Articles

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Per Gunnar Røe: "Urban and Regional Planning under the Pandemic: The Case of Oslo"

In this book chapter Per Gunnar Røe explores the relation between the pandemic and low-income status in Oslo and argues that social inequality, rather than density and public transport use, is most associated with contagion.

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Nordic Journal of Urban Studies: Volume 1

In this first volume of the open access journal Nordic Journal of Urban Studies you can find articles conserning urban life and its challenges by, among others, Per Gunnar Røe.

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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard: "Social order in the de-differentiated society: Deleuzian social theory and the penal institution"

In this article, published in Current Sociology, Sigurd M. Nordli Oppegaard and Johan Fredrik Rye explore institutional de-differentiation in contemporary society through empirical material from Norwegian prisons.

Mette Andersson: Identities, Volume 28, Issue 5: "The politics of migration research: research focus and the public identities of migration researchers"

In this special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, edited by Mette Andersson and Garbi Schmidt, you can find interesting articles by the editors and other contributors.

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Camilla Houeland: "Labour Resistance Against Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reform: Neoliberal Discourses and African Realities"

In this chapter of The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies, Camilla Houeland analyses dominant discourses and practices of fuel subsidy reform.

Manjana Milkoreit: "The political effects of emergency frames in sustainability"

In this review article, published in Nature Sustainability, Manjana Milkoreit, James Patterson, Carina Wyborn, Linda Westman, Marie Claire Brisbois, and Dhanasree Jayaram critically review interdisciplinary social science literature to examine the political effects of emergency frames in sustainability.

Alexi Gugushvili: "Socioeconomic position, social mobility, and health selection effects on allostatic load in the United States"

In this article, published in PLoS ONE, Alexi Gugushvili, Grzegorz Bulczak, Olga Zelinksa and Jonathon Koltai explore the health effects of social mobility.

Alexi Gugushvili: "How democracy alters our view of inequality — and what it means for our health"

In this article, published in Social Science & Medicine, Alexi Gugushvili and Aaron Reeves argue that being more aware of inequality can negatively affect self-rated health.

Alexi Gugushvili: "BMI and dissatisfaction with life: contextual factors and socioemotional costs of obesity"

In this article, publsihed in Quality of Life Research, Alexi Gugushvili and Ewa Jarosz aruge that the association between BMI and decreased life satisfaction is moderated by the contextual environment, and that the character of these effects differs by gender.

Alexi Gugushvili: "Equality of opportunity and health in post-COVID world"

In this article, published in Public Health in Practice, Alexi Gugushvili explores the lessened equality of opportunity in developed countries, and calls for the decision makers rebuilding after COVID-19 to remember that inequality of opportunity is also a health issue.

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Emma Arnold: Photography, composition, and the ephemeral city

Published in the Royal Geographical Society journal Area

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Emma Arnold: Mercurial images of the COVID-19 city

Published in the book Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Cities, Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility.

Marianne Nordli Hansen and Maren Toft: Wealth Accumulation and Opportunity Hoarding: Class-Origin Wealth Gaps over a Quarter of a Century in a Scandinavian Country

Published in American Sociological Review, 2021

Anne Heyerdahl: Risk assessment without the risk? A controversy about security and risk in Norway

Published in Journal of Risk Research, 2021

Kristin Jesnes and Sigurd M. Nordli Oppegaard: Platform work in the Nordic countries and the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis

Chapter in the publication The Future of Work in the Nordic countries: Opportunities and Challenges for the Nordic Working Life Models, published by the Nordic Council of Ministers, 2021