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China’s role in Africa: What now? (05.03.2021)
Over the past decade, China has emerged as a large actor on the African continent – primarily through trade, investment and as provider of development finance. But China is increasingly also playing a more direct political role.
Picture of fishing boats
Norwegian-Brazilian partnerships in teaching and research development (17.02.2021)
How can we better understand the gendered dimensions of marine economies and environmental sustainability? I invited Associate Professor and project leader Iselin Åsedotter Strønen for a coffee and a conversation to elucidate the core focus of her new teaching- and research development project, ENMARINE.
Five recommendations to include science in 2030 Agenda (11.11.2020)
Every year, several countries present their Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) to show their progress in implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. But how can science play an integral part in these proceedings?
Bergen seen from Floien
BSRS 2021: Science and Society towards the Sustainable Development Goals (29.09.2020)
Digital summer research school.
Accra
Insiders and outsiders of Accra’s gated communities (17.09.2020)
For years Edwige Yekple used to walk past the area where she is now doing research. One day, however, the gated community in the middle of the village caught her attention. Asking herself “why is there a gated community inside the village?” Edwige started developing her research project. Gradually, she became both a researcher and an interlocutor of her own project.
Photo of the Santa Fe neighbourhood in Mexico City, from the Unequal Scenes series.
A global approach to inequality and pandemics (02.07.2020)
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the research programme GRIP launched a series of interviews on global inequality in March 2020. With more than 20 interviews out, GRIP is now looking at how to bring the debate on inequality into the mainstream.
Portrait of Bruce Kapferer
An energetic and indefatigable octogenerian (03.06.2020)
An indefatigable fieldworker and a firm critic of facile and commonsensical understandings of global phenomena, our own Prof. Bruce Kapferer turns 80 on 4 June 2020!
After the Pink Tide Cover
New Publication: “After the Pink Tide: Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America” (29.05.2020)
This recent publication by editors Marina Gold and Alessandro Zagato, affiliated researchers of the Egalitarian Futures Research Group (EFRG), investigates the state of egalitarianism and the corporate state formation in Latin America after the Pink Tide movement.
Groupwork
Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funds 2020 (29.04.2020)
Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions. Deadline 20 June, 2020.
The Marovo lagoon in Solomon Islands in the Pacific.
New Pacific PhD programme launched (28.04.2020)
The new Norway-Pacific Ocean-Climate Scholarship Programme builds on long-term collaboration between two ocean and climate oriented universities, which includes a voluntary commitment at the inaugural UN Ocean Conference.
Prof. Broch-Due utnevnt som meldem av DG
Vigdis Broch-Due appointed new member of the DNRF board (16.04.2020)
Professor Vigdis Broch-Due has been appointed to the board of the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. The term started on January 1. 2020, after nomination by the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters.
City landscape showing inequality between poor and rich areas in a sprawling metropolis.
Inequality in the age of the corona virus (07.04.2020)
The research programme GRIP has launched a series of interviews on global inequality as a response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Atingting
Atingting holds the fort (25.03.2020)
At a locked-down University of Bergen, staff and students are not able to access university campus. Teaching, science and administrative tasks are taking place online. In our absence the iconic drum Atingting from Ambrym island in Vanuatu stands lonely guard at the Department.
Presentation by Dr Austin D. Ablo
Joint public lecture at the University of Ghana (11.03.2020)
The Department of Geography at the University of Ghana and the Urban Enclaving Futures project arranged in February 2020 a successful public lecture at the Department of Geography and Resource Development.
Agbogbloshie, Accra
Urban Enclaving delves into Accra’s urban spaces (04.03.2020)
The interdisciplinary research project Urban Enclaving Futures explored during its second workshop how enclaving is found in various forms around Accra’s urban spaces – from population dense informal settlements, to grand but empty gated cities, to the green and quiet University campus.
Energethics debatt
How do Norwegian energy companies handle responsibility abroad? (19.12.2019)
Social anthropologists highlight how Norwegian energy companies handle their responsibility abroad.
The famous Shanghai skyline seen from behind.
Urban Enclaving: Grant enables comparative research project in China (29.11.2019)
The research project “Urban Enclaving Futures” has received a new grant to establish a comparative research component in China.
Mandana Limbert
Celebrating Barth: On Home and identity in Southern Arabia (23.10.2019)
Students, anthropologists and other invited guests had found their way to attend the Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture 2019, held by Dr. Mandana Limbert.

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