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Conimbriga - En romersk by i Lusitania Rolle, funksjon og samhandling med Lusitania og den romerske verden
(Master thesis, 2010-05-17)Denne avhandlingen hadde som mål å kartlegge den romerske byen Conimbriga, som lå i provinsen Lusitania. Problemstillingen var hva slags by dette var, hvilken rolle byen spilte, og hva slags funksjon den hadde, både i sitt ... -
Connected and disconnected: ICTs, peacebuilding and aesthetic practices of peripheral communities in Colombia
(Master thesis, 2020-06-27)This thesis analyzes how Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have been introduced in rural regions of Colombia for peacebuilding purposes and strengthening democracy, and how these have had an impact on the ... -
Consecrated Virgins as Living Reliquaries in Late Antiquity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-30)This article discusses the ways in which the physical presence of consecrated virgins was perceived, described, and subsequently altered in Late Antiquity. In the course of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, through codes ... -
Considerations for management strategy evaluation for small pelagic fishes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is the state-of-the-art approach for testing and comparing management strategies in a way that accounts for multiple sources of uncertainty (e.g. monitoring, estimation, and implementation). ... -
Constructed identities A Chronotopic reading of The Great Gatsby, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Mad Men
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)This thesis aims to explore how the past figures in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), and in the AMC series Mad Men (2007-2015), written by Matthew Weiner. ... -
Constructing motherhood: Russian women bringing up children in Bergen, Norway
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)The main objective of this study was to explore how Russian women have constructed motherhood within the Norwegian context. The empirical material came from qualitative, loosely structured interviews with nine middle-class, ... -
Constructions of a Life: (Be)Longing and (Dis)Location in the Autobiographical Writings of Edward Said, Eva Hoffman, and Ihab Hassan
(Master thesis, 2009-12-04)This thesis will examine the autobiographical writings of Edward Said, Eva Hoffman and Ihab Hassan, and the main objective will be to study how their individual experiences of cultural translocation shape their narrative ... -
Consumers’ Responsibility for Global Labour Injustice
(Master thesis, 2020-07-01)An individual from a relatively affluent country is presumably hardly surprised by hearing about stories that depict global labour injustices. We are aware of the fact that there are people in other countries who work under ... -
Contagious "Corona" Compounding by Journalists in a CLARIN Newspaper Monitor Corpus
(Chapter, 2021)Newspaper monitor corpora, which incorporate new materials on a regular basis, are particularly useful for tracking linguistic changes spurred by current developments. The COVID19 pandemic prompted a case study in the ... -
A Contemporary Body in Classical Guise. Representation of disability in classical form and contemporary beauty norm in Alison Lapper Pregnant.
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)This master thesis looks at how people with physical disabilities have been portrayed, and is portrayed, in art. When Alison Lapper Pregnant was exhibited on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, the artwork opened up for ... -
Contemporary British Working-Class Literature: Precarity and Transcendent Solidarity
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Denne masteroppgaven ser på samtids arbeiderklasselitteratur, og analyserer hvordan den gir uttrykk for en økende usikkerhet (precarity) i livene til arbeiderklassefolk. Dette analyseres gjennom samtids klasseanalyse av ... -
Contemporary Yoga: Legitimizing authenticity. Interviews with founders of yoga schools in Rishikesh
(Master thesis, 2017-06-10)Dette prosjektet presenterer en analyse av hvordan grunnleggere av yoga skoler i Rishikesh definerer autentisk yoga. Analysen er basert på et fire måners feltarbeid i Rishikesh, Uttarakhand nord i India som innebar deltakende ... -
Contested constitutions. Constitutional development in the Sudan 1956-2005.
(Master thesis, 2014-05-14)The topic for this Master thesis is Constitutional Development in Sudan from 1956-2005. This thesis concentrates on the constitutional history in the Sudan, with an emphasis on the country's four implemented constitutions ... -
Contested legacies of early modern colonialism in Norway: A summary of the 2020 debates on Ludvig Holberg and Jørgen Thormøhlen
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Contested utopias: Language ideologies in Valerii Votrin's Logoped
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Contesting the Rural Idyll in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)This project examines the rural idyll genre in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford. Several literary critics refer to Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford as a rural idyll' narrative. In consequence the novel is considered to pertain to ... -
Contingent faculty in ecology and STEM: an uneven landscape of challenges for higher education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The number of contingent or non‐tenure‐track faculty at colleges and universities in the United States has been growing over the past several decades; they now constitute nearly 70% of the non‐student academic workforce. ... -
Continuity of Texts: Metafiction in a Cortazar Short Story and its Swedish Translation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article analyzes the Swedish translation of the short story Continuidad de los parques, written by the Argentine author Julio Cortázar and translated into Swedish by the translator Jan Sjögren. This short story is an ... -
"The Contrails Streaked Cleanly in the High Sky" An Ecocritical Reading of Don DeLillo's White Noise and Underworld
(Master thesis, 2012-11-20)This thesis will examine the articulation, significance, and changing notion of the environment in two novels by the American author Don DeLillo: White Noise (1985) and Underworld (1997). This thesis will read DeLillo's ... -
Contrasting the framing of urban climate resilience
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Cities worldwide face climate change and other complex challenges and strive to become more resilient to the shocks and stresses that these bring. The notion of urban (climate) resilience has become highly popular in both ...