This thesis is part of a bigger project, and, together with the film A Home Away From Home (2024), illustrates different ways in which Dutch people experience living in northern Norway and how they engage in home-making practices. The study explores the ways in which they engage in home-making practices to create a home for themselves, while also reflecting on their sense of belonging. The research ...

This thesis is about spiritualism in North India and how spirituality is practiced in a town of Tapovan, Rishikesh. Sadhana is a term which refers to a spiritual practice and is at the core of Hinduism and everyday lives of people. This thesis aims to communicate ways of practicing religion, or spirituality, and has its focus on singular experiences of the protagonists and their ways of being in the ...

In 2021, I traveled to the small mountain town of Chita, Colombia with my daughter by my side and a camera in hand. The town had endured decades of civil war and guerrilla control, leaving its inhabitants deeply scarred by violence and division. The town's history was a tapestry of conflicting allegiances, with families and neighbors pitted against one another, some supporting the government while ...

Both islands and the ageing experience are often understood in relation to globalisation processes. This project acknowledges ageing islanders as having an acute embodied experience of the - often-disembodied - way in which environment is dominantly conceptualised under globalisation. It thus seeks to understand Scotland’s non-linked isles’ experience of care provision under a national service, based ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – or ADHD – is a neurodevelopmental disorder that has been recognized in young boys for decades. Meanwhile, a significant part of the population has been suffering with it, often unknowingly, in silence. ADHD is one of the best-researched disorders in medicine, but only regarding boys, and there is a need for broader research on ADHD – especially in girls and ...

During the three months of the summer 2022, the gardeners, interns, and volunteers of the botanical garden in Tromsø and the community garden Holt agreed on being filmed and participated in a project that examines the importance of these two gardens in the city of Tromsø located in Northern Norway. The botanical garden in Tromsø and the community garden Holt are different gardens with different ...

People from Kenozerje ceased to be citizens of the Soviet state on December 26, 1991, and two days later received a citizenship of the Kenozersky National Park, a new incredible country stretched on the borders of the Arkhangelsk region in Russia. The Park uses traditions established on its territory as a departure for activities and constructing an everyday life in Kenozerje. The Park is constantly ...

In classical anthropology and literature in general, the connection between nature and man was a way to perceive cultural adaption, where nature and skills in the Arctic often have received the most attention. Up to a few decades ago, the Greenlanders lived close to nature in rural areas spread around the island. Today most of the population live in towns. The main focus of this thesis looks into ...

The thesis explores the concept of dugnad, its meanings, and functions in contemporary Norwegian society. Dugnad is a tradition of unpaid voluntary work that can be traced back to agricultural society. Despite Norway undergoing substantial social, political and economic changes, it did not lose its relevance. In my thesis, I attempt to answer why practice so old prevailed in the modern world and how ...

In the Covid-19 summer of 2020 in the arctic city of Tromsø, four women embarked on a research and film project about their lives. Elisa (a 28-year-old Italian woman), Sunniva (a 31- year-old Norwegian woman), Magalí (a 36-year-old Argentine woman) and Tove (an 85-year- old Norwegian woman), engaged through intimate conversations with me a researcher/filmmaker, where they exposed essential aspects ...