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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
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The present article explores the life and struggles of Heo Seongtaek (1908–?), a typical peasant (and later worker) grassroots militant of 1920–1930s colonial Korea. He actively participated in both the post-1945 radical ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Directing visual attention toward items mentioned within utterances can optimize understanding the unfolding spoken language and preparing appropriate behaviors. In several languages, numeral classifiers specify semantic ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Hvordan opplever individer det å bli involvert i kollektive erindringsprosesser? I avhandlingen undersøker jeg hvordan minnet om holocaust har vært og er en del av livet til jøder i Norge som har en familiehistorie knyttet ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
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Research has identified religion as one of numerous factors that may contribute to delay or refusal of vaccination. The influence of religion on vaccine decisions may be accidental, or it may involve explicit religious ...
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Both Narendra Modi and Rodrigo Duterte stand out as leaders that epitomise their respective reigns in ways that previous leaders did not. A juxtaposition of their political personae allows us to investigate a contemporary ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article addresses the question: how do Norwegian Jewish parents reflect on brit milah (circumcision) in a context where this practice is frequently criticised? The data are derived from twenty-five in-depth interviews. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Chinese imports replace locally manufactured products in developing countries. The import of consumer goods from China to West Africa is closely linked to commercial travel, and China’s border restrictions during the Covid ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
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Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the category animism has seen a remarkable resurgence in Western scholarship, capturing the interest of many anthropologists, scholars of religion, and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Despite their dominance and control over police, courts, state institutions, media, and civil society, authoritarian governments face multifaceted internal and external contestation over their right to rule and the boundaries ...
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Lamalera, a small community on the island of Lembata in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, is home to a rich tradition of marine hunting and an environmental cosmology that brings together its people, their ancestors, and the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article analyses the representation of the climate crisis and urban imaginaries in post-2011 Arabic science fiction (SF), arguing that Arabic SF, and its cross-genre of critical dystopian fiction, intersects with ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article discusses the problem of lingering methodological nationalism within Japanese studies. It argues that methodological nationalism remains widespread not only in research but also in university teaching and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The article takes as its point of departure the notion that the Scandinavian countries have been dominated by a monocultural Lutheranism. This notion is nuanced by focusing on everyday life and oppositional voices. In the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The present study examines grammatical gender knowledge in offline production (gender marking on indefinite articles) and online gender processing (visual world paradigm) in adult second language (L2) learners of Norwegian ...
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Conservative Japanese politicians, academics, and journalists regularly state that whaling is an essential part of their national heritage, expressed in material culture, folk songs, ritual practices, and festivals. Japan ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This chapter provides a close reading of Chinese science fiction writer Hao Jingfang’s debut novel Vagabonds (Liulang cangqiong, 2016) from a Daoist perspective. After an introduction to Hao Jingfang’s writing as the first ...
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The Gion festival of Kyoto has a relatively well-documented history of more than a millennium. This article uses historical sources to investigate the dynamic between patronage, piety, and play diachronically, from a longue ...
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Myths and legends in climate fiction are often studied with reference to fantasy and magical realism; yet the relationship between the two forms remains understudied. This article examines the use of both as they overlap ...
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Festivals in honor of mountain deities were revived across the Tibetan plateau in the 1980s, some years after the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) in the People's Republic of China. This article, primarily analyzes ...
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ABSTRACT In addition to being heinous crimes, acts of terrorism are complex chronopolitical events. Perpetrators, victims, survivors, families, and authorities manage their relationship to the events by engaging with and ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
In China, during the early decades of the nineteenth century, two series of large format maps, one terrestrial and one celestial, were printed using blue colourant. The pigment used for the blue colour was Prussian blue, ...
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Abstract Online conferences are widely thought to reduce many of the costs of convening academic communities. From lower carbon emissions, lower fees, less difficulty in attending (particularly for marginalised researchers), ...
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This chapter explores the consequences of an insistence on the symmetrical relation between human and non-human actors, as it occurs in the discussions on ‘New Animism’. ‘New Animism’ is a cluster of theories in anthropology ...
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This microhistory of a shoreline place in Thailand details the socio-natural process by which a piece of coastal land came to be recognised as private property by the state. It demonstrates that intimate and long-term ...
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Since the Roman mythographer Hyginus composed the fable of Cura in the second century AD, it has been cited and reemployed in literary and philosophical texts by authors like Augustin, Herder, Goethe, Heidegger, Blumenberg ...
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The article is based on a study of the Jamia Ahmadiyya UK and its Scandinavian-born Muslim students and alumni for an MA thesis. Drawing on fieldwork and interview material collected between September 2019 and January 2020, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Hvordan stiller forfattermuseer og litteratursentre ut forfatterskap og forfatterbiografi? Avhandlingen gir en samlet fremstilling av tre ulike måter å gjøre det på. Undersøkelsesobjektene er Bjerkebæk – Sigrid Undsets ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This study investigates the experiences of Norwegian coaches involved in a winter sports collaboration between Norway and China leading up to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Our analysis delves into the complexities of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Gender quotas have a long history in China, with the earliest gender quota introduced in 1933 in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) border regions. Yet, research on China’s gender quotas has been scarce. This study addresses ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This volume revisits the “long 19th century” in the Middle East from the perspective of emerging subjectivity as a fundamentally new attitude of the individual vis-à-vis the World. Stephan Guth’s holistic vision interprets ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Contemporary Arabic speculative fiction, particularly following the Arab Spring uprisings, is often interpreted as part of an emerging trend of Arab dystopias responding to political upheaval. These texts’ ecological ...