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"Between a Rock and a Hard Place". The Contradictory Roles of Organizations involved in Housing Delivery in South African Informal Settlements
(Master thesis, 2013-06-14)While considerable strides have been made in South Africa in addressing the skewed patterns of access to adequate shelter among its citizens, significant challenges lie ahead. Since the first democratic elections of 1994 ... -
Between a Rock and a Hard Place. The Islamic Council of Norway and the Challenge of Representing Islam in Europe
(Doctoral thesis, 2020)In several European countries the authorities have sought to institutionalize and regulate the Islamic or Muslim presence in their countries through Islamic Representative Councils (IRCs) that can function as interlocutors ... -
Between a rock and a hard place: Undocumented migrants in Norway
(Master thesis, 2012-06-26)This thesis includes different aspects of living situation of undocumented migrants in Norway. It examines self-perception of undocumented migrants and the society's perception of them. It looks into the criminalisation ... -
Between communism and democracy: why postcommunist regimes get "stuck in transition"
(Master thesis, 2010-11-19)The transitions from communist rule throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have resulted in high regime diversity among the postcommunist regimes. Which factors may explain these differences in the political ... -
Between diverging discourses of the child: juveniles’ self-construction in coercive residential care
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Based on a qualitative study, this article explores how Norwegian juveniles construct themselves through stories of everyday life in coercive residential care and how this is related to diverging discourses of the child’s ... -
Between Europeanism and Nativism: Exploring a Cleavage Model of European Public Sphere in Social Media
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The European Union’s common public sphere project dates back to the 1960s and relies on Europeanisation through the gradual eradication of communication boundaries between its member countries. However, it is evident by ... -
Between ritual and information: Three phases of Norwegian news audiences’ sense-making of the election of Donald Trump
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article investigates sense-making processes of news audiences when faced with destabilizing global events. The destabilizing event is Trump’s 2016 election win, which we study from the perspective of audiences far ... -
Between social footprint and compliance, or “what IBAMA wants” Equinor Brazil's social sustainability policy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article analyzes an “Environmental Education Project” run by the Norwegian state oil company Equinor targeting poor women in the seafood processing industry along the coastline adjacent to Equinor's offshore Peregrino ... -
Betydningen av sosioøkonomisk status for kjønnsdelte utdanningsvalg
(Master thesis, 2015-08-19)Til tross for at Norge i et internasjonalt perspektiv har svært høy grad av likestilling mellom kjønnene, er det norske utdanningssystemet og arbeidsmarkedet relativt sterkt kjønnssegregert, med implikasjoner for blant ... -
Bevegelseshemmedes overganger til voksenlivet - En biografisk livsløpsstudie
(Master thesis, 2022-12-01)Overgangen til voksenlivet er viktig i både forskning på funksjonshemmede og i livsløpsforskningen. Overgangen til voksenlivet består av flere overganger som baserer seg på noen sosiale markører for hva samfunnet ser på ... -
Beyond automobility? Lock-in of past failures in low-carbon urban mobility innovations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Automobility, including the infrastructures, technologies and institutions that created high dependence on private car use, has led to significant environmental and climate problems and notably high carbon emissions. Now ... -
Beyond diet and exercise: A system dynamics approach to understanding the relationships between weight and well-being.
(Master thesis, 2015-06-18)Over the past decade, the province of British Columbia has experienced undesirable rates of overweight and obesity among its residents. These rates result in challenges for both overweight and obese individuals, as well ... -
Beyond Proximity: Consequentialist Ethics and System Dynamics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Consequentialism is a moral philosophy that maintains that the moral worth of an action is determined by the consequences it has for the welfare of a society. Consequences of model design are a part of the model lifecycle ... -
Beyond representation: Public service media, minority audiences and the promotion of capabilities through entertainment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Entertainment programming is an important means for public service media (PSM) to address minority audiences, and to fulfill their social mission vis-à-vis these groups. We argue that these efforts are plagued by a thin ... -
‘Beyond the border is where food is’ - COVID-19, cross-border fish traders and food security around the Ghana-Togo border
(Master thesis, 2022-05-16)COVID-19 containment measures have had documented worldwide social and economic consequences. In Ghana, restrictions included a lockdown and border closures, limiting movement of people and goods therefore hindering ... -
Beyond the Limits of Survey Experiments: How Conjoint Designs Advance Causal Inference in Political Communication Research
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09-13)This paper calls attention to what is arguably the most notable advancement in survey experiments over the last decade: conjoint designs. The benefit of conjoint design is its capacity to study and compare the causal effects ... -
Beyond the “substitution effect”: the impact of digital experience quality on future cultural participation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The “pivot” to digital that many arts and culture organisations faced during the Covid-19 pandemic, revealed a complex nexus of effects that includes significant accessibility improvements (for example, for D/deaf and ... -
Bias mitigation with AIF360: A comparative study
(Chapter, 2020)The use of artificial intelligence for decision making raises concerns about the societal impact of such systems. Traditionally, the product of a human decision-maker are governed by laws and human values. Decision-making ... -
Bidrar høyere frafallsrater i videregående opplæring til mer kriminalitet?
(Master thesis, 2018-06-23)Denne oppgaven undersøker sammenhengen mellom frafall i videregående opplæring og anmeldte lovbrudd. Deskriptivt statistikk viser til at både frafallsraten og anmeldte lovbrudd har vært avtagende trender de siste årene. ... -
Bidrar norske aviser til å gi bloggere makt? - En studie av Dagbladets rolle i Sophie Elise Isachsen og Caroline Berg Eriksens vei mot makten
(Master thesis, 2017-06-30)På få år har unge, kvinnelige bloggere dukket opp i offentligheten som en ny gruppe aktører med stor innflytelse. Kommersielle aktører betaler dem store summer for å omtale produkter på bloggene, politikere spør dem om ...