Department of Social Anthropology
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Value at the End of the Cycle: On Frontlines and Regimes
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Introduction: Wolf, Europe and people without history: Forty years on
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Europe and the people without history (EPWH), published in 1982, challenged anthropology's focus on localism, synchronism, and culturalism, providing a meticulous exposition of multiscalar social relationships in motion. ... -
«Alle vet at Norge er best»: Kampen mot prekære og utnyttende arbeidsforhold i det norske arbeidslivet og velferdssamfunnet
(Journal article, 2024)En norsk arbeidslivsmodell og omfattende velferdsordninger er med på å sikre et trygt arbeidsliv og støtte for mennesker som faller utenfor arbeidslivet. Likevel peker forskere på økende forekomst av prekære arbeidsforhold, ... -
Tilly Reversed? Another Cycle of Labor and Socialism is Possible
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)As labor in the capitalist system practically tripled to some three billion workers, solidary organizations of labor simultaneously dwindled in relative size and power. This is true globally but also for the historical ... -
Systemic Barriers and Unfairness: Access to Justice in Zimbabwe and Beyond
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Citizens in plural legal and cultural former colonies like Zimbabwe do not have effective access to justice. This is because the formal justice system is marred with obstacles that either prevent people from entering and ... -
Maturing Machines: Technological Development and Situated Practices of Socialization Onboard Liquified Natural Gas (lng) Carriers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)I analyze human-machine interactions onboard liquified natural gas (lng) carriers focusing on machines that are technologically advanced parts of automated systems. Such machines are initially designed and constructed by ... -
Mountains of Modernity : Romantic Pursuits of Happiness in the Anthropocene
(Doctoral thesis, 2025-03-19)Denne doktorgradsavhandlingen undersøker det skiftende forholdet mellom modernitet og fjellandskap i Vesten, med fokus på hvordan romantiske forestillinger om lykke og det gode liv uttrykkes gjennom et mangfold av ... -
Extremism as Immanence and Process: The Trump Transmutation
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The Pursuit of an Appropriate Dispute Resolution Philosophy for Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) is rooted in Africa. However, this is not reflected in scholarship and practice. The last few decades have witnessed the supposed introduction of ADR in Africa, masquerading as an ... -
The glamour and grammar of innovation: notes on the spectacular reimagination of municipal care in Norway.
(Chapter, 2024)The expert report Innovation in the Care Services (NOU 2011: 11) promotes “innovation” as a radical new idea and solution to public care in Norway. We critically analyze three dimensions of this idea in policy and argue ... -
‘Psychedelics are no magic pill’: the narrative and embodied dimensions of psychedelic integration in Denmark
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Within recent years, an increasing number of people and researchers in the Global North have become interested in psychedelic substances and their therapeutic application. While much of the current media attention and ... -
Life and the Road. Vehicle Dwellers and the American Dream
(Master thesis, 2024-12-02)This thesis is an ethnographic study of ‘vehicle dwellers’, more typically known as ‘vanlifers’, living on the road full-time in the southwest of the United States of America. The empirical material of this thesis is based ... -
Alle må med: Styreres erfaringer med å etablere og utvikle profesjonelle læringsfellesskap i barnehagen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Denne artikkelen undersøker barnehagestyreres erfaringer med etablering og utvikling av profesjonelle læringsfellesskap i egne barnehager. Studien springer ut av et større utviklingsarbeid gjennom Regional ordning for ... -
Paradox and Pity: What We Can Learn From Fiji’s Urban Squatter Settlements
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article discusses what might be gained from placing informal urban settlements at the centre of analyses of contemporary Fiji. Holding around 20 percent of the total population and growing rapidly, these settlements ... -
Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations
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Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: Cosmologies of War and the Far-Right
(Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies;, Book; Peer reviewed, 2024)