About
Monika Grønli Rosten is a social anthropologist and researcher in the department for Youth Research at NOVA / OsloMet. Rosten holds a PhD from the University of Oslo (2015) where she wrote about place and belonging among youth and young adults, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Groruddalen, Oslo. Rostens research interests are youth culture, school and leisure sector, urban area-based initiatives, gender and identity, sexuality, domestic violence, method and co-research. She is currently working on projects on youth participation (UNGHUS), evaluation of municipal crime prevention initiatives in Oslo, as well as an international comparative project on being a Muslim in Europe (QUEST). Rosten is also associated with NOVA's research program on domestic violence, with projects on social control in troubled neighbourhoods and couple formation across ethnic and religious boundaries.
Research groups
Research projects
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Evaluation of minority counsellor pilot projects in upper secondary schools and adult learning centres
NOVA researchers will evaluate two pilot projects placing minority counsellors in secondary schools in vulnerable urban areas and adult learning centres.
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Family Counselling: Equal Services for a Diverse Population?
The researchers investigate what it implies for the family services to provide equal services in different local contexts, and what kind of challenges the services experience when trying to provide equal services.
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Parenting in Ethnic and Religious Minority Contexts in Norway
The aim of the project is to develop research-based knowledge about different forms of parenthood that co-exist in Norway, based on parents’ own perspectives.
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Qualify Unification in Europe for Shifting Trust. A Comparative Research on Muslims Responses to the Politics of Threat in France, UK, Spain, and Norway (QUEST)
What does it mean to ‘be Muslim’ in a polarized Europe?
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The Domestic Violence Research Programme
The programme studies time trends in the prevalence of violence and assault, violence as phenomenon, and how violence is approached by the welfare- and justice systems.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Rosten, Monika; Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2021). Samlokaliserte, samorganiserte og samskapte ungdomstilbud - en utopi?. Hagen, Aina Landsverk; Andersen, Bengt (Ed.). Ung medvirkning: Kreativitet og konflikt i planlegging. kapittel 9. p. 197-221. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Rosten, Monika; Hagen, Aina Landsverk; Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2021). Fra tynn til tykk medvirkning: Unge medforskere som lokale kunnskapsprodusenter. Hagen, Aina Landsverk; Andersen, Bengt (Ed.). Ung medvirkning: Kreativitet og konflikt i planlegging. chapter 2. p. 43-73. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Sletten, Mira Aaboen; Rosten, Monika; Vogt, Kristoffer Chelsom (2021). Svartmaling av gutter og sykeliggjøring av jenter. Ødegård, Guro; Pedersen, Willy (Ed.). UNGDOMMEN. Kapittel 4. p. 87-110. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Rosten, Monika Grønli; Smette, Ingrid
(2021).
Pragmatic, pious and pissed off: young Muslims girls managing conflicting sexual norms and social control.
Journal of Youth Studies
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http://hdl.handle.net/10852/88928
Aarset, Monica Five; Smette, Ingrid; Rosten, Monika
(2021).
Thinking through generation: On parenting and belonging among adult children of immigrants in Norway.
Falch-Eriksen, Asgeir; Takle, Marianne; Britt, Slagsvold (Ed.).
Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States. 5. p. 79-95.
Routledge.
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/88725
Bjørnholt, Margunn; Rosten, Monika (2021). Male victims of violence and men’s rights struggles: a perfect match?. Gottzén, Lucas; Bjørnholt, Margunn; Boonzaier, Floretta (Ed.). Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence. kapittel. Routledge.
Rosten, Monika
(2020).
En (tro)verdig utsatt? Menns fortellinger om vold fra en kvinnelig eller mannlig partner.
Bredal, Anja; Eggebø, Helga; Eriksen, Astrid (Ed.).
Vold i nære relasjoner i et mangfoldig Norge. kapittel 5. p. 87-106.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://press.nordicopenaccess.no/index.php/noasp/...
Rosten, Monika
(2019).
Cultivating ethical negotiations or fetishising consent in BDSM.
Heinskou, Marie Bruvik; Stefansen, Kari; Skilbrei, May-Len (Ed.).
Rape in the Nordic Countries: Continuity and Change. Chapter 3.
Routledge.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.432...
Rosten, Monica (2017). Territoriell stigmatisering og gutter som "leker getto" i Groruddalen :. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift . Vol. 1.
Rosten, Monica (2012). Om å dyrke roser fra betong: Områdeløft på Furuset-vis. Alghasi, Sharam; Eide, Elisabeth; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (Ed.). Den globale drabantbyen. Groruddalen og det nye Norge. Kapittel 10. p. 145-161. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
