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Makten i det lange 20. århundret: Enhet eller flerhet
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Impoliteness - a challenge to interpreters' professionalism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This article examines interpreters’ perceptions of impoliteness in interpreter-mediated interactions in public sector settings in Norway. The analysis is based on a survey conducted in June 2014, ... -
Stillelesing i norskfaget – pustepause for læreren eller veiledningsøkt i lesing?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Denne studien undersøker hva fire lærere på barnetrinnet gjør når elevene leser stille. Stillelesing er en vanlig aktivitet i norske klasserom, men kunnskapen om hva læreren gjør i denne tiden og hvordan hun veileder faglig, ... -
Deep Politics: Community Adaptations to Political Clientelism in 21st Century Mexico
(Latin American research review;51(2), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The specific contribution of this study is to explore how a communitarian lifeworld prepares the ground for practices of political clientelism without requiring the “foundational favor” noted in other contexts. Based on ... -
Exploring Anti-Semitism in the Classroom: A Case Study Among Norwegian Adolescents from Minority Backgrounds
(Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08-05)This study explores high school students’ views of Jews in one minority-dominated school in Oslo, Norway. Employing a qualitative approach, semistructured interview guides and classroom-based discussions teased out attitudes ... -
“Papa, Am I a Negro?” The Vexed History of the Racial Epithet in Norwegian Print Media (1970–2014)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09)This study explores the portrayal of blacks in Norwegian print media between 1970 and 2014 as refracted through the prism of the epithet “Negro” (neger). 4174 references covering 30 newspapers are analyzed employing a ... -
Norwegian-Somali parents who send their children to schools in Somalia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09-12)The perplexing numbers of Somali children withdrawn from schools in Norway and sent to Somalia is the concern of this study. These students are often brought back and re-enroll later as adolescents with concomitant ... -
Household histories and methodological triangulation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-12-05)The article uses the experience from the impact evaluation of a development programme to argue two points: first, the collection of household histories is a useful methodological tool, and, second, their analytical value ... -
In Transit: Representations of Migration on the Balkan Route. Discourse Analysis of Croatian and Serbian Public Broadcasters (RTS and HRT Online)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article investigates the representation of migration and migrants in Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters’ online portals during the “migrant crisis” in 2015/2016. The study shows that there are similarities in ... -
The linguistics in othering: Teacher educators’ talk about cultural diversity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)‘Othering’ can be conceptually defined as the manner in which social group dichotomies are represented in language via binary oppositions of ‘us’ and ‘them’. The article aims to contribute to a methodological approach for ... -
Nothing succeeds like success narratives: a case of conservation and development in the time of REDD
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article provides a case study of a project in Kondoa, Tanzania under the programme Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). It demonstrates how a success narrative came to dominate presentations ... -
The Power of Ethnography: A Useful Approach to Researching Politics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article explores and argues the suitability of ethnographic methods, primarily participant observation, in the research of politics, and in the construction of concepts for theory building. The argument is sustained ... -
Decolonising Methodology: Who Benefits From Indigenous Knowledge Research?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)It is common for indigenous knowledge (IK) researchers in South Africa to conduct studies within conventional Western paradigms, especially in the field of IK-science curriculum integration. The scientific paradigm usually ... -
Realizations and functions of impoliteness in discourse about language and identity in Croatian and Montenegrin media
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)This chapter addresses realizations of impoliteness in written discourse thematizing language and identity in Croatian and Montenegrin media (online and print newspapers, and internet forums) in 2010 and 2011. The main ... -
Interpreting Impoliteness: Interpreters’ Voices
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Interpreters in the public sector in Norway interpret in a variety of institutional encounters, and the interpreters evaluate the majority of these encounters as polite. However, some encounters are evaluated as impolite, ... -
Keepin’ it in the Family: Cultural relatedness and hip hop constellations in Kampala, Uganda
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)For hip hop activists in Kampala the notion of ‘family’ is a significant idea forming the basis of interaction and endeavors in a growing informal music economy. The constellation of hip hop as a family challenges conventional ... -
Frantz Fanon: Hvor kommer de gode teoriene fra? - Om frigjøringskamp, radikal empati, revolusjonær humanisme og avkolonisering av samfunnsteorier
(Agora : Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon;34(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Frantz Fanon, født i Martinique i 1925, forbindes nok i første rekke med den algeriske frigjøringskampen. Men han er også opphavsmann til en rekke skrifter med en utrolig tematisk og teoretisk spennvidde, fra individuell ... -
The portrayal of non-westerners in EFL textbooks in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The discourse of equity and egalitarianism has a long pedigree in Norway. However, this discourse has recently come under severe strain as evidenced by the growing segregation of schools along ethnic lines in the capital ... -
Exploring Semiotic Resources in Sight Translation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)In this article, we present a pilot study with data from exploratory video-recorded experiments of sight translation, and subsequent focus group interviews. Our theoretical perspective is interactionist, ... -
“Cyrillic Does Not Kill”: Symbols, Identity, and Memory in Croatian Public Discourse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article addresses identity construction through social symbolic meanings conveyed in discussions about scripts, primarily Cyrillic, in Croatian public discourse. We focus on discussions in various Croatian online ...