Forskningsprosjekter

2008-2011. Ungdom och social exklusion: identitet, lärande och territoriell stigmatisering. Nordisk nettverk av minoritetsungdomsforskere ledet fra Centrum for kulturstudier ved Stockholms universitet og finansiert av NORDFORSK. Representanter fra universitetsmiljøer i Island, Norge (Oslo + Bergen), Sverige og Danmark deltar. Nettverket arrangerer to møter/konferanser pr. år og man har blant annet planer om en felles bokproduksjon. Deltaker fra MIMU er Mette Andersson.

2007-2010. Transnational networks, national democracies. Political mobilisation and engagement among young adults of immigrant background. The project builds on sociological and anthropological research showing how new transnational networks and social imaginaries inform political thinking and organisation among young adults of minority background in Europe today. Data production is based on four social networks centred upon music, ethnicity, anti-racism and religion. Qualitative interviews and participant observation are the main methods in this project. I am project leader and work with four other researchers based in different institutes at the University of Oslo and research institutes in Oslo. My co-researchers are Dr. Jon Rogstad (UoO/ISF), Dr. Christine Jacobsen (UoO), Dr. Viggo Vestel (NOVA) & phd-student Carl Endre Espeland (UoB). The project is financed by the IMER programme in the Norwegian Research Council and it is located at Unifob-Global in Bergen. Se omtale av prosjektet ved oppstarten her. Deltaker fra MIMU er Mette Andersson.

2007-2008. Architecture of Contemporary Religious transmission. The project has studied religious transmission among young adults in specific areas of three European cities: Hamburg, London and Oslo. The main method was qualitative interviews with young people of Muslim and Christian faith and with informants who not considered themselves to be actively religious. We also interviewed religious leaders and representatives from the city area administration, and we conducted three focus group interviews in each city. The project utilised visual ethnography (photo elicitations) in interviews and in data production more generally. It was financed by the NORFACE research programme: Re-emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe? Professor Roger Hewitt, CUCR, Goldsmiths College, University of London was the international project leader. Prof. Caroline Knowles from the same university works on the project along with Prof. Ingrid Gogolin (Hamburg University) and me. Gogolin and Andersson were responsible for the German and Norwegian part of the project. In Norway, Dr. Anders Vassenden has been engaged full time on the project, which has been located at Unifob-Global in Bergen. See Street Signs Spring 2009 (p.5-7) for a report on the Norwegian part of the project. Deltaker fra MIMU er Mette Andersson.

• Cultures of Care, Globalization and changes in the Cultures of Survival and Care: The Case of Ghana, Project of the Norwegian Programme for Development, Research and Education (NUFU), Coordinator. University of Ghana, University of Bergen. Deltager fra MIMU er Asuncion St. Claire

• Ethics, Rights and Poverty: From Global Theory to National Practice;  NFR Global-POVPEACE 3 year project; main researcher with Dan Banik and  Desmond McNeill (project leader), Centre for Development and the Environment SUM, University of Oslo. 2007-2009. Deltager fra MIMU er Asuncion St. Claire

• European Science Foundation Research Grant, Exploratory Workshop "Shifting the Discourse: Climate Change as an Issue of Human Security” with Karen O’Brian, Department of sociology and human geography, University of Oslo. Deltager fra MIMU er Asuncion St. Claire

• Development Ethics and Human Rights as the Basis for Poverty Reduction, Research Council of Norway Project with the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo. Deltager fra MIMU er Asuncion St. Claire

• Development Ethics and Effectiveness. Inter-American Development Bank Trust Fund for Ethics and Social Development, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with Benedicte Bull and Desmond McNeill, Centre for Development and the Environment, (SUM), University of Oslo. Deltager fra MIMU er Asuncion St. Claire

• Ethics, Rights, and the Law: New Perspectives on Global Poverty Reduction, Research Council of Norway, in collaboration with the Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, and Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo. Deltager fra MIMU er Asuncion St. Claire