Browsing USN Open Archive by Author "Stokke, Christian"
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A discourse on the balance of culture and LGBTQ rights in Ghana
Asante, Stella (Master thesis, 2024)On 24th February 2021, a newly established LGBTQ community centre in Accra, the capital city of Ghana was raided and shut down by the Ghana police. This amassed a huge concern from the general public, various media platforms, ... -
A Study into Academic, Social, and Professional Integration of Bangladeshi International students at USN in Light of the Theory of Multicultural Education by Banks
Rasheduzzaman, Md. (Master thesis, 2021)Norwegian Universities are welcoming an increasing number of international students in recent years (SIU, 2016, P.11, Norway Today, April 30, 2021). However, they face integration issues, particularly in respect of social ... -
Combining intercultural dialogue and critical multiculturalism
Stokke, Christian; Lybæk, Lena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)In the last two decades, the concept of multiculturalism has come under attack in political and academic discourses. Simultaneously, European governments have accommodated key aspects of multicultural policies, both ... -
Consciousness Development in Rastafari: A Perspective from the Psychology of Religion
Stokke, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper explores a Rastafari perspective on consciousness development and relates this to developmental stage theories of consciousness evolution from the psychology of religion. The empirical material is from fieldwork ... -
Discourses of colorblind racism on an internet forum
Stokke, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper analyzes discourses of everyday racism and colorblind racism on an internet forum. While skin color is invisible online, identities as black, white and shades in between show through participants’ perspectives ... -
Do Antiracist Efforts and Diversity Programs Make a Difference? Assessing the Case of Norway
Stokke, Christian (Chapter, 2019)This chapter discusses multicultural developments in Norway over the last decade, in public debate, policy, and education, and assesses if antiracist efforts and diversity programs make a difference. The chapter uses two ... -
Does the Norwegian Introduction Program Empower Individual Refugees?
Haj Nassiri, Hediyeh (Master thesis, 2020)This qualitative study investigates the Norwegian introduction program for refugees to identify whether or not it empowers its individual participants. Moreover, it examines the extent to which this program might be ... -
Exploring the transpersonal phenomena of spiritual love relations: A naturalistic observation study of soulmate experiences shared in a New Age Facebook group
Stokke, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper explores varieties of spiritual experiences and transpersonal phenomena that empirically occur in spiritual love relations, which respondents define as soulmates. Soulmate mythologies exist in many traditions ... -
Gender based exclusion of Bangladeshi transgender “Hijra” community from job sector
Mahmud, Muntasir (Master thesis, 2024)In Bangladesh, the Hijra is a large community of third gender people, mostly consisting of male-to-female transgender persons as well as eunuchs or men who had their genitals removed. These Hijras are often a time excluded ... -
How do Mexican women in Scandinavia use Cultural and Economic Capital to negotiate their transnational identities as immigrants or expats?
Mata Santos, Karla Jasmin (Master thesis, 2022)The international growing Mexican female migration to Norway and Sweden has given rise to a different perspective to the negotiation of transnational identities. The dominant discourse on female immigrants often has no ... -
Human Rights and Community-based Approaches to Understanding the Disaster Risk Reduction Framework in Georgia: A Case Study of the 2023 Shovi Landslide
Sharvadze, Nino (Master thesis, 2024)This research focuses on the importance of governments developing stronger and more integrated disaster risk reduction strategies as climate-related disasters become more frequent and damaging for our societies. To make ... -
Investigating Norwegian women with Muslim background position in public debate about hijab
Metaj, Njomza Natalie (Master thesis, 2022)There is still an ongoing discussion in Europe about multiculturalism, feminism and the intersection of these two. In this thesis, the aim was to take a closer look at the nuances and position that Norwegian women with ... -
Livsmestring og selvutvikling i KRLE – tar faget en subjektiv vending?
Stokke, Christian; Rodriguez, Mira Cataya (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Læreplanene for grunnskolen endres igjen i år, og det nye tverrfaglige temaet livsmestring har skapt debatt. Denne artikkelen fokuserer på KRLE-faget, som har blitt endret mye de siste tjue år i takt med endringer i ... -
Når spiritualitet blir kroppslig: Personer i det norske alternativmiljøet forteller om oppvåkningsopplevelser og psykologisk transformasjon
Stokke, Christian; Rodriguez, Mira Cataya (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Spiritual awakening is becoming a common phenomenon in alternative spiritual communities and is no longer exclusive to a small elite of religious saints and disciples. There is limited research on spiritual experiences ... -
Quiet Past, Loud Present: Japan’s Unacknowledged Colonial History and its Reflection in Everyday Racism Against Koreans in Japan
Kojima, Keisuke (Master thesis, 2024)Racism and racial discriminations in Japan have been widely studied and, as a result, various explications as to what dynamics and power relations have been suggested. However, while racism is intricately tightly linked ... -
Societal Polarization and its Harmonization: A systematic review of same~sex marriages and Human Rights in Kenya
Ikiba, Santos Muhanji (Master thesis, 2024)Background: In the contemporary world, marriage and culture are intertwined. Traditional African marriage practices reflect a rich cultural diversity but may propagate inequalities against the existing human rights. In ... -
Unlearning Racism through Transformative Interracial Dialogue
Stokke, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Presenting an empirical study of critical public pedagogy, this paper analyzes interracial dialogues on an internet forum run by conscious Black people who set the terms and challenge White participants who reflect a ...