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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 ... -
”We are equal, we are different”: A social movements’ approach to the emergence of indigenous parties in Bolivia and Peru
(Master thesis, 2010-06)This thesis discusses the emergence of ethnic, or indigenous, parties in Bolivia and Peru. More specifically, it seeks to explain why Bolivia has seen the emergence of indigenous-based political parties at the national ... -
“We are nothing without our Islands”: Challenges and Crises in the Marshall Islands
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)Abstract: This thesis explores the themes of challenges and crises in the Marshall Islands. Through ethnographic data based on participant observation primarily in Majuro, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), I study ... -
“We in the Mojo Community” – Exploring a Global Network of Mobile Journalists
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Mobile journalism is a fast-growing area of journalistic innovation that requires new skills and work practices. Thus, a major challenge for journalists is learning not only how to keep up with new gadgets but how to advance ... -
'We Rise By Lifting Others'
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“We started climate change”. A Multi-level ethnography of Pacific Climate Leadership
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-04-26)Based on fieldwork in multiple locations around the world but with a particular focus on the Pacific Islands region, this dissertation explores ethnographically the global phenomena of anthropogenic climate change and their ... -
“ We strongly condemn…”: Norwegian governments’ Foreign Policy Statements as Political Tool or Moral Stance?
(Master thesis, 2019-06-27)In international relations “shaming-policy” is one of the most common and popular “tools” for achieving change in state behavior, concerning human rights and international law. Public exposure leads to pressure, which leads ...