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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Since its formation in 2014, al-Hashd al-Sha’bi has established itself as an effective fighting force in Iraq and has played a significant role in fighting IS. It rapidly became a powerful and significant force almost ...
Fighting for Citizenship in Kuwait Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis discusses the causes and characteristics of mobilisation in the country s stateless community. There are more than 106 000 stateless Arabs, locally known as Bidoon, living in Kuwait today. In the wake of the ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In this chapter, we first provide an overview of the design and dynamics of China’s major national policies regarding air quality control and air pollution prevention, hereafter called ‘air policy’. We then briefly zoom ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The wave of uprisings known as the “Arab Spring” that swept over the Middle East and North Africa from December 2010 to early 2013 left its imprint on the political and social life in the countries concerned. This transient ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
I 2011 pågikk en heftig debatt i Tromsø da kommune bestemte seg for å søke om å være del av et samisk språkforvaltningsområde, hvor samisk og norsk skulle være likestilte språk. Dette satte sinnene i kok hos tromsværingene. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Denne oppgaven handler om et lite, rødt og falleferdig hus som ble flyttet fra Hobøl kommune og plassert foran Stortinget i perioden 21.10.2015 til 21.01.2016. Der fikk huset navnet "House of Commons", og ble til et kunstverk ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
I ukene etter at Saudi-Arabia, De forente arabiske emirater, Bahrain og Egypt innførte en storstilt boikott av Qatar, har en voldsom og personfokusert nasjonalisme blomstret opp i det lille landet. Toppdrevet regimedyrking ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This is a study of the Māṃsabhakṣaṇaparivarta (The Chapter on Meat-Eating) of the Laṅkāvatārasūtra, which compares it to other Indian texts which discuss meat-eating and related topics.
Folkereligiøsitet og nasjonal identitet. Tsjekkisk-Norsk Forum og feiringen av Mikuláš (St. Nikolas)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Hovedspørsmålet i denne oppgaven er: hvordan kan element fra folkereligiøsiteten bidra til nasjonal identitetsbygging? Dette vil jeg undersøke ved å se på hvordan en gammel helgenkult blir feiret av tsjekkere i dagens ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Denne masteroppgaven undersøker portalskulpturen på Nes kirke i Sauherad. Nes kirke dateres til slutten av 1100-tallet og er en av de rikest dekorerte sognekirkene i stein fra norsk middelalder. Den skulpturelle utsmykningen ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
År 2014 var det två hundra år sedan den norska grundlagen under tidspress skrevs ned på Eidsvoll. Jubileet för atten fjorten, ett av den norska historiens viktigaste år, markerades på många sätt, med arrangemang, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Denne oppgaven er en undersøkelse av hvordan museer produserer og reproduserer forestillinger gjennom visuelle midler. Jeg ser på neandertalerutstillinger i Chicago, Mettmann og Krapina som representasjonssystemer som tar ...
Hellig Jomfrudom: En studie av den evangelikale purity-kulturen i USA Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Denne oppgaven tar for seg purity-kulturen i USA i tidsrommet 1990-2017. Purity er en radikal kristenkonservativ subkultur, som først og fremst kommer til syne i evangelikale tenåringsmiljøer. Kulturens budskap er at man ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Dette er en studie av to bosniske flyktningers identitetskonstruksjoner. Norsk Folkemuseum og Internasjonalt Kultursenter og Museum gjennomførte i forbindelse med prosjektet «Norsk i går, i dag, i morgen?» livsløpsintervjuer ...
Waithood in Jordan; The Role of Education Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis investigates the role of education in reproducing and/or reducing Waithood for youth in Jordan. In Jordan, and in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in general, the situation for the majority of youth is ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The following article is a brief socio-historical linguistic study of four Judeo-Arabic manuscripts, copied sometime during the eighteenth/nineteenth century, and today held in the custody of the Jewish Karaite community ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The aim of this thesis is to shed light upon the concept of soft power used in domestic governance by the CCP between the years of 2014 and 2017. During the initial research stages, a shift in rhetoric was noticed in soft ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
I denne oppgaven har jeg sett på maktforholdene mellom kirke og stat i Hellas, i en tid der det greske samfunnet står overfor store politiske og samfunnsmessige utfordringer. Den greskortodokse kirken er den dominerende ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis seeks to examine whether Hizbullah’s intervention in the Syrian Civil War has affected the party’s image as a Lebanese national movement, a narrative it has strived to maintain ever since the 1990s, when it ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Denne avhandlingen dreier seg om menneskelige levninger på museum. Jeg har sett på medisinske samlinger som har kommet til Norsk Teknisk Museum fra ulike avdelinger ved det gamle Rikshospitalet. Samlingen består av hele ...
Scapegoats for Social Harmony. The challenges of reintegrating former abducted girls in Northern Uganda. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Abstract After more than two decades of an immensely cruel war the Acholi people of Norther Uganda is now trying to save ‘the bits and pieces’ of their society. There is a vast need for rebuild and repair of basically all ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
In 2014, the government of Jordan introduced an economic incentive program urging mosques and universities to implement solar panel systems on their buildings. This project is known as the Solar Panels Project. The initiative ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In response to the needs for "relieving Beijing of functions nonessential to its role as the capital", Beijing has fulfilled a series of tasks including old urban area renewal and population dispersion in the central urban ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Sammendrag Martinus er noe så sjeldent som en moderne dansk mystiker, han døde kun for et par tiår siden, i 1981. Han ble født i en liten landsby på Nord-Jylland på slutten av 1800-tallet, og hadde liten formell utdannelse. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Denne oppgaven omhandler baderommets materialitet og hvordan baderommet har betydning for praktisering av kroppsstell. Kildematerialet jeg har brukt er besvarelser fra det kulturhistoriske arkivet Norsk etnologisk granskings ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis is a comparative analysis of the presence of China and India in Nepal across the economic, political, social and strategic fronts. I administered elite interview as a core data collection technique which primarily ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Studien er hovedsakelig en analyse av omtalen av kvinner i forkant av deres adgang til det farmasøytiske miljøet. Hensikten er å kunne bedre forståelsen for hvordan utviklingen har vært når det kommer til kvinners rolle i ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Initially construed as the vital link between Saddam Husayn’s Iraq and al-Qaida in the runup to the Iraq war, the Ansar al-Islam (AI) group formed in Iraqi Kurdistan in December 2001 has been the subject of intense debate ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
In contrast to common assumptions, jihadist movements’ view of Christian minorities in the Middle East has been neither unambiguous nor static. It changes according to the overall political conflict in the region and is ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Transnational families are becoming more common in China. They emerge within a social system that is designed for sedentary rather than mobile lives and favours two-parent households over other family forms. Chinese citizens ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2022)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
What can a mobile fieldwork contribute to the study of inter-religious connections? This chapter examines the state of Hindu inclusivism in Modi’s India by means of an anthropological fieldwork that involved considerable ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
In response to increasing attention from international academia on Chinese gardens, this article advances China’s landscape studies by exploring international research trends on Chinese gardens during the 21st century. It ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The aim of the present paper is to describe and discuss how recent theories about translation, bridging medical and humanistic understandings of knowledge translation, in the medical humanities can bring about a new ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne masteroppgaven har som formål å gi leseren et innblikk i en omfattende og interessant krystalltradisjon som har kommet for å bli i Oslo og omegn, med utgangspunkt i et religionsvitenskapelig perspektiv på «magisk» ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Through the case of St Olav Ways, the aim of this article is to shed light on the ways in which the contemporary pilgrimage phenomenon in Norway is developed through a combination of interpretations of local religious ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This chapter explores how academic textual production may be understood as a practice of responsible agency, through a dialogue between two scholarly texts about microbes. The first emphasizes the discovery of bacteria, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate perceptions of guanxi by Chinese graduates. Guanxi is a social concept that has received increased interest in Western research, but how is it perceived in China? What advantages ...
Protecting Forests from the State: Examining the Women’s Claims in the Demonstrations in Turkey’s İkizdere Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
During the Zhou to early Han dynasties, significant changes occurred in China's political, social, and cultural landscape. This era saw the emergence of new ritual practices that profoundly influenced individuals and society ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The present article explores the life and struggles of Heo Seongtaek (1908–?), a typical peasant (and later worker) grassroots militant of 1920–1930s colonial Korea. He actively participated in both the post-1945 radical ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Museer formidler kunnskap, og når man går på museum forventer man gjerne at det man ser er sannheten. Samtidig er det vanskelig å skulle fortelle hele sannheten, med alle forbehold og hele konteksten. I denne oppgaven har ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Norge i dag er i stadig endring, både som et resultat av våre handlinger og en natur i forandring. Vår antropogene samtid er preget av blant annet industri, kommunikasjon, import og eksport. Forandringene menneskelige ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Research has identified religion as one of numerous factors that may contribute to delay or refusal of vaccination. The influence of religion on vaccine decisions may be accidental, or it may involve explicit religious ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Digitalisering, et begrep som på mange måter definerer vår tid, men hva innebærer det egentlig? Digitalisering har blitt satt på dagsorden hos de fleste ABM (Arkiv, bibliotek og museum) institusjoner de siste årene. Det ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Both Narendra Modi and Rodrigo Duterte stand out as leaders that epitomise their respective reigns in ways that previous leaders did not. A juxtaposition of their political personae allows us to investigate a contemporary ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Hvordan opplever individer det å bli involvert i kollektive erindringsprosesser? I avhandlingen undersøker jeg hvordan minnet om holocaust har vært og er en del av livet til jøder i Norge som har en familiehistorie knyttet ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne master oppgaven er en Historiografis analyse med fokus på hvordan forskere fra Vesten har presentert begynnelsen på Islam. Den investigerer de forskjellige narrative framstillingene som er produsert om en historisk ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Norsk svartmetall fikk sitt gjennombrudd på tidlig 90-tall med band som Mayhem, Darkthrone og Satyricon, kjent for deres eksplisitte anvendelse av okkulte tematikker som skapte sjokkbølger og moralsk panikk i sin samtid. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I det episke langdiktet «Solaris korrigert» (2004) møter vi et lyrisk jeg i en høyteknologisk, apokalyptisk verden i 2480. Jeget bor i den norske framtidsbyen Stavgersand, hvor hen styrer et robotlag som reparerer rørledninger ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Mange av våre kulturhistoriske institusjoner ble utformet i en tid hvor den nasjonsbyggende agendaen stod sterkt. Fremstillingene det la til grunn for hva som anses som den norske kulturarven, er i stor grad videreført i ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
In China, during the early decades of the nineteenth century, two series of large format maps, one terrestrial and one celestial, were printed using blue colourant. The pigment used for the blue colour was Prussian blue, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
ABSTRACT In addition to being heinous crimes, acts of terrorism are complex chronopolitical events. Perpetrators, victims, survivors, families, and authorities manage their relationship to the events by engaging with and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The thesis aims to answer the following question: how do Moroccan deaf youth in Oujda deal with and understand their lives and challenges in a country where their hearing status stands at the center of their marginalized ...
China-Myanmar -Borderland Control, Insurgency, Networks Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
What can be read from Chinese approaches to conflicts and international investments and policies - How does Chinese “non-interference” play out in the case of Myanmar?
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This microhistory of a shoreline place in Thailand details the socio-natural process by which a piece of coastal land came to be recognised as private property by the state. It demonstrates that intimate and long-term ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Since the Roman mythographer Hyginus composed the fable of Cura in the second century AD, it has been cited and reemployed in literary and philosophical texts by authors like Augustin, Herder, Goethe, Heidegger, Blumenberg ...
"Women Who Face Death": Understanding Motivational Factors for the Female Peshmerga in the KDPI Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Online conferences are widely thought to reduce many of the costs of convening academic communities. From lower carbon emissions, lower fees, less difficulty in attending (particularly for marginalised researchers), ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Stemsrudstua er en ramloftstue fra Grue som i dag står på Glomdalsmuseet. En ramloftstue består av en enetasjes stuedel og en toetasjes del med svalgang. Den ble oppdaget som en oldsak i 1779. Jeg vil påstå at stua på ett ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of Mazu worship on pre-modern Chinese women from the perspective of women's studies. To achieve this goal, the paper will attempt to conduct an analysis following the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The article is based on a study of the Jamia Ahmadiyya UK and its Scandinavian-born Muslim students and alumni for an MA thesis. Drawing on fieldwork and interview material collected between September 2019 and January 2020, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This study investigates the experiences of Norwegian coaches involved in a winter sports collaboration between Norway and China leading up to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Our analysis delves into the complexities of ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This chapter explores the consequences of an insistence on the symmetrical relation between human and non-human actors, as it occurs in the discussions on ‘New Animism’. ‘New Animism’ is a cluster of theories in anthropology ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In recent years, boasting an appealing sense of slowness, slow cinema has emerged as a distinctive trend in film production and attracted considerable attention within film studies. Often taken to be a key figure within ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)