Browsing Chr. Michelsens Institutt by Document Types "Chapter"
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Norwegian Anthropology and Development: New Roles for a Troubled Future?
(Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations, Chapter, 2021-11-01)This book traces the history, growth and wide-ranging public engagements of social anthropology in Norway. An outcome of the Norwegian Anthropology Day at the Royal Anthropological Institute, the book explores diverse ... -
Norwegian Research on Human Rights and Justice in Latin America
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"Prosecute and Punish"
(Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice (Second Edition), Chapter, 2023-08-01)The Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice remains the premier reference tool that presents the state of the art in the field of reckoning with the legacy of past gross human rights abuses. Almost 200 scholars and practitioners ... -
Public Anthropology in the Digital Era
(The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Chapter, 2021-12-01)The public anthropologist grapples with not one but many overlapping digital transformations, which influence how anthropologists access, produce, and disseminate knowledge. The digital turn reshapes the social fields with ... -
Sea-Locked: The Cascading Effects of Seaborne Challenges to Human Security in Madagascar
(Global Challenges in Maritime Security: Sustainability and the Sea, Chapter, 2024-10-01)This chapter presents a ‘wicked deadlock’ between human insecurity, underdevelopment, and unsustainability against the background of a more turbulent ocean environment, which can be best illustrated with the ... -
‘Spectacular Fishing: Embodying Sovereignty in the post-Brexit Channel Islands and the South China Sea.’
(Variations on Sovereignty: Snapshots of Political Contestation and Transformation from Brexit to the South China Sea., Chapter, 2023-05-01)The South China Sea disputes over the Paracels and Spratlys – two archipelagos claimed in whole by China and Vietnam and in part by a number of ASEAN countries and Taiwan – and the post-Brexit dispute between ... -
Sudan
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Sudanese Women’s Demands for Freedom, Peace, and Justice in the 2019 Revolution
(Women and Peacebuilding in Africa, Chapter, 2021-10-01)This chapter aims to understand why women were so visibly involved in the most recent revolution and how it relates to their struggles for peace, justice, and freedom during the dictatorship of Bashir. Women’s activism ... -
Syria's refugees in Lebanon: Brothers, burden and bone of contention
(Lebanon Facing the Arab Uprisings: Between Internal Challenges and External Constraints, Chapter, 2017-01-01)The Syrian civil war has displaced more than one million Syrians as refugees in Lebanon. Lebanon has not set up formal camps, but instituted a “non–camp” approach, meaning that nearly all the refugees are self–settled and ... -
Syrian Self-settlement in Lebanon’s ‘Arrival Cities’: Refugee Livelihoods in Tripoli, Beirut, and Tyre
(Urban Displacement: Syria's Refugees in the Middle East, Chapter, 2024-03-01)Taking arrival cities as their point of departure, Robert Forster and Are John Knudsen compare settlement choices and outcomes for Syrian refugees living in the poorest neighbourhoods in Beirut, Tripoli and Tyre. The latter ... -
Tanzania
(Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures. Practices, Interpretations and Representations., Chapter, 2007-01-01) -
Tax Reform and State Building in a Globalized World
(Taxation and State Building in Developing Countries Chapter 10, Chapter, 2008-01-01)How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? This chapter concludes that there are a large number of good things to report, but worrying problems in the poorest and ... -
The Final Nail In The Coffin For 'Nordic Exceptionalism'
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The Impact of elections: The case of Uganda
(Crisis in Autocratic Regimes, Chapter, 2017-01-01)The comparative democratization literature is divided on the effects of multiparty elections in non - democratic regimes. Early analyses assumed that elections would lead to democracy, yet more recent studies highlight ... -
The rise and fall of the mining royalty regime in Zambia
(Lifting the veil of secrecy: Perspectives on international taxation and capital flight from Africa, Chapter, 2017-11-01)Zambia has a long history of disputed changes of the mining tax regime with damaging effects on the working relations between the Government and the mining sector. A shared assumption has been that profit-related taxes ... -
The role of trust and norms in tax compliance in Africa
(Human Development Report 2023-2024 "Breaking the gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarized world", Chapter, 2024-04-01)The tax system is a key formal institution with a unique role in the social contract between people and governments, as an essential source of revenue for governments to fund public services and programmes that benefit ... -
Theory and practise of decentralization by devolution: Lessons from a research programme in Tanzania (2002-13)
(Research and policy nexus: Perspectives from twenty years of policy research in Tanzania., Chapter, 2017-06-01)What impact did Tanzania’s decentralization reform have on local governance, finances and service delivery? To what extent are the central-local government relationships changed with respect to resource allocation and ... -
Transoceania: Connecting the World beyond Eurasia.
(Anthropology of Transformation: From Europe to Asia and Back, Chapter, 2022-11-01)This chapter engages with Chris Hann's concept of Eurasia and his focus on interconnectedness and commonalities within the 'supercontinent', which is conventionally throught of as divided into two continents, Europe and ... -
Understanding Inequality Within Households
(Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Chapter, 2022-12-01)To describe and understand the economic inequality in a given society, it is necessary to understand intra-household inequality. This chapter gives an overview of within-household distributions in different settings, both ... -
"Unleash the hounds!": Wenn Memes und andere Witzfiguren gegen Trolle in den digitalen Informationskrieg ziehen
(Bilder des Krieges. Darstellung und Kommunikation des Krieges im digitalen Zeitalter, Chapter, 2023-11-01)The contribution explores the question how humour can be used as a weapon in the social media battlefield of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.