Faculty of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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East in the West: Europeans rethinking RRI with the help of Daoist Philosophy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This paper answers a call from Chinese scholars to ‘humanize Responsible Research and Innovation’; namely, to recentre the framing and practice of RRI around individuals. To do so, RRI scholars and practitioners working ... -
Kampen om arbeidsplassene. En rapport fra BMV Laksevåg AS
(Report, 1992-06-09)Bemanningsreduksjoner, oppsigelser og nedleggelse står på dagsordenen i en rekke norske bedrifter. Arbeidsplasser forsvinner i en situasjon, hvor arbeidsløsheten herjer og hvor det samtidig satses sterkt på etablering av ... -
Samer som kunnskapsobjekt. Paolo Mantegazzas skandinaviske reise i 1879
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Sommeren 1879 reiste den italienske antropologen, professoren og senatoren Paolo Mantegazza til Norge sammen med sin noe yngre kollega Stephen Sommier. Det uttrykte målet for reisen var å erverve kunnskap om samene, som ... -
Discrepancy Measures for Global Sensitivity Analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)While sensitivity analysis improves the transparency and reliability of mathematical models, its uptake by modelers is still scarce. This is partially explained by its technical requirements, which may be hard to understand ... -
Palaeoproteomic identification of the original binder and modern contaminants in distemper paints from Uvdal stave church, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Two distemper paint samples taken from decorative boards in Uvdal stave church, Norway, were analysed using palaeoproteomics, with an aim of identifying their binder and possible contaminants. The results point at the use ... -
The other of the other in Luce Irigaray’s reinterpretation of Plato’s myth of the cave
(Master thesis, 2019-11-25) -
Immanuel Kant. En innføring i hans teoretiske filosofi
(Working paper, 1966)Hensikten med dette arbeid består i å formidle forståelse for Kants filosofi - særlig da for dens teoretiske del. Utgangspunktet ligger i "Kritik der reinen Vernunft", og det blir forsøkt å fremstille de vesentligste tanker ... -
The Once and Future Fish: Assessing a Millennium of Atlantic Herring Exploitation Through Mixed-Stock Analysis and Ancient DNA
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Small pelagic fish support profitable fisheries and are important for food security around the world. Yet, their sustainable management can be hindered by the indiscriminate impacts of simultaneous exploitation of fish ... -
Going Native/Viral in Russian Popular Music: Aesthetic Populism, Patriotic Anti-racism, and the Quest for Hip-Hop Authenticity in Timati’s Teymuraz Music Video Trilogy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This paper critically analyzes the 2010s’ viral music video trilogy featuring Teymuraz, a stage and video persona of the Russian/Tatar/Jewish hip-hop artist Timati. Using hyperbolized stereotypes of a racialized taxi driver ... -
Bring digital twins back to Earth
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)We reflect on the development of digital twins of the Earth, which we associate with a reductionist view of nature as a machine. The projects of digital twins deviate from contemporary scientific paradigms in the treatment ... -
Mathematical models: a state of exception
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Models live in a state of exception. Their versatility, the variety of their methods, the impossibility of their falsification and their epistemic authority allow mathematical models to escape, better than other cases of ... -
Folk Magic and the Haunting of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article engages with certain peculiar finds and features that we have documented at former German WWII military camps in Finnish Lapland, with a particular emphasis on an excavated assemblage that has affinities to ... -
An annotated timeline of sensitivity analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The last half a century has seen spectacular progresses in computing and modelling in a variety of fields, applications, and methodologies. Over the same period, a cross-disciplinary field known as sensitivity analysis has ... -
Speaking Racism–Raciolinguistic Frontiers, Worth and Belonging in the Governing of Refugees in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article explores the role that language requirements for residence and citizenship play in delineations of worth and belonging in the governing of refugees in Western Europe after 2015. In the past two decades residence ... -
The idea of a theory of values and the metaphor of value-landscapes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This is a conceptual and methodological paper about improving our notion of human values. While it is recognized that talk of values has become increasingly popular in many walks of life, it is claimed that this is not ... -
Co-ordinating agricultural adaptation: Seasonal forecasts and their influence on rural agricultural rhythms in Ethiopia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Seasonal forecasts are fast being popularised as a key tool in the enablement of seasonal climate adaptation, particularly in agricultural practice. Derived from advances in meteorological science and technology, a seasonal ... -
The pandemic state of exception: restrictions, subjectivities, and authority
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The pandemic and all of its restrictions dominated public attention and social practices for almost three years. There was declared a state of exception in many national contexts during the pandemic. A revolution took place ... -
The multi-dimensionality of value landscapes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Post-normal science (PNS) is arguably an extension of the framing of knowledge production and use which includes the close linkage of facts and values. The paper argues that PNS is an fundamentally ethical perspective on ... -
Exploring community resilience through Arctic residents’ narratives in the Republic of Sakha (Russia)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article uses the Resilient Community Development frame to explore how the residents from two coastal settlements in the Russian Arctic cope with the long-term effects of climate change, permafrost thaw and challenging ... -
Do the National Tests of English in Norway test what we think they do? A think-aloud study of the eighth-grade tests from a validity perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article applies Messick’s (1995, 1996) presentation of the substantive aspect of validity (referred to as substantive validity) to the National Tests of English (NTE), taken by eighth-grade pupils in Norway. According ...
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