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Interview with Vigdis Broch-Due (03.10.2011)
-There is no simple correlation between poverty and population growth, says Vigdis Broch-Due in this recent interview.
Bergen Lectures in Critical Social and Political Inquiry: John Pilger (29.09.2011)
Author, war correspondent and documentary film-maker Jonh Pilger will be the second to present in the new series "Bergen Lectures in Critical Social and Political Inquiry" on 13 October 2011.
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Bergen Lectures in Critical Social and Political Inquiry: John Pilger (29.09.2011)
Author, war correspondent and documentary film-maker John Pilger will be the second to present in the new series "Bergen Lectures in Critical Social and Political Inquiry" on 13 October 2011.
An office for poverty alleviation, India
New webpages from Poverty Politics (26.09.2011)
As of the autumn of 2011, the project Poverty Politics launches its new webpages. During the coming weeks, the pages will gradually become updated.
Bergen Lectures in Critical Social and Political Inquiry: Elaine Scarry (14.09.2011)
Elaine Scarry from Harvard University will be the first to present in the new series "Bergen Lectures in Critical Social and Political Inquiry" on 27 September 2011.
New book on Oceania (30.08.2011)
Edvard Hviding and Knut Rio have just published a new anthology entitled "Made in Oceania. Social Movements, Cultural Heritage and the State in the Pacific"
PhD course in recent anthropological theory, 30-31 May 2011 (08.03.2011)
The Departments of Social Anthropology at both University of Bergen and University of Oslo are co-hosting a PhD seminar on newer anthropological theory with the title "The Search for Order: Territory, Citizen, State and Governance”. The deadline for applying to the course is 1. April 2011.
The security-development complex explored (01.02.2011)
Edited by Jon Harald Sande Lie and John-Andrew McNeish, a new anthology entitled "Security and development" addresses the new global security–development nexus and investigates internal institutional logics.
Internasjonale tidsskrifter redigert fra instituttet (30.09.2010)
New book on contemporary religiosities (06.09.2010)
Combining theoretical reflection with vivid ethnographic explorations and edited by anthropologists Bruce Kapferer, Kari Telle and Annelin Eriksen, this collection is designed to advance a critical understanding of social and personal religious experience in today's world.
New book by Andrew Lattas (06.09.2010)
Professor Andrew Lattas has recently published a new book based on his long-term anthropological engagement with Papua New Guinea
New book on the Hadrami Diaspora (03.09.2010)
"The Hadrami Diaspora. Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim" by Prof. Leif Manger analyses the Hadramis of South Yemen. The book maps the emergence of their diasporic communities throughout the Indian Ocean region as an intriguing facet of the history of this region’s migratory patterns.
New publication from the Global Moments project (19.08.2010)
Global moments are breakthrough events that change people’s lives and their futures. They are developments that typically call for significant adaptation leading to new forms of cooperation or conflict.
Global Development Lecture - 11 November 2009 (22.10.2009)
Annual Global Development Lecture, 11 November 2009: The ‘Feminisation of Poverty’: A Global Concept for a Globalising World? Professor Sylvia Chant, London School of Economics and Political Sciences
Crisis of the State (15.09.2009)
Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict.
Fishers and Scientist in Modern Turkey
Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey (19.03.2009)
The Management of Natural Resources, Knowledge and Identity on the Eastern Black Sea Coast.
Hierarchy: Persistance and Transformation of Social Formations (02.03.2009)
Louis Dumont’s concept of hierarchy continues to inspire social scientists. Using it as their starting point, they contributors to this volume introduce both fresh empirical material and new theoretical orientations.
The Power of Perspective (02.03.2009)
"This is a courageous piece of work in many ways - for its ethnographic and theoretical boldness, but also for doggedly sticking to local idioms and sensibilities when considering 'development' activities and participation in the global economy. It provides both a dense and nuanced ethnography that reveals important insights into a well-known case and materials, and also the development and... Les mer

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