• Emergent Police States. Racialized Pacification and Police Moralism from Rio’s Favelas to Bolsonaro 

  Salem, Tomas; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (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 

  Ystanes, Margit; Salem, Tomas (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 

  Troscenko, Elina (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 

  Troscenko, Elina (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 

  Thorsen, Anna Koksvik (Master thesis, 2020-12-10)

• Langturseilere i marina. En studie om kommunikasjon, nettverk og makt i seilbåtmiljø i Panama og Guatemala 

  Myrvågnes, Ole Ulvestad (Master thesis, 2020-12-10)

• Education and revitalisation. The role of bilingual education in processes of ethnic revitalisation in the Ecuadorian highlands 

  Espe, Sigrun (Master thesis, 2007)

• The Batswanas' encounter with Western medicine : cooperation or confrontation? 

  Haram, Liv (Master thesis, 1988)

• Iraqis on the Move: Displaced Professionals, Protection/ 'Aman Space in Jordan and Memories of a Destroyed State 

  Adwan, Laura (Doctoral thesis, 2020-10-22)

  Recent events of forced displacement in the Middle East are compelling millions of people to move within the borders of their country, while forcing many others to become strangers in other lands. In the modern era categorized ...

• The Making and Unmaking of Kuttanad : Development and Transformations Below Sea Level 

  Vallikappen, Thresy (Doctoral thesis, 2020-09-18)

  The aim of my research is to explore the transformation of the physical and social landscapes in Kuttanad, which is closely related to the political and economic dynamisms in Keralam, India and the rest of the world. By ...

• The Appreciated Other: Ideals of revitalization through integration 

  de Figueiredo, Jenny Walle Jomisko (Master thesis, 2020-08-25)

  Due to a history of accommodating immigrants since the 1990s, Badolato has built a reputation of being "il paese di accoglienza" (the town of hospitality), with its own "modello di accoglienza" (accommodation model). In ...

• Biting the dirty hand that feeds you Relations and Resistance in the Bidi Bidi refugee camp, Northern Uganda 

  Virtanen, Mikko Henrik Mæland (Master thesis, 2020-08-22)

• The Faithful Servant: Practicing Science and Religion among PNG university students in Australia 

  Tørresdal, Ingfrid Josefine Torstrup (Master thesis, 2020-08-21)

• Ei ny tid for gamle gudar: ein etnografisk studie av Ásatrúarfélagið på Island 

  Nilsen, Fartein Hauan (Master thesis, 2020-08-21)

  I denne oppgåva tek eg for meg trussamfunnet Ásatrúarfélagið på Island. Dette er eit nypaganistisk trussamfunn som vart grunnlagt i 1972 og som fekk status som statleg anerkjent religion på Island i 1973. Dette inneber at ...

• "Water is life, Life is Water" - Environmental Engagements in Thailand 

  Paulsen, Daniel Oliver (Master thesis, 2020-08-13)

  Abstract In this thesis I aim to shed light on how environmental engagement can unfold in Thailand – in an authoritarian regime with insufficient waste management infrastructure and lack of well-organized environmental ...

• Fracking Lancashire: The planning process, social harm and collective trauma 

  Short, Damien; Szolucha, Anna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  To date there have been very few studies that have sought to investigate the crimes, harms and human rights violations associated with the process of ‘extreme energy’, whereby energy extraction methods grow more ‘unconventional’ ...

• Climate Change in the Islands and the Highlands: Melanesian Manifestations, Experiences and Actions 

  Hviding, Edvard; Borrevik, Camilla Agnethe (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  Pacific Islanders have often been portrayed as ‘helpless victims’ in the popular media because they suffer the consequences of climate changes mainly caused by other, larger nations. In terms of media attention and sheer ...

• Frivilligturisme og bullshit jobs: om arbeid, kapital og søppel 

  Sørenes, Synne (Master thesis, 2020-06-19)

  Denne masteroppgåva tek for seg frivilligturisme i ein costaricansk surfeby, og kva det kan fortelje oss om idear knytt til verdifullt arbeid, kapital og søppel. Gjennom deltakande observasjon ved to ulike organisasjonar ...

• The River, the Water and the Crocodile in Marovo Lagoon 

  Hviding, Edvard (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)

• The Care/Security Nexus of the Humanitarian Border: Assisted Return in Norway 

  Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-25)

  While Assisted Return and deportation are frequently viewed as two different return policies, the first represented as humanitarian and the latter as enforcement, this article argues that there is a continuum between these ...

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