Blar i Department of Social Anthropology på utgivelsesdato
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God will reward you: Muslim practices of caring for precarious migrants in the context of secular suspicion
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In recent years, Muslims have become more visibly invested in humanitarian work in France. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Marseille, this article examines local initiatives to care for precarious others whose lives are ... -
Just Out of Reach. Imminence, Meaning, and Political Ontology in Mozambique
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The leader of Mozambique’s Renamo party, Afonso Dhlakama, died on May 3, 2018. His death both necessitates an ethnographic, regionally comparative rethinking of the analytical approach to the dominant Mozambican political ... -
The Human Version 2.0: AI, Humanoids, and Immortality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article investigates new ethnography on AI development relating to imaginaries of technoscientific forms of immortality. As a Think Piece in Analytics, it engages in a somewhat experimental comparative endeavor as I ... -
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 ... -
Notes on a more equitable higher education
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Langturseilere i marina. En studie om kommunikasjon, nettverk og makt i seilbåtmiljø i Panama og Guatemala
(Master thesis, 2020-12-10) -
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 ... -
The Making and Unmaking of Kuttanad : Development and Transformations Below Sea Level
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-09-18)The aim of my research is to explore the transformation of the physical and social landscapes in Kuttanad, which is closely related to the political and economic dynamisms in Keralam, India and the rest of the world. By ... -
The Faithful Servant: Practicing Science and Religion among PNG university students in Australia
(Master thesis, 2020-08-21) -
Ei ny tid for gamle gudar: ein etnografisk studie av Ásatrúarfélagið på Island
(Master thesis, 2020-08-21)I denne oppgåva tek eg for meg trussamfunnet Ásatrúarfélagið på Island. Dette er eit nypaganistisk trussamfunn som vart grunnlagt i 1972 og som fekk status som statleg anerkjent religion på Island i 1973. Dette inneber at ... -
Re-analysing the Baining: The Mytho-Poetics of Race, Gender and Art
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article criticises primitivist caricatures of the Baining in Melanesia as a society that lacks exegesis, symbolic logics, religion, structures of power and control, and even an interest in play. The mytho-poetics of ... -
Crisis and retirement: Alienation in Kerala’s tea belt
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The recent crisis in the tea industry has devastated the livelihood of the Dalit workforce in the South Indian state of Kerala. Retired workers were worst affected, since the plantation companies—under the disguise of the ... -
Bringing the State back in. Corporate Social Responsibility and the paradoxes of Norwegian state capitalism in the international energy sector
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This theme section brings the state back into anthropological studies of corporate social responsibility through the lens of Norwegian energy corporations working abroad. Th ese transnational corporations (TNCs) are expected ... -
From mice-eaten passports to fingerprint scanning: fluctuating state presence and 'entangled documents' along the Kyrgyz–Uzbek border
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article focuses on engagement with identity documents among the rural Uzbek population in the borderlands of Kyrgyzstan. By exploring the materiality of the documents and people’s concern with these material artefacts ... -
Between social footprint and compliance, or “what IBAMA wants” Equinor Brazil's social sustainability policy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article analyzes an “Environmental Education Project” run by the Norwegian state oil company Equinor targeting poor women in the seafood processing industry along the coastline adjacent to Equinor's offshore Peregrino ... -
Existential Displacement: Health Care and Embodied Un/Belonging of Irregular Migrants in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Drawing on fieldwork and interviews in Oslo and Bergen, Norway, this article discusses irregular migrants’ experiences of existential displacement and the tactics they use to try to re-establish a sense of emplacement and ... -
Emergent Police States. Racialized Pacification and Police Moralism from Rio’s Favelas to Bolsonaro
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Pacifying Police Units, rolled out in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics, were part of a police intervention conceived to end the logic of war that characterized the city’s public security policies. As ... -
Venezuela’s oil specter: Contextualizing and historicizing the Bolivarian attempt to sow the oil
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Under the late Hugo Chávez’ rule in Venezuela, the country’s oil dependency was framed as a pernicious condition to overcome, at the same time as oil became a centerpiece for his social, political and symbolic nation-building ... -
Viruses beyond epistemic fallacy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)