mellem ulvetilhængere og ulvemodstandere i Østmarka Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Å være (som) việt kiều: Kategorien việt kiều i en endringsprosess i dagens Sosialistiske Republikk Vietnam Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Sammendrag Som følge av hendelsene etter Vietnamkrigen flyktet over 130.000 sør-vietnamesere fra landet. Det er blitt dokumentert at over 1.6 millioner vietnamesere bosatte seg i ulike land utenfor Vietnam i tidsperioden ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis examines the culture of a couple of Norwegian CrossFit boxes as well as the process of becoming a CrossFitter. The study is based on six months of fieldwork in Eastern Norway. CrossFit is a fitness brand from ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis gives an insight into some of the collections and exhibitions of human remains that are being held at institutions and museums in Norway. The main focus is on exhibitions at Nasjonalt Medisinsk Museums located ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The territory of American Samoa in the southern Pacific, where I conducted fieldwork from January to June of 2017, has for many years been amongst the top places for recruiting personnel for the U.S. military. Everyone in ...
Bureaucratic Heartbeats: Knowledge Production and Emotions in the Norwegian Agriculture Agency Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis explores the ways in which knowledge was produced at Landbruksdirektoratet, the Norwegian Agriculture Agency (NAA), a technocratic and bureaucratic government institution in the Norwegian Welfare state. Based ...
"Europas flyktningkrise" og hverdagsliv i Latvia: Møter mellom flyktninger, latviere og russisktalende latviere Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
I denne avhandlingen har jeg undersøkt hvilken rolle kjøkken og mat spiller i hverdagen for syriske flyktninger i Amman. I Jordan er det registrert nesten 650 000 syriske flyktninger, hvorav 80% bor utenfor flyktningleirer. ...
"We Want to be Modern" - An Ethnographic Study of Food, Relationships and Change in Fiji. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The thesis investigates the different sides to a public discourse that connected the emic term madness to young men`s practice of smoking marihuana.
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis looks at opportunities and challenges when thinking anthropology and social media. With a focus on Twitter and anthropological ideas, it attempts to consider a broad spectrum of different aspects surrounding ...
Christiania og Møtet Mellom Tre Rettsoppfatninger : En Etnografisk Studie av Subkultur og Gatekultur, og deres Møte med Politi og Myndigheter Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Christiania, denne mytiske fristaden i København. Hva er det egentlig? Så mangt skulle det vise seg. I denne oppgaven skriver jeg om hva som skjer i skjæringspunktet mellom tre rettsoppfatninger – politi og myndigheter, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
There and Back Again: An Ethnographic Study of Migration, Entrepreneurship, and Development in San José Calderas, Guatemala Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis gives an ethnographic account of the past and present everyday realities of former migrant workers from the village San José Calderas in Guatemala. Most of these migrants had returned to the village after working ...
"Her får jeg alltid en kopp te" - En antropologisk studie av hverdagen ved et bo- og støttetilbud for kvinner utsatt for æresrelatert vold. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Sammendrag Med denne oppgaven ønsker jeg å belyse hvordan statlige tiltak for håndtering av ofre for æresrelatert vold fungerer i praksis. Gjennom handlingsplaner fra den norske regjering, som «Retten til å bestemme over ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
In 2010, a proposal to build the ‘Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Project’ in the Galilee Basin in Queensland Australia, was submitted by the Indian mining company Adani Mining Pty Ltd. This thesis is a study of how this ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Aldersundersøkelsen har vært mye omtalt og som kjent fått mye kritikk siden den ble tatt i bruk i 2013. Stemmene til de mindreårige asylsøkerne har manglet i denne debatten, til tross for at det er dem som må gjennom den ...
Performing identity: The Europe-bound Bidun crossing borders for better or for worse Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The thesis concerns the social impact of the development of a new capital city in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
In this thesis I explore how the Nigerian state is encountered in various places and how it is experienced as an active force in the making and remaking of peoples' habitable worlds. I am concerned with how people come to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Abstract Indigenous Australians have been living as a dispossessed, colonized people in their own homeland for well over two centuries. 2017 marks the year of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 citizenship referendum, after ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
”Å se med ett øye” er en studie av somaliske kvinner i Asker, en kommune like utenfor Oslo. Hovedvekten av feltarbeidet foregikk på Borgen, et lite område med store forskjeller. Her er villaer og blokker, rikdom og fattigdom. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Utgangspunktet for denne oppgaven er unge voksne som lever med fysisk funksjonshemning og har brukerstyrt personlig assistanse (BPA). Jeg har i løpet av seks måneder vært sammen med flere personer som har denne ordningen ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Systematically aiming toward a high number of converts, Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism has for a long time been considered to be the world’s largest growing religious movement next to Islam. In 2002 it was registered a ...
"Jeg savnet maten mer enn familien". AFS-elevers møte med mat og måltider på utveksling i Norge. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Denne masteroppgaven handler om unge, internasjonale utvekslingselever i Norge og deres forhold til mat under oppholdet. Mat er tvetydig, i følge Elisabeth Fürst, den er både substans og symbol på samme tid. Mat kan derfor ...
Running on Hope - Life as an Eritrean Refugee: An Ethnographic Study of Eritrean Refugees in Mekelle
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The area of inner Finnmark is often presented as a core Sami area. Many of the cultural markers that are considered and recognised as Sami, are based on traits from these areas. Based on fieldwork done mainly in inner ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Based on an ethnographic fieldwork done at the Dutch “right to die” organisation in the Netherlands, I explore and discuss the Western perception on autonomy, identity, and independency in relation to old age. After about ...
Doing Development the Right Way: Navigating difference and equality in an FK exchange Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Cancer Care in Precarious Places. An Ethnographic Study of Health Workers' Experiences With Childhood Cancer in a Paediatric Oncology Ward in Kumasi, Ghana Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
«We are nomads». Place-making, nomadic heritage and contingency in the Republic of Tuva Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
«Det er mennesker som best integrerer mennesker». (U)tdanning av innvandrerkvinner i en frivillig norsk organisasjon. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Denne oppgaven belyser norskhet og integrasjon som et relasjonelt prosjekt. Oppgaven er basert på et halvt års feltarbeid våren 2014 i en kristen frivillig organisasjon, og gir innblikk i den norske velferdsstatens ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis is based on approximately 4,5 months of fieldwork conducted in the spring of 2015 in Houston, Texas. It will concern the overarching anthropological themes of religion, gender, community and performance. It ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The study of American identity has generally been concerned with the concept of hyphenated identity, a dual identity of sorts. The Norwegian-American identity is a clear example of a hyphenated identity. This thesis will ...
(Master thesis, Group thesis / Masteroppgave, Gruppeoppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Since the 2003 Rose Revolution, the Republic of Georgia has undergone political upheavals as part of aspiring to become a more modern and Western nation. The recovery from a transition to capitalism and Georgia’s geopolitical ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Avhandlingen tar utgangspunkt i den postradikale hverdagen som oppstod etter at ETA erklærte permanent våpennedleggelse i 2011. Dette er en hverdag preget av at den voldelige kampen har stilnet og støtten til baskisk radikal ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Oppgaven er basert på feltarbeid gjennomført på en barnehjemsinstitusjon i Salto, Uruguay, våren 2015. Barnehjemsinstitusjonen, som jeg kaller el hogar (hjemmet), drives av en verdensomspennende evangelisk hjelpeorganisasjon ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis is based on six months of fieldwork conducted in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. The country legalized cannabis in 2013, but during my fieldwork only two of three aspects of the law were implemented. It was ...
Implementering av vannkraftverk i Bugoye: Sosiale innvirkninger og vanntilførselen Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Kampen for å bli sett. Kvensk kultur og identitet i det 21.århundret Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Parismina - "Jeg sier jo ikke nei om moren min serverer skilpadde" Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)