Faculty of Social Sciences
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Department of Economics [278]
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Department of Geography [493]
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Department of Sociology [373]
Recent Submissions
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Adopsjon eller offentlig omsorg? En studie av befolkningens syn på adopsjon som tiltak i barnevernet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Barnevernet kan gjennomføre adopsjoner av fosterbarn uten biologiske foreldres samtykke. Dette representerer en betydelig utøvelse av statlig makt, og norsk rett krever særlig tungtveiende grunner for å tillate adopsjon. ... -
A system dynamics model of capital structure policy for firm value maximization
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The complexity surrounding the maximization of firm value agenda demands a comprehensive causal model that effectively embeds the intertwining relationships of the variables and the policies involved. System dynamics ... -
Named Entity Extraction for Knowledge Graphs: A Literature Overview
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)An enormous amount of digital information is expressed as natural-language (NL) text that is not easily processable by computers. Knowledge Graphs (KG) offer a widely used format for representing information in ... -
Narrative categorization in digital game-based learning: Engagement, motivation & learning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Previous research shows that digital game-based learning (DGBL) can have positive effects on engagement, motivation, and learning and that using narratives may reinforce these effects. A systematic review identified 15 ... -
Voices on the Border : Comedy and Immigration in the Scandinavian Public Spheres
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-03-03)The aim of this dissertation is to advance the understanding of the relationship between comedy and politics, as well as the relationship between the cultural and the political parts of the public sphere. Its main research ... -
Towards a Greener Economy : Entrepreneurs, Clusters and Changing Markets
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-03-02)A shift towards a greener economy is inevitable, given the urgency to deal with climate change and other pressing environmental challenges. The aim of the thesis is to contribute to the theoretical and empirical understanding ... -
Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article explores implications of the central position of the smartphone in an age of constant connectivity. Based on a qualitative study of 50 informants, we ask how users experience and handle temporal ambivalences ... -
Multi-level governance in a “Europe with the regions”.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08)The concept of multilevel governance was introduced to reveal the impact of regions on European Union (EU) policy making in Brussels. In this contribution, I show that multilevel governance also exposes regional involvement ... -
Urban planning and the smart city: Projects, practices and politics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03)Today’s smart city agendas are the latest iteration of urban sociotechnical innovation. Their aim is to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the economic and environmental performance of cities ... -
Emergent Police States. Racialized Pacification and Police Moralism from Rio’s Favelas to Bolsonaro
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Pacifying Police Units, rolled out in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics, were part of a police intervention conceived to end the logic of war that characterized the city’s public security policies. As ... -
Introduction: Exceptionalism and necropolitical security dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)For more than a decade, urban development in Rio de Janeiro was driven by the urgency of preparations for mega-events such as the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. During these years, Brazilian authorities ... -
Automated detection of rock glaciers using deep learning and object-based image analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Rock glaciers are an important component of the cryosphere and are one of the most visible manifestations of permafrost. While the significance of rock glacier contribution to streamflow remains uncertain, the contribution ... -
Living in the Margins of the State
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-26)This thesis explores the various forms of state manifestation in the lives of the Uzbek population living in the borderlands of Kyrgyzstan. With a particular focus on the stateless persons amongst this group, the thesis ... -
The Visual Boundaries of Journalism: Native Advertising and the Convergence of Editorial and Commercial Content
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This study investigates the visual objects that are used to either disclose or disguise the commercial nature of native advertising as news articles. We adopt a “material object” approach to explore the potential implications ... -
From mice-eaten passports to fingerprint scanning: fluctuating state presence and 'entangled documents' along the Kyrgyz–Uzbek border
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article focuses on engagement with identity documents among the rural Uzbek population in the borderlands of Kyrgyzstan. By exploring the materiality of the documents and people’s concern with these material artefacts ... -
Child welfare and future assessments – An analysis of discretionary decision-making in newborn removals in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09)This study explores a particularly wide discretionary space set for decision-making within the Norwegian welfare bureaucracy; care order decisions concerning newborns directly removed from the hospital by the child protection ... -
Partners and Competitors. Gendered Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Canoe Fisheries
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Nature as violent and violated : Five essays on the visual culture of the Anthropocene
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-17)This dissertation aims to explore the configuration of the relationship between nature and technology in a selection of significant works from contemporary visual culture, that have not previously been subject to a similar ... -
Accountability Gaps in the Relationship Between International Organizations and Civil Society: A Case Study of the World Bank’s COMRURAL Project in Honduras
(Master thesis, 2020-12-01)Projects implemented by international organizations have direct impacts on people’s daily lives in the countries where they are executed. Due to this, increasing attention has been given to the accountability mechanisms ...
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