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Sorting people in and out: The plasticity of the categories of employability, work capacity and disability as technologies of government
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)The ‘employable individual’ is today a powerful normative category, saturated with assumptions about what it takes to be attractive in the labour market. What happens to people who cannot meet those expectations? For ... -
Sound Objects and Sound Products: Standardizing a New Culture of Listening in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)In this chapter I develop the psychological underpinnings of environmental music towards an understanding of how the goals of cognitive and behavioral psychologists contributed to a new kind of listening at the beginning ... -
Speaking Truth: Linguistic and Rhetorical Practices in Conversionary Processes Among Jehovah’s Witnesses in Norway
(Master thesis, 2018)Originating in the US during the 1870s, Jehovah’s Witnesses have since spread across the world and currently depict the worship of their 8,457,107 members to extend across 240 lands. Beneath these large numbers are minute ... -
The stable stranger: Constructing “the Roma” within the European neoliberal culture complex
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Standardisering og måling i barnevernet
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Students' Perspectives on Team Dynamics in Project-Based Virtual Learning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The heavy dependence on online education during the COVID-19 pandemic has long-term consequences for teaching and learning. The problem statement of the present study is to identify, from a student-centered perspective, ... -
Svartlamon i støpeskjeen En antropologisk studie av opposisjonens problem
(Master thesis, 2022)Grunnlaget for mye av vår tids politiske styring og beslutninger baserer seg på numerisk kunnskap. Dette har beboerne på Svartlamon virkelig fått kjenne på kroppen. Det motkulturelle miljøet har siden de flyttet inn i ... -
Sykdom og semangat: En studie av sykdomsforståelse i en balinesisk landsby
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Synshemming, embodiment og meningsdannelse: Om bevegelse gjennom landskap av erfaringer
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2011:275, Doctoral thesis, 2011)Avhandlingen søker innsikt i og forståelse av ulike måter kropp og omgivelser inngår i erfaringer med å leve med synshemming. Tema er sammenbindinger av menneskelig erfaring og materialitet, hvor kroppsliggjorte (embodied) ... -
Taking, giving and sharing – An ethnographic study on resilient sharing patterns in an Alaskan community
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Technologies of control and the invisible transformation of the labour market from welfare state principles to welfare capitalism
(Chapter, 2023)This chapter is based on an evaluation of the Norwegian oil company Northoil’s performance management system, People@Northoil (P@N), by which workers evaluate their co-workers, producing numerical assessments of every ... -
Temporary Couples? A Chinese Migrant's Dream Narrative
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This piece presents a narration of a dream by a rural migrant, Yang Cui, who works in the city of Shantou in China. It reveals her inner struggles to end an affair with another migrant worker, Lao Bo. This piece is written ... -
The Cultural Processes of Technological Innovation - The Evolution of Robo Sapiens Japanicus
(Master thesis, 2014)The purpose of this thesis is to illustrate the cultural processes of technological innovation, using the development of Japanese robot technology as a case. Yet to best explore the Japanese robot we must first face the ... -
The Dynamics between Tourism and Local Cultural Practices among the Hamar of Southern Ethiopia
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The Filipino seafarer : a life between sacrifice and shopping
(Doctoral thesis, 2002)This thesis is about the seaman and his family. A returning theme in every part of this work, is how the Filipino overseas seafarer is interwoven with his family. Both in the sense that the family appear as the major motive ... -
The future of farming? Importance of soil, organic farming and perspectives on the future of agriculture in Ireland
(Master thesis, 2023)Denne oppgaven ser på Irske bønder og deres forhold med jorden de kultivere. Gjennom en studie av en rekke bønder som bor i Clare fylke og Dublin fylke, i Republikken av Irland, utforsker jeg ulike tilpasningene bøndene ... -
"The grumpiest people" : key elements in the making of an advocacy NGO
(Master thesis, 2016)During the past few decades the number of nongovernmental organizations [NGO] have grown dramatically. This is partly related to processes of globalization contributing to an expansion of civil spaces within and beyond ... -
The hidden Conflict: A study of gentrification in progress
(Master thesis, 2011)