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Bordering through recalibration: Exploring the temporality of the German “Ausbildungsduldung.
(Journal article, 2020)The past decades of inquiry into the “what, where, and who” of borders have more recently been followed by an interest in borders’ temporal dimensions. In this article, I contribute to this research by analyzing how border ... -
The Concept of Well Being in the Butiki Village: A Critical Perspective on Development and Modernization in a Ugandan Village
(Master thesis, 2004)Improving the conditions of the poor is an essential part of the dominant development discourse. This discourse does not often include the actors’ point of view in the design process of development projects. Although the ... -
The Labour of the Feminine in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Nature
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-11-01)In this thesis I look at the relation between two salient aspects of the work of the French 20th century philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty: on the one hand, the philosophical concern with and approach to the problem of ... -
Policing in Purdah: Women and Women Police Station, Peshawar, NWFP, Pakistan
(Master thesis, 2004)This thesis looks into the status and role of the women police stations in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan and is based upon the fieldwork conducted in the women police station, Peshawar, and women police ... -
Political correctness, identity politics, and freedom of speech
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Problematizing the transgender phenomenon: sexual geopolitics and Europeanization in contemporary Ukraine
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-02-22)This dissertation explores the emergence of the transgender phenomenon within professionalized transgender and LGB activism in contemporary Ukraine. I explore how the transgender phenomenon has been formed within ... -
The shifting status of failure and possibility: Resilience and the ‘shift’ in partnership-organized prevention in Sweden
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Based on a study of prevention politics in Sweden, this article probes the turn to resilience in its institutionalized form: cross-sectorial partnerships. It interrogates how resilience proponents strategically deploy the ... -
Spenninger i klasserommet: Mikroaggresjon som pedagogisk utfordring
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Når spenninger eller konflikter oppstår i klasserommet, oppleves det gjerne som et hinder for læring. Mange undervisere betrakter konfliktsituasjoner som et problem som må håndteres for å reetablere ro og orden. Vi vil ... -
"Taking part in society the way I am". An exploration of active citizenship norms in Denmark and Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-05)Active citizenship is a seductive concept alluding to unquestionably positive values such as neighbourliness, community work, solidarity, and democratic participation. Although it might seem like a descriptive term, active ... -
Tarrying with Sexual Matters. Thinking Change from Lacan to Badiou
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-02-23)This dissertation interrogates the significance of Alain Badiou's traversal of the antiphilosophy of Jacques Lacan, and the implications of that traversal for Badiou's thinking on the preconditions for the subject ... -
Veiled Nannies and Secular Futures in France
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article focuses on recent French efforts to expand legal regulation of religious symbols to childcare. Controversies over ‘veiled nannies’ serve as points of departure for investigating laïcité – French secularism – ... -
Waiting as a redemptive state - The ‘Lampedusa in Hamburg’ and the offer from the Hamburg government
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper explores an offer of possible legalization that the Hamburg government gave to a group of 350 illegalized West-African migrants in 2013. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in 2017, when the majority of ... -
Working to ‘Wait Well’ : Exploring the temporalities of irregular migration in Germany
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-01-21)During the past two decades migration and border scholars have increasingly recognised the role of time and temporality in the European states’ governing of migration and in the production of migrant irregularity. This ...