• Et antropologisk studie av Hordfast 

  Christensen, Susanne (Master thesis, 2023-06-15)

  Denne oppgaven er et antropologisk studie av infrastrukturprosjektet Hordfast, og er basert på et 6 måneders etnografisk feltarbeid utført våren 2022. Dette feltarbeidet var hovedsakelig utført i Tysnes kommune, hvor jeg ...

• Maneuvering Contested Space and Community An Ethnographic Study of the Underground Electronic Music Scene in Itaewon 

  Blamey, Moira Magdalena Remme (Master thesis, 2023-06-14)

  This thesis examines the dynamics of the underground electronic music scene in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea, within the framework of contested space. Building upon the theories of Henri Lefebvre, Anthony Cohen, and Sarah ...

• “They treat us as machines”: The gig economy and the value of labor in Berlin. 

  Aakerholt, Ida Marie (Master thesis, 2023-06-16)

• Stadier av migrasjonsaspirasjoner: En etnografisk studie av internasjonal mobilitet og migrasjonsaspirasjoner blant middelklasse pakistanere i Lahore og Oslo. 

  Skripeland, Malin (Master thesis, 2023-06-13)

  Denne oppgaven utforsker migrasjonsaspirasjoner blant middelklassepakistanere i Lahore og Oslo, gjennom et interseksjonelt perspektiv. Basert på et etnografisk feltarbeid i Lahore og Oslo utforsker oppgaven erfaringer og ...

• Ambivalent recognition: young unaccompanied refugees’ encounters with Norwegian society 

  Johansen, Kristina; Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Receiving the right to stay in Norway might seem a critical factor for refugees’ well-being and belonging. Yet, this research shows that young unaccompanied refugees experience ambivalent feelings towards Norwegian society ...

• People vs. peoples: sacrifice and the foundations for sovereignty in 1640’s England and contemporary northeast Syria 

  Rudi, Axel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Engaging with state-centric perspectives on sovereignty, and particularly Giorgio Agamben's work, this article argues that despite sovereignty's permanence at the level of the state, the principles upon which it is built ...

• Managing chosen life(spans) - Cryopreservation in Europe 

  Torsnes, Sigrid (Master thesis, 2023-05-24)

  This thesis explores how technoscience is used to extend life and control death through human cryopreservation (cryonics). It is based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Berlin, Germany, the United Kingdom, ...

• Rituell reproduksjon av buekorps: klasse, kjønn og materialitet 

  Uglum, Evita (Master thesis, 2023-05-22)

  I denne oppgåva vil eg sjå nærare på buekorps, ein bevegelse som blei starta på 1800-talet av ungdom, og som fortsatt er eit fenomen i Bergen i dag. Eg vil fokusere på buekorpsa opp mot rituale, og vil då komme inn på ulike ...

• Returning to Nature. Post-carbon Utopias in Svalbard, Norway 

  Ødegaard, Cecilie Vindal (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  While industrial closures in past decades were legitimized through an emphasis on economic motives, current closures are often framed within an emphasis on ‘green transition’, that is, through prefigurative discourses about ...

• Transizione verso cosa? Un’ anthropologia storica della finanza, della moneta e delle crisi economiche 

  Kalb, Donatus Pius (Journal article, 2022)

  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 ...

• The ‘onto-logics’ of perspectival multi-naturalism: A realist critique 

  Bråten, Eldar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  In this article, I argue for a realist anthropology based on the recognition of mind-independent reality; pitching this premise against concerted anti-dualist tendencies in contemporary anthropological thinking. I spell ...

• Temporality and the politics of the migrant body 

  Jacobsen, Christine M. (Journal article, 2022)

• Learning danger: Cultural difference and the limits of trust in dangerous fieldworks 

  Rudi, Axel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Reflecting on personal experiences from conducting fieldwork in Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan between 2015 and 2017, the article supplements existing literature on how to navigate dangerous fieldwork by considering the limits ...

• The Egalitarian King? Abdullah Öcalan and his evolving role in the Kurdish Freedom Movement 

  Rudi, Axel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  The Kurdish movement has often been touted as an egalitarian struggle, and, in many ways, rightly so. However, the movement's relation to its undisputed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, has remained relatively unexamined. This ...

• Kollaps, utkastelse, okkupasjon: migranters boligsituasjon i Marseille 

  Jacobsen, Christine M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  I november 2018 førte kollapsen av to bygninger i Marseille til at 8 personer døde og en rekke innbyggere i et av byens mest multietniske sentrumsnabolag ble nødevakuert og tvangsflyttet. I november året etter tvangsevakuerte ...

• Why Do Middle-Class Positions Matter? The Alignment of Short-Term Rental Suppliers to the Interests of Capital 

  Yrigoy, Ismael; Morell, Marc; Müller, Nora (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Underlying the idea of the middle classes there is a contradictory positionality, the relations of which ultimately enhance capital accumulation. By opening Marxist critique to Weberian approaches to class, we explain how ...

• Urban polarisering: Antropologiske bidrag 

  Møgster, Trine Olsen; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Dette spesialnummeret er viet antropologiske studier av urbane formasjoner og fokuserer særlig på polarisering og det sosiale livet som utspiller seg i møte med denne. Særlig søker vi å utforske og sammenligne de mangeartede ...

• Ambulerende omsorg. Eller, spekulasjon i møte med byers oppløsning og framtidens slutt i Maputo 

  Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge; Nassone, Abel Março (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Grell ulikhet i globale storbyer forklares ofte som et resultat av strukturell eller nyliberal vold og antropologiske analyser skildrer gjerne mangeartede eksklusjonsmønstre, dehumanisering og vold. Selv om slike framstillinger ...

• Double devaluations: Class, value and the rise of the right in the Global North 

  Kalb, Donatus Pius (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  This article builds on the contributions of anthropologists of Europe in discovering, tracing and explaining the neo-nationalist ascendancy of the last 20 years. It picks up on earlier publications to make a succinct case ...

• Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures 

  Näre, Lena; Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad; Maury, Olivia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  In this article, we analyse how temporary and irregular migrants resist bureaucratically induced waiting for decisions on their residence permit applications in the unknown future [l’avénir] by engaging with the present. ...

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