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The Arctic: last frontier for energy and mineral exploitation?
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)Historically, the Arctic has been imagined as the last frontier to conquer, tightly connected to ideas of manhood, adventure, and survival of the fittest. In the last decades, the Arctic has caught new interest as a resource frontier for tourism, trade, energy, and minerals. Climate change has both opened new waterways in the Arctic Ocean and altered living conditions drastically for Arctic communities. ... -
Fuelling toxic relations: Oil sands and settler colonialism in Canada
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-01)How does the often-invisible nature of pollution affect people's physical health and psychosocial relations, and their well-being near major industrial projects? Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Northern Alberta, Canada, this article explores this question by focusing on oil sands extraction on Cree, Dené and Métis nations' homelands with its environmental and socio-cultural consequences. ... -
Kolonial maskulinitet, kjønnet vold og nybyggerkolonialisme i Canada
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)10. mars 2022 ble Tytiana Janvier funnet død i et hjem i Lac La Biche i den canadiske provinsen Alberta etter å ha blitt meldt savnet av familien dagen før. Hun hadde gått til en bensinstasjon i byen for å ta en dusj. Bostedet hennes, en slags container utenfor byen som var opprettet som nødløsning for hjemløse, hadde ikke innlagt vann. Tytiana kom aldri tilbake. Hun ble 21 år. -
“Not a Major or Complicated Task”: Activating Dugnad under COVID-19 and the Imagination of Equality in the Norwegian Welfare State
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-28)In Norway, the institution of the welfare state and trust in the government defined the country’s approach to tackling the pandemic. In particular, the government’s strategy to activate the cultural concept of dugnad (voluntary, reciprocal communal work), which relies on an equal standing of all participants, plays into the national imaginary of an egalitarian and just society. However, like in other ... -
Refusal – opening otherwise forms of research
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-14)An increasing interest towards researching other forms of knowledges is taking place, expanding the boundaries of knowledge to include forms that have been historically marginalised, negated, and neglected by the Western academy. Parallel to this, we have identified a rising critique of how voices marginalized by colonial modes of academic knowledge production are included, through a single-sided ... -
Violent experiences, violent practices: caring and silence in anthropology
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)"Take care. This will be good data", I heard from a senior scholar after writing them about several violent and dangerous incidents that occurred during my PhD-fieldwork. At the time, I did not question it. Neither the words "take care" without further advice following how to do that, nor the statement that these incidents are good data. Are they, thougt? Does the ethnographer`s close experience of ... -
“Viruses do not discriminate”? Reflecting on two pandemics
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-26)“The first global pandemic in more than 100 years, COVID-19 has spread throughout the world at an unprecedented speed” states an article in the World Economic Forum. However, the same piece explicitly links the current COVID-19 pandemic to HIV/AIDS – another global epidemic that has occured during our lifetime. Many AIDS survivors and members of the queer community have drawn a line between the two ...
