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"Calling it a Crisis : Modes of Creativity, Work and Magic in an Elite Architect Company
(Copenhagen Business School, 2015)In recent years we have seen a resurfacing of magic as an analytical category in anthropological literature, with particular emphasis on modern forms of occultism and witchcraft. Magic has yet to prove itself a useful ... -
Cannabis use in early adulthood is prospectively associated with prescriptions of antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and antidepressants
(John Wiley and Sons, 2019-09-27)Objective: Cannabis is an acknowledged risk factor for some mental disorders, but for others the evidence is inconclusive. Prescribed medicinal drugs can be used as proxies for mental disorders. In this study, we investigate ... -
Care and Production of Clothing in Norwegian Homes: Environmental Implications of Mending and Making Practices
(MDPI, 2018-08)Mending, re-design, and altering are alternatives for prolonging the use period of clothing. It is a common assumption that nobody mends clothing anymore in Western societies. This paper studies Norwegian consumers’ clothing ... -
Care parading as service: Negotiating recognition and equality in user-controlled personal assistance
(Wiley, 2018-09-11)This article addresses aspects of the relationship between disabled people and their personal assistants within the user-controlled personal assistance programme in Norway (BPA). Within this programme, a disabled person ... -
Cascading Norwegian co-streams for bioeconomic transition
(Elsevier, 2017)A circular bioeconomy has become a global aspiration for governments in Europe and around the globe. This article pursues research questions concerning concrete innovations aiming to create bioeconomic transition options ... -
Catching up and Falling behind: An Appraisal of Brazilian Industrial Policy in the Twenty-First Century
(Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, 2016)Amidst analyses of industrial policy’s renaissance in Latin America, Brazil is often hailed as the paragon of this movement. The mix of old and new institutions and instruments would constitute a unique effort in promoting ... -
Changing educational aspirations in the choice of and transition to post-compulsory schooling - a three-wave longitudinal study of Oslo youth
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-10-11)With the transition from a comprehensive compulsory school to differentiating upper secondary schools, young people in Norway are forced to choose their future educational path and look ahead. How does educational choice ... -
Changing Welfare Institutions as Sites of Contestation
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Child welfare clients and educational transitions
(Wiley, 2015-06-19)Despite long-standing knowledge about child welfare clients' educational disadvantage, we know less about the individuals' progress through the educational system. Based on Norwegian data, this study examined educational ... -
Child welfare clients and school satisfaction
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-07-10)Despite long-standing knowledge about child welfare clients’ poor educational outcomes, we know less about these vulnerable young people’s situation in school. This article addresses school satisfaction among upper secondary ... -
Child welfare clients first step away from higher education. The influence of school performances, educational aspirations and background factors on choosing the vocational track after compulsory school
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-04-03)This article addresses the concern that the educational attainment of child welfare clients (CWCs) is generally poor. Dra wing upon previous research showing that former CWCs lack higher education, this study argues ... -
Childbearing behaviours of Polish migrants in Norway
(Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2018)The chapter explores the aspects of childbearing, procreation plans and fertility among Polish migrant couples and families settled in Norway. It tackles the migration-fertility nexus by engaging with five hypotheses put ... -
Class Related Consumption and the Ability to Resist Commercial Temptations in the Age of Commercialism
(SAGE Publications, 2019-06-12)Abstract This article investigates vulnerabilities related to commercial pressure and asks whether the ability to resist commercial temptations is class related. Four hypotheses are developed and tested in a nationally ... -
Class, parenting and academic stress in Norway: middle-class youth on parental pressure and mental health
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020)Mental health problems among young people have increased in recent decades, particularly among middle-class youth, a development often related to increasing achievement pressure. This paper explores how young people from ... -
Climate adaptation at what scale? Multi-level governance, resilience, and coproduction in Saint Louis, Senegal
(Springer, 2015)This paper utilizes a multi-level governance framework to explain how and at what scale climate adaptation, exemplified by flood risk management, was governed in the medium-scale city of Saint Louis, Senegal. It explores ... -
Climate change adaptation in Norway: learning–knowledge processes and the demand for transformative adaptation
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-08)During the last decade, it has become evident that planet earth will be warming. Hence, there is an increasing focus on how to adapt to a changing climate. The adaptation literature underlines the importance played by local ... -
Clothing Lifespans: What Should Be Measuredand How
(MDPI, 2020-08-02)Increasing the use of each product, most often called longer lifespans, is an effective environmental strategy. This article discusses how garment lifespans can be described in order to be measured and compared. It answers ... -
Clothing Reuse: The Potential in Informal Exchange
(Intellect, 2017)Reuse organized by non-profit and commercial actors is a strategy that recently received a lot of attention. This article discusses the question: what do we know about the amount of clothes that circulate outside the ... -
Cohort profile: The Tracking Opportunities and Problems Study (TOPP) – A study of Norwegian children and their parents followed from infancy to adulthood
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Combined cognitive and vocational interventions after mild to moderate traumatic brain injury: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
(BioMed Central, 2017)A considerable proportion of patients with mild to moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) experience long-lasting somatic, cognitive, and emotional symptoms that may hamper their capacity to return to work (RTW). Although ...
