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    • Witchcraft against royal Danish ships in 1589 and transnational transfer of ideas 

      Willumsen, Liv Helene (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-01)
      This article deals with transnational transfer of ideas about witchcraft at the end of the sixteenth century. The outset is alleged witchcraft performed against a royal Danish fleet that was to carry Princess Anne across the North Sea to her husband, King James VI of Scotland, autumn 1589, and following trials in Copenhagen. These include court records from witchcraft trials and diplomatic correspondence ...

    • The Witchcraft Trial against Anders Poulsen, Vads  1692: Critical Perspectives 

      Willumsen, Liv Helene (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022-03-29)
      In this chapter, I will analyse a historical source that has attracted considerable attention during the last two decades, namely the court records of the trial of Anders Poulsen, 1692.1 The trial took place in the town of Vadsø in Finnmark, which is the northernmost district of Northern Norway. The reasons for this attention are multiple, and a few will be mentioned.

    • The Witches of Finnmark. Tekststykker til forestilling. Framført i Bølgen Kulturhus, Larvik 25/11, Arendal Kulturhus 26/11 og Victoria Nasjonale Jazzscene i Oslo 27/11 

      Hagen, Rune Blix (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2022)
      Anders Buaas / Rune Blix Hagen - THE WITCHES OF FINNMARK A musical journey through time Gitarist og komponist Anders Buaas skrev og ga ut sin instrumentale trilogi «The Witches of Finnmark» i perioden 2015-2019. Den har høstet strålende kritikker fra inn- og utland. Musikken beskriver historier og stemninger fra hekseprosessene i Finnmark utover 1600-tallet. Inspirasjonen til denne musikken ...

    • With great power comes great responsibility: why ‘safe enough’ is not good enough in debates on new gene technologies 

      Kjeldaas, Sigfrid; Dassler, Tim; Antonsen, Trine; Wikmark, Odd Gunnar; Myhr, Anne Ingeborg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-25)
      New genomic techniques (NGTs) are powerful technologies with the potential to change how we relate to our food, food producers, and natural environment. Their use may afect the practices and values our societies are built on. Like many countries, the EU is currently revisiting its GMO legislation to accommodate the emergence of NGTs. We argue that assessing such technologies according to whether ...

    • Witnessing Extremity in Violent Narratives in Literature and Humanitarian Discourse 

      Falke, Cassandra (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
      Beginning with Heidegger´s definition of violence as that which exceeds and reformulates normality, this essay questions how violence can be ethically represented and interpreted. In their ability to establish norms and then carry us beyond the bounds of the familiar, novels are uniquely suited to represent violence as norm-shattering. Contrasting tendencies in contemporary novels representing ...

    • Wohlfahrtsstaat und Gesellschaft : eine systemtheoretische Analyse der sozialwissenschaftlichen Wohlfahrtsstaatsforschung und die Theorie funktionaler Differenzierung 

      Hadamek, Claus (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2009-02-09)
      Diese Dissertation verfolgt zwei Ziele: Zum einen sollen zentrale Eigenschaften des Begriffsapparates der sozialwissenschaftlichen Wohlfahrtsstaatsforschung analysiert werden. Die Analysemethode ist dabei eine systemtheoretische Methode. Zum anderen sollen die Analyseresultate mit Hilfe und im Lichte der Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmann’s reformuliert werden. In beiden Fällen steht die Frage nach der ...

    • Wolfram|Alpha – noen inntrykk etter første halvår 

      Brattli, Tore (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2009)

    • Women and land rights in rural Ethiopia : the case of Wolaita 

      Qoricho, Yonas Tafesse (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-05-15)
      This thesis dealt with the land rights of women in rural areas of Wolaita Zone, southwestern Ethiopia by taking the case of rural women in Soddo Zuria District. Three questions were thus posed: How do the current modern rural land law and the Wolaita traditional/customary law ascertain the land rights of rural women in SZD? What kind of land rights do rural women enjoy in practice in SZD? What ...

    • Women fishers in Norway: few, but significant 

      Gerrard, Siri; Kleiber, Danika (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-05)
      Professional fishing and fisheries quota systems can affect women and men differently, yet gender analysis of quota systems is rare. In this article, we use a feminist framing and a mixed methods approach to examine the long-term gendered effects of the introduction of the 1990 quota system in Norway. Using statistics from the National Fishery Registry and the Directorate of Fisheries, we found that ...

    • Women in charge : politics in a women majority local council in Australia 

      Bjørnå, Hilde (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The article is based on a study of a local council in Australia where women representatives hold a majority of the seats. How do these representatives understand their role in this context? What is their preferred style of doing politics, and what can explain their political aims and behaviour? What we find is that these women representatives are oriented toward green politics and prefer ...

    • WOMEN IN THE GARMENT INDUSTRY OF BANGLADESH; A PARADOX OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND TRANSFORMATION OF STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE 

      Habib, Md. Ahsun (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-12-22)
      This thesis examines whether the presence of women in the garment industry of Bangladesh is a means of empowerment or just a continuation of structural violence. Due to the patriarchal system in Bangladesh, structural violence against women has been an ongoing problem throughout the country’s history. The focus of this research is that structural violence is still present in the society and in the ...

    • Women rights in FATA Pakistan : a critical review of NGOs' communication strategies for projects’ implementation 

      Akbar, Noor (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-05-28)
      The over all image of Non-governmental Organizations (NGO) is not very positive in Pakistan, particularly in rural tribal areas. Many negative perceptions are attached with NGOs, especially those which work for women rights. The very word ‘women rights’ incites many wrong-perceptions. In such non-favorable working environment NGOs evolve different communication/implementation strategies. The research ...

    • Women, CSOs and Post-Election Peace Initiatives: The Case of the Ark Foundation Ghana 

      Sackey, Emelia Emmanuella (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-06-01)
      This thesis examines the role of women’s groups and CSOs in post-election peacebuilding. The main objective of the study is to demonstrate how women’s groups contribute to peacebuilding. Moreover, it is to show the importance of local initiatives targeted at post-election peace. Aside being a measure of democracy, post-election peace is necessary for the protection of lives and the promotion of ...

    • Women, letters and the empire : the role of the epistolary narrative in Alice Walker's The color purple 

      Jørgensen, Maria Berg (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-05)
      In the 1982 novel "The Color Purple", Alice Walker wrote the first African-American epistolary novel. It is narrated in letters written by a black woman who writes in her rural dialect rather than Standard English, and is widely acknowledged for giving a voice to a character who is silenced not only by her race and her class, but also by sexual violence. This thesis investigates the role of the ...

    • Women, war and empowerment : a case study of female ex-combatants in Colombia 

      Gjelsvik, Ingvild Magnæs (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-05-31)
      Women, war, empowerment, Colombia, ex-combatants

    • Women’s Rights in Kosovo: Cultural and Religious Barriers 

      Hoxha, Ideal (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-22)
      Women’s Rights have often been a subject of the debate between universal rights versus cultural relativism. In Kosovo women’s rights have gone through drastic changes. After the NATO intervention in 1999, UN established international bodies to temporary govern the territory of Kosovo. UNMIK’s mission contributed massively in establishing frameworks to support, protect and empower women. In this ...

    • Women’s rights under threat: An analysis of the anti- “gender ideology” legislation in contemporary Romania 

      Neagu, Florina-Marieta (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-21)
      Over the last two decades, several countries in Europe have been witnessing the rise of the “anti-gender movement”. In this context, various conservative actors have been advocating against “gender ideology”, a term used to justify initiatives against issues such as gender studies, sex education, marriage equality or reproductive health. Similar to other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the ...

    • Word order and finiteness in acquisition: A study of English and Norwegian wh-questions 

      Westergaard, Marit (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2016-08-25)
      Children acquiring languages such as English, German or Dutch typically go through a phase where they produce non-finite root clauses, often referred to as the Optional Infinitive (OI) stage. But there is a difference between English on the one hand and the other Germanic languages on the other with respect to the occurrence of non-finite wh-questions: while there is a high number of OIs in English ...

    • Word order in wh-questions in a North Norwegian dialect: some evidence from an acquisition study 

      Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2003)
      While standard Norwegian is a V2 language, some Norwegian dialects exhibit V3 in certain types of wh-questions. In some previous work on the Tromsø dialect, V3 has been considered the ‘true’ dialect and speakers' acceptance of V2 simply a result of the influence from the standard language. Based on child and adult data from a study of the acquisition of word order in the Tromsø dialect, I will argue ...

    • Word order variation in heritage languages: Subject shift and object shift in Norwegian 

      Anderssen, Merete; Westergaard, Marit (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2020-05-29)
      This study investigates two word order phenomena in Norwegian heritage language spoken in the US, subject shift (SS) and object shift (OS). SS and OS occur in syntactic environments where (pronominal) subjects and objects may either precede or follow negation. This paper explores to what extent these two phenomena in Heritage Norwegian are affected by the factors frequency and structural ...