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'A Bettre Felawe Sholde Men Noght Fynde': Satirical Criticism of Chaucer's Friar, Summoner, and Pardoner
(Master thesis, 2018-06-07)I denne oppgaven tar jeg for meg hvordan Geoffrey Chaucer bruker satire i sin Canterbury Tales til å belyse sosial kritikk av middelalderkirken i England, og hvordan denne kritikken gjør leserne oppmerksom på Kirkens misbruk ... -
"Between a Rock and a Hard Place". The Contradictory Roles of Organizations involved in Housing Delivery in South African Informal Settlements
(Master thesis, 2013-06-14)While considerable strides have been made in South Africa in addressing the skewed patterns of access to adequate shelter among its citizens, significant challenges lie ahead. Since the first democratic elections of 1994 ... -
Between a Rock and a Hard Place. The Islamic Council of Norway and the Challenge of Representing Islam in Europe
(Doctoral thesis, 2020)In several European countries the authorities have sought to institutionalize and regulate the Islamic or Muslim presence in their countries through Islamic Representative Councils (IRCs) that can function as interlocutors ... -
Between a rock and a hard place: Undocumented migrants in Norway
(Master thesis, 2012-06-26)This thesis includes different aspects of living situation of undocumented migrants in Norway. It examines self-perception of undocumented migrants and the society's perception of them. It looks into the criminalisation ... -
Between communism and democracy: why postcommunist regimes get "stuck in transition"
(Master thesis, 2010-11-19)The transitions from communist rule throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have resulted in high regime diversity among the postcommunist regimes. Which factors may explain these differences in the political ... -
Between diverging discourses of the child: juveniles’ self-construction in coercive residential care
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Based on a qualitative study, this article explores how Norwegian juveniles construct themselves through stories of everyday life in coercive residential care and how this is related to diverging discourses of the child’s ... -
Between Europeanism and Nativism: Exploring a Cleavage Model of European Public Sphere in Social Media
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The European Union’s common public sphere project dates back to the 1960s and relies on Europeanisation through the gradual eradication of communication boundaries between its member countries. However, it is evident by ... -
Between here and there: aspects of the diasporic experience in the brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)Through this exploration of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao I demonstrate how Díaz' narrative conveys the immigrant experience in a true" form through fiction. As the cultural framework we encounter in the novel is a ... -
Between instrument and everyday sound
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-03-24)The aim of the project is to explore multidimentional, amorphous and vague expressions arising when many aspects of the music are given more independent roles than in traditional musical writing styles. What interests me ... -
Between mythography and historiography: Diodorus' "Universal Library"
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Between North and South: The Episcopal Church in Sudan and the Political Sphere 1945-1972
(Master thesis, 2019-10-02)Denne oppgaven tar for seg forholdet mellom den Episkopale kirken i Sudan og de ulike styresmaktene som har styrt landet i perioden 1945-1972. Gjennom denne avgrensingen tar oppgaven for seg en rekke viktige hendelser og ... -
Between obligations and privileges: Managers' job resources and demands as determinants of their job satisfaction and mental health
(Master thesis, 2010-05-14)Based on Bakker and Demerouti's Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, the present study hypothesized that the job demands of role conflict, work pace and downsizing, and the job resources of participative decision-making and ... -
Between Parody and Pastiche: The Posthuman Biomechanics of Bulgakov’s Novellas
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The article examines the birth of biomechanics in Soviet scientific discourses and how it was absorbed by the theater and literature of the day, in a reading of Michail Bulgakov’s three novellas “D′javoljada” (1924), ... -
Between Prayer and Healing: Concepts of AIDS in a South African community
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Between ritual and information: Three phases of Norwegian news audiences’ sense-making of the election of Donald Trump
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article investigates sense-making processes of news audiences when faced with destabilizing global events. The destabilizing event is Trump’s 2016 election win, which we study from the perspective of audiences far ... -
Between Scholarship and Activism The Institute of Race Relations 1958-1970
(Master thesis, 2009-05-14)The thesis examines the role of the Institute of Race Relations in shaping anti-racism as a political and academic field in the United Kingdom in the 1960s. -
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 ... -
Between the Threshing Floor and the Amen Corner: James Baldwin’s Search for Love in Religion
(Master thesis, 2020-06-20)Hvordan fremstilles kirken og religiøs tro i James Baldwins tidlige forfatterskap? Det er utgangspunktet for denne masteroppgaven. Historisk sett har religion hatt en viktig rolle både som sosialt lim i afroamerikanske ... -
Between tradition and modernity - girls' education in the northern Sudan, 1899-1956.
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Between winter storm surges - Human occupation on a growing Mid-Holocene transgression maximum (Tapes) beach ridge at Longva, Western Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-23)Substantial amounts of archaeological material have been found intermixed with beach pebbles and cobbles on the Tapes beach ridge at Longva on the island Flemsøya/Skuløya in Western Norway. The artefacts show that the beach ...