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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2008)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
The adoption of Internet technology in Egypt has led to the emergence a new literary genre, the ‘autofic-tional blog’. This paper explores how this genre relates to the Arabic understanding of literature, using as examples ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2013)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
In 1755 Lisbon was hit by an earthquake that almost completely leveled the city. The news of the catastrophe spread rapidly and the earthquake was soon discussed throughout Europe. Today the Lisbon earthquake is first and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
The Norwegian media responses to Hurricane Katrina were structured around three well-established sets of motifs in a globalized late modern disaster discourse: 1) The collapse of civil society, 2) Social vulnerability 2) ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2009)
Tilgjengeliggjort i DUO vitenarkiv med tillatelse fra Novus forlag.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2009)
Diaries can provide a micro-perspective on people’s way of life and the world of conceptualization in a local society, and also on the changes that took place in the years that the diaries were written. This can be considered ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Memorial websites on the Internet constitute a new form for expressing grief and for remembering deceased relatives and friends. In my sample of memorial websites, I have studied those that are open to the public. Such ...
A Tibetan village on the Sino-Tibetan borderland : a study of social organization, narrative and local identity in Lhagang Restricted Access
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
How have local people in Lhagang, a Tibetan village in Sichuan Province of China, experienced, responded to, and been transformed by the changes that were caused by the state-imposed urbanization policies? How have they ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2008)
Life is normally expected to proceed through childhood, youth, adulthood and old age. What happens then if death occurs at some earlier phase of life and not at a far distant time in people’s everyday lives? This will most ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)
Tilgjengeliggjort i DUO vitenarkiv med tillatelse fra Novus forlag.
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Tilgjengeliggjort i DUO vitenarkiv med tillatelse fra Novus forlag.
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Tilgjengeliggjort i DUO vitenarkiv med tillatelse fra Novus forlag.
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)
Tilgjengeliggjort i DUO vitenarkiv med tillatelse fra Novus forlag.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
In recent years, the notion of Shinto as an ancient tradition of nature worship, said to contain important solutions for overcoming today’s environmental crisis, has achieved paradigmatic status in academia and Shinto ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
In a research project `Symbols of death´ concerning pictorial symbols and epitaphs on gravestones in Norway and Sweden, the focus has been on the 1990s and the 2000s. Individual symbols have increased especially in Sweden ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Tilgjengeliggjort i DUO vitenarkiv med tillatelse fra Novus forlag.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
This paper deals with the acceptance of a technical novelty, in this case cycling, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Experiences and feelings are the focus. The analytical perspectives are: social ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Med utgångspunkt i begreppet autoetnografi reflekterar författaren över sin forskningsutveckling under fyrtio år och relaterar detta till allmänna vetenskapsdiskussioner. Ett subjektivt forskningsideal och val av forskningsämnen ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
My aim is to examine afterlife beliefs in Sweden, partly from the late 1800s and the early 1900s, partly from the 2000s. It will be a contrastive study of two different periods and not a diachronic study of developments ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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Knowledge translation (KT) is a buzzword in modern medical science. However, there has been little theoretical reflection on translation as a process of meaning production in KT. In this paper, ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion, 2006)
I en digitalisert ordbok er det forholdsvis lett å utvikle nye funksjoner, slik at mulighetene for søk blir mange. Men dette kan lett redusere brukervennligheten. Så langt har utviklingen av “Kinesisk-norsk ordbok på nett” ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2008)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 1998)
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Tilgjengeliggjort i DUO vitenarkiv med tillatelse fra Novus forlag.
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2001)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2015)
One of my research projects examines pictorial symbols and epitaphs on gravestones in Norway and Sweden. The focus has been on the 1990s and the 2000s. The choice of this period is motivated by the fact that new national ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2003)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 1999)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2009)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Independently of the question as to whether bi- or triradical roots have historical preponderance in Semitic, there are clear cases of Semitic verbal and nominal roots that have emerged through a process of compounding or ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article investigates the concept of cultural authenticity in museums through an analysis of how indigenous cultural objects in Taiwan are being authenticated by museums as ‘indigenous cultural heritage’.
In Taiwan, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article examines a largely unexplored component of China’s classical garden system – the gardens of salt merchants in Tianjin during the Qing Dynasty (1636-1911). Beyond existing works, which tend to focus on imperial ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Sommargäster från städerna, eller badgäster som de kallades tidigare, sökte sig med början under det sena 1800-talet till kusttrakter i västra Sverige. Då började kalla bad i det öppna havet förekomma i stället för varma ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 1997)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
This dissertation is based on a number of unpublished Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts written by the indigenous Karaite Jews of Egypt who lived in the Jewish Quarter of Cairo during the early modern era. These 17th- through ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
This contribution is an attempt to describe the challenges Islamwissenschaft has to face in a time of increased Islamophobia and (neo)Orientalism, triggered by worldwide Islamist terrorism and large-scale immigration of ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
There were few, if any, bookstores in Cairo that did not, in 2013, have a section designated to a category of books labelled adab sākhir. Their titles play on humor and familiar Egyptian references; they are often in the ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The year 2017 is the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. To mark the occasion, academic conferences have been held in all the Nordic countries, and books have been published on the history of the Reformation and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This introduction to this special issue considers various approaches to understanding ‘the field’ as an object of archaeological and anthropological research, and researchers’ own engagements with it. We draw out some ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article presents and discusses the monumental ‘etymological dictionary’, or ‘lexicon’, al-Muʕǧam alištiqāqī al-muʔaṣṣal, 1 by the late Egyptian professor of Arabic language at al-Azhar University, Muḥammad Ḥasan Ḥasan ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
An international and trans-institutional study, the present postdoctoral project analyses the production of prehistory, art history and cultural history in various museum displays in Berlin, Copenhagen, London and Stockholm, ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion, 2007)
I artikkelsamlingen kan du lese om pedagogiske endringer i krysningspunktet mellom teknologi, organisering og læring. Du finner artikler fra en rekke ulike fagmiljøer som beskriver prosjekter av mange ulike slag. Erfaringene ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Principio da qui; da colui che è stato negli ultimi anni, ed è tuttora, centro, voce narrante, informante,6 soggetto e oggetto di ricerca, presso cui converge una serie di percorsi di studio di cui vorrei fornire in questa ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Tilgjengeliggjort med tillatelse fra Novus Forlag.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Scholars dealing with the rise of contemporary Islamism and the Muslim Brothers’ early history frequently turn to Ḥasan al-Bannā’s autobiography, Mudhakkirāt al-Daʿwah wa’l-Dāʿiyah (Memoirs of the Call and the Preacher) ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Tilgjengeliggjort med tillatelse fra Novus Forlag.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
In this paper I present my reflections and experiences from decades of ethnological research until now. Auto-ethnography means that researchers use their personal experiences in a self-reflexive way in the ethnographic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
In seventeenth-century Europe, theories of knowledge were developed in symbiosis with the growth of new architectural types, themselves devised for the practices of science, collecting and ordering of knowledge. The period’s ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2016)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The Swedish Oasis Movement (Oasrörelsen), which considers itself to be part of the worldwide charismatic movement, was started in 1984. This work refers firstly to occurrences in the Oasis Movement and how it has changed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
One of the most puzzling developments since the watershed event of 9/11 and the onset of the U.S.-led Global War on Terror (GWOT) is the expansion of the jihadi movement in the Arab world. This has taken place despite ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Jihadism in Norway has witnessed a huge shift from consisting primarily of foreign ethnically homogenous networks with a low capacity for mobilization, to the current situation where a loose country-wide network of domestic ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2008)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Fred (original tittel: Huzur), som for første gang ble utgitt som føljetong i Istanbul-avisen Cumhuriyet i 1948 og som bokåret etter, representerer noe helt nytt i tyrkisk litteraturhistorie fordi den forener osmanske ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Since the military coup of July 3, 2013, guns and batons have, broadly speaking, taken the place of open debate and elections in deciding the political future of Egypt. How can the political struggle be understood with ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Change is afoot for Saudi Arabia’s female citizens, or so suggests much commentary about events over the past few years. There was the first election in which women could vote, the first public concert by a female performer, ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In 1792 the engraver P.L.Bombelli published a large collection of pictures and narratives about Roman madonnas that had been adorned with a golden crown. Since the early seventeenth century, such crowns had been distributed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
In 1770 ‘Den medicinske Tilskuer’ (The Medical Spectator) was published in Copenhagen. The man behind it was the surgeon, physician and poet Johann Clemens Tode. This was the first of 16 journals in total on health and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The idea of history as magistra vitae – a collection of good and bad examples – was a central topos of historical writing in the West from antiquity till the late eighteenth century. The idea has served a number of different ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Wilhelm Schencke-en omstridt pioner : Etableringen av religionshistorie som et akademisk fag i Norge
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2007)
Avhandlingen drøfter fremveksten og etableringen av disiplinen religionshistorie ut fra interaksjonen mellom faget, representert ved Wilhelm Schencke (1869-1946), og konteksten, dvs. de idéer og strømninger som rørte seg ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)
The object of this dissertation is to address certain contemporary performative practices, more specifically the land foundation in Thailand and Sørfinnset School / the north land in Norway, and the tensions these reveal ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
Å fortelle historier online i Gulfen er et forskningsprosjekt om digital kultur. Det handler om skrivestiler, uttrykk for identitet, deltakelseskultur og sensur. Ett av de viktigste aspektene innenfor nettskriving er dens ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article explores ritual practices among the Premi people in Southwest China at the beginning of the new millennium. Living in the periphery of Tibetan, Han Chinese and other Tibeto-Burman ethnic groups, Premi villagers ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This contribution deals with the etymology of some Arabic nouns and verbs that have been central to the main fields of academic specialisation of the researcher honoured by this Festschrift: language, speaking, and ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
What are the rationale, significance and implications of the use of reproductions of the human body in contemporary historical museums? This article probes this question through a critical analysis of diverse uses of body ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
In the morning of October 12, 2006, I got a telephone call from the Norwegian publishing house Gyldendal, which has published all Orhan Pamuk’s novels (I had by then translated three of them) and was asked to watch the TV ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article explores analytical perspectives from theatre studies as an approach to analysing interactivity in picturebook apps, using the critically acclaimed Danish picturebook app Wuwu & Co. – A Magical Picturebook ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
What India does to our understanding of democracy remains under-researched and there is, in particular, a need for in-depth and sociologically sensitive investigations into the meaning and practice of democracy in India. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
In the city of Shkodra, the ceremonial use of the so-called kishë-xhami, the “church-mosque” in the Rozafa castle, has been a thorn in the eye between the Catholic Church and the Muslim Community. Apparently the last chapter ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article analyses how Chinese media make sense of smog and air pollu- tion in China through the lens of London’s past. Images of London, the fog city, have figured in the Chinese press since the 1870s, and this collective ...