Blar i Department of Social Anthropology på tittel
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Idrett som arena for integrering - en problematisering av organisert idrett i Norge med spesielt hensyn til integrering av etniske minoriteter i fotball
(Master thesis, 2014-06-05)Idretten blir idag tilegnet en rekke positive egenskaper, først og fremst gjennom dens egenart som produsent av aktivitet, men også gjennom dens samfunnsbyggende funksjoner. Deltakelse i idrett gir en økt helsegevinst, og ... -
If The Waters Were To Shrug: Extractive Violence, Erasure and the Politics of Resisting in the Settler Colonial Present
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"If you don't vote VMRO you're not Macedonian" A study of Macedonian identity and national discourse in Skopjee
(Master thesis, 2011-06-17)Abstract If you don't vote VMRO you're not Macedonian" In this thesis my aim has been to take a closer look at the connection between ethnicity, identity and political power in Macedonia. I have tried to achieve this by ... -
Imagining coherence. Local discourses about identities, tradition and religion in Pangani, Tanzania
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Indigenous life projects and extractivism. Ethnographies from South America
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«Ingen hendelser er like». En studie av brannkonstablers forståelse av, og skapelse av, sikkerhet
(Master thesis, 2017-12-15)En vanlig tilnærming til begrepet «sikkerhet» er at «sikkerhet er evnen til å unngå uønskede hendelser». Med dette som utgangspunkt er det mulig å lage flotte matriser hvor man kalkulerer risiko, på mange måter «fravær av ... -
Innenfor og utenfor i Frankrike. Sosiale og byråkratiske utfordringer for maghrebinske muslimer i interetniske parforhold
(Master thesis, 2016-06-17)Denne avhandlingen tar for seg sosiale og byråkratiske utfordringer for maghrebinske muslimer i Frankrike gjennom å studere interetniske par mellom innvandrere fra Maghreb og etnisk franske. Jeg har gjort feltarbeid i ... -
Innvandrerkvinner i Norge og deres tanker om lønnet arbeid: En etnografisk studie av kvinner og hva som påvirker deres valg i forhold til utdannelse og lønnet arbeid utenfor hjemmet
(Master thesis, 2023-12-18)Denne oppgaven handler om kvinner med migrasjonsbakgrunn og deres tanker om arbeid i Norge. Basert på et etnografisk feltarbeid utført i Bergen våren 2022 utforsker jeg hva som påvirker deres valg i forhold til utdannelse ... -
The Instability of Values: Tradition, Autonomy and the Dynamics of Sociality in the Philippine Highlands
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)What can we learn about values and how they shape sociality by looking at a murder? In this article, I look closer at the different and conflicting values involved in the social events leading up to an accidental killing ... -
Introduction: Exceptionalism and necropolitical security dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)For more than a decade, urban development in Rio de Janeiro was driven by the urgency of preparations for mega-events such as the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. During these years, Brazilian authorities ... -
Iraqis on the Move: Displaced Professionals, Protection/ 'Aman Space in Jordan and Memories of a Destroyed State
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-10-22)Recent events of forced displacement in the Middle East are compelling millions of people to move within the borders of their country, while forcing many others to become strangers in other lands. In the modern era categorized ... -
Is Corporate Social Responsibility Oiling the Neoliberal Carbon Economy?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This study focuses on the corporate social responsibility (CSR) work the Austrian energy company OMV pursued as it constructed a gas power plant on the shores of the Black Sea. I argue that neither social movement theory ... -
Is the 'New Man' dead? Tourism, self-perception and relative deprivation in Cuba
(Master thesis, 2012-07-28)This study is about the relationship between the growth of tourism in Cuba and the sense of relative deprivation experienced by many Cubans, and about the results of this relationship in the society at large. I argue that ... -
Islamic Revival in Georgian - Chechen Border Area
(Master thesis, 2014-07-31)Since the collapse of the Soviet Union all the former Soviet countries have been going through changes in social and religious life. Muslim states strongly tied their identities to Islam while countries with a majority of ... -
"Isso é nossa realidade" (This is our reality): Beyond images of Amazonia
(Master thesis, 2014-06-19)This thesis explores the images and representations of Amazonia as a tropical rain forest, and how they influence the way people tend to picture the area. Shaped through trajectories of history, national expansion and ... -
"IT's a Woman's World" En studie av vennskap, valg og inntrykkskontroll blant unge IT-ansatte i Indias nye middelklasse
(Master thesis, 2009-06-19)Avhandlingen tar for seg hvordan unge kvinner står ovenfor en sterke og ofte motstridende forventninger i det de har flyttet fra inn til IT-byen Bangalore for å studere og arbeide i den indiske IT-indsutrien. Kvinnene ... -
It's May Pole time'. Public spectacles and Creole people at the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.
(Master thesis, 2012-06-21)AbstractThis thesis concerns the importance of festivals in nation-building. Through a six-month period of fieldwork in the city of Bluefields at the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, I explore how the Creole festival May Pole ...