Browsing Sosialantropologisk institutt by Author "Wig, Ståle"

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  • Awareness, morality and agency in development : New lessons from Lesotho 
    Wig, Ståle (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
    This thesis explores the practices of development workers in four human rights-based organizations in Lesotho, and a set of related funding organizations in Norway. Based on six months of ethnographic field research in ...
  • Battlegrounds of dependence. Reconfiguring labor, kinship and relational obligation 
    Martin, Keir James Cecil; Wig, Ståle; Yanagisako, Sylvia (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Interdependence is a fundamental characteristic of human existence. The way in which certain dependencies are acknowledged as opposed to those that are hidden, or the ways in which some are validated while others are ...
  • The dawn of something unknown 
    Wig, Ståle (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2016)
    Social change can be like an undetected shift in the weather. In one moment, endless blue sky fills the horizon, promising a lazy day of sunshine. Slowly, however, unnoticed clouds appear. Before one knows it, wind rips ...
  • Imagined individuality: Cultivating separated personhood in Cuba and beyond 
    Wig, Ståle (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    If no man is an island, if we are inherently social creatures, how should we understand people’s claims to be valuable individuals, separate from their environment? Based on ethnographic research among self-employed Cuban ...
  • Infrabanking: Mobilizing capital in communist Cuba 
    Wig, Ståle (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Abstract In 2011, the Cuban government authorized banks to start offering loan credit to the country's growing number of small businesses for the first time since the beginning of the revolution. Yet in the following years, ...