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Alarming rates of environmental change have catalyzed scholars to call for fundamental transformations in social-political and economic relations. Yet cautionary tales about how power and politics are constitutive of these efforts fill the literature. We show how a relational framing of adaptation and transformation demands a political, cross-scalar, and socionatural analysis to probe the affects and effects of climate change and better grasp how transformative change unfolds. We bring affect theory into conversation with the literature on adaptation politics, socio-environmental transformations, subjectivity, and our empirical work to frame our analysis around three under investigated aspects of transformation: (i) the uncertain and unpredictable relations that constitute socionatures; (ii) other ways of knowing; and (iii) the affective and emotional relations that form a basis for action. Affective adaptation represents a different ontological take on transformation by reframing the socionatural, normative and ethical aspects as relational, uncertain, and performative. This directs analytical attention to processes rather than outcomes. The emphasis on the encounter between bodies in affect theory points to the need for experiential and embodied ways of knowing climate to effect transformative change. Effective transformation requires recognizing uncertainty and unpredictability as part of transformative processes. This is not because all outcomes are acceptable, but rather because uncertainty and unpredictability are elements which help generate affects (action) and emotional commitment to shared human and more than human relations in action, projects, and policies. This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values-Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation

The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt to climate change.

Report submitted to the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) This report is a follow up and deepening of the working paper, “Climate change interventions and vulnerability reduction in developing countries: Challenges and leverage points for transformation”. In that backgrounder, we highlighted that many adaptation interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability (Eriksen et al. 2021a), which is also reflected in the concept of ‘maladaptation’ that was recently foregrounded in the recent IPCC AR6 WGII Report (IPCC 2022). Maladaptation frequently stems from overly technical adaptation programming that is top-down and driven by outside objectives and knowledge. Instead, there is increasing recognition of adaptation as a socio-political process that addresses the root causes of the vulnerability of communities or segments of the population and, in so doing, builds the capacities of impacted populations and communities to engage climate challenges. This approach is termed ‘transformative adaptation’ and requires engagement with governance and institutional questions about whose values and perspectives are embraced within adaptation planning, and considering justice in these processes. This background paper highlights the kinds of practice that can help avoid maladaptive outcomes and promote transformative adaptation. Through case study examples of projects that - at least partially - embody aspects of a reflexive approach, the paper identifies ‘checklists’ of positive features to encourage and ‘red flags’ to be questioned or avoided in project proposal evaluation. NORAD

Digitalization is the process where organizations start to use digital tools in their everyday work and it is a popular method for organizations to use when they want to achieve more efficiency and quality in their work. In today’s global labour market where we have more competition than ever before, it is essential that the organizations manage to utilize the digital tools that are available today and use the potential that the digital development can offer. In this project I have looked at a digital tool named @else. @else is a human resource manager with artificial intelligence. Human resource management is traditionally a task that involves human relations. In this project I want to see how the employees experience the transition where these tasks are taken over by a digital system. I have completed eight interviews, three interviews with the developers of @else, and five interviews with the ones who are using @else. Through the thematic analysis I found five themes: Usefulness, Expectations affect the use, Different use, Trust and Humour. In this report I argue that there is too little focus on the implementation of @else in the organization, especially with regards to the information and training, and that this should have more focus. I also give some advice on how to ensure a good process when implementing digital tools, which are: focus on finding a system that suits your needs and has a good fit, make a strategy for the implementation, give enough information and training, and make sure you have an open-door policy where the employees can come and talk about the implementation and share their opinions and thoughts. If an implementation process is completed in a good way it might increase the probability for a positive user experience with digital tools.

This report is an outcome of the international research project ”Courting Catastrophe? Humanitarian Policy and Practice in a Changing Climate” (2012-2016), funded by the Research Council of Norway under the NORGLOBAL1 – HUMPOL (Research on Humanitarian Policy) programme. The project was led by the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

This thesis is concerned with explaining the development of EU asylum policy. The research question – How did the refugee crisis affect EU decision-making in asylum policy? – Is answered by deploying a new theoretical framework. Through a comparative case study using qualitative methods such as elite interviews and document analysis, the thesis demonstrates that when the centrality of asylum policy (its salience) increases, we observe restrictions on the political maneuvering of EU institutions, thereby making it harder to find sustainable common solutions. There is a gap in the literature when it comes to understanding decision-making in the area of asylum policy. By combining elements drawn from a variety of studies of national- and European decision-making, I have developed a new theoretical argument which I call the Salience Model. The model is tested through a comparative case study of the decision-making on asylum policy before and after the refugee crisis. The empirical findings are twofold. First, the autonomy of the Commission to propose legislation depends on salience. When there is low salience, the Commission proposes legislation supporting the rights and safeguards of the asylum seekers, which is also favored by the European Parliament. When salience increases, the Commission is put under political pressure by the Council’s member states, resulting in a policy that is more focused on immigration concerns rather than the rights of asylum seekers. Secondly, the analysis shows that the member states’ positions in negotiations vary according to salience. The positions of member states in the Council before the ‘refugee crisis’ were in accordance with the preferences of the North-Western member states. By contrast, following the ‘refugee crisis’, all member states have an enhanced interest in pursuing their national political preferences, thereby making it much harder to reach an agreement. In sum, high salience, resulting from the refugee crisis, makes it harder to reach an agreement regarding asylum policy precisely when the importance of reaching such a common solution is greatest. Masteroppgave SAMPOL350 MASV-SAPO

Bachelor i Fotojournalistikk I denne oppgaven vil jeg lage en oversikt over de mest sentrale elementene som brukes i fotojournalistisk historiefortelling på nett og se på hvordan de kan tas i bruk. Jeg vil kategorisere og forenkle mulighetene nettelementene gir, slik at det blir enklere å snakke om. I denne oppgaven skal jeg gjøre to undersøkelser hvor den første skal legge grunnlaget jeg vil anvende i den andre. Formålet med denne oppgaven er å konkretisere mulighetene man har ved nettpublikasjoner – spesielt som fotojournalist.