Blar i Brage NMBU på forfatter "Stuvøy, Kirsti"
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In the shade of the Olympic Waterfront : people’s perception of violence in Morro da Providência
Teixeira Marçal, Elaine (Master thesis, 2019)In this Master thesis, Rio de Janeiro's district of Morro da Providência, Brazil's first slum and the place the term "favela" was coined is the starting point for the exploration of sociospatial segregation and (in)security. ... -
Internet or bust : market driven cybersecurity in the USA
Knapp, Kyle Robert (Master thesis, 2018)The introduction of the internet has played a large role in how humans exist. From the way we conduct business, communicate, socialize and acquire information, no longer are we dependent on a geographical location to explore ... -
Migration and settlement : exploring what drives rural-urban displacement in Kumasi, Ghana
Abolga, David Adambem (Master thesis, 2022)Rural- urban migration is a popular documented trend among developing countries. It is estimated that 64.7% of Ghana’s migrants move within the country, mostly from the poor rural areas. Predominantly, the geographical ... -
Migration's effect on state sovereignty : an exploration of the Italian experience
Ívarsdóttir, Sóley (Master thesis, 2019)Migration is a topic of increasing significance in the field of international relations. Migration challenges state sovereignty in new ways, and there is therefore a need for more research on the issue. The migration issue ... -
Multiscalar entanglements in the post-socialist city: monotown restructuring, spatial re-ordering and urban inequality in Russia
Stuvøy, Kirsti; Shirobokova, Irina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Monotowns in Russia epitomize the mixed history of Soviet industrialized urbanization and post-soviet transformation. The 2007–8 global financial crisis magnified socio-economic pro- blems in these cities. In spite of the ... -
NATO and Russia : a discourse analysis of NATO´s enlargement policy and its effect
Hjelmevoll, Anna Pettersen (Master thesis, 2018)In 1997 NATO formally announced that they were going to proceed with Article X in the North Atlantic Treaty. This gave NATO the opportunity to enlarge their membership based on consensus in the alliance. Even though the ... -
Oppression and resistance in the global city : slum governance in Accra, Ghana
Agbenyoh, Jemimah (Master thesis, 2022)This study explores how slum governance leads to oppression and resistance in Accra. The study area consisted of two slum communities namely Old Fadama and Glefe, located in the capital city of Ghana, Accra. Employing the ... -
Out with the old, in with the new : traditional values in Russia's contemporary identity
Foss, Emmie Stolpe (Master thesis, 2016-08-22)Since Putin’s rise to power in Russia there has been a rise of traditional values in Russia’s contemporary identity. This became especially clear in the period following his reelection in 2012. These traditional values ... -
Political unrest in Zambia's 2016 elections : what caused the pre-election violence?
Chibanda, Lorraine Shipeka (Master thesis, 2018)Free and fair competitive elections are essential for democratic governments. However one chooses to define democracy, it is undeniably a system of governance expressing popular will. Where citizens have the power to elect ... -
Pork and beans : the Sino-Brazilian soybean-meat complex and the implications for Brazil and China
De Los Santos-Vollan, Mayeline (Master thesis, 2019)This thesis addresses the integration of the Brazilian soybean sector and the Chinese pork sector into a cross-border soybean-meat complex. The relationship of Brazil and China is defined by the integration of the Brazilian ... -
Precarious spaces and violent site effects: experiences from Hargeisa’s urban margins
Stuvøy, Kirsti; Bakonyi, Jutta; Chonka, Peter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper addresses precarity from a spatial perspective. It draws attention to how power becomes inscribed in urban space and shapes particular spatial arrangements connected with socio-economic vulnerabilities. This is ... -
Qatar under construction : a study of the pre-event process of the 2022 FIFA World Cup as an identity construction
Ege, Mikkel Glømmen (Master thesis, 2020)Understanding identity through Social Identity Theory (SIT) and international status theory through a constructivist lens, provides an approach for understanding how a small power such as Qatar seeks to construct identity. ... -
Scandinavia and Covid-19 : a discourse analysis on national identity and pandemic strategies
Lagerlöf, Anna Lovisa Kristina (Master thesis, 2022)The Covid-19 pandemic started off as “just another virus” emerging in China where most probably thought it would also remain and sooner or later also fade away. Instead, the virus evolved to a pandemic which held its grip ... -
The Crimean annexation by Russia in 2014
Larsen, Olga (Master thesis, 2016-09-15)The Crimean annexation by Russia happened in 2014. It violated the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Ukraine as well as established international order between the states. Both domestic and external causes ... -
'The Foreign Within': State-Civil Society Relations in Russia
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The women, peace and security agenda : a normative framework in contestation
Elvebakken, Johanne Rokke (Master thesis, 2017)The Women, Peace and Security agenda has been heavily discussed by feminist International Relations scholars since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in October 2000. This thesis seeks to broaden the ... -
Ukraine at war : symbolic politics in Donbas insurgency
Telenyk, Olena (Master thesis, 2017)The events of the Euromaidan triggered an insurgent movements’ emergence in the East of Ukraine to mobilise against the newly-organised authorities in Kiev. These insurgent movements shook the country in as much as Ukraine ... -
War and City-Making in Somalia: Property, power and disposable lives.
Bakonyi, Jutta; Chonka, Peter; Stuvøy, Kirsti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Rapid urbanisation in Somalia, as in many other war-torn countries, is driven by in-migration of displaced people who are often amassed in camps. Although such camps become institutionalised sites of exclusion where ‘bare ... -
Why the private sector matters : sustaining the Islamic State in Iraq
Bräuer, Hannes (Master thesis, 2021)This dissertation investigates the private sector’s relationship and experiences with the Islamic State in the Iraqi governorates Nineveh and Salahaddin, utilizing unique field data from the insurgents’ 2013-2017 rule. ...