Espen Marius Foss

• Toreld, Eva Marie & Foss, Espen Marius (2024). Imprisoned in an analogue bubble in digital society: Re/integration work in Norwegian high security prisons . Nordic Journal of Criminology. ISSN 2578-983X. 25(2), p. 1–17. doi: 10.18261/njc.25.2.2.
• Sørhaug, Christian & Foss, Espen Marius (2023). Becoming In/dependent: An Assemblage Analysis of Technical Design from Below. In Fugletveit, Ragnhild & Sørhaug, Christian (Ed.), Lost in Digital Translations: Studies of Digital Resistance and Accommodation to the Welfare State in Practice. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202781033. p. 175–195. doi: 10.23865/noasp.196.ch8. Show summary

  In this anthology a group of researchers investigate how digitalisation influences the most ambitious welfare state in the world: Norway. Given Norway’s extensive welfare system, the process of digitalisation has had a profound impact. Digital technologies are used to enhance cooperation and coordination between health trusts and municipalities, standardizing communication between frontline workers and citizens, and even altering the architectural design of public buildings, all of which influences the quality of welfare services. At the same time, patient security is endangered, vulnerable groups experience even more exclusion from society, and for others, the quality of welfare deteriorates.

• Holte, Kjersti E. Lien; Foss, Espen Marius & Sträng, Dan Roger (2022). Psykisk helse skapes i de daglige skoleerfaringene Skolen som arena for å fremme god psykisk helse i et systemisk perspektiv. Norsk pedagogisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-2052. 106(4), p. 345–359. doi: 10.18261/npt.106.4.6.
• Foss, Espen Marius & Pali, Brunilda (2017). Restorative justice in the societies of control: The ambivalence of decentralised state control in participative justice processes. In Pali, Brunilda & Aertsen, Ivo (Ed.), Restoring Justice and Security in Intercultural Europe. Routledge. ISSN 9781138120938. p. 182–198. doi: 10.4324/9781315651439-12.
• Foss, Espen Marius & Hydle, Ida (2017). Youth as Architects of Peace? Street Mediation at the Norwegian red Cross and Other National Red Cross Unions. In Bastien, Sheri & Holmarsdottir, Halla Bjørk (Ed.), Youth as Architects of Social Change: Global Efforts to Advance Youth-Driven Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-319-66274-9. p. 301–337. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-66275-6_12.
• Foss, Espen Marius (2007). Fredsguide for ungdom, Fredsguide for ungdom. En verden av muligheter. Stiftelsen Arkivet, Toralf Tveiten (red.).
• Hydle, Ida & Foss, Espen Marius (2006). Young people in liminal situations: between criminal and psychiatric justices. Social capital, verbal and visual skills, Social capital among young citizens: children's and young people's networks and involvement in contemporary democracy. Norsk senter for barneforskning. p. 29–43.

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• Foss, Espen Marius; Lepp, Margret; Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Dahl, Ulf Peter (2023). The use of drama for exploring research questions in master thesis´s in psychosocial work, in Norway.
• Sørhaug, Christian & Foss, Espen Marius (2023). Staging a digital society.
• Foss, Espen Marius (2023). Innslag i NRK nyheter, NRK Viken og Østfold. Med bakgrunn i nylig sak om elevers bruk av vold mot lærere i skolen.
• Foss, Espen Marius (2022). Ikkevoldskommunikasjon i teori og praksis.
• Foss, Espen Marius; Fredheim, Nina Skajaa & Johansen, Ann Kristin (2021). Konfliktforskerens favorittverktøy: en konfronterende, men kreativ samtale.
• Foss, Espen Marius (2021). "Konfrontasjon med empati". Kommentar til Dagsavisen/Demokraten etter ungdomsopptøyer og konfrontasjon med politi i Fredrikstad sentrum 17. mai. https://www.dagsavisen.no/demokraten/navn-i-nyhetene/2021/05/31/konfrontasjon-med-empati/ . [Newspaper]. Dagsavisen/Demokraten.
• Foss, Espen Marius (2020). Dagsworkshop/foredag: Konfliktarbeid i praksis – med gjenopprettende tilnærming. Med fokus på sirkelmetodikk, lek, øvelse og rollespill. .
• Foss, Espen Marius (2020). Chairperson for a panel discussion on the theatre play and film, A Conversation.
• Foss, Espen Marius & Holte, Kjersti E. Lien (2019). “Let’s end the depressing classrooms!": exploring scenography for wellbeing in high school.
• Foss, Espen Marius (2019). Mestring og mening på Fredrik II VGS: konfliktarbeid med elever.
• Foss, Espen Marius (2019). Hvordan få til en bærekraftig forankring av Trygg læring som helsefremmende tiltak på videregående skole? Erfaringer fra et pågående aksjonsforskningsprosjekt.
• Holte, Kjersti E. Lien & Foss, Espen Marius (2019). Open space workshop.
• Foss, Espen Marius (2018). "Wellbeing @ school in digital society". Del av panel med tittelen "Psychosocial work in digital society".
• Foss, Espen Marius (2018). Restorative practices as means of promoting wellbeing – a whole school approach within an action research project in Norway.
• Holte, Kjersti E. Lien & Foss, Espen Marius (2018). Gjenopprettende prosesser .
• Holte, Kjersti E. Lien & Foss, Espen Marius (2018). Anerkjennende kommunikasjon .
• Holte, Kjersti E. Lien & Foss, Espen Marius (2018). Gjenopprettende tilnærming til konflikt og digital mobbing.
• Holte, Kjersti E. Lien & Foss, Espen Marius (2018). Mestring og mening på Frederik II videregående skole - brevundersøkelsen.
• Foss, Espen Marius; Biffi, Emanuela & Riera, Marc Ceron i (2017). ‘A Conversation:’ from theatre to film. European Forum for Restorative Justice: Newsletter. June.
• Foss, Espen Marius (2017). Ledelse av paneldebatt om gjenopprettende prosesser (restorative justice).
• Holte, Kjersti E. Lien & Foss, Espen Marius (2017). How can schools develop as arenas to promote good mental health and wellbeing?
• Hydle, Ida & Foss, Espen Marius (2015). ALTERNATIVE security developments in Norway.
• Lønneberg, Magnus Gjerde & Foss, Espen Marius (2012). Norwegian Red Cross Street Mediation.
• Lønneberg, Magnus Gjerde & Foss, Espen Marius (2011). Norwegian Red Cross Street Mediation - Empowering young people as conflict mediators.
• Foss, Espen Marius & Hasund, Ingrid Kristine (2008). Kokosboller i Konfliktrådet Film av teaterforestilling i Konfliktrådet i Agder. Show summary

  Forskningsformidling for og med barn om restorative justice og konfliktråd

• Foss, Espen Marius (2008). Gatemegling - studietur til København Etnografisk Film, samprodusert med informantene i prosjektet. Show summary

  Innblikk i ungdoms egne refleksjoner og erfaringer med konfliktverksted og ikke-voldelig kommunikasjon

• Foss, Espen Marius & Hasund, Ingrid Kristine (2008). Kokosboller i Konfliktrådet Film av teaterforestilling i Konfliktrådet i Agder. Show summary

  Forskningsformidling for og med barn om restorative justice og konfliktråd

• Foss, Espen Marius & Hasund, Ingrid Kristine (2007). Mibi og mobo Musikkvideo. Show summary

  Forskningsformidling om konflikthåndtering for barn i form av musikkfilm med animasjon

• Foss, Espen Marius & Hasund, Ingrid Kristine (2007). Mibi og mobo Musikkvideo. Show summary

  Forskningsformidling om konflikthåndtering for barn i form av musikkfilm med animasjon

• Hydle, Ida & Foss, Espen Marius (2007). Skilled Visions in restorative practice; youth, violence and the problem of language, 10th International Institute for Restorative Practices World Conference Proceedings.
• Foss, Espen Marius (2006). Konfliktråd i fengsel Video om erfaringer med utprøving av konfliktråd for innsatte. Show summary

  Video om erfaringer med utprøving av konfliktråd for innsatte

• Foss, Espen Marius (2002). "Snakk til meg!" - Om annerledeshet og arbeidslivet. Curriculum Vitae. Tidsskrift for folkeopplysning og voksnes læring - i lys av kultur, politikk og pedagogikk. Show summary

  Populærvitenskapelig formidling av innhold i hovedfagsoppgaven "Design nedenfra - Om politikk og motstand ved rehabilitering av talehemmede"

• Foss, Espen Marius (2002). Independent Connecting People. Show summary

  Eksamensfilm til hovedfaget i visuell antropologi: Om kommunikasjon og talehemmedes tilegnelse av teknologiske hjelpemidler

• Foss, Espen Marius (2001). Marginalisering - en kritisk kommentar. Curriculum Vitae. Tidsskrift for folkeopplysning og voksnes læring - i lys av kultur, politikk og pedagogikk. Show summary

  Populærvitenskapelig formidling av innhold i hovedfagsoppgaven "Design nedenfra - Om politikk og motstand ved rehabilitering av talehemmede"

• Eriksen, Trond; Foss, Espen Marius & Bjerke, Trond Nergaard (2022). Interpersonal competence in challenging encounters: Towards a paradigm shift in human services - Creating conditions for professional development through action research and trauma-informed restorative practice. UiT Norges arktiske universitet. Show summary

  Health and social workers, in private and public work and welfare services, have daily contact with people who have trauma experiences and complex needs. Communication can be emotionally challenging, and many professionals experience too high job demands, insecurity and stress in their work. Insecurity and stress increase conflict levels and have a negative effect on the well-being of professionals, attitudes towards clients and the quality of service offered. This research project highlights that too little time is spent developing interpersonal competence and preparing employees for and reflecting on emotionally challenging human encounters, in education and practice. Strengthening interpersonal competence and actively working to understand the way we ourselves and others communicate can make us safer in the face of people, which we otherwise tend to describe as difficult. During this critical action research project, nine nursing students and 20 social workers participated in a six-day trauma-informed restorative circle process. We spent time building a safe environment, understanding conflict transformation and mediation, while challenging our own communication, practice, and the systems within which the practice takes place. As well as exploring hindrances and contributors for interpersonal learning and practice. What emerges in the research project is that when we are emotionally safe, we work better in every way, we are calm, listen more, are enabled to understand and be more compassionate with ourselves and others and thereby better equipped to face stress and trauma reactions. The findings suggested that interpersonal competence for the challenging encounters can be developed through a safe communicative space, thereby facilitating self-awareness, increased tolerance to stress, trauma-informed practice, and personal development. Furthermore, this study contributes to a dialogue between theory and practice related to promoting knowledge about how interpersonal competence and collective care can be strengthened in practice and education. This may help to reduce burnout and increase the quality of the service, for both the practitioner and clients.

• Foss, Espen Marius (2016). The dialogical paradox: The emergence of restorative justice in Norway. Universitetet i Oslo. Show summary

  The key question in this thesis is whether the emergence of restorative justice in Norway can be understood as a dialogical paradox, i.e. both as an instrument for state control and as a transformative field for personhood. In other words, the thesis explores how governance and personhood are mutually constituted in informal, dialogical justice processes, in context of on-going changes in the Norwegian welfare state. Social researchers, historians and philosophers have described a significant transition from modern nation-states to corporate states, from being disciplinary societies to becoming societies of control. Due to what has been described as a generalized crisis in traditional forms of state control, and its bureaucratic institutions, a new organization of state power has emerged and is being constructed through processes that decentralize, distribute and outsource state functions to civil and private actors and agencies. Such processes rely on a neoliberal ideological discourse, whereby agents of authority and control are often presented as partners in common projects with their clients or stakeholders. In developing such partnerships states take advantage of the logic of non-state sites of governance and direct their operations in a way that enables them to ‘govern at a distance’. Thus, despite the rhetoric, critics hold that the form of decentralized corporate state power in reality intensifies the control over citizens, especially due to the blurring of the borders of state and civil society through which the power of the state becomes less visible (and thus impossible to counteract). Emerging as a critique of disciplinary punishment, bureaucratic forms of state control and criminal justice, and of the alienation of citizens from their own conflicts, the practice and research field of restorative justice (RJ) made its coming of age during the height of neoliberalism and its attack on the welfare state and state institutions. The RJ discourse attempts at reforming the criminal justice system by decentralizing conflict management from the state to civil parties, without the interference of professional state bureaucrats. In other words, RJ sets the state in “brackets”. But despite the bracketing of the state, or maybe because of that, RJ has become in the last decades increasingly an accepted way of dealing with crime and conflict across countries and legislations. In the perspective of the emergence of the societies of control, the relation between corporate state power, the welfare state and decentralized RJ processes remains crucial to understand. This thesis focuses on the complex dynamics of this relationship, and on the consequences the new organization of state power have for the participants of such processes, as well as the implications for the RJ field.

• Seeberg, Marie Louise; Hydle, Ida; Foss, Espen Marius; Hassan, Sahra Cecilie & Uhrig, Bettina (2012). On conflicts in intercultural settings. ALTERNATIVE: Developing alternative understandings of security and justice through restorative justice approaches in intercultural settings within democratic societies. 7th Framework programme..
• Foss, Espen Marius (2002). Design nedenfra: Om politikk og motstand ved rehabilitering av talehemmede. UiT Norges arktiske universitet.
• Foss, Espen Marius (1998). Det offentlige Norge på Internett. Organisering av arbeid med elektronisk informasjon. Forvaltningsinformatisk notatserie. Nr. 1.

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