Blar i Department of Social Anthropology på tittel
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Innenfor og utenfor i Frankrike. Sosiale og byråkratiske utfordringer for maghrebinske muslimer i interetniske parforhold
(Master thesis, 2016-06-17)Denne avhandlingen tar for seg sosiale og byråkratiske utfordringer for maghrebinske muslimer i Frankrike gjennom å studere interetniske par mellom innvandrere fra Maghreb og etnisk franske. Jeg har gjort feltarbeid i ... -
Innvandrerkvinner i Norge og deres tanker om lønnet arbeid: En etnografisk studie av kvinner og hva som påvirker deres valg i forhold til utdannelse og lønnet arbeid utenfor hjemmet
(Master thesis, 2023-12-18)Denne oppgaven handler om kvinner med migrasjonsbakgrunn og deres tanker om arbeid i Norge. Basert på et etnografisk feltarbeid utført i Bergen våren 2022 utforsker jeg hva som påvirker deres valg i forhold til utdannelse ... -
The Instability of Values: Tradition, Autonomy and the Dynamics of Sociality in the Philippine Highlands
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)What can we learn about values and how they shape sociality by looking at a murder? In this article, I look closer at the different and conflicting values involved in the social events leading up to an accidental killing ... -
Introduction: Exceptionalism and necropolitical security dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)For more than a decade, urban development in Rio de Janeiro was driven by the urgency of preparations for mega-events such as the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. During these years, Brazilian authorities ... -
Iraqis on the Move: Displaced Professionals, Protection/ 'Aman Space in Jordan and Memories of a Destroyed State
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-10-22)Recent events of forced displacement in the Middle East are compelling millions of people to move within the borders of their country, while forcing many others to become strangers in other lands. In the modern era categorized ... -
Is Corporate Social Responsibility Oiling the Neoliberal Carbon Economy?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This study focuses on the corporate social responsibility (CSR) work the Austrian energy company OMV pursued as it constructed a gas power plant on the shores of the Black Sea. I argue that neither social movement theory ... -
Is the 'New Man' dead? Tourism, self-perception and relative deprivation in Cuba
(Master thesis, 2012-07-28)This study is about the relationship between the growth of tourism in Cuba and the sense of relative deprivation experienced by many Cubans, and about the results of this relationship in the society at large. I argue that ... -
Islamic Revival in Georgian - Chechen Border Area
(Master thesis, 2014-07-31)Since the collapse of the Soviet Union all the former Soviet countries have been going through changes in social and religious life. Muslim states strongly tied their identities to Islam while countries with a majority of ... -
"Isso é nossa realidade" (This is our reality): Beyond images of Amazonia
(Master thesis, 2014-06-19)This thesis explores the images and representations of Amazonia as a tropical rain forest, and how they influence the way people tend to picture the area. Shaped through trajectories of history, national expansion and ... -
"IT's a Woman's World" En studie av vennskap, valg og inntrykkskontroll blant unge IT-ansatte i Indias nye middelklasse
(Master thesis, 2009-06-19)Avhandlingen tar for seg hvordan unge kvinner står ovenfor en sterke og ofte motstridende forventninger i det de har flyttet fra inn til IT-byen Bangalore for å studere og arbeide i den indiske IT-indsutrien. Kvinnene ... -
It's May Pole time'. Public spectacles and Creole people at the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.
(Master thesis, 2012-06-21)AbstractThis thesis concerns the importance of festivals in nation-building. Through a six-month period of fieldwork in the city of Bluefields at the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, I explore how the Creole festival May Pole ... -
Jeg drar innen to uker! Om usikkerhet og migrasjonsmønstre i Xela, Guatemala
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Jordanske kristne beretter
(Master thesis, 2014-06-13)Kristne i Midtøsten er en minoritet som blir stadig færre. I Jordan blir det snakket varmt om det gode forholdet mellom kristne og muslimer. Allikevel ser man også her at andelen kristne minker. Den arabiske våren har brakt ... -
Just Out of Reach. Imminence, Meaning, and Political Ontology in Mozambique
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The leader of Mozambique’s Renamo party, Afonso Dhlakama, died on May 3, 2018. His death both necessitates an ethnographic, regionally comparative rethinking of the analytical approach to the dominant Mozambican political ... -
Kamalari: Tharu girls in bonded labour (Kamalari) servitude in the era of post socio-cultural and political revolution in Nepal - A case study of Dang District
(Master thesis, 2012-06-22)The main aim of this thesis is to examine the situation of Kamalari girls in the post social and political revolution in Nepal. Kamalaris are the Tharu girls who are bonded in a contract to do the domestic work in the house ... -
"Keeping it real in Beijing"; Exploring identity, authenticity and music as a 'technology of the self' among urban middle-class youth
(Master thesis, 2014-11-27)Abstract: With this anthropological master-thesis I am exploring urban middle-class youth in Beijing, born during the 1980s, and how they navigate and express themselves as individuals and as part of collectives. I spent ... -
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 ... -
Krevende kommunikasjon om svangerskap og fødsel. En studie av møtet mellom jordmødre og innvandrerkvinner på en norsk helsestasjon
(Master thesis, 2015-05-22)Denne oppgaven belyser møtet mellom jordmødre og ikke-vestlige innvandrerkvinner som kommer til svangerskapskontroll på en norsk helsestasjon. Oppgaven ser på hvordan jordmødrene og innvandrerkvinnene opplever møtet, hvordan ...