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Motivasjon i frivillig arbeid: En antropologisk tilnærming til å forstå hva som driver mennesker til å hjelpe andre
(Master thesis, 2023-09-29)Denne oppgaven utforsker motivasjonen blant frivillige i tilknytning til helsehjelp for irregulære migranter. Basert på et etnografisk feltarbeid på helsesenteret for papirløse i Bergen og Oslo utforsker oppgaven erfaringer ... -
Permanent Impermanence in the Anthropocene: The emergence of a guest-worker society in a Patagonian Mountain village
(Journal article, 2023)At a stage of capitalism where “the environment” emerges as an existential category, conservation policies become weaved into processes of expulsion. The idea that there is not enough for everyone reconfigures social ... -
Permaculture on the Iberian Peninsula: Networks and praxis
(Master thesis, 2023-12-13)This thesis explores the networks of permaculture, those that are natural, social and a mix of the two. Permaculture design is one of several alternative agricultural practices, made in response to climate change and living ... -
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 ... -
Et antropologisk studie av Hordfast
(Master thesis, 2023-06-15)Denne oppgaven er et antropologisk studie av infrastrukturprosjektet Hordfast, og er basert på et 6 måneders etnografisk feltarbeid utført våren 2022. Dette feltarbeidet var hovedsakelig utført i Tysnes kommune, hvor jeg ... -
Maneuvering Contested Space and Community An Ethnographic Study of the Underground Electronic Music Scene in Itaewon
(Master thesis, 2023-06-14)This thesis examines the dynamics of the underground electronic music scene in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea, within the framework of contested space. Building upon the theories of Henri Lefebvre, Anthony Cohen, and Sarah ... -
“They treat us as machines”: The gig economy and the value of labor in Berlin.
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Stadier av migrasjonsaspirasjoner: En etnografisk studie av internasjonal mobilitet og migrasjonsaspirasjoner blant middelklasse pakistanere i Lahore og Oslo.
(Master thesis, 2023-06-13)Denne oppgaven utforsker migrasjonsaspirasjoner blant middelklassepakistanere i Lahore og Oslo, gjennom et interseksjonelt perspektiv. Basert på et etnografisk feltarbeid i Lahore og Oslo utforsker oppgaven erfaringer og ... -
Ambivalent recognition: young unaccompanied refugees’ encounters with Norwegian society
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Receiving the right to stay in Norway might seem a critical factor for refugees’ well-being and belonging. Yet, this research shows that young unaccompanied refugees experience ambivalent feelings towards Norwegian society ... -
People vs. peoples: sacrifice and the foundations for sovereignty in 1640’s England and contemporary northeast Syria
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Engaging with state-centric perspectives on sovereignty, and particularly Giorgio Agamben's work, this article argues that despite sovereignty's permanence at the level of the state, the principles upon which it is built ... -
Managing chosen life(spans) - Cryopreservation in Europe
(Master thesis, 2023-05-24)This thesis explores how technoscience is used to extend life and control death through human cryopreservation (cryonics). It is based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Berlin, Germany, the United Kingdom, ... -
Rituell reproduksjon av buekorps: klasse, kjønn og materialitet
(Master thesis, 2023-05-22)I denne oppgåva vil eg sjå nærare på buekorps, ein bevegelse som blei starta på 1800-talet av ungdom, og som fortsatt er eit fenomen i Bergen i dag. Eg vil fokusere på buekorpsa opp mot rituale, og vil då komme inn på ulike ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Temporality and the politics of the migrant body
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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 ...