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“Palestine is everything: my homeland, my religion, my tradition. Without it I am a refugee” Drømmen om retur blant palestinske flyktninger i Rashediyeh, Sør-Libanon
(Master thesis, 2010)Etter "den store katastrofen" (al-nakbah) i 1948, har Palestinere spredt seg utover hele verden, flesteparten i Syria, Jordan og Libanon. I Libanon har det nye hjemmet blitt skapt innenfor flyktningleirer, hvor de har blitt ... -
Paradoxes of a Modern Viking. A Study of a Living History Museum and Reenactment
(Master thesis, 2016-05-27)This thesis thematises the role of the museum and how it, through hundreds of years, has changed from not only being concerned with material things, but also how immaterial heritage, that which is intangible, emerged in ... -
Pass og citadell: franskbruk i Tunis
(Master thesis, 2008-10-05)Nasjonalstater har ofte blitt bygget på forestillingen om ett felles språk. Med et slikt premiss ser man bort fra språklig heterogenitet innenfor nasjonalstatenes grenser. I mange sammenhenger har det vært mer vanlig å se ... -
The Pastoral rehab: Drug addiction, therapeutic discourses and self-transformation
(Master thesis, 2014-08-04)Abstract My research project involves ethnographic work focused on the culture and social relationships of drug addicts and their responses to different treatment practices. I conducted six months of fieldwork in San ... -
Pastoralists in Violent Defiance of the State. The case of the Karimojong in Northeastern Uganda
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-05-07)This thesis explores the issue of persistent violence between pastoralists andthe state in north eastern Uganda, probing why after many years of trying to settle theproblems of cattle raiding, armed violence and disorder ... -
Patronage, contextual flexibility and organisational innovation in Lebanese protected areas management
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)The Lebanese Shouf Biosphere Reserve (SBR) counts among the most successful Middle Eastern conservation projects today. This article describes the evolution and contemporary management of conservation in Shouf. Using SBR ... -
People as infrastructure An ethnographic study of urban inequality in the neighborhoods of Dakar
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)This thesis explores the ways in which security, class and prestige, inequality and forms of housing is structured and lived in times of urbanization and development in urban Dakar. I view these topics in the different ... -
People vs. peoples: sacrifice and the foundations for sovereignty in 1640’s England and contemporary northeast Syria
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Engaging with state-centric perspectives on sovereignty, and particularly Giorgio Agamben's work, this article argues that despite sovereignty's permanence at the level of the state, the principles upon which it is built ... -
The Perfect Christian. An analysis of paradoxical aspects of charismatic christianity in the U.S.
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Performing us and the others. Latino identification through expressive culture in a Texan theater company
(Master thesis, 2011-06-14)When represented in media, Latinos in the United States are often associated with immigration, border control, drug dealing, gangs or the rising use of Spanish in the U.S. The large and heterogeneous Latino population has ... -
Permaculture on the Iberian Peninsula: Networks and praxis
(Master thesis, 2023-12-13)This thesis explores the networks of permaculture, those that are natural, social and a mix of the two. Permaculture design is one of several alternative agricultural practices, made in response to climate change and living ... -
Permanent Impermanence in the Anthropocene: The emergence of a guest-worker society in a Patagonian Mountain village
(Journal article, 2023)At a stage of capitalism where “the environment” emerges as an existential category, conservation policies become weaved into processes of expulsion. The idea that there is not enough for everyone reconfigures social ... -
Portals to the unseen Re-inventing ayahuasca practices, shamanism, and the anthropologist in the entheogenic field
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Porteño logics. The Meaning of Taste and Morality in Social Classification in Buenos Aires
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Praktfulle Emirer og Melkepatriotisme: Qatar i krise, forestilt fellesskap og hverdagsnasjonalisme
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)I ukene etter at Saudi-Arabia, De forente arabiske emirater, Bahrain og Egypt innførte en storstilt boikott av Qatar, har en voldsom og personfokusert nasjonalisme blomstret opp i det lille landet. Toppdrevet regimedyrking ... -
Primitivism prevails: The cultural problematization of Aboriginality
(Master thesis, 2011-02-06)Contemporary Darwin is characterised by racial, that is socially constructed notions of culture, structures that are partly produced by stereotypes through misperceptions on the contents of cultural capital. In this thesis, ... -
The Priviliged and the Poor. Being Rich amid the "lazy ignorant"
(Master thesis, 2009)The segregation of the privileged from the poor is found, produced and reproduced at several levels simultaneously. To notice who did what where, and with whom, was essential as I tried to learn the ways of my informants. ... -
“Problem or Resource?” - An anthropological journey through, and with, oil -
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)This thesis explores narratives in and around the Norwegian oil industry, with a particular focus on the industrial park in Mongstad and based on multi-sited methods, brief ethnographic fieldwork stints as well as digital ... -
Producing Desire: South Korea's Neoliberal Economy
(Master thesis, 2015-11-27)This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of contemporary processes of individualization and subjectification in relationship to how the South Korean economy is lived in social and cultural terms. The ethnographic material ... -
Projects, Donors, and Discourses: A Critical Look at Experiences and Representations in a Chinese Environmental NGO
(Master thesis, 2009-12-16)Why are there so many assumptions about NGOs and so fewattempts to describe the projects and procedures of specificNGOs? My thesis looks at the experiences of the leaders andworkers of a NGO in Yunnan, China, and seeks to ...