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"Different strokes for different folks" in egalitarian intentional communities: searching for the good life in practical utopias
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-10-22)This thesis explores egalitarian social experiments in a section within the Intentional Communities (ICs) movement in the United States of America. The central ethnographic investigation of the thesis concerns an analysis ... -
Differentiation of rights in the Norwegian welfare state: Hierarchies of belonging and humanitarian exceptionalism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-08-30)Controlling mobility and borders has become a central, defining feature of the state today. Using the Norwegian welfare state as a case study, I argue that the differentiation of rights depending on status categories is ... -
Digital symbolic arenas. Reinventing youth identity and emerging forms of play.
(Master thesis, 2020-03-17)This thesis will ethnographically analyze the interrelationships between gender, class, and subcultural styles using different video gaming groups primarily located in Bergen, Norway. I will discuss the structures of the ... -
Dispossession and ethnic identity in expanding state space of Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2014-06-15)In the milieu of the global development and state' formation of Bangladesh, the Khyang people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) are in a situation of economic transition and marginalization. Bangladesh state's persistence ... -
Donas da Terra (Female Owners of the Land). Decolonizing historical representations through an ethnography of memories of women of power and authority in Zambezia, Mozambique
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-11-24)This thesis discusses the missing or underrepresented women of power and authority within the written history of Mozambique’s Zambezi region. It argues that several generations of scholars, both within colonial and ... -
Double devaluations: Class, value and the rise of the right in the Global North
(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 ... -
The Dynamics of changing perspectives: Identity politics, citizen rights and language among the deaf in Norway
(Master thesis, 2013-05-30)This thesis is centered around the two conflicting discourses on deafness. Deafness can be understood as both a medical and cultural terms. However, both these discourses are highly contested. This thesis aims at exploring ... -
Dø for Brann, alle mann! En antropologisk studie av supportermiljøet rundt Sportsklubben Brann.
(Master thesis, 2008)Dø for Brann, alle mann! - en antropologisk studie av supportermiljøet tilknyttet Sportsklubben BrannAv Anita RøssevoldVeileder: Ståle KnudsenJeg gjorde i perioden januar-juli 2007 feltarbeid i supportermiljøet rundt ... -
Effervescence and Ephemerality: Popular Urban Uprisings in Mozambique
(Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06-25)This article analyses the large-scale popular urban uprisings that shook Mozambican cities on 1 and 2 September 2010, following the government’s announcement of successive rises in the price of public transport fares and ... -
The Egalitarian King? Abdullah Öcalan and his evolving role in the Kurdish Freedom Movement
(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 ... -
Ei ny tid for gamle gudar: ein etnografisk studie av Ásatrúarfélagið på Island
(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 ... -
«Ein må tole å bli skitten på fingrane» - Ein studie av identitet og fellesskap blant unge i industristaden Odda
(Master thesis, 2022-11-01)Denne masteroppgåva handlar om identitet og fellesskap blant ungdom i industristaden Odda i Hardanger. Odda er ein av stadane som på byrjinga av 1900-talet var ein del av industrialiseringa i Noreg. I dag er det framleis ... -
"Elles n'ont pas la volonté." Respektabilitet blant kristne kvinner i Ngaoundéré, Kamerun
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Embedded movement: Senegalese transcontinental migration and gender identity
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"Embracing the land". Maori og Pakeha i Aotearoa New Zealand
(Master thesis, 2007)Teksten handler om aspekter ved forholdet mellom urfolk og majoritet i et vestlige sosialdemokratisk i-land. Den er basert på et seks måneder langt feltarbeid (fra august 2006 til februar 2007) i Aotearoa New Zealand, ... -
Emergent Police States. Racialized Pacification and Police Moralism from Rio’s Favelas to Bolsonaro
(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 ... -
En konstituering av masaikultur. En antropologisk studie av to frivillige bistandsorganisasjoners intervensjoner i Kenya
(Master thesis, 2014-05-26)Avhandlingen er basert på seks måneders feltarbeid ved foten av Kilimanjaro i Kenya, og er en studie av én norsk-kenyansk- og én amerikansk frivillig humanitær organisasjon som opererer i samme masailandsby. Organisasjonene ... -
"En må få hodet inn i soningen" Mestring og motstand i Bergen fengsel
(Master thesis, 2011-12-19)Denne avhandlingen omhandler menneskers relasjon til makt. Under et 6 måneders langt feltarbeid i Bergen fengsel undersøkte jeg informantenes hverdag ved å benytte meg av en kombinasjon av deltakende observasjon og intervjuer. ... -
En reise i flow – organisering av dansefester og opplevelser med elektronisk musikk
(Master thesis, 2004)