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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 ... -
Vold og Ære, hevn og forsoning. Om kulturell kontinuitet i et komparativt perspektiv
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)This article is a slightly modified version of the honorary lecture I gave at the Annual Conference of the Norwegian Association of Anthropologists 2017. I am addressing the conference's central theme – cultural continuity ... -
Voter alignments in a dominant party system: The cleavage structures of the Russian Federation.
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)This thesis investigates whether there is a social cleavage structure across the Russian regions and whether this structure is mirrored in the electoral vote shares for Putin and his party United Russia on one hand, versus ... -
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper presents the results of a conjoint survey experiment in which Swiss citizens were asked to choose among parliamentary candidates with different class profiles determined by occupation, education and income. ... -
Vulnerability governance as differential inclusion: the struggles of asylum seekers in Marseille
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Concerns with ‘vulnerability’ increasingly proliferate in global and regional pacts, international and domestic legislations, and policy discourses and practices regarding migration and international protection. Also in ... -
Vurdera, representera, fokusera? Ei samanlikning av geografisk representasjonsfokus blant norske og svenske kommunestyrerepresentantar
(Master thesis, 2016-05-31)I denne oppgåva tek eg føre meg representasjonsfokuset blant norske og svenske kommunestyrerepresentantar. Representasjonsfokuset til representantane syner kven dei i størst grad meiner det er viktig at dei representerer ... -
Wage Inequality in Rich Democracies : Policies and Politics
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-08-09)Økende økonomisk ulikhet er en betydelig utfordring for moderne avanserte demokratier. Økonomisk ulikhet skaper sosiale spenninger, reduserer sosial mobilitet, hindrer økonomisk vekst, og undergraver prinsippet om lik ... -
Wanem ia jenda? [What is Gender?]: Translations and (Mis)Understandings between Development Discourse & Everyday Life Experiences in Port Vila, Vanuatu
(Master thesis, 2016-06-17)Labelled as one of the Least Developed Countries, Vanuatu is a popular place for international Development agencies. The situation of women is particularly often targeted in the Development discourses and buzzwords like ... -
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Can wars breed nationalism? We argue that civilians’ indirect exposure to war fatalities can trigger psychological processes that increase identification with their nation and ultimately strengthen support for nationalist ... -
«WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT» - En studie av krimjournalistikk på Snapchat
(Master thesis, 2022-05-31)Det groteske og skremmende har alltid fascinert publikum. Krimjournalistikken kan spores tilbake til 1500-tallet, og etterspørselen for krimsaker er kanskje større nå enn noensinne. Nå finner vi dessuten krimjournalistikk ... -
Wastage features of the inland ice sheet in central South Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1980)Detailed field mapping of different lateral phenomena, striae, texture and till fabric are the basis of a reconstruction of five deglaciation phases in the east Jotunheimen-Gudbrandsdalen area, a landscape with moderate ... -
Watching, assessing, participating. Globalising political education in Norwegian upper secondary education.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Transnational governance is expanding rapidly. From a political education perspective, an important question is to what extent and how this is included in the political universe that adolescents are being prepared for at ... -
Water & Power
(Master thesis, 2018-06-22)In this thesis, I attempt to explain the development of the international human right to water, and how this has affected opportunities for those that have their rights violated. As the right to water was elevated to an ... -
Water choice in a low-income area in Kampala, Uganda
(Master thesis, 2004)The intention of this study is to elaborate on important factors determining choice of water in a low-income area in Kampala, Uganda. The study area is located in a parish called Nateete, at the outskirts of the city. My ... -
"Water is life, Life is Water" - Environmental Engagements in Thailand
(Master thesis, 2020-08-13)Abstract In this thesis I aim to shed light on how environmental engagement can unfold in Thailand – in an authoritarian regime with insufficient waste management infrastructure and lack of well-organized environmental ... -
Water or Soda -Volunteers in a Kampala slum-
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Waterworn. Climate Change Resonance in the Shivalik Hills of North India
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-05-15)This dissertation aims to explore the idea of climate change as it appeared amongst villagers in the rural Shivalik hills of North India. I traced the discourse behind the practices of diverse local, regional and global ... -
Waving the map for national identity: How cartography in Norway and Sweden was used as a nation-building tool in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Cartography has for centuries been used as a political instrument to support national pride, impact and influence, whether through use of a national prime meridian or local toponyms, the emphasising of the country’s extent ... -
Ways of Knowing, Ways of Life. Environment, Education and Climate Change in a Rural Samoan Village
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The ways of Maize: Food, Poverty, Policy and the Politics of Meaning among the Chewa of Malawi
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-06-29)This ethnographically grounded study of Chewa people’s foodways traces the involvement of the Chewa people in global development politics and policy processes. With the aim of understanding how development interventionist ...