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Spa Pilgrimage
(Master thesis, 2013-05-25)This Master project is about different understandings of health and illness. Fieldwork was conducted at a holistic spa in Thailand, where the spa clientele was primarily women from Western countries. Several of the women ... -
Spatial Reconfigurations and New Social Formations: the Contemporary Urban Context of Kerala
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-05-22)Urbanisation and global relationships have had deep historical impacts all along the western coast of Indian peninsula in general and Kerala in particular. It is both inadequate and inaccurate to invest everything ‘urban’ ... -
Spørsmål om «ontologi»: Momenter til en realistisk antropologi
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)The Norwegian Research Council has evaluated Norwegian anthropology and concluded that the discipline is ethnographically strong, but defensive when it comes to theoretical contributions. Researchers are now actively ... -
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 ... -
State and media influence on the drawing of ethnic boundaries : kurdish work migrants on the Black Sea coast of Turkey
(Master thesis, 2012-07-30)In the Turkish Black Sea Region Kurdish agricultural workers and other ethnic groups interact and form relations. This study is focused on the effects of ethnic difference in the formation of these relations, groups' ... -
A State of Corruption? An Anthropology of the South Asian State
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Stories among drug addicts in Bergen
(Master thesis, 2017-06-07)To live a life is a constantly evolving project, where we develop and change from being to becoming, something new or a different version of who we were or want to be. We are all some version of a storyteller, but there ... -
Strangers among kindred family
(Master thesis, 2015-12-11)This thesis is a study of stigma, identity and consumption among North Korean defectors living an urban life in Seoul, South Korea. I wanted to explore the challenges North Korean defectors face being integrated into South ... -
"Stuck in thorns". The effects of power on Liberian refugees in Guinea
(Master thesis, 2013-06-26)Abstract This thesis is about refugees who fled from Liberia to Guinea to join the miserable sea of humanity" (Malkki 1996) from January 1990 when the Charles Taylor led a rebel war that began in December 1989. Essentially, ... -
Subsistence and institutional system in a Norwegian mountain valley
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Sudanesiske meklarar (brokers) i Yiwu
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Denne artikkelen fokuserer på sudanesiske meklarar i Yiwu, ein by på kysten av Kina der handelsmennn frå Sudan kom for å handle billege kinesiske varer. Artikkelen nevner to grupper av sudanesarar, den eine som kjem på ... -
Sølvberget som et moderne arkitektonisk kompleks: En antropologisk studie av materielle objekter og dets føringer for sosialt liv
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Studiet om materialitet er ikke nytt. Akademikere har skrevet volumer om tingene som meningsfulle ikoner, metaforiske avbildninger eller som vare i økonomisk handel. Det som har manglet i slike diskurser er en anerkjennelse ... -
Taking It to the streets - Community events in Post-Katrina New Orleans
(Master thesis, 2013-06-16)This thesis concerns community events, especially those of festivals and parades, in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Based on my fieldwork of 2012, I have explored how participants in community events use these happenings as a ... -
Taming the War Machine: Police, Pacification and Power in Rio de Janeiro
(Master thesis, 2016-09-08)In this thesis I trace the changes in the exercise of Brazilian state power in Rio's poor communities, or favelas, through an ethnographic exploration of the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) - allegedly a proximity policing ... -
Tatoveringspraksiser og meningsskaping. Tatoveringsmotivenes rolle i identitetshåndtering
(Master thesis, 2011-05-23)Abstract Hva har radiovertinnen Henriette Lien, presten Einar Gelius, tidligere LO leder Gerd Liv Valla og mange andre til felles? De har alle valgt å tatovere seg. Tidligere har tatoveringer stort sett vært brukt av sjømenn ... -
Temporality and the politics of the migrant body
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The temporality of humanitarianism: Provincializing everyday volunteer practices at European borders
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While recognizing that ‘volunteering for refugees’ is entangled in ethical and political power dimensions, this article will discuss how we can ethnographically explore the everyday humanitarian practices of volunteers as ... -
The Faithful Servant: Practicing Science and Religion among PNG university students in Australia
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“The Streets Will Always be Ours:” Collective Action and Protest Practices in Barcelona
(Master thesis, 2021-12-15)By focusing on collective action in public space, and how it is used to organise collective actions, this thesis explores the streets in Barcelona's role in maintaining the political struggle between the Spanish State and ...