Department of Social Anthropology
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Mountains of Modernity : Romantic Pursuits of Happiness in the Anthropocene
(Doctoral thesis, 2025-03-19)Denne doktorgradsavhandlingen undersøker det skiftende forholdet mellom modernitet og fjellandskap i Vesten, med fokus på hvordan romantiske forestillinger om lykke og det gode liv uttrykkes gjennom et mangfold av ... -
Extremism as Immanence and Process: The Trump Transmutation
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The Pursuit of an Appropriate Dispute Resolution Philosophy for Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) is rooted in Africa. However, this is not reflected in scholarship and practice. The last few decades have witnessed the supposed introduction of ADR in Africa, masquerading as an ... -
The glamour and grammar of innovation: notes on the spectacular reimagination of municipal care in Norway.
(Chapter, 2024)The expert report Innovation in the Care Services (NOU 2011: 11) promotes “innovation” as a radical new idea and solution to public care in Norway. We critically analyze three dimensions of this idea in policy and argue ... -
‘Psychedelics are no magic pill’: the narrative and embodied dimensions of psychedelic integration in Denmark
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Within recent years, an increasing number of people and researchers in the Global North have become interested in psychedelic substances and their therapeutic application. While much of the current media attention and ... -
Life and the Road. Vehicle Dwellers and the American Dream
(Master thesis, 2024-12-02)This thesis is an ethnographic study of ‘vehicle dwellers’, more typically known as ‘vanlifers’, living on the road full-time in the southwest of the United States of America. The empirical material of this thesis is based ... -
Mennesker, Strand, Seawall: En antropologisk studie av hvordan mennesker tilpasser seg forandringer i infrastrukturen som skjer på grunn av klimaforandringer i Wamberal/Terrigal-området
(Master thesis, 2024-12-02)Denne masteroppgaven utforsker spenningen mellom kystsikringstiltak og deres sosiale og miljømessige konsekvenser, med utgangspunkt i konflikten rundt den mulige byggingen av en Seawall i Wambera/Terrigal-område, på ... -
An Ethnography of Waikiki: Representation and Tourism
(Master thesis, 2024-12-02)Abstract Hawai´i has a long and complex history of colonialization, exotification and mass-tourism. As a result of this, there are various representations of Hawai´i and the Hawaiian culture that presents a picture of ... -
Alle må med: Styreres erfaringer med å etablere og utvikle profesjonelle læringsfellesskap i barnehagen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Denne artikkelen undersøker barnehagestyreres erfaringer med etablering og utvikling av profesjonelle læringsfellesskap i egne barnehager. Studien springer ut av et større utviklingsarbeid gjennom Regional ordning for ... -
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
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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