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Costs and dynamics of war: System dynamics approached to maritime disputes in the South China Sea
(Master thesis, 2011-11-17)Maritime sovereignty disputes in the South China Sea (SCS) are complex issues of growing concern over regional and global stability. Significant possibility of high resolution conflict as an arms race has been accumulated. ... -
Counter-stereotypical Images of Muslim Characters in the Television Serial 24: A Difference that Makes no Difference?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)In the early years of the millennium racial counter-stereotypes gained prominence in Hollywood entertainment. This article examines the television serial 24’s (2001–10) efforts to combat allegations of stereotyping by ... -
Counterterrorism Policies and Attitudes Towards Out-Groups: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on Citizens’ Attitudes Towards Wiretapping
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Terrorism often leads to increased stigmatization of groups perceived as “out-groups”. We test two versions of out-group theory and ask whether citizens clearly distinguish between radical Muslims and Muslims in general, ... -
Coup with Adjectives: Conceptual Stretching or Innovation in Comparative Research?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Was Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff victim of a coup or removed through a legal process of impeachment? The heated debate on the 2016 ousting of Brazil’s president testifies to the growing controversy around the definition ... -
Cournot markets in the field: Dynamic decision- making in non-standard markets
(Conference lecture, 2017)The Cournot economic model is very useful for representing atomized markets in laboratory experiments. Ideally, such experiments are designed following a set of conditions in order to use the model properly. However, ... -
COVID-19 and mental health: a longitudinal population study from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Existing research has found adverse short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, but longer-term effects have been less documented. Using newly released register data on all general practitioner consultations ... -
COVID’s Dynamic Impact on Consumer Behavior in the US: A System Dynamics Approach to Understanding People’s Perception, Cognition, and Reaction to COVID-19
(Master thesis, 2021-06-04)COVID-19 has instigated sweeping and universal changes in how people carry on their day to day lives as they are forced to adjust to a constantly evolving pandemic. This research project investigates how general behavior ... -
Cracks in the System and Anthropology. A response to Bråten
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)We begin by thanking our colleague Eldar Bråten for taking the time to read and comment on our article with such thoroughness. We continue right away with a response. A key aspect of Bråten’s critique is his claim that it ... -
Cradle to Cradle - Foretaksstrategier som bidrag til det grønne skiftet - En case-studie av foretak i Limburg-regionen i Nederland
(Master thesis, 2016-09-01)This master thesis is about the Cradle-to- Cradle principles and the overall circular economy. I have especially been looking into companies that have chosen to implement the Cradle to Cradle principles into their business. ... -
Crafting Distinctions: Reinventing Work, Desire and Design Among the Petty Bourgeoisie of Paris
(Master thesis, 2015-12-08)The aim of this thesis is not to accurately map out the Bobos as a subculture. I rather seek to unearth this group's practices of aestheticization and commodification as part of their specific ethical values. The Bobos I ... -
Creating a Common Space in a Sectarian Landscape: Social Work andCohesive Action in Post-War Lebanon
(Master thesis, 2005)Through the course of this thesis I will portray and debate the make up, projects andmembers of a small organisation acting within a large context. Aiming to give a thoroughpresentation of Mouvement Social, and to illuminate ... -
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, we analyse how temporary and irregular migrants resist bureaucratically induced waiting for decisions on their residence permit applications in the unknown future [l’avénir] by engaging with the present. ... -
Creating a sandbox for multi-relation Modal Logic
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)Modal Logic is a framework used to reason about relational structures, with these struc- tures being widely used for modelling various types of phenomena in many different disciplines, including but not limited to computer ... -
Creating an Agglomerative Clustering Approach Using GDELT
(Master thesis, 2023-06-01)GDELT is a project with a large scale, continuously updated databank that provides a real-time image of the global news picture by outputting these as files that can be downloaded and used by anyone. However, this data is ... -
Creating Democratic Citizens? An analysis of Mock Elections as Political Education in School
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-11-04)Mock elections at school have been a part of the political education in Norway since the end of the Second World War, and have become an institution of political education. One of the main objectives of democratic institutions ... -
Creating gender exceptionalism: The role of global indexes
(Chapter, 2021)In this chapter, the authors examine critically the rise of global indexes and ask how they helped build and shape the idea of Nordic gender exceptionalism, as the region's members moved from being Cold War-era 'middle way ... -
Creating the "University experience": promotional and multimodal video productions in Scandinavian higher education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Promotional videos produced by higher education institutions (HEIs) are an important medium for introducing new generations of students to HEIs and communicating their roles and purposes to the outside world. Despite the ... -
Crises to die for: a quantitative study of financial crises, political instability, and economic growth
(Master thesis, 2011-05-27)This thesis emphasizes the multidimensionality of political instability when examining whether financial crises may trigger political instability, and how financial crises and instability affect the growth rate of the ... -
Crisis and retirement: Alienation in Kerala’s tea belt
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The recent crisis in the tea industry has devastated the livelihood of the Dalit workforce in the South Indian state of Kerala. Retired workers were worst affected, since the plantation companies—under the disguise of the ... -
A Critical Geography of Compact Urbanism : Urban politics of difference in Oslo
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-11-16)Since the 1990s urban sustainability has become a prominent international policymaking goal and global policy discourses have encouraged people to live in cities. Compact city policies have proliferated during this period. ...