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Taking It to the streets - Community events in Post-Katrina New Orleans
(Master thesis, 2013-06-16)This thesis concerns community events, especially those of festivals and parades, in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Based on my fieldwork of 2012, I have explored how participants in community events use these happenings as a ... -
Taming the War Machine: Police, Pacification and Power in Rio de Janeiro
(Master thesis, 2016-09-08)In this thesis I trace the changes in the exercise of Brazilian state power in Rio's poor communities, or favelas, through an ethnographic exploration of the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) - allegedly a proximity policing ... -
Tatoveringspraksiser og meningsskaping. Tatoveringsmotivenes rolle i identitetshåndtering
(Master thesis, 2011-05-23)Abstract Hva har radiovertinnen Henriette Lien, presten Einar Gelius, tidligere LO leder Gerd Liv Valla og mange andre til felles? De har alle valgt å tatovere seg. Tidligere har tatoveringer stort sett vært brukt av sjømenn ... -
Temporality and the politics of the migrant body
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The temporality of humanitarianism: Provincializing everyday volunteer practices at European borders
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While recognizing that ‘volunteering for refugees’ is entangled in ethical and political power dimensions, this article will discuss how we can ethnographically explore the everyday humanitarian practices of volunteers as ... -
The Faithful Servant: Practicing Science and Religion among PNG university students in Australia
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“The Streets Will Always be Ours:” Collective Action and Protest Practices in Barcelona
(Master thesis, 2021-12-15)By focusing on collective action in public space, and how it is used to organise collective actions, this thesis explores the streets in Barcelona's role in maintaining the political struggle between the Spanish State and ... -
"There's no love here". Beach boys in Malindi, Kenya
(Master thesis, 2011-05-27)Although there has been various suggestions as to what would be the correct term to use on a phenomenon where Western female tourists travel to Third World countries; engaging in romantic relationships with local beach ... -
“They say we have peace”: Perceptions and practices of peace in Northern Cameroon
(Master thesis, 2016-09)The research question that this thesis sets out to answer is: “What are the perceptions and practices of peace found amongst the population in Northern Cameroon?”. Much research on war and peace has focused on the state ... -
To Be in the World But Not of It: American Evangelicals and the Dilemmas of Being Christian in a Secular World
(Master thesis, 2009-06-22)In this thesis I explore how evangelical Christians in two different churches in the US relate to the society they live in, which they regard as secular. I will give insight to their narratives on how they see their lives ... -
To be or not to be. Om strategier for overlevelse, maktkamp og vennskap i et kostskolehus
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To be unemployed is not to be dependent. The politics of narratives surrounding unemployment
(Master thesis, 2013-06-18)Based on six months of fieldwork in London in the first half of 2012, this thesis aims to understand how unemployment is a situation that is understood in different ways based on political understanding and moral categories. ... -
"To hell with you and your union, we are going whatever you say". An ethnographic study of how class, race, ethnicity, and immigration affected the Brexit referendum
(Master thesis, 2018-06-06)Based on a five-month long fieldwork in Wigan, North West England this thesis presents an analysis of how class, immigration, ethnicity and race affected the Brexit referendum. I did my fieldwork in a post-industrialised ... -
Traces of Grace : An Autoethnographic Exploration of Faith as Embodied Knowledge
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-09-28)In my PhD-thesis I explore the embodiment of the Christian faith and spirituality, from the perspective of faith as an embodied knowledge, incorporating my own spiritual seeking in the endeavour to understand other people’s ... -
Transizione verso cosa? Un’ anthropologia storica della finanza, della moneta e delle crisi economiche
(Journal article, 2022)The last decade of financial crisis, «financialization» and «quantitative easing» has been a feast of public learning about money and finance. Anthropology, history, and political economy rediscovered a «forgotten» history ... -
A Transnational Political Engagement: Solidarity, Nationhood and Pan-Tamilness among the Tamils of Tamilnadu
(Master thesis, 2015-06-15)In this study I will explore and investigate the development of the contemporary student agitation which has unfolded in the Southern Indian state of Tamilnadu since 2008 and been axed around the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils. ... -
Two theories of money. On the historical anthropology of the state-finance nexus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The last decade of financial crisis, “financialization” and “quantitative easing” has been a feast of public learning about money and finance. Anthropology, history, and political economy rediscovered a “forgotten” history ... -
Ugifte mødre i Marokko. Samfunnsborgerskap og handlingsrom i stat og sivilsamfunn.
(Master thesis, 2017)Ugifte mødre regnes fortsatt for å være blant de mest marginaliserte og stigmatiserte gruppene i Marokko, og resten av Midtøsten. Likevel er Marokko kjent for å være et arabiskmuslimsk land som balanserer mellom både ... -
Unge middelklassekvinner i det offentlege rom. Ein antropologisk studie frå Jaipur, India.
(Master thesis, 2015-12-11)Denne masteravhandlinga er ein antropologisk studie av unge middelklassekvinners erfaringar i det offentlege rom i byen Jaipur, India. Korleis offentlege rom oppfattas, og korleis dei unge kvinnene navigerer seg gjennom ...