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Magi og kjærlighet på veien til høyere utdannelse
(Konferansebidrag, 1995)I vesten og i den tredje verden finner man en mengde ulike bilder av formell vestlig utdannelse. I dagliglivet forsøker folk å koordinere forskjellige kunnskapsfelt, lokale og globale3. Konstruksjonen av bilder av vestlig utdannelse og synet på hvilken betydning en slik utdannelse får for den enkelte og for samfunnet er et komplekst emne. I dag samhandler de fleste mennesker med folk som er involvert ... -
Magic and love on the road to higher education
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 1996)In this article, I undertake an analysis ofthe role that Western education plays in two young Cameroonian women's lives: Fanta is Muslim, Therese is Christian. Through an analysis of their narrative about their own education and careers and ofthe cultural conditioning oftheir search for higher education. I try to grasp how Western education as a globalfield ofknowledge is coordinated with the ... -
Making Sense of Stigmatized Organizations: Labelling Contests and Power Dynamics in Social Evaluation Processes
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-12)How do social audiences negotiate and handle stigmatized organizations? What role do their heterogenous values, norms and power play in this process? Addressing these questions is important from a business ethics perspective to improve our understanding of the ethical standards against which organizations are judged as well as the involved prosecutorial incentives. Moreover, it illuminates ethical ... -
Making sense of the remote areas: films and stories from a tundra village
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-01)Narratives of globalization, conceived of as large-scale political, economic, and cultural processes flowing from metropolitan centers, often emphasize the loss of tradition and cultural originality in the remote and wild peripheries. All three television programs filmed in the past 10 years in Krasnoshchel’e, a remote Arctic village in Northwest Russia where I did anthropological fieldwork, are ... -
Making the smart grid through pilot projects. Insights, lessons and ways forward
(Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2021)This report analyses 30 pilot and demonstration projects that advance smart grids with flexible consumption and high levels of renewable energy production in Norway.<p> <p>• We see pilot and demonstration projects as key sites in the production of future societies.<p> <p>• Such projects are usually evaluated based on techno-economic criteria, while their contribution to broader societal processes ... -
A Match Made in Heaven? Strategic Convergence between China and Russia
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Material Methods for a Rapid-Response Anthropology
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-13)Sudden crises frustrate anthropological methodologies. Our discipline aspires to engaged scholarship in dialogue with community and public concerns. Yet timely social analysis must address the ephemeral and unpredictable, running against the rhythm of anthropological fieldwork and publication. When social distancing precludes typical ethnographic engagements, how may we adapt anthropological approaches? -
Meeting Places and Integration: Participatory Mapping of Cross-Cultural Interactions in Norwegian
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-02)Increased immigration into Scandinavia warrants the need for knowledge about differential uses of urban spaces by populations with various cultural backgrounds and the conditions that support cross-cultural interactions in these spaces. Immigrants and native Norwegians in Tromsø and Bodø were encouraged to log information about locations where they spend time on online participatory maps, along with ... -
Mellom deltakelse og beskyttelse: Aksjonsforskningens mulighetsrom for barn og unge
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-01)Å gi barn og unge mulighet til deltakelse i forskning om temaer som angår deres liv og levekår er viktig. Samtidig innebærer forskning med mindreårige deltakere særskilte forskningsetiske og metodiske utfordringer. De har rett til beskyttelse, og deres integritet må ivaretas. Det kan oppstå et spenningsforhold mellom barns og unges deltakelse og deres rett til beskyttelse, særlig i forskning om ... -
Methane emissions are lower from reindeer fed lichens compared to a concentrate feed
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018)Methane emissions from reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) fed lichens (mainly Cladonia stellaris) and a concentrate feed were determined using open-circuit respirometry. The lichen diet was low in crude protein (< 2.6% of dry matter [DM]), starch (6.0% DM) and acid detergent lignin (2.0% DM) compared to the concentrate feed (12.7, 22.5 and 7.2% DM, respectively), and high in neutral detergent ... -
Mobile fathering: absence and presence of fathers in the petroleum sector in Norway
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-24)This article examines the fathering practices of men in mobile work in the petroleum industry in Norway. In particular, it analyses the spatial mobility of these men and how their absence and presence impact their fathering. Drawing on insights from gendered migration and mobility studies, fathering and ‘new material’ approaches, this article nuances the understanding of current fathering practices ... -
Modern wildlife conservation initiatives and the pastoralist/hunter nomads of northwestern Tibet.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2004)In 1993 the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China established the 300 000 km2 Chang Tang Nature Preserve on the northwestern Tibetan plateau, an action precipitated by rapidly diminishing populations of chiru (Tibetan antelope) and wild yak. Some 30 000 nomadic pastoralists use areas within this reserve for livestock grazing, with many having traditionally depended in part on hunting for ... -
Modernitet og modernitetskritikk i Emils Durkheims sosiologi
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-07)Durkheims forhold til det moderne er preget av ambivalens. Han er kollektivist/holist når det gjelder sosiologiske forklaringer. Samfunnet er en egen realitet og en kraft som påvirker individenes tankeliv, følelser og motiver, om enn ikke i alle detaljer. Men selv om han er metodologisk kollektivist, er det ikke nødvendigvis slik at han også er kollektivist når det gjelder politiske og moralske ... -
Mosjøen i et regionalt og et industrielt perspektiv. En sosialantropologisk analyse av ervervsmessige tilpassinger i et nord-norsk lokalsamfunn
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Mot avvikling av trålernes plikter? En gjennomgang av utkjøpsavtaler i nordnorske fiskerikommuner
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2015)<p>The industry owned trawlers land-lock obligation, originally intended to ensure both greater seasonal distribution of raw material as well as settlement in coastal communities, function poorly and has been put under pressure. This is due to the industrial trawler concept being torn between its role as a raw material supplier with a social responsibility, and its role as profitable actor on a ... -
Mutual dependency: Young male migrants from the Central African Republic in urban Cameroon
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015)Abstract. Rural Central and Western Africa is losing its population to cities (Adepoju, 2005). The young men described in this article have left poor economic conditions in the Central African Republic for a better life in Cameroon. They are mostly orphans who left their homes before the age of 15 and, through various paths, found their way to Tongo, a Muslim neighbourhood in the centre of the ... -
Naturen som rekreasjon og heteroseksuell romantikk: En studie av russiske kvinnelige migranters poetiske fortellinger om natur og kjønn
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2016-02-10)Denne artikkelen undersøker forbindelser mellom natur og kjønn. Vi analyserer data fra feltarbeid og intervjuer med kvinnelige russiske migranter som har bosatt seg i en liten by i Finnmark sammen med en norsk mannlig partner. I artikkelen bygger vi på nyere antropologiske forståelser av natur, samt studier om hvordan natur/sted, kultur og kjønn gjensidig konstituerer hverandre. Basert på denne ... -
Når kjønn «forsvinner» i regionale omstillingsprogram
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-12)I denne artikkelen presenterer og diskuterer jeg manglende kjønnsperspektiver i det distriktspolitiske virkemidlet«regional omstilling», som er et program som kommuner kan søke på og iverksette. Ved hjelp av et konkret eksem-pel fra en deltakende kommune setter jeg søkelyset spesifikt på planleggingsprosessen av slike program og hvordanstrenge krav til organisering og innhold ser ut til å bidra ... -
Nomadic pastoralism in the Aru basin of Tibet’s Chang Tang.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2004)Nomadic pastoralists live at the northern extent of human habitation within the ca. 5000 m elevation Aru basin, in the nortwestern part of the Chang Tang Nature Preserve, Tibet. These nomads herd primarily sheep and goats, a lesser number of yaks, and a few horses. Goats are increasing in importance because of the value of cashmere wool in national and international markets. Although sheep wool ... -
The Nordic NATO pivot a stronghold for regional and global peace or a fragile region with turbulent seas and crowded skies?
(Chronicle; Kronikk, 2022-05-23)Imagine Nepal as a small state left an alliance-free foreign policy on short notice, seeking membership in a regional military alliance. Imagine your defense minister few weeks back said s/he was against membership and your prime minister expressed serious reservations. Imagine a historical decision is nevertheless taken in what is characterized as an unprecedented threatening context. Another ...
