Department of Social Anthropology: Nye registreringer
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La Habana - bak fasaden. Unge, urbane cubaneres opplevelse av dagens Cuba gjennom la lucha
(Master thesis, 2018)Denne teksten tar for seg unge cubanere og hvordan de opplever og overlever i en gråsone av Cubas offisielle økonomi, de menneskene som selv definerer seg som los jineteros og hvordan los jineteros selv opplever Cuba og ... -
Frivillig arbeid med migranter. Kaffe, kunnskap og omsorg
(Master thesis, 2018-11-27)Denne oppgaven tar for seg en gruppe mennesker som jobber som frivillige ved tre organisasjoner i Norge. Oppgaven belyser fremveksten av frivillig arbeid på migrasjonsområdet i Norge, og hvilken betydning dette arbeidet ... -
Differentiation of rights in the Norwegian welfare state: Hierarchies of belonging and humanitarian exceptionalism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-08-30)Controlling mobility and borders has become a central, defining feature of the state today. Using the Norwegian welfare state as a case study, I argue that the differentiation of rights depending on status categories is ... -
“We started climate change”. A Multi-level ethnography of Pacific Climate Leadership
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-04-26)Based on fieldwork in multiple locations around the world but with a particular focus on the Pacific Islands region, this dissertation explores ethnographically the global phenomena of anthropogenic climate change and their ... -
1968 and its other worlds: Global events and (anti-)state dynamics in France, Mozambique and Vanuatu
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)This article de-centres the moment, event and impact of 1968 and expands it temporally and spatially. Taking a longue durée approach charting a trajectory from the 1960s into the 1980s, we analyse statist and anti-statist ... -
Indigenous life projects and extractivism. Ethnographies from South America
(Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference, Book; Peer reviewed, 2018) -
The 'Yam' that dropped. An ethnographic study of the digital life of urban, Ghanaian youth.
(Master thesis, 2018-08-16)Smartphones are becoming ever more popular, and common, in Ghana, especially among urban youth. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the spring of 2015, this thesis analyses the digital life of young adults in ... -
"I hope your mom gets cancer and dies!" An anthropological study of sociality within virtual worlds
(Master thesis, 2018-06-14)Virtual worlds serve as new digital spaces in which humans interact with each other but also with the machines and mechanics on which the virtual worlds are built, creating new frameworks for sociality. By questioning how ... -
Vold og Ære, hevn og forsoning. Om kulturell kontinuitet i et komparativt perspektiv
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)This article is a slightly modified version of the honorary lecture I gave at the Annual Conference of the Norwegian Association of Anthropologists 2017. I am addressing the conference's central theme – cultural continuity ... -
Waterworn. Climate Change Resonance in the Shivalik Hills of North India
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-05-15)This dissertation aims to explore the idea of climate change as it appeared amongst villagers in the rural Shivalik hills of North India. I traced the discourse behind the practices of diverse local, regional and global ... -
Going to ‘Pentecost’: how to study Pentecostalism – in Melanesia, for example
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-03)In this article, I question regional context as primary context in anthropological analyses. I argue that the idea of historical continuity in a geographical locality/region might prevent us from understanding not only ... -
From Clans to Co-ops: Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
(Book; Peer reviewed, 2018) -
The Priviliged and the Poor. Being Rich amid the "lazy ignorant"
(Master thesis, 2009)The segregation of the privileged from the poor is found, produced and reproduced at several levels simultaneously. To notice who did what where, and with whom, was essential as I tried to learn the ways of my informants. ... -
Establishing a New "Common Sense": A Study of the Leftist Movement in Northeastern United States
(Master thesis, 2018-06-05)This thesis examines political activism among young leftist activists and self-declared socialists in New England, United States. Based on my fieldwork of 2017, I have explored how members of a DSA (Democratic Socialists ... -
Bachata Life. Social identity in the Dominican Republic through the lens of a musical tradition
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Good Game, Well Played: A Ethnographic Study of Collegiate Esport in Southern California
(Master thesis, 2018-06-12)Anthropologists have previously engaged in virtual fieldwork in order to discover and document different large online worlds such as World of Warcraft (Nardi 2010), Everquest (Taylor 2006), Second Life (Boellstroff 2008). ... -
"To hell with you and your union, we are going whatever you say". An ethnographic study of how class, race, ethnicity, and immigration affected the Brexit referendum
(Master thesis, 2018-06-06)Based on a five-month long fieldwork in Wigan, North West England this thesis presents an analysis of how class, immigration, ethnicity and race affected the Brexit referendum. I did my fieldwork in a post-industrialised ... -
“Sometimes it feels like life is going on without me”: An ethnographic study of violence, power, and migration in a Mexican border town.
(Master thesis, 2018-05-01)In this thesis I seek to understand how migrants—both migrants from Mexico, Central-American countries and migrants deported from the United States— experience their stay in Mexicali- a city at the border between Mexico ... -
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 ...