Faculty of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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Phenomenology of Reading Meaning, Interpretation, Discourse
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Governing migration through vulnerability at Spain’s southern maritime border: a malleable concept in a securitised and marketised regime
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Vulnerability has emerged as a central policy concept in migration governance. Despite its growing importance, the concept remains contested and ambiguous. As multiple conceptions of vulnerability circulate, it becomes ... -
How politicians and the population attribute responsibility for climate change mitigation: no indication of a ‘governance trap’ in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Previous research claims that ‘the most significant risk’ to achieving climate change mitigation goals is the ‘governance trap’, whereby governments and the public attribute responsibility for action to one another. While ... -
Exploring L2 English Proficiency and Translation of Academic English Vocabulary
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Knowledge of academic English vocabulary is essential for upper secondary L2 English learners preparing for university studies, yet previous research suggests students in Scandinavian settings may need support to acquire ... -
“And what if I enwreathed my own?” Literary Tourism as Transplantation in Wordsworth’s Yarrow Poems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article, focusing on William Wordsworth’s poems about the Scottish river Yarrow, investigates the English poet’s creative refashioning of the Scottish broadsheet balladry tradition. It throws light on Wordsworth’s ... -
Hvem er prekariatet? Sårbare liv i Cathrine Knudsens De langtidsboende (2008), Manuell (2014) og Den siste hjelperen (2018)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)I den nordiske litteraturforskningen har man sett på litterære skildringer av prekariatet enten med utgangspunkt i sosiologen Guy Standings bok The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class fra 2011 eller i filosofen Judith Butlers ... -
'A Work of Life'. Jane Ellen Harrison on Old Age
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The article examines the classical scholar Jane Ellen Harrison’s (1850-1928) thoughts about aging both as a cultural phenomenon and as personal experience. It argues that her reflections are poised between two diverging ... -
Hacking Surveillance Cameras, Tricking AI and Disputing Biases: Artistic Critiques of Machine Vision
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In the field of AI, troublesome machine behaviour is a recurring problem, and is particularly worrying when the governance of populations is externalised to machines. This article will focus on machine vision and explore ... -
Seeds for New Beginnings? Ecological Uncertainty, Blurry Ideology, and Speculative Design at the Universitas symposium, 1972
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In 1972, designer Emilio Ambasz (b. 1943) organized the symposium “The Universitas Project” at MoMA in New York City. The issue at stake was how the field of design should tackle the possibly irresolvable societal, political, ... -
The Humanities of Contagion: How Literary and Visual Representations of the "Spanish" Flu Pandemic Complement, Complicate and Calibrate COVID-19 Narratives
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)My article examines how literary and visual representations of the “Spanish” Flu contagion foreshadow and generate critical discourses about pandemics. D.H. Lawrence’s novella The Fox characterises paranoia about biological ... -
Exhibiting Computational Language Art
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Redemption, transcendence, and spirituality, or ease, hope, and comfort? On Llanera's strong redescription of Rorty
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism, Tracy Llanera places Richard Rorty in conversation with philosophers confronting nihilism as a “malaise of modernity.” She shows how Rortyan thought offers a horizontal and ... -
Resilience and vulnerability in the Syrian Desert in the first millennium CE: The case of the oasis city Tadmor (Palmyra)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Urban resilience in past societies is challenging to measure given the nature of our data, which, for the most part, gives insight into past processes only through their archaeological and historical outcomes. We, therefore, ... -
The history of hunger: Counting calories to make global food security legible
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU) is one of the most central indicators informing the international development agenda. Reported annually by the Rome-based UN agencies in their flagship report The State of Food ... -
What can mathematical modelling contribute to a sociology of quantification?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Sociology of quantification has spent relatively less energies investigating mathematical modelling than it has on other forms of quantification such as statistics, metrics, or algorithms based on artificial intelligence. ... -
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 ...