Department of Social Anthropology
Recent Submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Making and breaking alliances: on valuation in hegemonic projects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In public discourse, the polarizations that accompany the success of authoritarian populisms in recent years are often portrayed as the result of “culture wars” rooted in incompatible values. This article approaches the ... -
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 ... -
Great expectations: Migrant parents and parent-school cooperation in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)One long-standing characteristic of schools in Norway is inclusive education as a primary goal. The last years, the Norwegian government has emphasised increased parent-school cooperation as a way to limit risks, i.e. of ... -
Standardizing responsibility through the stakeholder figure Norwegian hydropower in Turkey
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Through a multi-sited study of the Norwegian state-owned renewable energy corporation Statkraft, this article explores how the increasing embedding of corporate social responsibility in international guidelines impacts 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 ... -
Viruses beyond epistemic fallacy
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Western movements in non-Western worlds: towards an anthropology of uncertain encounters
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Brajisalem: Biblical Cosmology, Power Dynamics and the Brazilian Political Imagination
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Based on fieldwork with Brazilian neo-Pentecostal pilgrims to the Holy Land and ongoing survey of social media in this article I argue that Brazilian neo-Pentecostals increasingly imagine Brazil as a Promised Land and the ... -
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 ... -
Introduction: Exceptionalism and necropolitical security dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)For more than a decade, urban development in Rio de Janeiro was driven by the urgency of preparations for mega-events such as the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. During these years, Brazilian authorities ... -
Living in the Margins of the State
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-26)This thesis explores the various forms of state manifestation in the lives of the Uzbek population living in the borderlands of Kyrgyzstan. With a particular focus on the stateless persons amongst this group, the thesis ... -
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 ... -
Consequences of South African Housing Policy: Twenty years of Struggle, Hope and Waiting
(Master thesis, 2020-12-10) -
Langturseilere i marina. En studie om kommunikasjon, nettverk og makt i seilbåtmiljø i Panama og Guatemala
(Master thesis, 2020-12-10)
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