Blar i Master's theses (Noragric) på forfatter "Wisborg, Poul"
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A coastline altered by aquaculture : the sociocultural sustainability of fish farming in Arctic Norway
Hessen, Katharina Karlsen (Master thesis, 2022)Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production sector in the world, and Norway is this sector’s largest producer of farmed salmon. More than one thousand fish farms are spread along the Norwegian coastline, producing ... -
Farmer–herder conflict and food security in Kwahu East District, Eastern Region, Ghana
Antwi, Samuel Owusu (Master thesis, 2018)The conflict between resource users is no new phenomenon in West Africa including Ghana. Debate and discussions about such conflict mostly centre on resource scarcity. This study examines the impact of farmer–herder conflict ... -
Feminist perspectives on immigration and (re)production of power : a critical discourse analysis of Norwegian immigration and integration policy 2005 - 2021
Olsen, Sofie (Master thesis, 2022)The aim of the research for this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of how immigration and integration policy may (re)produce power structures that are causing discrimination and social inequality, particularly ... -
From racist violence to re-humanization, mattering, and nonviolence : an analysis of the normative reasoning, communication, and resonance of Black Lives Matter in the wake of the death of George Floyd
Ross, Heidi Margrethe (Master thesis, 2021)Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a leading force in the struggle for a re-humanization of Black lives. After George Floyd was brutally murdered by a police officer in the summer of 2020, BLM called for the mattering of Black ... -
The impacts of COVID-19 and the syndemics of epidemics on education and health on adolescent girls in Malawi
Strøm, Jenny (Master thesis, 2022)This paper aims to address the effects the COVID-19 pandemic had on adolescent girls in Malawi, with a major focus on education and health. Furthermore, this is a comparative study, which looks at how the response to the ... -
Masculinities and sexualities matter! : a secondary study on demographics
Strand, Mathilde Moe (Master thesis, 2020)A new demographic era with population ageing and declining fertility as growing demographic phenomena are slowly restructuring societies at multiple levels, with Japan now dealing with the impacts related to this. As home ... -
School abductions in Chibok and Zamfara, Nigeria : the nexus between gender, terror and official responses
Asante, Prince (Master thesis, 2021)School abductions in Nigeria have received global attention since 2014. Although several studies exist on gender-based terrorism in Nigeria, none has sought to understand the relationship between gender, gender constructions, ... -
The non-coercive road to serfdom : Friedrich Hayek's theory of distributive justice in the context of causal determinism
Schmidt, Henning Berg (Master thesis, 2018)With so many conflicting conceptions of ‘development’, it seems important to find objective criteria to judge them by. The thesis proposes that it should be their alignment with normative ethics, where the question of free ... -
The politics of land acquisition in Sudan : the case of El-Gerief East, Khartoum
Abdel Rahman, Yousif Badawi (Master thesis, 2019)This study examines the politics of land acquisition in Sudan, exploring the subject empirically through an ethnographical case study of the land acquisition of El-Gerief East in Greater Khartoum. The main goal of the study ... -
Towards a cosmopolitan theory of modernity : a comparative historical analysis of emerging Buddhist, Islamic and Post-Christian modernities
Farhi, Adam Mohamed (Master thesis, 2022)Current theories of modernity, an international phenomenon, have been criticized for being Eurocentric, and attempts to address their problem of Eurocentrism are at best semi-Eurocentric. This thesis suggests a new theory ... -
Unmuting conversations in global development
Olsen, Veronika Brokke (Master thesis, 2020)We live in the aftermath of the colonial onslaught on earth and humanity, with implications possibly beyond even the imaginable. In an effort to address such implications, this research explores and contrasts queer and ...