News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

Book launch at the Department of Social Anthropology (30.11.2016)

Several staff members from the Department of Social Anthropology have edited and written chapters in new books. The latest release is "The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America", edited by Iselin Å. Strønen and Margit Ystanes.

Climate policy – yea or nay? Depends if your job pays the price. (29.11.2016)

Comparative politics professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten finds fossil-fuel workers support renewable energy while opposing constraints on oil and gas.

Disputation at the Department of Social Anthropology (22.11.2016)

On 23 November Tord Austdal from the Department of Social Anthropology defended his thesis.

Ten nationalities now represented at Comparative Politics (18.11.2016)

- Diverse groups are more likely to succeed.

The aesthetics of earthquake reconstruction in Nepal (08.11.2016)

Questions of aesthetics and cultural identity add layers of complexity to the reconstruction process that cannot – and should not – be ignored.