Articles
In this article, published in the Journal of Culinary Science & Technology, Haldor Byrkjeflot, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen & Silviya Svejenova examine the process of creation of new Nordic cuisine (NNC) as a culinary innovation.
To read more about the article and to download the full article for those with institutional access visit the Journal of Culinary Science & Technology website
Lena Magnusson Turner and Terje Wessel have, in a new article, analysed relocation in Oslo, Norway, between 1998 and 2008 for members of ten minority groups along three overlapping dimensions: upwards in the neighbourhood hierarchy, outwards from the inner city to all suburbs, and westwards from a less affluent to a more affluent part of the region.
Read their results and the resulting discussion on the discrepancy between spatial assimilation theory and the results in Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography
How we read a text decides to a large degree the conclusions we draw. Sveinung Sandberg demonstrates in this article how Anders Behring Breivik’s manifesto can be analysed from four different narrative traditions. Which tradition one chooses will affect one’s judgement of Breivik’s political and criminal responsibility for his acts. This article further develops a theoretical framework of narrative criminology. The main argument is that offenders’ stories need to be analysed as agency conditioned by culture and context.
Read more at Sage Journals
Magne Flemmen har skrevet en ny artikkel i tidsskriftet Sociology.
This article seeks to identify the internal divisions within the ‘upper class’ of Norway, defined as comprising different types of property owners, top executives and business managers. Bourdieu’s concepts of social space and forms of capital are applied to construct a social space of the Norwegian economic upper class by subjecting 12 indicators of capital to Multiple Correspondence Analysis. Central issues in the sociology of elites and upper classes are addressed, including the role of educational credentials in upper class reproduction, and the salience of divisions by social origin. The article reveals a maintained division between owners and employees (managers, executives, business professionals) in an age of ‘financialisation’. Furthermore, the divisions established are related to the segmentation of the upper class by occupation and industry.
Artikkelen kan leses i Sociology
I etnografisk forskning er det stor avstand mellom det som skrives i lærebøker og det som skjer i feltet. Spesielt i studier av vold- og rusmiljø er det mange erfaringer som aldri når fram til leserne. Informasjon holdes tilbake for å beskytte utsatte grupper, men også for å beskytte forskeren. Sveinung Sandberg og Heith Copes (University of Alabama) har nylig publisert artikkelen “Speaking With Ethnographers: The challenges of researching drug dealers and offenders”. Under løfte om anonymitet forteller 15 etnografer om erfaringer knyttet til rekruttering og betaling av informanter, vold under feltarbeid, bruk av legale og illegale rusmidler og kontakt med etiske komiteer. De tar også opp generelle problemer i kvalitativt datainnsamling. Artikkelen konkluderer med et ønske om mer åpenhet og argumenterer for at forskere bør forberedes bedre på utfordringer knyttet til etnografisk feltarbeid.
Du kan lese artikkelen i Journal of Drug Issues
Willy Pedersen og Sveinung Sandberg har publisert en artikkel i Sociology of Health & Illness. Studien er basert på inngående intervjuer med 100 brukere av cannabis. Stoffet ble brukt for å oppnå rus, men også terapeutisk mot lidelser som multippel sclerose og revmatisme, dessuten mot søvnproblemer og for å slappe av. All bruk var illegal,og det identifiseres strategier som brukes for å aksept for medisinsk bruk av stoffet. Medisinske bruksformer av cannabis har hatt kraftig økende oppslutning i USA, men i Norge har dette fortsatt liten aksept fra myndighetene. Derimot ser det ut til at det i cannabis-subkulturene nå utvikler seg en ny tendens som beskrives som medikalisering av vanlige livsproblemer.
Les mer på Sociology of Health & Illness
Anne Krogstad har sammen med Aagoth Storvik skrevet en artikkel i Historical Reflections der kvinnelige politiske ledere i Norge og Frankrike sammenliknes. Artikkelen viser hvordan kvinnelige politikere nedtoner, tilpasser seg og utfordrer nasjonale og kulturelle repertoarer for politisk lederskap (henholdsvis "effortless superiority" og "conspicuous modesty") i perioden 1980-2010. Lavrisikostrategier gjør det lettere for kvinner å entre politikken. Markering av ulikhet er mer risikabelt, men kan samtidig virke nytt og innovativt. Gjennom nye strategier med bruk av glamour og ironisk femininitet viser norske politikerkvinner at det er mulig å kombinere kvinnelig sensualitet og politisk makt uten nødvendigvis å bli vurdert negativt.
Artikkelen kan leses i Historical Reflections.
Anne Lise Ellingsæter has published an article in Journal of Social Policy. The article examines political struggles over the extension of parental leave earmarked for fathers in Norway. Three rival ideational policy paradigms are identified: fathers’ right to care and mothers’ right to breastfeed compete among quota protagonists, while ‘choice’ is advocated by quota antagonists. Quota protagonists guided by the mothers’ rights paradigm have been the most successful, but persistent, ideational tensions are rendering future developments uncertain.
Read more at Journal of Social Policy
Ingar Brattbakk and Terje Wessel have published this article in Urban Studies. The question at the centre of the article relates to individual development among adolescents: does the social composition of the neighbourhood affect the socioeconomic status later in life?
More information and an online version of the article are available at Urban Studies
Associate professor Marianne Millstein in collaboration with David Jordhus-Lier has written the article 'Making Communities Work? Casual Labour Practices and Local Civil Society Dynamics in Delft, Cape Town' in the journal Journal of Southern African Studies
The article can be downloaded from the journal's website
Jon Rogstad and Viggo Vestel have written an article published in Social Movement Studies on how young Norwegians of immigrant background express their political engagement through asethetic performances and the potential this has for collective action.
Karin Widerberg has written an article in the Journal of Comparative Family Studies, no. 3 2011.
Kristian Stokke and Elin Sæther are two of the co-authors of Interventions in Nordic Political Geographies to be published in issue 30 of Political Geography. This lead article discusses the question of a distinct Nordic school of political geography, whether it does and can exist and if this is at all desirable.
Geoforum, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 16 March 2011 Bjørnar Sæther, Arne Isaksen, Asbjørn Karlsen
This article examines overtime regulations in the banking sector in Ireland, Norway and Sweden since 1980, to assess whether different modes of decentralized bargaining produce different outcomes. Ireland can be considered a case of unorganized decentralization, while Norway and Sweden represent slightly different modes of organized decentralization.
Jon Rogstad has together with Gunnar Myrberg at Uppsala University written ”Patterns of Participation. Engagement among ethnic Minorities and the Native Population in Oslo and Stockholm”, in Laura Morales and Marco Giugni (eds.), Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe. Making Multicultural Democracy Work? , published at Palgrave.
Exploring New Sites and Methods When Investigating the Doings of Gender, Class and Ethnicity. The article is written by Karin Widerberg.
Anne Krogstad and Aagoth E. Storvik have written the article "Reconsidering Politics as a Man's World: Images of Male Political Leaders in France and Norway" in the last number of Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques. The edition covers the topics elites and representation.
Research fellow Heidi Nicholaisen has with James Arrowsmith, Barbara Bechter and Rosa Nonell written an article for The International Journal of Human Resource Management.
Ragnvald Kalleberg har bidratt med kapitlet "The Ethos of Science and the Ethos of Democracy" i en ny artikkelsamling rediget av Craig Calhoun. Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science. New York: Columbia University Press.
Arnlaug Leira has contributed the chapter "The Childcare Transition in Scandinavia: Family Change and Policy Reform"
See the publisher's page
Senior researcher and head of the research project EUMARGINS Katrine Fangen has written an article on social exclusion and inclusion of young immigrants, which has recently been published in the Nordic Journal of Youth Research
Professor of Human Geography, Kristian Stokke, in collaboration with former Master student, Jane Vogt Evensen, has written this article that examines the politics of local governance in the Lusikisiki HIV/AIDS programme in the Eastern Cape Province. The article was recently published in the Journal of Southern African Studies.
Research fellow at the Department, Håkon LArsen, has written an article on the different legitimation strategies of public service broadcasters in the Scandinavian countries of Norway and Sweden. The article was recently published in the journal Media, Culture & Society.