The general aim of the three essays that make up the substance of the dissertation is to contribute to the assessment of Husserl’s epistemology, which has received relatively little attention in the Husserlian renaissance of recent years. Their upshot is a critical one, in that I find reason to question important aspects of both Husserl’s metaepistemology and his substantive epistemology. Husserl’s ...

The dissertation explores tourist encounters with two Arctic winter tourism contexts in Northern Norway. Through three ethnographic fieldworks on the coastal steamer Hurtigruten, and a small peninsula of eastern Finnmark called Ekkerøy, learning experiences are scrutinized. As tourists visit a region they know relatively little about beforehand, how important is the external scaffolding of ...

The growing hostility against immigrants around the world has brought the debate on immigration and borders back to the core of moral and political philosophy. On the one hand, there is increasing pressure for international human mobility driven by, for example, globalisation, war and conflicts, economic development, family union, career development, and climate change. On the other hand, there are ...

This dissertation is about norms of the outdoors and it is based in four publications. While the articles are about specific norms, the summary article focus on how these norms are negotiated between locals and tourists and how they in sum can be seen as a negotiable room – a moral landscape of the outdoors. Firstly, I set out to investigate how nature based tourism is affecting the normative ...

Since the early 1990’s, the Great Lakes Region (GLR) has been devastated by a wave of interconnected interstate, intrastate, and local conflicts involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers in dozens of armed groups. An important part of the international community’s approach to peacebuilding in the region has involved the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of armed groups. Because ...

Avhandlingen belyser hvordan omdømmehåndtering kommer til uttrykk i offentlig sektor, og drøfter mål, utfordringer og muligheter med dette arbeidet. Avhandlingen består av fem artikler som beskriver ulike faser i offentlige organisasjoners omdømmehåndtering, her vist med kvalitative studier fra den norske sykehussektoren og universitetssektoren. Avhandlingen bygger på data som er samlet inn over en ...

Avhandlingen Historiemaleriet i Norge omhandler historiemaleri – eller nærmere bestemt historisk-mytologiske fremstillinger – med vekt på norsk kunst fra 1800-tallet, sett i sammenheng med spesielt skandinavisk og generelt vestlig kunsthistorie. Avhandlingen består av ialt fem tekster. Del 1, Introduksjon, gjør rede for avhandlingens tema, omfang og formål og knytter sammen de forskjellige tekstene. ...

This dissertation investigates the interface of syntax and phonology in a fully modular view of language, deriving the effects of syntactic structure on prosodification without referring to that structure in the phonological computation. It explores the effects of the Multiple Spell-Out Hypothesis and ‘syntax-all-the-way-down approaches’, specifically Nanosyntax, on the phonological computation. The ...

In this thesis I investigate how syntactic forms are represented and accessed in the mind of bilingual children. In particular, I explore the role of executive control and pragmatics in the selection and use of these representations. To do so, I tested a group of Norwegian-English bilingual children and a group of Norwegian age-matched monolinguals in a priming paradigm and in a cognitive task (the ...

Ph.d.-avhandlinga tar for seg kollektive verdsettinger i lokal alkoholpolitikk i Norge ved å undersøke alkoholpolitiske rettferdiggjøringer i fem kommuner i perioden 2008-2012. Jeg har analysert sakspapirer og møteprotokoller, observert møter i politiske utvalg, og jeg har gjort intervjuer med lokalpolitikere og kommunalt ansatte. Avhandlinga tar utgangspunkt i det franske pragmatiske perspektivet, ...