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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis discusses political participation, democracy and development in Khayelitsha in Cape Town. It looks at channels for participation and how participation relates to issues of democracy and development. In South ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
It is often contended that individuals and states fail to act on knowledge of climate change as it is too abstract and intangible. What then of the so-called hotspot communities situated in the most dramatically impacted ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis is a case study based on the urban development project Harstadpakken . It seeks to 1) identify leading discourse or discourses in the projects planning documents and how this, or these discourses influence the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The MMR – maternal mortality ratio – has risen from obscurity to become a major global health indicator, even appearing as an indicator of progress towards the global Sustainable Development Goals. This has happened despite ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This article investigates how Xinka indigeneity disrupts the dominant order in Guatemala. Our analysis below focus on Xinka politics in a Rancièrian sense. Our main objective is to understand how, and to what extent, the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This article critically examines the GND (Green New Deal) platform by exploring the reality of energy development under the European Green Deal (EGD). Taking a special interest in degrowth positions on energy development, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
ABSTRACT
Propelled by a commodities boom and expanding South–South investment, mega-projects have reshaped the politics of labour in many African settings. Reflecting on such dynamics, this article critically ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
During the global COVID-19 crisis, China has portrayed itself as a “champion of multilateralism” – defending UN institutions and its own multilateral initiatives in a variety of spheres. China’s approach has, however, often ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
In the postmodern 1990s, LGBT families were portrayed as pioneers for new family forms and processes of individualization. The queer viewpoint was that of a socially beneficial vanguard that could help liberate everyone ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis surveys knowledges about sustainable dwelling in Oslo. Crises of homelessness, displacement, extermination, and extinction are unjustly affecting, hurting, and killing humans and non-humans all over this planet. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to changes in everyday lives through restrictions that resulted in lockdown practices in the home, whereby practices were reassessed, changed, renewed, or newly established. Based on a qualitative ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The way in which time is produced and consumed during everyday life has crucial implications for sustainable consumption. Social practice approaches in particular have directed attention to the intersection of personal and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Issues of culture have to date been underexplored in practice-theoretical approaches to consumption. As a disruptive force affecting citizen mobility all over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique empirical ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The increasingly industrial character of meat production has entailed significant changes to the relations we have to the animals we eat. In this article we first describe some of the practices and rituals that characterized ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The COVID-19 crisis has led to an unprecedented acceleration in the number of people working from home (WFH). This article applies a practice theoretical lens to expand the pre-pandemic telework literature which often ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Local support is instrumental to natural resource extraction. Examining militarization beyond the battlefield, this article discusses the organization of volunteers in three controversial resource extraction projects. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The first tourists, trekkers and ramblers in Norway found their way and navigated the paths that ran through pastures, forests and mountains. The paths these first visitors walked on, and indeed the paths we still use ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Abstract
The Tristan legend is the quintessential love story of the Middle Ages. From the formative period of its courtly branch, the only extant complete version is Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar (1226). King Hákon ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
What radical tactics might those seeking transformational action on climate or environmental sustainability undertake? What options are capable of stopping actors and institutions who already realize their actions and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article proposes an evolutionary model for well-being informed by multilevel selection. We posit that people’s subjective assessment of their own quality of life is the sum their happiness, which is related to individual ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
A deregulated and global economy poses several challenges for the realization of human rights. Human rights due diligence (‘HRDD’) is today considered a key tool for companies and states to conceptualize and operationalize ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The climate and environmental crisis is growing more tangible and extreme every day. From being a threat in a distant future, it is now taking lives and destroying livelihoods across the world. Further, the crisis is ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Rural and agrarian societies are increasingly transformed through processes of agricultural expansion, industrialization, and market capitalism, imposing an economic squeeze on the small-scale farming sector. In Sweden, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The article explores the impact of one of the deadliest disasters in the twentieth century, the East Pakistan cyclone of 1970, also known as the Great Bhola Cyclone, on the first-ever general election held in united Pakistan ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
It remains a consistent problem within academia, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, that theory and practice are at odds. This also rings true regarding degrowth solutions to the environmental and social ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis is a scoping review that explore qualitative research about the relationship between cash transfer programs and non-material impacts on the beneficiaries in developing countries. This thesis specifically focuses ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Agriculture is the mainstay of most of the developing countries like Nepal that has significant contribution to food availability, poverty alleviation and rural employment. A number of research and United Nations reports ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Social movements have been essential in constructing the foundations of the Norwegian democracy and welfare society. Owing to collective actions in the 20th century the living conditions, education, welfare, rights, and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Differences in Northern and Southern European gender relations have historical roots that can be investigated in the regions’ literature and cinema. The mating morality of romantic love facilitated the West’s First Sexual ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In Norway, a green industrial shift is underway, and batteries are framed by some as a key technology to enable the “green transition”. In this domain, a story of the Norwegian battery industry as a new industrial adventure ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
From its very incipient form, the environmental critique of ‘development’ understood as modernization, industrialization and economic growth, was accompanied by a critique of the state as a modernizing actor. The main ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
A just energy transition is as much about acknowledging and acting on the socio-material needs of marginalised classes and groups as about informing inclusive and deliberative policy-making towards more equitable energy ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Meat consumption and convenience food are both located at the heart of contemporary, industrialized, unhealthy and unsustainable food systems. In this article, we study the intersections between convenience food and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The broiler industry is a key driver of the enormous growth in meat production and consumption across the world. Currently, a global outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is wreaking havoc on commercial ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis discusses potential measures to mitigate CO2-emissions presented in two Norwegian newspapers, Aftenposten and Klassekampen, in 2021. Aftenposten is considered mainstream and conservative, and Klassekampen a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Outdoor sports consumption is rapidly growing in Norway, where sports, nature, and society are intricately intertwined. While these pursuits offer opportunities for experiencing connecting with nature, they also entail the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the Island of Hawai’i, this thesis explores human- landscape relations through engagement with coffee farming practices. By exploring relations between the past, present, human and nonhuman, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Public administrative action is crucial in facilitating sustainability transitions. Although organizational structures, cultures and established practices have been shown to lead to differing innovation results and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Meat production and consumption have been linked to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, loss of biodiversity, human health concerns, and animal welfare issues. Accordingly, individuals have been called upon to eat less ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
It is increasingly recognized that climate change mitigation will require fundamental changes to societal systems, also known as societal transformations. This thesis explores local perceptions of and engagement with climate ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
The global migration of health workers, also known as medical brain drain, exacerbates human resources for health (HRH) shortages in the countries of origin. These shortages disproportionally affect low- and middle-income ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
From clothing to computers, toothbrushes, automobiles, and everything in between; plastic (synthetic polymers) dominates daily practices. Despite plastic's many useful applications it also harms; clogging waterways, choking ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Digital technologies and digitalization are increasingly being used for sustainability goals, including in industrial settings. Digitalization processes also show evidence of unsustainable outcomes, as seen in the large ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Asia has become the world’s largest beer-consuming region, and Southeast Asia sees the strongest growth in demand. While the Asian beer industry attracts investments from global and regional capital and is undergoing ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The way we relate to our food has changed. From knowing and practicing food production, it is now brought to us from distant places with little information about its origins. The modern industrial food system alienates ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2023)
In this article, we explore the contexts and appearances of what we argue is a Norwegian version of the Green Man – the Glibb – in vernacular settings. We also discuss the figure’s possible meanings in Norwegian secular ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Excessive meat consumption is associated with environmental, ethical and public health concerns. Substituting meat with plant-based alternatives has been located as a key strategy for consumers to reduce their meat intake. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Europe is making strides to achieve the electrification of its economy and society. Batteries are considered a critical instrument in accomplishing this electrification, making ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Summary While obesity prevention represents an established field of research, the inclusion of young people, who are regularly cited as an important priority group, are rarely actioned in long‐term studies. This paper ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Current meat consumption trends are associated with extensive resource use, environmental degradation, and detrimental effects on animal and human health, making meat reduction a core sustainability target. The experiences ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Deterioration and absence of bureaucracy: The situation of public employees in Venezuela from a state capacity perspective
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
As old as industrialism or civilization itself, socio-ecological problems are nothing new. Despite all efforts to resolve environmental dilemmas, socio-ecological catastrophe has only intensified. Governments, in response, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic had severe impacts in Latin America, with small businesses intensely affected. Beyond its economic consequences, the pandemic also exacerbated structural flaws in some of the region's weakly ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article aims to explore the expansion of capitalism among Argentine farmers in a historical perspective in the light of view of the recent soy boom.
First it draws attention to the soy boom, focusing on the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
While food studies have increasingly gone beyond the “Western” experience in food globalization processes, research on food and tourism has often prioritized the (Western) tourist’s gaze. In the literature on food and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
A new wave of encroachments is unfolding in Northern Sweden on the lands of Indigenous Sámi reindeer pastoralists. Even if the State and corporations may accept that landscape transformations represent threats to reindeer ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract This paper presents the results from a qualitative research project in Norway on a forthcoming change in electricity grid tariffs. As a form of Demand Side Management to avoid capacity constraints in the grid, the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Antonio López de Santa Anna is one of the most well-known yet misunderstood figures in North American history. His periods of rule in the mid-nineteenth century helped bring Mexico its independence, lost Mexico nearly half ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Skal vi ha høyere formueskatt? Hvordan bør en overgang til et lavutslippssamfunn foregå? Når forskeres møter slike spørsmål, noe de ofte gjør, møter de samtidig et annet, nemlig hvor langt de kan gå i retning av å ytre ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The European Union (EU) is highly dependent on importing raw materials for low-carbon infrastructures from around the globe. This material dependence has, since 2019, initiated legislation and efforts to intensify mining ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract The World Economic Forum is a major player in global health governance, promoting the role of the private sector and specific public–private partnerships (PPPs). It exerts influence in three main ways: by exercising ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)
Despite the widespread availability of information available to the public regarding major environmental issues like climate change, communicators have faced difficulty in generating the levels of public engagement necessary ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Dette kapittelet tar utgangspunkt i en utbredt fortelling om forholdet mellom forskning og samfunn, der det heter at vitenskapen er i krise, og at forskere derfor må «kommunisere mer», for på den måten å sikre forskningens ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This study investigates the understudied relationship between post-/pandemic mobility adaptations and wellbeing outcomes, drawing on a longitudinal mixed-method approach combining survey analyses and in-depth citizen ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Dette kapittelet introduserer boken Formidlende omstendigheter og gir en overordnet beskrivelse av bokens formål og innretning. Kapittelet setter spørsmålstegn ved en utbredt oppfatning om at forskningskommunikasjon først ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Sorghum is an important crop in the livelihoods of Kunama and Tigrayan farmers in Northern Ethiopia and we present here a study of what factors have shaped the genetic diversity of the varieties cultivated in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Globally, the urban transport sector is facing a diversity of problems such as pollution, congestion, high energy dependency, and parking space shortage. Cycling is considered as a desirable means of transportation, which ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The Norwegian Trekking Association (DNT) promotes outdoor activities all over Norway. It marks trails and operates 550 cabins, maintained by extensive voluntary efforts, throughout the country. Based on a case study of one ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Over three decades since the publication of the Brundtland Report, the world is witnessing changing patterns in forest fires, hurricanes, temperatures, and biodiversity loss at a pace without a previous analogy. These ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Social equity and environmental protections have gained a new significance in local and national policies in recent decades. At both the local and national levels, transportation has emerged as a vital sector for reform ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article argues that the “production” of success has become crucial for NGOs to manage their individual brand and secure funding within the contemporary global health and development landscape. Based on an empirical ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
In one of the most influential contributions to modern political economy, Hall and Soskice have launched a distinction between ‘liberal’ and ‘coordinated’ market economies, placing the Nordic countries firmly in the latter ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Solar prosuming is an emerging phenomenon in which many actor groups are involved in shaping new solutions. Here we study national policymakers, relevant stakeholders such as grid companies, and the prosumers themselves – ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The global norm setting Agenda 2030 has revived the inclusive development concept. Sustainable development has become a consensus building term without legal recourse to address the structural barriers to inequality in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article introduces compounding aspirations as a key concept for interrogating complex and contradictory rural transformations in India. We argue that compounding aspirations are central to the conjunctural grounding ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This qualitative study asks farmers in Alberta, Canada, what are their motivations for using a practice in beef production called management-intensive grazing (MIG). By adopting this practice, these farmers engage in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In spite of the large number of studies of populism, few have discussed the relationship between populism and different types of elites, apart from showing the antielitism of the discourse that characterizes populist ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
Across the world, attempts are being made to challenge and rework bureaucratic hierarchies. One such attempt is the policy to give cash with no strings attached to the poor. Lying at the heart of these grants is the belief ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In this introduction, we present the main contributions of this special collection, which aim to open the analysis to the broader political and economic processes that underpin Venezuela’s recent crisis. We highlight the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article studies the effects of sanctions on different economic sectors in Venezuela, framed as a rentier capitalist state. We analyse four sectors: hydrocarbons, agriculture, manufacturing, and what we call “emerging ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Through an ethnographic collaboration with Sotz’il Association, an Indigenous organization in Guatemala, this thesis explores what climate change is (ontologically) at the cross-section of modernity and the Maya Cosmovision. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Background
In the nearly half century since it began lending for population projects, the World Bank has become one of the largest financiers of global health projects and programs, a powerful voice in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
One of the biggest challenges in understanding the political development of eSwatini has been how has this country escaped international attention and scrutiny despite having an absolute Monarchy where political parties ...
COVID-19, (sustainable)Mobility, and Happiness Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Norway’s “nation brand” rests on the notion that this country is characteristic for its inclination to do good on the world stage. This brand is at risk of being exposed as hypocrisy, however, since Norway demonstrably ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract Amidst calls for making food systems more sustainable, new unsustainable food transformations unfold alongside economic development. Explanations for unsustainable food transformations in emerging economies vary ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
COVAX, the vaccines pillar of the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), has been promoted as ‘the only global solution' to vaccine equity and ending the Covid-19 pandemic. ACT-A and COVAX build on the public-private ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Flying has become an increasingly contested form of consumption, but ‘green’ consumers often continue to fly. This paper provides novel insights into the stubbornness of air-travel by specifically studying the obstacles ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The article interprets the crisis of liberal democracy in the 21st century as the result of an ongoing, dual revolution of dignity. One such revolution is the work of “humanist outliers”: small groups and individuals ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Food regime analysis is a prominent approach to the role of food and agriculture in global capitalism. Yet recent advancement within the approach has not received as much attention as it deserves outside of specialized ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The ‘grain hypothesis', postulated by James Scott, suggests that cereals are ‘political crops’ intrinsic to state formation. Drawing the classical agrarian political economy of maize into dialogue with recent more-than-human ...