Department of Social Anthropology
Recent Submissions
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Ambivalent recognition: young unaccompanied refugees’ encounters with Norwegian society
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Receiving the right to stay in Norway might seem a critical factor for refugees’ well-being and belonging. Yet, this research shows that young unaccompanied refugees experience ambivalent feelings towards Norwegian society ... -
People vs. peoples: sacrifice and the foundations for sovereignty in 1640’s England and contemporary northeast Syria
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Engaging with state-centric perspectives on sovereignty, and particularly Giorgio Agamben's work, this article argues that despite sovereignty's permanence at the level of the state, the principles upon which it is built ... -
Returning to Nature. Post-carbon Utopias in Svalbard, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)While industrial closures in past decades were legitimized through an emphasis on economic motives, current closures are often framed within an emphasis on ‘green transition’, that is, through prefigurative discourses about ... -
Transizione verso cosa? Un’ anthropologia storica della finanza, della moneta e delle crisi economiche
(Journal article, 2022)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 ... -
The ‘onto-logics’ of perspectival multi-naturalism: A realist critique
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, I argue for a realist anthropology based on the recognition of mind-independent reality; pitching this premise against concerted anti-dualist tendencies in contemporary anthropological thinking. I spell ... -
Temporality and the politics of the migrant body
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Learning danger: Cultural difference and the limits of trust in dangerous fieldworks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Reflecting on personal experiences from conducting fieldwork in Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan between 2015 and 2017, the article supplements existing literature on how to navigate dangerous fieldwork by considering the limits ... -
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 ... -
Kollaps, utkastelse, okkupasjon: migranters boligsituasjon i Marseille
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)I november 2018 førte kollapsen av to bygninger i Marseille til at 8 personer døde og en rekke innbyggere i et av byens mest multietniske sentrumsnabolag ble nødevakuert og tvangsflyttet. I november året etter tvangsevakuerte ... -
Why Do Middle-Class Positions Matter? The Alignment of Short-Term Rental Suppliers to the Interests of Capital
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Underlying the idea of the middle classes there is a contradictory positionality, the relations of which ultimately enhance capital accumulation. By opening Marxist critique to Weberian approaches to class, we explain how ... -
Urban polarisering: Antropologiske bidrag
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Dette spesialnummeret er viet antropologiske studier av urbane formasjoner og fokuserer særlig på polarisering og det sosiale livet som utspiller seg i møte med denne. Særlig søker vi å utforske og sammenligne de mangeartede ... -
Ambulerende omsorg. Eller, spekulasjon i møte med byers oppløsning og framtidens slutt i Maputo
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Grell ulikhet i globale storbyer forklares ofte som et resultat av strukturell eller nyliberal vold og antropologiske analyser skildrer gjerne mangeartede eksklusjonsmønstre, dehumanisering og vold. Selv om slike framstillinger ... -
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 ... -
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, we analyse how temporary and irregular migrants resist bureaucratically induced waiting for decisions on their residence permit applications in the unknown future [l’avénir] by engaging with the present. ... -
«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 ... -
Lavaland : Vernacular Seismology in Volatile Volcanic Environments in Puna, Hawai'i
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-09-23)Vulkanen Kīlauea på Hawaiʻi’s Big Island er en av de mest aktive vulkanene i verden. Folk har bodd i høyrisikoområder i Punadistriktet, som ligger på nordsiden av denne vulkanen, i over 1000 år. Denne avhandlingen handler ... -
Civil war and the non-linearity of time: approaching a Mozambican politics of irreconciliation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)At least 1 million people died during the Mozambican civil war (1976/7-92). Unfolding after gaining independence from Portugal (1975) and alongside experiments with Afro-socialism in the 1980s, the war, despite its brutality, ... -
Cracks in the System and Anthropology. A response to Bråten
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)We begin by thanking our colleague Eldar Bråten for taking the time to read and comment on our article with such thoroughness. We continue right away with a response. A key aspect of Bråten’s critique is his claim that it ... -
Middleman Minority Nation : Globalization and Social Democracy in Singapore
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-05-06)The Singaporean state is a social democracy with middleman minority characteristics. This thesis argues that it is the fusion of these two – the culture of the middleman minority, and the statist corporatism of social ... -
Notes on a more equitable higher education
(Journal article, 2021)