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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
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The ways of Maize: Food, Poverty, Policy and the Politics of Meaning among the Chewa of Malawi
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-06-29)This ethnographically grounded study of Chewa people’s foodways traces the involvement of the Chewa people in global development politics and policy processes. With the aim of understanding how development interventionist ... -
“We are nothing without our Islands”: Challenges and Crises in the Marshall Islands
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)Abstract: This thesis explores the themes of challenges and crises in the Marshall Islands. Through ethnographic data based on participant observation primarily in Majuro, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), I study ... -
'We Rise By Lifting Others'
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“We started climate change”. A Multi-level ethnography of Pacific Climate Leadership
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-04-26)Based on fieldwork in multiple locations around the world but with a particular focus on the Pacific Islands region, this dissertation explores ethnographically the global phenomena of anthropogenic climate change and their ... -
"Welcome to reality!" Populism and mistrust among the Sweden Democrats
(Master thesis, 2021-11-25)This thesis explores populist tendencies in political representatives from the Sweden Democrats (SD) in a Swedish city. Through ethnographic data and drawing on Ernesto Laclau’s theory on populist reason, I show how the ... -
Western movements in non-Western worlds: towards an anthropology of uncertain encounters
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What are the gendered implications of neoliberal land grabs? A case study of Rufiji River Basin in Rufiji district, coast region in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2014-06-19)Abstract This thesis explores the gendered implications of the neoliberal land grab in Rufiji River basin in Tanzania. I set out to deconstruct the taken for granted assumptions concerning the state/legal approaches in the ... -
"When you cannot do anything, that's the greatest problem in life" - Place and identity, power and agency among Karen refugees on the Thai-Burmese border
(Master thesis, 2010-06-17)In this thesis, identity formation processes among refugees from the ethnic group of Karen from Burma, in camps along the Thai-Burmese border are explored. Questions related to subjectivity formation are discussed, such ... -
Where blessing and curse merge with life and death: Local beliefs in contemporary Lower Kuttanad
(Master thesis, 2012-06-22)The principal rationale behind the present research was to explore the relationship between the people and key resources, the land and the water, in the agrarian region known as Lower Kuttanad in the state of Kerala. In ... -
Which community for cooperatives? Peasant mobilizations, the Mafia, and the problem of community participation in Sicilian co-ops
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)The literature on cooperatives often conceptualizes cooperativism as an organized effort to embrace community participation. Through the analysis of agrarian cooperatives in Sicily that were formally established to counter ...