Category: Fieldwork
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Back from the Field
Wow… 6 months of fieldwork went fast. Too fast. I am now back in Oslo. As soon as I returned I had to move in to a new apartment and prepare for my midway assessment, which is this coming Friday, the 14th. I have not yet had time to process the loads of data I…
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Blog from the Field (Nov 6)
It has been a while since my last blog—things have just been too turbulent. October 16th I left Oslo for Akita to embark on 6 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Akita, Japan. Before leaving Oslo however I had to vacant my researcher-housing apartment (UiO limits researchers to 12 months of housing!). That meant I had…