Alexander Page

Journal Articles

Page, A. G., McManus, C., González, C. P. & Chahboun, Sobh (2017). Is Beauty in the Hand of the Writer? Influences of Aesthetic Preferences through Script Directions, Cultural, and Neurological Factors: A Literature Review. Frontiers in Psychology 8(1325) (Level 2). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01325

Page, A. G. & Chahboun, S. (2019). Emerging Empowerment of International Students: how international student literature has shifted to include the students’ voices. Higher Education, 78(5) (Level 2). doi: 10.1007/s10734-019-00375-7

Page, A. G.  (2019) Ethnic Enclaves Transcending Space: Chinese international students’ social networks in a European University town. Asian Ethnicity, 20(4) (Level 1). doi: 10.1080/14631369.2019.1570816

Page, A. G. (2019) International Studies as Global Capital: a case study in how Chinese students utilize their sojourns for achieving global mobility. Asian Anthropology, 18(4) (Level 1). doi: 10.1080/1683478X.2019.1625514

Page, A. G. (2020) Language Relations on Shamian: A Study of Sales Aggression Triggered by Language in a Trilingual Community. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 21(4), 371-386. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2020.1795707

Book Chapters

Page, A. G., Lund, A. C. B. & Løhre, A. (2020). Innledning: Om ProfILU, antologien og nye utfordringer. In A. Løhre og A. C. B. Lund (eds.), Studenten skal bli lærer: Kunnskap, identitet og profesjonsutvikling (s. 9-24). Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

Page, A. G. & Moen, E. T. (2020). En syklisk vei til profesjonell kunnskap: Praksisperiodens påvirkning på kunnskapsproduksjon i lærerutdanning. In A. Løhre og A. C. B. Lund (eds.), Studenten skal bli lærer: Kunnskap, identitet og profesjonsutvikling (s. 105-118). Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

Moen, E. T. & Page, A. G. (2020). Kunnskapsformer og danningsidealer i lærerutdanningen. In A. Løhre og A. C. B. Lund (eds.), Studenten skal bli lærer: Kunnskap, identitet og profesjonsutvikling (s. 85-104). Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

• Page, Alexander (2021). From Familial Pressure to Seeking One’s Fortune: Chinese International Students’ Search for Geographical and Social Mobility as a Response to Societal and Familial Pressures, In Oleksandr Ryndyk; Brigitte Suter & Gunhild Odden (ed.),  Migration to and from Welfare States: Lived Experiences of the Welfare–Migration Nexus in a Globalised World.  Springer.  ISBN 978-3-030-67615-5.  4.  s 49
• Moen, Elin Tronsaune & Page, Alexander Gamst (2020). Kunnskapsformer og danningsidealer i lærerutdanningen, I: Audhild Løhre & Anne Carine Bonnevie Lund (red.),  Studenten skal bli lærer: Kunnskap, identitet og profesjonsutvikling.  Cappelen Damm Akademisk.  ISBN 978-82-02-65237-1.  4.  s 85 - 104
• Page, Alexander Gamst (2020). Language Relations on Shamian: A Study of Sales Aggression Triggered by Language in a Trilingual Community. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology.  ISSN 1444-2213.  21(4), s 371- 386 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2020.1795707 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  This ethnographic study of a souvenir shop in China involves customers who typically use one of three languages: Cantonese, Mandarin or English. Arguably a triglossia, the languages have different connotations in terms of formality and intimacy. The language used positions the speaker within a cognitive map of sociability, affecting the treatment of the customer. This study finds that the speakers of the more intimate language tend to get better treatment. With speakers of Cantonese and, to a lesser degree, Mandarin, the priority is to remain on good terms beyond this interaction, whereas with English speakers the priority is to extract the maximum economic gain from the interaction.

• Page, Alexander Gamst & Moen, Elin Tronsaune (2020). En syklisk vei til profesjonell kunnskap: Praksisperiodens påvirkning på kunnskapsproduksjon i lærerutdanning, I: Audhild Løhre & Anne Carine Bonnevie Lund (red.),  Studenten skal bli lærer: Kunnskap, identitet og profesjonsutvikling.  Cappelen Damm Akademisk.  ISBN 978-82-02-65237-1.  5.  s 105 - 118
• Page, Alexander Gamst (2019). Ethnic enclaves transcending space: Chinese international students’ social networks in a European University town. Asian Ethnicity.  ISSN 1463-1369.  20(4), s 418- 435 . doi: 10.1080/14631369.2019.1570816 Show summary

  Each ethnic enclave has its own idiosyncrasies, leading to disagreements as to the functions they serve for the migrants inhabiting them. However, three main functions may be identified across scholarly literature: shielding, economic and cultural. This article explores to what extent the spatial organization of the ethnic enclave is necessary for fulfilling these functions by taking the case of the Chinese international students in a Norwegian town. These students comprise a relatively cohesive group, and their conational social networks serve most of the same purposes of ethnic enclaves without the need for a separate neighbourhood. While most of their material needs are met, the students still express a lack of belonging, a need for a place that is ‘for us’, and they present an example of how an ethnic space is constructed without the need for a traditional ‘Chinatown’.

• Page, Alexander Gamst (2019). International studies as global capital: a case study in how Chinese students utilize their sojourns for achieving global mobility. Asian Anthropology.  ISSN 1683-478X.  18(4), s 282- 296 . doi: 10.1080/1683478X.2019.1625514 Show summary

  This is an ethnographic study of a group of Chinese students in Norway, and the ways in which their sojourns may be implemented for identity work. They speak of their home country in binary terms, juxtaposing it to the developed world. The areas in which they disparage China most are areas such as freedom of choice, and the control over one’s own life trajectory. Thus, through studying in a developed country, they seek to gain a wider range of possibilities than they would otherwise have had. Through such means as study and gaining cross-cultural skills, the students carry out identity work to redefine themselves as modern, cosmopolitan, globally mobile people.

• Page, Alexander Gamst & Chahboun, Sobh (2019). Emerging empowerment of international students: how international student literature has shifted to include the students’ voices. Higher Education.  ISSN 0018-1560.  78(5), s 871- 885 . doi: 10.1007/s10734-019-00375-7 Full text in Research Archive.
• Page, Alexander Gamst; Chris, McManus; González, Carmen P. & Chahboun, Sobh (2017). Is Beauty in the Hand of the Writer? Influences of Aesthetic Preferences through Script Directions, Cultural, and Neurological Factors: A Literature Review. Frontiers in Psychology.  ISSN 1664-1078.  8 . doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01325 Full text in Research Archive.

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• Page, Alexander Gamst; Lund, Anne Carine Bonnevie & Løhre, Audhild (2020). Introduksjon: Om ProfILU, antologien og nye utfordringer, I: Audhild Løhre & Anne Carine Bonnevie Lund (red.),  Studenten skal bli lærer: Kunnskap, identitet og profesjonsutvikling.  Cappelen Damm Akademisk.  ISBN 978-82-02-65237-1.  Kap. 00.  s 9 - 24
• Page, Alexander Gamst (2016, 08. august). Kinesisk guts møter norsk hverdag. [Internett].  abcnyheter.no.
• Page, Alexander Gamst (2016, 08. august). Kinesisk guts møter norsk hverdag. [Internett].  Gemini.no.
• Page, Alexander Gamst & Marko, Valenta (2016). Moorings and Disembeddedness: The Search for Modern Subjectivity and the Need for Belonging among Chinese International Students in Norway.
• Johansen, Stein Erik & Page, Alexander Gamst (2011). Language Relations in Guangzhou. The Intimate and Official Dimension of Linguistic Codes in Urban China.

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