Cultural Complexity in the New Norway (Culcom): Internet fatwas cautiously...
Can a divorce be granted via text messaging? Can I get a divorce from my husband when he has a relationship with another woman? In her Master's thesis, Therese Bogstad analyzed 84 internet fatwas...
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Many Norwegian-Iranians are highly educated, have jobs, and are formally well integrated. Yet Norwegian media hinders their sense of belonging to Norway. Sharam Alghasi demonstrates this in Culcom’s...
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"Muslims who avoid confrontation do not make the gap between Muslims and mainstream society smaller," says Culcom scholar Rojan Ezzati. In her Master's thesis, this sociologist examines how the...
View ArticleCultural Complexity in the New Norway (Culcom): An immigrant journalist? No,...
"My environment? The Norwegian elite," the informant answers. Multicultural journalists are not interested in representing minorities. In her Master's thesis, Marianne Mikkelsen shows that even though...
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They reach several million people, and they are feared by totalitarian regimes. Jade Josefine Nordahl believes that it is about time academia devote serious attention to exiled media. In her Master’s...
View ArticleCultural Complexity in the New Norway (Culcom): How does music create community?
A recording studio where young artists create rap music is as culturally complex as possible. This is the opinion of musicologists Jan Sverre Knudsen and Stan Hawkins who are studying a hip-hop group...
View ArticleCultural Complexity in the New Norway (Culcom): In pursuit of "black...
What is the relationship between ethnic Norwegian feminists and non-ethnic Norwegian feminists or immigrant women? This is one of the big questions that Beatrice Halsaa, professor at the Centre for...
View ArticleCultural Complexity in the New Norway (Culcom): To engage the reader with a...
Do not underestimate free will and do not trivialize coercion! This is the conclusion in Anja Bredal’s doctoral thesis on arranged marriage. After ten years of research, one doctorate and several...
View ArticleCultural Complexity in the New Norway (Culcom): Strong feelings, mystical...
By studying flags it is possible to study how a society includes and excludes people. At the conference “Flying the flag: Critical perspectives on symbolism and identity” researchers from several...
View ArticleCultural Complexity in the New Norway (Culcom): Benedict Anderson: "I like...
- I am probably the only one writing about nationalism who doesn’t think it ugly, says Benedict Anderson. In 1983 the professor at Cornell University, New York, wrote one of the most read books ever...
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