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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Through the case of St Olav Ways, the aim of this article is to shed light on the ways in which the contemporary pilgrimage phenomenon in Norway is developed through a combination of interpretations of local religious ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This chapter explores how academic textual production may be understood as a practice of responsible agency, through a dialogue between two scholarly texts about microbes. The first emphasizes the discovery of bacteria, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
How does the Chinese government, on occasion, manage to spirit away China’s immense air pollution problem? In order to ensure that blue skies will greet participants in international mega-events in China, such as the 2008 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article explores the encounters between a Polish-Danish painter and an Egyptian princess in the second part of the nineteenth century, at the junction of Orientalism, modernism and Islamic reformism. The painter ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Ecological civilization (shengtai wenming 生态文明) has been written into China’s constitution as the ideological framework for the country’s environmental policies, laws and education. It is also increasingly presented not ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Introduced to Korea around 1900, the modern idea of the ethno-nation (minjok) developed into one of the most important intellectual and political concepts circulating in the country by the early 1920s. From the nationalists’ ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Borrowing from Judith Butler’s notion of the ethics of plural and heterogeneous cohabitation, this essay reads two of Tsushima Yūko’s novels in light of how they negotiate proximity and distance in forging ethical connections ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
«Sefarad» er den hebraiske betegnelsen på Den iberiske halvøya. Navnet oppsto i det mus-limske al-Andalus. Dagens sefarder er etterkommere etter jøder fra Spania og Portugal.Målsettingen med artikkelen er å vise hvordan ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This paper interrogates the notions of time and money in Islamic (economic) tradition by applying Toshihiko Izutsu’s theory of the key terms of a worldview. A Japanese scholar of Islam, Toshihiko Izutsu (1914–1993), wrote ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Pak Chonghong (1903~1976) is one of the main agents in founding Korean modern philosophy. His philosophical lineages are rooted in at least three different traditions. In his early years he studied the Chinese classics; ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Until 1845 the Lutheran state church held a monopoly on religion in Norway. From the 1850s onwards this monopoly was challenged by the arrival of several waves of missionaries influenced by revivals in the United States. ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Roland Barthes maintained that writing is not merely a technological process but also a physical, sensory experience. It involves the pleasure of sitting in front of a blank page made of good quality paper, of choosing a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
This article is about the work of museums in constructing the intangible cultural heritage of migration and diasporas. I address the cultural dimension of sustainability and examine what happens to living traditions in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Autoritet, forstått som legitim innflytelse, er både vanskelig definerbart og vanskelig målbart. I denne artikkelen diskuterer jeg hvordan den nordafrikanske lærde al-Qādī ʿIyād (d. 1149) tilkjente sine forgjengere i ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This chapter highlights how local political elites shape and steer governance in China’s vast rural areas where local officials act as both agents of the central state and lower level principals, who enjoy considerable ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
Interreligious dialogue involves religious leaders in a hybrid function as diplomats trapped between the secular and religious realms. Who are they and what are their motivations? In this article, we distinguish between ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this study, I investigate the concept of Nordic museology in the early 1990s. Per-Uno Ågren's programmatic article about museology and cultural heritage, published in 1993 in the first ever issue of the journal Nordic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Studies of environmental governance in China mainly discuss bilateral encounters, such as popular protests against polluting companies, NGO collaboration with local authorities, or local government collusion with enterprises ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
A sizable body of popular and academic literature explores how containers have reconstituted the spaces through which they travel. However, the space within containers remains largely unexamined. This article leverages the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The wave of uprisings known as the “Arab Spring” that swept over the Middle East and North Africa from December 2010 to early 2013 left its imprint on the political and social life in the countries concerned. This transient ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The developing cyber-infrastructure has provided new tools, methods, and opportunities to conduct research. However, the Snowden leaks and subsequent developments proved that the same infrastructure has made all-encompassing ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Museums and archaeology share a common engagement to find, recover, safeguard, study and explicate the material world. This article is about the methods and scopes of museums regarding their use of archaeology as a source ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Siden kuppforsøket sommeren 2016 har jurister uttrykt bekymring for at Tyrkias utøvende myndigheter er i ferd med å sette domstolene til side i sin kamp mot Erdoğans fiender. Men tyrkiske domstoler har lenge vært politiske ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The Osman Dynasty in Bangladesh is several generations deep and combines legitimate mobilization politics with money-making businesses and ‘godfather’ tactics. This article focuses on two aspects of dynasty formation: its ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The proper analysis of environmental politics in different national contexts requires a returned focus on ideology. This article demonstrates that a neutral conceptualization of ideology is necessary to understand the way ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In the late nineteenth century, the relationship between fictional literature and religion was up for debate. In the Nordic literary scene, this debate was triggered by Danish literary critic Georg Brandes in 1871, when ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Cunning-folk offering a wide range of mostly supernatural services were a common part of European popular culture until at least the early twentieth century. Still, insight into how they established themselves as people ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
My focus is on the many cholera epidemics which hit Sweden from 1834 until 1873. I have studied how cholera epidemics affected the countryside from an ethnological, folkloristic and cultural historian’s point of view. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
With the International Whaling Commission’s 1982 moratorium on commercial whaling in force, much of today’s cetacean hunting is done by traditional or indigenous communities for subsistence use. However, many communities ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article discusses the agency of a museum object, ‘Djevelens finger’ (The Devil’s finger), a model of a finger from the middle ages exhibited in the Domkirkeodden museum, Hamar. The finger has a story of a curse connected ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Mapping the Fields: Geographies of Knowledge Production, is a humanities experiment, exploring fieldworks of the nineteenth century. By studying fieldworks, the project investigates production and circulation of knowledge, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article analyses ideas about indoor air pollution, fresh and foul air, ventilation and modern hygiene in China during the century between 1849 and 1949. The main focus is on conceptions of and provisions against air ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Small funerary statuettes shaped as mummiform figurines are among the most common ancient Egyptian artefacts to be found in museums of cultural history worldwide. The Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo (MCH) ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The article positions early modern collecting in relation to wider cultures of knowledge production by using perspectives from the history of knowledge, memory studies, and recent studies of Kunstkammern. Some twenty-five ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Siden 2000 har flere palestinske angrep blitt utført mot israelsk kyberinfrastruktur, inkludert børsen i Tel Aviv, flere myndigheter og bedrifters nettsider.Står vi overfor en ny form for palestinsk motstandskamp?
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The 2011 tsunami caused widespread deforestation in the coastal areas of Tohoku. In response, secular authorities, religious institutions and civil society organisations have set up a number of projects for replanting ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, Alexandria was known as a multicultural hub and a vibrant port in the Southern Mediterranean, and was home to a number of foreign communities, each with its own cultural ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Museums of history are also research objects for historians. Museography can be analysed in order to reconstruct the museology and the historical narrative it shapes. This contribution explores the narratives of the two ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Air pollution in Chinese cities has become a major topic of public debate and political concern. At the same time, few rural areas are subjected to measurements of ambient air quality, and policy documents and media rarely ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The category “heritage” is quickly gaining importance for the study of religion, not least in East Asia. Since the 1990s, Japanese governments, entrepreneurs, and NGO s have invested heavily in heritage preservation, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
It is a common view that power in Bangladesh is exercised through patron–client forms of exchange. These patron–client relationships are held together by moral proximity and intimacy and are diffused and multidimensional. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article reexamines the long-standing corridor topic of toilet facilities in anthropological fieldwork, arguing that their condition has stronger methodological implications than previously acknowledged. Drawing on ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling / PublishedVersion, 2021)
Denne avhandlingen er en analyse av historiefremstillingen i historiemaleriene malt av Nicolai Abildgaard til Riddersalen på Christiansborg slott i 1778-91. Billedserien fortalte om dydene og de gode handlingene til ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
While LGBT people are generally protected by a number of basic human rights, such as the right to privacy, freedom of expression and association, and the right not to be discriminated against, LGBT rights are repeatedly ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
Dette er en avhandling om den kunnskapen om stavkirker som ble produsert og satt i sirkulasjon i hovedsak i Norge, men også ellers i Europa, i årene fra 1743 til de siste tiårene av 1800-tallet. Mange historier om stavkirkene ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
En kampanje for kollektivtransport utfordrer den kuwaitiske statens narrativ om hvordan klimaendringene bør møtes, og peker på et fundamentalt spørsmål for alle de oljeeksporterende golfmonarkiene: Hvordan vil effektene ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Kuwait faces the double challenge of potentially destabilising effects of climate change as well as a changing international energy market in favour of renewables that may threaten the foundation of the oil-based economies ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
«Museum» er eit samansett og ueinsarta omgrep som femner om ei lang rekke ulike institusjonar. Denne artikkelen følgjer ein type museum, «bygdetunet», frå etablering i mellomkrigstida og gjennom fleire endringsprosessar. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Media systems where political parallelism co-exists with political clientelism have contradictory influences on journalistic practices. Journalists are encouraged to actively defend a cause and influence public opinion ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between hybrid media and hybrid politics in Lebanon and Tunisia. While previous research on the media in hybrid regimes has mainly focused on regime strategies of restricting ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The Anthropocene has been mobilised as a conceptual framework for museums to engage with the global environmental crisis. This article examines the exhibition Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in our Hands that was ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Environmental uncertainty, climate change, and ecological crisis loom large in the present and permeate scenarios of potential futures. To understand these predicaments and prepare for potentially catastrophic scenarios, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This paper seeks to contribute to the scholarship on women and social change in Saudi Arabia through the case of female football players in Riyadh. Officially, there has been no women’s football in the kingdom, but beneath ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Siden 1990-årene har indere immigrert til Israel takket være jødiske og evangelikalske interessegrupper. Nå utgjør de en minoritet på rundt 3000 personer, hvorav mange er bosatt i konfliktfylte områder.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
During the 2016 presidential election, Evangelical supporters of Donald Trump presented him as a modern version of the ancient King Cyrus of Persia. To many conservative Christians, the comparison offered a justification ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Aike P. ROTS In recent decades, religious traditions worldwide have been reinterpreted in light of environmental concerns. Various scholars and religious actors have described Asian worship traditions such as Buddhism, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article interrogates the discourse of ‘greenfield development’ in contemporary India with special reference to the development of a greenfield airport in Goa. By unpacking the conflictual process between carrying out ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2016)
To refer to Palestinian refugee camps as states-of-exception, appropriating the paradigm of Giorgio Agamben, is definitely tempting. Agamben argues that in times of crisis, individual rights of citizens are diminished and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The ‘Oslo generation,’ the youth of Palestine born after the 1993 Oslo Agreement, is Palestine’s lost generation. They have experienced a near complete exclusion from ordinary political participation, dominated by the ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2003)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The present article is an attempt at a meta-historical analysis of the ‘Red Age’ (1923 to the late 1930s) experiences in colonial-period Korea. The article focuses on contextualizing the experiences of colonial-age Korea’s ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Over the last 20 years, the evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement has sought to develop standardised approaches to patient treatment by drawing on research results from randomised controlled trials (RCTs). The Cochrane ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The article explores a set of sacrificial logics that cluster around a prospective copper mine, situated on the bank of a fjord in the Norwegian Arctic. Analyzing the project as a “sacrifice zone” ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Paintings in museums might occasionally be replaced by a photoprint mimicking the original. This article is an investigation of what constitutes a good reproduction of an artwork (oil painting) that is meant to be displayed. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Lhagang Tibetan is a dialect of Khams spoken in central Lhagang [lHa-sgang] Town, in the area surrounding Lhagang Monastery in Kangding Municipality, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, western Sichuan Province. The region ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
16. mai 2015 var det ti år siden kvinner i Kuwait fikk stemmerett. Hvordan har de brukt sine politiske rettigheter som borgere i et av klodens rikeste og mest verdikonservative hjørner? Full tekst er tilgjengelig på: ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
India has over the recent decade witnessed a spate of land transfers as Special Economic Zones, extractive industries, or real estate dispossess farmers, land owners, and indigenous groups of their land. As a result, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This study is regionally demarcated to two West Swedish islands, examining how state-employed district physicians, along with pharmacists and trained midwives, became established in rural Sweden in the nineteenth century. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Hvordan forklare den såkalte «knivintifadaen» i Israel og på Vestbredden høsten 2015 og våren 2016? En analyse av situasjonen for unge i Jerusalem gir svar.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This introduction provides an overview and analysis of key scientific data regarding air pollution in China. It constitutes a reference for understanding how policymakers, media and population in China make sense of and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The critical study of kalpavigyan (a word commonly identified as the Bangla term for science fiction but in its original context much larger in scope) typically involves two kinds of analysis. The first of these sees ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
China has the largest education system in the world, and a population who values formal education highly and is ready to invest heavily in children’s schooling. As much research has shown, this reverence for education is ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Pour contribuer à affiner la compréhension de l’entrée en guerre dans le monde arabo-ottoman, cet article propose une analyse des manières dont celle-ci a été perçue dans la ville d’Alexandrie. Elles sont saisies à travers ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The Norwegian museum landscape has been refurbished during the last decades. Smaller and topographically scattered units have been merged into large museum conglomerates, small streams of funding have become regular rivers ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Indian democracy has often been characterized as "a puzzle" that "defies theories". But any theory on democratic practice will need to take into account the world's largest democracy. We assert that Indian democracy is ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Den tidligere libyske offiseren Khalifa Haftar har etablert seg som den sterkeste aktøren i Libya. Hvordan klarte han å manøvrere seg frem til en maktposisjon etter den libyske revolusjonen? Hva er hans langsiktige mål, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
After seven decades as an independent democratic nation, India’s social landscape remains marred by persistent contradictions and inequalities. As the country moves from celebrating 70 years of independence towards its ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Denne avhandlingen er en analyse av spørrelisteserien Ord og sed, som ble utgitt som årlige tidsskrift fra 1934 til 1947. Spørrelistene hadde som formål å samle informasjon om norsk folketradisjon og de ord, fortellinger, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The heavy smog suffocating China's cities is increasingly being perceived as a threat by both the population and the authorities. Consequently, political action aiming at regulating ambient air pollution has become ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2023)
A specter of an indigenous pastism is haunting India—and India’s anglophone science fiction (ISFE) not only extrapolates but also harks back to a golden past, fusing “science” and “fiction”, “history” and “myth”, and “gods” ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article focuses on Yi Tǒgyo (1897–1932), a nurse-turned-doctor and one of the pioneering female physicians of colonial-age Korea. I aim to investigate how Yi’s medical practice and her understanding of public health ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This commentary examines the claim made by Borst et al that knowledge translation (KT) should look to Science and Technology Studies (STS), the sociology of translation, and constructionist views on knowledge, and begin ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This paper hunts for zombies – both “real” and “unreal”– in contemporary Indian Science Fiction. It investigates how India's undead appropriate semantic markers of the global zombie industry via metaphors of monstrosity ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
To win glory at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, China commissioned 100 Norwegian winter sports coaches and support staff to train 200 Chinese athletes. Norway hoped to strengthen the global status of ski sports by nurturing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(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)
Conceptual and epistemological challenges have to date constrained the generation of scientific knowledge on violent extremism. This article inverts the field’s seminal research question with an eye on furnishing a sturdier ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)