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norskDoktorgradsavhandlinger (HSL-fak): Recent submissions
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Nominal coercion at the syntax-semantics interface: an investigation of countability, events and gender
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-12-02)In the thesis, I investigate the relationship between syntax and semantics. To what extent does syntax accommodate meaning, and how? To aid my investigation, I consider three different case studies: 1) grinding and portioning (and lack thereof) in Mainland Scandinavian; 2) frequency adjectives in English; 3) pancake sentences in Mainland Scandinavian. These case studies give insight into the roles ... -
Resisting unfinished colonial business in Southern Saami reindeer herding landscapes: Struggles over knowledges, worldviews, and values
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-10-28)Globally, Indigenous peoples resist capitalist expansion, while climate change accelerates destruction of our landscapes and lifeworlds. In Saepmie, the Saami homelands, the double burden from climate change and its mitigation measures has been named green colonialism. In this thesis, I study epistemic controversies in Saami reindeer herding landscapes and explore how they are entangled in Nordic-Saami ... -
Jugoslaviske fanger i Norge 1942–1945. Fra SSʼ dødsarbeidsleirer til Wehrmachts krigsfangeleirer
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-10-11)4049 jugoslaviske fanger var i tysk fangenskap i Norge fra 1942 til 1945. Fangene fra Jugoslavia var primært sendt til Norge for å bygge vei i Nord-Norge. Fangene var sivile og de fleste hadde vært partisaner. SS-offiserer med erfaring fra konsentrasjonsleirene i Tyskland ledet dødsarbeidsleirene. En av mine konklusjoner er at fangene kom til Norge for å arbeide og så dø. Etter ni måneder under SS ... -
Å stemme seg inn på omgivelsene – en studie av urbane hager
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-08-22)Urbane hager har i økende grad blitt en del av by- og stedsutvikling. Under paraplyen urbant landbruk har flere norske kommuner begynt å støtte ulike former for hageprosjekter og urban matproduksjon. Denne avhandlinga undersøker ulike relasjoner mellom mennesker, planter og dyr i urbane hager ved å ta utgangspunkt i det hverdagslige arbeidet i tre ulike hager, i Bodø og Tromsø. Gjennom deltakende ... -
Muitát, mujttalit, å minnes på ny – et museologisk perspektiv på kunnskapsproduksjon i Árran Julevsáme guovdásj og Várdobáiki sámi guovddáš
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-08-16)Kunnskapsproduksjon ved Árran Julevsáme guovdásj (Árran lulesamisk senter) og Várdobáiki sámi guovddáš (Várdobáiki samisk senter), to kultursentre med museum, er denne avhandlingens utgangspunkt. Med fokus på museumsvirksomheten til de to kultursentrene, utforsker jeg på hvilken måte kunnskapsproduksjon ved Árran og Várdobáiki kommer til uttrykk i utvalgte prosjekter fra 2010 til 2022, og hvilke ... -
Tone and internal word structure: The interface between morphosyntax and phonology in a variety of Northern Norwegian
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-06-21)Tromsø Norwegian is a variety of Norwegian that is part of the mainland Scandinavian isogloss in which a contrast between two tonal accents, known as accent 1 and accent 2, has developed. The distribution of the two tonal accents in morphologically complex words is subject to both phonological and morphosyntactic factors, which interact in non-trivial ways. This dissertation uses this interaction ... -
Svalbard through the prism of Russian media. A discourse and cognitive perspective
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-05-31)The permanent economic and scientific presence of Russia and Norway in the Svalbard archipelago involves both cooperation and diplomatic tensions. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to clarifying the Russian view of Svalbard by examining Russian media perceptions of the archipelago. The study covers a sample of Russian mainstream federal and north-western regional media outlets and investigates ... -
The Morung Express: Naganess, indigeneity and religion
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-03-22)This dissertation focuses on The Morung Express, a newspaper in Nagaland State, India, established by human rights activists in 2005. With a strong interest in indigenous issues, the newspaper presents itself as an alternative to mainstream media in India and claims to be guided by the historical experiences of the Naga people. This study examines a particular period in the newspaper’s life (2020-2023) ... -
The Ethos of the Environment - A Metaphysics of Man and Nature for the Anthropocene
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-03-18)The Anthropocene is a new geological epoch suggested to replace the now 12,000-year-old running Holocene, in response to the growing awareness of anthropogenic impact on the Earth system. Since the introduction by Paul J. Crutzen in 2000, the geological term has also caught on as a major topic in the environmental humanities. By analyzing the way in which the Anthropocene have been interpreted by ... -
The many faces of “možno” in Russian and across Slavic: Corpus investigation of constructions with the modal možno
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-02-23)<p>Modality encompasses various dimensions, including semantics, syntax, pragmatics, and discourse. Traditionally, research on modality in a specific language has focused either on examining broad domains, such as possibility or necessity, encompassing all linguistic means that constitute them, or on studying the most grammaticalized modal words. This dissertation explores the properties of the ... -
‘PISA effects’ on Norwegian education. A critical realist perspective
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-02-09)<p>The objective of the thesis is to examine, from a critical realist perspective and by using Margaret Archer’s conceptual framework, possible effects that the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test has on the Norwegian education system and on school personnel. The intention has been to reconceptualise the notion of ‘PISA effects’ both at the systemic (macro) and individual ... -
Healthcare Delivery and Emergency Preparedness on Svalbard: A Study of Norwegian and Russian Practices and Cooperation
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-01-26)The aim of this thesis is to explore Norwegian and Russian approaches to healthcare delivery and emergency preparedness on Svalbard and to examine potential effects from a closer cooperation. The methods were interdisciplinary. A systematic review was performed to assess studies about health on Svalbard (article 1). Thereafter, a literary analysis explored concepts of health and illness in Norwegian ... -
Mastering the Arctic? Political Culture and colonialism in the Russian Far North
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-12-13)This case study of colonialism in the Russian Arctic asks (1) Why is Moscow attempting to (re)colonize its Arctic region? (2) How can we understand the relationship between the Russian state and its Arctic region/residents? (3) What are the foundations of this relationship and how entrenched are they? It finds that internal and resource colonialism are occurring, that Moscow’s current colonialist ... -
Pushing Normative Change from the Bottom Up. Indigenous Peoples Organizations and Recognition of Indigenous Peoples Rights in Russia
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-12-08)Indigenous peoples and their organizations (IPOs) in the Arctic region and worldwide use international norms to hold governments and extractive corporations accountable for violations of Indigenous peoples’ rights. However, IPOs in undemocratic states face greater obstacles in engaging with these norms, given the government’s limited responsiveness to arguments based on international laws on the ... -
Kvensk kulturarv og museumsformidling. Strategier, spenninger og betydninger
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-12-05)Denne avhandlingen undersøker formidling av kvensk kulturarv ved Vadsø museum – Ruija kvenmuseum. Gjennom tre analyser tar jeg leseren med inn i museets arbeid, med intensjon om å få frem prosesser som museet, ansatte og brukere står i, når kulturarv som særlig knyttes til den nasjonale minoriteten skal formidles. Museumsformidling er operasjonalisert som et samspill mellom museets representant(er) ... -
Rettigheter og representasjon. Institusjonelle begrensninger og muligheter for urfolks selvbestemmelse
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-11-30)Abstract: The dissertation Rights and representation is a qualitative analysis of constraints and opportunities in developing indigenous political communities and institutions that exercise self-determination. The dissertation is a theoretical-empirical analysis based on the understanding that institutions shape actions, while at the same time there are opportunities for agency within the institutional ... -
Barns rett til familieliv etter omsorgsovertakelse. En analyse av Barneverns- og Helsenemndas vekting og fortolkning
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-11-02)This thesis explores how the child’s right to family life after a care order is issued safeguarded in care orders. The thesis consists of four studies: Three studies that analyze County Social Welfare Board decisions from period 1. July 2018 to 31. December 2019, and one study that provides an overview of research on how the child’s view is weighted in court proceedings, based on a database search ... -
Materiality, Monstrosity, and Queer Ecology: An Archaeology of Failure
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-10-31)This project delves into the phenomenon of unruly material legacies in the Anthropocene and develops what we may call a contemporary archaeology of failure. It is first and foremost grounded in the idea that things which have been discarded, abandoned, or lost, yet refused to disappear can be said to have failed. Building on this premise, I then reflect on the unintended and unwanted masses of things ... -
Up the downstream: Contributing mechanisms to the persistence of health inequalities in Norway
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-09-22)<p>This dissertation aims to expand on the current empirical knowledge of and theoretical mechanisms in the social determinants of health. Specifically, it investigates the mechanisms by which social root causes generate health outcomes in order to assess within-state health inequalities in high-income countries such as Norway. It emphasizes the effect of material and immaterial resources that result ... -
Vestiges of a Previous Industrial Age: A Contemporary Archaeology of Twentieth Century Single Industrial Mining Regions in the Far North
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-09-15)<p>This thesis aims to develop archaeological understandings of mining communities and sites in three (sub-)Arctic regions in Norway (Sør-Varanger), Canada (western Labrador), and Russia (Kola Peninsula), all of which underwent rapid industrial colonisation during the twentieth century. Today the regions continue as resource peripheries despite economic, social, and political changes that made the ...
