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Reading radical environmental justice through a political ecology lens
(Elsevier, 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 ... -
Exploring the consequences of decentralization: has privatization of health services been the perceived effect of decentralization in Khartoum locality, Sudan?
(BMC, 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
(Universitetsforlaget, 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
(IOS Press, 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
(Intellect, 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?
(Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus, 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
(Universitetsforlaget, 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
(Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus, 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
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 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
(Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, 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
(Lehigh University, 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
(Universitetsforlaget, 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.
(Universidad de Alcalá, 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
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 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
(OsloMet - Storbyuniversitetet, 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 ... -
Exploring a third space for sustainable educational development-HIV/AIDS prevention, Zambia
(MDPI, 2018-03-23)This study was conducted in Zambia from 2002 to 2008, a country greatly affected by the HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)/AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) epidemic. The global, national, as well as local discourses ... -
The Lamer Social Competence in Preschool scale (LSCIP): Structural validity in a large Norwegian community sample
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-02-01)There is an increasing emphasis on the importance of social competence for children’s development, well-being, and learning. Thus age- and context-appropriate measures are needed. This study addresses the structural validity ... -
Power theories in political ecology
(University of Arizona Libraries, 2018)Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to provide detailed presentations of various uses of power, involving corporate and conservation interventions ... -
Fra grobunn til stengrunn: Kulturrelativismens skjebne i norsk offentlighet
(Universitetsforlaget, 2018-11-28)For antropologer med anlegg for nostalgi vil årene mellom Berlinmurens og Twin Towers’ fall lett fortone seg som fagets gullalder hva samfunnsinnflytelse angår. Gjennom Arne Martin Klausens og Fredrik Barths formidlingstrang, ... -
South African Science Teachers’ Strategies for Integrating Indigenous and Western Knowledges in Their Classes: Practical Lessons in Decolonisation
(Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Faculty of Education, 2018-06)Framed within the broader discourse on decolonising African education, this article aims to contribute to the project of integrating indigenous and Western knowledges in southern African education. Following a participatory ...
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