Lukas Matsson’s Norwegian Company Retreat on HBO’s Succession After a recent work trip to Norway, I happened to rewatch episodes of HBO’s classic show Succession, and was surprised…
How do companies handle responsibilities to people and the environment when they operate abroad? What tools do they use, and what are the effects? These have been throughgoing…
Listen to ‘TUNDRA’ here [1] Feelings on/in Ethnographic Work Ethnographic work is an affective experience. While anthropological research methods have often focused on cataloging ethnograp…
In March 2020, as the pandemic strengthened its grip around Europe and the world, I wondered how I would manage my weekly work commute from Stockholm to Oslo…
George Floyd protest signs at the Ottawa Courthouse by Janderson L. via wikimedia Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that are…
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
In the spirit of this series on a ‘critically applied’ approach to PrEP, this piece shows how thinking with the concept of marginality can contribute to an analysis…
Taking a few steps back, I used the invitation to write an essay about anthropology in Norway as a pretext for delving slightly more deeply into the beginnings…
Taking a few steps back, I used the invitation to write an essay about anthropology in Norway as a pretext for delving slightly more deeply into the beginnings…
During fieldwork on dementia care in a nursing home, I was struck by the complex and layered orderings of space, time and subjectivity in daily life on the…
Co-written with Hugo Ferreira and published electronically by Tvergastein. The stories from Hurdal are Hugo’s, as he has carried out anthropological fieldwork there for an extended time. Introduction…
Co-written with Hugo Ferreira and published electronically by Tvergastein. The stories from Hurdal are Hugo’s, as he has carried out anthropological fieldwork there for an extended time. Introduction…
Image from projects.bettergov.org DragNet is back, with a recap of a number articles that came up last month in our twitter feed. In World News, we have a…
Norway is set to turn off FM broadcasting in a few months. Most Norwegians seem to be against turning it off, based on the argument that the digital…
This text began as a radio essay on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015, later developed into a web essay at Versopolis. It chronicles the shift from the mid…
This text began as a radio essay on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015, later developed into a web essay at Versopolis. It chronicles the shift from the…
This text began as a radio essay on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015, later developed into a web essay at Versopolis. It chronicles the shift from the…
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
Last Saturday, I published a post in Norwegian about the populist Progress Party, currently a junior partner in a Conservative-led government around here. It hadn’t occurred to me…
Last Saturday, I published a post in Norwegian about the populist Progress Party, currently a junior partner in a Conservative-led government around here. It hadn’t occurred to me…
By John Bryden In the end, we Scots did not win our independence from England last week, as 45% of the electorate voted ‘YES’ while 55% voted ‘NO’…