Department of Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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Praktfulle Emirer og Melkepatriotisme: Qatar i krise, forestilt fellesskap og hverdagsnasjonalisme
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)I ukene etter at Saudi-Arabia, De forente arabiske emirater, Bahrain og Egypt innførte en storstilt boikott av Qatar, har en voldsom og personfokusert nasjonalisme blomstret opp i det lille landet. Toppdrevet regimedyrking ... -
Ugifte mødre i Marokko. Samfunnsborgerskap og handlingsrom i stat og sivilsamfunn.
(Master thesis, 2017)Ugifte mødre regnes fortsatt for å være blant de mest marginaliserte og stigmatiserte gruppene i Marokko, og resten av Midtøsten. Likevel er Marokko kjent for å være et arabiskmuslimsk land som balanserer mellom både ... -
«Ingen hendelser er like». En studie av brannkonstablers forståelse av, og skapelse av, sikkerhet
(Master thesis, 2017-12-15)En vanlig tilnærming til begrepet «sikkerhet» er at «sikkerhet er evnen til å unngå uønskede hendelser». Med dette som utgangspunkt er det mulig å lage flotte matriser hvor man kalkulerer risiko, på mange måter «fravær av ... -
The Fear of Fever: Epidemic Persistence and Medical Authority in a Kerala Village
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-12-16)This thesis examines the socio-medical order that formed around epidemic fevers in Kerala following the chikungunya and H1N1 outbreaks between 2007 and 2009. I study its political interfaces, embodied aspects, implications ... -
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change
(Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference, Book; Peer reviewed, 2018) -
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 ... -
Kritisk realistisk antropologi - Eksemplifisering av et ikke-konflatorisk perspektiv
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)The article illustrates the analytical utility of the perspective of critical realism as applied to a debate on the quality of public eldercare in Norway. Inspired by the philosopher Roy Bhaskar, I argue for an anthropology ... -
Enchanted place, shifting landscapes. An anthropological study on the tangled transformations within Roșia Montană’s place and landscape
(Master thesis, 2017-07-04)This thesis deals with the transformations which have occurred in Roșia Montană, Romania after the late 1990s – early 2000s – when the mining company RMGC arrived at the community with a plan to start an open pit mine in ... -
Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela. The Revolutionary Petro-State
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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 ... -
Samburu Youth Navigating Violent Terrains. Reconfiguring Samburu Masculinity in Northern Kenya
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-06-16)This thesis is part of the major research project The effects of violence and impoverishment on psychosocial health among pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya funded by The Research Council of Norway. Based on a ... -
Imagining coherence. Local discourses about identities, tradition and religion in Pangani, Tanzania
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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 ... -
Governing Rural Health: Making Manageable Citizens in Colca Valley, Peru
(Master thesis, 2017-04-26)This thesis is about public healthcare in the Andes and how women in the Colca Valley, an area located in the southern region of Arequipa, are made subjects by health-development projects Women in the Andes, especially ... -
The morality of mweki: Performing sexuality in the ‘Islands of Love’
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08)Trobriand dance is a key cultural expression and a means of communicating subjectivity in a number of ways: it expresses aspects of kinship, gender, morality, and ideas about modernity and primitivity. In a region with a ... -
Facing the Future. Online Sociality and Emerging Forms of Play among Children in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-12-09)Young people in Norway have never experienced a world without the internet. This thesis explores uses of digital technology in children’s lives, and draws on fieldwork among eight- and nine-year olds in Kristiansand to ... -
Family, Immigration and Policy: The effects of family reunification policies on Latino-Norwegian families
(Master thesis, 2016-12-02)Governments issue restrictive immigration policies in their eagerness to protect their nations from the entrance of undesired' migrants. However, by toughening policies, individuals without immigrant background and their ... -
Goddesses of North Malabar. An anthropological study on kinship and ritual in North Malabar
(Master thesis, 2016-12-21)This study explores the relationship between kinship and the ritual theyyam worship of North Malabar region in the state of Kerala, India. Theyyam is a socio-religious ritual in which mythological, divine, ancestral, animal, ... -
The sea is no longer sweet. Gender and kinship relations in Anomabu in times of dwindling fish stocks.
(Master thesis, 2016-11-30)Anomabu is a fishing community in the central regions of Ghana. In recent years, fisher families in this community have been experiencing dwindling fish stocks. Coupled with this is the fact that the seasons for fishing ... -
The Social Enterprise. Fusing Discourses of Business and Development in Delhi, India.
(Master thesis, 2016-11-30)The aim of this thesis is to problematize the undisputed moral good and simplified solutions within development discourse. Throughout the thesis, I am focusing on domains where ideas and ideals of development are being ...