Faculty of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Unpacking the modeling process for energy policy making
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article explores how the modeling of energy systems may lead to an undue closure of alternatives by generating an excess of certainty around some of the possible policy options. We retrospectively exemplify the problem ... -
Teaching scientific research integrity: A case study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The focus of this case study is the question, ‘How can research integrity be taught in higher education?’ I will share my experience of teaching this topic over the past three years, organising the various dimensions of ... -
What is Post-normal Science? A Personal Encounter
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)What is post-normal science? What are the reasons for, and consequences of, encountering it in one’s professional life? Here I share my own experience of readings, practices and discussions with the fathers, supporters and ... -
Learning together: facing the challenges of sustainability transitions by engaging uncertainty tolerance and post-normal science
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Current efforts towards sustainability tend to focus on maintaining existing systems and structures, by relying on reductionist approaches to problem solving. Increasingly, there is a call for more effective action in ... -
Affording excellence: What does excellence funding do for researchers?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The ambitions to fund excellent researchers and path-breaking research unite a whole family of funding instruments ranging from Centres of Excellence to individual grants. While instruments aimed at funding excellence share ... -
The stratigraphy and formation of Middle Stone Age deposits in Cave 1B, Klasies River Main site, South Africa, with implications for the context, age, and cultural association of the KRM 41815/SAM-AP 6222 human mandible
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Cave 1B, in the Klasies River Main site complex (KRM), is best known for the recovery of the KRM 41815/SAM-AP 6222 human mandible. After initial skepticism over the modernity of this specimen, it is accepted that the mix ... -
Kulturarvingerne på Lystgården. Hvordan konstruktioner af kulturarv og bæredygtighed flettes sammen og bliver til politisk platform for en hverdagsklimaaktivistisk bevægelse i Bergen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article examines the connections between sustainability and cultural heritage in a branch of the everyday climate activist movement Sustainable lives in a suburb of Bergen, Norway. In the material, narrative and ... -
Ochre use at Olieboomspoort, South Africa: insights into specular hematite use and collection during the Middle Stone Age
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Recent excavations at Olieboomspoort (OBP) in the Waterberg Mountains of South Africa confirmed previous research at the site that highlighted an abundance of ochre in the Middle Stone Age (MSA) deposits. Here, we report ... -
Kongespeilet og lovrevisjonene på 1200-tallet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Artikkelen diskuterer forholdet mellom Kongespeilet og lovrevisjonene fra 1260 og utover. Tidligere forskning, inkludert min egen, har sett en nær sammenheng mellom disse to. Det er til en viss grad riktig, men der er også ... -
Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Upper Palaeolithic sites in southwestern France attributed to the Upper Gravettian and the Solutrean yielded sub spherical gravels with a highly shiny appearance that have intrigued researchers since the 1930s. In this ... -
Peptide mass fingerprinting as a tool to assess micromammal biodiversity in Pleistocene South Africa: The case of Klipdrift Shelter
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Remains of small mammals from archaeological sites are often used as palaeoenvironmental proxies in the reconstruction of past environments. Yet, identification of micromammals to species-level based on morphological traits ... -
Farlig fødselskontroll. Om stenging og likvidering av mødrehygienekontorer under annen verdenskrig
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)I 1940 var det tolv mødrehygienekontorer i Norge. De ga opplysning og solgte prevensjon; noen drev også svangerskaps- og spedbarnskontroll. Mødrehygienekontorene var aksjeselskaper eid av arbeiderbevegelsens kvinneorganisasjoner. ... -
The ritual of parikramā, Hinduization of space and the case of Ayodhyā
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The article looks at the uses of the concept of parikramā (circumambulation of a sacred spot) in the 2019 Supreme Court of India judgement on the Ayodhyā dispute and its aftermath. It unpacks the Hindu majoritarian ... -
Om vitenskapelig redelighet – et svar til Hallvard Tjelmeland
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Hvordan kan vi forstå påstander om fortielse av fortiden? Betydningen av «fortielse» i fremstillinger av bombingen av Laksevåg 4. oktober 1944
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Fortielse er en mye brukt trope i tekster som omhandler fortiden, særlig innen norsk krigshistorie. Men hva betyr det egentlig? Denne artikkelen diskuterer betydningen av «fortielse» med utgangspunkt i den allierte bombingen ... -
Implementing co-created citizen science in five environmental epidemiological studies in the CitieS-Health project
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background and aim Scientists and scientific institutions are adopting more extensive participatory models, hoping to revisit the existing relationship between science and society. Though citizen science has become more ... -
Toolkit for conducting citizen science activities in environmental epidemiology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Scientists and practitioners implementing citizen science projects, in which the involvement of citizens is key, often need ideas and tools that help in reaching citizens, engaging them in the project and maximizing their ... -
Seeking Consensus on Confusing and Contentious Issues: Young Norwegians’ Experiences of Environmental Debates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this paper, I examine how young people in Norway, an affluent nation in the global north with long traditions of acknowledging the young as citizens, articulate and negotiate agency and norms for practicing environmental ... -
Jónsbók and the Monarchical Project for Iceland
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-03-15)Denne avhandlingen hevder at Jónsbók, den islandske lovkodeksen iverksatt av Kong Magnus VI Lagabøte Håkonsson under hans regjeringstid (1263-1280) og kunngjort på det islandske alltinget i 1281, var et uttrykk for det ... -
Cro-Magnon personal ornaments revisited
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Cro-Magnon rock-shelter hosted the first discovered and certainly one of the most important Gravettian burial sites in Europe. However, the copious ornament collection found among the human skeletons was not analysed ...