Blar i Department of Social Anthropology på utgivelsesdato
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Erfaringer med endometriose blant kvinner i Norge: En studie om affekt og kroppen
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)Denne masteroppgaven er tuftet på dyptgående intervjuer med kvinner i Norge diagnostisert med endometriose. Endometriose har flere ganger blitt regnet som en av ‘verdens mest smertefulle tilstander’ og forekommer som følger ... -
“Problem or Resource?” - An anthropological journey through, and with, oil -
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)This thesis explores narratives in and around the Norwegian oil industry, with a particular focus on the industrial park in Mongstad and based on multi-sited methods, brief ethnographic fieldwork stints as well as digital ... -
Et hjem for familien: en etnografisk studie av hjem og hjemlighet blant marokkanske kvinner i Granada
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan kvinnelige migranter fra Marokko skaper et hjem i Spania gjennom en rekke ulike homing-prosesser. Basert på et etnografisk feltarbeid utført i Granada i det sørlige Spania, utforsker jeg ... -
"Det sku bo folk i husan" - Minner og materialitet fra gjenreisningstiden på Sørøya
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)Det har gått 77 år siden de første nordtromsværingene og finnmarkingene reiste tilbake til sine hjemsteder for å bygge opp husene og livene sine igjen i et landskap som besto av brannruiner. I denne oppgaven undersøkes det ... -
“We are nothing without our Islands”: Challenges and Crises in the Marshall Islands
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)Abstract: This thesis explores the themes of challenges and crises in the Marshall Islands. Through ethnographic data based on participant observation primarily in Majuro, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), I study ... -
An Ethnography of Energy: Manifestations of Spirits in Norwegian Spiritualism
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Middleman Minority Nation : Globalization and Social Democracy in Singapore
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-05-06)The Singaporean state is a social democracy with middleman minority characteristics. This thesis argues that it is the fusion of these two – the culture of the middleman minority, and the statist corporatism of social ... -
Returning to Nature. Post-carbon Utopias in Svalbard, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)While industrial closures in past decades were legitimized through an emphasis on economic motives, current closures are often framed within an emphasis on ‘green transition’, that is, through prefigurative discourses about ... -
Transizione verso cosa? Un’ anthropologia storica della finanza, della moneta e delle crisi economiche
(Journal article, 2022)The last decade of financial crisis, «financialization» and «quantitative easing» has been a feast of public learning about money and finance. Anthropology, history, and political economy rediscovered a «forgotten» history ... -
Temporality and the politics of the migrant body
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The ‘onto-logics’ of perspectival multi-naturalism: A realist critique
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, I argue for a realist anthropology based on the recognition of mind-independent reality; pitching this premise against concerted anti-dualist tendencies in contemporary anthropological thinking. I spell ... -
Learning danger: Cultural difference and the limits of trust in dangerous fieldworks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Reflecting on personal experiences from conducting fieldwork in Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan between 2015 and 2017, the article supplements existing literature on how to navigate dangerous fieldwork by considering the limits ... -
The Egalitarian King? Abdullah Öcalan and his evolving role in the Kurdish Freedom Movement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The Kurdish movement has often been touted as an egalitarian struggle, and, in many ways, rightly so. However, the movement's relation to its undisputed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, has remained relatively unexamined. This ... -
Kollaps, utkastelse, okkupasjon: migranters boligsituasjon i Marseille
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)I november 2018 førte kollapsen av to bygninger i Marseille til at 8 personer døde og en rekke innbyggere i et av byens mest multietniske sentrumsnabolag ble nødevakuert og tvangsflyttet. I november året etter tvangsevakuerte ... -
Why Do Middle-Class Positions Matter? The Alignment of Short-Term Rental Suppliers to the Interests of Capital
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Underlying the idea of the middle classes there is a contradictory positionality, the relations of which ultimately enhance capital accumulation. By opening Marxist critique to Weberian approaches to class, we explain how ... -
Urban polarisering: Antropologiske bidrag
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Dette spesialnummeret er viet antropologiske studier av urbane formasjoner og fokuserer særlig på polarisering og det sosiale livet som utspiller seg i møte med denne. Særlig søker vi å utforske og sammenligne de mangeartede ... -
Ambulerende omsorg. Eller, spekulasjon i møte med byers oppløsning og framtidens slutt i Maputo
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Grell ulikhet i globale storbyer forklares ofte som et resultat av strukturell eller nyliberal vold og antropologiske analyser skildrer gjerne mangeartede eksklusjonsmønstre, dehumanisering og vold. Selv om slike framstillinger ... -
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, we analyse how temporary and irregular migrants resist bureaucratically induced waiting for decisions on their residence permit applications in the unknown future [l’avénir] by engaging with the present. ... -
Civil war and the non-linearity of time: approaching a Mozambican politics of irreconciliation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)At least 1 million people died during the Mozambican civil war (1976/7-92). Unfolding after gaining independence from Portugal (1975) and alongside experiments with Afro-socialism in the 1980s, the war, despite its brutality, ... -
Cracks in the System and Anthropology. A response to Bråten
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)We begin by thanking our colleague Eldar Bråten for taking the time to read and comment on our article with such thoroughness. We continue right away with a response. A key aspect of Bråten’s critique is his claim that it ...