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Connecting Through Dance: The Multiplicity of Meanings of Kurdish Folk Dances in Turkey
(Master thesis, 2012-05-09)The thesis is unraveling a wealth of meaning in a widespread phenomenon amongst Kurds in Turkey; folk dances. I use Andriy Nahachewsky's categories participatory' and presentational' dances to distinguish folk dances as ... -
Connections between FDI, natural resource access and local development. The case of Antamina mine Peru. Are we following the correct path?
(Master thesis, 2010-05-18)Through an empirical study I will try to discover the connection between FDI, Natural ResourceAccess and local Development in Ayash River Basin Communities and their relation with Antamina mine company, a Mulinational Mine ... -
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Affective polarization – that is, antipathy towards political opponents – sits high on the academic and political agenda. This is because it is thought to have a multitude of damaging consequences, both for how citizens ... -
Consequences of Deregulation and Organisational Restructuring on Job Content and Occupational Health in the Norwegian Electric Energy Sector
(Master thesis, 2004)The study, on which this thesis is based, is part of a larger research program entitled Work Design, Productivity and Health funded by the Norwegian Research Council as part of the Health in Working Life research program. ... -
Consequences of South African Housing Policy: Twenty years of Struggle, Hope and Waiting
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Considering temporal aspects in recommender systems: a survey
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The widespread use of temporal aspects in user modeling indicates their importance, and their consideration showed to be highly effective in various domains related to user modeling, especially in recommender systems. ... -
Consistent Citizens? Exploring and Explaining Mechanisms of Opinion Change
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-12-20)This dissertation examines patterns of public opinion change and their determinants from the perspectives of both internal and external theories of opinion change. Based on new and original panel data on Norwegian citizens’ ... -
Consonant and Dissonant Experiences—Young Migrants’ Understandings of Integration: A Cross-Country Comparison between Germany, Luxembourg, and Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Our article addresses two aspects of young migrants’ understandings of integration: their own ideas of what integration is, and their perception of the destination society’s concepts and expectations regarding their ... -
Constituting settler colonialism: the ‘boundary problem’, liberal equality, and settler state-making in Australia’s Northern Territory
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Between Indigenous sovereignty and settler colonisation lie contested frontiers. I suggest Australia’s Northern Territory is one such frontier. This paper explores the 1998 settler campaign for Northern Territory statehood, ... -
Constitutionalising Rights to Water and Sanitation: International Norm Diffusion or Local Politics?
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)Water constitutes the foundation of human life. Without water, no one survives. In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 64/292 recognising the Human Right to Water and Sanitation. Subsequently, ... -
Constitutionalising the Right to Water in Kenya and Slovenia: Domestic Drivers, Opportunity Structures, and Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The international norm development that in 2010 culminated with the UN Resolution on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation changed international law. To what extent did this influence the parallel legal developments ... -
Constructing hermeneutical relations: a postphenomenological inquiry into immersive VR memory palaces
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)While VR adaptations of the mnemonic Method of Loci (or the ‘Memory Palace’ technique) show promising results in increasing mnemonic capabilities, little to no research has explored the use and integration of Virtual Memory ... -
Construction of a relevance knowledge graph with application to the LOCAL news angle
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)News angles are approaches to journalism content often used to provide a way to present a new report from an event. One particular type of news angle is the LOCAL news angle where a local news outlet focuses on an event ... -
Constructions of the ideal elite employee: A content analysis of job advertisements for positions in the Norwegian upper class
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Previous research has shown that the upper class has a high degree of self-recruitment. Simultaneously, research on job recruitment suggests that there has been an increase in the importance of ‘soft skills’. This article ... -
Consumer Privacy and Product Steering versus Price Discrimination in the Online Market
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)The following master thesis aims to study consumer privacy, where I focus on price discrimination and steering in the online market. I look closer at whether consumers will benefit from revealing their preferences or not ... -
Contested energy spaces. Disassembling energyscapes of the Canadian North
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-12-07)For decades, extractive industry developments have had direct and indirect impacts on indigenous communities in Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada. Yet, in a seemingly paradoxical manner and despite massive negative attention, ... -
Contextual factors and the salience of the immigration issue : An analysis of populist radical right parties' favourite topic
(Master thesis, 2011-03-22)This master thesis seeks to explain how structural factors influence the salience of the immigration issue. Stated more precisely, the research question is: To what extent does immigration influence the salience of the ... -
Contextualities of gender in Eritrean immigrant households: Exploring empowerment through integration in Norwegian society
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The article presents a contextual understanding of immigration and integration in Norwegian society from a gender perspective by capturing the experiences of Eritrean immigrant households when adapting to social change and ... -
The Contraction- and Detraction Thesis. A theory on power and values conflicts in democracies
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2005)The alternation of contraction and detraction processes in public administration is linked with long-term tendencies in the political system. From the last quarter of the 19th century the influence of the Storting (the ... -
The contradictory concepts of social exclusion and social inclusion
(International Intstitute for Labour Studies United Nations Development Programme. Research Series, Chapter, 1997)