Publications
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The Aesthetics of Violence
(2020)
Roland Barthes once proposed that we distinguish between ‘violence’ and ‘violent’, the latter also including that which is violent in a positive way, such as “creative passions, creative radicalisms!” Today, it is more ...
Sigmund Freuds samfunnsteori
(2020)
Få andre store tenkjarar, forfattarar og forskarar er så vidgjetne som Freud, og mange av omgrepa hans har blitt ein sjølvsagt del av daglegtalen. Samstundes er omgrepa i psykoanalysen blitt ein del av den samfunnsteoretiske ...
Universitetskamp
(2019)
Store endringer preger universitets- og høyskolesektoren i hele den vestlige verden. Også de norske institusjonene har opplevd betydelige reformer, blant annet knyttet til fusjoner og andre strukturendringer, profesjonalisering ...
improvisasjon
(2021-06-15)
Tvisyn, innsyn, utsyn
(2021-10-08)
Alt som lever må dø
(2019)
Døden angår oss. Våre dødsforestillinger sier noe om hvem vi er, hvordan vi oppfatter oss selv, og hva som er viktig for oss. Tanatologi er vitenskapen og læren om døden. Den utgjør et voksende tverrfaglig felt internasjonalt. ...
Freedom of Expression in Universities and University Colleges
(2020)
Liberal democracies are experiencing changes of policies in the name of security, populism, polarization and an increasingly hardened rhetoric in the exchange of opinions and beliefs. How does this environment affect the ...
Litteratur i en digital tid
(2019)
Hva skjer med litteraturen når omgivelsene digitaliseres? Hvorfor insisterer Agnes Ravatn på å skrive for hånd, Tomas Espedal på skrivemaskin, mens Carl Frode Tiller mener at datamaskinen gir frihet? Og hva med litteraturen ...
Arven fra skillingsvisene
(2021-12-20)
Skillingsvisene i Norge 1550–1950
(2021-12-20)
Ein tingas lydhøyre mann
(2023-08-01)
Arvid Torgeir Lie (1938–2020) is among the leading Norwegian poets in the post-war period - original, innovative, surprising and highly valued by fellow writers.With a background in the mining community Åmdal's mine in ...
Knuste drømmer
(2023-06-14)
Both the labor movement and the church have played a large part in shaping modern Norwegian society. Relations between them were often strained - sometimes hostile - in the decades before the Second World War. During and ...
Flytsoner
(2022-12-20)
Rap as a vocal expression has become everyone's property. From having been one of four elements in the early hip-hop underground, rap has found its way to all the nooks and crannies of the world. Rap is done in all kinds ...
Det mediale gjennombruddet
(2023-08-31)
In the period from the middle of the 19th century until the outbreak of the First World War, a modern Norwegian literature developed in parallel with a modern Norwegian media society. New forms of transport and communication, ...
Responding to the Anthropocene
(2023-09-15)
The Anthropocene – the era of humans – refers to a time when humanity has left its indelible stamp on the planet, including its geology and biogeochemistry. Understanding the Anthropocene, where the risk of irreversible ...
Kreftoverlevelse på nye måter
(2024-04-15)
In today's Norway, there are more than 300,000 people who have had cancer, or are living with cancer. Knowledge about the social and personal aspects of surviving cancer is still limited, something this book takes up in a ...
Borre, Hafrsfjord og Stiklestad
(2024-05-15)
Historic places are nationally unique, but still easily recognizable across national borders in the same way as flags, national anthems and other national symbols. The places tell about origins and developments. They are ...
I skyggen av sykdom
(2024-09-27)
Relatives as caregivers play a central role in the provision of health and social services in society, and their unpaid work accounts for about 136,000 work years in Norway. In addition, children who are affected by illness ...
I elementenes vold
(2025-05-20)
For three hundred years, it was common in Norway to sing about natural disasters and accidents. From the 1620s to the 1930s, landslides, earthquakes, floods, sea accidents, fires, volcanic eruptions and famines were depicted ...
Nordmenns rolle i slavehandelen
(2025-04-24)
Slave trade was widespread in the Danish-Norwegian colonial empire. Denmark-Norway had colonies in the West Indies, where all work was done by African slaves, and they had slave forts on the African west coast. Norwegians ...