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Wad Habouba-opprøret i Sudan i 1908
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)This thesis main focus is the Wad Habouba uprising against the Condominium administration in Kamlin, Sudan in May 1908. This was the early period of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium who had occupied Sudan in 1898. Abd al-Qadir ... -
Water in the 'Dead Heart': The Impact of Water on the Colonial Development of Central Australia, 1857-1929.
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)Denne masteroppgaven belyser vannets rolle i Sør-Australias koloniale utvikling av sentrale Australia mellom 1857 og 1929. Australia er verdens tørreste kontinent og selv i dag er det tørre innlandet tynt befolket. Oppgaven ... -
Water, Communication, Sight, and the Location of Fortifications on the Strata Diocletiana (Syria) in Late Antiquity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Strata Diocletiana was a military road in Late Roman Period Syria. It ran from Damascus to the Euphrates by way of Palmyra. The road was fortified and received its name during the reign of Diocletian (284–305 CE), ... -
"We wanna see feelings" - ei sjåarstudie av realitysjangeren
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«We were just a metal band, and then we also became educators»: En studie av hvordan metallbandet Sabaton fremstiller fortiden, intensjonene deres og hvordan lytterne reagerer
(Master thesis, 2021-06-16)This thesis is a study on how the Swedish metal band Sabaton conveys the past in their music, their intentions and messaging in their songs, and how listeners respond to this. This is done by analysing a selection of their ... -
Weird quantities: characterising monstrous landscapes of extraction in the Anthropocene
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Modern mining operates on enormous scales and quantities that go beyond everyday comprehension, which in turn has existential and metaphysical implications, and this article is an experiment in characterising ‘existentially ... -
What is Queer Heritage? Queercache and the Epistemology of the Closet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The present article explores the possibility of queer heritage. In 2017, artists Kalle Hamm and Dzamil Kamanger organised a community art project called Queercache in Helsinki, and I use it as a case study on the heritagisation ... -
«WHEN NOT IN ROME»: Romersk turisme i Peloponnes
(Master thesis, 2022-06-03)While largely seen as a modern phenomenon, tourism was a big part of the Graeco-Roman world. People traveled to see famous artwork, sculptures and games, to name a few. However, as normal as tourism seems to have been, it ... -
Widengren, Gnosticism, and the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule
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Widowhood among the Igbo of Eastern Nigeria
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A Window into the Early–Middle Stone Age Transition in Northeastern Africa—A Marine Isotope Stage 7a/6 Late Acheulean Horizon from the EDAR 135 Site, Eastern Sahara (Sudan)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper presents the results of the analysis of a late Acheulean horizon from the EDAR 135 site, which was discovered in the Eastern Desert, Sudan, in an area heavily transformed by modern mining activity. A lithic ... -
Witchcraft and Slavery in Cartagena de Indias
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The witchcraft trials in the Spanish Inquisition's tribunal in Cartagena de Indias had direct links to the trials in Northern Spain. These trials started just after the trials in the Basque country in 1610-14, and show the ... -
Women and Religiion in the Middle East and the Mediterranean
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Worker-recuperated enterprises in Argentina : A comparative case study of two print shops in Buenos Aires
(Master thesis, 2011-05-30)This thesis is about the recuperated enterprises in Argentina, referred to as ERTs throughout the thesis, which has been seen as one out of many forms of social protests/ ways of coping which grew out of Argentina's ... -
The Workers' movement and civil society in Egypt. From underground to mass-movement and back again
(Master thesis, 2014-05-14)This master thesis analyses the relationship between the workers' movement and civil society in Egypt within the time period from 1984 to 2013. Four different organisations are discussed from their early years of underground ... -
Writ in water, lines in sand: Ancient trade routes, models and comparative evidence
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-09)Historians and archaeologists often take connectivity for granted, and fail to address the problems of documenting patterns of movement. This article highlights the methodological challenges of reconstructing trade routes ... -
Writing the Order. Religious-Political Discourses in Late Anglo-Saxon England
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Ynskjekvisten og andre folkelege søkjereiskapar. Forståing og bruk av søkjereiskapar i spenningsfeltet mellom tradisjonell magi og moderne kultur
(Master thesis, 2015-09-01)Folkelege søkjereiskapar, som ynskjekvisten, er grunnlaget for denne studien av røyndomsoppfatningar innan alternativmiljøet i Noreg. Ynskjekvisten vart brukt til å finna vatn og metall i mellomalderen, i dag er den ein ... -
«You could cut off my head and still not end my myth.» Feministisk medusaresepsjon i engelsk ungdomslitteratur.
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)In this text I have analyzed in what way the Greek mythological character Medusa and the myths surrounding her have been received in two modern texts, namely Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole, and Medusa by Jessie Burton. These ...