This research will use the case of Ghana’s presidential and parliamentary elections in 2020 to illustrate how polarization manifests in the power struggle and is fueled by structural violence in the constitutional and institutional arrangements towards elections. Ghana is often considered a model of African democracy with a track record of peaceful elections, regular changes of power since its return ...

I dette masterprosjektet har eg undersøkt korleis doktorgradsstudentar snakkar om Open Access. Dette er ei kvalitativ studie der diskursanalyse er nytta som analysemodell. Målet har vore å få eit innblikk i kva tankar, haldningar og tankar haldningar som finnast blant ferske forskarar ved universitet i Norge. Problemstillingane eg har nytta er: Korleis snakkar doktorgradsstudentar om Open Access? ...

In Spanish causative constructions with dejar ‘let’ and hacer ‘make’ the subject of the embedded infinitive verb can appear in the accusative or the dative case. This case alternation has been accounted for by resorting to the notion of direct vs. indirect causation. Under this account, the accusative clitic with a transitive verb denotes direct causation while the dative clitic with an intransitive ...

Miguel de Cervantes escribió su obra maestra Don Quijote de la Mancha durante un periodo tumultuoso. La España del siglo XVII experimentó una crisis socioeconómica grave que, junto con fracasos militares, generó una percepción de que la monarquía estaba experimentando un declive – tanto moral como económico. En aquella época circulaban los arbitrios, cartas en que criticaron los arbitristas la ...

Denne studien handler om implementeringsarbeid i Stavangerbarnehagen tilknyttet tryggehetssirkelen, som er en del av kvalitetsprosjektet Stavangerbarnehagen. Oppgavens problemstilling er å undersøke i hvilken grad barnehagene i utvalget har implementert trygghetssirkelen, og hva som kan forklare implementeringen. I en tid med høy endringstakt i barnehager har jeg også undersøkt om barnehagene som ...

This study brings together two previously largely independent fields of multilingual language acquisition: heritage language and third language (L3) acquisition. We investigate the production of fortis and lenis stops in semi-naturalistic speech in the three languages of 20 heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian with German as a majority language and English as L3. The study aims to identify the extent ...

Sudden crises frustrate anthropological methodologies. Our discipline aspires to engaged scholarship in dialogue with community and public concerns. Yet timely social analysis must address the ephemeral and unpredictable, running against the rhythm of anthropological fieldwork and publication. When social distancing precludes typical ethnographic engagements, how may we adapt anthropological approaches?

This study explores the influence of geographical location on young pupils’ educational orientations and their transition from lower to upper secondary school; it pays particular attention to the voices of male youths from a rural area. More specifically, it investigates the interplay between gender and geographical contexts and the significance of these factors in understanding the processes ...

I Norge har de fleste regjeringer siden starten på 1990-tallet hatt som målsetting at alle skal i arbeid. Denne «arbeidslinja» har vært et kjennetegn ved den norske velferdsmodellen, og grunntanken er at alle skatter, trygder og overføringer skal være utformet slik at det lønner seg å jobbe heller enn å være utenfor arbeidsmarkedet. For norske kvinner har denne politikken blant annet bidratt til ...

In ‘Justice and Natural Resources,’ Chris Armstrong offers a rich and sophisticated egalitarian theory of resource justice, according to which the benefits and burdens flowing from natural (and non-natural) resources are ideally distributed with a view to equalize people’s access to wellbeing, unless there are compelling reasons that justify departures from that egalitarian default. Armstrong discusses ...