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Should you have any queries about the Poverty Politics Research Group, please contact:

Vigdis Broch-Due (Vigdis.Broch-Due@sosantr.uib.no)

or

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (Bjorn.Bertelsen@sosantr.uib.no)

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Poverty Politics Research Group

Poverty Politics Research Group is directed by Professor Vigdis Broch-Due, who holds a special professoriate in International Poverty Studies at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Bergen.

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    Why is intimacy so closely associated with trust and harmonious relationships when domestic bliss is so hard to come by?

    This weekend a group of anthropologists gather in Bergen to discuss this question at the workshop “The Entangled Tensions of Intimacy, Trust and the Social”. It is hosted by Professor Vigdis Broch-Due and researcher Margit Ystanes, both members of the Poverty Politics research group at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.

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    Workshops on trust and cosmopolitanism in May and June 2012

    The Poverty Politics Research Group will host two international workshops in Norway in May and June 2012 -- one on the notion of trust and the other dealing with cosmopolitanism.

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    An Essay on Human and Animal published

    Professor Vigdis Broch-Due is guest essayist on the American Humanist Society’s Forum OnTheHuman.org with "Animal in Mind: people, cattle and shared nature on the African Savannah". Her thought-provoking essay is published 3 October 2011 and will stay open for 2 weeks for comments.

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    FRUSTRERTE: I Nord-Kenya finnes det et stort antall av unge, sinte menn som føler seg forbigått, sier Vigdis Broch-Due.

    Poverty is a complex issue

    – There is no simple or unambigious connection between population growth and poverty, according to Vigdis Broch-Due. Her research in northern Kenya questions stereotypical views of poverty.

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    New webpages from Poverty Politics

    As of the autumn of 2011, the project Poverty Politics launches its new webpages. During the coming weeks, the pages will gradually become updated.