• Back to the Future? Charting Features of the Not-So-New Convergence in Aidland 

      Pahle, Simon (Forum for Development Studies;Volume 48, 2021 - Issue 1, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12-12)
      During the last decade, the liberal paradigm, hegemonic in development assistance from the 1980 and well into the 2000s, has seen a fracturing. Rather than an impasse or outright conflict between ‘aid with Chinese ...
    • Challenges and barriers to optimal maternity care for recently migrated women - a mixed-method study in Norway 

      Bains, Sukhjeet; Skråning, Susanne; Sundby, Johanne Sommerschild; Vangen, Siri; Sørbye, Ingvil; Lindskog, Benedikte V. (BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth;21, Article number: 686 (2021), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10-07)
      Background: Migrant women are at increased risk for complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, possibly due to inadequate access and utilisation of healthcare. Recently migrated women are considered a vulnerable ...
    • In the shadow of Anglobalization national tests in English in Norway and the making of a new English underclass 

      Thomas, Paul; Breidlid, Anders (Journal of Multicultural Discourses;10(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-06-30)
      This study argues that the recent ‘English revolution’ in Norway conflates with the growing standardization of education in the European Union (EU; e.g. the 1999 Bologna Treaty). This proliferation of English at the ...
    • Interpreting Impoliteness: Interpreters’ Voices 

      Felberg Radanovic, Tatjana; Saric, Ljiljana (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, ...
    • “Papa, Am I a Negro?” The Vexed History of the Racial Epithet in Norwegian Print Media (1970–2014) 

      Thomas, Paul (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 ...
    • The portrayal of non-westerners in EFL textbooks in Norway 

      Thomas, Paul (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 ...