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People as infrastructure An ethnographic study of urban inequality in the neighborhoods of Dakar
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)This thesis explores the ways in which security, class and prestige, inequality and forms of housing is structured and lived in times of urbanization and development in urban Dakar. I view these topics in the different ... -
“Problem or Resource?” - An anthropological journey through, and with, oil -
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)This thesis explores narratives in and around the Norwegian oil industry, with a particular focus on the industrial park in Mongstad and based on multi-sited methods, brief ethnographic fieldwork stints as well as digital ... -
Rituell reproduksjon av buekorps: klasse, kjønn og materialitet
(Master thesis, 2023-05-22)I denne oppgåva vil eg sjå nærare på buekorps, ein bevegelse som blei starta på 1800-talet av ungdom, og som fortsatt er eit fenomen i Bergen i dag. Eg vil fokusere på buekorpsa opp mot rituale, og vil då komme inn på ulike ... -
Send in the clowns!
(Master thesis, 2021-11-25) -
Sexuality Among Youth on Maracuyá Island: Navigating the Complex Crossroad of Latin American and Caribbean Social Life
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Solidarity and Resistance in the Platform Economy in France: Refugee Gig Workers and Mobilization
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)This thesis explores the work conditions for refugee gig couriers in Nantes, France. It examines whether workers manage to express solidarity in order to act and bargain collectively against terms that they perceive unjust ... -
Stadier av migrasjonsaspirasjoner: En etnografisk studie av internasjonal mobilitet og migrasjonsaspirasjoner blant middelklasse pakistanere i Lahore og Oslo.
(Master thesis, 2023-06-13)Denne oppgaven utforsker migrasjonsaspirasjoner blant middelklassepakistanere i Lahore og Oslo, gjennom et interseksjonelt perspektiv. Basert på et etnografisk feltarbeid i Lahore og Oslo utforsker oppgaven erfaringer og ... -
The Appreciated Other: Ideals of revitalization through integration
(Master thesis, 2020-08-25)Due to a history of accommodating immigrants since the 1990s, Badolato has built a reputation of being "il paese di accoglienza" (the town of hospitality), with its own "modello di accoglienza" (accommodation model). In ... -
The Organic Island: An ethnographic study of subsistence economics and creative resilience in the Lau Islands of Fiji
(Master thesis, 2021-08-02)This thesis focuses on the multifaceted dimensions of sociality found in subsistence economic activities in the Lau Islands of Fiji. Primarily based on fieldwork conducted on the island of Cicia, I examine how land and sea ... -
“They treat us as machines”: The gig economy and the value of labor in Berlin.
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"Water is life, Life is Water" - Environmental Engagements in Thailand
(Master thesis, 2020-08-13)Abstract In this thesis I aim to shed light on how environmental engagement can unfold in Thailand – in an authoritarian regime with insufficient waste management infrastructure and lack of well-organized environmental ... -
“We are nothing without our Islands”: Challenges and Crises in the Marshall Islands
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)Abstract: This thesis explores the themes of challenges and crises in the Marshall Islands. Through ethnographic data based on participant observation primarily in Majuro, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), I study ... -
"Welcome to reality!" Populism and mistrust among the Sweden Democrats
(Master thesis, 2021-11-25)This thesis explores populist tendencies in political representatives from the Sweden Democrats (SD) in a Swedish city. Through ethnographic data and drawing on Ernesto Laclau’s theory on populist reason, I show how the ... -
When Aging Becomes Optional: An Ethnographic Study of Anti-Aging Practices in London
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)This thesis is inspired by how technological innovation has spurred a “war on death”. By this, I refer to how aging has become an ‘optional’ process, rather than an unavoidable part of life. This thesis is a result of a ...