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norskArtikler, rapporter og annet (samfunnsvitenskap): Recent submissions
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Heart over profit: unravelling the discourse on the non- profit sector’s added value
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-11-12)This paper explores Members of Parliament (MPs) perceptions of non-profit sector added value by analysing Norwegian parliamentary debates (2018–2020) through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). It examines how parliamentarians discursively legitimize non-profit sector organizations in public service delivery, thereby providing a lens through which this sector’s added value can be understood. We find ... -
Føles som hjemme. Menigheten som familie.
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024)«Selv om vi var langt unna, med mange fremmede, føltes det fortsatt som hjemme», sa Ruth om menigheten hun var en del av. Men, hva er egentlig et hjem? Marianne Gullestad skriver at «ordet hjem bringer sammen i ett begrep både ideen om et sted og ideen om et sosialt fellesskap knyttet til dette stedet» (1989, s. 54). Som jeg vil vise i dette kapitlet, er ikke et hjem bare en fysisk struktur, men ... -
A Temporal Perspective on Electronic Medicine Management Work
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-05-26)Poor communication between professionals across levels of care regarding patients’ medication can lead to errors. Norway has invested in several electronic initiatives to improve collaboration in medicine management. This study elaborates on collaborative electronic medicine management work in specialist and primary care, asking what the problems with electronically shared medicine information are ... -
EU external differentiated integration as a crisis response tool? Evidence from Ukraine
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-19)Emerging scholarship on the EU and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has predominantly focused on explaining the unprecedented strength of the EU’s response, especially its new far-reaching sanctions against Russia and the granting of a candidate country status to all three Eastern Neighbours. What is missing from the picture is the role of pre-war EU-Ukraine external ... -
How journalism forgets: on the journalistic representation of colonial biopower in Greenland
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-08)This article presents a postcolonial and feminist analysis of 44 newspaper articles published between 1965 and 2022 about “the coil campaign” in Greenland, which fitted Greenlandic Inuit women with the IUD in the 1960s and 1970s, at times without their knowledge or consent. Using a media archive search and conducting a discursive analysis, we explore how journalistic reporting and debates ... -
The competitive edge of Norway's hydrogen by 2030: Socio-environmental considerations
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-30)Can Norway be an important hydrogen exporter to the European Union (EU) by 2030? We explore three scenarios in which Norway's hydrogen export market may develop: A Business-as-usual, B Moderate Onshore, C Accelerated Offshore. Applying a sector-coupled energy system model, we examine the techno-economic viability, spatial and socio-economic considerations for blue and green hydrogen export in the ... -
Saved by the snowy owl: An intersectional analysis of indigenous rights and biodiversity in the Kvalsund wind power project in Norway
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-19)Recent literature on energy justice highlights the need for intersectional considerations in energy decisions. This article addresses this research gap by presenting an intersectional analysis of a rejected wind power application in Northern Norway. By employing critical discourse analysis of the primary documents in the process, such as the wind power application, impact assessments, correspondences ... -
Både Frankrike og Storbritannia trenger en reform av valgsystemet
(Chronicle; Kronikk, 2024-07-08)Fra et demokratisk perspektiv bør varsellampene blinke. -
Uten velgere og lokalaviser svekkes demokratiet
(Chronicle; Kronikk, 2023-09-11)Statsvitere fra hele verden samlet seg nylig i USA. De fleste var lettere sjokkert over hva som møtte dem. -
Myten om den åpne Nordlendingen - star den i veien for god rekruttering?
(Chronicle; Kronikk, 2024-09-04)Konkurransen om arbeidskraft og innbyggere er stor. Mange er opptatt av rekruttering, men oppmerksomheten om å få folk til å trives og bli værende er liten. Står myten om gjestfrihet i «verdens beste land» i veien for systematisk velkomstarbeid og fokus på at alle skal trives? -
Hunter-Gatherer Children at School: A View From the Global South
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-06-14)Universal formal education is a major global development goal. Yet hunter-gatherer communities have extremely low participation rates in formal schooling, even in comparison with other marginalized groups. Here, we review the existing literature to identify common challenges faced by hunter-gatherer children in formal education systems in the Global South. We find that hunter-gatherer children are ... -
The Contemporary Norwegian Municipal CEO
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024-07-12)This chapter describes the evolution of the Norwegian municipal chief executive officer (MCEO) from 1980 to 1992 and 2018, when the position was weakened politically but strengthened administratively. Today, the Norwegian MCEO corresponds to Mouritzen and Svara’s council–manager model, making it one of the most powerful in the Nordic region, second only to the Finish MCEO. Despite multiple significant ... -
“That-which-must-not-be-named”: hunting, secrecy, and the ontology of meat in northeast China
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-22)In this paper, I describe the practice of sharing and eating wild meat amongst the Orochen in northeast China, a community of hunters who are no longer allowed to hunt due to state conservation policies. I show how for Orochen meat is the material intermediary between the human and nonhuman worlds, offered to the fire before meals and to animal spirit-masters during hunting. I suggest this demands ... -
The quest for a sustainable industry: mining, path dependency and post-carbon regime in the European Arctic
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-06-10)The goal of the European Union’s Green Deal industrial plan is to achieve an ecological transition over the next three decades. This transition includes the electrification of energy and transport systems. Achieving such a transformation requires access to critical raw materials for the technologies that will enable the post-carbon transition of European societies. In this context, the European ... -
The impact of public discourse on local representatives’ amalgamation preferences
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-14)Municipal amalgamation reforms have taken place across democratic regimes since the 1960s. While much focus has been devoted to such reforms’ causes and effects, less attention has been on public discourse surrounding territorial consolidation. This study analyses how local issue salience may impact local representatives’ stance on amalgamating their municipality with one or more others. We focus ... -
Løsningen på klimautfordringene er rotete, den er millioner av puslespillbrikker
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Hostile Film: Documentary as The Vehicle of Political Conflict
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)Documentary-film scholar Stella Bruzzi highlights the increasingly reflexive approach of contemporary independent filmmakers. Specifically, they commonly reflect on the collaborative performance entailed in depicting – and hence working <i>with</i> – human subjects, and therefore draw attention to—rather than hide—this intersubjective process, in all its artificiality and representative distance. ... -
Freedom - feeling free in an (un)free world
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-08-18)This chapter explores what it means and how feels like to be free in social life. Despite current collectivist backlashes from both the political right (neo-nationalism) and left (identity-politics), individual freedom is still probably the ‘ultimate value’ (Talcott Parsons) of contemporary liberal democracies. Whereas economists, political scientists and political philosophers discuss freedom in ... -
Grønn omstilling uten fasit. Hva kan oljehistorien i Lofoten lære oss om energiomstilling av lokalsamfunn?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-14)I denne artikkelen analyserer vi framveksten av to framtidsvisjoner for regionen Lofoten. Den ene visjonen handlet om oljeutvinning. Den andre samfunnsvisjonen framstiller grønn omstilling som en regional vekstmulighet, og har vokst fram i perioden etter at oljevisjonen mistet sitt fotfeste. Vi analyserer hvilke argumenter som har vært sentrale i den lokale debatten om oljevirksomhet, og kobler ... -
The Politics of Film: 'Captain Volkonogov Escaped' and the Art of Resistance
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-05)Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov's Captain Volkonogov Escaped offers a gripping portrayal of life in Stalin's Soviet Union. This article discusses the film's evocation of an oppressive social structure and its pertinence as a stimulus and means to comprehending and critically appraising authoritarianism in contemporary times. The film pays close attention to micro-level dynamics of intimidation, ...
