Faculty of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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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 ... -
Linguistic landscaping from above in China: scale-making and language ideologies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The sociolinguistics of mobility is one of Jan Blommaert’s significant theoretical legacies vis-à-vis language interactions in the age of globalization. This paper investigates the mobilization of English as a semiotic ... -
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini Nostri
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Understanding and Framing Change in Islamic Law: Potentials and Possible Pitfalls of the Concepts of Canonization and Codification
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Conservative and populist notions of Islamic law, or Sharīʿa, emphasize its immutability. While the textual nature of traditional Islamic jurisprudence supports this conception, academic research in recent decades demonstrates ... -
Participatory Democracy and the British Utopian Tradition: Leonard Woolf’s Co-operative Commonwealth in Historical Perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article examines an understudied chapter in the history of British socialist thought: the consumer-based socialism theorized by the Fabian and Labour Party advisor Leonard Woolf between 1913 and 1920. Exemplifying ... -
Teachers’ beliefs and experiences regarding collaboration across language subjects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In schools worldwide, there are increasing expectations for teacher collaboration across subjects. However, despite the potential benefits for students and teachers of viewing language subjects as interrelated, limited ... -
Whaling: Good for the World, the Nation, and You
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article explores the evolving rhetoric of commercial whaling advocates in Japan and Norway, who frame whaling as essential for global, national, and personal health. I show that proponents leverage sustainability ... -
Understanding the factors supporting language teachers’ sustained motivation until retirement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)While many language teachers leave the profession early, others thrive and teach until retirement. Understanding how these teachers maintain their passion can help identify the support needed for their personal and ... -
Fra grue til grav - Hvilken rolle har stekepannen i gravmaterialet fra yngre jernalder?
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)Denne oppgaven undersøker stekepanner fra gravkontekster fra perioden yngre jernalder til vikingtid. De første stekepannene dukker opp på 600 tallet og øker i forekomst utover jernalderen. Det arkeologiske materialet viser ... -
Tracing the Image : The Absence/Presence of the Holy Shroud in Sixteenth-Century Bologna.
(Doctoral thesis, 2025-03-14)På sporet av bildet: Fraværet/nærværet av Det Hellige Likkledet (Likkledet i Torino) i 1500-tallets Bologna. I kunsthistoriefaget blir renessansen ofte ansett som en grunnleggende hjørnestein i etableringen av det moderne ...