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Within and Beyond the Law: The Ethics of Collective Action in Urban Markets, Peru
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article focuses on collective action and leadership in processes of (in)formalizing market work. It examines ways in which semi-legal actors employ ‘modes of administration’ and suggests that market leaders enact a ... -
'A wolf in sheep’s clothing': settler voting rights and the elimination of the Indigenous demos in US Pacific territories
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-02)Settler colonialism eliminates Indigenous sovereignty, enthrones itself, and thereby makes Indigenous land ‘ours’. It may do this meta-politically, by absorbing ‘them’ into ‘us’. This article explores three recent lawsuits ... -
Women and Family in contemporary urban China; Contested female individualisation
(Master thesis, 2013-12-15)This thesis describes the lived experience of women in their 20s and 30s in Beijing in 2012 with relation to their families. Family is applied in a broad sense, including both natal and marital families. Through this ... -
Women in economics: Stalled progress
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Women are still a minority in the economics profession. By the mid-2000s, just under 35 percent of PhD students and 30 percent of assistant professors were female, and these numbers have remained roughly constant ever ... -
Women Judges in Fragile States. Insights from the Haitian Judiciary
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-11-10)Denne artikkelbaserte doktorgradsavhandlingen studerer kvinners representasjon i domstolene i sårbare stater gjennom en casestudie av Haiti, et av verdens mest sårbare (og minst likestilte) land. Studien setter søkelys på ... -
Women political recruitment within local councils: The selection of woman polical leaders in Uganda. A case of Bushenyi district local council and Kampala city council
(Master thesis, 2004)Objectives: The study sets to answer questions regarding factors determining women recruitment into local councils’ leadership positions. It was also intended to establish political leadership selection opportunities for ... -
Women who cross borders – black magic? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Norwegian newspaper coverage
(Master thesis, 2007)In some of Norway’s biggest cities; Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger there has been reported anincreased number of foreign women in prostitution (Pro Senteret 20062). The increase offoreign women in prostitution has led to changes ... -
Women's emotion work on Facebook: Strategic use of emotions in public discourse
(Journal article, 2021)Debates on Facebook are frequently accused of being too emotional, and rational arguments give way to anger, outrage, and polarisation. Emotions are often juxtaposed against reasoning in public deliberation, as they are ... -
Women's substantive representation in parliament: A comparative analysis of legalising abortion in Argentina and Uruguay
(Master thesis, 2014-11-19)This thesis is a comparative study of substantive representation of women in parliament, focusing on the process of abortion legislation in Argentina and Uruguay. Women's representation in parliament has increased across ... -
Women, work, and wages: How family policies continue to shape the gender wage gap
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)Despite a dramatic convergence in the gender wage gap at the end of the 20th century, there has been a puzzling stability ever since. The thesis addresses this puzzling development by asking: How do family policies intended ... -
Women`s Political Participation in Local Government in Ethiopia: The Case of Two Districts in Amhara Regional State.
(Master thesis, 2017-06-24)Ethiopian women have been excluded from public sphere for a long period. Their absence, especially from politics, has affected their life enormously. Since political participation increases gender equality and empowerment ... -
Women’s magazines and their readers. Experiences, identity and everyday life
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-02-24)In this thesis I explore women's magazine reading as a media experience. I ask how regularreaders of women's magazines experience these publications, and how these experiences canbe related to readers’ everyday lives and ... -
Women’s sickness absence in contemporary Norway. The impacts of class, motherhood, and pregnancy
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-02-27)It is well known that in many countries, women have higher levels of sickness absence than men. In spite of several attempts to explain this gender gap in Norway, it is not very well understood. This thesis contributes to ... -
Word cloud visualisation of locative information
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-12-22)This article describes an explorative study of a prototype for visualisation of locative information from Wikipedia. PediaCloud is a smartphone app that uses word clouds for graphical display of links to text and photos ... -
Word sense disambiguation in webpages. Developing a program capable to disambiguate words with a website text as context
(Master thesis, 2016-12-01)This master thesis investigated automatic methods of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) in HTML pages. The hypothesis was that HTML documents provide various disambiguation cues which are not normally present in general text, ... -
"Work and Strengthening": Ontological dualism and the ethical treatment of mentally ill patients in Madagascar
(Master thesis, 2014-08-11)This thesis is based on fieldwork within a revival movement in Madagascar that treats mentally ill patients with exorcism. I explore the meaning of submission and the problem of ontological dualism based on my experiences. -
The Work Ethic and Social Change in the Czech Republic and Slovakia – a Modernisation Theory Perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The article investigates long-term trends in the work ethic in the Czech Republic and Slovakia from the perspective of modernisation theory. In particular, it examines whether the work ethic in the two culturally similar ... -
Work orientations in contemporary advanced societies : Three comparative studies based on large-scale cross-national survey data
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-12-11)This thesis investigates work orientations among workers in contemporary capitalist societies from a comparative cross-national perspective. It consists of three individual studies. Each applies a different conceptual and ... -
Work, Pension and Reform: A Comparative Analysis of Norway and Denmark in light of OECD Recommendations
(Master thesis, 2003)The thesis addresses the subject of ageing societies resulting from demographic trends of population, individual and active ageing. Societies are aging across the world, but the focus of this study is the OECD area in ... -
Workflow Partitioning for Offline Distributed Execution on Mobile Devices
(CEUR Workshop Proceedings; 855, Chapter, 2012)Traditionally, workflow systems are built on the client/server architecture, in which a single workflow server takes the responsibility for the operation of the whole process, thereby requiring connections each time a task ...