Blar i University of Bergen Library på tidsskrift "Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology"
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Between social footprint and compliance, or “what IBAMA wants” Equinor Brazil's social sustainability policy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article analyzes an “Environmental Education Project” run by the Norwegian state oil company Equinor targeting poor women in the seafood processing industry along the coastline adjacent to Equinor's offshore Peregrino ... -
Bringing the State back in. Corporate Social Responsibility and the paradoxes of Norwegian state capitalism in the international energy sector
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This theme section brings the state back into anthropological studies of corporate social responsibility through the lens of Norwegian energy corporations working abroad. Th ese transnational corporations (TNCs) are expected ... -
Crisis and retirement: Alienation in Kerala’s tea belt
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The recent crisis in the tea industry has devastated the livelihood of the Dalit workforce in the South Indian state of Kerala. Retired workers were worst affected, since the plantation companies—under the disguise of the ... -
Doing global investments the Nordic way. The "business case" for Equinor’s support to union work among its employees in Tanzania
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In the Nordic countries, unions are represented in company boards and can infl uence companies’ policies toward labor abroad. Th is article focuses on the Norwegian national oil company Equinor and its support of unionization ... -
Rethinking “surplus populations” Theory from the peripheries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Critical scholarship on twenty-first century capitalist development has called attention to certain structural limits on employment growth. Large populations excluded from formal employment are seen to eke out a precarious ... -
Standardizing responsibility through the stakeholder figure Norwegian hydropower in Turkey
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Through a multi-sited study of the Norwegian state-owned renewable energy corporation Statkraft, this article explores how the increasing embedding of corporate social responsibility in international guidelines impacts the ... -
Two theories of money. On the historical anthropology of the state-finance nexus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)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 ...