Department of Social Anthropology
Recent Submissions
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Paradox and Pity: What We Can Learn From Fiji’s Urban Squatter Settlements
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article discusses what might be gained from placing informal urban settlements at the centre of analyses of contemporary Fiji. Holding around 20 percent of the total population and growing rapidly, these settlements ... -
Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations
(Book; Peer reviewed, 2021) -
Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: Cosmologies of War and the Far-Right
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2021 Elizabeth Colson Lecture, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford. The Afterlives of Return and the Limits of Refugee Protection
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article features a long-term refugee in Greece who decided to return to his home country in the face of severe illness. I ask what his illness and treatment in Greece, and ultimately his return to Sudan, reveal about ... -
Frå Barth sitt aktørperspektiv og Geertz sin kulturhistorie til Pfeilstetter sitt omgrep «entrepreneurialization». Ei drøfting av nyttige perspektiv til forståinga av politiske entreprenørprosessar i Sudan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Artikkelen introduserer først to klassiske antropologiske analyser av entreprenørprosessar, Barth sin aktørorientering der entreprenøren starter sosiale endringsprosessar, og Geertz sitt kulturorienterte perspektiv der ... -
Sudanesiske meklarar (brokers) i Yiwu
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Denne artikkelen fokuserer på sudanesiske meklarar i Yiwu, ein by på kysten av Kina der handelsmennn frå Sudan kom for å handle billege kinesiske varer. Artikkelen nevner to grupper av sudanesarar, den eine som kjem på ... -
Two theories of money. On the historical anthropology of the state-finance nexus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The last decade of financial crisis, “financialization” and “quantitative easing” has been a feast of public learning about money and finance. Anthropology, history, and political economy rediscovered a “forgotten” history ... -
Critical realism in political ecology: An argument against flat ontology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This theoretical article takes issue with how 'new materialisms' have been employed in political ecology, and it explores the 'depth ontology' of critical realism developed by Roy Bhaskar as an alternative to the 'flat ... -
Rethinking “surplus populations” Theory from the peripheries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Critical scholarship on twenty-first century capitalist development has called attention to certain structural limits on employment growth. Large populations excluded from formal employment are seen to eke out a precarious ... -
The Meanings of Chronopolitics and Temporal Awareness in Feminist Ethnographic Research
(Chapter, 2023)In this chapter, the co-authors argue for the need to develop greater awareness of how feminist knowledge production is situated, not only in an uneven geopolitical terrain but also within a politics of time. Chronopolitics ... -
Solidarity, Motivation and Community: An ethnographic study about environmental activists in the climate justice movement in Montreal Canada
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)The climate movement is, in many aspects, a global movement. I find it particularly intriguing and fascinating to see how this movement manifests locally and how environmental activists are motivated to participate in this ... -
Sølvberget som et moderne arkitektonisk kompleks: En antropologisk studie av materielle objekter og dets føringer for sosialt liv
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Studiet om materialitet er ikke nytt. Akademikere har skrevet volumer om tingene som meningsfulle ikoner, metaforiske avbildninger eller som vare i økonomisk handel. Det som har manglet i slike diskurser er en anerkjennelse ... -
Navigating Environmental Schemes and Policies: An ethnographic study of how farmers in Devon, England experience and adapt to agricultural rules and restrictions
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)After Brexit, the UK decided on pursuing to reach ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050. In doing this, they turned away from the existing EU subsidy scheme – the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) – and started creating their own ... -
Manoeuvring Restrictions and Social Status in the Old City Market of Al Khalil (Hebron)
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)This thesis investigates how it is to manoeuvre social and economic life in the tourism market in the Old City of Al Khalil, Palestine. The theme will be discussed in light of anthropology of security, Bourdieu’s theory ... -
Occupy Till He Comes – A Patriot Spirit An Ethnographic Study of Christian Nationalism, Culture War and the End Time Church
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)This thesis examines the intricate interplay between religious faith and the dynamics of Christian nationalism within the context of the Patriot Church, a prominent religious community in the United States. Through ... -
Solidarity and Resistance in the Platform Economy in France: Refugee Gig Workers and Mobilization
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)This thesis explores the work conditions for refugee gig couriers in Nantes, France. It examines whether workers manage to express solidarity in order to act and bargain collectively against terms that they perceive unjust ...