Faculty of Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Understanding Hydrologic, Human, and Climate System Feedback Loops: Results of a Participatory Modeling Workshop
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Groundwater depletion threatens global freshwater resources, necessitating urgent water management and policies to meet current and future needs. However, existing data-intensive approaches to assessments do not fully ... -
Assessing the crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of inquiry commission reports in Norway and Sweden
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article examines the inquiry reports from the commissions charged with investigating government crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway and Sweden. Such postcrises commissions have been a common feature ... -
Cross-sectoral metrics as accountability tools for twin transitioning energy systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)As energy systems become ever more closely intertwined in order to enable electrification and real-time coordination across sectors, tracking the nature of change to ensure accountability during complex implementation ... -
Beyond the “substitution effect”: the impact of digital experience quality on future cultural participation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The “pivot” to digital that many arts and culture organisations faced during the Covid-19 pandemic, revealed a complex nexus of effects that includes significant accessibility improvements (for example, for D/deaf and ... -
Intuitive and Deliberative Behavior : The Role of Cognition in Sociological Models of Action
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-03-22)Denne avhandlingen utforsker kognisjonens rolle i utformingen av menneskelig atferd. Med utgangspunkt i en misnøye med de altfor forenklede antakelsene om menneskelig kognisjon som finnes i mange av dagens sosiologiske ... -
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 ... -
European allygnment: Civil society and political inclusion of the LGBTI community – a mixed methods approach.
(Master thesis, 2023-12-04)The quest for political inclusion of the LGBTI community is complicated. In the last decades, more queer electoral candidates have been elected, queer rights have increased, and general discrimination decreased. Simultaneously, ... -
Populisme på samisk. Framveksten av Nordkalottfolket på Sametinget
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Nordkalottfolket (NKF) fikk sitt politiske gjennombrudd i Sametinget ved valget i 2021 med 18,3 prosent av stemmene med 9 av 39 representanter fra 6 av 7 valgkretser. Med populismens forståelse av hvordan «folket», «eliten» ... -
Karakterpress og konkurranse - En sosiologisk undersøkelse av studentmiljøet ved det juridiske fakultet i Bergen
(Master thesis, 2018-06-27)Formålet med denne oppgaven har vært å gjøre en sosiologisk analyse av studentmiljøet ved det juridiske fakultet i Bergen, med særlig fokus på karakterpress som et sosialt fenomen. Med det som utgangspunkt har hovedprobl ... -
Kan mikroinvesteringer i landbruket bidra til empowerment for malawiske kvinner?
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Sovereignty through cartography : The impact of maps on Norwegian national identity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-03-08)Kartografi har i mange hundre år blitt brukt som et politisk instrument for å støtte nasjonal stolthet og innflytelse. Det kan skje gjennom bruk av en nasjonal nullmeridian eller lokale stedsnavn, fremheving av landets ... -
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 ... -
Theory as guide to the analysis of polygyny and conflict: A response to Ash (2022)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Ash (2022, "Ash" hereafter), in this journal, re-assesses our 2020 article “Polygynous Neighbors, Excess Men, and Intergroup Conflict in Africa.” The article analyzed the relationship between polygyny (one man marrying ... -
Regulating low wages: cross-national policy variation and outcomes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article provides a comparative analysis of three central policies to regulate low wages: statutory minimum wages, state support for collective bargaining and topping up low wages with public transfers (in-work benefits). ... -
Changes in online course designs: Before, during, and after the pandemic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The switch to emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic became for many university instructors a necessity to familiarise themselves with the institution’s online learning management system (LMS). This switch ... -
Bündnis der Gesamtschulgegner*innen? Die Rolle der CDU in der Bildungspolitik von NRW in den 1950er bis 1970er Jahren
(Journal article, 2023)Die späten 1960er und frühen 1970er Jahre waren das letzte Zeitfenster in Deutschland, in dem die flächendeckende Einführung der Gesamtschule und die Abschaffung des Gymnasiums in reformorientierten Kreisen als realistische ... -
European Artificial Intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: the risk-based fashioning of a competitive common AI market
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The European Commission has pioneered the coercive regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), including a proposal of banning some applications altogether on moral grounds. Core to its regulatory strategy is a nominally ... -
Nonverbal communication as argumentation: the case of political television debates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper demonstrates how nonverbal communication may per-form argumentative functions in television debates by acclaiming and defending the debater’s own ethos and in attacking the oppo-nent’s ethos. We argue that studies ... -
“It gave us a thrill”: Emotions, exile, and narratives of (dis)engagement among activists from Syria
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Building on qualitative interviews with Syrians who participated in the anti-regime movement of 2011 and now live in Berlin and Oslo, the article unpacks the ways that these contexts affected participants’ decision to ...