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Rethinking Civil Society in Development: Scales and situated hegemonies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Ethnic residential segregation is often explained with the claim that ‘immigrants don’t want to integrate—they prefer to stick together with co-ethnics’. By contrast, mixed neighbourhoods are seen as crucial for achieving ... -
Rights, identities and belonging: Reflections on the everyday politics of urban citizenship in Delft, Cape Town
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The purpose of the article is to explore the complex and contested politics of urban citizenship in relation to everyday spaces in Delft, a poor township in Cape Town South Africa. The arguments build upon a decade of ... -
The role of goal-setting in urban climate governance
(Earth System Governance;volume 7, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12-11)This article argues that goal-setting is an important, albeit understudied, part of urban climate governance scholarship. By using goal-setting theory, the article introduces concepts and perspectives capable of shedding ... -
The Role of Information and Knowledge in Achieving Environmentally Sound Farming: A Chinese Case
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The paper analyzes the role of information–knowledge for making farming environmentally friendly, using eutrophication of the main drinking water reservoir of Tianjin, China as a case. The analysis considers information ... -
The role of strategic planning in ensuring sustainable housing markets in a neo-liberal planning context
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)The article illuminates how local government uses strategic planning in a context characterized as neo-liberalist-oriented housing market, to frame the broad varieties of planning and policy-instruments they possess to ... -
Rural Municipalities and Change in Local School Structure: Comparing Room of manoeuvre among Rural Municipalities in Latvia and Norway
(Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-12)Rural depopulation, decreasing numbers of children and general centralization combined with high expectations to education, are factors that challenge rural communities and school structures in Latvia and Norway. The ... -
Russian pension reform: Why so little engagement from below?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article analyzes influences on the post-2012 Russian pension reform, focusing on influences “from below.” We identify four main controversial issues related to pension reform: changes in individual accumulative accounts, ... -
The Russian pension system under quadruple influence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Russia’s government initiated pension reform in 2013 to resolve a crisis: the prolonged recession had created a huge Pension Fund deficit that required unsustainable subsidies from the state budget. The article analyzes ... -
Samskapingsparadokset: Mindre byer, klimastyring og bærekraftig byutvikling
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-01)Artikkelen analyserer hvordan tre mindre byer i Oslo regionen navigerer som aktører i klima- og bærekraftig byutvikling og hvilken rolle samskaping spiller for styring og strategiske beslutninger. Det pekes på et ... -
Saving Newborn Babies – The Benefits of Interventions in Neonatal Care in Norway over More Than 40 Years
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The aim of this study was to examine the effect that the introduction of new medical interventions at birth has had on mortality among newborn babies in Norway during the period 1967–2011. During this period, there has ... -
Self-Reported Social Status among Rural Residents: A Case in the Outskirts of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Region
(Social Sciences in China;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)China has in recent decades undergone profound changes and continues to do so – changes that are transforming the social fabric, motivating studies on how self-reported social status is changing in different parts of China. ... -
Selling homes: the polysemy of visual marketing
(Social Semiotics;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-19)In this article, we will demonstrate how a social semiotic reading of a housing advertisement campaign differs from the audience reception of it. We have talked to the campaign’s producer – the Norwegian housing developer ... -
Semi-autonomy: Contemporary challenges for indigenous peoples in Brazil.
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Short- and long-term delegation: what are the effects on politicians’ sense of control?
(Public Management Review;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10-06)The ability of elected representatives to ensure that output is in line with political priorities is a core element of representative democracy. The article explores how delegation affects politicians’ sense of control ... -
Should I stay or should I go: The role of Colombian free urban housing projects in IDP return to the countryside
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Over six million people have been displaced in Colombia’s ongoing armed conflict, mainly from rural to urban areas. In 2012, the Colombian government launched a large-scale social housing program to alleviate the housing ... -
Signs of Progress: Local Democracy Developments in Ukrainian Cities
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-29)Decentralisation reforms presuppose the transfer of powers from central to local authorities. From being a highly centralised state, since 2015 Ukraine has taken some important steps towards reforms of local government ... -
The smart city as mobile policy: Insights on contemporary urbanism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)What can the smart city discourse tell us about contemporary urbanism? This discourse is arguably a key exemplar of the increasingly mobile and networked characteristic of urban policy-making, and can reveal important ... -
The Social Sustainable City: How to Involve Children in Designing and Planning for Urban Childhoods?
(Urban Planning;Volume 4, Issue 1 (2019): The Transformative Power of Urban Planning through Social Innovation, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-24)In many countries, cities are expected to stimulate compact city development by the government, while at the same time develop healthier and more social sustainable cities. In Norway, national policy and planning regulation ... -
The State as a Marketizer vs. the Marketization of the State: Two Organizational Models of Public Sector Corporatization
(Public Organization Review;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Governments engage in corporatization by creating corporate entities or reorganizing existing ones. These corporatization activities refect an interplay between political agency and environmental pressures, including ... -
State crisis response versus transnational family living: An online ethnography among transnational families during the pandemic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Transnational family living refers to the situation of maintaining relationships across national borders. It is dependent on a certain degree of flexibility from the state. As part of the crisis response to the COVID-19 ...