Browsing Department of Social Anthropology by Title
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Urbanisering i Fjell kommune
(Master thesis, 2016-07-01)Fjell kommune på vestlandet har de siste årene hatt høy befolkningsvekst over flere år. Det er noe av årsaken til at har blitt vedtatt store og omfattende urbaniseringsplaner. Fra før har Fjell mange rurale kvaliteter som ... -
Utopian confluences: anthropological mappings of generative politics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-24)In this introductory essay, we introduce the possibility of an anthropology of generative politics, focusing in particular on its utopian unfoldings. We depart from the recognition that the current global political landscape ... -
Utopian forestry in Nepal; Local governance and the production of new citizen
(Master thesis, 2012-08-24)A fieldwork of the Community Forest User Group and local society in the village of Bishanku Narayan, Ward 1, District of Godawari, Nepal. A study of how the CF model affects the local society of the people engaged in ... -
«Uttrykket endrer seg, men budskapet er det samme». En studie av en generasjonsmenighet i endring.
(Master thesis, 2015-05-22)Denne avhandlingen er en antropologisk studie av pinsevenner i en vestlandsk pinsemenighet. Gjennom oppgaven har jeg sett på hvordan endringsprosesser i forhold tro og religiøs praksis kan forstås i en generasjonsmenighet ... -
Valuable Subversions: Gendered Generativity and Sorcerous Production in Central Mozambique
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-11-25)How is one to analyze the existence of a subterranean dwarfish couple (zwidoma) occupying the space underneath cooking places and whose central purpose is to reinforce a market woman’s sales—but simultaneously feeding off ... -
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 ... -
Verdiuttrykk i den tredje alder; selvstendighet, likhet, ansvarlighet og anerkjennelse i de sosiale fellesskapene
(Master thesis, 2014-06-20)Sammendrag Dette er en antropologisk studie, basert på mitt feltarbeid i Norge, av alderdom og hvilke verdier de eldre har i det jeg kaller den tredje alder; de «unge eldre». Fokuset i min studie har vært å studere hva ... -
Violent Becomings. State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique
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Violent masculinities: Gendered dynamics of policing in Rio de Janeiro
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Historically, policing in Rio de Janeiro has been shaped by the equation of racialized violence and masculinity. Attempts to reform the police have paradoxically drawn on forms of male violence that are centered on the ... -
The virtuous woman and the holy nation: Femininity in the context of Pentecostal Christianity in Vanuatu
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08)In this paper I connect an anthropology of Christianity to an anthropology of the body and an anthropology of the nation. I try to achieve this by looking at changing notions of femininity in the Pentecostal context of ... -
Viruses beyond epistemic fallacy
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"Visdom hører steder til" - En studie om landskap og stedliggjøring av islandskhet
(Master thesis, 2014-06-13)The thesis explores national identity in Iceland and the UNESCO World Heritage Site Thingvellir National Park. This is the place where the Icelandic Parliament was established in the year 930 AD. In addition to the unique ... -
Vold og Ære, hevn og forsoning. Om kulturell kontinuitet i et komparativt perspektiv
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)This article is a slightly modified version of the honorary lecture I gave at the Annual Conference of the Norwegian Association of Anthropologists 2017. I am addressing the conference's central theme – cultural continuity ... -
Vulnerability governance as differential inclusion: the struggles of asylum seekers in Marseille
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Concerns with ‘vulnerability’ increasingly proliferate in global and regional pacts, international and domestic legislations, and policy discourses and practices regarding migration and international protection. Also in ... -
Wanem ia jenda? [What is Gender?]: Translations and (Mis)Understandings between Development Discourse & Everyday Life Experiences in Port Vila, Vanuatu
(Master thesis, 2016-06-17)Labelled as one of the Least Developed Countries, Vanuatu is a popular place for international Development agencies. The situation of women is particularly often targeted in the Development discourses and buzzwords like ... -
"Water is life, Life is Water" - Environmental Engagements in Thailand
(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 ... -
Water or Soda -Volunteers in a Kampala slum-
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Waterworn. Climate Change Resonance in the Shivalik Hills of North India
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-05-15)This dissertation aims to explore the idea of climate change as it appeared amongst villagers in the rural Shivalik hills of North India. I traced the discourse behind the practices of diverse local, regional and global ... -
Ways of Knowing, Ways of Life. Environment, Education and Climate Change in a Rural Samoan Village
(Master thesis, 2015-08-13)