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Creating Human Life Itself. The Emerging Meanings of Reproductive Cells among Science, State and Religion
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)Abstract: In the past decades, reproductive biomedicine has quickly developed and become widespread, producing a number of new options that have challenged the definition of kinship and parenthood, bodies and gender relations ... -
Exoskeletons for all: The interplay between exoskeletons, inclusion, gender and intersectionality
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In this article, we investigate the relation between gender and exoskeleton development through the lens of intersectionality theory. Exoskeleton users come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and genders. However, it is ... -
Children’s perceptions of social robots: a study of the robots Pepper, AV1 and Tessa at Norwegian research fairs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article studies perceptual differences of three social robots by elementary school children of ages 6–13 years (n = 107) at research fairs. The autonomous humanoid robot Pepper, an advanced social robot primarily ... -
Promise of the obsolete: expectations for and experiments with self-driving vehicles in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article explores the expectations associated with self-driving vehicles and the role of public trials in testing and upscaling this technology. Using a two-pronged empirical approach, we first analyze public responses ... -
"Best before, often good after": Re-scripting the date label of food in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In 2018, several Norwegian food producers added a new phrase to date labels of packaged foods: best before (date), often good after. Why and how did they do this? By using two concepts from Actor-Network Theory, translation ... -
Conserving Wolves by Transforming Them? The Transformative Effects of Technologies of Government in Biodiversity Conservation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article investigates the construction of instruments and techniques employed in the management of Norwegian wolves since the early 1980s by construing the tools as technologies of government. The proliferation of such ... -
Liminal technologies: Exploring the temporalities and struggles in efforts to develop a Belgrade metro
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The sociology of technology needs more nuanced conceptualizations of the temporal aspects of sociotechnical change. In this article, we propose liminality as a useful analytical entry-point to study technologies that ... -
Mecha-Media: How Are Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots Presented and Received Through the Media?
(Chapter, 2017)How are robots, androids and cyborgs presented and received in the media? This chapter applies a social media analysis to this question by using empirical research on news stories that feature robotic technologies to see ... -
Algorithmic Allocation: Untangling Rival Considerations of Fairness in Research Management
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Marketization and quantification have become ingrained in academia over the past few decades. The trust in numbers and incentives has led to a proliferation of devices that individualize, induce, benchmark, and rank academic ... -
Transforming Scientists’ Understanding of Science–Society Relations. Stimulating Double‑Loop Learning when Teaching RRI
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Rhizomic learning: How environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) acquire and assemble knowledge
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)It has been a common assumption that the knowledge practices of environmental organisations (ENGOs) is largely based on interaction with environmental research. Implied in such assumptions is the idea that ENGOs are ... -
Starry starry night. Fantasies of homogeneity in documentary films about Kvens and Norwegian-Pakistanis
(Chapter, 2019)This chapter compares two documentary films about old and new minority groups in Norway, with reference to Lauren Berlant’s understanding of ‘national fantasy’. The documentaries, Under an annen himmel [Under another sky] ... -
Post-Gendered Bodies and Relational Gender in Knights of Sidonia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Abstract: This paper analyses representations of non-binary bodies in the animated television series Knights of Sidonia. For some time, posthumanist and gender studies have used the gendered body of the future in television ... -
The Shaping of Urban Public Transport: Two Cases of Alternative Leading Objects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper investigates the shaping of urban public transport by comparing ‘alternative leading objects’ to the car in the Norwegian cities Trondheim and Bergen. These have chosen different transport technologies, bus and ... -
The role of practical, cognitive and symbolic factors in the successful implementation of battery electric vehicles in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Reducing emissions from privately-owned cars plays a central role in reaching targets for global greenhouse gas emissions. Electrification has been one strategy to meet this goal. Norway has been a forerunner and is today ... -
The (trans)gender equality paradox: Challenging Norway’s 2016 law on gender recognition
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:44, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Summary For my doctoral project, I examined Norway’s 2016 law on gender recognition. This law overturned a half-century long requirement that one who wishes to change legal gender must first be irreversibly sterilised. ... -
Å lage gull av gråstein: Om kulturarvproduksjon og opplevelsen av middelalderbyen Cité de Carcassonne
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU;2019:282, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Sammendrag Å lage gull av gråstein. Kulturarvproduksjon og opplevelsen av middelalderbyen Cité de Carcassonne. Kulturminner og kulturmiljøer regnes som viktige deler av vår felles hukommelse. Begge deler skal ... -
Om mat og menn
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Artikkelen undersøker hvordan menn og menns matpraksiser og preferanser presenteres i norske kokebøker for mennsom er utgitt etter 2. verdenskrig. Mitt utgangspunkt er at disse ikke bare inneholder oppskrifter på matretter. ... -
Kroppen og fantasiene om den. Det allmenne ved transkjønn.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)I artikkelen analyseres intervjuer med personer som kan identifisere seg som transpersoner. Alle informantene som blir sitert i artikkelen, har på et tidspunkt vurdert medisinsk korrigering av kroppen. De er bevisste om ... -
Expanding the scope and implications of energy research: A guide to key themes and concepts from the Social Sciences and Humanities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper provides an overview of key themes and concepts within energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (energy-SSH) research in Europe. It aims to use this overview as an introduction for those producing strategies ...
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