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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Why are we still educating college and university students through a Holocene lens? How can we expect young people to engage with the transformative challenges required to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement when climate ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 1998)
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Technocratic dreams and troublesome beneficiaries : the Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project in Gujarat (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)En fersk doktoravhandling i samfunnsgeografi kaster nytt lys over den kontroversielle damutbyggingen på Narmada-elva i India. Sardar Sarovar-prosjektet var i verdens søkelys gjennom hele 1990-tallet pga massiv tvangsflytting ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)This dissertation is a study of the reconfiguring and reconstruction of ethno-national identities, memories and belonging in the immediate aftermath of war. It is based on an ethnographic study that explores the everyday ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)The most critical question for climate research is no longer about the problem, but about how to facilitate the transformative changes necessary to avoid catastrophic climate-induced change. Addressing this question, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2005)
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)Hvordan ble 22. juli-terroren og reaksjonene på denne tolket i den norske offentligheten? Terrorangrep kan brukes til å konstruere ulike typer kollektiv identitet og tolkes på måter som skaper svært forskjellige sosiale ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Static-99R has been recommended for use as a first global screen for sorting out sex-convicted persons who are in need of further risk assessment. This study investigated the Static-99R’s predictive validity based on ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract This article contributes to the growing literature on how authoritarian regimes deploy disinformation and conspiracy theories to achieve foreign policy goals. While the effectiveness of these measures ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)The presence of hate speech in the commentary field of online newspapers is a pressing challenge for free speech policy. We have conducted interviews with 15 people whose comments were censored for posting comments of a ...
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The Counteracting Nature of Contextual Influences: Peer Effects and Offsetting Mechanisms in Schools (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)There is currently a mismatch between the theoretical expectations of peer effects held by many scholars and the quantitative empirical literature. This paper contributes to the understanding of peer effects by highlighting ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article presents logistic models examining how pandemic anxiety and COVID-19 comprehension vary with digital confidence among adults in the United States during the first wave of the pandemic. As we demonstrate ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Could there be a symbiotic relationship between COVID-19 and conflict? On the one hand, circumstances associated with armed conflicts may give rise to greater spread of the virus, while, on the other hand, the COVID-19 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Human rights have become the dominant framework for understanding and resolving the marginalization of disabled people. Particularly since the 2007 introduction of the CRPD, many countries have formally adopted policies ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are deeply controversial topics both within and beyond disability studies, involving issues of structural ableism, discrimination, and the right to self-determination. A ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)In this article we pursue, using appropriate British birth cohort data, various issues that arise from recent research into the ‘direct’ effect of social origins on individuals’ social mobility chances: i.e. the effect ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract During the last few decades, the human rights paradigm has shifted the normative status of disabled people, providing, in principle, the right to full and equal participation. Particularly in neoliberal economies, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Although fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children’s experience with larger sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. With the sex composition of the two ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract A growing body of research indicates that effective science-policy interactions demand novel approaches, especially in policy domains with long time horizons like climate change. Serious games offer promising ...