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Donas da Terra (Female Owners of the Land). Decolonizing historical representations through an ethnography of memories of women of power and authority in Zambezia, Mozambique
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-11-24)This thesis discusses the missing or underrepresented women of power and authority within the written history of Mozambique’s Zambezi region. It argues that several generations of scholars, both within colonial and ... -
Double devaluations: Class, value and the rise of the right in the Global North
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article builds on the contributions of anthropologists of Europe in discovering, tracing and explaining the neo-nationalist ascendancy of the last 20 years. It picks up on earlier publications to make a succinct case ... -
The Dynamics of changing perspectives: Identity politics, citizen rights and language among the deaf in Norway
(Master thesis, 2013-05-30)This thesis is centered around the two conflicting discourses on deafness. Deafness can be understood as both a medical and cultural terms. However, both these discourses are highly contested. This thesis aims at exploring ... -
Dø for Brann, alle mann! En antropologisk studie av supportermiljøet rundt Sportsklubben Brann.
(Master thesis, 2008)Dø for Brann, alle mann! - en antropologisk studie av supportermiljøet tilknyttet Sportsklubben BrannAv Anita RøssevoldVeileder: Ståle KnudsenJeg gjorde i perioden januar-juli 2007 feltarbeid i supportermiljøet rundt ... -
Effervescence and Ephemerality: Popular Urban Uprisings in Mozambique
(Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06-25)This article analyses the large-scale popular urban uprisings that shook Mozambican cities on 1 and 2 September 2010, following the government’s announcement of successive rises in the price of public transport fares and ... -
The Egalitarian King? Abdullah Öcalan and his evolving role in the Kurdish Freedom Movement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The Kurdish movement has often been touted as an egalitarian struggle, and, in many ways, rightly so. However, the movement's relation to its undisputed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, has remained relatively unexamined. This ... -
Ei ny tid for gamle gudar: ein etnografisk studie av Ásatrúarfélagið på Island
(Master thesis, 2020-08-21)I denne oppgåva tek eg for meg trussamfunnet Ásatrúarfélagið på Island. Dette er eit nypaganistisk trussamfunn som vart grunnlagt i 1972 og som fekk status som statleg anerkjent religion på Island i 1973. Dette inneber at ... -
«Ein må tole å bli skitten på fingrane» - Ein studie av identitet og fellesskap blant unge i industristaden Odda
(Master thesis, 2022-11-01)Denne masteroppgåva handlar om identitet og fellesskap blant ungdom i industristaden Odda i Hardanger. Odda er ein av stadane som på byrjinga av 1900-talet var ein del av industrialiseringa i Noreg. I dag er det framleis ... -
"Elles n'ont pas la volonté." Respektabilitet blant kristne kvinner i Ngaoundéré, Kamerun
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Embedded movement: Senegalese transcontinental migration and gender identity
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"Embracing the land". Maori og Pakeha i Aotearoa New Zealand
(Master thesis, 2007)Teksten handler om aspekter ved forholdet mellom urfolk og majoritet i et vestlige sosialdemokratisk i-land. Den er basert på et seks måneder langt feltarbeid (fra august 2006 til februar 2007) i Aotearoa New Zealand, ... -
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 ... -
En konstituering av masaikultur. En antropologisk studie av to frivillige bistandsorganisasjoners intervensjoner i Kenya
(Master thesis, 2014-05-26)Avhandlingen er basert på seks måneders feltarbeid ved foten av Kilimanjaro i Kenya, og er en studie av én norsk-kenyansk- og én amerikansk frivillig humanitær organisasjon som opererer i samme masailandsby. Organisasjonene ... -
"En må få hodet inn i soningen" Mestring og motstand i Bergen fengsel
(Master thesis, 2011-12-19)Denne avhandlingen omhandler menneskers relasjon til makt. Under et 6 måneders langt feltarbeid i Bergen fengsel undersøkte jeg informantenes hverdag ved å benytte meg av en kombinasjon av deltakende observasjon og intervjuer. ... -
En reise i flow – organisering av dansefester og opplevelser med elektronisk musikk
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Enchanted place, shifting landscapes. An anthropological study on the tangled transformations within Roșia Montană’s place and landscape
(Master thesis, 2017-07-04)This thesis deals with the transformations which have occurred in Roșia Montană, Romania after the late 1990s – early 2000s – when the mining company RMGC arrived at the community with a plan to start an open pit mine in ... -
Establishing a New "Common Sense": A Study of the Leftist Movement in Northeastern United States
(Master thesis, 2018-06-05)This thesis examines political activism among young leftist activists and self-declared socialists in New England, United States. Based on my fieldwork of 2017, I have explored how members of a DSA (Democratic Socialists ... -
Everyday weather: An ethnography of knowledge and environment in a Fijian village.
(Master thesis, 2014-06-27)Abstract My research focus is on weather in Fiji; more specifically in the village of Malawai, on the island of Gau. Here people lead lives that are closely connected to the cycles in the environment such as tidal water, ... -
Existential Displacement: Health Care and Embodied Un/Belonging of Irregular Migrants in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Drawing on fieldwork and interviews in Oslo and Bergen, Norway, this article discusses irregular migrants’ experiences of existential displacement and the tactics they use to try to re-establish a sense of emplacement and ... -
Expectations and realities: Living with a negative in a Norwegian reception centre
(Master thesis, 2014-06-19)Within the context of the imagined Norwegian way of life, this thesis aims to explore the lives and experiences of female asylum seekers with a negative asylum application. I intention is to examine whether living in one ...