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Needs, harms, and liberalism
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2025)The harm principle entails the subprinciple that harm to others provides a pro tanto moral reason for legal or social coercion. We address a ‘scope problem’ for that subprinciple: how can what counts as harm be restricted sufficiently, without sacrificing extensional adequacy, to protect the harm principle’s liberal credentials? While recognizing the centrality of such basic liberties as freedom ... -
Flying in Greenland: Pilot, Weather, and Perceptual Experience, An Anthropology of Human Factors
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis examines preceptions of an environment defined as hostile - the ‘perceiving’ that is not limited to cognitive aspects. It is a thesis about the ways in which we see the world, not as determined, but with awareness that our experiences affect what we bring to what is in front of us, before our eyes. But it is also about the physical structure of the eye, in that we have deficiencies. In ... -
Beredskapshjem En kvalitativ studie basert på beredskapshjemmenes subjektive opplevelse av å være beredskapshjem.
(Master thesis, 2025)Sammendrag Bakgrunnen for dette prosjektet er et ønske om å undersøke hvordan beredskapshjem som tar imot barn i akutte situasjoner, opplever å være beredskapshjem. Prosjektet er en del av masterutdanningen i sosialt arbeid som gjennomføres på Universitetet i Tromsø, Norges arktiske universitet, heretter UIT. Prosjektet er delt opp i ulike kapittel hvor det systematisk gjøres rede for prosjektets ... -
Governing with Knowledge: User Knowledge, Epistemic Justice, and Marine Mammal Management in the Arctic
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis investigates how user knowledge—place-based insights from hunters and local actors—is integrated into environmental governance, using the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO) as a case study. Drawing on Tengö et al.’s (2017) five-task framework for knowledge integration (mobilize, translate, negotiate, synthesize, and apply), the study analyzes NAMMCO documents and reports ... -
The Hound, the Treasure, and the Ice: Empire Undone by Its Own Terrain Environment and Empire in Victorian Detective and Sensation Fiction
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis explores how nature and empire collide in three well-known Victorian stories: Wilkie Collins’s The Frozen Deep and Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles. While these works are often read as detective or adventure fiction, they also reflect deeper concerns about British colonialism and humanity’s troubled relationship with the environment. Using ideas ... -
Queer In-Betweenness: Between the Binaries in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex
(Master thesis, 2025)Historically, bisexuality and intersex identities have been overlooked. Even in the queer community, bisexuals and intersex individuals had to bring their voices higher in order to be heard, through literature, testimonies and activism. However, even in the 21st century, the academic discussion and queer activism haven’t given enough visibility to the fictional representation of characters as models ... -
The Hero's Healing Journey: Exploring Kaladin Stormblessed's journey from depression to resilience in The Stormlight Archive.
(Master thesis, 2025)The following thesis aims to explore how Joseph Campbell’s idea about using myths as helping tools translates to modern fictional literature, by framing Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive as a healing myth. This is done by connecting modern psychiatric ideas on healing, with literary theories on how and why we read. I reflect upon one of the protagonists of The Stormlight Archive named Kaladin ... -
Å tilnærme seg kvensk identitet via teater. Diskursanalyse av Näkymätön kansa – Det usynlige folket
(Master thesis, 2025)Tematikken i denne avhandlinga dreier seg om kvensk identitet og dette utforskes via Kvääniteatteri sin første forestilling. Via diskursanalyse av manus og opptak av forestillinga Näkymätön kansa – Det usynlige folket utforsker jeg hva kvensk identitet kan være i dagens samfunn. Dette diskuterer jeg via problemstillinga: Hvordan utforsker Näkymätön kansa – Det usynlige folket kvensk identitet? For ... -
Hva var faghistorikerens rolle i Michelet-debatten?
(Master thesis, 2025)Denne oppgaven undersøker debatten som oppstod i samfunnet og i det historiefaglige miljøet i etterkant av utgivelsen av Hva visste hjemmefronten? av Marte Michelet i 2018. I boken anklager Michelet blant annet den norske hjemmefronten for å ha mottatt tidlige varsler om de forestående jødeaksjonene i 1942, og at de ikke reagerte raskt nok og sterkt nok på disse. Michelet mener å kunne bevise at ... -
“Assessing Accountability Mechanisms for Conflict-related Sexual Violence (CRSV) within Transitional Justice Processes in South Sudan and Ethiopia: A Comparative Analysis”
(Master thesis, 2025)Abstract This study critically examines the mainstreaming of CRSV into transitional justice mechanisms in Ethiopia and South Sudan. This research utilises a comparative approach in analysing how domestic and hybrid prosecutions, truth commissions, reparations, and traditional justice approaches address CRSV and the needs of its survivors. The study employs a transitional justice theoretical framework ... -
Gorilla: A study of young learners’ creative responses to a picturebook
(Master thesis, 2025)Abstract Creativity is an important theme in English as a foreign language class. Different approaches are considered to nurture creativity in English in young learners. Many researchers have considered picturebooks to have immense potential to foster creativity in young learners, however, they have been underused for this purpose in primary school pupils. In this study, I have examined how a ... -
Ethical Selection and Deselection of Literature: Teaching Sensitive Topics for Tolerance and Empathy in Norwegian Classrooms
(Master thesis, 2025)Forbud, fjerning og sensur av barne- og ungdomslitteratur har i økende grad blitt et tema for diskusjon de siste årene. I deler av den vestlige verden unngår eller velger lærere bort visse litterære verk som omhandler sensitive temaer, ofte av bekymring eller frykt for å krenke elever eller deres hjem. Den flere hundre år gamle debatten om hvorvidt elever bør utsettes for utfordrende tekster for å ... -
Reading for Pleasure: Understanding Decline and Promoting Reading
(Master thesis, 2025)Children’s and young people’s motivation to read has shown a declining trend over time. This master thesis explores, through a literature review, the benefits of reading enjoyment, the challenges associated with fostering reading motivation and proposes measures to enhance reading engagement among children and young adults. The aim is to develop a deeper understanding of how teachers can contribute ... -
You don’t walk into a funeral and say: slay bestie, this is so Sigma!: Incorporating Gen Z slang in English lessons at a lower-secondary school
(Master thesis, 2025)Norwegian teenagers scores very high on English language proficiency, largely due to the extensive exposure they have to English though digital media and social interaction. This integration of language has led to use of informal linguistic forms, such as Generation Z (Gen Z) slang, in teens everyday communication. While the Norwegian English curriculum emphasizes language awareness and reflection, ... -
The Haunting of Ukraine: A Geopolitical Spectacle of Self-Destruction
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis has identified four interweaving causes of the Russo-Ukrainian war. The first is domestic fragmentation between cultural identities and political models of statehood, internal contradictions which have fused with modern political currents and have thus embedded themselves within competing geopolitical paradigms – the second cause of war. Indeed, this toxic union has cemented Ukraine’s ... -
Spedbarnsdødeligheten i Flakstad og Borge prestegjeld, 1821-1925
(Master thesis, 2025)Spedbarnsdødelighet har vært en universell utfordring i alle samfunn, men nivået og årsakene har variert betydelig mellom ulike geografiske områder, folkegrupper og tidsperioder. Denne oppgaven undersøker sesongvariasjoner i spedbarnsdødeligheten i Flakstad og Borge prestegjeld i perioden 1821–1925. Området ble valgt for å undersøke om Lofotfisket kan ha påvirket dødeligheten blant spedbarn. Analysene ... -
2. bergkompani og frigjøringen av Finnmark: Ulike erfaringer, ulike fortellinger
(Master thesis, 2025)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvorfor fortellingen om 2. bergkompanis innsats under frigjøringen av Finnmark 1944-45 har vært preget av så ulike og til dels motstridende fortellinger. Som den eneste norske hærstyrken som deltok aktivt i landoperasjoner på norsk jord under andre verdenskrig, har kompaniet blitt både hyllet og kritisert i ettertid. Noen fortellinger vektlegger det militære bidraget ... -
Nevrodivergente stedskonstruksjoner
(Master thesis, 2025)Dette masterprosjektet tar sikte på å belyse nevrodivergentes sensoriske- og kroppslige erfaringer av Tromsø. Inspirert av et fenomenologisk stedsperspektiv, undersøkes det hvilke steder Tromsø utgjør for mennesker med sensoriske variasjoner, og hva det betyr for opplevelsen av-, og følelsen til Tromsø. Problemstillingen for masterprosjektet er: Hvilke stedskonstruksjoner av Tromsø kommer til syne ... -
The Long and Winding Polar Silk Road: Explaining China’s Limited Success in Policy Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Arctic
(Master thesis, 2025)China developed the elusive ‘Polar Silk Road’ policy around 2017. The Polar Silk Road connects China’s Arctic policy with the global Belt and Road Initiative, and aims to increase Chinese activity within shipping, infrastructure construction and resource development in the Arctic region. In the eight years that have passed since, the policy has produced remarkably few concrete results. This thesis ... -
Youth spaces of care and art at Tvibit
(Master thesis, 2025)This research addresses the gap in research on youth arts spaces with a specific focus on their role as social infrastructure through a case study of the youth house Tvibit in Tromsø, Norway. Youth and staff everyday experiences of Tvibit and informal arts learning were explored through semi-structured interviews, observations, and a zine workshop to understand how Tvibit’s public space acts as a ...
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