LUI - Institutt for internasjonale studier og tolkeutdanning (IST): Recent submissions
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Perceived consequences of healthcare service decentralization on access, affordability and quality of care in Khartoum locality, Sudan
(BMC Health Services Research;21:581, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06-17)Background: Decentralization of healthcare services has been widely utilized, especially in developing countries, to improve the performance of healthcare systems by increasing the access and efficiency of service delivery. ... -
Blurred Lines: The Ambiguity of Disparaging Humour and Slurs in Norwegian High School Boys’ Friendship Groups
(Young;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-25)This article examines the use of disparaging humour and slurs in Norwegian high school boys’ friendship groups to shed light on the complexity of adolescent males’ friendships and everyday socialization through a phenomenon ... -
Multiple Other-Initiations of Repair in Norwegian Sign Language
(Open Linguistics;volume 6, issue 1, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12-13)Not all other-initiations of repair (OIR) are instantly followed by a functional self-repair that restores the progress of the conversation. Despite previous observations of OIRs generally leading to restored progress after ... -
Fight for focus: attention and agency in sight-translated interaction
(Perspectives, studies in translation theory and practice;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03-12)This paper presents an analysis of three roleplayed interpreted institutional meetings in which sight translation is part of the interaction. The analysis is based on multimodal (inter)action analysis and utilises the ... -
Reading radical environmental justice through a political ecology lens
(Geoforum;Volume 108, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-29)Environmental justice (EJ) and political ecology (PE) have grown during recent decades to become leading critical approaches to socio-environmental analyses. The two fields share a history of pluralism and an openness to ... -
Chocolate, identity and extreme speech online: An analysis of linguistic means in online comments in Croatia and Serbia
(Scandinavian Journal of Intercultural Theory and Practice (FLEKS);Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020): Hate speech in intercultural encounters, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-12)In this article the phrase “extreme speech” is used to encompass both hate speech and impoliteness. Legislation against hate speech has been passed in many countries, while work on defining phenomena related to hate speech ... -
Exploring the consequences of decentralization: has privatization of health services been the perceived effect of decentralization in Khartoum locality, Sudan?
(BMC Health Services Research;20, Article number: 669 (2020), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-20)Background: The health system of Sudan has experienced several forms of decentralization, as well as, a radical reform. Authority and governance of secondary and tertiary health facilities have been shifted from federal ... -
European Female Supporters of the Islamic State: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of their Facebook Profiles
(Nordic Journal of Religion and Society;Volume 33, No.1-2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-26)This article presents multimodal discourse analyses of Facebook profiles set up by European women who support the Islamic State (ISIS). The research question guiding the analyses is: What types of discourses, modes and ... -
Assistive activity technology as symbolic expressions of the self
(Technology and Disability;Vol. 31, no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Different types of assistive technologies can support participation for people with disability; nonetheless, technology can break with peoples self-image, sometimes resulting in technology abandonment. OBJECTIVE: This ... -
Advocating causal analyses of media and social change by way of social mechanisms
(Journal of African Media Studies;Volume 11, Number 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Studies of (new) media and social change should strive to introduce causality into the analysis. Studies relying on quantitative data tend to provide either too simplistic explanations or just point to correlations while ... -
«Ubehagets pedagogikk» – en inngang til kritisk refleksjon og inkluderende undervisning?
(FLEKS;Vol 6 No 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)“Pedagogy of discomfort” was first introduced by Boler in 1999 as a teaching practice that invites educators and students to engage in critical inquiry regarding values and norms, and to examine constructed self-images and ... -
Fremmedkrigere og terror
(Kritisk juss;ÅRGANG 45 nr. 1,, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)En rekke såkalte fremmedkrigere har blitt dømt de siste årene etter relativt nye terrorbestemmelser i norsk strafferett. Disse personene har blitt domfelt etter opphold i Syria hvor de skal ha vært i kontakt med grupper ... -
Hate and identity : a social philosophical attempt to understand extremism
(FLEKS;Vol 6 No. 1 (2019): Forskjeller: forventninger, forbløffelse og ubehag, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)In the analyses of extremism, the focus has mostly been on ideology and sociological – or so-called vulnerability – factors. While these factors are important the relevance and weight of emotions in the extremisation ... -
When language recognition and language shaming go hand in hand – sign language ideologies in Sweden and Norway
(Deafness and Education International;Vol. 21, No 2–3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-18)This article focuses on the similar approaches to, yet different contexts of legal recognition of sign languages in Sweden and Norway. We use examples from sign language documentation (both scientific and popular), legislation ... -
Grand corruption in Mexico: The convenient disappearance of an agrarian community
(European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies;No 108, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article offers an exemplary case of grand corruption in Mexico, narrating the story of how a series of actors and institutions at all levels collaborated to obtain favours, while dispossessing an agrarian community ... -
Fostering teachers’ global competencies: Bridging utopian expectations for internationalization through exchange
(Forum for International Research in Education;Vol 5, No 2 (2019), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Fostering international mindedness in teachers through their preparation and continuing education leads to innovations in teacher education related to exchange programs (Cushner, 2012) and curricular adoptions and adaptations ... -
Maktkritiske perspektiver i høyere utdanning? En undersøkelse av omfang og anvendelse i utvalgte programplaner
(Uniped: Tidsskrift for universitets- og høgskolepedagogikk;Årgang 42, nr. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Kritisk tenkning og demokratifremmende læring er definert som sentrale ambisjoner i utdanningsfeltet. I denne artikkelen undersøker vi hvordan disse ambisjonene kommer til uttrykk i høyere utdanning. Med utgangspunkt i ... -
Training Public Service Employees in How to Communicate Via Interpreter in Norway: Achievements and Challenges./Formación De Los Empleados De Los Servicios Públicos Sobre Cómo Comunicarse a Través De Los Intérpretes En Norguega: Logros y Desafios.
(FITISPos International Journal;Vol 6, No 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The comprehensive governmental approach to interpreting in the public sector in Norway includes interpreter accreditation, interpreter training, and the Norwegian National Register of Interpreters. In this article, we argue ... -
Getting Behind the Walls and Fences: Methodological Considerations of Gaining Access to Middle-class Women in Urban India
(Forum for Development Studies;Vol. 45, No. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-27)This article presents and analyzes two cases of ethnographic, topic-driven, fieldwork among upper caste, middle-class women in urban India, which is a field dominated by hierarchical social relations of class, caste and ... -
Esoterogeni og aktiv forskjellsdannelse: Religion og identitetsskapning, i Stillehavet og andre steder
(FLEKS;Vol 6 No 1 (2019): Forskjeller: forventninger, forbløffelse og ubehag, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-26)Esoterogeny and the creation of difference: Religion and identity making, in the Pacific and elsewhere Taking its cue from Marx’ and Weber’s grand theorizing, a key narrative in Western modernity has been the inevitable ...